Due to the 1847 division in the Lutheran church, many towns had two Lutheran churches until 1966 when the two Synods reunited. Cambrai, or Rhine Villa, as it was known before the First World War at one time had three Lutheran churches. A breakaway congregation was formed in the small town in 1903, said to have been the result of one of the local families being slighted by an elder reading the wedding banns for the approaching marriage of their daughter. The elder omitted the term 'Jungfrau' (maiden) from the announcement, casting doubt on the young lady's virtue. The upshot was that the bride's family and friends left the church, forming a separate congregation and eventually building the Hope Church at Cambrai in 1904. However, events in the wider church, centring around local pastors who had been trained at a theological college in Hannover, were possibly the major catalyst for the split. St John's Lutheran Church was built in 1911 on land donated by Gottlob Laube for a church and school. It closed in 1967 and today houses the Cambrai Agricultural Museum.

Laube, Gottlob

Cambrai Agricultural Museum

Hope Lutheran Church (Cambrai, S. Aust.)

St. John's Church (Cambrai, S. Aust.)

United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia