The Beginning of the Alliance EFC

July  1980  -  The mother church committee was formed in Lexington, NE with the targeted city of Alliance where an estimated 58% of the community was unchurched.

August 1980  -  The fourteen mother churches called church planting Pastor Sam Reed and his wife Barbara.

January  1981  -  The Reeds move to Alliance with the goals of leading people to Christ and identifying believers for Bible study.

September  1981  -  Public worship begins in Marion Residence Hall with thirteen in attendance.

June 1982  -  The congregation moved to the Whistle-Stop Day Care with an average of thirty in attendance.  A three-man provisional board was established.

March  1983  -  Twelve adults commit to charter membership.

January 1985  -  Church planting pastor Sam Reed resigns with the completion of the constitution only to be called as the first pastor of the new church.

February 1985  -  Evangelical Free Church of Alliance granted full autonomy by the Midwest District of the Evangelical Free Church of America.

October  1985  -  The church held two weeks of "revival" meetings with John Musser in a rented abandoned church building at 611 Cody (the present home of the church).

June 1989 - The church shared the rented building with the Spanish Assembly of God Church throughout the summer and into the late fall.