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This assembly is thought to have been aligned with the Grant exclusives. Tom Robson, a grandson of George & Elizabeth Roggendorff, a retired pastor, born in 1930, remembers visiting the Newbern meeting when he was a child, probably when he was six or seven, which would suggest the assembly was still active in 1936 or 1937, but he does not recall when it folded, but T. Lee Gruen thinks it only met a few years. There was also a Tunbridge-Wells exclusive assembly around this time that met in the Abilene area, and it was the 1930's when [[Elm Springs Bible Hall, KS|Elm Springs Bible Hall]] hived off of Grace and Truth.
==1933==
At [https://www.brethrenarchive.org/media/364065/booth-a-e-_-appeal-to-my-brethren.pdf BrethrenArchive.com] can be found a lengthy document between A.E. Booth and Wilfred Ames protesting a situation with an assembly in London, [[England]] known as Kingsland which was allegedly going open. The document includes transcriptions from a couple dozen letters around the U.S. that similarly protested, including one from Abilene, marked Aug. 4, 1933 that stated, "we approve the Minneapolis, Dunkirk and other similar letters" with regard to their circulars. The letter was signed the following from Abilene:
* R.A. Deardorff
* J.H. Miller
* George Roggendorff
* George Gruen
* Tim Gruen
* J.A. Deardorff
It also included signatures from:
* Virgle A. Britt @ Junction City
* F.E. Britt @ Junction City
* P.P. Botz @ Manchester
* A.C. Botz @ Talmage
* E.E. Higginbottom @ Lawrence
=Latter developments=
