Heritage Sunday Set at Boehm's Chapel

The Boehm's Chapel Society will hold its annual Heritage Sunday on June 28 in the historic chapel at 13 W. Boehm's Road, Willow Street.

The event will start with a business meeting at 3 p.m. At 4 p.m., the worship service will include a play about Martin and Eve Boehm, performed by the husband-and-wife team of Joan and Barry Trout. Dale Mylin, the society's president, will speak on the 10th anniversary of the Mennonite Conference reinstating Martin Boehm as bishop emeritus. There will be hymns and Scripture readings.

At 5 p.m., a hayride will be offered to the Boehm homestead, down the hill from the chapel.

There will also be an open house of the chapel and the tying shed, the chapel's auxiliary building, until 6 p.m.

Martin and Eve Boehm hosted a class for early Methodists in their home and barn starting in 1775, the beginnings of what became today's Boehm's United Methodist Church. The chapel, erected in 1791, was the first structure built for Methodist worship in Lancaster County and the third in the country. It was restored to its 1791 appearance in 1991.

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