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			<font size="3"color="Black"><B><I>Recognizing that assets make things possible and that people make things 

                        happen, our mission is to glorify God by being faithful stewards of all that is entrusted to us and to 

                        maintain facilities for the proclamation of Jesus Christ.</i></b></font>

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   <font size="3"><B><I><P>Our earliest known records tell us that Free Methodists in the Washington metropolitan area 

	held a camp meeting in Falls Church, Virginia, in 1889, ten years after the first churches were founded in Washington and Virginia. 

	Christian family camping was a popular social activity, becoming for a time a national phenomenon, often drawing enormous crowds as 

	people came from far and near to be with friends and family, receive spiritual renewal, and escape the summer heat. Through the 

	years as crowds increased and situations changed, new locations had to be found. By the end of the 1920 s, the Washington Free 

	Methodist Church sought to establish a permanent campground, where they could have cottages instead of having to pitch tents. 

	New city fire regulations called for masonry structures. Finding this too costly, Free Methodists went to the countryside of 

	Maryland renting farmland and continuing to camp in tents for some years. In 1931, they were able to purchase land in 

	Spencerville, and, as they say, <font color="red">the rest is history.</font><p>



	The year 2006 marked the Seventy-fifth anniversary of our being a Christian camping community at this location in Spencerville, Maryland. 

	Beginning as the Spencerville Free Methodist Campground, then later known as the Maryland-Virginia Conference 

	Headquarters, we are now widely known as "Peach Orchard Christian Retreat Center and Campground." Formerly 

	used only in the summer, we are now winterized and host visitors year-round.

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	    <font size="3"><B><I><P>Our museum is named  The Dr. Gene R. Alston Memorial Camp Museum.  Our  Serenity Garden  is named for 

		Julia Arnold Shelhamer: one an accomplished black man and one an ambitious white woman. They were two ordinary people who did 

		extraordinary things.<p>



		The <a href="history.html"><border=0>HISTORY Page</a> includes a description of these two individuals' contributions to God's 

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