A brief history of Providence Presbyterian Church

            Our Sovereign God moved the Philadelphia Presbytery to start a church in Quakertown during the late 1970s. The Presbytery consisted of a number of churches in the Greater Philadelphia area from the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod (RPCES), a small conservative denomination that came out of the much larger, more liberal Presbyterian Church in the North. The Presbytery sent the Rev. David Brewer to plant a church in the Quakertown area with the assistance of one of their larger churches in Lansdale, which had people living in this area. By 1981 that core group grew and was able to call Pastor Bob Lacock to be its organizing pastor. Pastor Lacock helped this group to grow even more and trained its initial leaders. On May 1, 1983, they began as a recognized church of the Philadelphia Presbytery. However, during the summer of 1982, all the churches of the RPCES joined the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a relatively new conservative church that came out of the large liberal Presbyterian Church of the South during 1973. So when we became a recognized church, called Quakertown Presbyterian Church, we were a part of the Philadelphia Presbytery of the PCA. In time the church lost a number of their members for various reasons and could no longer afford to pay the pastor and he had to leave.

            During the Fall of 1987, the church called Pastor Mel Farrar who was retired from the military to lead them. Eventually, Pastor Lacock became the Associate Pastor for Outreach. When this change took place, the church was meeting in the Milford Square Fire Hall, in Milford Township. It had 35 men, women and children from whom there was one elder, and one deacon. As the church slowly grew, another church in the Quakertown area approached us and asked if we would like to buy their nine and a half acre property along Route 663 near the Pennsylvania Turnpike Interchange for this area. During 1992, the church purchased that property with the help of the Presbytery. 1997 was the year the church built a pavilion on the property, had a road and parking lot constructed for it, and bought a two and a half acre adjoining property. During August of 2000, our contractor moved on site to begin construction of a church building. We moved into the building the next year during February. Considering the generosity of our Great God and being permanently located in Milford Township, our congregation changed its name to Providence Presbyterian Church which became its official name during May 2002.

            Today Providence Presbyterian Church has an average of 125 people who attend our morning worship service. We have two pastors, six ruling elders, and four deacons whom all serve as servant leaders. We look forward to what God will do among us.