České dokumenty Czech Documents
Original Czech-language documents from the founding, anniversary, and reconstruction of the church.
For its first half-century, Granger Brethren Church kept its records and held its services in Czech. The documents below are a small selection from that era: the founding articles, a 1932 memorial volume, and the proclamation sealed inside the bell tower during the 1937 remodel.
Stanovy Sboru Páně v Granger Texas, handwritten original
The congregation's founding articles in the original handwritten Czech: its name, its purpose, its confession of faith, and how it would govern itself.
Stanovy Sboru Páně v Granger Texas, typed copy
A typed Czech copy of the same founding articles.
Památník, December 1932
Památník dvacetipěti-letého trvání Podpůrné Jednoty Česko-Moravských Bratří: a memorial volume for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Brethren mutual-aid society, compiled by Josef Hegar of the Hus School in Temple and published in Granger in December 1932.
1937 reconstruction proclamation
Written on the Unity's letterhead and dated Granger, December 7, 1937: the building committee's account of the remodel. It notes that the church was completed in 1901, the Sunday School wing in 1924, and that the fall collection raised almost $1,400. It was sealed inside the bell tower.
Please cite the church when you use these records in published work.