Our History...
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Church of Peace, formed in 1870 by German immigrants, is a historic downtown church that has sustained people of faith in Fond du Lac for more than 150 years.
Key Events and Milestones:
1869: Evangelical Friedens Kirche (Peace Church) is organized.
1870: Cornerstone laid for the church building.
1873: The congregation formally joins the Evangelical Synod of North America.
1934: Evangelical Synod of North America merges with the German Reformed Church and became a part of the Evangelical Reformed Church.
1955: The Evangelical Reformed Church merged with the Congregational Christian Churches to become the United Church of Christ.
1957: The United Church of Christ is formed through the merger of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches.
1957 Church of Peace helped organize and start another Evangelical and Reformed church on the east side of Fond du Lac – St. Marks, now known as Pilgrim UCC. The land was paid for as a gift to the new church.
1970: Church of Peace UCC celebrates 100 years.
2016: Church of Peace UCC undergoes a major construction project building a new narthex, Fellowship Hall, kitchen, and office spaces while keeping the historic sanctuary.
2020: Church of Peace UCC celebrates 150 years.
From Our Church Historian - Mary Strauss
Our congregation became a church in 1870 in Fond du Lac, WI. We hold records of the first meetings as folks gathered in the late 1860s and requested a traveling clergy to our area even before we had our own building.
The old record books, written in German script, were recovered from our flooded basement in 2003 and painstakingly restored by members Jeanette Hinn and Tom Strauss. Now they are housed in our new fireproof main floor special closet with records of board and council meetings, annual meetings, society minutes, baptism, confirmation, marriage and death records recorded by our staff and yearly scrapbooks and record of events held here.
Mrs. Irene Kaiser started researching and collecting church information in the 1920s. Her daughter, Jeanette Hinn, took over from her and did an amazing job organizing the collection by year and subject. She alerted members to interesting “tidbits” starting in the monthly Messenger Bulletins titled, “Historical Corner”.
Mary Strauss has been our Historian since 2021. Please let her know if you have a request for church historical info.
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