Methacton Mennonite Church (Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA) - Revision history

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 [http://mennoniteusa.org/ Mennonite Church USA]
-[http://franconiaconference.org/ Franconia Mennonite Conference]
+[https://mosaicmennonites.org/ Mosaic Mennonite Conference]
 == Methacton Mennonite Church Pastoral Leaders ==
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 = Map =
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 Methacton Mennonite Church has never been a large congregation. There were about 50 members in 1890. Sunday school with an attendance of 125 was started in 1898 but by 1920 it was discontinued and the congregation dwindled. Extreme reluctance to adopt progressive methods and the long continuance of the "circuit system" of ministerial leadership are some reasons given for the decline in interest. In 1943 there was one communicant member and the Franconia Mission Board made Worcester a mission station. An annex was added to the church building in 1948 to provide space for Sunday school and for summer Bible school, in which the enrollment had reached several hundred. On 22 January 1950, Paul R. Clemens was ordained minister and Worcester again became an organized congregation, with 80 members in 1958.
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 = Original Article from ''Mennonite Encyclopedia'' =
-By Paul R. Clemens. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Kitchener, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 978. All rights reserved.
+By Paul R. Clemens. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 978. All rights reserved.
 Worchester Mennonite Church (MC), known also in the past as Methacton Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church) is located in Worcester Township near Fairview, [[Montgomery County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Montgomery County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], and is a member of the [[Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Franconia Mennonite Conference]]. The date of organization is uncertain. According to Joseph Heebner, a historian of Worcester, the church was started by the Henry Rittenhouse family (grandson of [[Rittenhouse, William (1644-1708)|William Rittenhouse]]) and it is presumed that the first meetinghouse was built a few years after eight trustees in 1739 acquired a burial ground for a union cemetery. Five of these trustees were Mennonites: Henry Rittenhouse, Christopher Zimmerman, Conrad Stem, Peter Keyser, and Peter Custard. It is known that the meetinghouse was there by 1771. In 1873 the third and present meetinghouse was erected.

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 [[File:Methacton.jpg|400px|thumbnail|''Methacton Mennonite Church, Norristown, PA<br />
 Source: [http://franconiaconference.org/introducing-methacton-mennonite-church/ Franconia Mennonite Conference website]'']]
-Methacton (formerly known as Worcester) Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]) is located in Worcester Township near Fairview, [[Montgomery County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Montgomery County]], Pennsylvania, and is a member of the [[Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Franconia Mennonite Conference]]. The date of organization is uncertain. According to Joseph Heebner, a historian of Worcester, the church was started by the Henry Rittenhouse family (grandson of [[Rittenhouse, William (1644-1708)|William Rittenhouse]]) and it is presumed that the first meetinghouse was built a few years after eight trustees in 1739 acquired a burial ground for a union cemetery. Five of these trustees were Mennonites: Henry Rittenhouse, Christopher Zimmerman, Conrad Stem, Peter Keyser, and Peter Custard. It is known that the meetinghouse was there by 1771. In 1873 the third and present meetinghouse was erected.
+In 1739 land for burial purposes was deeded to the Dutch Anabaptist Society for 5 shillings and thus began the written record of the Methacton Mennonite Church, located near Norristown, [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], USA. The first meetinghouse was built prior to 1771 although the exact date is unknown. Tradition says that Revolutionary War soldiers died in the church building when it served as a hospital after the Battle of Germantown, and were buried, not in the church’s burial grounds, but just outside the western wall, under a huge oak tree still standing there.
-Methacton Mennonite Church has never been a large congregation. There were about 50 members in 1890. Sunday school with an attendance of 125 was started in 1898 but by 1920 it was discontinued and the congregation dwindled. Extreme reluctance to adopt progressive methods and the long continuance of the "circuit system" of ministerial leadership are some reasons given for the decline in interest. In 1943 there was one communicant member and the Franconia Mission Board made Worcester a mission station. An annex was added to the church building in 1948 to provide space for Sunday school and for summer Bible school, in which the enrollment had reached several hundred. On 22 January 1950, Paul R. Clemens was ordained minister and Worcester again became an organized congregation, with 80 members in 1958.
+A second meetinghouse was erected of stone in 1805 and used as a community school and place of worship. The third meetinghouse was erected in 1873, with subsequent additions in the 20th century.
 = Bibliography =
 Clemens, Beulah. "History of Worcester Church." <em>Mission News (Franconia)</em> (May-June, 1958): 2.
 = Additional Information =
 '''Address''': 3081 Mill Road, Norristown, PA 19403
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