The East Prairie (now the Immanuel Lutheran Church) was organized on February 22, 1883 in the Christoferson school house five miles southwest of Fingal, North Dakota. The Rev. J. D. Bothne, who had succeeded The Rev. Nils Forde, the organizer of the Sheyenne Valley Lutheran Church and who, himself, was a great missionary among the Lutherans of the Sheyenne Valley, presided at the organization.

Haakon Nilson donated two acres of land for a church site and a graveyard.

In December, 1894, the name of the congregation was changed to that of the Immanuel Lutheran Church. On November 5, 1895 the congregation resolved to build a church building and a committee was duly appointed. The cornerstone was laid October 19, 1896.

A succession of pastors have served this parish along with others in the same charge, all except The Rev. Bothne and The Rev. Norby living in the parsonage in Nome, purchased in 1905. The seventyfifth anniversary was celebrated in 1958.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 300