{"id":25997,"date":"2025-10-03T19:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25997"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:01:58","slug":"linville-creek-celebrates-200-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/linville-creek-celebrates-200-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Linville Creek Church of the Brethren celebrates 200 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In honor of its 200th anniversary, Linville Creek Church of the Brethren in Broadway, Va., will have a celebration this weekend, reports the Daily News-Record on its DNROnline site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday activities include children\u2019s crafts and games, special tours including a guided tour of the church&#8217;s historic and newly expanded cemetery at 11:30 a.m., lunch, a bake sale to raise money for National Youth Conference, s&#8217;mores, and a concert by the Linville Creek Praise Choir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday morning will feature worship at 10:30 a.m. followed by a covered dish luncheon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/LinvilleCreekCoB-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/LinvilleCreekCoB-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/LinvilleCreekCoB-600px-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/LinvilleCreekCoB-600px-560x221.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Linville Creek Church of the Brethren website<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Linville Creek Cemetery is full of history with an older section dating back almost 200 years,&#8221; said pastor Nathan Hollenberg in the online report. About the historical displays, he said, &#8220;We have several items that can be traced back to John Kline himself or from early church life at Linville Creek.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newspaper report highlights the church\u2019s connection with Elder John Kline, a Brethren leader and martyr for peace during the Civil War era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnronline.com\/news\/lifestyle\/religion\/linville-creek-church-of-the-brethren-to-celebrate-200-years\/article_1422d808-accb-5b65-837d-bd46e460ffb3.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.dnronline.com\/news\/lifestyle\/religion\/linville-creek-church-of-the-brethren-to-celebrate-200-years\/article_1422d808-accb-5b65-837d-bd46e460ffb3.html\">www.dnronline.com\/news\/lifestyle\/religion\/linville-creek-church-of-the-brethren-to-celebrate-200-years\/article_1422d808-accb-5b65-837d-bd46e460ffb3.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/six-awards-from-associated-church-press\/\">Messenger and Communications receive six awards from the Associated Church Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/conscientious-objection-event-for-adults\/\">Virtual event for adults will follow on conscientious objection sessions for young people<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/world-refugee-day-service\/\">Deportation Defense Response invites participation in World Refugee Day Ecumenical Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-bits-111\/\">Brethren bits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/jeff-thomson-to-direct-bdm\/\">Jeff Thomson hired to direct Brethren Disaster Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of its 200th anniversary, Linville Creek Church of the Brethren in Broadway, Va., will have a celebration this weekend, reports the Daily News-Record on its DNROnline site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[3453,2324,2220,330],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-200th-anniversary","tag-anniversary","tag-jesus-in-the-neighborhood-stories-from-congregations","tag-linville-creek-church-of-the-brethren"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25999,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions\/25999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25997"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}