Preserving Germantown Meetinghouse & Cemetery

Germantown CemeteryWe walk alongside their footsteps

A capital campaign to preserve the Germantown, Pennsylvania property and the history of the Church of the Brethren in America.

What needs to be accomplished?

Spiritual descendants of the early Brethren share a precious treasure in the Germantown property and cemetery. With that treasure come needs to care for and maintain the meetinghouse, parsonage, and cemetery. Hundreds of people are buried in the cemetery, including many early Brethren leaders such as Alexander Mack, Sr. Funds are needed to address the immediate care and maintenance needs of these historical facilities.

Immediate needs include (projected costs and are not listed in any particular order of priority):

1. Improve cemetery entrance  --  $5,000
2. Repair fencing around cemetery  --  $25,000
3. Conduct headstone maintenance  --  $20,000
4. Update meetinghouse roofing  -- $90,000
5. Update meetinghouse basement (including foundation repair)  --  $50,000
6. Baptismal marker repair/maintenance  --  $2,000
7. Complete parsonage renovations  --  $90,000
8. Additional site maintenance costs  --  $18,000

Projected total cost - $300,000

How can you be involved?

We are the beneficiaries of those who have preceded us. Our mission and ministry have been blessed many times over by gifts from the early Brethren. Today we are charged with safeguarding a future Brethren voice for the generations that follow. 

You are invited to join with zeal in sharing the story of the early Brethren in America, and keeping it alive today and for future generations!

Together we can make Christ's footprints more visible in neighborhoods across the country and around the world.