History | Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrated it's 100th year of worship services in April of 2004. The first service was an Easter Sunday Service on April 3, 1904. The 100th Anniversary Celebration was kicked off at the Rally Day Picnic. Other events were held throughout the fall 2003 & spring 2004.

Warren will be gathering information and pictures for this page. Please contact Warren or the Church Office if you have something you would like to contribute to the history page.

We read our Bibles in the english language. But, our Bibles were not available in english until the 1380's. Read the history of the Bible in english at www.williamtyndale.com

For many decades, the Geneva Bible was more popular than that authorized by King James. It holds the honor of being the first Bible taken to America, and the Bible of the Puritans and Pilgrims.

Boy Scouts of America, Troop 2
Mountaineer Area Council

It seems appropriate to mention the Boy Scouts as part of our Church's history. Troop 2 has held it's meetings here since before 1925 and possibly for as long as we've been an active congregation. More research is being done & the information will be posted here.

One award I discovered was a Certificate of Heroism to James Fortney for saving a drowning person in the Monongahela River on July 22, 1951