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within the Illinois Mennonite Conference Leadership Commission and a Study Committee appointed by the Illinois Mennonite Conference and the Mennonite Church's

Franklin Mennonite Conference, Gulf States Mennonite Conference, Illinois Mennonite Conference, Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, Iowa-Nebraska Conference

with about 1,500 members, and the Central Conference (Illinois) later a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church, with some 3,000 members. In the

General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM, 2,394); Evangelical Mennonite Church (1,042); Old Order Amish (1980 data, 1,014); Conservative Mennonite Conference

General Conference Mennonite Church since 1950. Alongside the Mennonite Church (MC) and the Mennonite Brethren, it is one of the three main Mennonite groups

"Central Illinois Mennonite Conference." In 1945 the group joined the General Conference Mennonite Church in a body as a district conference, retaining

The Illinois Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church), was organized in 1921 by the merger of the earlier Mennonite Conference (MC) of the State of Illinois

with the Central Conference of the Mennonite Church, and in later years expanded its operations to include two other Mennonite conference representatives

Amish Mennonite Conference was the "Spring Conference," and the Mennonite Conference was the "Fall Conference." A close spirit of fellowship and good will

Eastern Amish Mennonite, Indiana-Michigan Amish Mennonite, and Western Amish Mennonite. Some Amish Mennonite congregations did not join the conference movement

General Conference and the alumni of the Seminary. The Mennonite Biblical Seminary was a continuation of former seminaries, particularly the Mennonite Seminary

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

Mennonite Home Mission (Mennonite Church) was a congregation located at 1907 South Union Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, a member of the Illinois Conference

originally known as Central Mennonite College, founded in 1898 by the Middle District of the General Conference Mennonite Church, and located at Bluffton

restructuring of Mennonite Church, the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Conference of Mennonites in Canada into Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church

title=Middle_District_Conference_(General_Conference_Mennonite_Church)&oldid=115695. APA style Kreider, A. E. (1957). Middle District Conference (General Conference Mennonite

General Conference Mennonite Church, Conservative Mennonites, and Beachy Amish Mennonites. Amish and other churches not affiliated with any conference add

Coast Conference, and Franklin Conference. Prior to the affiliation with Mennonite Church USA, Lancaster Mennonite Conference affiliated with the (Old) Mennonite

title=Kansas-Nebraska_Mennonite_Conference_(Mennonite_Church)&oldid=115699. APA style Diener, Harry A. (1958). Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church)

1953 the Conference joined with the Evangelical Mennonite Church to form the Evangelical Mennonite Conference but retaining its own conference organization

joined a Mennonite conference. The second group first joined the Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference in 1893, which merged with the Ohio Mennonite Conference

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

life of Mennonite congregations, both Mennonite Church. and General Conference Mennonite. The only one of the above-mentioned extinct Ohio Mennonite congregations

General Conference Mennonite Church, the Mennonite Church (MC) and the Conference of Mennonites in Canada into Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church

Lancaster, 1863 Mennonite World Handbook (MWH), ed. Paul N. Kraybill. Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference [MWC], 1978: 324-27. Mennonite World Handbook

approval of conference, founded The Mennonite, which became the General Conference English periodical. In 1895, conference published the first Mennonite Yearbook

Mennonite Church USA was born 1 February 2002, merging the U.S. congregations of the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) and Mennonite Church (MC)

Western District Conference (later Middle District Conference) in 1868, and then later in 1877 helped organize the Kansas Conference (now Western District)

Mary Kolb in 1927. His assignments in the Mennonite Conference of Ontario (Mennonite Church) included: conference executive committee (1925, 1930-33, 1936-30);

were ministers in the Defenseless Mennonite Church originally. A. E. Funk of Eastern Pennsylvania, a minister in the General Conference Mennonite Church

Conservative Mennonite Conference (602 members), constituted over 85 per cent of all the Mennonites in the state in 1955. Indeed, two of these, the Mennonite Church

progressive groups formed Amish Mennonite conferences which ultimately merged with Mennonite (Mennonite Church) conferences in 1916-1925. A later separation

Western Amish Mennonite Conference (Until 1920) Illinois Mennonite Conference (1921-present) Mennonite Church (MC) (1921-2002) Mennonite Church USA (2002-present)

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

the US Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches: Coalridge Mennonite Church, Exeland Mennonite Church, Lake Region Mennonite Church, Sand Lake Chapel, and

Waldo Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located four miles south of Flanagan, Illinois, a member of the Illinois Mennonite Conference, dates back to

form the Central Illinois Conference of Mennonites, a group of 12 Amish-background churches mostly in Illinois. The Central Conference joined the General

regulations. It joined the Central Conference Mennonite Church, based in Illinois. In 1944, Clinton Frame planted the Benton Mennonite Church in a building purchased

Milford and Hereford Mennonite churches of Zionsville and Bally, Pennsylvania (1881-90), and the Summerfield Mennonite Church, Illinois (1890-1911). He was

Ohio Conference of the Mennonite Church (Ohio Conference of Mennonite Church USA after the merger of the Mennonite Church and General Conference Mennonite

Hopedale, Illinois 61747 Phone: 309-449-6600 Website: https://www.hopedalemennonitechurch.com/ Denominational Affiliations: Illinois Mennonite Conference Mennonite

although the two local Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conferences (Mennonite and Amish) and the General Conference endorsed it in the period 1898-1902. Those

Oyer (1891-1931), an able educator in the Mennonite Church (MC), was born 11 April 1891, at Metamora, Illinois, the son of John P. and Mary Smith Oyer.

member of the Western District Amish Mennonite Conference, which merged in 1921 with the Illinois Conference of the Mennonite Church. In 1951 a group of about

District Conference, 1957-1990. Bluffton, Ohio: The Conference, 2003: 108-109. Weaver, William B. History of the Central Conference Mennonite Church. Danvers

denominations (Mennonite Church [MC], General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Brethren, Brethren in Christ, Evangelical Mennonite Church). Using

American Mennonite (Mennonite Church) congregations. In 1957 the number was more than 500. The first record  of "Negro" members in  the Mennonite Church

deed." In 1954 the Mennonite Brethren Church at its General Conference session also adopted a statement in which it said: "The Mennonite Brethren Church believes

found in Ontario, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Illinois and Missouri. As of 1954, there were seven Mennonite ministers in Switzerland with the name Gerber and

communities in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas. He was born in Holmes County, Ohio in 1823. Obituaries in Mennonite periodicals from the 1950's show the Mennonite Church

Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois, a mem­ber of the Illinois Mennonite Conference, was organized in 1836 as an Amish Mennonite congregation, the settlers

Pleasant Hill Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), earlier known as the Pleasant Hill Rural Mission, a mem­ber of the Illinois Mennonite Conference, and located

Goodfield Mennonite Church, a member of the Illinois Mennonite Conference, now extinct, was an outgrowth of the remnant of the Mackinaw congregation after

similar leadership roles in the Illinois Mennonite Conference and the Mennonite Conference of Ontario & Quebec. St. Jacobs Mennonite Church produced a number

the Goodwill Mennonite Home were taken from his farm (he became Conservative Mennonite in the 1895 split); Elias A. Yoder (1834-1921), minister about 1868

2019, the congregation voted by 88% to withdraw from the Illinois Mennonite Conference and Mennonite Church USA, and join LMC: A Fellowship of Anabaptist Churches

Western A.M. Conference and the reorganization of Mennonite district conferences west of Indiana 1920-1921, moderator of the merged Illinois Mennonite Conference

General Conference Mennonite Church pastor in Kansas and California. MLA style Gingerich, Melvin. "Frey (Frei, Fry) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia

include: Mennonite Board of Education (Mennonite Church, 1920-23); Board of Missions (General Conference Mennonite, 1935-53); Board of Mennonite Biblical

of merging with nearby Mennonite congregations, including Waldo Mennonite, Meadows Mennonite, and the Salem Evangelical Mennonite churches. Leland Harder

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

General Conference of North America Mission Board. He ministered to a Mennonite congregation in Asunción, Paraguay, and taught at the Mennonite Biblical

districts of the General Conference Mennonite Church, the General Board of the General Conference Mennonite Church, as chair of the Mennonite Biblical Seminary

member of the South Central Mennonite Conference, the third oldest (Old) Mennonite Church congregation in Kansas, was organized in 1883 by Daniel Brundage with

Workers' Conference—Teachers' Conference (1941), Sewing Circle Conference (1941), The Christian Home Conference (1941), Christian Life Conference (1942)

15 Mennonite families in Hickory County but that the community did not have a minister. In December 1870 when Preacher Joseph Stucky from Illinois visited

General Conference Mennonite Church, but maintained its membership in the Central District Conference. At the time of the formation of Mennonite Church

session of what came to be known as the Conference on Mennonite Cultural Problems. The Conference on Mennonite Cultural Problems met annually 1942-1947

Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (MC). Otis N. Johns was bishop of the Beech congregation near Louisville, Ohio, and long serving secretary of the Mennonite Publication

First Mennonite Church and the Bloomington Mennonite Church began to consider uniting in an era when General Conference Mennonite Church and Mennonite Church

District Conference Mennonite Church USA MLA style Wedel, D. C. "First Mennonite Church (Halstead, Kansas, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia

he tried to find his way to the Mennonite congregations, but the Mennonites explained to him that only those ministers who were ordained for the proclamation

 and Samuel J. Steiner. "South Danvers Mennonite Church (Danvers, Illinois, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 18 Mar 2024

Tuleta Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), a member of the South Central Mennonite Conference located near Tuleta, Bee County, in southern Texas, between

Wilmot Amish Mennonite Church. His son Christian (1848-1924) and his grandson Peter (1869-1930) were ministers in the Ontario Amish Mennonite Church. A great-grandson

title=Meadows_Mennonite_Church_(Chenoa,_Illinois,_USA)&oldid=174763. APA style Steiner, Samuel J. (January 2023). Meadows Mennonite Church (Chenoa, Illinois, USA)

(General Conference Mennonite) minister at Meadows, Illinois, and served as president of the Central District Conference. Menno M. Troyer of Conway, Kansas,

the Midwest, especially in Illinois, are 19th-century immigrants from Europe, and included a number of Amish Mennonite ministers. The best-known layman named

Evangelical Mennonite Conference (USA) was another Mennonite body which arose through a split in the Amish Mennonite Church, in 1864. In this conference the kiss

Henry Nice, a prominent bishop in the Illinois Mennonite Conference, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on 17 April 1822. He married Levina Tyson

above, a Mennonite pastor in Summerfield, Illinois, published the Cornelis Ris Confession in 1895 as an appendix to a short history of the Mennonites. This

Affiliations: Mosaic Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church USA  Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol

General Conference Mennonite congregation when he lived in Wadsworth, Ohio. Morrison was a charter member of the Illinois Mennonite Conference when it

South Central Mennonite Conference. MLA style , . "Mount Pisgah Mennonite Church (Leonard, Missouri, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

Anchor, Illinois. He was ordained bishop in 1900 and served as president of the Central Conference in 1899 and 1906-1911. He also served as conference secretary

clear that most of the Mennonite settlements in Russia no longer exist, at least with any large number of Mennonite families. Mennonite church life became

at First United Mennonite Church in Vancouver and served as half-time coordinator for Chinese Ministry with the Conference of Mennonites in Canada. Paul

David Goerz, a Mennonite (General Conference Mennonite) minister and leader, was born on 2 June 1849, to Heinrich and Agnes Goerz, Neu-Bereslav near Berdyansk

for Ordination of Conference Ministers, which was reviewed by the executive committee of the conference and adopted by the conference; a Suggested Procedure

The Communauté Mennonite au Congo (Mennonite Communion of Congo), has its origins in the ministry of the Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission (AIMM), which prior

Hessian Mennonite congregation in Butler County, Ohio. Peter Kennel served as a minister in the Apostolic Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite Church)

Puerto Rico Kraybill, Paul N., ed. Mennonite World Handbook. Lombard, Illinois: Mennonite World Conference, 1978. Mennonite World Handbook Supplement. Strasbourg

completely true. Out of the Kansas Conference came the Western District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church. Of the 66 congregations of

General Conference Mennonite (GCM) professor at Mennonite Biblical Seminary, and Jesse N. Smucker, president of the General Conference Mennonite Church

General Conference Mennonite Church. North Newton, Ks: Bethel College, 1987. Sawatsky, Rodney J. "Defining Mennonite Diversity and Unity." Mennonite Quarterly

title=Rockwell_Mennonite_Church_(Sheffield,_Illinois,_USA)&oldid=178625. APA style Culp, Elmer I. (1959). Rockwell Mennonite Church (Sheffield, Illinois, USA).

and principal of a Mennonite parochial school at Alexanderwohl, Kansas. In 1883 this school, sponsored by the Kansas Mennonite Conference, was transferred

among Illinois Mennonite Conference pastors influenced by fundamentalism. They felt distinctive Mennonite practices, such as insisting ministers wear the

Proceedings of the Seventh Mennonite World Conference, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, August 1-7, 1962. Elkhart, IN: Mennonite World Conference, 1962. Dyck, Cornelius

(formerly Evangelical Mennonite), located one-half mile (one km) east of Groveland, in Groveland Township, Tazewell County, Illinois, began as a subsidiary

1003 Griswold Avenue, Sterling, Illinois Phone: Website: Denominational Affiliations: Illinois Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church (MC) By Melvin Gingerich

(Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society). Ontario Mennonite History (Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario). Mennonite Historian (Mennonite Brethren Historical

Throughout the years, many Mennonites (General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM), Krimmer Mennonite Brethren (KMB), Mennonite Brethren (MB), Church of God

Church, the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Conference of Mennonites in Canada into Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada, the South

which had no resident ministers, affiliated with the Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference and later the Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference, perhaps because

at Eastern Mennonite College in the mid-1970s. A number of articles by Beachy were published in the Mennonite Quarterly Review and Mennonite Life, and he

not organize his following into a conference until 1899, shortly before his death, when the Central Illinois Conference was established. He published Eine

the latter's son Daniel B. Suter are ministers in the Virginia Conference, and Daniel is a teacher at Eastern Mennonite College. An Amish branch of the family

charter member of the Illinois Mennonite Conference when it formed in 1872. Freeport Mennonite Church began supporting the Mennonite Central Committee's

as minister on 2 December 1923 and held many offices, both in the Western District Conference and the General Conference. He was General Conference statistician

German-speaking groups of the General Conference. In the General Conference (GCM) English-speaking churches, the Mennonite Brethren of both English and German

The Yoder (Rock Creek) Amish Mennonite Church, the mother church of the Central (Illinois) Conference, was organized by the members of the Mackinaw congregation

Amish Mennonite Church. In 1871, Peter Zehr and his fellow minister, Daniel Schrag, traveled to Illinois to attend the Amish Mennonite Ministers' Conference

of the General Conference Mennonite Church's Board of Education and Publication (1955 to 1961). He then became editor of The Mennonite, the weekly publication

Miller were buried in the Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery near New Dundee, Ontario. John grew up in an unusual Mennonite family in Akron, Pennsylvania, since

American Mennonite (MC) ministers of that period. It has not been published. But see his article, "Characteristics of Mennonite Preaching," Mennonite Quarterly

Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois. Those families who have joined the Mennonite group have produced a number of outstanding leaders in the Mennonite Church (MC), among

Summerfield, Illinois, as the official organ of the Mennonite Board of Guardians of which he was the secretary, and distributed free to Mennonite immigrants

History of the Central Conference Mennonite Church. Danvers, 1926. Weber, H. F. Centennial History of the Mennonites in Illinois. Goshen, 1931. MLA style

style Gingerich, Melvin. "Arthur Amish Mennonite Congregation (Arthur, Illinois, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 20 May

Denominational Affiliations: Illinois Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church USA Map:Bethel Mennonite Community Church (Chicago, Illinois) By James H. Lark. Copied

of numerous Mennonite descendants. In 1758 John Schneider, a Virginia Mennonite, made a trip to Holland to secure aid for needy Mennonites in Virginia

1906, when it was given over to the MB Conference. Harms was one of the most noted Mennonite Brethren Conference workers for many years, serving as its

original ground for this regulation. One of the rules passed at a ministers’ conference of the Swiss Brethren held in Strasbourg in 1568 (confirmed at Steinselz

Central District Conference: Lohrenz, J. H. The Mennonite Brethren Church. Hillsboro, KS: The Mennonite Brethren Publishing House, 1950. Mennonite Brethren General

major love, Mennonite historical writing. Having received a commission from the Mennonite General Conference to write a history of the Mennonite Church in

tor00webe. Address: Cullom, Illinois Phone: Website: Denominational Affiliations: Illinois Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church (MC) By A. Hershey Leaman

Conservative Mennonite Conference MLA style Swartzendruber, Elmer G and Richard D. Thiessen. "Sunnyside Mennonite Church (Arthur, Illinois, USA)." Global

the Berdyansk Mennonite Church, Russia, one of the chief promoters of the Mennonite migration to America, and elder of the Emmaus Mennonite Church, Whitewater

Summerfield, Illinois, Mennonite Church. Henry was baptized in 1880. His education included attendance at McKendry College at Lebanon, Illinois, and graduation

(1871-1942), an outstanding leader in the Central Mennonite Conference, was born 31 December 1871, near Hudson, Illinois, son of Manasses and Catherine Salzman Troyer

Cornelius Heinrich Wedel: Mennonite (General Conference Mennonite Church) minister, educator, historian, and first president of Bethel College; born at

the Illinois Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA. In 2023 the congregation remained part of the Illinois Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church

Civic Club. It chose Lombard Mennonite Church as its name and affiliated with the Illinois Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC). For several years

service in the conference activities of the Mennonite Brethren Church. In his early years he was much used as secretary, serving as Conference Secretary (1905-1906)

Roanoke Mennonite Church Denominational Affiliations: Western Amish Mennonite Conference Illinois Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church (MC) Mennonite Church

of the church and joined the Mennonite Brethren in Christ. Dr. H. R. Bauman (b. 1897) was a General Conference Mennonite (GCM) missionary stationed in

The Garden Street Mennonite Mission in Peoria, Illinois, USA, began as a mission outpost of the Illinois Mennonite Conference in 1919. It was also generally

Such a conference was held also at the Mennonite Church near Metamora, Illinois, during the Christmas vacation in 1928. The Christian Life Conference had

1950s-early 1960s the General Conference Mennonite Church (Arvada Mennonite Church) and the Mennonite Brethren (Garden Park Mennonite Brethren Church) had established

First Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite Church) at Summerfield, Saint Clair County, Illinois, a member of the Middle District Conference, was

as the Eicher Emmanuel Mennonite Church, became a member of the Middle District Mennonite Conference (General Conference Mennonite) and in the following

Street, Peoria, Illinois Phone: Website: Denominational Affiliations: Central District Conference Illinois Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church USA By Samuel

of the Indiana-Michigan (united) Mennonite Conference from its formation in 1916 until 1924, member of the Mennonite Board of Education 1895 to 1917 and

Northwest Mennonite Conference. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2003. Stauffer, Ezra. History of the Alberta-Saskatchewan Mennonite Conference. Ryley, Alberta:

Central Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC). Because the Central District shared its conference minister with the Illinois Mennonite Conference

of the Central Conference Mennonite Church with the General Conference Mennonite Church (1946) and the merger of the Central Conference with the Middle

approximately 200. Support for Central District Conference, the General Conference Mennonite Church and, since 2002, Mennonite Church USA, has generally been strong

Central District Conference to the Ohio Conference of Mennonite Church USA. "Apostolic Mennonite Church,..." The Mennonite 34, no. 5 (30 January 1919): 1-2

District Conference Mennonite Church USA MLA style Steiner, Samuel J. "Bethel Mennonite Church (Pekin, Illinois, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia

Evangelical Mennonite Conference (Kleine Gemeinde), the Hutterian Brethren, the Old Colony Mennonites, and related groups. In the Mennonite Church (MC) the

Amish and Mennonite churches were represented in these groups: Old Order Amish, 99; Mennonite Church (MC), 58; Conservative Amish Mennonite, 14; Beachy

minister in the Eastern District and Western District conferences of the General Conference Mennonite Church. MLA style Wenger, John C. "Nice (Nyce, Neiss

Hiebert, P. C. Feeding the hungry: American Mennonite relief operations under Mennonite Central Committee. Mennonite Central Committee: Scottdale, Pennsylvania

Abraham Warkentin: Mennonite (General Conference Mennonite [GCM]) minister and educator; born in Ladekopp, Molotschna Mennonite settlement, South Russia

the first ministers in the Partridge, Illinois, congregation (now Metamora) was Andrew Ebersole. Frank S. Ebersole (General Conference Mennonite) (1875-

of 103) was an Amish preacher in Roanoke, Illinois. James Reusser is a minister (General Conference Mennonite Church) in the Salem Church near Dalton, Ohio

Kinnzinger, Kinzinger, Kitzinger) was a Swiss Mennonite family name occurring in the Palatinate Mennonite census lists under various spellings in 1717,

John S. Hirschler, a Mennonite (General Conference Mennonite [GCM]) minister and leader, was born at Maxweiler, Bavaria, Germany on 4 July 1847, and in

Evangelical Mennonite Church at Gridley, Illinois. Of this line was Elder Joseph K. Gerig (d. 1944), prominent leader in the Evangelical Mennonite Conference

Affiliations: Illinois Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church (MC) MLA style Steiner, Samuel J. "South Pekin Mennonite Church (Pekin, Illinois, USA)." Global

Affiliations: Mennonite Church USA MLA style Weidner, Mark. "Central District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia

Cicero, Illinois 60804 Phone: 708-780-1170 Website: http://www.sonidodealabanza.com/index.html Denominational Affiliations: Illinois Mennonite Conference

History of the Alberta-Saskatchewan Mennonite Conference. Ryley, Alberta: Alberta-Saskatchewan Mennonite Conference, 1960. MLA style Regehr, Ted D. "Stauffer

Lancaster Mennonite Conference, including the conference-type of church organization and government (polity). The Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church has

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

Heinz Daniel Janzen, Mennonite pastor and General Secretary of the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) in Newton, Kansas, USA (1969-1980) born 19

states and conference districts ministers' meetings were of more recent origin. Sometimes they were called Ministers Fellowship (Illinois) or Ministers Retreat

and Eastern Mennonite College. Numerous local broadcasts were produced by General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Brethren, and Mennonite Church (MC)

(1906-1994) was a General Conference Mennonite minister in Missouri, and Edwin Albrecht was a Conservative Amish Mennonite minister in Indiana. The Albrechts

of the Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference. Yoder, Edward. "Henry Yother (1810-1900), Mennonite Preacher and Bishop." Mennonite Historical Bulletin (June

adhered to the Old Order Mennonite Church. At least five Burkharts have been ministers or deacons in the Lancaster Conference. In 1751 a Michael Burghart

day to the Amish Mennonite Conference Line. MLA style Hoover, Amos B. "Amish Mennonite Conference Line." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

Brubacher Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), now extinct, once located between Five Points and Paradise Hill in Richland County, Ohio (after 1840, Ashland

Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pp. 612-613. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

These were Mennonite families with roots in Pennsylvania. This congregation became one of the anchors in the Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference. The Roseland

on 6 November 1960. The Chappell Mennonite Church became a charter member of the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Conference in 1961. As young people continued

the General Conference Mennonite Church (1930-46), and Mennonitisches (GCM) Jahrbuch (1948- ). The Proceedings of the Conference on Mennonite Educational

Canadian Mennonites, virtually all from the General Conference Mennonite Church (Conference of Mennonites in Canada) or Mennonite Brethren conferences, and

western conferences of Iowa-Nebraska, North Central, and Pacific Coast. A 1950s study showed that about 40 per cent of Mennonite Church ministers were ordained

Niagara Bible Conference in the Emergence of American Fundamentalism, 1875-1900." Walter spent his entire life serving in the Mennonite church. He was

Augustana College (1954) and Lutheran School of Theology (1958), both in Illinois, and served as pastor at Grace Lutheran Church in East Tawas, Michigan

Amish Mennonite and Mennonite district conferences began to merge, East Fairview joined the new Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church

prominent New Mennonite minister. The Blair location slowly lost members, who with the advent of better transportation, went to other New Mennonite churches

Aurora, Illinois, USA, began in 2003. On 5 December 2010, Costanzo Aguirre was ordained as a Mennonite minister by the Illinois Mennonite Conference of Mennonite

General Conference Mennonite Church were immigration houses (Alexanderwohl, Hoffnungsau, etc.) and school-houses; the first Krimmer Mennonite Brethren

Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC) and the Central District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church provided financial support

expressed in conference session. The Eastern District Conference had been publishing The Mennonite which was now adopted as the General Conference weekly publication

George Gundy, a leader in the Central (Illinois) Conference, was born at Carlock, Illinois in 1880, son of Jacob Gundy and Lena Kinsinger, and married

r,_Illinois,_USA)&oldid=178549. APA style Gingerich, Melvin. (1956). Gardner Mennonite Church (Gardner, Illinois, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia

summary history of the Brethren. In the same year he was honored with a conference at Bridgewater College that produced a Festschrift, titled From Age to

as a Mennonite minister by the Illinois Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA on 12 September 2004. "Huerta, Juan Carlos,..." TheMennonite 7 no

Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. Harrisonburg, Va.: Herald Press, 2016: 307. "Report Book for Annual Sessions 2022." Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. Elkhart

summer committee members from Pilgrim Mennonite Conference and Weaverland Mennonite Conference assist Hope Mennonite Fellowship in conducting the Hope Teachers

the Defenseless Mennonite Church, now Evangelical Mennonite Church. He loved music and became chorister in his church and later minister. Soon after his

Kraybill, Paul, N., ed. Mennonite World Handbook. Lombard, Ill.: Mennonite World Conference, 1978: 373. Musser, Daniel. The Reformed Mennonite Church, its Rise

number of Mennonite preachers had any formal training. In the mid 20th century, the majority of the ministers in certain Mennonite conferences had had college

Amish in America, but also of the Mennonite Church (MC), the General Conference Mennonite Church, the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren (now Fellowship of Evangelical

United Mennonites led by Daniel Brenneman, to become the Mennonite Brethren in Christ. Later, portions of the Wenger group joined the Mennonite Brethren

members of the Conservative Mennonite Conference: Followers of Jesus Mennonite Church in Brooklyn, New York; Pleasant Grove Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana;

the Conservative Mennonite Fellowship, Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church, Southeastern Mennonite Conference, and Midwest Mennonite Fellowship. However

the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference and Evangelical Mennonite Conference congregations in western Canada. Similar Bible conferences were common in

of the Mennonites in Russia. It grew out of the movement for union among Mennonites in America which resulted in the General Conference Mennonite Church

the realignment of the Mennonite Church (MC) and General Conference Mennonite Church into Mennonite Church USA, Manson Mennonite was among the congregations

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

IN: Mennonite Historical Society, 1929. Flory, J. S. Literary Activity of the German Baptist Brethren in the Eighteenth Century. Elgin, Illinois, 1908:

the Conservative Mennonite Conference until it withdrew and joined the Biblical Mennonite Alliance in August 2008. In 2019 the leading minister was Brian Petersheim

Amish). Mennonite Historian (Mennonite Heritage Committee of Mennonite Church Canada and Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies in Canada). Mennonite Heritage

Minnesota Phone: Website: Denominational Affiliations: Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church (MC) MLA style Garber, Christian J. and Samuel J. Steiner

into the area from Pekin, Illinois, in the early 1920s, together with three families from the Ashley Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church [MC]) congregation

Selden Amish Mennonite Church, now extinct, was a member of the Western Amish Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church). Selden is in northwest Kansas in

Defenseless Mennonite Conference. Others became affiliated with the Mennonite Brethren in Christ. MLA style Zimmerman, E. E. "Milford Defenseless Mennonite Church

the conference. Their recommendation, subsequently implemented by the Mennonite Conference of Ontario,with which the Alberta Mennonite Conference (later

1878 conference session of the General Conference Mennonite Church decided that S. S. Haury of Summerfield, Illinois should investigate the possibilities

District Conference General Conference Mennonite Church By Dale E. Schertz. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia

Diener-Versammlung, minutes of the Amish Mennonite Ministers' Conferences held annually 1862-78 (except 1877) before district conferences were organized. The minutes

in 1963 in the Quad Cities area. The Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Mission Board and the Illinois Mennonite Mission Board sponsored their work, initially located

president of Bluffton College in 1908-1935, and a leader in the General Conference Mennonite Church. Michael Mosimann, born ca. 1820 in Lorraine, came to the

Plains Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church USA By Samuel Oswald. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia

more acculturated Mennonite groups. In 1972 only 50% of the members in the Mennonite Church, General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Brethren Church

Prairie Rose Evangelical Mennonite Church. Susan Plett was the first member of the KG and the Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC) to serve as a foreign

Central Mennonite Conference (MC; 2, 65); Midwest Mennonite Fellowship (2, 84); Brethren in Christ (1, 34); Conservative Mennonite Conference (MC; 1, 33)

2008. He is buried in the Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery. Dale Suderman grew up in the Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church. He graduated from

"Without a doubt, the Mennonite hymnary is the best hymnal that the General Conference Mennonites or any other Mennonite conference has published" (Wohlgemuth)

Marlin Dyck traveled to Evanston, Illinois, to attend a church conference at Reba Place Fellowship. They left the conference inspired to form a church that

South German Mennonite Conference (1885) published a few pamphlets and the hymnbook of the conference. Heinrich Schneider, a Mennonite minister and printer

founding of two India Mennonite missions, the Mennonite Church in 1899 and the General Conference Mennonite Church in 1900. The Mennonite Brethren in Christ