Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . panied byhis wife, and held some meetings byorder of district mission board. Theboard then established a mission pointhere and sent brethren to hold meetingsas often as the small amount of meansat their disposal would allow. In the fall of 1898 Brethren EnosCrowel, Wm. Bergman and Ira Early,with their families, located in the vicin-ity of Beaverton. In the year 1900,other members moved in. Some locatednear Coleman, Midland county, a dis-tance of eighteen miles from those livingin the vicinity of Beaverton. OnAugust 17, 1901, a council was called atthe home of
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . panied byhis wife, and held some meetings byorder of district mission board. Theboard then established a mission pointhere and sent brethren to hold meetingsas often as the small amount of meansat their disposal would allow. In the fall of 1898 Brethren EnosCrowel, Wm. Bergman and Ira Early,with their families, located in the vicin-ity of Beaverton. In the year 1900,other members moved in. Some locatednear Coleman, Midland county, a dis-tance of eighteen miles from those livingin the vicinity of Beaverton. OnAugust 17, 1901, a council was called atthe home of Bro. Enos Crowel, and anorganization was effected, with a mem-bership of seventeen, called the Beaver-ton congregation. The territory assign-ed consisted of Gladwin county and thenorth tier of townships in Isabella andMidland counties, with Elder D. Cham-bers of New Haven congregation incharge. Bro. Perry A. Arnold, the onlyminister, lived a distance of eighteenmiles from the main body of members. On January 4, 1902, Bro. Wm. Mc-. Beaverton Church, Michigan. Kinimy, a minister, presented his letterof membership. The district missionboard, seeing the need of a ministerhere, assisted Bro. McKimmy in locat-ing. The meetings were held in school-houses. The first love feast was heldin Bro. Enos Crowels dooryard in atent erected for the occasion. The brethren began to take an activepart in Sunday school even before thechurch was organized. Bro. EnosCrowel was the first the brethren are scattered some theycan not all attend one Sunday school,but nearly all seem to be interested inthe work. For several years there havebeen three, and part of the time four,Sunday schools in the congregationsterritory, superintended by the Brethren. At a council July 4, 1903, the Brethrendecided to build a meetinghouse and atonce appointed a committee to drawplans and ascertain the cost of house cost $1,400 and was dedicatedon June 4, 1905. Our present membership is sixty-t
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