 She settled in Michigan, where she purchased a church building in Grand Rapids, which she proceeded to reopen as the First Church of Truth.She served as its pastor from 1904 until 1939.She began to open other Spiritualist churches across the Midwestern United States, all affiliated with the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, but she became irritated at their rules about ministers and in 1924 she founded the Independent Spiritualist Association, having in the meantime incorporated some elements of theosophy, including a belief in reincarnation, into her spirituality.