History of Missions 

On May 17, 1900 our church fellowship voted to support its first missionary. FO Bergstrom received pledges to go as a missionary to Japan.

The first Mission Board began in January 1949. This Board included the Pastor, Church Chairman and others elected at the annual meeting.

In 1949 Verla Peterson Whitaker was called to the mission field in Venezuela. The Sunday School voted to give her one-half of her support. (At this time the Sunday School was having a difficult time paying for operating expenses).

In order to get everyone interested and help support Verla, the Sunday School purchased a church birthday bank. Each Sunday all the classes met together for the first 15 minutes and at this time everyone that had a birthday the past week gave their age in money to the bank. This together with the Sunday School offerings made it possible to meet her monthly support. It wasn't long before the Sunday School gave a report that Verla's support was being met each month and the Sunday School had ample money to meet operating expenses.

Since 1900 over 75 missionaries have been supported by our Church and Sunday School.