Congregational Church
Selfridge, Sioux County, North Dakota 58568
Selfridge, Sioux County, North Dakota 58568
The Hepper Olson Church Plate Collection
The Flasher Larger Parish
The Congregational Christian Churches of Flasher, Shields, Selfridge, and Solen and the First Presbyterian Church of Carson, organized the Flasher Larger Parish on October 20, 1952. The Parish covers approximately 2,800 square miles, lying in parts of Grant, Morton, and Sioux counties, in south central North Dakota, and serves about 250 families. Each cooperates to form the Larger Parish, holding Services in each church every Sunday. The minister is sided in covering this area by an airplane.
Info from – back of Congregational Church plate.
The Congregational Christian Churches of Flasher, Shields, Selfridge, and Solen and the First Presbyterian Church of Carson, organized the Flasher Larger Parish on October 20, 1952. The Parish covers approximately 2,800 square miles, lying in parts of Grant, Morton, and Sioux counties, in south central North Dakota, and serves about 250 families. Each cooperates to form the Larger Parish, holding Services in each church every Sunday. The minister is sided in covering this area by an airplane.
Info from – back of Congregational Church plate.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
As early as Nov. 1, 1919, a group of people met regularly for church services. Rev. W. J. Conrad was their minister. The church was incorporated on Nov. 9, 1921, at which time there were 39 members. Of these 39 the only charter member left in Selfridge is Henry Sandland.
The place of meeting was the school building known as the West school house. Later this building was purchased by the group. During 1939 the building was turned to face the West and placed over a dirt basement. From 1939 to the present time 1961, each year as time and money permitted remodeling has been accomplished. In the summer of 1960, the building was modernized by the installation of water and sewer, a tile floor, fluorescent lighting and a new furnace in the basement.
In 1942 the "Flasher Larger Parish" was formed linking the Carson Presbyterian Church and the Congregational Churches of Flasher, Shields, Solen and Selfridge with one minister serving the parish. The first minister to serve this Parish, Rev. Charles Lee, and his successor, Rev. Alan Inglis, used an airplane to commute between the churches. Due to difficulty in obtaining and retaining a minister to serve so large a Parish, the Flasher Larger Parish was dissolved in 1960. The Trinity S Parish was then formed and includes the Shields, Solen and Selfridge churches.
Ordained and licensed ministers have been the Reverends: W. J. Conrad, Clarence L. Covell, Mervin A. Rice, Richard Braund, W. T. Boyd, Peter Doherty, William Jorgenson, Charles Lee, Alan Inglis, and Otto Feisel. Student ministers serving for summer have been Robert S. Alward, John Kingsbury, John Patterson, Ellsworth Cummins, David King, and James Wadsworth.
Info from - Selfridge, North Dakota: Seventy-five Diamond Years (page 27)
As early as Nov. 1, 1919, a group of people met regularly for church services. Rev. W. J. Conrad was their minister. The church was incorporated on Nov. 9, 1921, at which time there were 39 members. Of these 39 the only charter member left in Selfridge is Henry Sandland.
The place of meeting was the school building known as the West school house. Later this building was purchased by the group. During 1939 the building was turned to face the West and placed over a dirt basement. From 1939 to the present time 1961, each year as time and money permitted remodeling has been accomplished. In the summer of 1960, the building was modernized by the installation of water and sewer, a tile floor, fluorescent lighting and a new furnace in the basement.
In 1942 the "Flasher Larger Parish" was formed linking the Carson Presbyterian Church and the Congregational Churches of Flasher, Shields, Solen and Selfridge with one minister serving the parish. The first minister to serve this Parish, Rev. Charles Lee, and his successor, Rev. Alan Inglis, used an airplane to commute between the churches. Due to difficulty in obtaining and retaining a minister to serve so large a Parish, the Flasher Larger Parish was dissolved in 1960. The Trinity S Parish was then formed and includes the Shields, Solen and Selfridge churches.
Ordained and licensed ministers have been the Reverends: W. J. Conrad, Clarence L. Covell, Mervin A. Rice, Richard Braund, W. T. Boyd, Peter Doherty, William Jorgenson, Charles Lee, Alan Inglis, and Otto Feisel. Student ministers serving for summer have been Robert S. Alward, John Kingsbury, John Patterson, Ellsworth Cummins, David King, and James Wadsworth.
Info from - Selfridge, North Dakota: Seventy-five Diamond Years (page 27)