Cromer and organized the first Sunday school in Cedar valley. Mr. Cromer was elected as superintendent, and Mrs. Sallie Pritchard as secretary-treasurer. Uriah Millikin, A. Porter Pritchard, and Mrs. R. M. Hanks were the teachers. They later held the school at the school house two miles south of Gering. This was old district number twenty-seven and the school house was built in 1887. The school house at Gering was not built until the following year.

Another early minister -- one most prominent in early Gering, was Rev. Benjamin L. Brisbane. He had a homestead on the south side of Scottsbluff mountain which included the spring. While he lived there, he made the south pass up the mountain reasonably accessible, and used to lead his mule up, ' and haul down firewood and necessary timber.

He never made final proof on the claim.

Rev. Brisbane was a Baptist, and his sonin-law, C. T. Johnson (formerly in the Bank of Gering), and Mrs. Johnson were most active in church work. The Baptists had the first church organization in Gering. Also; the first church.

The Methodist people organized about the same time, but neither of them had churches until about 1889. In 1887 the new Methodist organization were talking of "a fifteen hundred dollar church."

The Christian church came into being about 1890, and Rev. A. Slafter was the first minister. Among other early preachers who visited Gering were Rev. RRufus Cooley, who came out occasionally from Potter; Rev. A. Dorman, and Rev. A. A. Fries.