OUR HISTORY
SIGNIFICANT DATES IN
SALEM'S HISTORY
PASTORS OF
SALEM
1866 - First land bought by congregation
1869 - Congregation organized as "German United Evangelical Salem Congregation"
1870 - First parsonage built
1871 - Sunday School organized
1875 - First cemetery land purchased (Nickel Plate)
1876 - St. John's dissolves with Salem
1879 - First bell purchased
1884 - Present church lot purchased
1885 - First organ purchased
1886 - Second parsonage built
1889 - Ladies' Aid "Frauen Verin" organized
1891 - Present cemetery land purchased
1895 - Red Brick Church built
1906 - Kitchen and dining room addition on west end of church
1906 - First Harvest Festival
1919 - Electric lights installed in sancutary
1923 - Women's Guild "Missionary Society" organized
1927 - Paintings added to front of sanctuary
1934 - Merger with Reformed Church (now Evangelical and Reformed)
1943 - Fellowship Class organized
1944 - Youth Fellowship organized
1950 - Moller pipe organ installed
1952 - Men's Brotherhood organized
1956 - Harvest Home began again after 30 years
1957 - E & R Church merged to become United Church of Christ
1960 - Memorial Hall addition
1971 - Thur parsonage built
1978 - Christian Education Board organized
1979 - Bell Choir organized
1994 - 125th Anniversary celebration
1995 - 100th Anniversary of Red Brick Church
1995 - Church redecorated
2019 - 150th Anniversary of Salem Congregation
1869-1870 Carl Schaub
1870-1872 J. Lindenmeyer
1873-1875 Caspar Nussbaum
1875-1886 Jul Grunert
1886-1890 Philip Werheim
1891-1899 William Schulz
1899-1905 C. D. Kiefel
1905-1911 John Bollens
1911-1917 William Howe
1917-1919 John Krause
1919-1921 G Ronte
1921-1922 George DuVal
1923-1935 John Schaible
1935-1942 Karl H.A. Rest
1942-1949 Melvin Miller
1950-1964 Edwin F. Mayer
1965-1969 Carl A. Renter
1970-1982 William J. Bertsch
1983-1988 Robert A. Anderson
1989-1992 Marvin E. Schrolucke
1993-1998 James R. Mitchell
1999-2007 Craig Forwalter
2009-2015 Carol J. Nordstrom
2016-2019 Victoria S. Ubben
2020-2022 Jeffrey Coester