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 and consecrated site for the interment of ash remains and memorialization of church members and their families.

Application and Acceptance
Any member of Roswell Presbyterian Church may make arrangements for interment of ash remains and a memorial nameplate by filling out 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 original application and acceptance will be maintained in the church office. Such acceptance will be subject to the policies and regulations governing the Memorial Garden which from time to time may be changed of modified without notice by the Session.

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

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. Space will be assigned by the Memorial Garden Committee and designed 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 documenting the names of all those who are 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. Final approval of any policy to govern the Garden will rest with the Session.