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History of U.B. Churches in Harrisonburg-Staunton Region December 26, 2024

 Mt. Clinton (Station Church)
 Mt. Hebron (Abandoned)
 Mt. Horeb (Station Church)
 Mt. Sinai, Pleasant Valley Circuit
 Mt. Tabor, Lacey Springs Circuit
 Mountain Valley, Lacey Springs Circuit
 Mt. Zion, Massanutten Circuit
 Oak Grove, Shenandoah Circuit
 Otterbein (Abandoned)
 Otterbein, Dayton-Otterbein Circuit
 Pleasant Valley (Abandoned)
 Prize Hill (Abandoned)
 Riverside, Broadway Circuit
 Salem (Abandoned)
 Shady Grove (Abandoned)
 Shady Grove (Abandoned)
 Shenandoah (Station Church)
 Sperry’s Run, Hardy Circuit
 St. James, Pleasant Valley Circuit
 St. Peters, Massanutten Circuit
 Stokesville (Abandoned)
 Swift Run (Abandoned)
 Trinity, Massanutten Circuit
 Whitesel’s (Abandoned).

b. Staunton District

United Brethren preachers and preaching in the Staunton District in Augusta County, Virginia,
dates back to the year 1800, the year of the first appointing of an annual conference, and the year the
United Brethren sect begins as a distinct church. Bishop Christian Newcomer, fourth Bishop of the
Church, preached in Virginia as early as 1795. In 1802 Bishops George Adam Geeting and Christian
Newcomer traveled the Virginia Circuit together, and great meetings were held in Rockingham and
Augusta Counties. On September 13, 1800, Bishops Newcomer and Martin Boehm, accompanied by
Henry Boehm, son of Bishop Boehm, passed through Staunton and held a great meeting at the home of
Henry Menger’s (Mizer’s) against the North Mountain near the present site of Bethlehem Church, about
eight miles west of Staunton. It was at the Virginia Annual Conference held at Bethlehem Church in
March of 1851 that the first offering for foreign missions was taken by any conference or congregation
of the U.B. denomination.

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