This is also very interesting indeed. One of the Lutheran congregations that probably was a part of this merger was the Coburn church. Justin At 09:23 PM 1/8/2007, you wrote: > Yes, and during the 1950's or early 1960's, The Rev. Theodore Schneider >over-saw a process of merging a number of small Lutheran congregations into >one, the current St. John Lutheran in Millheim. One or two of those former >congregations shared buildings with Reformed congregations, but I cannot >document which ones. Schneider went to Lancaster in 1964, then to Silver >Spring MD in 1986 or 1987, and is now bishop of Metropolitan Washington, >D.C. Synod of the ELCA. Some readers of this list likely knew him in his >Centre Co. days. For years his organist at St. Johns, Millheim, was Dr. >Helen Wise, former of the Penn State faculty and sometime national president >of National Education Association.