Schöntal Mennonite Brethren Church, established in the early days of the Slavgorod Mennonite settlement, Siberia, served the following 10 villages: Schöntal, Rosenwald, Nikolaipol, Reinfeld, Alexeyfeld, Protassov, Gnadenfeld, Tiege, Grünfeld, and Berezovka. The first leading minister was Aron Reimer; he was ordained elder in 1920. When he went to Canada in 1925 he was succeeded by Abram Janz and later by Dietrich Görzen. Other ministers were Peter Neufeld, Jacob Wall, Heinrich Franz, David Thielmann, Wilhelm Federau, Cornelius Plett, Andreas Nachtigall, Johann Klassen, Heinrich Dück, Heinrich Funk, and Jakob Bergen. The congregation erected a church building in Schöntal in 1910.

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