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Religion
The mission ground: Carey Mission, the Sauk Trail corridor, and a township named Olive
1822–1835 · before the first congregation
The townsite's first religious fact is a mission school across the Michigan line. The Baptist missionary Isaac McCoy established the Carey Mission among the Potawatomi on the St. Joseph River near present Niles, Michigan, in…
Hamilton Methodist Church — the county's first Methodist society, organized 1830
1830 – church gone; cemetery and marked site remain
Methodism reached Olive Township before the township had a town. Chapman calls James Armstrong "the Evangelist of Methodism in this county," here until his death in the fall of 1834, and records that the first Methodist society…
Olive Chapel — the Christians of section 11, organized January 1, 1841
1841 – present · Sundays 8:30 and 10:30 AM
The township's second congregation was a Restoration-movement society that has outlived every name it was called by. Chapman (1880) introduces it at full length: "Olive Chapel, on section 11, is a house of worship occupied by the…
New Carlisle United Methodist Church — first preaching 1849, class formed 1853
1849 – present · 300 E. Compton Street
The town's own Methodist congregation began as a preaching point on a circuit out of Byron. Mrs. Pidge's recollection, printed by Howard, fixes the starting scene: in 1847 New Carlisle had "no church services held here then,"…
A Presbyterian church in town by 1858–59 — attested once, otherwise unrecovered
By 1858–59 · course unrecovered
One gazetteer line is the whole of this congregation's recovered record. Hawes' Indiana State Gazetteer for 1858–59 describes New Carlisle as containing "two churches, Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian, and two schools," with…
The Christian Church of 1868 — today's Community Christian Church
Organized March 29, 1868 · 201 W. Michigan Street
The town's Christian Church began with a sermon series in the Methodist college's hall. Early in 1868, Chapman records, Elder Ira J. Chase of Mishawaka "commenced a series of sermons on primitive Christianity" in New Carlisle, at…
St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Terre Coupee — the Catholic parish, founded 1884
1884 – present · 55756 Tulip Road
The Catholic question for this township settles positive, and east of town. Terre Coupee — "land cut off," in French — is the prairie, the vanished stage town of Hamilton, and in time a railroad station east of New Carlisle in…
St. Mary's Episcopal Church — mission 1885, charter congregation 1898, building moved away 1915
1885 – closed after 1907 · building now in East Chicago
The town's Episcopal mission left town by rail, and its record survives whole in its diocese's archives. The mission began in 1885, the Rev. J. Gorton Miller of Bristol holding monthly services; he remained to 1888, and a Ladies…
New Carlisle Wesleyan Church — present body on Early Road, founding unrecovered
Founding unrecovered · 32645 Early Road
A Wesleyan congregation worships on Early Road south of town; how it began is not in any record reached. The church's own site, ncwconline.com, is live as of November 2026 — "Welcome Home — Join us Sunday Mornings at 10:00 am…
Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God — Serbian Orthodox, consecrated 1994
Consecrated June 19, 1994 · 32787 Early Road
The newest historic faith seated in the township is an Orthodox women's monastery. The monastery's own history records that it was founded from the wish of Mother Evpraksija (Paunovic), later its first abbess, with the hieromonk…
Burial grounds and communal institutions — the religious institutions between the congregations
1830 – present
Three grounds carry this township's religion in common. The oldest is congregation ground: the Hamilton Church Cemetery at Hamilton, established 1830 with the Methodist society itself, entered in the Indiana Cemetery and Burial…
Boundary congregations — Hudson Lake Mennonite and the Rolling Prairie parishes
1950–present · across the LaPorte County line
Two congregations outside the township carry New Carlisle addresses and New Carlisle people. Hudson Lake Mennonite Church stands at 7503 North Walker Road, New Carlisle, IN 46552 (telephone 574-213-6126) — in Hudson Township…
Tested and not found — Lutheran, Brethren, Baptist, and the newest faiths
Searches run November 2026
What is not in this township was tested, and the tests print as findings. No Lutheran congregation seated in New Carlisle or Olive Township was found: the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's church-records index, read end to…
The present state — New Carlisle's religious landscape as of November 2026
As of November 2026
Six congregations and a monastery are seated in the town and township today, two more stand on the boundary, and three historic seats are gone. In town and in Olive Township: New Carlisle United Methodist Church, the Methodist…
Churches & Religion: Open Questions
Named November 2026 · nothing dropped for thinness
Seven records could not be produced and bank here by name. Gap 1 — the Presbyterian church of 1858–59: attested by Hawes' gazetteer alone; founding, building, and end unrecovered. Settler: the presbytery's records and the…