Union Summer Services in Idaho Falls
Union Summer Services in Idaho Falls For many of the 60 years 1885 through 1944, churches of Idaho Falls met together for worship at least once during the summer. Starting Monday evening June 22, 1885, joint services of the Baptist and Methodist churches of Eagle Rock were held and continued each night through the week. [1] The pastors of the two churches, Reverends E. B. Bartley J. P. Morris, led the meetings. At the time, these two were the only non-LDS churches in town, and only the Baptist church had a building. The next notice in an Idaho Falls newspaper of a summer union service of all the evangelical churches, by then numbering seven, was for July 2, 1899 in an announcement of the Episcopal Church, noting that it would be held in the Presbyterian Church. [2] Baptist pastor Reverend A. G. Miller preached to a large crowd at a union service in the Methodist church on July 6, 1902 [3] and at the next monthly meeting of the Idaho Falls Ministerial Association ...