Iron rods were added to the foundation to keep the structure in place. After the building’s lathing was completed in June, strong winds blew the structure off its foundation, but within several days it had been maneuvered back into place. John Shank, a carpenter, was asked to build the church thus he moved his family into a tent on the church site while he constructed the building. Thus the group decided to construct a church building in the East Holbrook Valley on a donated three-acre plot two miles east and one-quarter mile north of Cheraw. 5 School House.īy the spring of 1907 the East Holbrook group had outgrown the District No.
During these years an East Holbrook Sunday School under Christian Rich as superintendent continued to be held in the District No. Miller of Windom, Kansas, was given charge over the church. The new congregation-named “The La Junta Mennonite Church”-was recognized by the Kansas-Nebraska Conference upon application, and Bishop Samuel C. Nunemaker as chairman protem and Bishop George R. 5 School House during which a congregation with 20 charter members was formally organized with preacher John M. On a meeting was convened at the District No. Union Sunday Schools were organized at both locations following the meetings. 5 School House in the East Holbrook Valley.
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Heatwole of Windom, Kansas, conducted a series of Gospel meetings at the Fairview School House, some six miles (10 km) west of La Junta, as well as at the District No. Weaver of Newton, Kansas, in company with R. Meanwhile, in April-May 1903 Bishop George R. After the Nunemaker and Snyder families settled in the East Holbrook Valley in 19, respectively, some 14 Mennonite families moved from Missouri, Pennsylvania, and other eastern states to the valley during 1905-07. They selected the valley because its attributes included an area open to evangelization, a healthful climate for those suffering from pulmonary disease, and cheap farm land within a sparsely populated and well irrigated region. Snyder, a farmer in Neutral, Kansas, decided to move their families to the East Holbrook Valley and establish a Mennonite colony. Nunemaker, a native of Elkhart County, Indiana, who had been ordained as a Mennonite minister at Roseland, Nebraska, in 1894, and William H. Following development of the Holbrook irrigation project in the East Holbrook Valley during the early 1900s, John M.
Because no other Mennonites were in the area, the family joined a Union Sunday School in the East End School, a one-room schoolhouse three miles (five km) east of present-day Cheraw (the town of Cheraw was established in 1907). Attracted by cheap farm land, in June 1896 the Christian Rich family moved from Cambridge, Nebraska, to the East Holbrook Valley, some 12 miles northeast of La Junta in southeastern Colorado.
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