Salem Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church) is a rural mission church at Needmore, Hardy County, West Virginia, under the Virginia Mennonite Conference. Either before or soon after the Civil War (1861-65) ministers from Broadway, Virginia, traveled 45 miles to Bean Settlement, 6 miles north of this church, and preached at a schoolhouse, giving pastoral care to a few members living there. Later they also preached at the Mine Spring school-house near by.

In 1927 a church was built here, which was enlarged in 1948 by adding two Sunday-school rooms. This congregation is the result of one of the first efforts of rural evangelism of the Northern District of the Virginia Conference. The membership in 1957 was 113; the pastor was Samuel A. Shank.

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 406. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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