History :

St. Paul's Lutheran Church has served the spirtual needs for Lutheran families since 1880.  The church was organized that year by twelve Lutherans who had moved to Reno County to homestead and live and was originally served by a missionary by the name of Rev. Gerhard Toenjes, who resided in Ellinwood, KS.  Through him it was discovered that several Lutheran faimilies lived in what is now called Inman, KS.  In the spring of 1880 these two groups of Lutherans united to apply to the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church for a full time pastor.  Shortly thereafter, Rev. August Rehwaldt was assigned as St. Paul's first pastor.

Although St. Paul's had been organized as a congregation and had called it's first pastor, it was still without a building and so worship was held in a public school.  However, in 1880 ten acres of land were purchased, and on May 4, 1890, a resolution was passed to build a church building.  In November of that year the new church building was dedicated, and shorlty thereafter in September of 1881 a charter was granted.  The congregaton was received into membership of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States at the Convention of the Kansas District at Bremen (Hermansberg), Kansas, August 26-31, 1891.