An article on the Christian Mirror in 1854 notes church numbers at 44 members with a Congregation of 150 – making around two hundred worshiping on the Sabbath. Ministerial services totaled $31; and $41 for fuel and oil for a total of $72 in expenses. The article seeks aid to support of ministerial services noting a regular Pastor would not be less than $500.
‘Dear brethren, will you help us? We look to you for aid in this our extremity. We desire to have broken to us the bread of life by the hand of the Pastor – one who will live among us, visit us in our homes, counsel and advise us in our difficulties, console us in our hours of distress, comfort us in our afflictions, and bury our dead.’