The Samaritan Fellowship, a nonprofit charitable organization, started in 1958 as a committee at Allison United Methodist Church. It became a community organization in 1962 when the United Church of Christ joined with Allison in the Samaritan Fellowship program. Other churches soon followed and nonprofit incorporation for the Fellowship was completed in 1963. The Fellowship met from the beginning, with very little exception, at Allison Church every Saturday morning throughout the year until June, 2013 when the Fellowship moved to Carlisle United Methodist Church.