Shreve Christian Church

Shreve Christian Church
Shreve Christian (Disciples of Christ) Church
Location	500 North Market Street, Shreve, Ohio
Country	United States
Denomination	Disciples of Christ
Previous denomination	Baptist Association
History
Former name(s)	Christian Church of Clinton (1831), Shreve Christian Church (1836)
Founded	1831
Dedicated	First Church Building (25-Dec-1858), Present Church Building (17-May-1903), Remodeled and Rededicated (01-Dec-1963)
Architecture
Status	Active
Completed	First Church Building (1858), Present Church Building (1903)
Construction cost	Present Church Building - $9,544.87

Locations

• 500 North Market St., Shreve, Ohio 44676 - current
• Shreve, Clinton Township, Wayne County, Ohio

Comprehensive History

Shreve Christian Church located at 500 North Market Street, Shreve was established in 1831 as the Christian Church of Clinton. This was the first church in Clinton Township. The original building was located on James Moore’s farm 1 ½ mile north of Shreve. Sources found for this church were; Wipert’s Church Histories of Wayne County, Ohio, pg. 43, History of Wayne County, Ohio, B.F. Bowen & Co., 1910 Vol. 1, pg. 255 and Wayne-Holmes Countywide Telephone Directory, March 2013, pg. 69.

Pastors of the Shreve Christian Church

Name	Years of Service
O. Everett
Rev. Jones	1865
J. Lowe	1867-1869
Rev. Sharp	1869-1870
J. Lowe	1870-1872
Uriah Huffman	1873-1876
D. Guy	1877-1880
J. Lowe	1880-1886
O. Oviatt	1886-1889
D. Henselman	1889-1892
F. Simpson	1893-1896
T. Woodard	1897-1898
George Crites	1898-1900
L. Spayd	1900-1904
S. Harris	1904-1906
L. McConnell	1906-1908
M. Decker	1908-1913
H. Elwinger	1913-1916
S. White	1916-1921
Leo Gregory	1922-1926
J. Richards	1927-1930
Ray Wolford	1931-1941
Phillip Gould	1941-1945
H. Stafford	1945-1947
Al Kean	1947-1949
N. Athey	1949-1952
Frank Reeder	1952-1953
William Frank	1953-1955
Donald Steffy	1956-1959
Amos Cobbey	1959-1961
Richard Herrington	1962-1966
Russell Goldner	1966-1969
Robert Tuck (interim)	1970
Leonard Filler	1970-1972
Garth Maynard	1973-1975
Anna Jarvis-Parker	1976-1979
Paul Jarvis-Parker (assistant)	1977-1979
Paul Haney	1979-1995 (?)
Priscilla Jackson	1996-2012

Timeline

• May 1831 - Church is organized with 40 members as 'Shreve Church of Christ'
• Autumn 1858 - New church is erected diagonally across from the present church building and dedicated on Christmas Day by Harrison Jones
• 1870 - An organ was added to the church
• 1903 - A new church building was erected on the corner of Market and Church streets, it was dedicated 17-May-1903
• June 1934 - Celebration of the 104th Anniversary of first meetings to organize the church
• 1962-1963 - Church was remodeled in three stages, Exterior, Church School, Sanctuary for $30,797.00
• May 1978 - 'Homecoming Day' held to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the present church building's use for worship
• April 2012 - 110 Year Anniversary of church building, theme is "A Past to Remember, A Future to Pursue"

Gallery

Newspaper articles

What Links Here

• Wayne County, Ohio Churches (Table) ‎ (← links)

External links

• The Daily Record, article, 'Remembering the past, pursuing the future Shreve Christian Church is celebrating 110 years in its building', 13-Apr-2012