This historic church stakes its claim to the era of the Gold Rush in California when in 1865 the John W. Kirk and William Sinclair families felt the imperative need for religious instruction for their children, as well as for the children of the immediate community.

Sunday School was held at the old Douglass School on the Kirk Ranch, near the Kirk Cemetery. This was located off Highway 26 near the San Joaquin and Calaveras County lines. Out of this beginning was to emerge the Stone Corral Church.

The Methodist Church built a house of worship in the year 1876, where all the families of the community joined in worship. The church assumed its name from the stone corral which surrounded the nearby Elliot McComb's Ranch.

Fire destroyed the sanctuary in 1913. After the fire the people met in the old Chaparral Schoolhouse across the road from the present location of the church. In 1918 the present sanctuary was built by the men of the church.

The mission of the Stone Corral Community Church has always been to act as a lighthouse in the Valley Springs and Linden areas to those who have a hunger for the Word of God.