This is the last letter written by these now excommunicated elders. This happened just prior to the August conference of 2012. Certain chain of events at the Morris, MN and Lamar, MO congregations that elders Art Nohl and Lawrence Luthi (respectively) started the Apostolic Christian Faith Church. As noted previously, Wayne Grimm (who had signed the previous letter) chose not to follow these elders and hence remained with the Apostolic Christian Church in West Bend, IA where he is still the under-shepherd.
The schism developed very rapidly across USA as other elders and ministers joined in to depart the ACCA denomination. Places like Eureka, IL, Congerville, IL and Forrest, IL suffered horrendous schism. A large portion of those assemblies lost members for ACFC. So, what then happened was the need for those departed members to find other places of worship, which was rather difficult in certain towns. This being September 2015, now, some of those groups have built new facilities and others have purchased older existing churches in different towns.
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