From page 312, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania, published by Warner, Beers & Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886:
The Lutheran and Methodist Union
Church at Wenksville was dedicated December 25, 1872, by Revs. Clark and Dixon,
Methodist Episcopal ministers, and M. Snyder and J. F. Probst, Lutheran
ministers. The building cost $1,600.
The Lutheran Society of Wenksville
was organized March 5, 1836, at Pisel’s schoolhouse
(afterward known as Wenks’ School, near the site of
the present brick Union building), with thirty-one members. Rev. Daniel Gottwalt, David Melas, John Weigle, George Black and Jacob B. Meals may be named among
its founders. In 1840 the new Lutheran society of Bendersville drew off the
majority of the members, and this society existed in a semi-disorganized
condition until 1878, when Rev. M. Snyder reorganized it. In 1880 it was made
an appointment of Bendersville, and so continues. From 1841 to 1878 preachers
from the theological seminary and from the neighboring churches visited the
locality, until Bendersville Circuit was formed in 1880, with Rev. W. L. Heisler in charge. Rev. C. W. McSherry
is the present preacher.
The Methodist Society of Wenksville
is contemporary with the Lutheran, although no regular organization existed
until 1872, when this denomination initiated the work of church building here.