Germantown Contact Info Meetinghouse attic window and 1770 date Come Home to the
Birthplace of Mennonites in America

Registration Form (PDF)

A Mennonite Homecoming: “What Mean These Stones?” — October 19-20, 2002
Jubilee Year Celebration of Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust
and its care of the 1770 Mennonite Meetinghouse

Rittenhouse cemetery stone Weekend Events Include:

  • Keynote Addresses
    • “Uneasy Neighbors: African Americans and the Germans in Colonial America” — Leroy Hopkins
    • “Anabaptist History Pre and Post Germantown” — Jan Gleysteen
  • Workshops
    • “Christopher Dock at Germantown, Skippack and Salford” — Mary Jane Hershey
    • “Mennonites and Urbanism” — Leonard Gross
    • “Mennonite Meetinghouse Architecture” — Jan Gleysteen
    • “Dutch Mennonites and the Germantown Connection” — Mary Sprunger
  • Historic Germantown Tours
More Information available by phone: 215-843-0943; e-mail: gmht@meetinghouse.info; and Web: www.meetinghouse.info.

Bus Transportation Available from Lancaster and Franconia

Come Home to the Birthplace of Mennonites in America - October 19 and 20, 2002

Schedule
Saturday, October 19
Time Event Location
8:30-10:00 a.m. Registration The Meetinghouse
9:30 a.m. Meetinghouse Tour The Meetinghouse
10:00 a.m. Workshops
   *Christopher Dock at Germantown, Skippack and Salford — Mary Jane Hershey The Meetinghouse
   *Mennonite Meetinghouse Architecture — Jan Gleysteen Settlement Music School
   *Historic Germantown Tour The Meetinghouse
12:00 p.m. Lunch 21 W. Washington Lane
1:30 p.m. Workshops
   *Mennonites and Urbanism — Leonard Gross Settlement Music School
   *Dutch Mennonites and the Germantown Connection — Mary Sprunger The Meetinghouse
   *Historic Germantown Tour The Meetinghouse
4:00 p.m. General Session The Meetinghouse
Uneasy Neighbors: African Americans and Germans in Colonial America — Dr. Leroy Hopkins
Philadelphia Mennonite High School Choir

Sunday, October 20
Time Event Location
2:00 p.m. General Session
The Meetinghouse
Anabaptist History: Pre and Post Germantown — Jan Gleysteen
Presentation and Reception in honor of Galen Horst-Martz and his 12 years of service to GMHT