Mohawk

From Lane Co Oregon

The earliest record of this group is a list of churches in the Christian Messenger of 1871 where they reported being 25 in number. Six years later a group reported to the same publication. It reads,

Mohawk, Or.

Dec. 2, 1877

We organized a congregation some eighteen months since with a membership of 16; we now number 31. . . . We meet twice a month at a school house . . . . Bro. I. N. Mulkey has visited us once a month since last April.

Old Bro. Philip Mulkey has visited us twice and preaching for us with the usual zeal he always manifests when he proclaims the love of God in the gift of his Son to a lost and perishing world.

Our venerable and much esteemed Bro. Weddle is with us and does good service, being an able defender of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. Although weighed down with 78 years, he is a power that will be greatly missed by us when our Heavenly Father calls him home.

I. F. M.

The same unidentified writer writing to the same publication the following year reported:

The cause of our Master is gaining. On first Lord's day in this month one lady made the good confession and was buried by baptism. She came out of the Methodist.

I. F. M.

C. H. Hodges was the circuit-riding preacher in 1881. The church was still meeting and growing in 1889.

The church is listed in the Disciples of Christ Yearbook of 1888 with 78 members. Indications are that they had a church building.