Jefferson County Nebraska Church History

History of Jefferson County Ne. Churches.

This page represents history. The names, status and locations of these churches may have changed over the years. Not intented to be current information for any church listed.

Reference for the information was taken from "Wider Grows the Kingdom" a history of the churches of Jefferson County Nebraska.

Published by the Jefferson County Centennial Commitee for the Nebraska State Centennial in 1967.

Many thanks go out to those who worked hard on the book. Excerpts published here to keep your legacy intact.

Assembly of God Church
11th & D St., Fairbury, Ne
(402) 729-3207

Church Dedication April 20, 1951

Charter membership of 28 persons.

Assembly of God, Reynolds, Ne.

Organized October 5, 1936

Charter membership 38.

1948 the church builiding was moved from Pawnee City, Nebraska to Reynolds.

First Baptist Church, 9th & F St. Fairbury

Organized July 3, 1870

Harbine Baptist Church, Harbine, Nebraska

Organized, 1903, Now closed.

Baptist Church of Reynolds,
Reynolds, Ne.

Organized about 1880.

Baptist Church,
Steele City, Nebraska

Organized October 20, 1882. Now Closed.

Dry Branch Missionary Baptist Church

Six miles south & 1/3 Mile West of Fairbury. Organized February 13, 1890.

Closed in 1934, the church building was moved and made into a barn.

Bethal Chapel, Fairbury Ne.

South J Street

Organized 1932 - Now closed

American Lutheran Church

1111 12th St, Fairbury, Ne.

Organized September 28, 1947

First building located at 6th & I Streets.

Currently active

Immanuel Lutheran Church-

Missouri Synod

Plymouth, Ne.

2 Miles East of Plymouth

Organized 1903.

St. Paul's Lutheran Church

Diller, Ne.

Organized 1889.

Methodist Church
Endicott, Ne.

Organized September 1861.

First Methodist Church, Fairbury, Ne.

6th & E St.

Organized Fall 1870.

Zion Methodist Church

2 Miles North and 1/2 Mile East of Fairbury, Ne.

Organized 1889.

A combination of three rural Sunday Schools.

Happy Hollow Community, Grandy Sunday School and Bower Methodists.

Orginally a Baptist, later Methodist.

Combined with Fairbury Methodist in 1916.

German Meridian Presbyterian Church

Meridian, Ne. 4 Miles West of Powell, Ne.

Organized May 4, 1873.

The town of Meridian was destroyed in 1875 by a tornado and was declared officially vacated on June 20, 1895.

United Brethren Church

Fairview and Richland Center

6 miles North 1/2 mile West of Fairbury, Ne.

Organized 1888 or 1890.

Closed February 16, 1926.

The Church of Peace

(United Church of Christ)

Plymouth, Ne.

Organized November 25, 1900

St. Paul United Church of Christ

4 miles North 1/2 mile East of Jansen, Ne.

Organized September 4, 1882.

United Church of Christ

Harbine, Ne.

1/2 Mile East and 1 Mile South of Harbine

Organized January 14, 1883.

St. Michaels Church

8th & F St.

Fairbury Ne.

Organized, Summer of 1872 - Open

First Church of Christ, Bower, Ne.

8 miles north and 2 miles east of Fairbury, Ne.

Organized January 2, 1870. Closed 1945.

Cemetary still at original property.

Diller Christian Church, Diller, Ne.

Organized 1892

Presbyterian and Christian Churches unted in 1921.

Renamed Federated Community Church of Diller, then

Congregational United Church of Christ.

First Christian Church, 5th & G, Fairbury, Ne.

Organized 1871.

Orginally built at 3rd & H Streets

Silver Creek Church of Christ

5 miles South and 2 1/4 miles West of Fairbury, Ne.

Organized prior to 1888.

Closed- building no longer there.

First Church of Christ, Scientist

7th & G St.

Fairbury, Ne.

Organized July 27, 1898- Now closed

First Church of God

4th & I Streets

Fairbury Ne.

Organized 1931.

Services orginally held in District 53 school house

south of Thompson, Ne. as early as 1892.

Grace Lutheran Church, Fairbury Ne.

1100 G St.

Organized November 11, 1923.

Currently active.

Peace Lutheran Church

Plymouth, Nebraska

5 Miles West, 1 1/2 Miles South of Plymouth.

Organized August 23, 1888.

St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church

Plymouth, Ne.

Organized Sept. 8, 1879.

Trinity Lutheran Church, Jansen, Ne.

Organized December 1, 1929.

Zion Lutheran Church, Harbine, Ne.

2 Miles East and 3 Miles South of Harbine

Organized April 28, 1901

Home of a Christian School.

Methodist Episcopal German Church

Jansen, Ne.

Organized February 19, 1889.

Closed.

Methodist Episcopal Church

Powell, Ne.

Organized November 24, 1886

Closed

Powell Community Church Association

Powell, Ne.

Organized January 25, 1937

Closed.

Church of the Nazarene

11th and J Streets, Fairbury, Ne.

Organized September 10, 1916

Nazarene Chruch, Jansen, Ne.

Organized April 7, 1922.

First services held in the

Old German M.E. Church of Jansen.

Closed 1934.

Steele City Presbyterian Church

Steele City, Ne.

Organized September 12, 1920.

United Brethren Church

Rose Creek City, Nebraska

2 Miles West and 1/2 Mile North of

Reynolds, Nebraska.

Organized 1874

Closed November 6, 1878.

First Free Baptist Church

Rose Creek City, Nebraska

2 Miles West and 1/2 Mile North of

Reynolds, Nebraska.

Organized October 3, 1874.

Closed

Zions United Church of Christ

6 miles West and 1 mile North

of Fairbury, Ne.

Organized 1883.

Congregational United Church of Christ

Diller, Nebraska

Organized June 5, 1921

A descendent of two churches, the Presbyterian and the Christian Churches.

Orginally called The Federated Community Church of Diller.

Trinity Lutheran Church, Gladstone, Ne.

2 Miles West of Gladstone, Ne.

Organized September, 1883.

Closed June 13, 1965.

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Daykin, Ne.

5 Miles East of Daykin

Organized August 30, 1891.

Congregational Church, Steele City, Ne.

Organized in 1872 with 11 members.

Old Plymouth Congregational Chruch

1 Mile West & 3 miles

South of Plymouth, Ne.

Organized in 1872.

Now closed. Building gone.

St. Charles the Martyr Episcopal Church

6th & G Streets

Fairbury, Ne.

Organized May 13, 1907 with 9 members.

Evangelical Church

3 Miles West and 2 Miles North of Fairbury, Ne.

Organized in 1900. Closed

Building was moved to 12th & Elm St.,

Fairbury, Ne. Not sure if still there.

Helvey Evangelical United Brethren Church

Helvey, Nebraska

2 Miles East & 3 Miles 1/2 Miles South of Daykin

Organized October 20, 1891

Also know as Spring Valley United Bretheran Church.

Church of the Foursquare Gospel

Organized May 12, 1931

Orginally a country church that moved to Fairbury.

St. John Lutheran Church, Daykin, Nebraska

Organized July 15th, 1888

Evangelical Mennonite Church

Jansen, Ne.

Organized January 1879.

First Methodist Church

Daykin, Ne.

Organized March 1888.

Methodist Episcopal Church

Diller, Ne.

Organized 1884.

Reynolds Methodist Church

Reynolds, Nebraska

Organized 1902 - 26 members.

Methodist Episcopal Church

Steele City, Ne.

Organized 1872.

Rock Creek Methodist Church

Fairbury, Ne.

6 1/2 Miles East of Fairbury on PWF Rd.

Organized 1888.

Closed in 1945. Building moved to Odell.

First Presbyterian Church

Diller, Ne.

Organized May 29, 1881

June 1921, united with the Christian Church of Diller to form the Federated Community Church of Diller, later to become the Diller Congregational United Church of Christ.

First Presbyterian Church

6th & H St. Fairbury, Ne.( old address)

Organized November 30, 1873.

Current Information

Seventh Day Adventist Church

10th & G St.

Fairbury, Ne.

Church built in 1916.

Original meetings held in the Chapel Room

of the Roy Steele Mortuary and the Mission on Second St.