Mission Yearbook: Pennsylvania’s Presbyterian Church of Deep Run celebrates its 300th anniversary

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The Presbyterian Church of Deep Run celebrates its 300th anniversary with the Presbytery of Philadelphia.

In 2025, the Presbyterian Church of Deep Run in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, is celebrating its 300th anniversary. The church’s first preacher was the well-known Rev. William Tennent.

Worship started on this campus seven years before George Washington was born. And Pennsylvania became a state in 1787 — 62 years after the beginning of Presbyterian worship at Deep Run.

Today, the Irish Meeting House remains an integral part of religious life and worship on the Deep Run campus. Our campus includes the Irish Meeting House, Red School House, a cemetery, a columbarium, a memorial garden, the Deep Run Presbyterian Nursery School, main facilities with classrooms, a modern sanctuary, a fellowship hall, and offices, as well as a manse on over 7 acres of property in upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The list of ways Deep Run’s ministry touches the community is expansive, ranging from interns from the local high school overseeing the church’s tech and livestream to the Doylestown Art League meeting in the Red School House four days a week to providing space for seeing-eye dogs to be trained.

This is in addition to meetings for Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, AA, Al-Anon, Leo’s Club, food pantry collections, music ministry and summer Bible camp, and once a month the church serves a free hot meal to the community!

This ministry is filled with enthusiasm as we celebrate our history and look forward to what God is leading us into next!

Rev. Cynthia Betz-Bogoly, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Deep Run; Perkasie, Pennsylvania

Let us join in prayer for:

PC(USA) Agencies’ Staff:

Jennifer Cash, Copy Editor, Media & Publishing, Interim Unified Agency
Ryan Cassidy, AVP, Portfolio Manager, Trust Services, The Presbyterian Foundation   

Let us pray:

We thank you, Lord God, for brave and believing people who brought your message to this place 300 years ago. Let us not forget them. By their energies this church was gathered, given order, and continued. Remembering all those Christians who have gone before us, may we follow as they followed, in the way, truth, and life of Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church. Amen.