Sunday Worship
Sundays · MorningThe principal Telugu service of the week, following the CSI order of worship, with the choir leading the congregation in song.
Our Story
From the mission field to Musheerabad
The ledger of a congregation born among migrant mill-workers — and still keeping their faith, week by week.
1879
The Wesleyan mission reaches Hyderabad
The Wesleyan Methodist ministry begins its work in the Nizam's dominion at Chudderghat, in the Abids–Ramkote quarter of the city — the seed from which the Wesley churches of Hyderabad would grow.
1900
Gospel centres across Telangana
Within two decades the mission establishes centres in town and village alike, and a community of some six thousand believers takes shape across the region.
1920s
Musheerabad becomes a gathering point
The Azamabad industrial belt rises on the city's edge. Famine drives families from Aler, Nalgonda, Karimnagar, Medak, Siddipet, Adilabad, Nizamabad and Warangal to seek work here — and Rev. F. C. Sackett and Mrs. Elizabeth Sackett give themselves to ministering among the migrants.
1938
A church for the mill families
Under Rev. Eber Priestly, Superintendent of the Hyderabad District, the Wesleyan Methodist mission establishes a congregation at Musheerabad as a branch of Wesley Church, Ramkote — a spiritual home for the Christian industrial migrants of Telangana.
1947
Into the Church of South India
On 27 September 1947 the Wesleyan Methodists join the great church union that forms the Church of South India. The Musheerabad congregation comes under the Diocese of Medak, where it remains to this day.
Today
A pastorate at prayer
Now a pastorate in its own right, Wesley Church Musheerabad worships in Telugu each Sunday, carries its services to members everywhere on YouTube, and counts the years toward its centenary in 2038.