{"id":115,"date":"2025-10-04T08:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T08:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:20:37","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Niverville United Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-736 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NUC-friends-memory6280-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NUC-friends-memory6280-1.jpg 604w, https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NUC-friends-memory6280-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-972 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NUC-bldg_600x420-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NUC-bldg_600x420-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NUC-bldg_600x420.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Niverville United Church is the oldest church building in Niverville and known to the community as &#8220;the little white church&#8221; (because it is painted all white).<\/p>\n<p>It was built in 1907 as a Presbyterian congregation after a small group of faithful settlers realized their dream after worshiping in the local school house for 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>It was even used by two Mennonite congregations as worship space until they built their own buildings.<\/p>\n<p>A basement and kitchen were added in 1957 with a\u00a0front entrance added in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Renovations were done in 2001 &amp; 2002 which included adding a wheel chair ramp &amp; air conditioning, new siding &amp; furnaces and a renovations to the sanctuary &amp; basement.<\/p>\n<p>One of the original features still in place today is the tin plate ceiling in the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>We remember the founders for their vision and hard work.\u00a0 They help keep us rooted in the past while their example helps us look to the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Niverville United Church is the oldest church building in Niverville and known to the community as &#8220;the little white church&#8221; (because it is painted all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3211,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nivervilleunitedchurch.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}