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North Central Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)The North Central Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC) was a part of the Missouri-Iowa Conference until the merger in 1920 of all Mennonite (MC) and Amish conferences west of Indiana. It was then organized as the Dakota-Montana Conference in 1921. In 1945, because of its enlarged borders, the name was changed to the North Central Mennonite Conference. This was the smallest of the conferences organized at the time of the merger, and each of the other conferences (four) agreed to send a delegate to the annual conference held the second Thursday in June. In 1946 the Illinois Conference District requested that they be permitted to discontinue sending a delegate because they felt this conference could carry on without their help. The other conferences were still sending delegates in the mid-1950s, and they were greatly appreciated. I. S. Mast served as the only bishop until 1926, when Eli G. Hochstetler was ordained. The district included congregations in eastern Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, having a total membership in 1956 of 766 in 10 congregations and 12 mission outposts, with 4 bishops, 20 ministers and 4 deacons. The district annually sponsored a winter Bible school and a fall mission meeting. After 1945 an annual ministers' conference was held -- FEK. 2006 UpdateThe North Central Mennonite Conference included 13 congregations of the Mennonite Church USA (MC) in the United States and Canada (12 congregations in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Wisconsin, and 1 congregation in Sleeman, Ontario, Canada). Total membership in 2003 was 513. The conference publication was the North Central Conference Bulletin. -- RSa, SJS BibliographyHorsch, James E., ed. Mennonite Yearbook and Directory. Scottdale: Mennonite Publishing House (1988-89): 72, 140. Mennonite Church USA. Directory (2003): 84-85. ©1996-2008 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved. To cite this page:MLA style: Kauffman, Floyd E., Reynold Sawatzky and Sam Steiner. "North Central Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 2006. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 06 September 2008 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/N67716.html> APA style: Kauffman, Floyd E., Reynold Sawatzky and Sam Steiner. (2006). "North Central Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 06 September 2008 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/N67716.html> Document Actions |
