The mother church adhered to the Amish branch, and when the first Amish Conference was organized, in 1862, it became a part, and was represented at the various sessions.  From the beginning it had a steady growth and was the stronger of the two organizations.
     In 1847 Nicholas Augspurger became the principal minister.  He was a strict disciplinarian, but an able preacher and leader.  During the greater part of his ministry the church was in a flourishing condition, but near the close the changed conditions and environments of the members, the strict enforcement of discipline and intermarrying into the families of the Hessian congregation the church began to decline.
     Peter Imhoff became the leading minister in 1870, and being a man of sound judgment and liberal views he encouraged a closer relation of the two churches.  It was during his ministry that the congregation experienced a revival and the two congregations were gradually being drawn together.
     Services were held in the homes of the members until the year 1863, when a meetinghouse was built near Overpeck on an acre of ground donated by Christian Sloneker, with the provision that when it ceases to be used for the purpose for which it was given it shall revert to the heirs of his estate.

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     A Sunday-school was established about the year 1880 and flourished for about ten years, when it was discontinued, lack of support and co-operation being the principal reason.
     In 1907 the last remaining minister, C. K. Augspurger, and the members united with the Hessian congregation.  From the records of the last two bishops, we learn that during the last fifty years of the congregation's existence 193 members were received into the church by baptism.
     The ministers who served the congregations were: