The first Quaker family to settle in the area known as Lost Creek Valley was in 1784 when John Mills and his two sons, Quakers, moved to the area from Guilford County, North Carolina.  Many other Quakers soon followed and settled in the same area which is now known as New Market, Tennessee.

These early friends were recorded members at the New Hope Monthly Meeting in Greene County, the first Quaker meeting in what would become the state of Tennessee.  Lost Creek became the second.  The first Quaker meetings in this area were held in John Mill's log cabin and later in his new hewed log house in the late 1780's and early 1790's.

On May 25, 1796, John Mills deeded a piece of his land to the Friends. It stated ". . . in consideration of the love, goodwill, and affection, which I have and do bear towards my loving friends the peoples called Quakers living in the County and State (Jefferson County, Tennessee) . . . have given and granted and by these presents do freely give and grant unto the said People three acres of land . . . for the use of a meeting house and burying ground it being where our meeting House now stands . . . for the use before mentioned to them the members of said Meeting and their successors forever without any manner of condition in witness where of . . .

The church has survived a Civil War, two World Wars, no pastor at times, a depleted treasury, but at all times there existed a belief in God and a faith that brought the church a blessing. We still worship today as our forefathers did in their day. Worship is each Sunday -- starting with Sunday School at 10:15 AM -- with Dave Goff as the pastor.