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Wayne Christian Assembly, NJ

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There is a KLC -exclusive assembly in Wayne Twp., Passaic Co., NYC metro, [[New Jersey]] that has been meeting in that county since 1878 or before. In its earliest days, it met in the town of Passaic thru at least 1889, with a correspondent of William Gribbon (1828-1906), an Irish-born linen merchant in 1880. In 1890, the U.S. Religious Census indicated one PB-III (TW-Lowe) assembly in the county with 42 attending a rented hall with a capacity of 150. Its earliest meetings thru at least the 1920's were thought to have been in German.  +1946-1957+, the assembly met at 123-125 N. Fifth St., Paterson where it was known as the Gospel Hall or Christian Assembly, with correspondents Chris DeKoster & Oscar Tielmann. A Pentecostal group, the [https://www.facebook.com/p/Prophetic-Church-of-God-Paterson-100070039687668/ Prophetic CoG] acquired it in 1975. In 1977, the meeting assembly moved to Wayne Twp., where it currently assembles, in fellowship with the KLC-BGG exclusives.
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