Biel Church Timeline

1961-65

  • 1961: Heinrich Blum moves from Zurich to begin church
  • January 1, 1963: members of Zurich, Bern, and Biel congregations meet
  • 1963: Hans Grimm moves to Switzerland to work with the church

1966-70

  • 1970: Hans Grimm retires from minister at age 70; Charles Stelding (Basel) preaches twice a month following his retirement

1971-75

  • 1971: Horst Muller preaches most of the time while studying engineering; the church has been without a full time minister for over a year with no prospects of finding one
  • April 26-May 1, 1971: Jack McKinney of Zurich and Jerry Earnhart of Bern preach two and three sermons respectively for a gospel meeting

1976-80

1981-85

1986-90

  • 1990: the church stops meeting and the two or three members start attending the Bern church meetings

1991-95

1996-2000

2001-05

  • Stephen Earnhart, Jerry Earnhart’s son, and his wife, Franziska, move to Biel and restart the church meeting in their home

2006-

 

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