Early in 1868, Andrew Iverson began a trip lasting several weeks, visiting Moravian congregations in Wisconsin and Minnesota asking for financial help with the building project. He returned with enough money to resume construction which continued through the spring and summer and fall.
By that time, Pastor Iverson had personally made the new pulpit for the building. In the late fall of 1868, Iverson embarked on another three week trip; this time to Bethlehem. He went to enroll his son, John, at a Moravian school in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, to attend the Provincial Synod as a delegate, and to ask for building donations from the eastern churches. He collected $571.45 from these congregations.
The construction project continued and during the winter of 1868-1869 work was done on the interior of the building.
