Word was spread that these brethren needed help with the construction project and help came. This was the first Protestant church building in N.E. Portland. The preachers included Harold Griffis, Clarence Swander, Tibbs Maxey, W.E. Lewis, and J.R. Johnson. Now, more than 75 years later, the congregation is meeting on the same parcel of ground. The forest is gone and the neighbors have moved in.
Many members now come from the immediate neighborhood.
The first building was replaced by a second and then a third. All of this was made possible by the sacrifice of saints long gone from this earth. He married Trudy Wagener, originally of LaGrande, when he was nearly 50 years of age. In 1924 the name of the church was officially changed to the Englewood Church of Christ to reflect the name of the Englewood district of NE Portland. In 1926 the name was again changed to the current Englewood Christian Church.