Bergey Creative Group

Meet Our Team • Chapel History

In 1994, Bergey Design was founded by Tom Bergey with the goal to be the preeminent creative shop in Northern Montgomery County, PA.

Thanks to outstanding creative and client satisfaction, the agency thrived and continued to grow. In 2000, the agency became Bergey Creative Group - reflecting many changes in the personal life and professional pursuits of its founder. Bergey Creative Group increased staff and further prospered by serving a variety of local, regional, and national accounts.

Now familiar to many as BC Group, the agency expanded exponentially – bringing a breadth and depth of experience to a dynamic force. With increased capacity to offer integrated marketing strategy and support, as well as a global network of partners, BC Group expanded its services to fulfill increasing service requirements.

Today, BC Group is a thriving full-service agency staffed by eager and bright professionals who care about client relationships and are committed to exceeding expectations that promote client success. We are proud of our impressive roster of long-standing and new clients and are poised to continue delivering powerful & strategic creative as well as expand with client demand.

Every person at BC Group is a caring professional. We’re recognized for having big ideas and big hearts and a passion for what we do, second to none.

~ MEET OUR TEAM ~

We want our clients to feel that they are receiving the attention they rightfully deserve. So every person at BC Group rolls up his or her sleeves to dig in and work to meet our clients’ needs with creativity and flexibility.

"Hearing from our clients how much this agency has helped them makes all the hard work and late hours well worth it. The team we have now makes it the most exciting time this little chapel has seen to date - and I feel the best is yet to come."
- Tom Bergey

~ CHAPEL HISTORY ~

A Brief History of the Harleysville Chapel
(Thanks to Phil Johnson Ruth of Souderton, PA)

The Harleysville Chapel was built for the newly formed Harleysville Union Sunday School Association in 1888-89, during the hey-day of the inter-related Sunday School and Community Chapel movements in southeastern Pennsylvania. Like the dozens of village chapels erected across Montgomery, Bucks, and Chester Counties during the last three decades of the nineteenth century, the Harleysville Chapel was designed to provide a place for citizens of all ages and religious affiliations (hence the “Union” designation) to gather regularly for Bible study, spiritual admonishment, and worship. Ecumenical sermons were delivered in both English and German by preachers from surrounding churches, as well as those visiting the area.

In the mid-twentieth century, as travel and entertain mentoptions increased for village residents, attendance at many community chapels declined. This was the situation in Harleysville, where the struggling Union Sunday School Association decided to open the Chapel to non-Association-sponsored services. In the winter of 1939-40, a number of area residents interested in Biblical instruction began meeting monthly in the Chapel. Three years later, this group expanded their program to include Bible study every Sunday afternoon. Under the name “Community Gospel Fellowship,” later changed to “Grace Bible Church,” these laymen continued to meet in the Chapel until the summer of 1948, when they moved to a new building in neighboring Souderton. The Harleysville Chapel was used only periodically for interdenominational services over the course of the next three decades. Harleysville residents recall the final public gatherings there in the mid-1970s.

Tom’s Grandfather Gerald L. Stover once preached in this very Chapel over 60 years ago.