The colored people worshipped in an old brick building which stood behind the site of the present Oxon Hill Post office.  The building was supposed to have been built for the slaves by the slaveholders.  However, later the slaveholder disavowed that the property belonged to the church members and stopped them from meeting there. Brother Henry Hatton and others went to Upper Marlboro to have a property record search, but found nothing to prove it to be their property.  Consequently, they have to relinquish the old building and they worshipped in the homes of members. Among the earliest worshippers who opened their homes were: Brothers Thomas Elwood, Alfred Travers, Jeremiah Williams, Robert Green and Sisters Margaret Brown and Sara Bailey.

The Freedman's Bureau created only three years earlier was vested with the authority to build schools and asylums for Negroes.  If someone would donate the land, the Freedman's Bureau would build a school, which could also be used as a place of worship.  Brother Henry Hatton donated the land located between the Oxon Hill Children' Farm and the town of Forest Heights.  The church members paid for construction of the building.

Reverend Langford, assigned to the Prince George's Circuit became St. Paul’s first pastor in 1868.

The Prince George's Circuit split and became the Marlboro and Oxon Hill Circuits. Reverend Daniel Wheeler became the pastor of the Oxon Hill Circuit and the St. Paul congregation.  Several ministers served between 1872 and 1888.

The church grew under the leadership of Reverend Wheeler who was reappointed for another year. 

St. Paul received Reverend Aukard as its pastor who was the head of the Woodville Charge.

Reverend G.T. Pinkney succeeded Reverend Aukard.

The Reverend P.11.  Matthews was named head of the Woodville Charge with three local preachers serving with him.  Dr. Nathaniel Carroll was the Presiding Elder for four years.

The Reverend A.J. Weems was the pastor for only one year.

Reverend Noble Watkins was the pastor when St. Paul became a part of the Washington District.

Rev. N.C. Brown served with one local preacher, Rev. Alfred Travers who was a relative of the late Edward Travers, whose wife, Mrs. Martha Travers, is still remembered by many current members of St. Paul.

Reverend G.R. Williams and Reverend Charles Prince tended the Circuit.

The church was moved to its present site and originally stood where the Fellowship Hall is located.  Dr. Nathaniel Carroll, one of the original members of the Washington Conference when it was organized in 1864, preached the first sermon in the new church.  Reverend Daniel Wheeler, who was the pastor in 1870, returned as pastor St. Paul.