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1982. Hostetler, John A. Hutterite Life, 3rd ed. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1983. Hostetler, John A. Hutterite Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University

and meet just east of the city of Prince Albert, then continue as one to Lake Winnipeg. Saskatchewan is Canada's 7th largest province, with an area of

border some 20 miles straight south of Mountain Lake. This congregation had 77 members in 1954. The next congregation of this branch was Lake Region at Detroit

Ossian, 1949; Howard County: Kokomo, 1947; La Porte County: Hudson Lake, 1950; Fish Lake, ca. 1950; Noble County: Kendallville, 1953; Morgan County: Mahalasville

Commitment (Nonresistance) first by an all-Mennonite study conference at Winona Lake (1950), Race Relations (1955), and Christian Separation and Nonconformity

farm of 77 acres adjoining the campus. In 1954 a further donation of 20 acres of a lake-woods area in Southern Michigan increased the college holdings to

Ohio, bounded on the north by Lake Erie, on the south by the Ohio River, on the east by Pennsylvania, and on the west by Indiana, was the first state carved

result of a spiritual awakening through the instrumentality of John Holdeman in 1859. John Holdeman was born 31 January 1832 near New Pittsburg, Wayne County

Brethren (MB) churches and was later not recognized as an MB conference. On 18-20 October 1879, 22 delegates from Mennonite Brethren churches in Kansas, Nebraska

Church at Mountain Lake, led by Elder Aaron Wall, were the first churches organ­ized. Wall's following was about one third of the Mountain Lake Mennonite community;

Lancaster and York counties were settling farther south on the north shores of Lake Erie in what is now Welland County. This colony, also known as the "Black

situated at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, 40 miles south of Lake Win­nipeg, and 60 miles north of the United States border, almost midway

Zehr of the host congregation; Bishop Joshua King, Hartville, Ohio; Bishop John L. Mast. and Jonas D. Yoder of the Locust Grove congregation, near Belleville

ministers and members in the Emmental; (b) all of the Anabaptists in the Lake Thun settlement. Very early (1696?) some of these immigrated to the Markirch

for 45 per cent of gross production, agriculture 20 per cent. Newfoundland was discovered in 1497 by John Cabot, who was sponsored by a group of Bristol

ethnic groups reported in British Columbia were: English, 29.63%; Scottish, 20.32%; Irish, 15.17%; German, 13.78%; Chinese, 10.6%; French, 8.86%; Indian

Columbia Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches had 106 congregations, 20,106 members, and an average weekly attendance of 29,087, and in 2010 the conference

centered in the rural community at Bingham Lake, but ultimately developed into the two congregations, Mountain Lake and Carson. A Mennonite Brethren congregation

at Winona Lake, Indiana, 9-12 November 1950." A further and more elaborate and theological statement, incorporating much of the Winona Lake statement but

Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, originating at Henderson, Nebraska, and Mountain Lake, Minnesota, won followers at Steinbach among the Kleine Gemeinde and others

voted 97 to 20 in favor of women attending and voting at congregational meetings. In 1958 the church purchased property to establish the Ootsa Lake Bible Camp

administer and finance the Eden Bible and Eden High School at Niagara-on-the-Lake. This school was divided in 1955 and the Bible school moved to Kitchener

War, 1881) at the foot of Vedder Mountain. To the immediate west was Sumas Lake. Because of the annual flooding of the Vedder River, Eckert’s land was used

Elder Benjamin Janz, Heinrich A. Neufeld, John F. Harms, Jacob Lepp, David K. Klassen, Johann Warkentin, John P. Wiebe, Heinrich S. Voth, and S. L. Hodel

Columbia." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. April 2024. Web. 20 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mennonite_Church_British_Columbia&oldid=178698

Collins, Lakewood, Glenwood Springs, Greeley, Westminster, La Jara, Palmer Lake, Aurora, Pueblo, Rocky Ford, Walsenburg, and Julesburg. The study also noted

the Kiwanis Camp at Paradise Lake, but by 1970 this retreat shifted to Silver Lake Mennonite Camp near Sauble Beach on Lake Huron where it was an important

Centre in 2013. The school operated in the original building in Niagara-on-the-Lake until the end of June 1995. Eden High School then moved to St. Catharines

Schools being established at Nicomen Island and Deroche. The latter became Lake Errock MB Church in 1960 (now North Fraser Community Church). In 1962 Rev

province of British Columbia (BC), is located near the shores of Cultus Lake, about 20 kilometers southwest of Chilliwack, BC. The Mennonite Brethren (MB)

Columbia, (Carrot River, La Crete, Fort Vermilion, Worsley, Ft. St. John, Burns Lake, Dawson Creek, etc.) When the secular world, and particularly the public

voluntary service projects beginning with Ike and Lillie Glick at Calling Lake, Alberta. Many families moved to Alberta from the United States, including

1927 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. Anna was the daughter of John Jungas (1870-1946) and Helena P. (Pankratz) Jungas (1874-1960). John and Anna had nine

(Mennonite History Bulletin, July 1954). In 1898 Mennonites settled near Lake Charles, about 200 miles due west of New Orleans, and founded a church (Mennonite

their family to North America and settled on a farm north of Mountain Lake, Minnesota. In 1876 he was elected as elder of the Bergfelder Church. Stressing

south; the Atlantic Ocean to the west; and is separated from Tanzania by Lake Tanganyika in the east. The Congo Free State was formed in 1885 as the personal

Born 20 March 1900 at Bingham Lake, Minnesota to Mr. and Mrs. A. J Wiebe, John A Wiebe was a missionary in India for 36 years. A graduate of Tabor College

5 km) east of Shipshewana, Lagrange County, Indiana, on State Road 20 near Shore Lake. In the early 1860s church services were held in a barn or homes of

Woodcrest in Rifton, New York, about 90 miles (80 km) north of New York City. Oak Lake (later called New Meadow Run) was established in 1957 in Farmington, Pennsylvania

Buhler, Inman, and Hillsboro in Kansas, Henderson in Nebraska, and Mountain Lake in Minnesota. However, by far not all the young people were able to converse

Canada by horseback and purchased 2,500 acres of land along the north shore of Lake Erie, near the village of Selkirk. In 1793 the families traveled by Conestoga

included David Toews (chairperson from 1914-1940, with the exception of 1936), John G. Rempel (secretary from 1930-1947), and J. J. Thiessen (vice-chairperson

known as Fry's Corners, was located on the Rainham Road, a mile north of Lake Erie and 8 miles west of the Rainham Mennonite neighborhood. Services began

Renata was a small town on a stump peninsula on the Arrow Lakes, about 20 miles (35 km) northwest of Castlegar, British Columbia. The town was established

35, Concession 1 of Bertie Township, Welland County, Ontario, lay north of Lake Erie some 12 miles west of Buffalo. The deed was given in 1828 to the "Mennonite

1962), Deer Lake (1955-    ), Sandy Lake (1956-    ), North Spirit Lake (1957-    ), Slate Falls (1957-    ), Grassy Narrows, MacDowell Lake (1960-    )

1 January 1929. On 30 December 1931, he married Sarah B. Gsell Leidig at Lake Charles, Louisiana, where they lived until her death in 1932. From 1932 until

Mennonites, being elected vice-president of the HFRC, and H. H. Regier of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, a member of its executive committee. The announcements of the

Lucky Lake." In History of Lucky Lake, 1919-1980, edited by Fanny Jordbro. Lucky Lake, SK: Fanny Jordbro, 1980. Mailing Address: Box 267, Lucky Lake, SK

development of two summer camps: Glenbrook Day Camp near Stouffville, and Fraser Lake Camp near Bancroft, to which city children are taken by bus. The St. Clair

Fleetwood Community Church in Surrey, Northside Community Church in Mission, and Lake Errock MB Church. Paul’s last interim church assignment was at the Scott

early to mid 1930s, Mennonite descendants began moving to the Niagara-on-the-Lake area where they initially worshiped together at the Wilhelm Andres farm on

these burial aid organizations was the Mennonite Aid Society of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, founded in 1897, followed by the Menno-Friendly Beneficial Association

Niagara-on-the-Lake: Niagara United Mennonite Church, 1988, 196 pp. Niagara United Mennonite Church history: Eben-Ezer 25 Jahre, 1938-1963. Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON:

Millard Lind, John H. Yoder, Perry Yoder; politics of Jesus: Ronald Sider, John H. Yoder; atonement: J. R. Burkholder and John Bender (ch. 4), John Driver, C

beginning in 1946. The first Mennonite Church (MC) camp in Canada was Chesley Lake, near Allenford, Ontario in 1947. This camp, however, was not formally owned

Mennonite Life 4 (April 1949): 18-20. Redekop, Calvin. "The Cultural Assimilation of the Mennonites of Mountain Lake." MA thesis, U. of Minnesota, 1954

block of newly surveyed unbroken territory in what was known as the Quill Lake Mennonite Reserve. Homesteads of 160 acres could be acquired for an entry

Home (later Fairview Mennonite Home), Rockway Mennonite School, and Chesley Lake Camp. In the 1940s Good served on a committee that created the Mennonite

ecumenical city-wide evangelistic missions in the years since. From Salt Lake City to Schenectady, these missions with Myron Augsburger and his team have

Ohio (extinct 1984); Noble County, Indiana (one member was living at Winona Lake in 1987); and in the Waterloo and Markham areas in Ontario (extinct 1961)

helped to develop camping programs for city youth and children at Fraser Lake Camp near Bancroft in 1955 and the Glenbrook Day Camp in Stouffville in 1968

implications of the gospel. An important study conference held at Winona Lake, IN, in 1950 attempted to set forth a Mennonite position distinct from both

December 1833 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. Heinrich immigrated to America from Russia in July 1876 and settled in Mountain Lake, Minnesota. He attended the

missionary, construction site supervisor; born 20 August 1952 in Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada to John Loewen (30 September 1927 - 4 October 2007,

Flight from Moscow to Canada, the Land of Freedom). Abbotsford, BC: Judson Lake House Publishers, 2010. Search Mennonite Central Committee page for Immigration

Church started Ootsa Lake Bible Camp south of Burns Lake as a youth service project. Soon, responsibilities were shared with the Burns Lake group. BC Mennonite

began to work out of these two centers. John A. and Viola Bergthold Wiebe (served 1927-1959) came from Mountain Lake, Minnesota. Wiebe worked from Mahabubnager

of nursing from its beginning in 1920. The Mennonite Hospital at Mountain Lake, MN, also had a training program for a time. In Russia a three-year training

a pastor, was a perfect solution. The couple first lived in a cottage by Lake Erie, commuting to Wanner, and in the fall moved to nearby Blair. Elizabeth

Map:Windy Bay Hutterite Colony, Swan Lake, Manitoba MLA style Friesen, Bert. "Windy Bay Hutterite Colony (Swan Lake, Manitoba, Canada)." Global Anabaptist

The Messenger 19, no. 20 (9 October 1981): 2-4. Mailing Address: Box 145, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 Location: 810 Highway 35, Burns Lake, British Columbia; located

at Vermillion, Alberta, and Sturgis, Saskatchewan, and started the Crystal Lake Bible Camp in the 1940s. Edwin Wright met Rev. Ben D. Reimer, director of

Pastors included Abe Wiebe at Freeman, South Dakota, Willard Wiebe at Mountain Lake, Minnesota, and Ed Wiebe at Ringwood, Oklahoma. Pastors of the Mennonite

Bible studies were held at the Martens Hall. Speakers came from Burns Lake, including John Knelsen and Arden Thiessen. The attendance at meetings peaked at

located in the northeast portion of Michigan's lower peninsula, not far from Lake Huron. Formerly a logging area, the Old Order Amish and Amish Mennonites

estimated 20,000 believers in that county alone. Adapted from an address by Jonathan Bartel at the memorial service for Loyal Bartel, Mountain Lake, 22 August

Bertha Fast Harder was born 26 July 1914 in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, USA, to Herman B. Fast (19 May 1887-19 December 1938) and Anna Warkentin Fast (19

readily accessible after the building of the Bagnell Dam that created the Lake of the Ozarks in 1930. Although the congregation continued for another 35

Bergen: teacher, pastor, and administrator; born 24 September 1938 in Rabbit Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was the second of five children of Isaac D. Bergen

congregation became the English Lake Mennonite Church. In the 1970s, the charismatic movement profoundly impacted the English Lake congregation. Harold Gingerich

Johni Cerny, editors. The Source: a Guidebook of American Genealogy. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Company, 1984. Some of the European and North American

Golden Prairie about 40 km. to the south west and others at Big Stick Lake about 20 km. east of Golden Prairie. In 1914 Ältester Benjamin Janz of Main Centre

the war. His short story Die Nacht am Jakotiner See (A Night at the Jakotin Lake, 1960) deals with the Nazi past and issues related to the post-1945 period

"Mennonite minister shares culture, history during library lecture." Finger Lakes Times 3 April 2009. Web. 22 February 2021. https://www.fltimes.com/news/

of which were Bethel College and Freeman College, and one was the Mountain Lake Mennonite Home. Shelly reported only two broadcasts by Mennonite Brethren

Motors Plant in St. Catharines, Ontario, the family moved to Niagara-on-the-Lake. Later after he got a job in Toronto in 1961 they moved to Waterloo and Valentin

Grantsville. When the state announced plans to dam Glade Run to create Highpoint Lake, Schrock unsuccessfully petitioned to preserve the habitat for rare plants

P. Schultz, The Settlement of German Mennonites from Russia at Mountain Lake, Minnesota (1938, pp. 123); Eva Sprunger, The First Hundred Years, A History

a basement church for Fish Lake. It was completed in 1951 but not dedicated until 20 July 1952. In December 1955, Fish Lake organized as a congregation

his parents to North America and settled on a farm northwest of Mountain Lake, Minnesota. In his 19th year he was converted and was baptized by Elder Aron

Brethren Church – Rush Lake, SK." Web. 8 July 2019. https://cmbs.mennonitebrethren.ca/inst_records/ebenezar-mb-church-rush-lake-sk/. "Ebenezar Mennonite

In 1997 Pastor Tong of Mountain Lake, Minnesota came to Winnipeg and met with a group of Laotian Christians and representatives from the Conference of

Library. Robert W. Regier (b. 1930) painter-printmaker, was born at Mountain Lake, MN. He graduated from Bethel College, Kansas (BA, 1952), studied at the

baptized in Ottenstein, Germany. In 1948 the family immigrated to Grassy Lake, Alberta. From there they moved to Coaldale. Here Albert attended the Coaldale

(1965-2002) Map:Cariboo Bethel Church, William Lake, BC MLA style Klager, Andrew. "Cariboo Bethel Church (Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada)." Global Anabaptist

unofficial representatives from two or more groups. Among these have been Mountain Lake (Minnesota, USA) Bible School (1886); Mennonite Collegiate Institute at Gretna

died 26 March 1968 in St. Catharines, Ontario, and is buried in the Niagara Lake Shore Cemetery. Peter’s father, Jacob Wall had become a very wealthy estate

seminal contribution was as Warden of both Ferndale Institution and Elbow Lake Institution. In this position he worked with Aboriginal offenders and introduced

dreams-- our memories: a history of Duck Lake and district. Duck Lake, Sask.: Duck Lake History Committee, Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, 1988. 2 volumes. Photocopied

following: 1946 Huffman, John A and Ward M Shantz. Mastering the English Bible. Winona Lake, IN: The Standard Press. 1962 Shantz, Ward M. “John Wesley’s Teaching

Saskatchewan was organized on 6 February 1906, under the leadership of John Gerbrandt with 20 charter members who had immigrated to Canada the year previously

a Luo people's village in an area called Kiseru, in Mara Region between Lake Victoria and the Serengeti Plain. Following Luo custom, he was a goatherd

sit­uated between the upper Rhine and the Arlberg Pass, with Bregenz on Lake Constance as capital. The population is Alamannic, hence akin to the Swiss

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, at the point where the Montreal River empties into Lake Superior. The place had formerly been a lumber camp. The first campers arrived

included the Kroeker Book Store, later the Eitzen Book and Gift Shop, Mountain Lake, Minnesota; and the Suderman bookstore in Reedley, California. D. W. Friesen

in three new church planting efforts. Its camp association sponsors Spruce Lake Camp at Canadensis, PA. The conference also participated in Indian Creek

first conference for administrators of Mennonite colleges was held at Winona Lake, 7-8 August 1942, Messiah College was represented and participated in the

as members of the state legislature." John R. Rempel served as justice of the Peace for 25 years in Mountain Lake (d. 1933). "In recent years, particularly

with John Esau as the founding pastor. A church in Ocean Falls functioned for a few years. In the later 1960s churches were planted in Williams Lake, Fort

Russia, was republished twice in America, in a revised edition at Mountain Lake, Minn., in 1924 (?) by A. Kroeker, and in 1939 (?) at Winnipeg. Both in Russia

Alexander), likewise the German language Beatenbeg School of Mrs. Wasserkrug on Lake Thun. Germany has had fewer training schools of the Bible institute type

Current, followed by additional series in Dolton, South Dakota, and Mountain Lake, Minnesota. In the summer of 1957 tent meetings were held in southern Manitoba

However, the Beachy movement took shape independent of any single personality. John Stoltzfus of Weavertown Amish Mennonite in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

mission work in various parts of Tanganyika, initially in an area East of Lake Victoria (1934-1940), later in other parts of the territory (1940-1950).