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Now called Peace Church of Bellwood. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

Immanuel Lutheran Church in Paul, Idaho, had many Volga German members. This congregation no longer exists.

The history of Paul Congregational Church can be traced back Salem Congregational Church which was located north of Paul in the dry farm country of the Kimama district. Salem was organized in 24 March 1913. In 1925, Salem moved into Paul and changed its name to Zoar Congregational Church. In the early 1930s, a daughter congregation was formed north of the railroad tracks. It became known as Pilgrim Congregational Church. In 1936, these two congregations merged together again to form Ebenezer Congregational Church which today is called Paul Congregational Church.

Zion Congregational Church, organized in 1896, was also known as the Second German Congregational Church.\

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St. John Lutheran Church was founded in 1909 in Windsor, Colorado. The congregation is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Faith United Church of Christ was founded 26 May 1969, with the union of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and Windsor Evangelical Congregational Christian Church.

Windsor Evangelical Congregational Church was organized 16 January 1904 by a group of Volga Germans who had moved to the Windsor area. In 1906, they built a small church at the corner of Elm and Second Street, which was expanded through the years. Windsor Evangelical became affiliated with the United Church of Christ (UCC).

German Zion Congregational Church in Sterling was founded in 1911. The congregation bought the former St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in 1913.

Zion Congregational Church is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

Location:

N. 5th & Chestnut
Sterling, Colorado

Trinity Lutheran Church began its ministry in 1888, holding services in the homes of area Lutheran families. On 22 September 1912, the congregation was officially formed and the first services were held in German in the First Baptist Church facility. Shortly thereafter a church was built at 325 N. 5th Street. The congregation's present facility was dedicated on 28 August 1960 at 723 Clark St.

Trinity is affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

First Location:

325 N. 5th St.
Sterling, CO

Orignally founded on 24 June 1888 as St. John the Baptist Catholic parish when a small frame structure was dedicated. This building was destroyed in 1896 by high winds/tornado. A building was purchased at North 5th and Chestnut in 1902. The parish was renamed St. Anthony in honor of Anthony Giacomini, an early Catholic pioneer in the community, when a new building was dedicated on 5 November 1911. The former St. John's building was sold to Zion Congregational Church.

St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rocky Ford, Colorado was founded by 39 German Russian families in 1910. They built a church which was dedicated in 1912.

Due to declining membership, the congregation disbanded in the 1970s.