Trinity Reformed Church (Mountville, PA)

Collection

Identifier: Church RG 078

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Trinity Reformed Church collection consists of 4 boxes containing: - Annual Reports, 1960-1992 - Bulletins, 1922-1984 - Church Records (original): Baptisms, 1899-1936, 1970-1991; Confirmations, 1899-1936, 1970-1991; Marriages, 1899-1936, 1970-1992; Deaths, 1900-1936, 1970-1992; Communicants, 1899-1936, 1970-1992; Membership, 1898-1918, 1970-1992; Officers, 1966-1974; Guest Register, 1938-1961 - Constitutions, 1898-1905 (found in original record book) - Financial Records: Building Fund, 1900-1940; Ledgers, 1898-1993 - History: News Clippings; Published - Legal Records. Name Change, 1966 - Pastors - Committees: Consistory. Officers, 1970-1973 - Auxiliary Organizations: - Ladies Aid Society. Minutes, 1899-1937 - Ladies Auxiliary (Women's Guild): Minutes, 1937-1955; Officers, 1970 - Women's Missionary Society. Minutes, 1902-1941 - Youth Fellowship. Financial Records. Ledgers, 1937-1966 TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, by Perry Fridy Kendig, 1939, 1953.

Dates

Creation: 1898 - 1993

Conditions Governing Use

Biographical / Historical

A new church was formed by the merger of Trinity Reformed Church, Mountville and Trinity Reformed Church, Columbia. The name is still Trinity Reformed UCC, at a new building and location. The Consistory agreed to send the two predecessor churches records to the ERHS for safe keeping in 2000. Pastors who served include: 1898-1904 J. H. Pannebecker 1904-1904 J. G. Dengler (supply) 1905-1910 Charles E. Roth 1910-1916 Robert L. Bair 1917-1935 J. William Zehring 1936-1944 Paul Nagy 1944-1945 Paul Gregory 1945-1948 Eugene Kalkbrenner 1949-1950 Carl W. Smith 1952-???? Thomas Phillips 1970-???? Michael A. Price 1974-1979 David B. Colton 1980-???? Robert E. Townsend 1984-1991 Robert E. Carter