Delaware Mennonite Church (Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, USA)
The Delaware Mennonite Church (MC USA) of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference is located in the Juniata Valley, a few miles north of Thompsontown. As of the 1950s the congregation met both in the Delaware meetinghouse and in Lost Creek under the bishop oversight of William W. Graybill, and Donald Lauver as assistant bishop. The minister in 2007 was Glenn D. Hosler. The membership in 2007 was 50. The first meetinghouse was built in1871. In 1953 a new one was built beside it. The older building was later used for a Christian day school.
Additional Information
Address (Meetinghouse):
Rt 333
Salem Pennsylvania
Phone:
717-463-3941
Conference affiliations:
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pp. 29-30. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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MLA style: Landis, Ira D. "Delaware Mennonite Church (Thompsontown, Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 01 August 2010. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/delaware_mennonite_church_thompsontown.
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