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Several assemblies were started by the Scottish pioneers in northwest Indiana not far from Chicago. Assembly testimony in Indiana began in the 1870s 1878 when James Campbell visited Valparaiso. As a result of his visit, an assembly was started in that city. According to a history of Porter & Lake counties from 1882, and it was at that time meeting "in a room in the third story of the store building owned by S.S. Skinner, on Main Street. It was strengthened when Judge Gillet, a well-respected Christian and Bible teacher, identified himself with the testimony. Alexander Matthews and Donald Ross, among others, ministered there. The work continued at the Valparaiso Gospel Hall until the mid 1980s.
==Sources==
* [[1904 List of Some Meetings in the British Isles and Regions Beyond]]
* [http://brethrenpedia.org/index.php/History_of_Some_Assemblies_of_Christians_in_the_United_States_and_Canada Peterson history]
* [[http://www.kankakeevalleyhistoricalsociety.org/Kankakee%20River%20History/Books%20and%20papers/Counties%20of%20Porter%20and%20Lake,%20Indiana.pdf http://www.kankakeevalleyhistoricalsociety.org/Kankakee%20River%20History/Books%20and%20papers/Counties%20of%20Porter%20and%20Lake,%20Indiana.pdf] History of Porter & Lake Counties, 1882, pp. 148-149]