CLAY CENTER, Neb. (AP) — Some members of a Clay Center church have gathered to share memories and worship at a special service at the church’s original rural site.

Sunday’s service was one of four special services scheduled for Zion Lutheran Church. The church was organized on Nov. 11, 1890, and opened its first building in 1891 on land six miles west and two miles north of Clay Center in southern Nebraska.

The U.S. Navy took over the property for the Naval Ammunition Depot in 1942, so the church and adjacent parsonage were moved to Clay Center on Feb. 9, 1943. The church was destroyed by fire in 1951.

At Sunday’s special service, people sat in lawn chairs in the grass and fought strong winds that blew hymnal pages.