New Providence Mennonite Church (New Providence, Pennsylvania, USA)
The New Providence Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church USA) is located at 121 Main St., New Providence in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By 1766 it had a log meetinghouse for the Groff, Eshleman, Herr, Funk, Brubaker, and Gochenauer families who had settled there. Johannes Bowman served them early as preacher. The Strasburg ministers helped them at first. In 1882 they built the Mechanic Grove meetinghouse for their southern constituency. Jacob T. Harnish as bishop, Abram D. Metzler and A. Clyde Hostetter as ministers served this congregation of 137 members in 1956. In 2006 there were 67 members.
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