Skip to content Skip to sidebar Skip to footer

1.)  Boeuff was the first English speaking church to be erected in Gerald.

2.)  The town held the Eighth Grade and High School graduation exercises inalternating churches. One year it would be held at Boeuff and the next atSt. Paul’s United Church of Christ.

3.)  The first women’s organization was organized in Sept. 1922.

4.)  The first joint service with St. Paul’s church was held in 1927.

5.)  That chairs where used for a while in the sanctuary and where held together by a board that was nailed to them and then in Dec. 1940 pews were placed in the sanctuary just in time for Christmas.

6.)  Single women and young ladies sat on one side of the church and Single men and boys sat on the other side of the church. In the long pews in the middle families would sit together.

7.)  The church was heated by two wood heating stoves.

8.) The communion table donated Charles Koetting.

9.) The organ was purchased and dedicated on Oct. 12, 1947.

10.) In 1952 the new stain glass window where installed.

11.) The service hymnals where purchased in in 1958.

12.) In 1967, the piano was purchased.

13.) In 1973, in memory of Wm. Feldmiller the baptismal Font was donated.

14.) In April of 1974 the cross was added in memory of Edward C. Johnson.

15.) In Jan. 1975, the brass bible stand was donated in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnson and Mr and Mrs. Charles Armstrong.

16.) In 1975 the memorial book and stand, was donated.