{"id":3103,"date":"2021-09-13T23:19:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T23:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2021-09-13T23:19:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T23:19:23","slug":"pleasant-view-celebrates-245-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/09\/13\/pleasant-view-celebrates-245-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasant View celebrates 245 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/Pleasant-View-Church-Maryland.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/Pleasant-View-Church-Maryland.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/Pleasant-View-Church-Maryland-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/Pleasant-View-Church-Maryland-768x305.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/Pleasant-View-Church-Maryland-560x222.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>P<em>leasant View Church of the Brethren building, Jefferson, Maryland<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PleasantViewCOB\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pleasant View Church of the Brethren<\/a> near Burkittsville, Md., celebrated its 245th anniversary on Aug. 15. Tim May is the congregation\u2019s pastor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Sunday service was planned to initiate festivities leading up to the church\u2019s 250th anniversary in 2026, with descendants of the founding members as special guests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An article in the Frederick News Post reviewed the congregation\u2019s history, tracing the movement of the congregation\u2019s ancestors \u201cfrom Pennsylvania into Middletown Valley by 1740. The valley reminded them of their German homeland, and they settled at Big Oak Spring, which is now Burkittsville. Wanting to organize a church, about 20 families met on Aug. 15, 1776, under a large white oak on the Daniel Arnold farm just south of Burkittsville. They formed the Broad Run German Baptist Church, named for the everflowing stream, Broad Run\u2026. About 150 years ago, the ancestors of the Broad Run congregation built a church and named it Pleasant View.\u201d Find the full article at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/news\/lifestyle\/religion\/pleasant-view-church-of-the-brethren-near-burkittsville-celebrates-245-years\/article_69b1bb1a-3f83-5a2e-b409-77ddd1b1d182.html\">www.fredericknewspost.com\/news\/lifestyle\/religion\/pleasant-view-church-of-the-brethren-near-burkittsville-celebrates-245-years\/article_69b1bb1a-3f83-5a2e-b409-77ddd1b1d182.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Story from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/\">Newsline<\/a>. Sign up to receive Church of the Brethren news at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brethren.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=fe053219fdb661c00183423ef&amp;id=ad38c0837a\" target=\"_blank\">www.brethren.org\/intouch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasant View Church of the Brethren celebrated its 245th anniversary on August 15. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[180,102,182,181],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mid-atlantic","tag-20-470","tag-maryland","tag-mid-atlantic","tag-pleasant-view-church-of-the-brethren"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}