First Reformed Church, St. Paul's, St. John's, St. Andrew's, Church of the Apostles, Homestead Village,
Date of Publication
2002.
Physical Description
1070 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
CD-ROM housed in envelope with book.
Summary
"The purpose in putting the history of our Church into this permanent form is to preserve many facts which would otherwise pass away with generations. It is also designed to inform the members with a larger knowledge of the Church of which they are a part, hoping to inspire in them greater devotion and loyalty to an institution which has grown into honor through adversity and sacrifice these one hundred and sixty-eight years...Throughout the chronicles I have endeavored to present 'The rest of the Story' by presenting information that provides a background to the events written about and the reasons, where known, for the action taken." [Introduction]
The early history of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lancaster : Part 1: Starting as a mission Sunday school of Trinity Lutheran Church, and struggling to establish a stable congregation, 1867-1880
The early history of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lancaster : Part II: Becoming a separate congregation, considering location options, and planning for a new church building, 1880-1890
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 118, number 1 (2017), p. 3-37Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article974.9 L245 v. 118, no. 1
Evangelical Lutheran Curch of the Holy Trinity--Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church--Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church--Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church--Advent Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church--Mount Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church--Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer--Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension--Word of Life Deaf Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Matthew Church--Church of the Good Shepherd--Church of the Ascension--St. Paul Church--Church of the Holy Spirit--St. Peter's Church--Mount Calvary Church.
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 165 #2.
Memorabilia : lottery tickets (two) - Sunday school anniversary program - two postcards - Report of the Church Building Committeer Feb. 12, 1887 (five pages) - Christ Church Tidings December 1909 and Lent 1910 - Memorabilia notes. (16 pieces).
History of Scottish dissentng Presbyterianism in Lancaster County, PA : an account of Associate, Associate Reformed, and United Presbyterian Church of North America clergy and congregations
"America’'s Dissenting Presbyterians have somewhat difficult histories to understand but basically they are unified in this fact, for some reason, they chose to separate from the Church of Scotland, and upon arriving in America they could not in good conscience join the mainline Presbyterian Church...There are today only two groups of dissenting Presbyterians left in the United States and they are the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. Both have different yet somewhat similar histories. The Reformed Presbyterians are known as “Covenanters†they are the Society people that at the time of Revolution Settlement could not in good conscience go back into the Church of Scotland. The Associate Reformed Presbyterians or ARP are a merger of two Presbyterian groups, the Associate Church and the Reformed Presbyterians, to form a uniquely Scottish and American Presbyterian Church in the United States. The things that set the Dissenting Presbyterians apart from their mainline counterparts were strict confessional adherence to the point of becoming in many ways countercultural, holding strictly to the Regulative Principle of Worship, and never assimilating as quickly into American Society as their mainline counterparts." [https://purelypresbyterian.com/2017/09/23/americas-dissenting-presbyterian-heritage/]
