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Monday, May 7, 2018
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Howe Church of Christ celebrated 85th anniversary last Sunday
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The first church in Howe to be known as the Church of Christ began meeting during the years of the Great Depression in the Howe High School Building which was the Marshall Bean College in the location where the present administration office is located. Clyde Carter assumed a great deal of responsibility in the work. Records show that the average attendance for that first year was 52. By the following autumn, attendance had grown to an average of 62, and the church moved its meeting place to a store building owned by W.A. Wilson (which later became a fire station and now a free parking lot). Rent was $4 a month but later increased to $5. A borrowed tent for a gospel meeting was demolished by a wind storm, but the debt was forgiven. It's probably a good thing because the treasury record showed a balance of "sixty-two cents cashon-hand!" Sickness and bad weather added to the harshness of those years and there was never enough money to pay a preacher regularly. Despite the hardships, destitute families were given benevolent aid, money was sent for missionary effort, funds were sent to Boles Home and Tipton Home orphanages, and everyone pitched in to make the meeting place more commodious.
began meeting in another store building owned by Mrs. George Stockton, near the center of the business section of Howe. Records show some signs of prosperity as rent was $8 per month and attendance grew to more than 80. Plans began to be made for erecting a church building. The following year, their building plans began to materialize when Mrs. Kreager (mother of Willis Kreager) donated a building site in the second block south of Highway 5 (near First Baptist Church). With more able members contributing generously, and everyone giving their time and means, the white framed building was completed in December 1938. In June 1968, the congregation began meeting a new brick building that they had constructed near Highway 75 (now housing Community Bible Fellowship). The rapid growth of Howe in the late 1960s renewed the growth of the church with new families compromising an active part of the congregation. In the early 1990s, the church once again constructed a new church and again on Highway 75, just a little further to the North to its present location at 1205 N. Collins Freeway.
In February 1937, the church
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