Long Tom

From Lane Co Oregon

The Long Tom settlement was two miles west of present-day Veneta and just south of Highway 126. The church was established a little before Grand Prairie.

Alexander Vance McCarty made the following report to the Chistian Record:

In July, I held a meeting on Long Tom in Lane County and five additions were obtained to the good cause. The congregations there numbers about 25; they organized last spring on about 12 members. . . ."

Gospel Meetings:

About 9 out of 10 additions were by immersion, the rest were by transfer from another congregation.

1853 Alexander McCarty 5 added

1855 Levi Burch 8 added


At the close of my effort, a young man who was a Methodist exhorter and class leader, came forward, made the good confession, and was immediately buried with the Lord in baptism. The cause of the Bible is rapidly advancing in this territory. It is already more influential than any other religious cause. May the Lord grant it success in time to come!

Christian Record, October 1853, page 124.

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