Elder Jacob Stucky and Rev. Jacob D. Goering laid the foundation for orderly church life centered first in the Immigrant House and later in Hopefield Church at Moundridge, Kansas. Over time the group dispersed, and a number of sister congregations came to share this common heritage, including First Mennonite Church of Christian at Moundridge, originally located at the Village of Christian one mile south of Moundridge in 1875; First Mennonite Church at Pretty Prairie, settled by families from South Dakota and McPherson County in 1884; Eden Mennonite Church at Moundridge, established in 1895 and later a large rural congregation; Kingman Mennonite Church at Kingman, formed in 1973 from Bethany Mennonite Church of 1907 and Zion Mennonite Church at Kingman of 1929; First Mennonite Church at Burns, founded in 1944 in Marion County; First Mennonite Church at McPherson, founded in 1945 as a rural-urban church; and Salem-Zion and Salem Mennonite Churches at Freeman, South Dakota, organized by the Swiss-German (Volhynian) congregations of Sahorez, Horodisch, and Waldheim that settled there in 1874. In time, many people also joined West Zion Mennonite Church at Moundridge, Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church at Wichita, and First Mennonite Church at Hutchinson, and many Swiss-German (Volhynian) descendants later became scattered among various Mennonite and non-Mennonite congregations.