Ministry
In Chicago in 1861, Funk was made superintendent of the Milwaukee Depot Sunday School.
Funk was ordained as a minister for a Mennonite congregation near Gardner, Illinois in 1865.
About 1866, Funk and Peter Neff began a small Mennonite congregation in Chicago which lasted until Neff's house, the church's meeting place, was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
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