The church is part of the Meirion association. There is a warm place in the hearts of all church members for this special building.
Here in Cwm Main, or ‘Annibynia valley’ according to Huw Evans in his classic book Cwm Eithin, the valley had two churches, Soar chapel at the bottom of the valley and Rhydywernen at its top.
The history of the chapel is very old. Here in 1775 in an old peat house nearby was the only place of worship by the Independents between Bala and Wrexham. The new chapel was built in 1828 and the building was renovated in 1904. An interesting record on the wall states that the Reverend John Griffiths, who was the minister of the chapel, was reborn in 1843 and it is said that his grave is from under the inscription as there was no cemetery attached to the chapel until 1862, and John Griffiths was too much of a dissenter to be buried in the cemetery parish His descendants are leading members of the church to this day. The poets also sang their praises to the chapel. The poet Gerallt Lloyd Owen remembered Rhydywernen from his childhood and this is his poem 'Rhydywernen':
There is a chapel at the bottom of the memory,
as in the beginning,
when there were mountains and night
tight about us.
How cozy were rural walls
our faith, like an old farm kitchen.
There we come in all weathers,
we come and mud our earth
is a heavy ointment under our feet.
We come even though we know every prayer
from the ever improvised chest,
every purposeful cough
in the same place at the exact moment.
We came and we sang
for victory, for defiling an enemy
the Great Death in Cwm Main.
Oh! as we sing! We did not hear above
dear dead for the wall with us,
and from Sunday to Sunday without question,
from verse to verse the mold
conquered, mapping the wall
builing its kingdom on Rydywernen.
By now there is no mention of mold here but tender care that conquers and according to a former secretary who was fastdidious in his care of the chapel, the late poet William Jones Williams, Coed y Bedo says in saluting the late Megan Griffiths for her long service as organist of the chapel:
On a breeze from the old chapel – a sound comes
Sunday notes are heard,
Melody and word are tied
Add color and shine to bleakness.
There are twenty five members in the church. We will meet twice a month with members of Soar church. As receiving service by a minister is becoming increasingly more difficult, we have taken advantage of modern technology and installed a screen in the pulpit and now we receive services virtually. This has proven to be a very successful initiative.
The condition of the building inside and out and the land and the cemetery is excellent thanks to the hard and conscientious work of some of the members. 
Every year we organize a trip for the members. Here are two pictures showing the members outside the Nefyn Maritime Museum and the second picture showing the members outside Dolbadarn castle.
We are a happy church and we will welcome those from outside to join us often and especially to our Thanksgiving meeting and to the Christmas service.
