Rock Hill Mennonite Church (McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, USA)
In early 1949, several families from the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, church began an outreach in the Strawberry Ridge area near McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania. Max and Mary Clugston and Arthur and Beulah Lehman began a Sunday school in June 1949. Other workers joined them, and in 1950, they began planning to build a meetinghouse. They dedicated a concrete block meetinghouse on 11 March 1951, called the Rock Hill Mission. By 1953, Sunday school attendance reached the 80s. By 1953, the mission began preaching services, usually by Howard Hunsecker.
The congregation added Sunday school rooms in 1963.
In 2017, the congregation became part of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference when the small Franklin Mennonite Conference withdrew from Mennonite Church USA and voted to become a bishop district of the Lancaster Conference (later LMC: a Fellowship of Anabaptist Churches).
Bibliography
Burdge Jr., Edsel and Samuel Horst. Building on the Gospel Foundation: The Mennonites of Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Washington County, Maryland, 1730-1970. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2004: 570-572, 678-680.
"Rock Hill, McConnellsburg, Pa." Gospel Herald 60, no. 26 (4 July 1967): 588. Includes a photo of the building.
Additional Information
Address: 1173 Rock Hill Road, McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania 17233
Telephone: 717-485-5551
Website:
Denominational Affiliations:
LMC: a Fellowship of Anabaptist Churches
Pastoral Leaders at Rock Hill Mennonite Church
| Name | Years of Service |
|---|---|
| Howard L. Hunsecker (1917-1998) | 1952-1990s |
| Emmert E. Banzhoff | 1975?-1983 |
| Jerry Roth | 1983-1994? |
| William R. Baublitz | 1994?-1996 |
| Samuel B. Sollenberger | 1996-2008? |
| Richard T. Kendall | 2008?-? |
| Edward Sharpe | 2016-2025? |
Rock Hill Mennonite Church Membership
| Year | Members |
|---|---|
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1960 | 12 |
| 1970 | 42 |
| 1980 | 27 |
| 1990 | 21 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2009 | 23 |
| 2025 | 10 |
| Author(s) | Samuel J Steiner |
|---|---|
| Date Published | February 2026 |
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