THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE was organized June 30, 1935 by the Reverend Bertha Humble, a state missionary organizer. Services during that year were held in St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran building, Mrs. Raymond Peters being the first pastor. In 1940 their new church was completed at West Main and Walnut. It is of frame construction, covered with asbestos shingles. C. W. Toler, George Griffith and Samuel Walters were the first trustees. In 1946 the Reverend Russell Hayse and his wife went from this church to South Africa as missionaries, their second son being born there. They have been in the United States for a year, but are returning to Africa to resume their teaching as missionaries. The present pastor is the Reverend W. M. Christian.
THE TRINITY LUTHERN CHURCH is El Paso's newest, permission being granted to conduct services under the Missouri Synod in May, 1947. The congregation organized December 7, 1947 with thirty-five communicant members and a total membership of fifty-eight. The Reverend Walter E. Lichtsinn of Wenona and various students from Concordia Seminary conducted the services the first year, using the building of the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church with Sunday School rooms over the Woodford County National Bank.
The Reverend Carl W. Bruggemann of Gresham, Nebraska was called in February, 1948, and was installed as pastor the following May. In July, 1950 the congregation purchased a half block site on West Third just off Route 51. A bond issue of $30,000 supplied funds and the men
Trinity Lutheran Church, West Third Street.
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