Bona Church of Christ

Literally right across the street from my home and the Humbert Store is the Bona Church of Christ. I have attended services here since I was three years old. This congregation is said to be the oldest Church of Christ Congregation this side of the Mississippi River! The church was organized by some settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee in 1838. The first location of the congregation was actually in Dadeville, Missouri which is about 3 miles south east of Bona. The church met their up until 1862 when the church building along with the rest of Dadeville (then called Melville), MO was burned. The church continued to prosper until something caused the church to split. One part moved to Dadeville and the other portion moved to Bona in 1866. The group that went to Dadeville is known today as the Dadeville Methodist Church. In 1887 the congregation at Bona was given some land and they began work on building a church building at their present location. The building that they built at this time was destroyed in a fire in Febuary 1929 and a new building was finished at the same location in October of the same year. The church has continued to prosper in that location in the same old building ever since (of coarse being remodeled and updated along the way).