Delta Welsh Heritage

Rev. Richard Price Baskwill, Minister

Winter Sunday Service Hours  

Afternoons at 2:30 PM 

Beginning October 16, 2011

Evening Prayer according to the Anglican Church in Wales

Followed by tea and cookies, and Welsh language class at 3:30 PM

Located at the corner of Main and Pendyrus Streets, Delta, PA 

Church Phone:  717-456-5762

Chapel website

Sunday December 4, 2011

5:30 PM

Christmas Concert by Rehoboth Welsh Choir, directed by David Tramontana.  This special concert will close the festivities of the annual Delta Christmas Fair weekend.

Tea and cookies available in the Chapel following our regular 2:30 pm bilingual service.

Saturday December 24, 2011

7:00 PM

Christmas Eve candlelight service

A Festival of Lessons and Carols, after the model of Kings College, Cambridge

Music by Rehoboth Welsh Choir, directed by Arthur Groves

Lessons in Welsh and English

One of the most important parts of Welsh life in Delta was the Chapel, and parishoners often attended three times on Sundays - morning service, afternoon Sunday School, and evening service.  The congregation of Rehoboth Welsh Chapel was founded in 1854 by Calvinistic Methodists, who wanted to worship entirely in their native Welsh language.  The present building was constructed in 1891, and has been refurbished twice - in 1929 and 1991.  A weekly service is held in Welsh and English, and several special services occur during the year.  Twice a year a Gymanfa Ganu, or Welsh singing festival, is held - on the first Sunday in May and the second Sunday in October. Visitors come from all over North America.  The Chapel has also hosted renowned Welsh choirs, such as Pendyrus Male Choir from the Rhondda Valley, and Brythoniaid Choir from North Wales.  Rehoboth is one of only five Chapels outside of Wales featured in the Welsh-language book Capeli Cymru.

On June 27, 2009, Rehoboth Welsh Choir presented a concert and brief gymanfa ganu at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. 

Wales was the Guest Nation at that summer's Festival.

In May 2010, Rehoboth Welsh Church was recognized by the National Welsh American Foundation as a place of special historical significance to the Welsh -American community