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=Grace and Truth=
==1910's==
From 1910 thru 1917, the aforementioned Alexander "Sandy" Broadfoot, commuted from Iowa to Kansas to visit and hold Gospel meetings in schoolhouses including the Bonnacord schoolhouse, and many were saved. Robert Alexander Robson, of Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian, left to assist George McBoyle, Frank H. Nicholson and others to construct an assembly that met for a time in the large home of Alexander McBoyle, known as the Bonnacord Assembly. It was notable that as early as the 1880's, Alex's farm had electric lights and running water. Eventually the McBoyles donated land at what is now at the corner of Deer & 1400 where they built the Grace & Truth Gospel Hall, thru an indenture between Mary J.Jane A. McBoyle Deardorff and the original trustees, Grant Engle, Daniel W. Emig and John D. Emig.
Other early families included Roggendorff, Miller, and Jury. It is also believed that [[George Gruen]] may have been among the early saints also, who had relocated from the St. Louis area of Illinois to farm, who was involved with exclusive assemblies in the Highland, Illinois area. It is remembered that when George first came to Abilene, he settled with an established Grant exclusive meeting in the area, which may have been among those who eventually started Grace & Truth. It has been also recollected that in the early days of the Gospel Hall, the men and women were required to sit in separate areas during meetings.
==1920's==
==1960's==
In the mid-1960's, George Easter, an accountant attending Grace & Truth, started an assembly in his home in Salina, which in the 1970's would purchase a former Jehovah's Witness building that would incorporate as Sunset Bible Chapel, which continues today, and along with Grace & Truth, has commended a number of overseas and home workers, including Jim Gillette of Ireland Outreach. In 1965, the trustees of Grace and Truth were Grant Engle, George Easter, and Orville W. Robson.
==1970's==