Bethel Mennonite Church (Ashley, Michigan, USA)
Bethel Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church USA), located in Washington Township, Gratiot County, Michigan, at 9785 South Bagley Rd.(U.S. Highway 127), Ashley, Michigan, 10 miles (16 km) north of St. Johns, is a member of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. The congregation was organized on 6 July 1920, with 24 charter members, in a schoolhouse three miles (five km) east of the present location, with George H. Summer serving as first pastor until his death in 1937. Kore Zook was minister after 1937, and D. S. Oyer bishop 1942-1954. In 1922 a new frame church was built. The 1953 membership was 137 (46 in 2004).
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