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A tent meeting was held in June, 1911 at the southwest corner of the intersection of Park and Center Street.  The non-denominational congregation that was formed from this meeting first assembled on June 25, 1911 in the Woodmen's Hall, on the second floor of the Grange Store on the northwest corner of Park and Elm.  Many of the charter members moved their membership from the Church of Christ meeting in the Carroll schoolhouse, south and east of Gardner.  The Carroll congregation may have been meeting as early as 1871, when the Sidney Gay family moved into the area from DeWitt County, Illinois.