The German Baptists, or Brethren, of Shade, organized a church of thirty members in 1851. The first meeting-house was built in 1858. There are now three meeting-houses and one hundred and fifty members in the district, a portion of which is in Cambria county.
Bishop: J. Berkey
Ministers:
J. Holsopple
H. Musselman
Peter Statler
Peter Knabel
Joseph Burkhart.