On February 1, 1879 the following men met to organize a congregation. Their determination to establish a church is of sufficient importance to record their names: John Breiholz, H. Albrecht, H. W. Behrens, J. J. Heide, A. Linde, Claus Holtorf, William Knoke, Hans Holst, Carsten Holtorf, Christian Hoppe, August Prange, Amandres Zieman, John Spiess, Fred Mathies, Henry Becker, John Reimers and Jurgen Spiess.

A constitution was adopted at a meeting held on May 15, 1879. The name chosen was the Evangelical Lutheran Church and Reverend M. During, a minister of the Wartburg Synod, was elected and installed as the first resident pastor in Pomeroy. On March 21, 1880, he confirmed the first class made up of the following memebers: John Albrecht, Henry Hellmich, Emille Hellmich, Emma Albrecht, John Werth, Anna Albrecht and Eliza Becker.

It was during Pastor W. Schutzke's pastorate the Articles of Incorporation of the congregation were filed in Calhoun County, on March 6, 1883.

The first church building was damaged by the tornado July 6, 1893. It was used as a temporary shelter to care for the injured. By September the sanctuary was again ready for regular services.

In 1893 the congregation was received into membership of the Evangelical Synod North America at Kahoka, Missiouri. The church name then became First Evangelical Church of Pomeroy.

During WWI trouble occured as it did in many other parts of the country because the use of the German language was considered to be non-American. Hysteria reached the point that the church building was destroyed by fire on the night of December 31, 1917. The present church was dedicated in May, 1919.

A merger of the Evangelical Synod of North American with the Reformed Church, in 1934, gave the church the new name of Evangelical and Reformed Church.

A yoked parish was established between Pomeroy First United Church of Christ and the Fonda United Church of Christ in 1967.

Reverand and Mrs. August Bock worked diligently from the fall of 1968 to the spring of 1969, translating into English the first fifty-two years of the church records and minutes which had originally been recorded in German.

Special services to the church include those of Mr. Henry Janssen who gave twenty-three years as custodian of the church and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kroske who have and are serving as custodians since 1953.

Mr. Fred Heide, tenor, a member of the choir, has sung in the choir for sixty years.

Mrs. Tena Aden is the only living charter member of the Women's Fellowship (Ladies Aid Society).