The roll as it stands: November 2026

THE DATED PRESENT STATE

As of November 2026, the record seats sixteen congregations on Granger ground: St. Pius X Catholic parish, 52553 Fir Road, the farm chapel's heir, under Msgr. Michael Heintz, some ten thousand parishioners strong; New Salem United Methodist Church, 52173 Ash Road, Howard's Evangelical congregation under its third denominational name, beside its cemetery; the Harris Prairie Church of Christ, Howard's Christian congregation, documented to 2012 at 14719 State Road 23 and carried in current directories under its own name with its present seat unsettled in the record; Granger Missionary Church, 50841 Birch Road, the Bethel students' plant of 1952, with its Spanish-language sister congregation on the same campus; Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, 16791 Cleveland Road, the WELS congregation of 1972; Granger Community Church, 630 East University Drive, the living-room plant of 1986 under its second lead pastor, with its Elkhart campus; Gospel City Church, 52277 Hickory Road, the 2009 plant under its second name; Nfluence Church, 14719 State Road 23, the 2004 plant that made the place a network's headquarters; Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church, 14567 Cleveland Road, the PCA congregation whose psalm list seeded a hymnal; Journey Church, 12100 Adams Road, the Assemblies of God seat on forty wooded acres; Michiana Church of God, 51637 Ash Road; Calvary Chapel, 53494 Fir Road, with its school; Grace Church, 52025 Gumwood Road, in the summer its school closed; Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 51521 Elm Road; Family Bible Church of God, worshipping in the McGann Hay chapel at 13260 State Road 23; and True Life Ministries, mailing from Bittersweet Commons Boulevard. Beneath them all lie the two burying grounds of 1834's pattern, the prairie cemetery the township keeps on Adams Road and the Salem ground on Ash Road; and beside the roll stands the one line the record cannot finish — the Presbyterian congregation Howard named in 1907, whose course after his sentence no record reached by this section carries forward. That is the whole of it: a farm township that organized three churches in its first century and a suburb that seats sixteen in its second, with every name in this entry standing at the strength its own entry gives it.

Sources:

1. The entries of this section and the records cited in each — the roll compiled from the congregations' own records, the diocesan and denominational records, and the current directories, as of November 2026.