New Mexico (State)
New Mexico, admitted to the union in 1912 as the 47th state, population 681,187 (in 1959) 1,819,046 (in 2000). In the mid-1950s there was in the state one Mennonite (Mennonite Church) congregation, located at Albuquerque, founded in 1950, having 13 members in 1956; it was a member of the South Pacific Conference. -- HSB
1987 Update
Mennonites and Brethren in Christ began to move into the state after World War II. Brethren in Christ missionaries to the Navajo people entered New Mexico on 1 September 1945. A Brethren in Christ work began in Albuquerque in 1950. Mennonite families in Albuquerque started a home Sunday School in 1948; a pastor (MC) was assigned in 1950. Mennonite Voluntary Service units in Grants, Albuquerque, and Carlsbad supported developing congregations in the latter two places. Voluntary service workers shared in the Navajo Mission programs in Bloomfield from 1950 through the 1970s. A Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Holdeman Mennonite) Christian service program in Albuquerque led to a congregation in the 1980s. A Conservative Mennonite Conference church planting ministry was started there in the 1980s. A non-conference Mennonite ministry began in Farmington in the 1970s. -- JWH
Bibliography
Horsch, James E., ed. Mennonite Yearbook and Directory. Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House (1988-89): 30.
Hertzler, Daniel. From Germantown to Steinbach. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1981: 91-101.
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