The Chapel has not had regular services since sometime in the mid-1980's, when the number of attendees could no longer support the church financially.  On many Sundays there would be only four or five faithful who would attend, in contrast to the one hundred and eleven who were listed as members in 1924.    At the time of the closure, the Methodist Conference was going to assume ownership of the Chapel, but Howard M. Weekley purchased the building and deeded it to the people of  Wilbur.

  Now,  having stood for almost twenty years with only erratic use, it has fallen into disrepair, and without the people or resources to repair it, seems doomed to devastation as it approaches its' one hundredth year.

So, after having been one of the centers of social activity in Wilbur since the beginning of the twentieth century, the Chapel has fallen prey to the dwindling population of the area.  At the church that was filled with people grieving for loved ones, from elderly to children, who had come to their final resting place  in the cemetery bordering  it;  filled with people who were there for the lively revivals and for "dinner on the ground"; filled with worshipers whose joyous singing could be heard echoing through the hills and valleys surrounding  it, the solitary sound  is the whispering of the wind through the broken windows.  But if you listen closely,  you may still hear, on that breeze, the faint sounds of years gone by.