The Yampa Congregational Church was built on the northwest corner of Moffat and Lincoln. The construction began in 1901 and was complete in 1902. Jim Norvel was the pastor that held a series of revival meetings to help build the church; he also donated the bell that is now in the church. The Yampa Congregational Church existed from 1902 until 1959 when it was separated from the Colorado Conference. It was renamed Yampa Bible Church in 1959. Pastors came from all varieties of backgrounds until 1990. Since 1990 The Yampa Bible Church has been affiliated with Village Missions, a Stonecroft Ministries organization.
The Yampa bible church was built on 341 Moffat Avenue. It has a wood frame structure, which originally consisted of a four gabled roof with wooden shingles and a four gabled bell tower. Today, the Yampa bible church has three gables over the original part of the building, and also has a gabled roof over two additions on the north end of the building there is and there is a main entrance on the east side of the façade. Two of three additions to the building made back in 1984 are still visible today. The foundation of the church is a rock foundation, also mortared and chinked, The older building also had a rock foundation but in 1978 when the extension to the building was built, workers dug up underneath the building. The original form of the building is a two-story building with white paneling on the side. On the east side of the building there are four small upper story windows and three small windows below them on the first floor. To the side of those smaller windows there are two big stain glass church windows. Later on in 1984 one of two of the additions was made to the building on the north side of the building for a Sunday school and fellowship hall for locals.
Information gathered with the help of Hildred Fogg of the Yampa Egeria Museum by Kelsey and Michelle at Soroco High School, April 2005.
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