At first, services were held in a schoolhouse which stood on the south side of Third Street between Chestnut and Maple Avenues and included 2 services on Sunday, a prayer service on Thursday evening and Sunday school for children. The congregation began increasing in size and soon members started to talk about building their own church.
Pastor Iverson began to solicit pledges and gifts which quickly amounted to several hundred dollars. This success stirred up Lutheran Scandinavian in the community and motivated them to try to raise more money to build their own church, which continues today as the Trinity Lutheran Church.
Brother Iverson also became a friend of a Congregational minister, who offered to let the Moravian group use his church on Christmas Day, 1866. The church was filled to capacity.
