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1880 – present
A German Lutheran church stood in the township in 1880; a St. John's Lutheran Church stands on Riley Road on the town's present roll; whether the second continues the first, no read carrier establishes. Chapman counts "one German Lutheran" church among the township's five country churches, and Howard confirms the Lutherans were still represented in 1907; neither names the congregation. The records trail runs through the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's church-records index, read whole, which preserves two Lutheran names at North Liberty — "St John Evangelical Lutheran," with records at both county libraries, and "Grace Lutheran," with records at Mishawaka's — and crosswalks a predecessor name two ways at once: the index carries "St John's German Reformed | North Liberty" to "St John's Evangelical Lutheran" and also to "Tabor Evangelical," two different successor lines for the same predecessor name, both printed on the page and both printed here. What "Grace Lutheran" was — an earlier name, a second congregation, or a records label — no read carrier says. The present congregation stands on the town's roll: "St. John's Lutheran Church — 24955 Riley Road, North Liberty, IN — 574-656-4744," and newspaper church-directory items of 1990 and 1991, reached at snippet strength, place "St. John's Lutheran Church, Riley & Pine Roads, 24955 Riley Road" with "The Rev. Bert Pauluhn, Pastor" — a pastor of that era, not printed as current. Not established by any read carrier: the present church's founding date; its synod affiliation; its continuity or discontinuity with the German Lutheran church of 1880; and whether the Riley Road seat, east of town on a North Liberty mailing address, stands inside Liberty Township or across a township line — no map verification was done. Each banks as a named gap (G-RL-7), its settlers the congregation's own history, the Lutheran district directories' North Liberty entries, and a township-line check of the address. The congregation's own website was not identified; the one St. John's site opened in the digging proved to be a Fort Wayne church's, and none of its content is used here.