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dedication was held on February 26, 1927. The

building was later brick-cased, and a Fellowship Hall was added to the back of the church in 1987, the 60th anniversary of the dedication. The church is one of 22 in the Maryland and Virginia Conference, which is one of 15 comprising the Churches of God, General Conference. The denomination was founded in Harrisburg in 1825 under the direction of John Winebrenner. Administrative offices are in Findlay, Ohio. The conference operates Findlay College and Winebrenner Seminary. Mission work is located in India, Bangladesh, Haiti and in New Mexico with the Navajo Indians. The Brunswick church supports Bimal and Annie Tudo as missionaries in Khanjanpur. Pastors who have served since its beginning are Rev. George E. Masser, S. A. Kipe, William Herpich, Charles Miles, John Myers, Cronise Barr, Clair Ebersole, Gerald Carbaugh, Harold Beck, Frank True, and James Keyser, the present pastor. Several members of the church have entered the ministry: (1) Preston Lucas; (2) his son, Army Lt. Col. Thomas Lucas; (3) Air Force Major Wayne Gosnell; and (4) James Painter. One of the church fund-raisers, which the older citizens of the Brunswick community will remember, was the annual apple butter boilings held each fall. Mr. and Mrs. John Moore were the organizers of the event held from 1930 to 1968. The apple butter sales and homemade ice cream festivals helped pay for the church building.

Holtz, the congregation began a larger and more modern church on a previously purchased lot at the corner of Route 17 and Souder Road. In March of 1980 Rev. Dr. Spencer, who had retired from the presidency of a New York Bible College, was called and returned to pastor the church which he helped start fifty years earlier. Rev. Ralph Campbell is pastor in 1990. S - Rev. M. Q. Spenser W-BRH

CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE CHURCH While officially known as The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Brunswick, Maryland, it is generally referred to as the Rosemont Alliance Church. The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church began in Brunswick, in the Brunswick Town Park during the summer of 1930, when sixteen weeks of evangelistic meetings were held by Miss Amy Main and her sisters. Those who found Christ as their personal savior during those meetings became the nucleus for the new church. That fall, the congregation moved into the YMCA Chapel for regular Sunday services and mid-week prayer meetings. It was here that they organized officially on February 14, 1932, with the Reverend Samuel W. McGarvy, District Superintendent, presiding. In December 1932, Rev. Vanus Smith was called as the first pastor, and the following year the group rented the Carlisle building on East Potomac Street (now the laundromat) as their first regular church home. As the new place of worship was adapted for services, a building fund was established with a permanent church home envisioned as the next step. In 1937,duringtheministry ofRev.J. M. Walker, the property at 404 "A" Street was purchased. The house was demolished and construction got underway. The first services were held in the new church in October of 1939 and continued for 34 years. Serving as pastor during those years were: Rev. L. L. Meltzer, 1938-40; Rev. W. G. McVicker, 194043; Rev. T. C. Latshaw, 1944-50; Rev. F. J. Klein, 1951-60; and Rev. J. H. Senseny, 1960-65. In 1952, under the ministry of Rev. Klein, the parsonage at 405 "A" Street was purchased and used until Rev. R. W. Schenk became pastor in March 1966. Under Rev. Schenk'sministry, a prop-

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FAITH ASSEMBLY OF GOD In the summer of 1930, two young ministers, Rev. Herbert Nunly, and Rev. Maurice Q. Spencer, came into Brunswick and pitched a tent on the lot where the Brunswick Fire Department building now stands. These young men were deeply involved in what was a relatively young religious faith - The Assemblies of God. Dedicated to their faith, Pentacostalism, they gathered a nucleus of people, among them the Minnicks and the Lloyds. Rev. Spencer moved on to establish a church in Culpeper, Virginia, while Rev. Nunly decided to pastor the local church. With the help of his small congregation he built a church on West B Street where he pastored for several year3. The congregation grew. In 1979 under the leadership of Rev. James

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