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See Branches of Plymouth Brethren to explain abbreviation types (although in short: OB (& TW-P) are Halls & Chapels within the "open brethren" (although GH's (generally) maintain a separate network from the Chapels). EB/TW/TW-N are "Careful" Brethren (similar to OB Halls), and BC are (generally) independent community churches with early or indirect PB influence, and will (usually) not consider themselves "Brethren").  AA/CA refers to assemblies of African or Caribbean origin, or predominant demographic, although all ethnicities are overly welcome in any assemblies.

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East Central WI

Brown County (Green Bay metro)

Green Bay

Door County

Sturgeon Bay

  • Jacksonport Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1995-2019+
    • Egg Harbor Gospel Hall 1995-2015
    • Gospel preached in Door County in 1988 by Lorne Mitchell & George Patterson.

Fond du Lac County (Fond du Lac metro)

Campbellsport

Fox Cities

Outagamie/Calumet/Winnebago counties

Appleton

  • Appleton Bible Chapel, WI (OB) +1936-1972
    • Appleton assembly +1936+; Appleton Gospel Chapel +1941-1955+; Appleton Bible Chapel +1960-1964+
    • home of John D. Watson, 911 E. Hancock St. +1936+; storefront @ 412 E. Wisconsin Ave. +1941-1965; 2600 N. Mason St. 1965-1972. The building on Mason was a new construction, 36'x82', fit to accommodate 200.
    • c/o John D. Watson +1936-1941+; James E. Watson +1943-1954+; Frank J. Halloin +1958+; Robert W. Harper 1965-1966; James E. Leeman, Jr. 1967-1972;
    • Don Abel (1926-2023) wrote history in his autobiography.
    • Special speakers, as per Letters of Interest (LOI):
      • 1942: Charles Van Ryn of Muskegon, MI preached a Sunday evening on a cure for leprosy, and another on the book of Hebrews.
      • 1945: Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Stewart of Grand Rapids conducted VBS, then 1948 he was a special speaker, then of Trenton, NJ. Also +1945-1955+, the assembly had a Sunday morning (8:30-9:00am) program on WHBY. Abe H. Hartsema spoke here also in 1945, as well as in Sheboygan.
      • 1946: LOI: Alfred Perks Gibbs, then of Chicago, held "two weeks of well attended meetings in 'The Pilgrim's Progress'. The hall was filled each night in spite of the snow, and there seemed to be good interest in the Word."
      • 1947: Lyn Carey (from Appleton) and Bro. Bastow spoke at a special welcome-home at the Sheboygan assembly for all nine boys who had served in WWII, joined by brethren from Lake Geneva & Appleton. Dan Dunnett of Lake Geneva later visited Appleton, Brodhead & Sheboygan on his way to Oklahoma City, speaking on his model of the tabernacle.
      • 1948: August Van Ryn spoke a week at Appleton.
      • 1955: Evangelist William Brown of Fort Wayne, IN.
      • 1960: Wisconsin Wire Works (founded by John D. Watson, succeeded by his son James until his retirement in 1969) offered in LOI a "free week" at summer camp for the winner of a contest submitting the best craft project for their golden wire mesh.
      • 1961: James Watson posted in LOI seeking fellowship for a young man from the assembly in Appleton who was stationed in Guam, and received three letters in two days offering names. Dr. William Gibson posted in the same magazine looking for a fellow optometrist to join his practice.
      • 1962: special speaker: Ken Campbell; Bus offered to pick up children for S.S.
      • 1964: Dr. William Gibson was the adult S.S. teacher, Cyril Brooks was special speaker.
      • 1966: Abe Hartsema visited the Earl Laabs family in Apache Junction, AZ who were formerly from Appleton.
      • 1967: Annual conference in November expected Welcome Detweiler of Greensboro, N.C. & Gavin Hamilton of Oak Park, IL.
      • 1965-1968: James Watson was correspondent for Community Gospel Chapel in Kaukauna, WI. That same year, ABC commended Mr. & Mrs. William Gibson to work in Jamaica, serving under a previous commendation since 1964. It sponsored a "Wisconsin Women's Missionary Conference" in April of that year.

Menasha

  • Fox Valley Bible Chapel, WI (OB) 1995-2025+
    • founded by five families
    • was @ Little Chute Village Hall, Appleton; now @ Fox Crossing Community Center, Menasha;

Kewaunee County (Green Bay metro)

Casco

  • Country Bible Church, Casco, WI (OB) 1948-2024+
    • Lincoln Gospel Chapel 1948-1985
    • split from Gospel Truth Hall (KLC-EB or Grant EB)
    • L&L 1948-11: Gospel Messengers on Tour stayed in Casco on Aug. 20-21, 1948, did street meetings in Luxemburg, Algoma and Casco, baptized eight in Casco, the street meetings were so interesting to the Lutherans and Methodists that a Methodist minister offered up the use of his church, and Ed Dillon was invited to follow up.

Lincoln

  • Gospel Truth Hall, Lincoln, Kewaunee, WI (French Belgian EB) +1869-1985+
    • c/o Emil Fabry (1860-1936 Red River Twp., Kewaunee, WI) and his wife Mary Hanquet Fabry (b. 1864 Luxemburg Twp., Kewaunee, WI - d. 1942 Red River Twp., WI) were married in this assembly on Feb. 4, 1882.
      • Mary's memorial service was also held at this assembly in 1942, with burial in its cemetery. Pallbearers: Elmer Le Captain, Al Alberts, James Fabry, Sydney Halloin, Raymond Barrow & Gerald Gilson. Flower girls: Lorraine Le Captain, Delores Fayas, Ethel, Violet & Adeline Gilson, and Mayme Barrow.
    • see cemetery
    • also see Country Bible Church in Casco

Marathon County (Wausau metro)

Marathon

  • Marathon Meeting Room, WI (German TW-Lowe-EB) +1905-1908+
    • c/o George D.H. Hoeppner +1905+
      • previously @ Mylrea, WI +1901-1903+
    • c/o Adam Wurz +1905-1908+

Mosinee

  • Mosinee Meeting Room, WI (TW-EB) +1985-1992; (TW-N-EB) 1992-2021+
    • c/o Paul D. Shepherd +1985+; Heinz Brinkmann +1985-2005+

Stettin

Wausau

  • Grace & Truth Chapel, Wausau, WI (German KLC-EB) 1893-?; (English KLC-EB) ?-1992; 2000-2025+
    • 1893-1896+ (?); Wausau Meeting Room (TW-Lowe EB) +1901-1905+; Bible Truth Hall (Lowe or Grant EB?) +1922-1936+; Bible Truth Assembly (KLC-EB) +1946+; (Grant-Stuart? +1954?); Grace & Truth Chapel (KLC-EB) 2000-present;

Oconto County (Green Bay metro)

Oconto

Wood County (Wausau metro)

Wisconsin Rapids

Northeastern WI

Forest County

Argonne

  • Argonne Meeting Room, WI (TW-Lowe-EB) +1901-1909; (TW-EB) +1909-1927+
    • North Crandon Meeting Room +1901-1917+
    • c/o W.H. Roberts

Langlade County

Antigo

Oneida County

Rhinelander

Three Lakes

  • Three Lakes Meeting Room, WI (Polish TW-Lowe-EB) +1901-1909; (TW-EB) 1909-1951+
    • c/o Joseph "Joe" Godlevski +1901-1951+; Mrs. Lucille Boscho +1901-1905+; W. Andrzywski +1908-1917+; Albert Andrzywski +1923+, +1944-1951+; George Godlevski +1927-1944+;

Northwestern WI

Barron County

Cumberland

Douglas County

Superior

Rusk County

Sheldon

Southcentral WI

Madison CSA

Dane County (Madison metro)

Black Earth

  • Black Earth Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1932-2023+
    • c/o Charles Binius 1932+
    • T&T 2001-4: Initial Gospel meetings by Archie Stewart & Stephen Mick on May 20, 1927 at Woodman Hall in the middle of town, filled nightly, and nine professed. Then Mr. Hamilton and Archie Stewart had nine weeks of meetings with ten more professions. Twelve baptized with 500 in attendance. First believers met at Beetown. In the winter of 1932, Warke & Hamilton did meetings, and twelve broke bread afterwards for the first time at Black Earth.
    • @ 1316 Center St.

Madison

@ 6084 Imperial Dr., Waunkee 1982-1995; 5201 Turner Blvd. 1995-2019. Turner Blvd. property sold to a Spanish Pentecostal group (2da Iglesia Pentecostal Jehova Rafa) using it for their headquarters, with a church on 4700 McFarland Ct., McFarland, WI.

Green County (Madison metro

Brodhead

Rock County (Janesville/Beloit metro)

Beloit

Janesville

Southeastern WI

Kenosha County (Chicago metro)

Kenosha

  • Grace Bible Chapel, Kenosha, WI (KLC-EB) +1923-2000? (OB) 2000?-2024+
    • Kenosha Christian Assembly, WI]] (KLC-EB) +1923-1946+; Grace Bible Chapel (OB) 2000?-present

Milwaukee metro

Milwaukee County (Milwaukee metro)

Milwaukee

  • Bible Truth Assembly of Milwaukee, WI (KLC-eb) 1940’s-2016+
    • 49th & Oklahoma Christian Assembly 1950’s-present;
    • hive from Kenosha German assembly.
    • @ upper room over a restaurant or tavern in the 1940's; @ home of Mrs. Regina Felten, Ste. 10, 2825 N. 33rd +1946+; old Lutheran church @ 3056 S. 49th St. +1950's-present
    • c/o Henry Knautz, 7336 W. Coldspring Rd., West Allis +1946+
  • Milwaukee Christian Assembly, WI (EB) +1866-1884; (G-EB) 1884-1933; (G-B-EB) 1933-1974; (KLC-EB) 1974-2000
    • split from Bible Truth Hall in 1933.
    • In 1890, the U.S. Religious Census identified one PB-I (Grant EB) assembly in Milwaukee Co., with 70 meeting in a rented hall with capacity for 120.
  • Milwaukee Meeting Room, WI (TW-EB) +1927-1973+
    • c/o Albert Andryeski +1927-1933+; Charley Godlevski +1927+; Robert H. Lundberg +1944-1951+; Robert Thomas, Sr. +1962-1973+
  • Wauwatosa Bible Chapel, WI (EB) +1866-1884; (G-EB) 1884-1933; (OB) 1933-2024+
    • Milwaukee Christian Assembly +1866-1922; Bible Truth Hall/Chapel 1922+; Wauwatosa Community Chapel;
    • In 1890, the U.S. Religious Census identified one PB-I (Grant EB) assembly in Milwaukee Co., with 70 meeting in a rented hall with capacity for 120.

Racine County

Racine

  • Racine Meeting Room, WI (TW-EB) +1944-1951+; +1966+
    • c/o Mansfield Lundberg +1944-1951+; Mrs. G.G. Youngstrum +1944-1951+; Woodrow Keisling +1966+

Walworth County

Lake Geneva

  • Lake Geneva Bible Chapel, WI (OB) 1894-2023+
    • Lake Geneva Gospel Hall +1904-1927+
    • c/o Frank Johnson +1904+; O.H. McColm @ 1300 Dodge St. +1927+

Williams Bay

Waukesha County

Oconomowoc

  • Oconomowoc residency (TW-eb) +1911+
    • c/o Miss M. Hayes

Waukesha

  • Waukesha Gospel Chapel, WI (OB) +1936-1943+
    • @ Grand & Colorado Aves. +1936-1943+
    • c/o Chester Foat +1936+; Melvin Johnson +1941+; Philip J. Strong, Jr. +1943+
  • Waukesha Meeting Room, WI (TW-EB) +1949-1951+
    • c/o Dr. Arthur August Sunier (b. 1899 West Lucas, IA - d. 1989 Winter Park, Orange, FL). Wife: Frances Sunier (b. 1899 Oak Park, IL - d. 1998 Winter Park, FL)
      • faculty @ Rochester, N.Y., then Carroll University (Waukesha) teaching chemistry
      • son of Aime Sunier (1837-1907) who was a jeweler & watchmaker in Iowa City for many years, with his wife Susanne (1855-1938), both originally from Switzerland.
        • Aime & Susanne were among the first TW exclusives to reside in Iowa City, Iowa, arriving by 1889, and remained. There was a meeting room developed (there) by 1927.

Sheboygan metro

Sheboygan County

Sheboygan

  • Zion Christian Assembly, Sheboygan, WI (TW-Lowe-EB) +1896-1908; (Lowe-EB) 1908-1926; (KLC-EB) 1926-1972; (OB) 1972-2024+
    • Sheboygan Meeting Room +1896-1908+; Bible Truth Hall; Bible Truth Chapel +1943-1972; Zion Christian Assembly
    • c/o J.W. Felten +1896-1908+
    • In 1943, Joan Engelbert, Annette Alberts & Roger Alberts of the Bible Truth hall recited Christmas poems and S.S. children sang carols for the City Home.
    • Mathilda Rudy Felten 1916?-1965 (b. 1897 Butler Co., IA - d. 1965 Sheboygan, WI), daughter of John & Katherine Rudy. Relocated to Sheboygan with her family in 1916. Husband (1919): William Felten retired from Vollrath Co., as a pattern dept. supt. Beston Simmons (Windsor, ON) officiated her memorial. Children: Pearl Allen (Zion, IL), Frances Leonard (Wajima), Arlisle Beers (Elgin, IL), Joyce Detert (Wilmington, MA), & Virginia Masterson (West Hartford, CT). Siblings: John Rudy (Pasadena, CA), Lydia Rudy (Portland, OR) & Mrs. Theodore Felten (Sheboygan, WI).

Sheboygan Falls

Waushara County

Hancock

Springwater

Southwestern WI

Crawford County

See Visiting Ministry at Blue River Gospel Hall, WI for additional reports on early outreach work in Bell Center (1935), Eastman / Shanghai Ridge (1935), Soldiers Grove (1949), and Steuben (1933), all within this county.

Mount Sterling

Grant County (Platteville micro)

Beetown

Blue River

La Crosse County (La Crosse, WI / Onalaska, MN metro)

La Crosse

  • La Crosse Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1890-2025+
    • @ Clinton St. +1922-1927+
    • c/o A.H. Redpath, 1908 Charles St. +1904+; C.O. Dahl @ 1113 Gillette St. +1922+; L.R. Sundvay @ 1209 W. Ave., S +1927+; Mr. Uglum +1953+
    • TBM 1891: La Crosse, Winconsin (sic): "We had our brother Alexander Matthews here for three months, labouring for the Lord with blessing. He is now in Minneapolis."

Monroe County

Wilton

Sauk County

Mylrea ?

  • Mylrea Meeting Room, WI (German TW-Lowe-EB) +1901-1903+
    • c/o George Hoeppner
      • later @ Marathon, WI (German EB) +1905+

Prairie Du Sac

Vernon County

Mount Sterling

Ontario

  • Ontario Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1954-2023+
    • Gospel preaching by Chauncey Yost, Alex Studnicka & Louis Brandt in the area starting in 1952. 75 in attendance of a tent meeting by Paul Elliot & Alex Studnicka, ten professed including Lee Stenerson (later @ La Crosse).

Viroqua

Westby

West Central WI

Chippewa County (Eau Claire metro)

  • Chippewa County Meeting Room, WI (TW-Lowe EB) +1890+
    • In 1890, the U.S. Religious Census identified one PB-III assembly in Chippewa Co., with 4 meeting in a rented hall with a capacity of 85.

Chippewa Falls

Clark County

Stanley

  • KLC sister +1946+
    • c/o Mrs. Florence Cummins, RR#2
      • breaks bread at Sheldon
  • Stanley Meeting Room, WI (TW-Lowe-EB) +1896-1909; (TW-EB) 1909-1933+; +1973-1992; (TW-N-EB) 1992-2010+
    • c/o James P. Clauson +1896-1908+;
    • c/o Mrs. Mattie Kenyon @ Withee +1896+
    • c/o Miss Hattie Colby @ Thorp +1896+
    • c/o Mrs. Charles Cook +1896-1927+
      • @ Thorp +1896-1917+, +1933+
    • c/o M. McMiller +1896-1901+, +1911+
      • lived in Chippewa Falls +1903-1905+
    • c/o Mrs. C. Einfeldt @ Greenwood +1908-1911+
    • c/o John Chalkley +1911+
    • c/o Mrs. J.B. Dougherty +1914-1927+
    • c/o Mrs. Sam B. Mills +1914-1933+
    • c/o Miss Edith Ness +1973-2010+

Eau Claire County (Eau Claire / Menomonie metro)

Eau Claire (also in Chippewa County)

Porter's Mills

Jackson County

Black River Falls

  • Black River Gospel Hall, WI (OB) 1941-2023+
    • Pine Hills Gospel Hall 1944-1991
    • Sam Hamilton held Gospel meetings in the Pine Hills schoolhouse in 1926, and in another area schoolhouse later. Elgie Jamison & Walter Elgies had meetings, including one Elgies had at Shamrock Hall in 1949/1950 where he died while preaching. Breaking of Bread in the summer of 1941 in the home of Henry Gaede. 1944 acquired a building at Pine Hills. Relocated to Black River Falls in 1991.

Trempealeau County

Whitehall

  • Whitehall Fellowship (KLC-EB) +2016+
    • see Wausau, WI
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