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Grace & Truth Chapel is currently a KLC-BGG (Reunited) exclusive brethren assembly in Wausau, Marathon Co., [[Wisconsin]]. John and Eva Wurz had emigrated from [[Germany]] to nearby Stettin to farm in 1882, in fellowship with exclusives in his homeland. Louis Grebe emigrated to Wausau in 1883, meeting John's daughter Maggie, and married her in 1889. George Hoeppner, an associate of John's in Germany also settled in Wausau at some juncture. The assembly started breaking bread in the "Marquardt house" home of Louis & Maggie Grebe at Fourth Ave. & Alexander St. about 1893, with John and George also in fellowship.
In 1901, this assembly is thought to have been associated with the TW-Lowe EB, which went with the Lowe division of 1908-1909, and met in the home of August & Marie Block in town, while others remained in the country. In 1915, 411 S. Third Ave., was rented, then 411 S. Third in 1915. In 1918, they rented what was later the Labor Temple, above Hanneman's Department Store, at 310 (or 318) S. Third Ave, known by then as Bible Truth Hall.
In 1992, this meeting folded for eight years when most left this assembly to start an open brethren meeting that took the older name [[Bible Truth Chapel, Wausau, WI|Bible Truth Chapel]] including Roger Grebe, a descendant of some of the original founders. In 2000, several left BTC to setup another KLC table that continues to this day as Grace & Truth Chapel. About 2014, BTC started adopting more of an independent community church format (BC for Bible Church) and by 2016, some left there to start a more conservative open brethren meeting known as [[Bible Believers Fellowship, Wausau, WI|Bible Believers Fellowship]].