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- of the belief system to which one is converted and, furthermore, upon the personality characteristics of the convert. Conversion can be described as intellectual17 KB (2,721 words) - 14:18, 31 December 2018
- the French for a short period, who attempted to catholicize the town. To convert the Mennonites they sent Dr. Formantijn from Paris; but van Voorst’s superior4 KB (613 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- he was beheaded on 7 August 1587 after a vain attempt by the Jesuits to convert him (Die Lieder der Hutlerischen Brűder, 785). The first settlement of Jesuits7 KB (971 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- Catholic Church. In 1563 the Catholic priest Georg Cassander was assigned to convert to Catholicism the Anabaptist teacher Johannes Campanus, who had for years13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:37, 20 July 2021
- called "Lug ins Land." Osiander and other theologians tried in vain to convert him. In 1536 the council had a whole Bible brought to him with Melanchthon's15 KB (2,514 words) - 00:54, 16 January 2017
- rulers. But he did not yield, and sent the pastor Raidt to Mühlhausen to convert the Anabaptists imprisoned there; Raidt was surprisingly successful in persuading24 KB (3,956 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- records would be appropriate if Ammann had been a convert from the Reformed Church to Anabaptism. As a new convert Ammann might have become more committed to7 KB (1,152 words) - 21:30, 29 October 2019
- Strasbourg, Alsace. Among them baptism was performed as a sign that the adult convert was forsaking the world, the flesh, and the devil, and entering into a covenant4 KB (521 words) - 23:26, 15 January 2017
- Hearings took place at Imst in 1538, to which Dr. Gallus Müller was sent to convert the accused. But Müller's efforts were in vain. There Sebastian Hubmaier6 KB (1,001 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- of Eisenach, and who persisted in their faith in spite of all efforts to convert them. They were Hans Köhler of Eyerode and Hans Scheffer of Hastungsfelde9 KB (1,348 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
- and after repeated cross-examination, cruel torture, and vain attempts to convert him was beheaded on 5 March 1558, at the age of 25 years (not 5 May as stated7 KB (1,047 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- (1740-1780) allowed the otherwise forbidden Jesuits to exert all means to convert non-Catholics back to the Roman Church. And what torture, dungeon, and executioners126 KB (6,564 words) - 00:19, 5 August 2023
- had concentrated sufficiently in this area in 1874 to buy a tavern and convert it into a meetinghouse. Church activities outgrew this building by 18832 KB (354 words) - 16:38, 20 September 2014
- Dionysius Vinne, traveled from Münster to Osnabrück in October 1534 in order to convert this town. They were all arrested before they could begin their work; four757 bytes (182 words) - 15:48, 20 January 2014
- cross-examined two days later. The attempts made by Dr. Gallus Müller to convert him were fruitless. Even if he had recanted, his tragic fate would not have22 KB (3,489 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- given two or three hours for reflection; then new attempts were made to convert them, with the result that three prisoners recanted, while Christoph Ortlep6 KB (959 words) - 00:27, 16 January 2017
- Anabaptists in his country. But he continued his practice of trying to convert them by conversations with clergymen. Leonard Dax, a Hutterite missioner45 KB (5,948 words) - 12:32, 15 May 2019
- the heretics. This reputation induced Philip of Hesse to summon him to convert the Anabaptists imprisoned in Marburg. But before this Bucer still had to36 KB (5,619 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
- (4) the water of baptism does not save. The greatest efforts were made to convert him. "Even the prince had pity upon him and is said to have most urgently1 KB (313 words) - 19:03, 20 August 2013
- Hans Gurtzham. A deacon and the parson of Villach put forth much effort to convert them, but were worsted by the superior Biblical knowledge of the defendants7 KB (1,201 words) - 00:24, 16 January 2017
- Innsbruck and imprisoned in the Krauter tower. He refused all attempts to convert him, and died at the stake on 2 June 1529 at Innsbruck. The authorities2 KB (381 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- repeatedly, and Dax defended his faith with skill, resisting all attempts to convert him to the Reformed faith. He boldly voiced his opposition to the use of3 KB (528 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- missions first found expression in 1876, when Christian Hope, a Danish convert in this country, returned to his homeland to share his new-found faith with17 KB (2,603 words) - 06:15, 6 October 2016
- convinced of the truth of their faith, that all attempts of the clergy to convert them failed and threats of punishment did not move them. The expectation5 KB (867 words) - 07:26, 16 January 2017
- commissioned in September 1764 by Maria Theresa, Queen of Austria-Hungary, to convert the Anabaptists (Hutterites) living at Alwinz in the Hungarian province2 KB (296 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- and were attended by great crowds. His first difficult assignment was to convert Jakob Hutter, who had just been brought to prison. Müller no doubt did all8 KB (1,315 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- inflicted the death penalty in spiritual matters, but first undertook to convert the heretics. Sometimes they held formal disputations; theologians from3 KB (551 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- Sterzing. Wearied by his long imprisonment and the continued attempts to convert him, he escaped from the tower. "God helped' him out," say the Hutterite10 KB (1,701 words) - 22:38, 13 June 2017
- Reformed church council of the Palatinate had ceremonious attempts made to convert four Anabaptists at Bretten. Summoning all his scholarship, the Reformed7 KB (1,066 words) - 07:26, 16 January 2017
- entered into the meetinghouse during services in order to address and "to convert" the Mennonites; they repeatedly held debates with the noted Mennonite leader8 KB (1,052 words) - 21:08, 13 October 2014
- evangelists summarily thrown into prison and under this pressure tried to convert them. The charge that the government was persecuting the Anabaptists without7 KB (1,039 words) - 20:37, 13 April 2014
- opponent of the Anabaptists he brought it about that an attempt was made to convert Erbe. To this end Erbe was taken to the monastery in Eisenach and kept there3 KB (614 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- Emperor Charles VI authorized the creation of a special Jesuit mission to convert them to the Roman Catholic faith. Such a mission, composed of Johan Milan9 KB (1,402 words) - 20:50, 26 November 2013
- be converted by teaching and instruction rather than punished with the sword. Summoned by the Duke of Cleve, Cassander went to Duisburg to convert the4 KB (530 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
- district had been formed as the result of the work of a young Canadian convert, Peter Cober, and Daniel Brenneman. Other early workers were Samuel Shirk1 KB (254 words) - 15:58, 27 July 2014
- expressly promised in the Edict was prohibited. All means were used to convert the Protestants. The most terrible of these was the compulsory quartering7 KB (1,166 words) - 00:35, 16 January 2017
- went to Strasbourg (Cornelius, II, 274). Here the reformers tried again to convert him. He left the city, but returned in August, and was seized on 22 October10 KB (1,595 words) - 23:23, 15 January 2017
- imperial mandates solemnly read in the churches, an effort was still made to convert the Anabaptists by having preachers and university professors debate with32 KB (4,637 words) - 16:12, 6 April 2020
- missionary. In 1884 J. J. Kliewer succeeded S. S. Haury and in 1888 the first convert was baptized. In 1896, because the Indigenous were moving away and the children3 KB (445 words) - 18:14, 26 January 2023
- Noah Mack was the superintendent of the mission until 1910. The first convert was baptized in 1917, but a permanent congregation was not established until7 KB (842 words) - 19:17, 8 August 2023
- Anabaptists some pious souls, whom Blaurer could, with his gentleness, convert. But most of them, Blaurer says, were maliciously intent upon re-establishing8 KB (1,169 words) - 23:18, 15 January 2017
- Allendorf, were sent to Wolkersdorf by Philipp of Hesse in August 1538 to convert the prisoners, Georg Schnabel was already at home with his family. But they3 KB (443 words) - 18:58, 20 August 2013
- consolidated her empire, she gave special orders to Jesuit missionaries to convert the Anabaptists still extant in her realm. We read in the Geschicht-Buch15 KB (2,293 words) - 07:30, 16 January 2017
- The preachers of the city, Rhegius, Frosch, Agricola and Keller, were to convert them. On 21 and 25 September 1527 they disputed for hours with the prisoners25 KB (3,662 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- were obviously amazed. Two learned clergymen came expressly from Munich to convert him, but it was to no avail. Their rational theology was one thing, his7 KB (1,105 words) - 08:41, 19 December 2014
- Anabaptist menace in London and Kent. Cranmer was active, however, in seeking to convert Anabaptists by methods of persuasion. In April 1549 he and other church47 KB (7,073 words) - 15:06, 29 March 2021
- necessary examine them about their fellow members and leaders, and try to convert them. All children should be baptized early. Those who refused to have theirs51 KB (7,917 words) - 23:58, 15 January 2017
- the Lower Austrian Landmarschall, Hans Wilhelm, Baron of Rogendorf, to convert the brothers Marx and Bernhard Klampferer, but to no avail. In the 1580s5 KB (833 words) - 00:33, 16 January 2017
- Glaser and taken to Imst. Dr. Gall (see Gallus Müller) was sent to Imst to convert them, but his trouble was in vain. The confession made by Grünfelder reveals4 KB (593 words) - 00:28, 16 January 2017
- were not producing the desired results, and that more could be done to convert the Anabaptists by persuasion. In Dr. Gallus Müller, court preacher in Innsbruck9 KB (1,435 words) - 07:31, 16 January 2017
- after a marriage of two years, and urged her to be steadfast. He tried to convert his fellow prisoners by proclaiming God's Word to them. While he was being6 KB (1,041 words) - 00:01, 16 January 2017
- Bishop Heinrich von Ackon decided to have various scholars attempt to convert them. They had partial success. Two mothers of newborn babies agreed to4 KB (756 words) - 07:29, 16 January 2017
- insurrectionists and violators of electoral commands, and after another attempt to convert them, were banished. The protocol was published three months after the disputation12 KB (1,826 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- mission also ended in failure. Once more Fabricius was used by Philipp to convert imprisoned Anabaptists. In August 1538, when he was pastor at Allendorf4 KB (572 words) - 03:09, 12 April 2014
- church. He probably died in prison, since Peter Tesch had tried in vain to convert him. All of Rinck's writings but three have been lost. One of these is an11 KB (1,791 words) - 16:44, 16 May 2022
- castle. He was again cross-examined. A priest was summoned from Bregenz to convert him, and hoped to gain honor and fame by this colloquy. But when he was3 KB (544 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- criminals, they zealously confessed their faith and defied all attempts to convert them; nor did they change their view after nearly a year of imprisonment2 KB (427 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- Church) came to birth in July 1904 with the baptism of P. A. Penner's first convert, Sirkanti Bai, a patient suffering from Hansen's Disease (leprosy). She6 KB (979 words) - 15:11, 27 July 2014
- arrival Musculus and his colleague Bonifacius Wolfhart began his attempts to convert them. Jakob Daschser, who had been in prison since 28 August 1527, and had4 KB (631 words) - 23:28, 15 January 2017
- Anabaptists teach is wicked, yet we must use caution and use every means to convert them before we reach for the sword." And the chaplain Melander said, "The54 KB (8,867 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- this last extremity, and do not hold this evil deed to their account, but convert them; for they know not what they do." He was a native of Kortrijk, living2 KB (361 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- some willow thickets into pasture. With pick and hoe it would be easier to convert them than with the Bible. Their imprisonment continued. The Urach Pfarrelationen3 KB (486 words) - 00:33, 16 January 2017
- directions by the Innsbruck government to have competent and pious priests convert them, and to report the names of those who recanted and deliver the obstinate5 KB (837 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- former he preached seven successive sermons in 1556; the latter he tried to convert through church inspections. According to his statement, five councilmen5 KB (860 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
- Boyars. However, his father refused to send his son to Moscow and have him convert to the Orthodox faith. Instead, Sigismund proposed that Wladyslaw reign4 KB (698 words) - 18:12, 16 November 2016
- Anabaptists who had been taken prisoner, in order to convert them, but Corvinus did not succeed in "converting those stubborn Widertouffer." Corvinus wrote much2 KB (390 words) - 03:01, 12 April 2014
- courthouse in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. All attempts to convert them having failed, they were sentenced to die by drowning. On the way to3 KB (495 words) - 23:27, 15 January 2017
- money. They made a confession of their faith. The priests tried in vain to "convert" them. The prisoners were finally told that they would be tolerated if they3 KB (505 words) - 06:59, 16 January 2017
- baptism from him. Uolimann had met Grebel in Schaffhausen and become a convert; he did not want to have the customary basin of water poured over him, "but16 KB (2,526 words) - 07:58, 29 October 2013
- should be permitted to attend the meetings of the sectarians in order to convert them. Marnix van St. Aldegonde even favored capital punishment for them7 KB (1,176 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- definite experience. This was expressed in general or special meetings by the convert rising to his feet sometimes during the sermon and asking the church for24 KB (2,911 words) - 12:42, 21 March 2024
- council favored expulsion, and the clergy undertook public attempts to convert them. A confession of faith discovered in the search of a house was sent8 KB (1,308 words) - 19:14, 29 April 2020
- the Mennonite population was evacuated westward. The meetinghouse was converted into a cinema. Dormann, E. and H. Eckerdt. Geschichte des Kreises Marienburg3 KB (499 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- Müller, noted for his success in leading prisoners to recant, took pains to convert Glaser and his fellow prisoners, Hans Grünfelder and the aged Oswald, he5 KB (719 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- sent a letter to the Speyer council, requesting them to receive the two to convert the Anabaptists at Speyer. MLA style Neff, Christian. "Eysenburg, Johann811 bytes (191 words) - 19:12, 20 August 2013
- Abraham and Anna Ratzlaff, and Gerhard and Katharina Giesbrecht. The first convert, Sepe Thama (i.e., a son), was baptized after ten years of work. In 19513 KB (460 words) - 16:55, 26 January 2023
- Cleve called the noted Catholic scholar George Cassander to Duisburg to convert the Anabaptists there. There may have been some continuing traces of Anabaptism3 KB (445 words) - 16:57, 12 April 2014
- Korrespondenz mit den Graubündnern II, 33). On the other hand, his attempts to convert an imprisoned Anabaptist failed (see Grisons). He died 5 September 15661 KB (218 words) - 14:32, 23 August 2013
- that Gentner had not opposed him on this point. Hans Feuerbach, a recent convert, was then sent to Württemberg to summon Gentner and Kramer to Moravia. Gentner4 KB (693 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- He rejected the attempts of the Catholic priests and the city council to convert him and was therefore sentenced to death. After two questionings on the2 KB (326 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- had entered the Bruderhof in Sobotište and had made a futile attempt to convert the Hutterian Brethren; now another attempt was made by summoning the leaders7 KB (1,135 words) - 18:55, 28 July 2018
- Balthasar Raidt, also of Hersfeld, was often engaged by the authorities to convert the Anabaptists; he reported that by 1544 he had dealt with over 300 Anabaptists2 KB (299 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- 1530 Kolb and Kaspar Grossman, in the presence of the Council, tried to convert the Swiss Brethren leader, Konrad Eichacher, by means of Romans 8, but was2 KB (385 words) - 07:31, 16 January 2017
- account of Protestant sympathies. He had been used by the city council to convert the Anabaptists. With the final establishment of the Reformation in the4 KB (604 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
- unrighteous living. The Catholic clergy made repeated sincere efforts to convert him; on the very scaffold he was offered freedom if he would recant only3 KB (455 words) - 07:00, 16 January 2017
- that Menno Simons joined in January 1536. Sicke Freerks was obviously a convert of Melchior Hofmann's, as well as Jan Volkertsz Trypmaker of Hoorn, who5 KB (727 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
- Catholic priest had appeared in the Mennonite church and was trying to convert them; such a crowd gathered before the little church that the meeting had2 KB (364 words) - 00:25, 16 January 2017
- scorpions. But he defied all force as well as the attempts of the clergy to convert him. He was executed at St. Lorenzen on 5 August 1592. The list of martyrs13 KB (2,094 words) - 23:26, 15 January 2017
- private residences were bought and converted into girls' boarding houses. In 1948 the old school building was converted into a boys' residence and infirmary3 KB (500 words) - 00:52, 16 January 2017
- Hohenwittlingen, where he was held prisoner for several decades. After an attempt to convert him in 1608 his tormentors apparently abandoned all hope of his returning4 KB (730 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- contacts both in Germany and Holland with the Anabaptists, trying even to convert them to his way; but this endeavor ended with totally negative results.27 KB (3,835 words) - 14:04, 31 December 2018
- orphanages. As this need diminished, French Mennonites were challenged to convert some of these homes to the care of persons with mental retardation. in 195115 KB (1,975 words) - 13:15, 19 March 2014
- the White Mountain near Prague (8 November 1620), were intent on either converting or expelling them. On 17 September 1622, Emperor Ferdinand II and on 284 KB (617 words) - 17:05, 17 September 2014
- God. After the conclusion of the cross-examination and the attempts to convert them Lober stated that he would not desist from his faith; likewise spoke14 KB (2,408 words) - 23:24, 15 January 2017
- delegates from Styria decided that if they did not respond to efforts to convert them, they should be branded on the forehead and expelled; two delegates4 KB (726 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- salvation through repentance and faith, but which ordinarily leaves the new convert less than a fully victorious child of God; and second, the second work of9 KB (1,388 words) - 19:48, 20 August 2013
- difficult for the group. No strong leadership emerged until an earlier convert to the CGC from Lutheran parentage, Fredrick C. Fricke (1867-1947), took66 KB (4,242 words) - 14:54, 23 March 2021
- pity for her youth and sex, attempts had been made by Dr. Gallus Müller to convert her. Though she was not versed in the Scriptures, she clung to her faith4 KB (645 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- baptism. The authorities, assisted by the clergy, sought fanatically "to convert him," but in vain. Willem remained steadfast. Génard, P. Antwerpsch archievenblad845 bytes (180 words) - 16:02, 18 October 2016
- Francijntgen, and Maeyken Doornaerts. In spite of the special efforts to convert her because of her youth, she remained steadfast to the end. Braght, Thieleman2 KB (283 words) - 17:11, 11 June 2020
- repeatedly cross-examined and terribly tortured. When all these attempts to convert them proved futile, they were beheaded on 19 July 1560. Beck, Josef. Die2 KB (316 words) - 23:24, 15 January 2017
- Eastern Mennonite College in 1960. His replacement, George Elsasser, a convert to the Mennonite faith, was not supportive of symbols of separation from4 KB (453 words) - 10:30, 23 November 2020
- on 17 February 1534. In October he was one of the apostles sent out to convert the world, but a few days after leaving Münster he was arrested at Soest1 KB (233 words) - 09:20, 20 January 2014
- Ontario (CMCO). Some families in the Fort Stewart area knew that Elsasser, a convert to the Mennonite faith, was not supportive of symbols of separation from4 KB (483 words) - 13:45, 17 June 2021
- prison and put on a meager diet. The pastors must from time to time try to convert them and must meanwhile baptize their as yet unbaptized children. Anyone5 KB (899 words) - 23:22, 15 January 2017
- Mennonite conferences. The two conferences had ordained Henry Müller, a mission convert, as a deacon the year before. After Stoltzfus' health declined in 1924,5 KB (536 words) - 12:56, 30 October 2022
- established in India, China, Republic of the Congo, Africa, where through the converts that have been won, indigenous MB churches have sprung up. Through Mennonite67 KB (7,839 words) - 12:44, 23 September 2023
- seized in 1558 with Gotthard of Nonnenberg, and, when all attempts to convert them proved futile, beheaded at Windeck castle. Their brave death made a2 KB (380 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- was among them. Hans Peckh was immovable. The authorities were unable to "convert" him in Passau. The court record reports, "he remained firm." (See also2 KB (341 words) - 00:06, 16 January 2017
- While Sobotište was left in peace, there was no cessation of attempts to convert the Brethren in Trentschin. On 3 March 1676 the three Brethren were again4 KB (674 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- drowned there on 9 October 1582. Twenty-four priests had vainly tried to convert the two men. Some of the judges hesitated to pronounce the death sentence3 KB (432 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
- spite of torture he refused to betray his brethren, and all attempts to convert him to the Catholic faith failed. He was sentenced to death for leaving3 KB (430 words) - 23:31, 15 January 2017
- imprisoned in Klausenburg three years. Continued attempts were made to convert him, but to no avail. Waldner repeats some of the conversations between8 KB (1,492 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- away. A Jesuit report of 18 September 1763, claims that all attempts to convert Zacharias had failed. But eventually he, too, succumbed to the unbelievable3 KB (442 words) - 23:31, 15 January 2017
- of their homes, and the rising Counter Reformation in Slovakia tried to convert them to Catholicism and to compel them to have their children baptized.3 KB (423 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
- suffering" was instrumental in converting some at Colchester from "papism into true repentance, whereas nothing before could convert them." "For in his death2 KB (386 words) - 15:15, 8 June 2017
- established at Jansen (near Fairbury, Nebraska, USA) in 1880, largely out of converts from the Kleine Gemeinde, which continued until 1930. In the same year16 KB (2,088 words) - 10:53, 29 August 2020
- where they remained 15 weeks, while Jesuits from Oettingen vainly tried to convert them. Twice they were asked while on the rack who had sheltered them and3 KB (498 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2017
- execution, accompanied by a Jesuit and another monk, who were still trying to convert him. At the place of execution they held a crucifix before his eyes and3 KB (515 words) - 17:46, 20 December 2014
- the end of 1529 he was arrested. No fewer than 14 learned men tried to convert him. His relatives, brothers, and sister begged him with tears to renounce3 KB (497 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- Batta (pl. Batak) are a Malay tribe on Sumatra. The first attempt to convert the Batak to Christianity was made by the English Baptists in 1820. Fourteen3 KB (497 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- then taken to Neustadt on the Orla, where Lutheran clergymen endeavored to convert them (Thüringen, 140 and 151), as was reported to Johann Friedrich, Elector3 KB (506 words) - 00:53, 16 January 2017
- Marcus Cornelisz and Cop Heyne; the latter had been a Münsterite, but was converted at Amsterdam. Of Münsterite ideas there is no further trace among the Anabaptists17 KB (2,338 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
- province of Utrecht, in 1534; by trade he was a weaver. About 1556 he was converted to the Mennonite principles and soon played a role in the small Amersfoort5 KB (674 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- of the monks." And then he goes on musing, "I often said if I could only convert these Anabaptists, so that our coreligionists could learn their way of life5 KB (828 words) - 14:35, 23 August 2013
- baptize all infants according to Catholic rites; committees were sent out to convert the Anabaptists. With some they succeeded; most of them accepted the Catholic5 KB (884 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- Janzen, Sarah Kroeker, and Walter Scott Herr. In January 1915 the first two converts of the Congo Inland Mission were baptized at Djoka Punda and the first6 KB (828 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2021
- to recant in Schleitheim. At first the authorities hoped to be able to convert the Anabaptists back to the Reformed Church, and had the pastor conduct11 KB (1,723 words) - 06:58, 16 January 2017
- wife, Mariam, decided to convert as well. But his second wife refused. Rumors had spread within the village that those who converted to Christianity did not8 KB (1,208 words) - 15:09, 12 April 2022
- with the prisoners from 30 October to 1 November 1538, and succeeded in converting them. Nevertheless there were remnants of Anabaptist groups in Hesse and4 KB (672 words) - 14:08, 23 August 2013
- men in training camps to allow time for conscientious objectors to be converted to the military crusade. Although reliable figures are unavailable, it13 KB (1,952 words) - 14:37, 28 March 2017
- Anabaptists, and for a long time resisted the attempts of the Catholic clergy to convert him. In the period just preceding and during Hutter's imprisonment the Anabaptist6 KB (943 words) - 00:56, 16 January 2017
- enemies and the content of the numerous man-dates, brought a stream of new converts to the Mennonites. In spite of many reprints, also in the period of tolerance6 KB (992 words) - 17:00, 20 July 2021
- Dowan, a medicine man who assisted them and became the first Christian convert. Wanzida means "One Face," a person of integrity. Later, the Roman Catholic4 KB (542 words) - 15:56, 12 December 2017
- Stadian, pastor in Göppingen, a Humanist and an old friend of Melanchthon, to convert the Anabaptists. He cannot have been a Lutheran preacher, as asserted by10 KB (1,639 words) - 23:30, 15 January 2017
- was left to languish in the prison but occupied himself with efforts to convert his fellow prisoners. When admonished by a priest concerning this he refused6 KB (1,035 words) - 23:22, 15 January 2017
- Hutterites record that in the spring of 1608 Berka instigated an attempt to convert them by force. Two companies of horsemen surrounded the Bruderhof for two6 KB (1,051 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- Melanchthon hoped. On 13 January they had still resisted his attempts to convert them, and were described by Melanchthon as stubborn (Corp, Ref. III, 21)17 KB (2,767 words) - 17:53, 20 July 2021
- and soon found converts among dissatisfied Amish Mennonites there. Joseph Graybill, an Amish Mennonite, was one of the first converts and the first Apostolic9 KB (1,402 words) - 23:28, 3 June 2019
- conversion experiences. Some converts were young teenagers. Although Bishop Joseph Hagey of Waterloo baptized the 1869 converts, he refused to baptize subsequent5 KB (763 words) - 13:11, 26 October 2019
- Waldenses; for such knowledge can be acquired in a short time. Examples of new converts in all periods of the Christian church prove this. Some Anabaptists seem13 KB (1,918 words) - 14:07, 31 December 2018
- Moravia; they were severely tortured and subjected to many attempts to convert them. They, however, made a marvelous escape from prison and reached the838 bytes (173 words) - 23:30, 15 January 2017
- widest circles of the population. To a young man whom he was trying to convert, he said, "Marx, hitherto you have been a happy young man and must now become39 KB (6,366 words) - 17:42, 20 July 2021
- visited in October 1534 by eight apostles sent out by Jan van Leyden to convert its citizens. Among the apostles were Johann Dusentschuer, Hendrik Slachtscaep1 KB (186 words) - 15:59, 20 January 2014
- the principles of the two groups, but also to the fact that attempts to convert members of the state churches in most cases brought severe persecution.34 KB (4,735 words) - 14:53, 9 April 2020
- missioners did not hesitate to "raid" the Swiss Brethren congregations to secure converts for "the Church of God" in Moravia, as a document of 1587 (TA Hessen, 494)9 KB (1,298 words) - 15:38, 7 December 2019
- attacked the publication and offered to send several hundred tracts to convert the Kleine Gemeinde. On the other side Abraham Friesen protested that the6 KB (820 words) - 00:57, 16 January 2017
- Abraham and Anna Ratzlaff, and Gerhard and Katharina Giesbrecht. The first convert, Sepe Thama (i.e., a son), was baptized after ten years of work. In 19515 KB (784 words) - 17:08, 26 January 2023
- taken root in both countries since the original efforts. Several national converts have been ordained. One Belizean church and most churches in El Salvador3 KB (464 words) - 14:07, 26 July 2016
- in the time of Cromwell in England. Their name indicates their effort to convert idle land into a farm for the establishment of a colony of a religious communistic1 KB (245 words) - 03:12, 13 April 2014
- in three major steps. In the summer of 1946 a barn on the property was converted into a school with four rooms and dining facilities. In 1948 four classrooms2 KB (343 words) - 15:21, 9 April 2020
- Hiddema. The church was closed in 1999 and converted into a museum. In 2008 the church was sold and converted into housing. Doopsgezind Jaarboekje (1850):3 KB (295 words) - 03:47, 13 October 2014
- descendants of settlers from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; there are also some converts resulting from missionary efforts. There are six churches in the district2 KB (224 words) - 19:32, 5 March 2021
- Imprisonment is more frightening and also makes it possible to continue efforts to convert them. In the meantime intervention had been made by the States-General of5 KB (900 words) - 06:22, 19 December 2014
- the council saw to it that they soon left the city. Among the prominent converts were the councillors and master goldsmiths Hans Müller and Daniel Hochweher7 KB (1,093 words) - 23:30, 15 January 2017
- Carthage, the son of a captain, well educated, familiar with Greek, was converted to Christianity and defended its doctrines in numerous writings. His book2 KB (420 words) - 16:57, 20 July 2021
- escaped. He was raised on the farm and attended the local school. He was converted in 1856 and soon after joined the Mennonite Church (MC). On 22 March 18575 KB (752 words) - 05:47, 12 April 2014
- warden to the magistrate with the message that all further attempts to "convert" them would be futile. Thereupon the death sentence was pronounced and immediately2 KB (281 words) - 07:17, 19 December 2014
- to Moravia, when he was seized at Schärding. He defied all attempts to convert him, "would not deviate to the right or to the left." Condemned to death2 KB (396 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- in that capacity for 14 years. According to his testimony, he was not converted until eleven years after his ordination (1869, Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada)3 KB (435 words) - 15:27, 11 October 2013
- Java with Pieter Jansz (1820-1904) going out in 1851 (first baptism of 5 converts in 1854) as a teacher. A second and third worker were also sent out with11 KB (1,633 words) - 13:59, 23 August 2013
- Zwaardgeesten, who were even more radical than the Münsterites. All who were not converted according to their doctrine, i.e., who would not join their party, could9 KB (1,264 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- carried on. The Rudri Christian families moved to Maradeo, owned by an Indian convert, in which settlement is now a small but very active Christian community1 KB (291 words) - 14:48, 23 August 2013
- into a special cell. When all attempts of Catholic priests from Vienna to convert them proved futile, 90 men, after a moving parting from their wives and2 KB (301 words) - 23:16, 15 January 2017
- this epistle in one of the codices. Repeated attempts by the clergy to convert Fichter failed, and therefore he was put to death. He is reputedly the author3 KB (441 words) - 23:21, 15 January 2017
- after six days of imprisonment, during which the priests tried in vain to convert him, he was drowned on 27 July 1592. Three or four times the executioner3 KB (479 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- trying to win converts in the mines around Schwaz in the Inn Valley. Here he was captured and taken to Schwaz. Several attempts were made to convert him to the2 KB (431 words) - 07:27, 16 January 2017
- graduates. During the German occupation (1941-1943) the school was again converted into the Zentralschule and continued the Mennonite tradition, even commemorating7 KB (975 words) - 07:30, 20 November 2016
- religious conformity to the dominant church. Many recanters were fresh converts, immature in Anabaptist thought and life; some had been Anabaptists for6 KB (964 words) - 18:56, 20 August 2013
- respected patrician Veith Pfeffel; another patrician, Leonhard Khoberer, was converted. When Hut was on trial in Augsburg and questioned about his activities7 KB (1,022 words) - 00:58, 16 January 2017
- Müller, Berner Täufer, gives the information that after repeated attempts to convert them to the state church they were taken by boat to Holland on 10 September3 KB (437 words) - 08:40, 19 December 2014
- Ruth and Rhoda Ressler, served as missionaries in Japan. Ressler was converted and united with the Mennonite Church (MC) at Strasburg, Pennsylvania, at4 KB (571 words) - 00:57, 16 January 2017
- Heerbrand, Dietrich Schnepf, and other Tübingen theologians in trying to convert Walch. Walch finally signed a recantation on 12 July 1582. He now went to5 KB (910 words) - 23:31, 15 January 2017
- his father's farm near Dale Enterprise. At the age of 16, Coffman was converted and baptized in Muddy Creek, near the Bank Church. A short time later,8 KB (1,205 words) - 06:28, 20 February 2014
- he was brought to Rome and delivered to the Pope, who tried in vain to convert him and then gave him over to a most terrible death in 1557. The letter3 KB (491 words) - 16:29, 2 December 2016
- were maintained, with follow up literature circulated to converts. Continuing contact with converts was maintained by evangelistic teams who visited during10 KB (1,392 words) - 01:53, 11 March 2019
- was established in 895. Stephen I ascended to the throne in 1000 AD and converted the country to Christianity. Hungary was partially occupied by the Ottoman5 KB (817 words) - 08:22, 18 May 2014
- of the count. In 1565 William, Duke of Jülich-Cleve-Berg, asked Lo to "convert" the Anabaptists held in Blankenberg and Bensberg. Lo disputed with them3 KB (478 words) - 17:39, 20 July 2021
- 1890-1894 he worked for the Mennonite Publishing Company in Elkhart. He was converted at meetings held in Elkhart by his father and was baptized on 26 May 18886 KB (769 words) - 06:36, 13 February 2014
- become a most effective evangelist for the Anabaptist cause, winning many converts in Swabia, Franconia, Bavaria, Salzburg, and Tyrol. In Augsburg men of141 KB (17,966 words) - 14:22, 17 March 2023
- Here he was frequendy visited by the local clergy, who tried in vain to convert him. He asked to be banished from the country, promising never to return2 KB (463 words) - 06:59, 16 January 2017
- either reviled the conservers for being too conservative, or tried to convert them because they seemed to the progressives to be lacking in spiritual21 KB (2,840 words) - 07:31, 20 November 2016
- Tribulation Wholesome. The Anabaptists want the Philosopher’s Stone to convert goods into gold in order to use this money to win more people to their denomination3 KB (480 words) - 17:40, 20 July 2021
- ten years in Chicago were decisive in Funk's life. Here in 1858 he was converted in a Presbyterian revival, here he met and associated intimately with D11 KB (1,635 words) - 14:09, 2 July 2021
- immigrated with his parents to Hillsboro, Kansas at age three. He was converted at eighteen and joined the Gnadenau Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church.4 KB (588 words) - 23:59, 13 September 2019
- and judging from a letter Calvin wrote to Farel, they must have won some converts. But their work was of short duration. They were taken prisoner; two were3 KB (485 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- first sermon in the Emmanuel Church (General Conference Mennonite). He converted and baptized 70 persons; these formed the beginning of the Lone Tree congregation6 KB (697 words) - 11:45, 23 January 2021
- Most of the members were farmers. The meetinghouse was sold in 1998 and converted into a house. Loosjes, J. "Jan Jacobsz en de Jan-Jacobsgezinden." Nederlandsch3 KB (386 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- desired result or whether the martyr remained silent, an effort was made to convert him. This end was served not only by the cross-examinations, but more especially11 KB (1,750 words) - 14:03, 17 December 2018
- On 6 August 1871 he baptized the first three converts, and within ten years he had baptized 125 converts. Because of the education of his children he returned7 KB (1,065 words) - 18:53, 13 January 2019
- time the number was reported at 80,000. In South Germany they won many converts among the wool weavers. Nobles were among their patrons and even members11 KB (1,672 words) - 18:30, 28 July 2018
- "one-eyed Jakob," was born in Memmingen, Swabia, and seems to have been converted to Anabaptism in 1527, probably in Augsburg. From here he went to Nikolsburg5 KB (724 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- With friendliness and patient explanation Alber and his fellow preachers converted the Esslingen refugee Anabaptists back to the Lutheran faith, among them3 KB (460 words) - 00:57, 16 January 2017
- workers were indispensable as catechists and disciplers of prospective converts. Many workers went on to become pastors and church leaders. Of the first5 KB (813 words) - 18:53, 23 May 2014
- significant revitalization with the result that there is continuing interest in converting the religiously pluralistic republic of Indonesia into an Islamic republic19 KB (2,662 words) - 23:07, 24 January 2023
- Chimarrheus of Sittard, renowned for his eloquence and especially invited to convert her, had no success. The priests threatened her with everlasting pains in4 KB (790 words) - 00:36, 16 January 2017
- he was won for Anabaptism by Franz Intzinger and baptized with another convert. He married an Anabaptist woman, but she left him when he migrated to Moravia4 KB (675 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- and surroundings in early February 1896. In 1905 this association was converted into a Mennonite congregation. On Good Friday of 1896 ten persons were5 KB (628 words) - 16:49, 13 June 2016
- apostolic injunction of Romans 16:16. Cyprian reported that the one baptizing a convert, as well as the entire church, greeted the newly baptized with the holy34 KB (5,368 words) - 01:16, 21 December 2014
- Because of severe persecution, Hutter sent a large contingent of these newly converted brethren to Moravia, the "promised land," under the leadership of Zaunring6 KB (856 words) - 07:36, 16 January 2017
- eyes; yet could a brush make his voice heard, everyone's heart would be converted to virtuous living. Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1865): 69. Hege, Christian4 KB (672 words) - 21:36, 29 October 2019
- in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. They tried to convert them by sending evangelists, colporteurs, and Bible school students. In5 KB (778 words) - 01:55, 11 March 2019
- at a different site and the entire former Salem Hospital and Annex was converted into a larger home for the aged, known as the "Salem Home for the Aged2 KB (391 words) - 18:57, 20 August 2013
- administration of the properties of the Huizen congregation. The church, now converted into a private house, still stood in 1955, and an inscription, Religioni3 KB (394 words) - 01:18, 16 October 2014
- infant baptism. Kautz was won over for the Anabaptist principles; among his converts was his co-preacher Hilarius, who in turn converted many others. The clergy4 KB (604 words) - 19:57, 5 March 2019
- preacher at his side spoke sympathetically to him encouraging him to be converted, he hardly heard him; but when he perceived his mother's voice on the opposite12 KB (2,010 words) - 00:52, 16 January 2017
- the brotherhood to that spiritual and moral height which attracted many converts during the second half of the 16th century. He was a Tirolean, born near11 KB (1,644 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- decision to convert. Pastor Bado, of the Assemblies of God congregation in Sindou, led him in prayer. Afterwards, he went back, converted, to his home14 KB (2,557 words) - 13:24, 11 February 2023
- of the country with confiscation of their goods if they refused to be converted to Roman Catholicism. Nevertheless, in 1670 there were Mennonites in Born3 KB (431 words) - 21:26, 20 January 2014
- born near Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on 14 August 1823. Converted at the age of 18, he joined the United Brethren Church and began to preach1 KB (242 words) - 19:18, 20 August 2013
- his life as a carpenter, cabinet-maker, apiarist and a weaver. He was converted under the preaching of John S. Coffman and united with the Mennonite Church3 KB (481 words) - 21:24, 29 October 2019
- consideration for some justifiable innovations, and the zeal of those converted to new practices and principles brought the matter to a climax just as15 KB (1,801 words) - 22:18, 10 June 2019
- however, not very successful until 1907. After 1907 complete clans were converted and baptized, and a number of Christian congregations were established2 KB (337 words) - 18:52, 20 August 2013
- original hospital together with an annex which was built some years ago were converted into the Salem Home for the Aged, which was operated under a board separate2 KB (323 words) - 18:57, 20 August 2013
- The chief crops were corn, aipim (a starch-bearing tuber which must be converted to starch for profitable sale), and sweet potatoes. Attempts at dairying5 KB (843 words) - 00:33, 16 January 2017
- September 1867 he married Helena Rempel. In the spring of 1873 he was converted and joined the MB Church, baptized on 23 April 1873. He immediately had5 KB (677 words) - 15:47, 31 January 2014
- village school at Klippenfeld for two years. During this time Voth was converted and had a deep religious experience, and a remarkable revival also occurred4 KB (636 words) - 07:58, 12 March 2015
- of Obbe Philips against the Münsterite leaders. Hence he must have been converted from his revolutionary views to his former peaceful grounds. Returning3 KB (458 words) - 11:43, 21 April 2017
- was gradually discontinued and was closed ca. 1924 and the property was converted into the Welsh Mountain Samaritan Home. The spiritual ministry was continued2 KB (407 words) - 19:56, 29 November 2013
- area of Maienfeld and Fläsch were suppressed. At first they refused to be converted; but when the use of the rack was threatened they recanted. A leader escaped16 KB (2,521 words) - 00:28, 16 January 2017
- country schools in the vicinity of Buhler, Kansas for twelve years. He was converted in 1897 and joined the Ebenezer MB Church east of Buhler. In 1907, when3 KB (486 words) - 00:38, 7 July 2014
- of the Jesuits at Amsterdam, who in this period made a large number of converts including some Mennonites. As there is no agreement as to the year in which6 KB (1,013 words) - 17:23, 5 April 2016
- 1871, by Heinrich Dirks. On 3 August 1871, he received the first three converts into the congregation by baptism. When he left to return to Russia in 18812 KB (332 words) - 23:29, 15 January 2017
- formed by conversion and baptisms of the orphan boys and girls, and the converted families brought from other areas for labor and help. There have been few16 KB (2,073 words) - 11:22, 24 February 2021
- was transferred to Brandzoll. Hutter's wife was kept in Gufidaun to be converted from her error, but with the aid of friends she escaped from the castle3 KB (509 words) - 00:29, 16 January 2017
- accounts and artefacts by those who had. In Amsterdam Picart became a Huguenot convert, and partnered with another Huguenot refugee, the bookseller Jean-Frédéric7 KB (992 words) - 22:03, 23 November 2014
- Menno's view, people are created after the image of God when they are converted to Christ (Menno, Writings, 55-58, 396, 409, 416). Rarely does he refer11 KB (1,772 words) - 13:36, 31 December 2018
- 1834, German ed. Lancaster, 1827); Letter from John Herr to a Number of Converts in Eric County N.Y. (1833); A Remarkable Vision (1835). Herr also published5 KB (783 words) - 07:29, 16 January 2017
- began his teaching service in Mennonite village schools, 1881-88. He was converted at 19 and joined the Mennonite Brethren Church. In 1891 he went to Rumania4 KB (547 words) - 18:41, 13 January 2019
- adherents of world religions. Christian missions have gained most of their converts among "animists." That is also true in regard to Mennonite mission work3 KB (486 words) - 05:45, 12 April 2014
- responded positively and baptized converts from the Port Elgin revival. However he then declined to baptize the Waterloo converts because of objections that arose4 KB (647 words) - 11:22, 25 October 2019
- is the successor of the Welsh Mountain Industrial Mission, which was converted into an old people's home and the name changed in 1924. The first guests1 KB (258 words) - 16:07, 2 December 2013
- are buried in the Byer Cemetery in Markham Township. Abraham Raymer was converted when he was 31, in about 1845. It is said he had been preaching in Mennonite5 KB (833 words) - 14:00, 13 August 2016
- in Neumark. In 1818 he reported in his diary that he and his wife were converted through Jung-Stilling's writings, and then had fellowship with other Pietists3 KB (374 words) - 19:37, 20 August 2013
- was founded in 1945 at Matsqui village and the members first met in a converted farmhouse. Abram D. Rempel is considered to be the founding leader of this4 KB (487 words) - 19:54, 26 October 2017
- with a full basement, was dedicated in 1947. In 1970, this building was converted to a three-story education wing and a new place of worship, with a seating4 KB (559 words) - 23:28, 30 July 2018
- sermons. The first meeting place was a rented office space that had been converted into a Bible Center. It was only when more interest was shown that a Sunday5 KB (490 words) - 13:03, 21 April 2020
- fifteen he began to work in his father's shop. In 1864 Schellenberg was converted and baptized the following summer. He soon became active in his home church5 KB (764 words) - 18:58, 20 August 2013
- church was built on this same location in 1991. The old sanctuary was converted into a dining hall with a large new kitchen, while the education wing was8 KB (831 words) - 14:11, 18 October 2023
- to Italy, and in Florence met one Pietro Manelfi, a former priest. He converted Manelfi and others to that brand of spiritual religion which he had himself11 KB (1,457 words) - 14:22, 31 March 2021
- only did the surviving ministers start to preach, but also many of the converted but unordained young men began to conduct meetings and preach. Worship25 KB (3,660 words) - 00:54, 16 January 2017
- the spirit spread from one to another until over a hundred persons were converted in about two months. Ministers who served the Baumgartner congregation13 KB (1,195 words) - 15:16, 11 March 2024
- first Gospel messages were given in a rented hall, and the first seven converts were baptized on 5 January 1927. The following missionaries have served2 KB (401 words) - 16:28, 17 November 2016
- Luther, others from the Lower Rhine and the Netherlands until the city was converted into a radical Anabaptist "New Jerusalem" which was liquidated in 153513 KB (1,907 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- to preach at Woudsend in 1837, and two years later at Zutphen. He was converted in the revival movement "Reveil," and became one of its ardent advocates4 KB (611 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- in Mennonite schools, where he continued to work for six years. He was converted at the age of 23 through the preaching of F. W. Baedeker of England, who3 KB (517 words) - 23:22, 3 March 2020
- was transferred to the Rheinische (Rhine) Mission (non-Mennonite). Later converts in this territory joined the Battak inland church. See also Batta, Hutagodang3 KB (428 words) - 20:21, 1 April 2014
- might." When he learned that Anabaptists were coming from Moravia to win converts, he issued the harsh mandate of 30 September 1584, "to admit no one, to19 KB (2,363 words) - 18:19, 19 April 2021
- held by Peter Ropp of Berne, Michigan resulted in a number of converts. However these converts would not accept the dress restrictions required by the Amish7 KB (735 words) - 14:12, 13 December 2021
- Anabaptists but turned to fellow rebels to make their first Anabaptist converts. Hans Hut assigned the rebellion of 1525 apocalyptic significance as the10 KB (1,519 words) - 23:29, 15 January 2017
- Another important source of Christian converts has been the Harijans, the level of Indian society at which converts have had the least to lose socially in3 KB (506 words) - 18:50, 23 May 2014
- some capacity among the Indigenous. During the first decade only about 20 converts were won. The total number baptized among the three tribes in Oklahoma7 KB (1,145 words) - 18:20, 26 January 2023
- Valley, and sometimes in the Inn and Puster valleys, where he won many converts and sent them to Moravia. Soon after being ordained he was captured and7 KB (1,156 words) - 00:28, 16 January 2017
- 1945, and was buried at the local Mennonite Brethren Cemetery. Henry was converted and baptized in the Ebenezer Mennonite Brethren Church in Buhler, Kansas5 KB (804 words) - 08:18, 2 July 2014
- home of his daughter, Alice. Under the preaching of J. S. Coffman he was converted in 1890, and joined the Mennonite Church (MC). He was ordained minister9 KB (1,389 words) - 23:07, 15 January 2017
- German submarine. All but one of the passengers were rescued. The ship was converted to a troop transport ship and returned to service in July 1941, carrying5 KB (833 words) - 00:59, 29 November 2014
- French-speaking among them. In a few cases he was successful; one of his converts was Jean Stordeur. On 9 April 1540, the Strasbourg Council issued the final22 KB (3,414 words) - 07:36, 16 January 2017
- of an English emigrant group at Middelburg, Dutch province of Zeeland, converted to Brownism in 1592, became pastor of the Brownist congregation of Islington2 KB (365 words) - 18:18, 15 July 2015
- city. With the exception of the staff of workers, all the members were converts of the mission. Harold Horst was the last pastor of the Altoona congregation1 KB (236 words) - 21:27, 29 October 2019
- hand in Münster, he openly confessed himself as one of them. One of the converts he baptized was Pastor Regewordt. When the bishop, residing in the nearby5 KB (780 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- were then kept imprisoned in Graz three full years. They refused to be converted, and stressed some of their most important doctrines. The governor, as7 KB (1,132 words) - 00:27, 16 January 2017
- brief period of his ministry he is reported to have baptized about 3000 converts. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt4 KB (658 words) - 03:14, 13 April 2014
- But among the Anabaptists very few ever mastered this language (a few converted priests in the earliest period, also Thomas of Imbroich, and a few more)3 KB (569 words) - 19:12, 20 August 2013
- worker living in the village from 1917 until his death in 1921. There were converts, but the work was given up when no further regular workers could be provided39 KB (5,702 words) - 17:40, 26 January 2023
- Dremmen. In Brackel he organized a congregation. One of his most prominent converts was Johannes Kesselflicker in 1541. He was probably a man of some education5 KB (728 words) - 21:08, 13 April 2014
- be in harmony with society. Problems often occur at baptism, or when new converts realize that Jesus Christ is not only a soul savior but also their Lord3 KB (506 words) - 19:39, 20 August 2013
- PA. In the fall of 1896 under the preaching of John S. Coffman he was converted, and in November of that year he assisted the Chicago Mennonite Home Mission3 KB (446 words) - 19:52, 20 August 2013
- 1918 as a largely indigenous movement under the leadership of the newly converted Chinese businessman, Tee Siem Tat ("He Drove a Ford"). Tee, a follower23 KB (3,630 words) - 16:07, 27 July 2014
- Mennonite Church gathering became illegal. Therefore, in 1987, Mennonite converts were worshiping with other Protestant groups. After Cuba began to permit6 KB (636 words) - 14:03, 29 March 2021
- Holland, he accidentally arrived in the Waterlander meetinghouse and was converted; he wanted to be a member of the church. The Haarlem Waterlander congregation2 KB (410 words) - 16:09, 20 January 2014
- (Hulshof, 197; Röhrich, Mitteilungen III, 215). Beza reports that Calvin converted many Anabaptists in Strasbourg; but this is at least exaggerated. No names18 KB (2,901 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2014
- and capable. He was sent into exile in 1931 and the church building was converted into a granary by the Soviets. All ministers were either sent into exile4 KB (613 words) - 17:33, 24 January 2023
- He grew up and attended school in the village of Einlage. Abraham was converted at an early age and became a member of the Mennonite Brethren Church of4 KB (620 words) - 00:24, 16 January 2017
- noted Dr. Gallus Müller, to whom the government had assigned the task of converting the Anabaptist prisoners. Müller also related to Liebich that the brotherhood5 KB (802 words) - 07:31, 16 January 2017
- remains the same.” At the direction of the shareholders, the Company was converted to a new non-profit Canadian Mennonite Association in June 1963. The publishing5 KB (837 words) - 15:31, 7 December 2019
- were now given a life sentence, and for Anabaptists who refused to be converted. Thus in November 1555 Barbara Löffler, an Anabaptist from Stuttgart, was6 KB (901 words) - 03:12, 13 April 2014
- in Tyrol. Niklaus Guldi, formerly an active Anabaptist preacher, was "converted in Strasbourg in 1530, returned to St. Gall where he was rehabilitated8 KB (1,365 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
- working in a field, he had a vision of three hours' duration. Inwardly converted, he withdrew from all associations and attended the meeting, where he soon3 KB (446 words) - 07:28, 16 January 2017
- At eight years of age he felt the desire to become a missionary. He was converted at age 17 and the next year was appointed superintendent of a nearby mission3 KB (483 words) - 03:31, 20 February 2014
- ministry along with Bible instruction and apprenticeship in evangelism for new converts. Since the majority of the Baphende people lived to the west of the Loange19 KB (2,435 words) - 14:16, 15 September 2021
- cost of $473,000. However this hospital closed in 1983, and the beds were converted into long term care beds of the Bethesda Home. Address: 408 – 412 East4 KB (787 words) - 21:32, 29 October 2019
- understand their own need for God's salvation and what it means to be truly converted and committed to Christ. A position statement adopted by the Mennonite12 KB (2,016 words) - 22:55, 15 January 2017
- the oldest son of Peter P. and Gertrude Rempel. At the age of 28 he was converted and joined the Mennonite Brethren Church through baptism. For his theological2 KB (322 words) - 19:29, 20 August 2013
- 1957 and 1965. The big question raised about DVBS was what happened to the converts? How many churches developed from this work? John Dyck stated in 1966 that14 KB (2,192 words) - 19:23, 8 August 2023
- faith with amazing skill, clearness, and conviction against a monk sent to convert him. Eemkens was baptized by Joost Verbeeck in 1561. He was executed on2 KB (309 words) - 06:10, 3 December 2016
- a similar fate. The church building was taken over by the Soviets and converted into a club. All organized church life ceased to exist. Friesen, Peter2 KB (334 words) - 17:02, 21 November 2017
- prisoner at Culemborg for three years, tormented by all sorts of attempts to convert him by priests, monks, and prominent clergymen; and then, remaining steadfast2 KB (352 words) - 08:40, 19 December 2014
- married at the South End Mennonite Brethren Church in Winnipeg. Henry was converted in 1943 through the preaching of Oswald Smith at Elim Chapel in Winnipeg6 KB (772 words) - 17:21, 8 January 2017
- buried at First Mennonite Church, Kitchener, Ontario. Noah Detweiler was converted when 27 years old, that is, about 1865 or 1866, while farming in Woolwich6 KB (811 words) - 19:15, 12 August 2016
- in 1537; according to the other he was burned at the stake in 1538. His converts joined the brotherhood in Moravia. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff.5 KB (886 words) - 23:21, 15 January 2017
- Dutch Mennonites are, but while serving in his first congregation he was converted to a pietistic orthodoxy. After that he became active in behalf of what4 KB (626 words) - 21:11, 13 April 2014
- Peter, was from Perth County, Ontario, where he and his wife had been converted in the 1860s by John Holdeman and become members of the Church of God in6 KB (914 words) - 15:55, 25 February 2020
- Canada, going by horse into Coaldale to attend high school. Jacob was converted in 1928 and joined the church. From an early age, Jacob wanted to follow6 KB (756 words) - 20:29, 8 January 2017
- California on 28 September 1942, and was buried in the local cemetery. Converted at an early age, he joined the Henderson Mennonite Brethren Church through4 KB (688 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- headhunters, primitive, fearless, and hostile to outsiders. Samuele was an early convert to Christianity from missionary work of the Congo Inland Mission. He was1 KB (241 words) - 21:22, 9 March 2023
- married Maria Rosenberger, and to their union nine children were born. Converted at the age of 14, he entered the ministry in 1881, and was ordained in2 KB (361 words) - 19:47, 20 August 2013
- withdraw from studies after the first year. On New Year of 1917 Johannes was converted. Two years later he was baptized and accepted into the Grossweide Mennonite7 KB (999 words) - 22:45, 26 May 2021
- sinner, however not be admitted into the church until he is sincerely converted to Christ." (This confession is printed in. Menn Bl., 1863, in the article26 KB (4,181 words) - 17:11, 20 July 2021
- throughout the late 1980s and continuing through the 1990s. By this time, with converts of non-Anabaptist background, Orthodox worship meetings had become bilingual8 KB (1,130 words) - 13:07, 29 March 2019
- September 1660, Kauffmann was there. Efforts of the council and the clergy to convert him were in vain. On 20 January 1660 the appointed persons "betook themselves2 KB (327 words) - 23:23, 15 January 2017
- here, but after 1930, when a missionary hospital was built, the number of converts from Islam increased and a congregation was founded, independent since3 KB (542 words) - 21:15, 13 April 2014
- Joriaen (Hendricksen) van Goor. After Batenburg's death (1538) Joriaen was converted from his profligate life by David Joris, whose loyal follower he remained4 KB (613 words) - 07:04, 21 December 2014
- maintained with England; beginning in 1934 an increasing number of English converts joined the brotherhood. The relationship of the Alm Bruderhof with the4 KB (601 words) - 13:16, 22 August 2017
- India, he returned with her to India to develop a new work among the caste converts at Kavitam in the coastal part of Andhra Pradesh State. Christian Leader1 KB (251 words) - 18:44, 20 August 2013
- there remained no chance any longer, neither in Slovakia, where the newly converted Hutterites now came to be called "Habaner," nor in Transylvania where Lutherans10 KB (1,529 words) - 01:24, 1 December 2014
- Stuttgart. When he refused to promise to leave the country and make no more converts, he was taken to the prison of the Maulbronn monastery in June 1573, where10 KB (1,637 words) - 00:26, 16 January 2017
- sums were taken by the state from honest citizens. If a Mennonite was converted and joined the state church, abandoning Anabaptism for good, his property8 KB (1,374 words) - 00:24, 16 January 2017
- the worship services of the Mennonites was odious, but their attempts to convert the Mennonites failed. Several times the Mennonites had religious disputations162 KB (17,876 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2021
- sufficed to establish a new congregation (Cornelius, II, 49). Of their converts they demanded an upright life; when a brother sinned, he was to be admonished19 KB (2,452 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- for Saint Adalbert of Prague (d. 997), who was martyred while trying to convert Baltic Prussians in what is today Poland. Until 1772 Sankt Albrecht was2 KB (332 words) - 17:39, 23 June 2020
- with her family to Michigan, near Brown City. In February 1882 she was converted in evangelistic meetings held by David U. Lambert, an Evangelical United9 KB (1,286 words) - 10:49, 30 May 2022
- was damaged by a fire on 18 August 1912 but repaired and was eventually converted into an apartment building. Brons, A. Ursprung, entwickelung und shicksale2 KB (340 words) - 02:44, 5 May 2020
- because Salzburg was the scene of his martyrdom. Hans Hut had won a number of converts in Styria, where he had come about 15 June 1527; among them was "Hieronymus3 KB (379 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- flows into the Aare. In 1899 Christian Gerber leased a large farm here and converted it into a model agricultural project. By industry and capability father2 KB (356 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- to his brother-in-law Vadian in Hochrütiner's behalf. In St. Gall he won converts for the Anabaptist movement in 1524. In a Bible class led by Johannes Kessler2 KB (351 words) - 16:58, 12 April 2014
- Richrath. Accompanied by Richard he went to Mors, where he sought to win converts for the new way. But when he was notified by the bailiff that he would10 KB (1,595 words) - 07:01, 16 January 2017
- in 1834, established a church in nearby Stettin and August Liebig was converted and baptized into the church. Five of the Liebig brothers, including August5 KB (760 words) - 05:37, 2 November 2013
- which happened prior to Hut's coming to Upper Austria. He may have been converted to Hut's ideas on that occasion and returned temporarily to Freistadt,15 KB (2,358 words) - 18:52, 5 February 2018
- 1920 there were 88. Between 1921 and 1938 new members were added by new converts; a total of 211 members was received during this time, giving the Mennonite14 KB (1,799 words) - 00:31, 31 July 2022
- he taught school in the new Mennonite settlements. In 1890 Johann was converted. He and Sarah were baptized on 14 September 1890 and joined the Winkler3 KB (442 words) - 15:27, 19 August 2015
- They were the parents of 3 sons and five daughters. Israel Shantz was converted at revival meetings near Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario in 1891. He served3 KB (532 words) - 22:50, 15 January 2017
- as membership reached 320. In 1947 a nearby apartment was purchased and converted to classrooms. In 1956 the church leased Forestry Department land and developed5 KB (580 words) - 11:21, 25 October 2019
- extending from Friesland to North Holland (built 1927-1933), which has converted the former Zuiderzee into a lake (IJsselmeer), and is connected by the5 KB (664 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- continued to receive letters from Dengese speaking students who had been converted to the Christian faith. Children in Bololo were still singing the songs6 KB (889 words) - 23:29, 17 November 2021
- Ontario. He received the standard elementary school education. Goudie was converted in evening meetings led by Daniel Wismer near the town of Waterloo on 124 KB (508 words) - 11:21, 16 September 2020
- responsibility for the congregations in Woolwich Township. In 1885 a number of converts resulted from a series of evening meetings in Woolwich Townships. Martin3 KB (517 words) - 14:39, 27 October 2019
- together they had eight children, two of whom died in infancy. Cober was converted at the age of 21 and the following year he united with the Mennonite Brethren2 KB (373 words) - 06:28, 20 February 2014
- member left the congregation a legacy that enabled it to buy a house and convert it into a meeting space. The congregation has always been socially active3 KB (433 words) - 13:53, 10 March 2023
- Smalkaldian army camped in Allgäu. The preachers were then admonished to convert the Anabaptists. If the Anabaptists were obstinate they were to be banished3 KB (451 words) - 00:56, 16 January 2017
- of Anabaptists who had reputedly come to Hainbach and were trying to win converts. The council, however, replied that in the last three or four years, since10 KB (1,516 words) - 17:32, 20 July 2021
- skilled radio technician and the recording engineer for The Mennonite Hour, converted his chicken house into a quality recording studio close to the EMC campus12 KB (1,560 words) - 13:39, 10 March 2021
- family went to Kirk, Colorado, where their son Daniel grew up, became converted, and joined the Mennonite Brethren Church in 1890. Daniel attended McPherson3 KB (497 words) - 09:52, 19 July 2021
- Anabaptists. They moved to Strasbourg, where Stordeur and his wife were converted by John Calvin. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon2 KB (430 words) - 00:03, 16 January 2017
- Shuang Shih Pu and a second station at Huei Hsien. Several Chinese were converted and baptized and an indigenous church was organized. Due to ill health2 KB (400 words) - 02:57, 22 November 2015
- 1894-1898, he spent two years at St. Chrischona, near Basel, having been converted in 1898. He was chosen preacher by the Repaix congregation on 6 August4 KB (681 words) - 21:32, 2 December 2013
- Frisians. Because of his heresy, his frankness, and his unwillingness to be converted by the Catholic clergy men, he was sentenced to death. The sentence is3 KB (437 words) - 00:05, 16 January 2017
- production had increased to 1,000 tons. In 1949 the original location was converted to a dairy feed mixing plant and a feed stock warehouse. By 1950 poultry9 KB (1,270 words) - 03:11, 17 April 2024
- Christian. Some months later in Ferrara a former canon Iseppo of Vicenza converted him to these beliefs, upon which Manelfi, along with four companions, was8 KB (1,329 words) - 07:32, 16 January 2017
- religious indifference of the Indigenous was gradually overcome. The first converts were baptized in 1907; approximately 400 adults have been baptized at the3 KB (607 words) - 17:35, 26 January 2023
- complete his medical studies. During a revival in March 1923, Isaac was converted to Christianity. He preached his first sermon at one of the revival meetings7 KB (886 words) - 00:56, 13 January 2022
- he stayed for a time earning his living by his trade and baptizing many converts to the new faith. The brotherhood made him a preacher (Leermeister) and18 KB (2,793 words) - 07:35, 16 January 2017
- Wheatley-Tilbury Townline in Romney Township. The existing garage on the property was converted to a church building. In 1972 a church measuring 40 by 80 feet was constructed3 KB (524 words) - 22:48, 8 November 2016
- He taught in the secondary school in Halbstadt. As a young man he was converted and joined the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church; as a minister he showed3 KB (503 words) - 19:37, 20 August 2013
- also taught singing school. He married Dinah Hendricks on 4 October 1866. Converted at the age of 20, he entered the ministry of the Brethren in Christ Church1 KB (266 words) - 03:30, 20 February 2014
- development of an Anabaptist Interpretive Centre. The plan is to move and convert the 100 year old Rosthern Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) church3 KB (512 words) - 18:21, 20 February 2015
- and blood had nothing to do with the divine Father. When all efforts to convert them proved futile, their confession was sent to the Elector of Saxony with3 KB (534 words) - 00:29, 16 January 2017
- midweek Winter Bible Studies were held each year to instruct members and converts in the faith. An important outreach was Summer Bible School, bringing in9 KB (1,166 words) - 12:22, 15 July 2020
- work as an administrator of the Judenplan agricultural villages. He was converted in 1858, baptized by immersion in the Molotschna Mennonite Settlement on9 KB (1,199 words) - 02:15, 10 March 2019
- different homes and attended five different schools. Meanwhile, Gerhard was converted at age 13 and baptized at 16, joining the Alexanderthal Mennonite Brethren6 KB (845 words) - 20:28, 8 January 2017
- membership in 1951 was 250. In 1880 the church experienced a great revival, 75 converts being baptized and added to the church. It observed its seventy-fifth anniversary1 KB (284 words) - 22:36, 8 November 2016
- farmer was let down three times, and was offered his life if he would be converted, but to no avail. The son was probably similarly treated. The others were2 KB (391 words) - 23:25, 15 January 2017
- product. Pilgram Marpeck (formerly a Lutheran of Rattenberg) was also converted ca. 1527, and likewise Leopold Scharnschlager, a native of Hopfgarten near27 KB (4,052 words) - 07:00, 16 January 2017
- the soul, was uncorrupted by the fall. Nonetheless, until the soul is converted, the spirit can do nothing but cry out like a prisoner in longing for God9 KB (1,378 words) - 14:20, 31 December 2018
- where he had baptized, and added that he was always glad when someone was converted. He declared that the Anabaptists were not planning an attack, as some7 KB (1,196 words) - 00:34, 16 January 2017
- Bethany Church of God in Christ, Mennonite. In 1978 the church building was converted to serve as the Harmony School and a new church building with over 3003 KB (443 words) - 15:13, 10 February 2021
- married Harriet Alma French, and together they had four children. He was converted in 1886 at meetings led by evangelist Janet Douglas, and in 1888 he entered2 KB (363 words) - 18:43, 20 August 2013
- Mennonites (Bharatiya General Conference Mennonite Kalisiya). Caste Hindus were converted in the Mennonite Church in India and the Champa-Korba area of the General33 KB (4,437 words) - 13:59, 31 March 2021
- Church of Canada once, in 1859. In his thirtieth year, however, John was converted under the revival preaching of Abraham Raymer. By then Raymer was associating7 KB (940 words) - 13:06, 28 July 2022
- Johann and Anna (Friesen) Reimer. He was their tenth child. Gerhard was converted at age 15 and baptized at 16, when he became a member of the local Mennonite6 KB (965 words) - 17:20, 8 January 2017
- 1950s. In it lived approximately 5,500 Mennonites, many of them recent converts in the Mennonite Church (MC) or the United Missionary Church (UMC). By31 KB (4,494 words) - 12:56, 27 April 2024
- 7 October 1877. Nine sons and six daughters were born to them. He was converted in his early years, and baptized on 25 December 1881, joining the Church2 KB (352 words) - 03:15, 13 April 2014
- services between the two buildings. In 1947 the congregation decided to convert the Kraybill meetinghouse to a Christian day school, and all church services3 KB (532 words) - 19:11, 8 August 2023
- the family removed to Buhler, Kansas. As a young man of 23 years he was converted and on 15 March 1891, he was baptized and received into the Goessel Mennonite3 KB (536 words) - 18:55, 20 August 2013
- imported workers. Thousands have been ministered unto, hundreds have been converted, and the membership has grown from year to year. Many members, however5 KB (842 words) - 15:00, 11 March 2024
- line which limited contact with the mother group and others primarily to converts to the Mennonite Brethren. The influence of Pietism, although it caused41 KB (4,677 words) - 11:09, 12 April 2021
- that many members were forsaking the brotherhood and there were few new converts. So the attempt was dropped. On 1 April 1610 three major buildings at Neumühl10 KB (1,743 words) - 07:33, 16 January 2017
- September 1916 in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, where he was buried. Benjamin was converted in 1869 and joined the Mennonite Brethren Church by baptism in 1870. He3 KB (370 words) - 02:29, 10 March 2019
- his education was limited to just a few weeks. At the age of 18 he was converted, and, feeling an urge to preach the Gospel, attended the Bible Training2 KB (393 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2013
- successful of the Anabaptist leaders in Thuringia, Germany, and won many converts for the Anabaptist movement. He was seized in May 1533 and released from767 bytes (175 words) - 06:59, 16 January 2017
- for the converts and a class organized in October. It met in Morrison’s School House on the west side of the 8th Concession. One notable convert in the5 KB (584 words) - 13:46, 7 March 2022
- Augustus) I. After the death of King John III Sobieski of Poland, Friedrich converted to Catholicism and, with the backing of Russia and Austria, was elected2 KB (423 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- not wish to be advanced, much less to dispute, and least of all to make converts." The Anabaptists of Grosskarlbach, Weisenheim am Sand, and Hessheim assured5 KB (872 words) - 14:01, 23 August 2013
- faithfully as His disciples. This manner of life was effective in winning converts to Anabaptism, especially in the rural areas. To stop this the government70 KB (10,889 words) - 19:13, 29 April 2020
- nearby Mennonite churches in addition to their own Amish services. Eli was converted at evangelistic meetings at the Oak Grove Mennonite Church near West Liberty7 KB (1,063 words) - 13:17, 26 October 2019
- between them; so they parted in perfect peace and Borrhaus thought he had converted Denck (Hulshof, 39). Borrhaus apparently never gave up his view that infant8 KB (1,306 words) - 21:05, 13 April 2014
- School and worship services of the West Zion Mennonite Church. Here he was converted and baptized, but then returned to Reist/Youngstown. In 1918 he visited3 KB (500 words) - 06:32, 20 February 2014
- (1671-1727). He was groomed to succeed his father as king of Poland, and converted to Catholicism in 1721. He succeeded his father as elector of Saxony in3 KB (494 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- taught in the Mennonite schools for three years. At the age of 15 he was converted and on 30 April 1879 joined the Mennonite Brethren Church. He early felt3 KB (458 words) - 07:31, 20 November 2016
- Oberfrittenbach in the Raingut not far from Langnau. As a youth he was converted by the preaching of the German revivalist Elias Schrenck. As a means of3 KB (518 words) - 14:06, 23 August 2013
- in the home of the missionaries, Peter and Mary Willms. The first three converts were baptized in October 1954. Lay leaders emerged out of the newly formed3 KB (520 words) - 18:52, 20 August 2013
- name to Central Heights Mennonite Brethren Church. In 1967, renovations to convert the 1950 sanctuary into a Christian education building were completed. In7 KB (660 words) - 03:28, 27 May 2023
- minister. Although the majority of Baptists and Mennonites were forbidden to convert Russians to their churches, Adam Podin was one person who preached with5 KB (838 words) - 19:27, 20 August 2013
- Vienna was still considered by the brethren as a place worth trying to win converts in. In the same year the brother Andreas Kofler of Tyrol was beheaded for37 KB (5,334 words) - 13:39, 29 March 2021
- of his unitarianism. Pastor chose Cleves as his field. In Goch he had converted many members of the "Wüllenamt" (Annalen 6). In spite of all the imperial19 KB (2,640 words) - 07:27, 16 January 2017
- the revolutionary period. Through the preaching of Johann Toews, Abram converted and was baptized and received into the Mennonite Brethren Church in May4 KB (632 words) - 06:02, 4 January 2017
- sake of the kingdom of heaven and earnestly beseech God that she may be converted and recognize the truth." Article 8 of the Essingen Ordnungsbrief, of 2214 KB (2,212 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2021
- ten years, in Nikolaifeld, Bezabotovka, and Millerovo. In 1898 he was converted and joined the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church by baptism. He married Aganetha1 KB (233 words) - 15:22, 14 May 2014
- 1538, when Calvin was forced to leave Geneva. In 1539 Calvin succeeded in converting Stordeur, who died soon after of the plague. In August 1540 Calvin married1 KB (252 words) - 07:36, 16 January 2017
- were to be a part. About 1825 the Miller church, already in disuse, was converted into a residence. Its structure of stone was still substantial a century1 KB (246 words) - 19:57, 20 August 2013
- Manoldsheim—indicate the vigor of the Moravian emissaries. Not all of the converts were pleased with the Moravian life. In 1559 Sixt Weselin reported to the6 KB (952 words) - 06:58, 16 January 2017
- River. Despite that public affirmation, Menno is reported to have been converted in 1865, probably influenced by Evangelical Association revivals in the7 KB (941 words) - 20:02, 2 February 2015
- included a cotton processing plant, an oil press, a power station, a plant converting wood to gas, a meat market, and a creamery processing ca. 70,000-80,0002 KB (442 words) - 14:58, 23 October 2013
- moved to Canada in 1927, settling in Herbert, Saskatchewan. Jacob was converted through the preaching ministry of C. N. Hiebert and attended the Herbert3 KB (428 words) - 07:46, 3 April 2016
- chaplain at Bruges and priest of the Roman Catholic Church at Ledeghem, was converted to the Mennonites and settled at Haarlem in the Netherlands as a weaver2 KB (302 words) - 07:30, 20 November 2016
- Ulm. Bader hoped by means of these insignia to have a magic effect on the converts his four associates were to make. The farce lasted only a short time. The10 KB (1,472 words) - 00:00, 16 January 2017
- for the Sporting Hill Mennonite School for 25 years. It dedicated the converted building on Mount Joy Road on 12 November 1995. In 2001 it was part of3 KB (312 words) - 11:47, 6 February 2022
- Martins Creek congregation purchased a store and apartment house in 1917 and converted it into a church. The first meeting was held in March 1918, in the face2 KB (310 words) - 14:58, 11 March 2024
- (formerly Kai Chow) in Henan (Honan) Province, China. His Buddhist parents converted to Christianity at the General Conference Mennonite Church mission station2 KB (334 words) - 07:16, 19 June 2014
- 1951 a stone and brick church was built, the first building having been converted into a parsonage. In 1954 the church had 311 members. Pastors who have2 KB (287 words) - 22:44, 8 November 2016
- Born 14 June 1873 at Margenau, Molotschna, Jakob Fr. Hübert was converted and baptized in the Mennonite Brethren Church at age 17. He married Helene Kasdorf1 KB (290 words) - 07:34, 20 November 2016
- Russia and partly in America and became a country schoolteacher. Wedel was converted at an early age and joined the MB Church through baptism and became an4 KB (554 words) - 18:15, 27 April 2015
- the Lone Tree congregation as a result of Holdeman's preaching. The early converts met in homes, most often that of the Jacob Becker family. In 1882 Bernard5 KB (607 words) - 15:58, 21 January 2021
- was at this time a sheriff and a member of the Reformed Church, to be converted and to leave his office; Ebbing migrated with his family to Hoogezand and2 KB (339 words) - 21:05, 13 April 2014
- Neu-Schöpen, as well as Neusorge) were leased to them. With great industry they converted the land into fertile fields. There were no ditches or dikes. As early9 KB (887 words) - 11:24, 9 April 2020
- Mennonite church was whether or not to grant membership in the church to converts who had been divorced before their conversion. To accept them threatened18 KB (2,686 words) - 14:29, 17 March 2023
- baptism was accompanied by the new birth. This applied mostly to Amish converts early on. In general, the Fellowship churches held less tolerance for deviance22 KB (2,414 words) - 14:45, 8 November 2018
- of believers and only those should be admitted to the church who were converted to the faith, infant baptism being unscriptural. He severely attacked the11 KB (1,754 words) - 18:19, 15 July 2015
- first men of the group were John Denkel and John Kropatchek, who were converted and baptized by Samuel Fröhlich in Zürich in the summer of 1839, Louis5 KB (746 words) - 22:59, 15 January 2017
- rear of a bank building. Later a rural schoolhouse was moved to town and converted to a church. In 1919 the congregation constructed a church at the present5 KB (517 words) - 11:38, 10 September 2023
- established in 1892. The congregation started after Isaac N. Mastre was converted after suffering a period of alcohol abuse. He was not associated with a3 KB (462 words) - 14:26, 23 February 2021
- faith" is central, and this orientation is increasingly relevant as new "converts" or members are being brought into the body from various subcultural and31 KB (4,471 words) - 18:26, 8 September 2021
- view that a Mennonite pastor should not marry a couple unless they were converted. That “salvation engenders evangelistic zeal” became a motivating force7 KB (1,022 words) - 20:40, 13 April 2014
- area was built in 2001 with 24 rooms and Magnolia House Personal care converted an area of single rooms to 48 one-bedroom apartments. In 2006, Magnolia7 KB (911 words) - 17:07, 8 April 2021
- Mennonites. Gradually some hired Russian helpers attending such meetings were converted. Having observed public baptisms by the Mennonite Brethren, some desired6 KB (900 words) - 13:52, 23 August 2013
- movement. Through his evangelistic work Protestants and Catholics were converted. Around 1866 baptism by immersion was introduced at Mariupol. Among those3 KB (453 words) - 07:35, 20 November 2016
- David had purchased the old village schoolhouse with the intention of converting it into a hospital. By September the hospital was ready for its first2 KB (401 words) - 18:48, 20 August 2013
- Danzig congregation. He later returned to Danzig and to Holland to win converts, and was apparently successful. But he had little influence among the Mennonites2 KB (433 words) - 07:18, 30 July 2015
- degree of D.D. conferred upon him. During his student days Wiebe was converted and joined the MB Church. He married Gertrude Klaassen at Turnhill, Saskatchewan3 KB (407 words) - 19:37, 20 August 2013
- a new sanctuary was built adjacent to the original building, which was converted to Sunday school rooms and fellowship hall. Brooksville began its own cemetery3 KB (366 words) - 14:59, 5 February 2021
- examination, is incomprehensible. Only the hope that he might eventually be converted saved him from execution. Even Bucer apparently counseled against releasing59 KB (8,955 words) - 08:20, 16 January 2017
- school was the core of the strategy to mold or enculturate a community of converts into the image of the sending church in a pattern corresponding substantially13 KB (2,074 words) - 13:58, 23 August 2013
- side. The Anabaptists required a church composed of members who had been converted to repentance and a reform of life. The discussion on the ban develops26 KB (3,928 words) - 12:34, 15 May 2019
- as the 17th century, when the Dutch Mennonite poet Joost van den Vondel converted in midcareer to Roman Catholicism: "how can one define Mennonite poetry15 KB (2,066 words) - 18:20, 8 September 2021
- Gallen, Switzerland to David Hausknecht and Anna Maria Steigermann, and converted to the Mennonite faith in Prussia. He was baptised in Brenkenhoffswalde4 KB (533 words) - 11:47, 11 September 2020
- Tofield district of Alberta in the spring of 1913. Here Ezra Stauffer was converted and baptized in the Salem Amish Mennonite Church. After a year of study3 KB (508 words) - 22:50, 15 January 2017
- on 30 July 1876. They were the parents of 12 children. Amos Bauman was converted, baptized and joined the Mennonite church in Ontario about 1880. The family3 KB (504 words) - 22:55, 15 January 2017
- Hermans op den Graeff, born in 1616, married Grietjen Peters (d. 1679), was converted with his family to Quakerism. His widow, who died in Philadelphia 19 October5 KB (784 words) - 17:10, 26 January 2023
- baptized 14 persons. Since there was no congregation in Oudeschoot, the converts may have joined the Mildani congregation. MLA style Zijpp, Nanne van der500 bytes (125 words) - 23:55, 29 October 2014
- something of the language, missionaries engaged in village evangelism. Gifted converts aided the missionaries in these visits and in other forms of evangelism10 KB (1,509 words) - 18:52, 23 May 2014
- in 1957. The congregation started as various families in the area were converted and baptized following revivial meetings by Church of God in Christ, Mennonite3 KB (331 words) - 15:31, 5 March 2021
- wysgeerig gebied (same date and place). From 1877 on, when the Athenaeum was converted into a university, he lectured on Christian doctrine, ethics, and philosophy13 KB (1,972 words) - 03:15, 12 April 2014
- in 1895 where they lived for the rest of Just's life. In 1888 Just was converted and joined the Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church. When he settled in Oklahoma3 KB (501 words) - 07:33, 20 November 2016
- village school where Henry later studied. At the age of 19, Henry was converted and joined the church, and in 1902, he married Maria Hiebert, daughter5 KB (737 words) - 17:20, 8 January 2017
- factories in Berlin (Kitchener) owned by his father-in-law. J. B. was converted at the age of 24 (1870). He left the Roseville Mennonite Church to join6 KB (940 words) - 18:55, 25 January 2021
- (Kornelsen) Voth. He attended high school at Windom, Minnesota. At 15 he was converted and baptized and joined the Bingham Lake Mennonite Brethren Church of which3 KB (523 words) - 18:28, 8 September 2015
- In 1979 it completed an addition of a new worship center and offices, converting the old space into Sunday school and nursery school space. During the5 KB (581 words) - 15:30, 10 October 2022
- an exhaustive study of the Bible and the works of Jakob Böhme. He was converted in 1717. In the late summer of 1720 he immigrated to America (first to4 KB (634 words) - 00:01, 16 January 2017
- save his life. After the flight of her husband (1531) Hadewyck became converted and united with the congregation of Leeuwarden, was arrested there in January2 KB (303 words) - 00:06, 16 January 2017
- strong evangelical ministry of the American missionaries a congregation of converted persons, mostly of people with no Mennonite background, was formed. In1 KB (267 words) - 18:50, 23 May 2014
- Mennonite congregation, of which, however, nothing is known. Perhaps the converts joined the congregation of Leeuwarden, which for reasons of safety may1 KB (214 words) - 07:19, 2 November 2014
- son-in-law dated Austerlitz, 28 or 29 October 1538, indicates that he had been converted to the Anabaptists by Scharnschlager, probably in Strasbourg. The Strasbourg21 KB (3,457 words) - 15:28, 7 December 2019
- Elizabeth (Bixler) Yoder, taught grade school for sixteen years. He was converted at the age of twenty-three, entered the ministry in 1896, and was ordained1 KB (260 words) - 17:45, 19 October 2013
- 1996, with on-going renovations continuing according to need, including converting the existing sanctuary into a dining hall. The congregation left Mennonite4 KB (586 words) - 04:18, 5 March 2014
- was probably baptized by Georg Blaurock. It is possible that Hotz was converted in 1525, during Blaurock's successful missionary activity in Grüningen7 KB (1,148 words) - 07:29, 16 January 2017
- terrifying, persuading many to recant and frightening away many more prospective converts. Catholics imprisoned and burned Anabaptists as apostates. Lutherans exiled18 KB (2,533 words) - 01:48, 10 March 2019
- October 1956, p. 6). Another letter reports that many people have been converted and that some, of whom it was never expected, have started to preach the9 KB (1,341 words) - 08:22, 22 January 2014
- villages and opened chapels in strategic centers. Soon a number of Chinese converts were won and baptized and an indigenous church was organized. To supply4 KB (685 words) - 23:17, 21 January 2014
- a zealous follower of the evangelist E. Wüst, through whom he had been converted. Bartel took a leading part in the founding of the Mennonite Brethren in2 KB (330 words) - 23:16, 15 January 2017
- listed in the conference yearbook in 1969) and the church building was converted into a house. Canadian Mennonite (11 October 1957): 1; (24 November 1961):2 KB (207 words) - 11:02, 3 April 2020
- New Holland, PA the daughter of Jacob and Mary Stoner Musselman, she was converted in 1896, after two friends died in an accident returning from a party.2 KB (287 words) - 05:59, 19 April 2014
- from the neighboring Mount Forest settlement, joined the group, along with converts of a non-Anabaptist background. The Alvin Martin Church, dropped many of2 KB (248 words) - 14:47, 10 December 2015
- a convent, garage, two-story school, and a two-story rectory which was converted to classrooms and living quarters for a resident pastor. The property was4 KB (577 words) - 14:12, 12 October 2016
- regulations than the Lancaster Mennonite Conference in such things as accepting converts who had been divorced as members. At first, the congregation met in a house5 KB (672 words) - 19:42, 6 December 2021
- unidentified armed men in Palama, where he lived and worked. The first converts were baptized in 1968. By 1987 there were 130 members in three congregations2 KB (318 words) - 20:09, 25 January 2023
- the annual candidates for church membership are almost exclusively the "converts" produced by the meetings, and these are customarily baptized and received15 KB (2,449 words) - 12:27, 15 May 2019
- records state the following: "Jakob Hottinger, who about a year ago was converted from Anabaptism in writing and made a recantation in Zollikon, has recently5 KB (822 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
- ministered in the surrounding villages with great success, baptizing 109 converts in 1919. Isa and Mathuria also worked at Dhabakar and later lived at Basna2 KB (360 words) - 19:42, 20 August 2013
- the haste with which they accept members, and advises them to give new converts catechetical instruction before accepting them. Related to this is his32 KB (4,851 words) - 21:16, 13 April 2014
- Linwood and regular worship services began. Slow growth took place from local converts and a few families moving from western Canada. The congregation formally3 KB (317 words) - 14:03, 20 August 2020
- unfruitful, and work was opened in the villages. Some Chinese, who had been converted by the Salvation Army, refused the oath of citizenship, and as a result8 KB (1,304 words) - 18:53, 23 May 2014
- spiritual revival swept through Klippenfeld, Peter and Katharina were also converted, although they waited until 1873 for baptism and membership in the Mennonite5 KB (780 words) - 02:28, 10 March 2019
- not persecution, but admiration and respect. The course of history has converted them from despised heretics into esteemed objects of modern curiosity.12 KB (1,765 words) - 22:50, 15 January 2017
- Hermann Fast and John F. Harms serving as evangelists and pastors to the converts. In 1905 the conference published a small Christian periodical, Golos (that3 KB (414 words) - 02:24, 10 March 2019
- Brethren in Moravia to Tyrol to visit the Anabaptists there and to win new converts for Moravia. On 5 July Platzer recanted, as the others also did before3 KB (525 words) - 00:55, 16 January 2017
- be started. A long-time resident of Endeavour, Tom Downey, an Irishman converted in the great revival in Ireland, had been praying for an evangelical church3 KB (367 words) - 16:03, 9 December 2017
- three daughters. Milton Bricker died 3 May 1967. At age 19 Bricker was converted and joined the local Mennonite Brethren in Christ congregation that shared3 KB (421 words) - 15:27, 23 November 2021
- in Hydro. In 1998 it moved to the current property, first to a garage converted into a school, and then the new building. When there were not local ministers3 KB (328 words) - 16:04, 1 March 2021
- church property at 858-860 Elati Street. Two years later the duplex was converted to a Hospitality House to serve as a retreat and hospitality center managed18 KB (2,455 words) - 13:34, 7 April 2020
- required to leave for the compulsory state service in the Forestei. He was converted at age 16 and was baptized in Spat, Crimea. Sometime during his three years7 KB (1,022 words) - 17:07, 7 June 2022
- Bernard Peters’ second eldest daughter. The next year they were both converted to a faith in Christ as their savior. In 1910 he began his three-year compulsory6 KB (990 words) - 07:48, 1 August 2014
- (deceased) and one daughter. He had a public school education. He was converted in 1878 and the same year joined the Evangelical Mennonites (in 1883 this3 KB (401 words) - 19:34, 20 August 2013
- denied that he was a follower of the Anabaptists; he had, on the contrary, converted a number of those who had followed after the Anabaptists for one to six3 KB (489 words) - 07:35, 20 November 2016
- City, where he resided the remaining 56 years of his life. Hartzler was converted when a young man, and united with the Amish Mennonite Church. In 1894 he2 KB (393 words) - 06:30, 20 February 2014
- of any mission. He traveled the length and breadth of Java gathering his converts and some dissatisfied members of mission congregations into his remote6 KB (995 words) - 18:04, 21 January 2015
- the power over all things. In addition the unbelieving throngs would be converted and all Israel would be saved. This perfect reign of Christ would be followed30 KB (4,822 words) - 17:58, 20 July 2021
- country, which, then has to exercise diligent watchfulness that none of these converts backslides. Whoever gives the Anabaptists shelter or help, does not treat7 KB (1,139 words) - 23:22, 15 January 2017
- were enroute to China for their first term of missionary service. He was converted at an early age and dedicated his life to Christian service. At age 176 KB (1,051 words) - 07:54, 30 November 2015
- establishing strong "indigenous" city congregations composed of non-Mennonite converts. The rural mindset, frequent lack of trained workers, inability to adapt9 KB (1,329 words) - 01:12, 1 December 2014
- congregation that had sponsored his parents' work in Arizona. Theodore Epp was converted at Flagstaff, Arizona, on 10 August 1927 under the teaching of Norman B4 KB (486 words) - 18:38, 30 November 2013
- University of Leiden, entered a diplomatic career at London and Paris, and was converted shortly after 1645. He then abandoned all posts of honor and retired to3 KB (473 words) - 02:47, 12 April 2014
- corner of a farm property, with the farmhouse, to the group. The house was converted into a meetinghouse. When the Mennonite Brethren began work in the area4 KB (444 words) - 11:52, 17 November 2021
- 1974. The old building was removed and the former Sunday school rooms converted to a fellowship hall. In 2000 because of increasing size, Highland launched4 KB (451 words) - 14:13, 27 February 2021
- Everek Storms counted Port Elgin as his Canadian home town, where he was converted through the Mennonite Brethren in Christ at age 11, baptized (in Lake Huron)7 KB (964 words) - 15:37, 11 February 2020
- moved from Ontario, Canada, in the late 1860s and early 1870s. They were converted under the preaching of John Holdeman in Ontario during the 1860s and moved4 KB (512 words) - 16:39, 28 January 2021
- denominational affiliation. Fredericka Honk never married. Fredericka was converted at Bethel, a country appointment that eventually became Bethel Evangelical4 KB (637 words) - 17:57, 17 February 2020
- recognition of the truth. Now Pfistermeyer considered it to be his task to convert his former companions and brethren to his new view. He failed in this with10 KB (1,641 words) - 10:19, 30 April 2020
- each congregation. At Elizabethtown in early 1906 there was a class of 130 converts. There were numerous large classes, but the largest were in the first two61 KB (6,181 words) - 17:14, 26 January 2023
- cultural, idiomatic, educational, religious, and social diversity that converts the Hispanic North American ministry into a significant challenge. The8 KB (1,113 words) - 13:12, 16 September 2023
- Toronto. Ella Banfield was also buried in Mt. Pleasant. Alex Banfield was converted 18 October 1900 through the Methodist-run Fred Victor Mission, where he8 KB (1,241 words) - 12:27, 10 August 2015
- married James Shoulderblade on 19 March 1946. After two years, James was converted and later called to the ministry by the church at Birney. Their children3 KB (604 words) - 11:13, 5 September 2023
- Pennsylvania, USA was established in about 1983. There had been local converts previously, but they had eventually joined other congregations. In the2 KB (307 words) - 15:28, 5 March 2021
- was passed in 1781, excluding the Anabaptists, about 70 apparent Catholic converts from Sobotište and Levary immigrated to Russia to join their brethren8 KB (1,315 words) - 07:36, 16 January 2017
- relatives. During that time, Henry attended a church event where he was converted to Christianity on 11 December 1922. The next year, all except one of the6 KB (781 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2019
- school at the Grant County Rural High School in Ulysses, Kansas. After he converted to Christianity at the age of 20, he was baptized on 15 July 1930 and became5 KB (755 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2014
- came in the spring of 1940. The Beulah School was purchased in 1945 and converted into a meetinghouse. From this congregation the work at Naubinway and835 bytes (205 words) - 06:33, 20 February 2014
- which he was banished between 1526 and 1529. He baptized many Anabaptist converts. He was executed at Liechtenstein before 26 December 1529. A Paul (Pauli)1,010 bytes (235 words) - 20:39, 13 April 2014
- fictions of man. Yes, they are those who are regenerated, renewed, and converted; who hear, believe, and keep all the commandments and will of God; who67 KB (10,159 words) - 13:33, 26 June 2019
- a well-to-do and notable citizen of Zürich, Switzerland, who had been converted and become a Mennonite, in 1625 refused to serve as the military standard-bearer1 KB (296 words) - 08:31, 20 January 2014
- family. Shortly after 1870 Gerber, who until then was a "worldly man," was converted. In August 1875 he was ordained as preacher of the large but decadent congregation1 KB (263 words) - 08:31, 20 January 2014
- January 1582 at Basel, a physician by profession, was, while in Paris, converted from Catholicism to the Evangelical faith by reading the works of Erasmus1 KB (253 words) - 08:34, 20 November 2014