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1907–2026
Not every faith in the township ever held a building in it, and this article keeps the household record separate from the congregational one. Howard's biographical volume records the Rupel family of Lincoln Township as "members of the German Baptist church… active and efficient workers," with all their children members but one; and Emma Goppert, of a Lincoln Township farm family, as "a member of the Brethren church." Yet Howard's own township church list seats no German Baptist congregation in Lincoln — the Brethren households of the township worshiped at a congregation seated elsewhere, in the pattern of the Palmer Prairie church in Center Township or the Liberty Township churches the Rupel family's own patriarch had helped to build. The presence is printed at household strength, and no Lincoln Township Brethren church is seated on it.
The IRS exempt-organizations register, read for the town's ZIP through its BMF-derived mirror, carries three religious entries that no other source reached corroborates as worshiping congregations, and they print at register strength exactly as what they are: Family Bible Fellowship Inc, of 3169 N Redwood Road, ruling September 1988; Sasown Ministries International Ltd, of 1003 Harmson Street, ruling July 2008; and Power House LaPorte, of 122 Clark Street, ruling March 2022 — organizations the federal register seats in the Walkerton ZIP whose congregational activity is unverified in every other source reached. The register likewise carries the town's one Lutheran trace: a Lutheran Women's Missionary League chapter, ruling September 1965, at 4810 N Underwood Road on the township's north side — a league chapter, evidence of Lutheran households in the township's frame, with no Lutheran congregation or church address found in any search conducted. The register's absences carry their own caveat, printed with them: most of the town's active churches do not appear in the register individually at all, covered as they are by denominational group rulings and church filing exceptions, so absence from the register is not evidence of non-existence — and presence in it, as the three entries above show, is not by itself evidence of a worshiping seat. The town's communal religious institutions at full strength are few and named: the Christian Community Pantry, a charitable food pantry carried in the register at a ruling of April 2008 and seated at 625 Roosevelt Road, and the Knights of Columbus council at St. Patrick, in the parish article above.
Sources
- Howard (1907), vol. 2, pp. 974–975 (Rupel sketch) and Goppert sketch, read first-hand; vol. 1, pp. 289–291 (township church lists).
- Church of the Brethren web directory, updated March 2025 (no Walkerton congregation).
- IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, via the TaxExemptWorld mirror of the Walkerton, IN list (64 organizations, read end-to-end), November 2026 — aggregator strength for a federal register.