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Religion was important to the people, there were CHURCHES

FARNAM CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

The Church of the Nazarene was organized in Farnam by Holiness people in Farnam and the nearby community who desired to have the Church of the Nazarene in Farnam. Several of these people were already members of Lone Star Church, the rural Church of the Nazarene that was eight miles south of Farnam. Others had been in the Church of the Nazarene in Curtis, Nebraska.

The first records of Evangelist work being done toward getting a Church of the Nazarene started in the area date back to 1911 and 1912 by workers who held evangelistic services in the rural school houses south of Farnam. The Church of the Nazarene was pre-organized in the Lone Star Community in the home of Mother Lydic, the mother of the late R. J. Lydic, in February, 1914. In November 1914, Nazarene Evangelists Theodore and Minnie Ludwig held revival meetings in the Lone Star School house. At the close of the meeting several new members were added to the Church. Also a subscription list was started for building a church and in the spring of 1916 the Lone Star Church building was completed. The first Nazarene Pastor was Rev. J. N. Smith who moved his family into a house in the Mt. Hope Community in the fall of 1913 and served as Pastor for the people of both the Mt. Hope and Lone Star communities.

In the early part of 1926 Rev. B. Johnson, pastor of the Lone Star Church secured services of an Evangelist and meetings were held in the LaBounty Hall in Farnam. Prayer services were held Friday nights in the home of Minnie Rowland in Farnam.

The summer of 1926 a tent meeting was held on the lots where the first Nazarene Church was and following that meeting the Nebraska District Superintendent came and organized the Farnam Church of the Nazarene on August 11, 1926 with twenty-two charter members. Between 1926 and 1928 the Nazarenes bought a small house that was remodeled by Austin Teel to be used as their church. In the fall of 1928, an addition was built on and later an entry. This building was used for worship until the fall of 1945.

The first resident pastor was Rev. Anna Nutter who came to Farnam in 1928. She stayed with Mrs. Minnie Rowland until a house could be rented for her. Between the years 1934 and 1937 a house was purchased in the west part of town for a Nazarene parsonage.

In 1944 a corner lot and house were purchased as the future site of a Nazarene Church. The house was torn down and a new church built by labor donated by the pastor, Rev. E. A. Rodewald, and the members. It was dedicated on October 21, 1945.

Between 1946 and 1950 the first parsonage was sold and a house on the lot adjacent to the church was purchased for a parsonage.

The present brick parsonage was purchased between the years 1957 and 1961 from the Hugo Bloomquist family.

As early as 1954 the Church of Nazarene was thinking of building a new church because of the growing number of the congregation. Through the years planning was being done until about June 1st, 1968 some interested individuals of the Nazarene Church visited a newly constructed building that pleased them and plans for their church structure began to take shape. The building committee was selected. It consisted of Truman Barrett, Forrest Johnson, Dorrance Arnold, Orval Beck and Russell Williams.

The first item on the agenda was either moving or tearing down the old church building. It was decided that it would be sold and moved. The Leon Kotschwar family bought it and it was moved to their farm. The Farnam Public School system gave the Nazarene people permission to use the School for their worship services until they could use their new church. Services were again held in the basement of the church by the last of August on 1969. They began using the sanctuary proper the first part of February, 1970.

Throughout the entire construction period a local carpenter, Mr. Fred Johnson, not only proved himself to be an excellent craftsman but also a highly competent building advisor. Pastor Coursey worked with him also after his arrival in Farnam in June of 1969. The congregation, consisting mainly of farm people gave their best effort. All of the labor was donated and funds were also donated for its construction along with funds that had been budgeted for this purpose.

The sanctuary will seat two hundred to two hundred fifty people. The basement if finished very nicely for the fellowship hall, kitchen, class rooms, storage space and a furnace room. There is a cry room, nursery and a pastor's study upstairs. Rest rooms are located on the upper and lower floors. The church also has a public address system.

The Nazarene Church was dedicated on May 24, 1970 with Dr. Eugene Stowe of Kansas City, Missouri, the general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene, giving the address.

Reverend Harold Johnson is the pastor of the Nazarene Church of Farnam now. He assumed the pastorate in 1980.

Settlers were anxious to have schools and churches available to their families. School houses were erected and school was conducted for at least a few months of the year. After the blizzard of 1888 when some teachers and children lost their lives, it was made a law that the school board was responsible for having enough fuel on hand for at least two days.

The law also held that the school house was to be open to religious and community meetings with the board’s approval. Frequently word was spread that a "protracted meeting” would be held in some school. Not much other entertainment was available and attendance seems to have been good.

The meetings were often followed by prayer meetings and Sunday Schools were organized. Neighbors traveled miles in buggies and wagons to attend.

Some Free Methodist preachers held services in the Lone Star school about eight miles south of Farnam and Sunday School was conducted there much of the time.

A man named Sam Laeger came through the country driving a one-horse buggy. He spoke for a meeting at Lone Star and advertised a camp meeting to be held at Hastings.

Some of the neighbors attended the camp meeting and met a man named Jesse Farr whom they invited to come and hold a meeting at Lone Star. These services led to the organization of the Lone Star Church of the Nazarene in 1913. The organizational meeting was held in Mrs. Lydic's home. The Lone Star church building was erected in 1916 and a parsonage was purchased.

Some of the early members of the church were Albert and Iva McMichael, John and Antonia Oberg, Mrs. Anna M. Lydic, Harriet Lydic. Robert and Lula Lydic, Jacob B. and Luella Rice, and Nellie Rice.

Several families from Farnam began to attend the Lone Star Church, and in a few years the Farnam Church of the Nazarene was organized.

The Lone Star church remained active until 1949 when it merged with the Farnam Church.

 


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