On Sunday at 10:30 a.m., Cain’s Chapel United Methodist Church in the Holtville/Slapout Community will celebrate its bicentennial with a Homecoming service emphasizing its theme for the year, “Looking Back — Living Forward.”

The church, founded in 1820 by Elisha Milton Cain, is the oldest continuously meeting congregation in the entire River Region and was added to the Alabama Register of Historic Landmarks in 2018.