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| − | [[File:Orlowskie%20Pole.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Orlofferfelde (now Orłowskie Pole, Poland)<br /> | + | [[File:Second Mennonite Church Philadelphia.jpg|300px|thumb|''Second Mennonite Church, Philadelphia.<br/>Source: Congregation's [https://www.facebook.com/Second-Mennonite-Church-1881018482185951/ Facebook page]'']] |
| − | Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or%C5%82owskie_Pole Wikipedia Commons]'']] | + | Second Mennonite Church of [[Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)|Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], was established in 1894 when the [[First Mennonite Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)|First Mennonite Church]] of Philadelphia started a mission on Janney Street. In 1897 a private home at 3007 North Sixth Street was rented for worship services. On 4 April 1899, the present church was dedicated at the corner of Franklin Street and Indiana Avenue and on 5 May 1899, the congregation was officially organized with 36 members and with Silas M. Grubb as pastor. Until 1912 the congregation was supported by the First Mennonite Church. In 1915 the congregation had a membership of 190. The congregation was served by S. M. Grubb from 1899 until 1938, from 1938-41 by [[Waltner, Erland (1914-2009)|Erland Waltner]], from 1942-43 by Edwin M. Crawford, from 1943-49 by Walter J. Dick. In 1958 Curtis Lehman was pastor; the membership was 85. |
| − | [[File:Reimerswalde-Orlofferfelde.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|''Detailed map of Reimerswalde and Orlofferfelde.<br />
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| − | Source: [http://amzpbig.com/maps/1780_Tiegenhof_1925.jpg Archiwum Map Zachodniej Polski]''.]]
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| − | Source: Das Land des Deutschen Orden: Ostpreussen-Westpreussen-Memelland [http://www.ordensland.de/Landguter/landguter.html website]'']]
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| − | Orlofferfelde (also known as Ohrlofferfelde, Orloffelde, and Orloffeld; now Orłowskie Pole; coordinates: 54.21528, 19.07139 [54° 12' 55" N, 19° 4' 17" E]; 1905 population, 227) is located approximately 3 kilometres (2 miles) west of Nowy Dwór Gdański (Tiegenhof) and 34 km. (21 mi.) south-east of the regional capital Gdańsk ([[Danzig, Free City of|Danzig]]). It was situated to the south of [[Reimerswalde (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Reimerswalde]], to the west of [[Platenhof (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Platenhof]] and Tiegenhof, to the north of [[Orloff (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Orloff]], and to the east of [[Pietzkendorf (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Pietzkendorf]].
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| − | Orlofferfelde originated in 1562, when the [[Loysen (Loisen, Loytzen)|Loysen banking firm]] had Mennonites settle on the marshy land in the region of [[Tiegenhof (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Tiegenhof]], which the firm had received from the Polish crown in return for a loan, to drain and cultivate it. They settled about 12 miles (20 km) north of [[Marienburg (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Marienburg]] in 20 villages and organized a congregation, holding their services in the homes and barns of the members. Not until two centuries later did they receive the consent of the authorities to build a church in Orlofferfelde, in which Cornelius Grunau, an elder from Ohrlorf, conducted the first service 5 December 1751. The congregation belonged to the [[Frisian Mennonites|Frisian]] branch and was very active. The number of communicant members rose to more than 500. In the last part of the 18th century their elders [[Donner, Heinrich (1735-1805)|Heinrich Donner]] and [[Donner, Johann (1771-1830)|Johann Donner]] were among the leading personalities of the West Prussian Mennonite brotherhood. In the 18th century the Dutch <em>[[Naamlijst der tegenwoordig in dienst zijnde predikanten der Mennoniten in de Vereenigde Nederlanden|Naamlijst]]</em> calls this congregation [[Waterlanders|Waterlander]].
| + | In 1971, in response to the changing neighborhood of Fairhill, the congregation hired its first African American pastor, Carlton Minnis (17 November 1929-26 September 2001), a former Baptist pastor. He was ordained as a Mennonite minister in the Eastern District Conference on 23 April 1972, and served the congregation until 1995. The pastor in 2017 was Darryl Wallace. |
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| − | Until 1772 Orlofferfelde was located in what was known as Royal Prussia (also known as Polish Prussia) in the Kingdom of [[Poland|Poland]]. The First Partition of Poland in 1772 resulted in the creation of a new province in 1773, called [[West Prussia|West Prussia]], in which Orlofferfelde was located. Orlofferfelde was situated in the district (Kreis) of Marienburg until the establishment of the [[Danzig, Free City of|Free City of Danzig]] in 1920. The village came under the control of Nazi Germany during World War II until February 1945, when it was occupied by Soviet forces and returned to Poland. Iin 2012 Orlofferfelde (now Orłowskie Pole was a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Dwór Gdański, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship.
| + | The congregation left the [[Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Eastern District Conference]] and became a charter member of the new [[Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations|Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations]] (AMEC) in 2002. The division was over matters of faith and doctrine at the time the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]] was merging with the [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]] to form Mennonite Church USA. |
| | + | = Bibliography = |
| | + | Bailey, Samaria. "Second Mennonite Church: A soul-saving station where people begin in Christ." ''The Philadelphia Tribune'' 24 June 2017. Web. 14 October 2017. http://www.phillytrib.com/religion/second-mennonite-church-a-soul-saving-station-where-people-begin/article_48c1443f-9f24-56e6-ac4a-f6ef60011a59.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share |
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| − | The following ministers are mentioned in the <em>Naamlijst</em>: Aldert Aldertsz, Klaes Bestevader, Hendrik Quiring, David Mekelborger, elder 1753-1771, David Horn 1753-1775, Gerdt Albrecht 1754-ca. 1760, David Bestevader 1753-ca. 1775, Jan Bestevader 1760-1787, Cornelius Grunou 1760-ca. 1795, [[Donner, Heinrich (1735-1805)|Hendrik (Heinrich) Donner 1766, elder 1772]], Jacob Penner 1766-1773, Hans Horn 1775-after 1802, Jan (Johann) Quiring 1775-after 1802, Peter Dan 1794-?, Cornelis Fröse 1794-?, [[Bergthold, Jakob (1766-1821)|Jacob Bergthold 1799-?]]. Repeatedly the congregation had contacts with the Dutch Mennonites. In 1709 and again in 1788, when its members were severely struck by floods, it received financial support from the Dutch Mennonite Committee of Foreign Needs (<em>Inv. Arch. Amst.</em> I, Nos. 1570, 1657, 1739-45; II, Nos. 2646, 2650; II, 2, Nos. 801, 856 f.). In 1852 the baptized membership numbered 315, in 1882, 256. | + | "Calendar." ''The Mennonite'' 87, no. 22 (30 May 1972): 367. |
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| − | Besides the [[Frisian Mennonites|Frisian]] congregation there was also a [[Flemish Mennonites|Flemish]] congregation with its seat at [[Ladekopp (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Ladekopp]], whose members lived in some of the same villages as the Frisians. When the Prussian law on the corporation rights of the Mennonites of June 1874 was published, which stipulated that the area of the congregation must be geographically defined, David Fröse, the elder of the Frisian group, attempted to co-operate with the Flemish in defining mutually favorable boundaries; after initial failure, these efforts resulted in the union of the two branches in 1882, which Fröse, however, did not live to see. The Orlofferfelde congregation yielded its independence in some respects; the treasury and the economic care of the members were united. But the pastoral care and religious services and preaching remained unaltered in the two branches.
| + | ''Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Mennonite Church of Philadelphia''. Philadelphia, 1915. |
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| − | Fröse's successor as elder of the Orlofferfelde congregation was [[Penner, Jakob (1831-1909)|Jakob Penner]], a preacher of Platenhof, ordained 12 February 1882, who made it his duty to give the young people of the congregation more thorough baptismal instruction, better suited to the needs of the time. To this end he wished to supplement the [[Elbing Catechism|Donner catechism]], which was also used by the [[Flemish Mennonites|Flemish]] congregation, in order, as he wrote, "to impress upon the hearts of the children the necessary explanations and admonitions in answering the questions of the catechism presented to them." The conference in [[Tiegenhagen (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Tiegenhagen]] decided in 1886 to publish a unified catechism for the "United West Prussian Mennonite congregations," and Penner was one of the leading authors of this booklet. But the union did not come to pass. In 1906 the Ladekopp-Orlofferfelde group published a second edition of Heinrich Donner's <em>Unterricht von der heiligen Wassertaufe</em> of 1792 under the same title, with the additional phrase, "sowie über das Verhalten der Täuflinge vor, bei und nach der Taufe."
| + | ''50th Anniversary, Second Mennonite Church of Philadelphia, Pa''. 1949. |
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| − | The 1776 Prussian census lists 15 Mennonite families in Orlofferfelde, all members of the Orlofferfelde Frisian Mennonite Church, with the following surnames: Dircksen, Froese, Gerbrand, Grunau, Harms, Hein, Jantzen, Jopp, Nickel, Quiring, Schroeder, and Unger. In 1820 the village of Orlofferfelde had 169 inhabitants, of which 89 were Mennonites. | + | "Ministers." ''The Mennonite'' 86, no. 3 (19 January 1971): 43. |
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| − | The baptized membership of the Ladekopp-Orlofferfelde-Pordenau congregation (its official name at that time) numbered 756 in 1882, 707 in 1888; there were 1,141 souls in 1927, 1,021 (739 baptized members and 282 children) in 1940. The congregation possessed three meetinghouses, one in [[Ladekopp (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Ladekopp]] (built in 1768), one in Orlofferfelde (1751), and one in Pordenau (1800), and two old people's homes. In this congregation the Orlofferfelde branch had a degree of independence, with its own elder ([[Enss, Bruno (1899-1967)|Bruno Enss]] of Tiege, preacher 1933, elder 1935) and preachers.
| + | "Minnis, Carlton." ''TheMennonite'' (23 October 2001): 16. |
| | + | = Additional Information = |
| | + | '''Address''': 2962 North Franklin Street, Philadelphia, PA 19133 |
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| − | For the last ministers and the extinction of the congregation, see [[Ladekopp (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Ladekopp]].
| + | '''Phone''': 215-223-3577 |
| − | = Bibliography =
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| − | "Familienforschung in Westpreußen." Hans-Jürgen Wolf. Web. 29 September 2012. http://www.westpreussen.de/cms/ct/ortsverzeichnis/details.php?ID=4889.
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| − | Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Mennonitisches Lexikon, </em><span class="gameo_bibliography">4 vols.</span><span class="gameo_bibliography">Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 310. </span>
| + | '''Denominational Affiliation''': [http://www.amecalliance.org/ Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Churches] |
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| − | <span class="gameo_bibliography">Penner, Horst. <em>Die ost- und westpreussischen Mennoniten in ihrem religiösen und sozialen Leben in ihren kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Leistungen</em>, 2 vols. Weierhof, Germany: Mennonitischer Geschichtsverein, 1978-1987: 253.</span>
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Second Mennonite Church, Philadelphia.
Source: Congregation's Facebook page Second Mennonite Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was established in 1894 when the First Mennonite Church of Philadelphia started a mission on Janney Street. In 1897 a private home at 3007 North Sixth Street was rented for worship services. On 4 April 1899, the present church was dedicated at the corner of Franklin Street and Indiana Avenue and on 5 May 1899, the congregation was officially organized with 36 members and with Silas M. Grubb as pastor. Until 1912 the congregation was supported by the First Mennonite Church. In 1915 the congregation had a membership of 190. The congregation was served by S. M. Grubb from 1899 until 1938, from 1938-41 by Erland Waltner, from 1942-43 by Edwin M. Crawford, from 1943-49 by Walter J. Dick. In 1958 Curtis Lehman was pastor; the membership was 85.
In 1971, in response to the changing neighborhood of Fairhill, the congregation hired its first African American pastor, Carlton Minnis (17 November 1929-26 September 2001), a former Baptist pastor. He was ordained as a Mennonite minister in the Eastern District Conference on 23 April 1972, and served the congregation until 1995. The pastor in 2017 was Darryl Wallace.
The congregation left the Eastern District Conference and became a charter member of the new Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations (AMEC) in 2002. The division was over matters of faith and doctrine at the time the General Conference Mennonite Church was merging with the Mennonite Church to form Mennonite Church USA.
Bibliography
Bailey, Samaria. "Second Mennonite Church: A soul-saving station where people begin in Christ." The Philadelphia Tribune 24 June 2017. Web. 14 October 2017. http://www.phillytrib.com/religion/second-mennonite-church-a-soul-saving-station-where-people-begin/article_48c1443f-9f24-56e6-ac4a-f6ef60011a59.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share
"Calendar." The Mennonite 87, no. 22 (30 May 1972): 367.
Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Mennonite Church of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1915.
50th Anniversary, Second Mennonite Church of Philadelphia, Pa. 1949.
"Ministers." The Mennonite 86, no. 3 (19 January 1971): 43.
"Minnis, Carlton." TheMennonite (23 October 2001): 16.
Additional Information
Address: 2962 North Franklin Street, Philadelphia, PA 19133
Phone: 215-223-3577
Denominational Affiliation: Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Churches
Maps
Map:Second Mennonite Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Krahn, Cornelius and Sam Steiner. "Second Mennonite Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. October 2017. Web. 26 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Second_Mennonite_Church_(Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=154883.
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Krahn, Cornelius and Sam Steiner. (October 2017). Second Mennonite Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 26 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Second_Mennonite_Church_(Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=154883.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 490. All rights reserved.
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