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The only national, nonsectarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to the sound

stewardship and active community use of America's older religious properties
----------- Email newsletter, July 25, 2016 ------------

Spotlight on Our Program Manager

Alison Hernandez, Program Manager of PSPs
Texas Office, has a passion for historical
preservation. She pursued it to the completion
of her Masters Degree from the University of
Georgia: A Study of German-Texan Cultural
Identity through Sacred Architecture.

6040 Camp Bowie

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Suite 62
Fort Worth, Texas
76116
817-965-5072
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My Grandmothers family was part of the 1830s

wave of German immigration to Texas, says
Alison. I was drawn to researching the rural
churches of these immigrants once I learned I
had ties to them. I argued in my thesis that
these sacred sites stand in many cases as the last
physical vestiges of this particular cultural
identity. They are places of homecoming for
those that identify as German-Texan.
Alison originally started as an Intern with PSP,
helping with the Texas Sacred Places Project,
documenting historic sites. In 2013 she was
hired as Program Manager, and now helps
coordinate programs, R&D, and grant writing
for the Texas Region.
A native of the Dallas-Fort Worth Area, Alison
graduated from the University of Texas at

Suzanne C. Yowell
Director

Alison Hernandez
Program Manager

Krin Van Tatenhove

Communications
Director

Upcoming Dates
August 16-Partners staff
will travel to Stanton, Texas
and tour the Historic
Carmelite Monastery. Our
hosts for the day will be the
Martin County Convent
Board, a nonprofit group of
citizens actively working to
preserve and restore
this incredible piece of
Texas history.

Arlington with a B.S. in Architecture. While at

UTA, she collaborated with BC (Building
Communities) Workshop Dallas on the Congo
Street Green Initiative in the East Dallas
neighborhood of Jubilee Park, a project that
received the AIA/HUD Secretarys Award for
Excellence in Community-Informed Design.
While studying in Georgia, Alison contributed to
the Stratford Hall Cultural Landscape
Laboratory, a collaborative venture of the Robert
E. Lee Memorial Association and the University
of Georgia, College of Environmental Design,
whose work is to develop and implement the
future management and interpretation of
Stratford Halls highly significant cultural
landscape.
Alison is busy on many fronts. She is preparing
grant proposals to bolster our Texas Sacred
Places Project website as well as our Rural
Program Development. She is researching the
history of Divine Redeemer Presbyterian Church
in San Antonio to help prepare them for a
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark nomination
in the fall. And she recently began coordinating
an asset mapping workshop for Fain
Presbyterian Church in Wichita Falls.
Im excited about PSPs future, she says, We
are on the cusp of expansion within the Texas
Region, and I look forward to bringing Partners
mission to new areas throughout the state as we
foster new relationships.

August 20-PSP will

conduct an Asset Mapping
workshop with the
congregation of Fain
Presbyterian Church in
Wichita Falls.

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