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Preserving Germantown Meetinghouse & Cemetery

We walk alongside their footsteps

A capital campaign to preserve the Germantown, Pennsylvania property and the history of the Church of the
Brethren in America. To make an on-line donation visit: https://donorbox.org/germantown-campaign

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! Questions, reach out to the Mission Advancement Office, 847-429-4370 or
MA@brethren.org

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