Box CHOG 176

Church was started with cottage prayer meetings in 1932 until a church basement was rented. Church stopped work because of discourgament but began again in 1941 until a flood wrecked the basement and a building fund was started.

"The History of our Work" the work is not identified. Mentions that T. E. Howard enclosed 2 letters but those not identified or found with this letter.

Katie Brown did not have any knowledge about how the CHOG had come to be in Atchison, KS. She did know there was a request in the Gospel Trumpet for workers in 1906.

Around 1885 J. C. Fisher came to Stafford, KS to preach. Letter gives some information about the author's father.

The writer is not well and is updated C. E. Brown from the hospital about some news from around Southern Kansas.

Details the first meeting and Sunday school. The church was built in 1902. Work at Kansas City stopped and church was sold as people started to move away. Mentions the church in Arkansas.

Discusses C. S. McAlister pastoring at Chanute and Hutchinson and his early life and family.

Mentions the writer's personal conflict with the pastor and that others felt alienated from the leadership. States that the pastoral leadership was an authoritarian style. The church group began with distrubutions of CHOG literature. Soon, cottage prayer and tent meetings were held.

Discusses the work of CHOG in Kansas, the writer's mother's faith journey, early ministers, and the first meetings.

The writer had been a reader of the Gosepl Trumpet since 1909 . Brother Porter and wife attempted to build a congregation of CHOG in Arkansas.