A view of the church taken September 2003

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(The following was excerpted from "History of York County, Pennsylvania" by George Prowell, 1907):

Fissel's, formerly known as Jerusalem Church, is one of the landmarks of Shrewsbury Township.  Religious services were held in this vicinity by missionaries of the Lutheran and Reformed churches as early as 1750, soon after this region was settled by the Germans from the Palatinate country, along the Rhine.  In 1771 Frederick Fissel granted to the Calvinistic Presbyterians and to the Lutherans, a tract of land for a church site.  In early days the Reformed Church, in some legal documents, was called the Calvinistic Presbyterian Church.  It was founded by Zwingli and was Presbyterian in its polity.  Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the word German Reformed Church came into general use.  This is the same church body as the Calvinistic Presbyterians mentioned at the earliest date of record for Fissel's Church.  In 1796 this is recorded as the Lutheran and Reformed Church of Shrewsbury Township.  The original church was a small log building which was afterwards replaced by a larger one of the same kind.  The second church was used as a house of worship until the year 1851, when a handsome brick edifice was erected.

The Reformed congregation at this date has 150 members and is served by the pastor of the Glen Rock charge, Rev. S. M. Roeder.  Some of the prominent clergymen who have served the Reformed congregation were: Adam Ettinger, John Yost, Henry Fries, F. Scholl, Henry N. B. Hablestein, Jacob Major, John Forsch, Frederick Becker, John Reinecke, C. W. Reinecke, D. Gring, A. F. Driesbach and I. S. Leiby.

The Lutheran congregation, which worshipped in this church in 1907, had a membership of 250, and the congregation has been well maintained since its organization.

This church, together with St. John's Lutheran Church at New Freedom, form what is known as the New Freedom charge, the pastor residing at New Freedom.  Those who served as the early pastors were: John Herbst, Sr.; John Herbst, Jr.; and Stecker and Grobe.  Among the later pastors are: Jacob Kempfer, A. Berg, J. H. Menges, E. Manges, E. Miller and E. E. Shantz.  Rev. David S. Martin was chosen pastor of the Lutheran congregation April 2, 1905, and took up the work as pastor on the first Sunday of May, of that year.