Throughout our lives as Christians, the Church ministers to our needs. We are baptized in the church, nurtured by its teachings, and are fulfilled by service in its mission. At the end of our lives, we find comfort in knowing that the church provides interment and/or memorialization on consecrated church property. 

It is in the spirit of closing the circle of ministry from birth to death that Roswell Presbyterian Church has created a Memorial Garden in our cemetery. The Garden provides a well-maintained, consecrated site for the interment of ash remains and the memorialization of church members and their families. 

Application and Acceptance
Any member of Roswell Presbyterian Church may arrange interment of ash remains and a memorial nameplate by completing an application. Members of Roswell Presbyterian Church and their immediate families are eligible for interment. 

Upon payment of a $750 fee per family member, the member will receive an acceptance notification signed by an appropriate church representative. The church office will maintain the original application and acceptance. Such acceptance will be subject to the policies and regulations governing the Memorial Garden, which the Session may change or modify from time to time without notice. 

The purchase fee is non-refundable, but rights may be assigned to a family member or other qualified person by written designation. 

Memorial Plaques 
The name of each person memorialized in the Garden, including date of birth and death, is placed on an individually cast bronze nameplate. Nameplates of all those memorialized are affixed to a bronze plaque located inside the Garden. The cost of the nameplate is included in the purchase fee.  

These nameplates are the only markers used in the Garden. 

Interment
The ash remains will be interred within the Memorial Garden in the biodegradable containers in which the ashes are received.  

Specific plots are not purchased. The Memorial Garden Committee will assign space and design it on a plan of the Garden retained in the Church Office. The Committee will attempt to honor requests for interment in contiguous spaces. It is intended that the interment of remains in the Garden will be available in perpetuity. 

When the more than 700 available spaces have been used, remains will be reverently interred in previously used plots, in order of initial interment. 

Records and Documents
The church will maintain a record of the names of all those memorialized in the Garden. The church will keep a grid showing the locations of occupied or assigned spaces. This documentation is available for viewing upon request.

Administration of the Memorial Garden
The Garden will be administered by a committee appointed by the Building and Property Ministry. The Session will have final approval of any policy governing the Garden.