The Yegua Creek Evangelical Free Church congregation voted unanimously to change the church name to Type Church on March 8. “Yegua Creek” showed history, not location. The first congregation led by Pastor Mark Nygard met in the Lawhon Springs School for three years starting in December 1984. That location was close to the Yegua Creek. In December 1987, the Yegua Creek EFC set up their church on the other side of the Type Cemetery from where the original 1908 Type Free Mission Church had stood. The earlier Type congregation, mostly Swedish descendants, had joined with the Kimbro Free Church to form the ...