Getting The Feel . . . of the new pipe organ at First Congregational Church is Mrs. T.A. Sheil, church organist, as the Rev. Harold Davenport watches over her shoulder.
Founding Site . . . for Southwestern Iowa Association of Congregational Christian Churches and Ministers 100 years ago was the log cabin home and church of the Rev. G.G. Rice in Council Bluffs.
Rev. George Rice, who came to Council Bluffs (then Kanesville) in 1851, and William Simpson, a Methodist missionary, who was succeeded by Rev. Moses F. Shinn, owned jointly the first non-Mormon church and school building.
It was a hewn log house at…