Re: Hessian Church membership in the US My Hessian ancestors affillliated with the Evangelische Gemeinschaft, a German Methodist church which later became the Evangelical Association, then the United Evangelical Church. This group then formed the Evangelical United Brethren Church which united with the Methodist church in the 1960s to form the United Methodist church. A smaller group from that organization is the Evangelical Congregational church, mostly in Pennsylvania. Alternatively, they could have joined any of the German Lutheran churches, depending on what they found in the area. I believe that the German Lutheran group which became a part of the Evangelical and Reformed church was the German Evangelical Synod of North America. Neil Wolf