New Covenant Methodist Church of Edmond started as a vision and dream.  The vision was first dreamed by a group of Methodist in the greater Oklahoma City area.  Their desire was to reach people for Christ by planting a “new” church in the south Edmond area.  That vision was then passed to Rev. Ed Hart who was appointed to establish a new church in June 1977.  An eight-acre building site had been purchased at 15th and Bryant in a rapidly growing residential area.

 The first gathering of New Covenant was six families meeting in the home of Barbara and Ed Hart around potato salad and fried chicken.  That was the first fellowship dinner and worship gathering.  Barbara Hart played the piano and led the singing during the worship while two of the Hart daughters provided activities for the children.  The majority of the new congregation consisted of young families with young children.  

For a brief while New Covenant met in homes, but as they outgrew those accommodations, they had to move again.  They first moved to the YMCA, but again because of growth they were faced with another change.  The Edmond Public Schools allowed them to use Chisholm Elementary School until they completed the construction of their first building.

 New Covenant United Methodist Church was officially chartered September 11, 1977 in a service at Crown Heights United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.  Dr. De L. Hinkley, superintendent of the Oklahoma City North District, and Rev. Edward E. Hart, pastor of New Covenant, led the service.  Seventy-eight new members placed wheat stalks at the base of a cedar cross, symbolizing how they, as individual sowers, were uniting in a community of faith called New Covenant.  The first hymnals were donated from churches throughout the Oklahoma Conference and presented on the day New Covenant was chartered.  The church was meeting at the YMCA at the time of the charter service.

Groundbreaking services for the first building on the corner of 15th and Bryant took place on April 2, 1978.  The building was named “The Hart Center” in honor of New Covenant’s first pastor,  Rev. Ed Hart.  The church location at the time was in the middle of open fields with a sheep farm directly across the street on the opposite corner.

The second building  constructed, which was offices and a sanctuary, was consecrated in Sept. of 1984.  The education wing was finished in June of 1995.

 May 2, 2004,  New Covenant moved to their present location at 2700 S. Boulevard. (former Henderson Hills Baptist Church)  The New Covenant church members and staff were led by bagpipes and drums of the Highlanders of Oklahoma City as they marched to their new church in time for their first Sunday morning services.  

Since the beginning, New Covenant has been served by four pastors.  Rev. Edward E. Hart,  Rev. Keith Couples, Rev. David Cressman and Dr. Adrian Cole.