In 1823 Nicholas Hiles and ten other persons met for the first time in Woodstown with two Methodist itinerant preachers, Edward Stout and Elwood Stokes. Two years later the group became a regular appointment on the Salem Circuit. Our church was named after Francis Asbury, the first Methodist bishop. The church building was first located on the road to Yorketown, where a small cemetery maintained by the church is still located. In 1856, the church moved to a new building at the present location. That building burned in 1893 and was replaced by the existing structure. The education building was added in 1958.

Asbury Pastors since 1922

• 1922-25 ~ E. W. Graham
• ​1925-27 ~ J. Shaw
• 1927-31 ~ G. H. Redding
• 1931-34 ~ D. C. Evans
• 1934-35 ~ William Boyd
• 1935-41 ~ Dr. E. Robinson    
• 1941-44 ~ Dr. F. B. Stanger
• 1944-50 ~ Thomas F. Eden
• 1950-58 ~ James S. McGowan
• 1958-61 ~ Ralph Kappler
• 1961-63 ~John S. White
• 1963-67 ~ Paul W. Vanderloo
• 1967-74 ~ C. Wesley Crossley
• 1974-89 ~ Charles A. Bender, Jr.
• 1989-93 ~ Sandra L. Murphy
• 1993-02 ~ Dr. Glenn C. Ferguson
• 2002-07 ~ Joan B. DeSanctis
• 2007-12 ~ Brian D. Joyce
• 2012-13 ~ Hyekyung Pauline Kang
• 2013-15 ~ James L. Peterson
• 2015-17 ~ Myounghun Stephen Yun
• 2017-18 ~ Charles A. Bender, Jr.
• 2018 ~ John S. Redkoles
• 2021 – Samuel Mountain
• 2022- Dr. James L. Peterson