Rio Assembly of God Church History
Baptist Church purchased for $500
In 1929 Reverend Frank Prucia, a minister of the Poynette and Inch Methodist churches, invited Reverend Roy Fyles, a Pentecostal minister, to conduct evangelistic services at the Inch church.
After these services were over, meetings were held on Sunday afternoons at the Edgar Curtis home in Lowville, and later moved to the North Lowville Rocky Run School house.
On July 3, 1935, under the leadership of Pastor George Price and District Superintendent R. L. Scharnick, the group was organized and affiliated with the General Council of the Assemblies of God.
December 1, 1939 papers were signed for the purchase of the Baptist church in Rio for $500, when Reverend Edwin Ziemann was pastor. Later, while Reverend Oscar Holmstrom was pastor, the house across the street was purchased for a parsonage.
Other milestones came while Pastor Art Wood served. In June 1975, the present church on Highway 16 was dedicated. The parsonage was built two years later, and the addition to the church completed in 1986.
After these services were over, meetings were held on Sunday afternoons at the Edgar Curtis home in Lowville, and later moved to the North Lowville Rocky Run School house.
On July 3, 1935, under the leadership of Pastor George Price and District Superintendent R. L. Scharnick, the group was organized and affiliated with the General Council of the Assemblies of God.
December 1, 1939 papers were signed for the purchase of the Baptist church in Rio for $500, when Reverend Edwin Ziemann was pastor. Later, while Reverend Oscar Holmstrom was pastor, the house across the street was purchased for a parsonage.
Other milestones came while Pastor Art Wood served. In June 1975, the present church on Highway 16 was dedicated. The parsonage was built two years later, and the addition to the church completed in 1986.