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on a matter of polity. Without conference connection for a number of years, union with the Eastern District Conference in 1946 was followed by union with

Oberholtzer division of that year the congregation joined the new movement, later joining the Eastern District Conference (GCM). As the number of members increased

1892, with financial aid from the Eastern District Conference, a church was built 36 x 46 ft. In 1893 the congregation was organized with 19 charter members

Flatland Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite) of the Eastern District Conference is located in Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Mennonite Conference, but in 1847 became a member of the Eastern District of the General Conference Mennonite Church. In 2002 the Eastern District affiliated

The Eden Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite), a member of the Eastern District Conference, was located at 609 Main Street, Schwenksville, Montgomery

Franconia Conference to which the congregation then belonged, and the portion of the Skippack congregation which seceded from the conference to join the

member of the Eastern District of the General Conference Mennonite Church. At the time of the 1847 division in the Franconia Mennonite Conference, a group at

1888 the Franconia Conference group numbered twenty; in 1936, eleven. The membership of the Eastern District Conference congregation at Springfield (GCM)

left the Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference in April 1912 and joined the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite) in May 1912. Elsie M

Mennonite Evangelical Congregations), formerly a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church and its Eastern District Conference, is located on the

In the subsequent 1847 conference division, Bertolets sided with the new Eastern Conference, and later the General Conference. The meetinghouse is located

his death in 1917. The highest membership was 49 in 1926. In 1935 the Eastern District Mission Committee, which had supported the work, closed the church

as pastor. The congregation remained independent until 1941, when it joined the Eastern District Conference and the General Conference Mennonite Church

Mennonites formed in 1858. It is presumed that the congregation followed him both times in changing conference connection. MLA style Bender, Harold S and Melvin

since 1893 as Hereford Mennonite Church, a member of the Eastern District Conference. In 1955 the membership was 282, and the pastor was Henry G. Grimm

General Conference Mennonites, Mennonite Church, Eastern District Conference, Franconia Conference and the local Germantown Mennonite Congregation. In the

in background and encouraged the congregation to withdraw from the Eastern District Conference and the General Conference Mennonite Church. In the spring

Mennonite Conference, Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada, New York Mennonite Conference, North Central Conference, Northwest Mennonite Conference, Ohio

joined the Conference. In 1953 the Central Conference Mennonites came in as a district conference, merging with the Middle District Conference in 1956. At

Church of North America. Today these congregations form the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference. In 1957 its membership in Pennsylvania

organized their own conference in the United States in 1879, with Canadian congregations included in a "Northern District" of the conference. The Mennonite

the 8 congregations and their 4 mission stations in 1958 was over 1900. These congregations were members of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC)

membership of 1,687 in six congregations, and the United Mennonite Church (Canadian District of General Conference) with ten congregations and 2,841 members (1957)

following congregations were members of the Eastern District Conference: On 2 November 2019, the Franconia Mennonite and Eastern District conferences held reconciliation

Central Conference of Mennonites." In 1946 this group joined the General Conference Mennonite Church and in 1957 merged with the Middle District.   The

Wisner (14); General Conference Central District Conference—Pleasant View at Aurora (180); General Conference Western District Conference—Beatrice at Beatrice

Franconia Mennonite Conference, with 10 organized congregations, and one third to the Eastern District Conference, with 7 congregations. It was at the Swamp

formation of strong General Conference and Mennonite Brethren congregations. Thus the Kitchener-Waterloo community by 1955 represented a variegated pattern

was one of five conferences of Mennonite Church USA in Southeast Pennsylvania along with Franconia Conference, Eastern District Conference, Atlantic Coast

records show that district meetings were held following the semiannual state conference, at which meetings the resolutions of conference were presented to

from Eastern Pennsylvania in 1915. The Alberta District Conference (Mennonite Church) was organized in 1904 and the Alberta-Saskatchewan Conference in 1907

element organized three district conferences after 1882: Eastern Amish Mennonite, Indiana-Michigan Amish Mennonite, and Western District Amish Mennonite, all

into a conference in 1948. The same year this conference was admitted into the General MB Conference of North America as a district conference. In 1945

Kansas Conference came the Western District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church. Of the 66 congregations of the Western District in 1955

753 people in 641 congregations in 18 area conferences: Allegheny, Atlantic Coast, Central District, Central Plains, Eastern District, Franconia, Gulf States

1969. In 1988 NYC congregations belonged to district conferences other than the NYSF (Atlantic Coast Conference, 5; Lancaster Conference, 8; Brethren in

formation of the Inter-Mennonite Conference (Ontario) in 1973. Merger of these conferences into the Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada was approved in 1987

Skippack congregation the practice gradually spread, mostly since 1900, to the other congregations of the conference. The name "Franconia Conference" derived

established congregations. Some of these new groups have been received into the Indiana-Michigan Conference (MC) and the General Conference (GCM) as congregations

Mennonite Conference had been formed, with fraternal ties to the parent conference. The Nicaragua conference in 1986 had 723 members in 30 congregations with

Mennonite (MC) district conference limited exclusively to one state, including all Mennonite (MC) congregations within and no congregations outside the state

Frankfurt, these last 24 congregations having a total of 2,100 members. Of the congregations in North Germany 9 were refugee congregations of former Danzig-West

Mennonite Conference was established as a district conference of the Mennonite Church in 1961. Comprising almost 1,000 members, 11 of the 14 congregations of

Reports. Northern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite Church). "Missions, Home and Foreign, of the General Conference Mennonite Church."

Christ Church was formed, the three district conferences had the following statistics: Ontario, 43 appointments (congregations and mission points) with 909 members;

came early into the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church, the oldest component of the conference. Following are the dates

organize the three Mennonite congregations in the High River, Carstairs, and Mayton areas into the Alberta District Mennonite Conference. A. S. Bauman from the

Mennonite Conference, Southeastern Conference initially consisted of 12 congregations, 559 members, and 37 ordained men. The conference published a bimonthly

The Michigan Conference was organized in 1920 and included twenty congregations with 1,110 members in 1955. The chain of eighteen congregations across southern

recommendations to the annual conference. Its presiding officer was the District Superintendent. The membership of the Annual Conference was made up of  "all ordained

The Western District Amish Mennonite (AM) Conference was the counterpart of the Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference and included Illinois, Iowa, Mis­souri

Ohio Mennonite Conference (1843; some accounts trace the origins of the conference to 1834) and the Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference (1893). These two

element in the congregation repeatedly voted against conference affiliation. The district mission board of the Virginia Mennonite Conference sponsored the

In 1987 there were 21 congregations in Florida affiliated with the Southeast Mennonite Conference (MC). Three other congregations are affiliated with the

became King of Bavaria. Whereas there were Anabaptists in the district of Bergzabern in the eastern part of the duchy, in the immediate area of the city of Zweibrücken

Mennonite Conference (EMC) congregations, one Chortitzer Mennonite Conference congregation, three Old Colony Mennonite congregations, and four Eastern Pennsylvania

members in 23 congregations. The first Mennonite settlers came from eastern Ohio in 1845, locating west of Goshen in the Yellow Creek district. The first

Mennonite Board of Finance. In 1914 the conference, to build up isolated and declining congregations in the conference district, appointed a committee of five to

Mennonite Brethren Conference was made a district of the conference. It retained self-government with the North American part of the conference acting in an

I and World War II joined. Most of the congregations of this conference were members of the General Conference Mennonite Church, but the large Bergthal

being members of the three congregations (Allentown, Saucon, Upper Milford) of the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite Church), and of

years groups of members from First Mennonite church left to form other congregations in the city. These include Bethany Missionary Church in 1875, Stirling

Mennonite Conference (1, 25); Virginia Mennonite Conference (1, 10); Washington-Franklin Mennonite Conference (1, 13). One other congregation was sponsored

Mennonite Church. Eastern District and Franconia reconciled on 1 February 2020 and operated as Eastern District and Franconia Conference until taking the

published in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, by the Eastern District Conference, although the General Conference adopted it as its official English language paper

Affiliations: Amish General Conference Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC) Central District Conference (GCMC) Ohio Mennonite

3-4 November 2017, the following five congregations joined the Central District Conference of the US Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches: Coalridge

seventies. In 1893 the congregation entertained the session of the General Conference Mennonite Church, at which time it joined that conference. Members were moving

autonomous "church districts" (congregations) having 15-30 families or an average of about 75 baptized members per district. When a district becomes too large

the Memel district. Meanwhile, growth in membership finally compelled the Grosswerder congregation to subdivide into four new congregations. In 1735 Tiegenhagen

the A.M. Conference was referred to as the "spring conference" and the Mennonite as the "fall conference." Before the merger the two conferences cooperated

Anna Jantz led the congregations in Linz, and Lawrence and Selma Warkentin gave leadership in Wels. The Vienna and Steyr congregations were led by Helmut

Mennonite Conference, and those in Oregon assigned to the Pacific Coast Conference. In 1920 (last session of the Kansas-Nebraska Conference, 2-4 August

Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1990. Pacific Coast Conference (MC), Annual Report, (1986): 9. Pacific District Conference (GCM), Annual Report, (1986): 12-13. Wikipedia

eight daughter congregations with a similar orientation. This group of congregations soon became a district within the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Hopewell

organized as congregations of the North Central Mennonite District Conference, or were placed under the jurisdiction of an organized congregation, under the

existed in the 1950s. The Orphanage Society of the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite), organized in 1905, was established as a

months later, in April 1945, General Conference Mennonite families met to discuss the possibility of forming a congregation, and in July of that year they gathered

whom belonged to the Central Conference, later a district of the General Conference Mennonite Church. Mennonite congregations in the county were Meadows

Moravian and Pietistic influences. In addition to these congregations there existed independent congregations in most of the daughter settlements of the Molotschna

death in 1913. The congregation was part of the Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference, and after the merger with the Ohio Mennonite Conference (1843-1927), was

of the several Mennonite congregations in a conference district or regional area, and also the annual and semiannual conferences and ministers' meetings

Noakhali district. Immediately following the bloody emergence of the new nation, Bangladesh, late in 1971, MCC workers returned to Noakhali district to provide

College opened its doors in 1893, the cultural gap between the General Conference Mennonites and the "Old" or MC Mennonites was too broad to bridge. Conversation

Mennonite Church Denominational Affiliations: Mennonite Church Eastern Canada Conference Mennonite Church Canada Map:Poole Mennonite Church (Milverton,

title=Northern_District_(Virginia_Mennonite_Conference,_Mennonite_Church_USA)&oldid=93134. APA style Showalter, Timothy. (1957). Northern District (Virginia

General Conference Mennonite Church the lot was used only in the congregations of Swiss background (not much after the 1870's) and in the Eastern District

in the Millersville district of the Lancaster Conference (MC). Chester Kindig Lehman (1895-1980) was a minister (MC), dean of Eastern Mennonite College 1922-56

unusually large number of conference activities. He was president of the Eastern District Conference 1871-1882 and of the General Conference 1874-1896. He was

Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada was officially inaugurated on 1 March 1988. In 1997 the conference numbered 97 congregations with 13,630 members; all but

Mennonite Conference (MC) and the Central District Conference, in 2017, the congregation decided to be a member only of the Central District Conference. "Congregations

of congregations in Waterloo County and Lincoln County, possibly also in the Markham district north of Toronto. The chief purpose of the conference, which

Mennonite Men organizations in the Eastern District, Central District, Northern District, Pacific District, and Western District met at least annually and assisted

in Lithuania and formed small congregations. Eventually Lithuanians joined the congregations as well. The congregations were influenced by Baptist theology

Minister's Manual (1950). The Eastern District which broke away from the Franconia Mennonite Conference in 1847 had but two congregations which practiced the kiss

Mennonites, 1893-1925. The last conference retained its name in the merged "Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference" until 1954. A later emergence

York, 1947. Mennonite Life. Mennonite World Conference. "Global Map: Ukraine." Mennonite World Conference. Web. 12 April 2021. https://mwc-cmm.org/global-map

with the Eastern District of the General Conference Mennonite Church, and during this pastorate began a long participation in many conference-wide committees

church the first series of meetings held in the Northern District of the Virginia Conference. At this time 16 were added to the church. Three years later

Mennonite church was at West Swamp, PA in 1874. By 1890 most of the Eastern District Conference (GCM) churches were using either a pipe or reed organ. The Berne

first bishop of the Maryland District; Manass(es) (J) Beachy (1837-1895), minister, ordained as bishop in the Pennsylvania District, about 1879; Jacob S. Miller

(Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations, formerly a General Conference Mennonite church in the Eastern District Conference) is located at 2405 East Swamp

continued to be held in the District No. 5 School House. By the spring of 1907 the East Holbrook group had outgrown the District No. 5 School House. Thus

Coast Conference of Mennonite Church USA was originally the eastern section of the Ohio and Eastern Conference (Mennonite Church). The congregations forming

Pacific District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church (1918-1978) General Conference Mennonite Church (1920-1978) Pacific District Conference

and led out, and were always a little ahead of the congregation. In the Eastern District Conference choristers in the 1950s still held an important and

German-speaking Mennonite Brethren (MB) congregations in Paraquay, the German-speaking South American District Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church (Südamerikanische

attendance was approximately 200. Support for Central District Conference, the General Conference Mennonite Church and, since 2002, Mennonite Church USA

Mennonite Conference in 1893 and of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Amish Mennonite Conference in 1897, which was later called the Ohio and Eastern Amish Mennonite

Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite) of Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was a member of the Eastern District Conference. On 27 December 1898

specific and clearly organized congregations at any time, although the records occasionally carry phrases such as "the congregation in Grüningen," or "in Horgerberg

conservative groups in support of the veiling. At the conference "Conversations on Faith" (Laurelville Conference Center, Pennsylvania, 1986), while relating his

left the Eastern District Conference and became a charter member of the new Alliance of Mennonite Evangelical Congregations (AMEC) in 2002. The division was

Sycamore Grove congregation. There are 10 Mennonite Church (MC) congregations in the state. General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) congregations were: Bethel

Website: Heritage Bible Church Denominational Affiliation: Pacific District Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Mennonite Brethren Church US Map:Heritage

of the Eastern District Conference." The Mennonite (14 & 21 March 1944). "Brotherhood Briefs." The Messenger of the Eastern District Conference. Quarterly

Denominational Affiliations: Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario (1938-1988) Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (1988-present) Conference of Mennonites in

affiliated with the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference (EMMC). See also Amish; Chortitzer Mennonite Conference; Conservative Mennonites; Elder; New Reinland

the congregation was part of the Central Plains Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA. Schmidt, Diena, ed. The Northern District Conference of the

center, congregational life begins. District clusters of congregations come together in annual spiritual life conferences featuring guest speakers. Each worship

century in the Mennonite Church congregations in the United States and Canada. As early as 1895 Mennonite women in eastern Pennsylvania were sewing garments

"plain" costumes in Eastern Pennsylvania suggests definite Quaker influence. Good relations between the Philadelphia Quakers and the Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonites

Augsburger (Amish) congregation belonged to the Amish General Conference, 1862-1878, but never joined the later Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference. In 1892 the

of Annual Conference which received all reports and prepared business for the conference. Each congregation could have at least one conference delegate

materials from the Dutch congregations were desposited in Amsterdam, since many congregations had their own archives. Some congregations deposited their archives

several area conferences (Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada, Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference and Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference) have already

in 6 congregations. In 1951, seven persons with the name Yoder, Ioder, or Jother were members in three churches of the French Mennonite Conference. Yoders

Oosters gekleurd dialect, meaning with "an eastern coloring." The term Oosters (eastern) is, however, relative. "Eastern" is viewed from the standpoint of the

Reformed Mennonite, 24. All of the MC congregations were members of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference in the late 1950s except Oak Grove and Bethel

The River Brethren in eastern Pennsylvania experienced a three-way division in the 1850s. According to tradition, the conservative element (The Old Order

elected by three district conferences of the General Conference —the Eastern District, the Middle District, and the Central Conference. Four members were

and attended a nearby one-room school, and probably attended the Markham District High School for a time. His family attended and were members at the Wideman

political conditions permitted them to be officially recognized as an eastern district of the CMZA. Fraternal relations, however, have long since been reestablished

(1814-1904) of the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) served as preacher in the Hereford congregation (GCM) beginning

(Amish) District or the King’s Church, located one mile north of West Liberty, Logan County, Ohio, a member of the Ohio and Eastern Conference, was founded

Amish Mennonites (now Conservative Conference) established a work at Espelkamp. In 1954 the Swiss Mennonite Conference, with an MCC subsidy, took over the

owned and operated by an area conference was Camp Men-O-Lan developed by the Eastern District of the General Conference Mennonite Church near Quakertown

Churches in Venezuela), is the name of the conference of churches that developed out of the mission activity of the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities

strong unifying force in the conference, providing instruction for a generation of Alberta-Saskatchewan Mennonite Conference leaders. At various times Ramer

Lake Christian Camp near Viborg. Owned and operated by the Northern District Conference (GCM), the camp had a full summer program for youth and many winter

outreach, especially in rural areas, brought this lively conference of nearly 1,000 congregations to become one of the largest Mennonite denominations in

influence which brought the bonnet into Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite and Amish practice. In the Franconia Conference area the contact between the Quakers

The Amos Horst district of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference built a 36'by 60' cement block building on a new site. The congregation dedicated the new

founding in 1847 of what became known as the Eastern District Conference and in 1860, of the General Conference Mennonite Church. More recently scholars have

the base congregations in the Shenandoah Valley are in this county, and 20 per cent in Augusta County. Fifty-two per cent of the total conference membership

Fellowship. In 2002 the congregation left the Atlantic Coast Conference (formerly the "Eastern" part of the Ohio and Eastern Conference) and joined the Hopewell

Mennonite World Conference. "2000 Europe Mennonite & Brethren in Christ Churches." Web. 27 February 2011. [broken link]. Mennonite World Conference. "2003 Europe

retaining their conference affiliations with the Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference and later the Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference until 1958, when

common name in the Mennonite congregations of the Palatinate, exceeded only by Krehbiel and Stauffer. The chief congregations with numerous Schowalters were

part of the Atlantic Coast Conference when the "Eastern" part of the Ohio and Eastern Conference became its own district conference in 1978. On 22 May 2008

Mennonite Congregation of Boston joined both the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Ohio and Eastern Conference

several years as pastor of both congregations. See Lima Mennonite Church for the history of the merged congregations. "Congregations explore merger to strengthen

Middle District Conference. By the early 1930s, it became known as First Mennonite Church. In 2022 the congregation was part of the Central District Conference

1964, the congregation joined the Central District of the General Conference Mennonite Church and several weeks later joined the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite

Mennonite Conference and joined the Southeast Mennonite Convention. In June 2018 it shifted its affiliation to the Central District Conference. It made

Brethren conference and Mennonite Church BC) and Steinbach Bible College (Evangelical Mennonite Conference and Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference; Steinbach

and included 15-20 people. It affiliated with the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church, with Ross Lynn Bender identified

such meeting was the Sunday School Convention in the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite) on 2 October 1876, sponsored by A. B. Shelly

life. Eastern Mennonite College and Hesston College also had such societies. Literary societies were common in Mennonite Church (MC) congregations from

Mennonite Church withdrew from the Eastern District Conference. This move was part of a larger realignment of Mennonite congregations in the 2010s that were formerly

country-wide conference helps to unify the congregations. Pastors also unite for leadership training. In 2003 there were 425 members in 13 congregations. Three

Leaders were usually chosen from within the congregation. The conference was divided into five districts. Each district was represented on an executive committee

by of the Mennonite Brethren district conferences, containing besides conference proceedings a directory of congregations and ministers. The Mennonite Brethren

Johnson County, Iowa, in the eastern part of the state, lies approximately 50-70 miles (85-115 km) west of Davenport. It is an agricultural county with

helping Séjour and the church get connected to the Eastern District Conference and feeling like a congregation. In 2020 a typical worship service at Solidarity

leadership over to the Middle District of Virginia Mennonite Conference. John E. Kurtz was commissioned by the district in 1935 as the first itinerate

the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. In 2000, the Lancaster Mennonite Conference "released" the 14 churches it had established in the southeast United States

the district headquarters of the city of Raipur on the national highway No. 43 (which runs from Delhi to Madras) dividing the city into the eastern larger

Denominational Affiliations: Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC) Mennonite Church (MC) Ohio Mennonite Conference (1999-2014) Mennonite Church USA (1999-2014)

Lancaster Conference in 1970. David Weaver provided interim leadership. Because of David Weaver's connection to the Ohio and Eastern Conference of the Mennonite

transferred its affiliation from the Virginia Conference to the Central District Conference in 2005. The Central District allowed greater congregational polity

mission is sponsored by congregations belonging to the Ontario Mennonite Brethren Conference and the Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada (MC, GCM). It

Katie Weaver. They were sent by the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. Beginning in 1949, workers began

obligatory. Some of the conservative congregations belonging to the Lancaster Conference (MC), where conservative congregations are most numerous within the Mennonite

Mennonite Church (MC) developed mission structures at the district conference level. Each district mission board, in turn, appointed members to the Mennonite

Freeman Junior College; Eastern Mennonite School at Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1917, later Eastern Mennonite College and now Eastern Mennonite University; and

sponsored by both the Central District of the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC)

previously been a part of the Eastern District but left when the Grace congregation withdrew from that district conference. The congregation joined the Franconia

Philadelphia First Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite Church), a member of the Eastern District Conference, located at Fifth and Diamond Streets,

had a printed conference "discipline," which usually had its origin at the very beginning of the conference. The Eastern District Conference of the General

in 1954. The congregation began as an outreach of the Home Missions Committee of the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church

Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church Eastern Canada and became an associate member of the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. The withdrawal

the Eastern District Conference 1913-27, and one of the founders of the Mennonite, and was active on various Eastern District and General Conference committees

supported ministry began in the Eastern District Conference before World War I and spread westward to the Western District Conference, and was nearly completed

Mennonite communities and were often organized and controlled by district conferences. The support for Mennonite high schools developed because of the

time of World War I. In the 1898 meeting of the Western District Conference (General Conference Mennonite), it was reported that their committee on education

pastor, Miller had served as Overseer of eight Southern District Churches of Virginia Mennonite Conference. Miller was installed as Senior Pastor on 12 June

Church." Atlantic Coast Conference Currents 2, no. 3 (May-June 1981): 1. Stoltzfus, Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial

was bishop of the Fulton County Amish Mennonite district under the Ohio and Eastern A.M. Conference 1908-1942, descended from an old Montbéliard (France)

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established in 1947 by Eastern District Conference. As active members of the  congregation, Lucille served as organist and William as

ordained in Mennonite Church (MC) conferences. As of 1956, more than a dozen Hoovers had been ordained in the Mennonite Conference of Ontario (now part of Mennonite

Beachy Amish congregation with 28 members, two Conservative Amish congregations with 428 members, six Mennonite (Mennonite Church Ohio Conference) congregations

has been a steady growth of junior choirs in Mennonite congregations. The Western District Conference (GCM) has sponsored workshops and festivals for children's

October 1924 the Zion congregation and Paul Whitmer were suspended by the Executive Committee of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, which ironically

After the death of his father-in-law he became bishop of the congregations of the Middle District in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, which office he held

Church (MC) conferences. A very influential and vigorous General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) minister from this family was the Eastern District minister

preachers of the West Prussian congregations, which expresses regret for the incompleteness of the list; the congregations in Alsace and Krefeld had not

from the Amish settlement in eastern Elkhart County-Lagrange County. In 1954 it consisted of 10 districts (congregations) with a total of 607 members,

to Church as a Community Centre." Christian & Missionary Alliance. Eastern District. 8 April 2014. Web. 4 February 2017. http://www.easterndistrict.ca

(b. 1899) served as a minister in the Eastern District and Western District conferences of the General Conference Mennonite Church. MLA style Wenger, John

Manheim District of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. Homer was ordained to assist Henry Lutz in serving the seven congregations in the district. Homer

years. The congregation grew rapidly as it drew members and support from both the Middle and Northern districts of the Virginia Mennonite Conference. In 1947

the Central District Conference in order to maintain its MC USA connection. In 2023 the congregation was part of the Central District Conference. "[Annual

439. Swartz, Freeman H. "Contemporaries in 1921." Messenger, Eastern District Conference. 7, no. 4 (Summer 1954). MLA style Fretz, J. Herbert. "Allebach

men of all the congregations of the conference constituted a conjoint ministry, the elders being actually ordained for the entire conference, though with

In 2000 the congregation changed its affiliation from the Atlantic Coast Conference (a descendant of part of the Ohio and Eastern Conference) to the Franklin

one of 13 congregations who followed a group of bishops, ministers, and deacons who were granted a release from the Lancaster Mennonite Conference to form

preacher from 1842 in the Franconia Conference, founder of what is now the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church in 1847, a bishop

the smaller congregations usually met in the home of a member, who placed a room at the disposal of the congregation. Larger congregations at this time

a group of congregations that withdrew from the Lancaster Conference in 1968. Lester Martin, recognized as a bishop in the Lebanon District of EPMC, became

Phoenixville and Diamond Rock under the direction of the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite) for some time after 1847. MLA style Leatherman

Franconia Conference and Eastern District (GCM). The conference high school (Christopher Dock) had 351 students in 1987. In 1971 the conference reorganized

Mennonite Conference from 1725 until December 2009. The church was the central point for the eastern end of the Hammer Creek-Indiantown District. After worshiping

Martin G. Mennonites of Lancaster conference: containing biographical sketches of Mennonite leaders; histories of congregations, missions, and Sunday schools;

USA (2003-present) Virginia Mennonite Conference, Eastern Carolina District (2003-2018) Central District Conference (2018-present) Map:Chapel Hill Mennonite

1873) as the Mennonite Conference of Missouri, Iowa, and eastern Kansas, later extended to include the few Mennonite (MC) congregations west of Illinois in

millions of dollars to develop the Eastern Irrigation District. When the Mennonites, like earlier settlers in the district, were unable to make a living on

discipline. In April 1950 it joined the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. Cedar Grove planted several congregations over the years. These included North Side

1939 all the workers from eastern Pennsylvania were received as mission workers in the new Dakota-Montana district conference. On 10 June 1943 both Irwin

leaders in the Lancaster Conference who had similar concerns. They began to hold meetings not explicitly sanctioned by the conference. In 1967 Jesse Neuenschwander

merged with the Northern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church to form the Central Plains Mennonite Conference as part of the new Mennonite

member of the Eastern District Conference. It was organized in 1946 by a group of interested laymen with the assistance of the Eastern District Home Mission

(MC) Conference in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1812; (2) the Oberholtzer group (eventually becoming the Eastern District Conference, General Conference Mennonite

the church building and cemetery were sold to an Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church (EPMC) congregation known as the Bachmanville Mennonite Church. Following

middle district of Franconia Conference. That same year he was appointed to the newly organized Peace Problems Committee of Franconia Conference (member

used "bishop" freely in their English usage. The Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church, having originated in 1847-1848

forming a new alliance. The group of nine congregations from Eastern District Conference of the former General Conference Mennonite Church comprised the majority

sessions at various places in the conference district, either from year to year or within the same year. Four conference districts developed such migratory winter

Mennonite Church (MC) in the Lancaster and Franconia conferences, and it was the action of the Lancaster Conference on 27 March 1874, in appointing an aid committee

In later years it related to the Central District Conference and to the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. It ended in 2011. "Alumni of the Year 1978:

giving strong support to Eastern Mennonite Missions, and reaching out into the local communities. Along with other district congregations Mount Joy helped to

the pastor Elmer D. Hess. The congregation united with the Eastern District Conference in 1940 and the General Conference Mennonite Church in 1941. Its

General Conference Mennonite Church in Los Angeles in 1909 (although earlier city churches had been started by its Middle District and Eastern District). Most

the Fairview congregation attracted many members from the Old Order Amish settlement. The Oscoda Amish settlement shrank to one district before 1915. In

Mennonite congregation and community; he was ordained preacher in 1885, and bishop in 1895. One of the leaders of the Eastern District Conference (General

Bethel (Perkasie) Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite Church) of the Eastern District Conference was located in Perkasie, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Church (MC), is congregational. The local church is autonomous. District and general conferences are, or originally were, purely advisory. They are the instruments

Franconia congregation in the mid 20th century. In the Lancaster Conference Martin Rutt (1840-1905) served as bishop in the Risser district; he was a strong

other congregations. By 1980 the membership was six. By 1990 the last members transferred to other congregations. Histories of the congregations. 3rd.

County Conference 9 congregations with 831 members, Allegheny Conference 12 with 417, Lancaster Conference 9 with 178, Ohio and Eastern Conference 3 with

other congregations organized and requested Homer Bomberger's leadership. Bishop Homer Bomberger was one of the founding bishops of the Eastern Pennsylvania

and Münster. The old Mennonite congregations of Krefeld and Gronau were located here, and also the refugee congregations of Bergisches Land and Espelkamp

the Franconia Conference. Telford, PA: Franconia Mennonite Historical Society, 1937. Reprinted Ephrata, PA: Publication Board of the Eastern Pennsylvania

use of more aggressive methods the conference has grown. In 1959 there were 14 congregations, 9 mission congregations, 4 resident bishops, 20 ministers

years a leader in the Western District Amish Mennonite Conference. He served as bishop of the Hopedale, Illinois. congregation from 1896 to 1924. His brother

schools. Some congregations have a committee that promotes family life education in the congregation, particularly among the youth. Some congregations promote

from the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Church (which later became a founding conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church), led by

51); One of the Virginia Conference congregations, Durham, also belonged to the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite). -- Reynold Sawatzky

led to withdrawals from multiple district Mennonite conferences including Franconia, Lancaster, Virginia, Ohio and Eastern, Ontario, North Central, Iowa-Nebraska

were 19 MAMF congregations with 1,498 members, growing to 21 congregations and 1,700 members in 2011. The majority of these congregations were in Pennsylvania

a new congregation near Denver, Pennsylvania, the Emmanuel Mennonite Church. This congregation became a member of the Eastern District Conference in 1940

188-89. Northern District Conference reports in Minutes (GCM) (1931). Western District Retreat Committee report in Western District Conference minutes, 48th

The Lancaster Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church) opened mission work in Musoma District, Tanganyika Territory, East Africa, on 26 May 1934, when John

Mennonite Fellowship are in the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. A conservative portion of Lancaster Conference cooperated to establish the Mennonite Messianic

local congregation with some involvement of that conference. General Conference has had no national conference in the states. Annually the district presidents

Mennonite) withdrew from the Eastern District Conference (GCM) in 1861 because it observed feetwashing, while the conference refused to make it mandatory

are practically unknown. However, in the Eastern District, as well as the Swiss churches of the General Conference (GCM) counsel meeting was formerly held

settled at Quakertown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Franconia Conference (MC) district. Jacob, who settled in Lancaster County, had one son Benjamin (1700-81)

Lancaster Mennonite Conference, due to the meetinghouse’s central location within the geography of the conference. The church hosted conference sessions until

development of the conference or synodical system has resulted in varying degrees of control by the conference (either general or district) over the local

Russian Mennonites. The regional collections of the Eastern District (GCM) and Franconia Conference (MC) have been combined at Harleysville, Pennsylvania

(1815-1888) of the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite), and his son, Elder William S. Gottshall (1865-1941) of the same district. MLA style

(General Conference Mennonite), located at Altoona, PA, was begun as Bethany Mission in 1913 by the Eastern District under the General Conference Board of

Groffdale Conference or Wenger Mennonites. The original Weaverland Conference had a membership of 1,731 in 1957, and the Groffdale Conference had 1,450

construct new homes. After several Mennonite Brethren congregations were planted in Thailand, a conference, called the Thai MB Foundation, was formed and officially

Home Missions of the Southern District Conference), 66 pages. David H. Epp, minister in the Chortitza Mennonite congregation in South Russia, published in

General Conference Mennonites or any other Mennonite conference has published" (Wohlgemuth). It has had great influence on the General Conference Church

Middle districts of the Virginia Conference. The congregation operates with a church council which has representation from its membership, Eastern Mennonite

the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Church, later to be the General Conference Mennonite Eastern District Conference. Among the innovations

Martin G. Mennonites of Lancaster Conference: containing biographical sketches of Mennonite leaders, histories of congregations, missions, and Sunday schools

the Evangelical Mennonite Conference, the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference, and the Chortitzer Mennonite Conference; Bethany Bible Institute in

this district, with 159 Christians and 91 children in 1932, are also located the towns of Kudus (since 1929) and Pakkies. (4) The fourth district is Kelet

A.D.S. (Dutch General Conference) is a lawyer. There have been a number of lawyers within the membership of the General Conference Mennonite Church in America

County, Pennsylvania, assisted two congregations that sought to disfellowship from the Conservative Amish Mennonite Conference. David Burkholder of Maple Lawn

Aid Committee was organized in Eastern Pennsylvania under the leadership of Preacher Amos Herr of the Lancaster Conference. The third committee was formed

Church (General Conference Mennonite), located in Richfield, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, a member of the Eastern District Conference, began in 1883,

Lancaster and Franconia, and in the Eastern District of the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM). Most or all of these Gehmans are descended from the siblings

From 1911 to 1918, her name appeared on the annual roster of Eastern District Conference ministers in Mennonite Yearbook and Almanac. In 1916 she accepted

Mennonite Church (MC USA) originally was part of the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church. From 1893 to 1902 the Mennonite

the Lebanon District of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference on 29 February 1940. Simon Bucher introduced some changes new to his bishop district. These included

The first report of the congregation, under the name Schöntal Mennonite Church, ap­peared in the Western District Conference minutes of 1915. In 1930

ordained preacher for the Groffdale-Metzler district on 30 August 1900, and assistant bishop for this district on 23 January 1919. By his own request he

The Franconia Conference decided on 3 May 1917 to organize a mission board. Members of the conference had already been serving in the Philadelphia Mission

fellowship, which ca. 1944 joined the Eastern District Conference (GCM). Edward Miller, a minister of the Springs MC congregation but living at Inwood, West Virginia

was Alvin C. Alderfer (1869-1941), late treasurer of the Eastern District of the General Conference Mennonite Church. The other Alderfer immigrant settled

Colony. This conference was a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church of North America, as well as of the Conference of Mennonites in South America

was Bishop C. M. Brackbill (1853-1936), also of the Pequea district of the Lancaster Conference. Other descendants include Minister Aldus Brackbill (1863-1941)

in the Mennonite Church (MC) in the Franconia and Lancaster Conference districts in Eastern Pennsylvania. The name is also well represented both in Ontario

commonly used in the Lancaster, Franconia, and Washington-Franklin (MC) conference districts as well as by the Old Order, Stauffer, and Reformed Mennonites in

Nussli) is a family name found among the Mennonites of the Lancaster Conference (MC) in eastern Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and among the Old Order Amish in the

of nine boys and four girls. Having chosen to remain with the Mennonite Conference of Ontario at the time of the division of 1889 that saw the formation

for each conference. Greater freedom was given to local congregations to interpret the decisions of the General Conference and its doctrinal statements. A

Pennsylvania. A Mennonite Church (MC) congregation named Lichty's is in the Weaverland District of the Lancaster Conference. Early in the 18th century some Liechtis

is a member of Allegheny Mennonite Conference. In 1986 it had 113 members. Two congregations affiliated with Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church were

It was not until 1912 that the Franconia Conference finally fell in line with the other district conferences of the Mennonites (Mennonite Church) by making

the Ohio and Eastern Conference. The Millwood congregation broke off from the Maple Grove congregation in 1945 to join the Lancaster Conference; it has 431

in 20 congregations in four districts with two ministers, three evangelists, 17 elders, 14 deacons and 12 deaconesses. Mennonite World Conference figures

leadership skills were put to use beyond her congregation when she was elected vice-president of the district executive of the Mennonite women's organization

World Conference. "Global Map: Vietnam." Mennonite World Conference. Web. 12 April 2021. https://mwc-cmm.org/global-map. Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite

and Exchange Commission, and finally as Chief justice in the District Court of the District of Columbia at Washington, DC, where he died in office in 1944

100 persons; (2) Palatinate and Switzerland to Eastern Pennsylvania (Franconia and Lancaster districts), 1707-56, 3,000-5,000 persons, mostly Mennonite

members to county or state institutions. If the particular local church conference did not have an institution for the purpose of caring for its aged and