NEWS UPDATE: FEB 2025
Hello to everyone,
The PCHC (The Presbyterian Church Heritage Centre)
TO OPEN: SAT September 30th. 2025 for the 150th Anniversary of the Presbyterian Church in Canada!
The Presbyterian Church Heritage Centre (PCHC) has formally arrived and taken over the Sanctuary space at Carlisle United Church (formerly Presbyterian) in Carlisle, Ontario (6 km’s east of Ailsa Craig in North Middlesex). PCHC was formerly the National Presbyterian Museum.
The PCHC Advisory Committee have worked hard to make the move possible, and now it will take a couple of years to organize all artefacts, books, and furniture, etc. in their special places. Our Curator, Ian Mason promises that once we open, the PCHC will continue to preserve and display the heritage of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
You may not know that General Assembly 2021 for The Presbyterian Church in Canada approved that the PCHC go forward with “Our New Home Campaign” to raise $200,000.
We need your individual and congregational support. In addition, we also need support from Presbyteries, Synods and organizations within our denomination across Canada. We appreciate your donations very much. There will be a special donor wall for donations over $1,000, and can’t wait to take you on a tour of the PCHC in 2023, God willing. Please visit our website at www.pcheritagecentre.ca.
With thankfulness and blessings to each of you,
Marilyn Repchuck
PCHC Chair
PCHC Advisory Committee
Synod Executive
ATTENTION: Mr. Ken Sheward, Moderator and Rev. Mark McLennan, Clerk
Dear Ken and Mark,
The Committee on History for The Presbyterian Church in Canada is pleased to announce the new Presbyterian Church Heritage Centre (PCHC), formerly The National Presbyterian Museum. The Presbyterian Church Heritage Centre Advisory Committee meet regularly and are under the trusteeship of The Presbyterian Church in Canada and under the umbrella of The Committee on History. We receive no funding from the national church, and will begin a three-year Campaign in the near future to raise funds over the next three years to compensate for the upcoming renovations and moving expenses with our new home. Our Campaign goal is $200,000.
PCHC will be located in Carlisle United Church (6 km east of Ailsa Craig, Ontario) in the Municipality of North Middlesex. The new Heritage Centre is located within the bounds of the Synod of Southwestern Ontario. Renovation work is beginning now, and we are hopeful to display and stage all artefacts, etc. in the church’s sanctuary space by early 2023. We remind the people of Carlisle United Church that their roots are Presbyterian, and they have been most gracious as we take over the upper level of their church.
We look forward to having a relationship with the Synod, and as well the many Presbyteries that surround us. We send this letter today in hope that The Synod of Southwestern Ontario will make a special donation to PCHC in support of the renovations and expenses necessary to share in the heritage that PCHC will offer to our Presbyterian communities.
Thank you for your consideration, and we are grateful for the support you offer now, and as well in the future. We look forward to offering a place for future generations to learn from the past.
If you have any questions, we would be happy to answer them. It would be our pleasure to meet with you as well.
Yours in Christ’s service,
Marilyn Repchuck
Marilyn Repchuck, Chair
Presbyterian Church Heritage Centre
Marilyn Repchuck email: [email protected] Ian L. Mason
Chair website: pcheritagecentre.ca Curator
National Canadian Presbyterian Church Museum:
Canadian National Presbyterian Church Museum in Toronto is moving to Carlilse, North Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada in 2021.
The church in Carlilse was started 1859 as a Presbyterian Church of Canada and joined the United Church in Canada in 1925. The United Church members continue to meet in the basement.
Construction is started to receive the Museum’s artifact’s at a later date i n 2021
Run by Ian Mason and Marilyn Repchuck with Carlilse contact Doug Carmichael.
This is exciting news that Carlisle in North Middlesex will receive this honour.
Please check out the web page and to help raise funds for this Canadian Heritage project.
email address: [email protected]
web page: National Presbyterian Museum