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Taken at the Friedens-Peace United Church of Christ. Friedens Peace United Church of Christ seeks to be a transformative community where following Christ finds expression in both word and deed.

Friedens (Peace) United Church of Christ was started by a group of residents who broke off from St. Paul's Lutheran Church. In 1858, there were two Lutheran Churches in New Melle, St. Peter's and St. Paul's. St. Paul's congregation joined the Missouri Synod. That same year the St. Peter's Congregation built a new church of native stone (the building that is now St. Paul's). The two churches were originally united but had split over doctrinal issues. In 1868, they reunited and became St. Paul's Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.

Some members continued to be unhappy and according to St. Paul's records, the dissent was over doctrine. The first records of Friedens begin in 1904. Some family names appear in both St. Paul and Friedens (Peace) records. Included in both records were th...

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