Churches in the Heartland
Missouri Rhineland: Ebenezer Church
German immigrants built Ebenezer Church in 1854
in the portion of the Missouri Ozarks just south of the Missouri River, which
is called the Missouri Rhineland.
St. Paul's Church, Bay, Missouri
In 1853 the congregation of St. Paul's Evangelical Church built a log church at Second Creek outside Bay, Missouri. om 1867 the congregation purchased more land on the crown of a hill east of Bay, and there in 1867, built a stone church and dedicated the new church to St. Paul.
Grand Prairie: St. Paul's Church, Okawville,
Illinois
A group of German immigrants built a small wooden
church on the edge of a wheat field in 1883.