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Addisville Reformed Church
Love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength and love our neighbors as ourselves as instructed by our Lord Jesus Christ;
Invite the Holy Spirit to change us from within through dynamic corporate worship;
Value and welcome all people, never letting the doors of our church be narrower than the gates of Heaven;
Educate, challenge, and inspire one another to provide for the hopes and needs of our family, church, community, and the world to manifest
The Addisville Reformed Church is a result of 150 years of arduous labor by early Dutch residents of Bucks County. Its roots go back to "the first Dutch Bensalem and Sammenij" (Neshaminy) established in 1710 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Troubles pursued it, but the little church was persistent in its faith.
In 1737, the congregation moved to the newly erected "Christian Reformed Low Dutch Church of Bucks County", in what is now the graveyard near the Buck Hotel in Feasterville. Increasing numbers of the congregation resided in Northampton Township, and soon there was agitation from them for a collegiate church in their own area. In 1752, their request was granted; a little church was begun in the graveyard across from the present day Addisville Church.
In use for more than 60 years, both churches, needing extensive repairs, were torn down and replaced in 1816 with one centrally located church in Smoketown (now Churchville). However, soon the folks in Northampton wanted their own meetinghouse again.
Ground for the Richboro church was purchased in 1857 from Gilliam Cornell, a familiar name in the area then as now, and a year later construction began on the new building. At first a collegiate church of the Reformed Church of North and Southampton, the congregation petitioned the Classis to become a separate body on May 19, 1864, it began its independent career as the Reformed Dutch Church of Addisville.
Invite the Holy Spirit to change us from within through dynamic corporate worship;
Value and welcome all people, never letting the doors of our church be narrower than the gates of Heaven;
Educate, challenge, and inspire one another to provide for the hopes and needs of our family, church, community, and the world to manifest
The Addisville Reformed Church is a result of 150 years of arduous labor by early Dutch residents of Bucks County. Its roots go back to "the first Dutch Bensalem and Sammenij" (Neshaminy) established in 1710 in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Troubles pursued it, but the little church was persistent in its faith.
In 1737, the congregation moved to the newly erected "Christian Reformed Low Dutch Church of Bucks County", in what is now the graveyard near the Buck Hotel in Feasterville. Increasing numbers of the congregation resided in Northampton Township, and soon there was agitation from them for a collegiate church in their own area. In 1752, their request was granted; a little church was begun in the graveyard across from the present day Addisville Church.
In use for more than 60 years, both churches, needing extensive repairs, were torn down and replaced in 1816 with one centrally located church in Smoketown (now Churchville). However, soon the folks in Northampton wanted their own meetinghouse again.
Ground for the Richboro church was purchased in 1857 from Gilliam Cornell, a familiar name in the area then as now, and a year later construction began on the new building. At first a collegiate church of the Reformed Church of North and Southampton, the congregation petitioned the Classis to become a separate body on May 19, 1864, it began its independent career as the Reformed Dutch Church of Addisville.