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250 Anniversary
Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church
Ridge & Kellers Church Roads
Bedminster PA 18910 (215)795-2965

	1751 Founding of Kellers Church
	1766 First Stone Building
	1841 Union began with Solomon's Reformed Pastors
	1870 Fist English sermon
	1889 St. Matthew's name adopted
	1894 Presesnt building constructed
	1895 Bell placed
	1859 Union dissolved
	1967 educational building dedicated
	1976 225 Anniversary
	2001 250th Anniversary

Deep Run Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
Route 113 and Elephant Road
Bedminster PA 18910 (215) 249-3689

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350 Kellers Church Road
Perkasie Pa (215) 766-8380

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Deep Run Mennonite (West)


The News Herald, March 21, 2001
Beginning July 8, 2001, St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church, forever known as Kellers Church will celebrate its 250th anniversary. A lifetime member of St. Matthew's, Merv Bryan, who died in the summer of 1999 was completing the church history at the time of his death. That church history will be published this year. It will be titled, "A Light on the Ridge, the Life and times of the People of Kellers Church."
From that source: Wealthy German Lutherans were coming to America in the 1700s with whole congregations and even pastors to start new churches. But that was not the case with the forbearers of St. Matthew's. They were a few disgruntled Germans who were member of Peace Lutheran Church who decided to start their own congregation. Some of the original names are recorded: Keller, Ackerman, Steinbach, Ziegenfuss, Nicklas, Acker, Lock, Schwartz, Weickert and maria Elizabeth Jacoby.

The first elders were inscribed for history: Henry Keller, Henry Acker, Jacob Lock, Valentine Nicklas. Listed as deacons were Christian Steinbach and Andrew Ziegenfuss.

 

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The book does not have an index, but it does have founding family information including but not limited to the Keller family, church elders, deacons, church members at the beginning (Loch, Nicla, Ackerman, Schwarz, Fischer, Zimmer, Stein, Drach, Wimmer, Ziegenfuss, Feininger to name a few) It is a history of the church. Written by Mervin C. Bryan 1938-1999.