Fairfield Amish Mennonite Church (Tampico, Illinois, USA)

Fairfield Amish Mennonite Church, an independent congregation, located in Bureau County, near Tampico, Illinois, was organized in Shelby County, Illinois, with 42 members under the leadership of Levi C. Hostetler in 1933, and was moved to Henry County in 1938 and to Bureau County in 1944. In 1953 there were 144 members. In 2007 the membership was 187; the bishop was Norman L. Hostetler. The congregation is informally affiliated with the Amish Mennonite Churches.

Bibliography

Anabaptist (Mennonite) Directory (2007): 37.

Additional Information

Address: Route 172, 3.5 miles south of Tampico, Illinois

Phone: 815-438-2508

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 288. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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MLA style: Hostetler, Herman and Sam Steiner. "Fairfield Amish Mennonite Church (Tampico, Illinois, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. September 2008. Web. 18 May 2013. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/fairfield_amish_mennonite_church_tampico_illinois.

APA style: Hostetler, Herman and Sam Steiner. (September 2008). Fairfield Amish Mennonite Church (Tampico, Illinois, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 May 2013, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/fairfield_amish_mennonite_church_tampico_illinois.

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