The story of Long Grove Community Church begins in the mid 1830’s. German immigrants settled this area in the hopes of forging out a new and better life for themselves. Illinois was still a wilderness that had only recently become a state. The going was hard, but the land proved excellent for farming. When a second wave of immigrants came in the mid-1840s, it was time to establish a church. Land was donated. A minister who served as a missionary to the Indians on Lake Huron came to be the pastor. In 1846, the first services were held, and for 10 months the congregation worshiped in a barn.
LGCC HISTORY