A state historical marker issued by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources that highlights Rockingham County’s Trissels Mennonite Church, home of the oldest continuously functioning Mennonite congregation in Virginia, will be dedicated this weekend during a public ceremony.

The brief ceremony begins at 2 p.m., Sunday, November 15, at the site of the marker, which is located on the west side of Route 42 (Harpine Hwy) where it intersects with Trissels Road. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held at Trissels Church, 11246 Hisers Lane, near Broadway. (The church is located about two miles west of the marker.)

Speakers during the ceremony will include John-Allen Ennis, chair of the Trissels church council; Pastor Harold Miller; Elwood Yoder, a history teacher at Eastern Mennonite High School who is authoring a history of the Trissels congregation; and Randall Jones of the Department of Historic Resources.