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Coloma

Calvary United Methodist Chuch
230 East Main Street
Coloma, WI
(715) 228-2006

Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
325 North Slater Street
Coloma
, WI  54930
(715) 228-4171

 South Burr Oak United Methodist Church
1854 – 1st Drive
Coloma, WI  54930
(715)-341-8826

 St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
N1231 – 9th Drive
Coloma, WI  54930
(715) 228-3636

 Hancock

 Grace Lutheran Church
Q10805 Cty Rd B/C
Hancock, WI  54923
(715) 249-3043

Hancock Wesleyan Church
242 North Main Street
Hancock
, WI  54943
(715) 249-5623

 United Church of Christ
301 North Main Street
P.O. Box 202
Hancock, WI 54943
(715) 249-5133

Pine River

Pine River Congregational Church
N4690 County Road E
Pine River, WI

 Plainfield

New Life Assembly of God
612 East North Street
P.O. Box 218
Plainfield
, WI  54966
(715) 335-6905

 Oasis Christian Fellowship
N5559 – 8th Avenue
Plainfield, WI  54966
(715) 335-6640

 First Baptist Church
205 East Clark Street
Plainfield
, WI  54966
(715) 335-6330

 St. Paul’s Catholic Church
622 South Beach Street
Plainfield
, WI  54966
(715) 335-4314

 United Methodist Church
P.O. Box 36
308 North Main Street
Plainfield
, WI 54966
(715) 335-6738

Poy Sippi

 Emmaus Evangelical Lutheran Church
W2185 Country H
 Poy Sippi, WI

(920) 987-5229

 First Lutheran Church
W2314 Prospect Street
Poy Sippi, WI  54967
(920) 987-5151
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Poy Sippi United Methodist Church
PO Box 365
W2256 Liberty St
Poy Sippi, Wisconsin 54967

(920) 987-5223

Redgranite


Oakridge Mennonite Church
Redgranite, WI  54970
(920) 566-4475

 St. Mark Catholic Church 
228 Church Street
Redgranite, Wisconsin 54970
(920) 566-4442

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
330 Foster Road
Redgranite, Wisconsin 54970
(920) 566-4212

First Congregational Church
887 Bonnell Avenue
Redgranite, Wisconsin  56970
(920) 566-4666

 Saxeville

St. John’s Lutheran Church
W4570 County Highway A
Saxeville, WI
(920) 622-3371

 Saxeville Baptist Church
W4616 South County Rd A
Saxeville, WI
(920) 622-3206

Wautoma

Crossroads Family Church
640 S. Water Street
Wautoma, WI 54982
920-787-2355

 Faith Baptist Church
514 West Elm Street
Wautoma
, WI  54982
(920) 787-4202

 Grace United Methodist Church
N2133 Southgate Terrace
Wautoma, WI  54982
(715)  787-4668

 Hope Lutheran Church
301 East Main Street
Wautoma
, WI 54982
(920) 787-3920

 Peace Lutheran Church
335 West Prairie Street
Wautoma
, WI  54982
(920) 787-3856

 St. Joseph Catholic Church
364 South Cambridge
Wautoma, WI  54982
(920) 787-3848

 St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
P.O. Box 396
Wautoma, WI  54982
(920) 787-7837

 Trinity Lutheran Church
121 West Elm Street
Wautoma
, WI  54982
(920) 787-2891

 Waushara Community Church (Wautoma)
N2126 22nd Avenue
PO Box 1139 
Wautoma, Wisconsin  54982
(920) 787-7148

 
Waushara Evangelical Free Church
430 South Oxford Street
Wautoma
, WI  54982
(920) 787-7749

 West Holden Church
N4256 County Rd MM
Wautoma, WI  54982
(920) 787-7277

Wild Rose

Holden Lutheran Church (Mt. Morris & Wild Rose)
N3388 State Road 152
Wautoma, WI  54982
(920) 787-3187

St Paul Lutheran Church
420 Park Avenue
Wild
Rose, WI 54984
(920) 622-3280

Wild Rose Baptist Church
1013 Main Stree
Wild Rose, WI 54984
(920) 622-4184

Wild Rose Presbyterian Church
501 Jackson Street
Wild Rose, WI 54984
(920) 622-3515

 Wild Rose United Methodist Church
225 Summit
Wild Rose, WI 54984
(920) 622-3800

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Miscellaneous Church Information

Contributed by Shirley Paulson

"THE CORRECT NAME OF THE BORTH SEPARATIST CHURCH."

 
Way back, Oscar Schroeder (He was born in about 1905) told me that the Borth Separatist Church had only one minister-Rev. Carl Miller (Who is buried on the Borth Cem.) While re-reading the confirmation cert. of my grandmother (Anna Albertina Schonscheck/Schmude, [whose Mother was Albertine Haase/Schonscheck]) I noticed she was confirmed at Borth [see separate confirmation cert. email for correct name] in a Lutheran Church and the minister who signed her cert. was Rev. Carl Miller.
 
Then I had copies of some old Wedding Invitations where they were specifically invited to the "Borth Separatist Church". I went over to the Wautoma Courthouse and looked up those Marriage licenses and I found:-----Type of ceremony Luth. or Ev.Luth-----Signed by:--Rev. Carl Miller.
 
Now in the book "Historic Lake Poygan" by Chas. H. Velte (copyright 1976) on page 118 he writes:
 
"There was another church (besides the Methodist Church) located between the EUB and the Lutheran church called the Separatist Church, often called Pastor Millers Church. It was composed of a group that had withdrawn from the Lutheran Church and established an independent church. Pastor Miller came direct from Germany to become Pastor of this Church. He continued to serve there until his retirement, after which the Church ceased to exist. His pastorate covered a period of about 25 years, during the latter 1800s and early 1900s."

Transcribed and submitted by Joan Benner

First Baptist Church of Saxeville

When the Danish Baptist Church in Potter County, Pennsylvania, disbanded, some  of the members moved to Waushara County, Wisconsin. Reverend Soren Larsen left the Raymond Wisconsin church in 1857 to go to Waushara. There is no record of the exact date of the organization of the church in Waushara County but most likely it was organized in 1858. When Rev. Lars Jorgensen visited the field in 1859, he helped the church to re-organize. N. S. Lawdahl in his History of Danish Baptists in America says of the Waushara church, that it probably was the most checkered career of any of our [Danish Baptist] churches. Divisions often rent the church, so that, at one time there were as many as three different organizations on the field. Because of this, many different names for the church appear in the records, as: Waushara, Bloomfield, Town of Leon, Pine River. All of these places are in Waushara County, and the work spoken of in these records is that of our Danish Baptists.

We are naturally interested in knowing the cause of the many divisions in the church. It seems, first of all, that the church suffered from too many leaders; this sounds rather strange, but perhaps the trouble was a bit of jealousy among the different leaders. Adventist propaganda also caused the church considerable trouble. And, even at this early date, the language question seems to have been the cause of mis-understanding and dissension. In spite of all these difficulties, about 190 souls were added to its membership by baptism. In the year 1900 the Waushara church was reorganized as an English-speaking church, under the name of The First Baptist Church of Saxeville.

Source: Seventy-Five Years of Danish Baptist Missionary Work in America. Published by the Danish Baptist General Conference of America, printed by American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, © 1931.

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