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Page 18 Southern Pennsylvania District
District Youth Retreat—Continued

We walk alongside their
footsteps
A capital campaign to preserve the
Germantown, Pennsylvania prop-
erty 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
Germantown Meetinghouse cemetery. With that treasure come
needs to care for and maintain the
Immediate needs include: meetinghouse, parsonage, and

1. Improve cemetery entrance -- $5,000 cemetery. Hundreds of people are
buried in the cemetery, including
2. Repair fencing around cemetery -- $25,000
early Brethren leaders such as
3. Conduct headstone maintenance -- $20,000 Alexander Mack, Sr. Funds are
4. Update meetinghouse roofing -- $90,000 needed for the care and mainte-
5. Update meetinghouse basement nance needs of these historical
(including foundation repair) -- $50,000 facilities.
6. Baptismal marker repair/maintenance -- $2,000 Germantown Cemetery
7. Complete parsonage renovations -- $90,000
8. Additional site maintenance costs -- $18,000
Projected total cost - $300,000

Help us take the next step!
Www.brethren.org/giveGermantown
Questions: Contact the Mission Advancement
Office 847-429-4370, MA@brethren.org