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Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service -- Sept. 12, 2008
Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, News Director
800-323-8039 ext. 260 -- cobnews@brethren.org

HISTORICAL MARKER TO BE DEDICATED AT GERMANTOWN
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN

(Sept. 12, 2008) Elgin, IL -- On Sunday, Sept. 21, at 3 p.m., a service of
dedication will be held for a new historical marker at Germantown
Church of the Brethren in Philadelphia, Pa.

Germantown was the first Brethren meetinghouse in the nation, dating
back to 1770. The congregation is pastored by Richard Kyerematen.

The commemorative marker has been made possible by the efforts of the
Historical Committee of the Church of the Brethren's Atlantic Northeast
District, in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission.

"The dedication is especially timely, since this year is the 300th
Anniversary of the baptism in Germany of the forebears of current
Brethren," noted the Historical Committee.

The dedication will include remarks by Wayne Spilove, chair of the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and Jeff Bach,
director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at
Elizabethtown (Pa.) College. Musical selections will include a variety of
contemporary songs by Germantown members and eighteenth-century
Brethren hymns. David E. Fuchs, chair of the Historical Committee, will
be master of ceremonies.

The event will conclude with a tour of the church grounds and cemetery
led by Ron Lutz, moderator of the congregation.

The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination committed to
continuing the work of Jesus peacefully and simply, and to living out its
faith in community. The denomination is based in the Anabaptist and
Pietist faith traditions and is one of the three Historic Peace Churches.  It
celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts more than 125,000
members across the United States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and
sister churches in Nigeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and
India.

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>For more information contact:

>Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
>Director of News Services
>Church of the Brethren
>1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120
>800-323-8039 ext. 260
>cobnews@brethren.org

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