Norwegian immigrants who settled in the Slip-Up Creek area deeply desired a church where they and their children could hear the saving gospel. On December 17, 1873, O. O. Sando, a circuit-riding preacher who served congregations in Dakota Territory and Minnesota, helped organize the St. Paulus Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church and conducted its first ten services for $35. The small congregation met in area schoolhouses for 13 years. In 1886 a site was chosen and construction of a church began. On June 20, 1894, the new church was dedicated at a cost of $1800. Many years later it was discovered that the building had been erected on land the congregation did not own. After the first church building was dismantled, a second larger church and a stable for horses were built here by Albert Anderson on one acre of land donated by member Sivert O. Hegge. The second church was dedicated on May 28th, 1911. As membership declined, the congregation voted to dissolve, and on August 7, 1965, the church building and contents were sold at public auction. The spirit of the congregation continued to live on in the descendants of those early pioneers who dreamed of a place for future generations to worship.