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The [[Aberdeen Meeting Room, ID|Aberdeen Meeting Room]] (TW-N) was founded by [[George Jacob Storrer]] (b. 1886 Germany - d. 1958 Walla Walla, WA), previously of [[American Falls Meeting Room, ID|American Falls]] from 1905, around 1912 in Aberdeen, Bingham, [[Idaho]], and meets thru present day.
George Storrer and three other young men from Germany emigrated to the U.S., he and/or they *may* had roots among the PB there, and settled initially at Walla Walla, [[Washington|WA]], and relocated to American Falls by 1905, and was hired by Cornelius & Paula Klassen for their farm in Aberdeen. George attended a conference at the [[Kansas City Meeting Room, KCMO]], where two laboring brothers ministered, Walter Potter (Chicago, IL) and a Mr. Fleck(either Alexander Fleck of Hamilton & Vancouver, or his son James Fleck of Toronto). George invited Walter to visit with Cornelius & Paula in Aberdeen.. In 1912, Cornelius & Paula Klassen, George Storrer, Jacob Elias Landvatter, and one other started the Aberdeen Meeting Room with the assistance of Jean Thonney, Mr. Birney and another brother from [[Walla Walla Meeting Room, WA]]. The Aberdeen assembly is known locally as the "Klassen Church".
About 1992, Harold Klassen led a split starting a smaller assembly (not in fellowship with the other) colloquially known as [[Aberdeen Fellowship, ID|Aberdeen Fellowship]], that is presently aligned with a network known to some as (Jim) Renton exclusives, initially composed of ex-Taylor, Sr. brethren that exited in the early 1970's what is now the PBCC, abbreviated as (Ren/R/TSr-EB), and they meet on the outskirts of town with several other families.
