Our Heritage

  Our heritage goes back all the way to 1832.  It was a little touchy there in the beginning, but everything came together in January 1888 at the dedication of the building that you see now at the corner of North 5th and Washington in Burlington, Iowa.  I have scanned some of the historical documents and share them here with you.

  As I was going through the boxes and boxes of historical paperwork and artifacts, I imagined all of the people who started this church and what they had to endure to make this a successful church.  Think about it, in the beginning these men and women had to go out and knock on doors and talk to people to get more people in the pews.  reading some of the papers and stories that are told, it seems that not only did they work hard, but they worked together.  They met with each other nearly everyday in worship, prayer, music and fellowship.  They didn't have TV to watch or computers to fill up their time.  Their "email" was on paper and delivered by horse and wagon.  What I am trying to say is, the founders of our church worked hard and considered each other as siblings in Christ.