Among the earliest of the German Reformed congregations organized in Pennsylvania was the one in Lancaster. Between 1709 and 1735 the immigration of Germans, Swiss and French into the county of Lancaster was very large. They were mainly exiles and refugees, fleeing from the intolerant religious persecutions that followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and adherents of the Reformed or Huguenotic faith. In 1736 these people felt themselves strong enough to organize a congregation and begin the erection of a church. Jannine Coble Gregory Austin, Texas Remember "where ever you go there you are"