Village Chapel Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Mission (Orange Cove, California, USA)
Village Chapel Evangelical Mennonite Brethren
Mission, unorganized in the late 1950s, was opened in Orange Cove, California,
with 16 Sunday-school pupils on 22 July 1945. The city then had a population of
2,500. As the population increased to
5,000, attendance increased to 98. Gerhardt T. Thiessen served two years as pastor.
In 1949 the population of the town began to decline, and the attendance at the
mission with it. In all about 150 professed conversion, but because of constant
migration only five were baptized. Leonard
Wiebe was the pastor in 1955.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 827. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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