Blacklick Township churches are listed alphabetically by denomination. Additional
information on the history and present contacts and schedule of services
of the churches will be added as received.
Baptist
- Bethel Baptist Church, intersection of route US 422 and Cardiff Road, Blacklick Township—Founded 1833.
Contact, Tom Wray, c/o First Baptist Church of Vintondale.
Cambria County's oldest Protestant Church has no regularly scheduled services. An annual reunion is held the second Sunday of August, with a business meeting at 1 p.m. and service at 2 p.m.
A transcription of cemetery records is on George Warholic's Blacklick Township web site.
Click here for a brief review of the church's history, first published in 1931.
Catholic (Click here for Altoona-Johnstown diocese)
- Sts. Timothy and Mark Church, 116 Church Street, Twin Rocks 15960
(Formerly, St. Charles)
- Yoked with Immaculate Conception Church, Vintondale, the Rev. James Conrad, pastor, 814-749-9331
A transcription of cemetery records is on George Warholic's Blacklick Township web site.
Church of the Brethren (“Dunkard”)
- Presumably, the Nanty Glo Church of the Brethren (which denomination was formerly called “Dunkards” because of its form of baptism), provides the continuity for the congregation that once worshipped at this site near the intersection of Belsano's South Street and Redmill Road. All that remains is the cemetery.
A transcription of cemetery records is on George Warholic's Blacklick Township web site.
Pilgrim Holiness
- The Pilgrim Holiness Church, Twin Rocks, PA 15960
United Methodist (Click here for Indiana district home page)
- Belsano United Methodist, Belsano 15922, Benjamin Franklin Highway (Rt. 422) Belsano, PA 15922
Yoked with Nanty Glo United Methodist Church (Glo-Bel Charge); the Rev. John Snyder, pastor
A transcription of cemetery records is on George Warholic's Blacklick Township web site.
- Faith United Methodist, 3876 Benjamin Franklin Highway (Rt. 422), PO Box 32, Belsano PA 15922-0302
Yoked with Strongstown United Methodist (Belsano Triangle Charge); the Rev. Sharon Hamley, Pastor
The first church in Blacklick Township's first village, Faith UM was founded as the United Brethren Church and had a major role in the development of the village, as it once owned most of the adjacent property of the town, which it sold as lots, according to local historian Desmond Warzel. Through a succession of denominational mergers, it became the Evangelical United Brethren Church in the 1940s and a United Methodist Church in the 1960s.
A transcription of cemetery records is on George Warholic's Blacklick Township web site.
- Twin Rocks United Methodist, PO Box 32 Belsano PA 15922
CLOSED. At last report, this church is no longer active.
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