1830 to 1856... Grace Church traces its history back to the early days of settlements in Northwestern Ohio when Sandusky Circuit riders such as George Mottinger and Elias Sichley, representing the Evangelical Church, ministered to area congregations in the early 1830s. The Sandusky Circuit was a part of the Ohio Conference of the Evangelical Church that was founded by Jacob Albright in Pennsylvania in 1800.