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Church USA), located near Columbiana, Mahoning County, Ohio, is a member of the Ohio Mennonite Conference. The first meetinghouse was built about 1825 on land

Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial Period in Pennsylvania to 1968. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history, no.

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

Mennonite Conference, and after the merger with the Ohio Mennonite Conference (1843-1927), was part of the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference

SR 2, Archbold Ohio 43502 Phone: 419-445-3856 Website: Central Mennonite Church Denominational Affiliations: Ohio Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church

Affiliation: Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC) Mennonite Church (MC) Allegheny Mennonite Conference Mennonite

County, Ohio, began as an outgrowth of the Central Mennonite congregation, and until 1943 operated with Central and Lockport as one congregation under a

in Ohio as well as the Eastern Mennonite Board. Because of this link, Mashulaville initially was part of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference of the

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

Williams County, Ohio; a member of the Ohio Mennonite Conference, it had its beginning in 1834-1836, when a group of Amish settlers from Alsace and France settled

the congregation joined the Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference. In the 1920s that conference joined the Ohio Conference to form the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite

Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial Period in Pennsylvania to 1968. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history, no.

Atlantic Coast Conference, in which Forest Hills is a member, was formed from congregations of the Ohio and Eastern Conference that were east of Ohio. In 2006

related to the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC), but became part of the Gulf States Mennonite Conference when that regional

title=Zion_Mennonite_Church_(Archbold,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=178451. APA style Gingerich, Melvin. (1959). Zion Mennonite Church (Archbold, Ohio, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite

Lima, Ohio Phone: Website: Denominational Affiliations: Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church (MC) MLA style Umble, John S. and Samuel

Denominational Affiliations: Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC) (1957-1999) Mennonite Church (MC) (1957-1999) Ohio Mennonite Conference (1999-2014) Mennonite

Hartville, Ohio Phone: 330-877-2050 Website: Evermore Community Church Denominational Affiliations Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC) (1944-1999)

the Ohio and Eastern Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC). When the Atlantic Coast Conference was formed out of the “Eastern” part of the Ohio and Eastern

of the Ohio and Eastern Conference in 1947. In 1978 the eastern section of the Ohio and Eastern Conference evolved into Atlantic Coast Conference. Wilkinson

Grove withdrew from the Atlantic Coast Conference (a descendant conference of the Eastern Amish conference) and Mennonite Church USA. It subsequently became

Weaver's connection to the Ohio and Eastern Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC), the congregation joined that conference. It also began using the name

connections to the Burton Mennonite Church, the congregation became part of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC). A church building

Roy Payne and LeRoy A. Zook as ministers. In July 1957 the Otelia congregation withdrew from the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference and joined the

Mission, located in the city of Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, is a member of the Ohio Mennonite Conference. In 1941, a group from Salem Mennonite Church in Wayne

Denominational Affiliation: Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC) Allegheny Mennonite Conference Mennonite Church (MC)

(families from Virginia, Eastern Ohio, and Ontario) were being established in western Ohio and northern Indiana, with small and scattered settlements soon

Mennonite Conference Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC) Mennonite Church (MC) Allegheny Mennonite Conference Conservative Mennonite Conference MLA style

Originally the congregation was part of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference and became part of the Atlantic Coast Mennonite Conference when that body

had three congregations: Salem, Pike, and Central under the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, and survived serious internal difficulties and the loss

the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference in 1925. Later several of these congregations transferred to the Allegheny Mennonite Conference. Some Old Order

Pacific Coast Conference (MC), Southwest Conference (MC), and Pacific District Conference (GCM). -- Henry Poettcker The General Conference Mennonite Church

The congregation was affiliated with the Ohio and Eastern Conference of the Mennonite Church until the formation of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Later

internal migration the eastern Pennsylvania Mennonites spread west to Ontario, Ohio, and Indiana, and southward to Maryland and Virginia in the first half

Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church), first known as the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference, was formed in

out—wearing of the full beard, hooks and eyes and special costume, shunning and footwashing. Two congregations alone, Birkenhof and Diesen, still retain the practice

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

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

practices and customs, and the growth toward cooperation and unity, especially between the Mennonite Church (MC) and the General Conference Mennonite Church

Reidenbach, and Weaver (a type of Old Order) Mennonites. The Beachy Amish had two congregations with 269 members. The Ohio and Eastern Conference had eight

total membership of 4,429 in 54 congregations. Thirty years later there were nine conferences and groups, 94 congregations, and 7,332 members. When Brethren

to Conference congregations. The official organ for the Conference is Shalom News, which began in 2009 and replaced the prior Lancaster Conference News

the resolutions of conference were presented to and ratified by the congregations. In 1884 it was decided that resolutions of conference should not be published

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

from eastern Ohio; and (3) the Amish settlement east of Goshen and west of Nappanee, by settlers from Somerset County, PA, and Holmes County, Ohio. The

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

(Wisler) Conference and the Ontario Mennonite (MC) Conference. In the earlier years the conference session was a gathering of bishops, ministers, and deacons

Canada, with Eastern and Western districts. Doctrines and Discipline of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, editions of 1883, 1888, 1897, 1910, and 1916, et

more news and articles from the congregations and people of the conference, the General Conference Mennonite Church, and Franconia Conference (MC). A new

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

These two conferences merged in 1927 to form the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference, later shortened to Ohio and Eastern Mennonite

they are part of a member area conference. In the General Conference Mennonite Church, congregations and not area conferences were members. The new denomination’s

Jews, was established as an outpost of the Maple Grove congregation (Ohio and Eastern Conference) near Atglen in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1956

37. The Ohio and Eastern Conference (MC) maintained two mission stations in the northeastern corner of the state at Shauns and Indian Springs, and two others

Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, in 1954 constituted the Eastern District, a territory with the following organized congregations: Michigan, 14; Ohio, 11;

The formal merger with the Ohio Mennonite Conference to form the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference took place on 9 December 1927

(belonging to four conferences: Lancaster, Virginia, Ohio and Eastern, and Conservative Mennonite), with a total of 248 permanent members, and a colored mission

1937 at Bluffton, Ohio. [Bluffton, Ohio: General Centenary Committee of the Swiss Mennonite Churches of Putnam and Allen Counties, Ohio], 1937. Gratz, Delbert

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

Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship and Southeastern Mennonite Conference in the board management both for the Maranatha Bible School and the Deeper Life Ministries

part of the general conference program. Also the Nigeria and India conferences were given full status in the general conference setup, and were represented

following congregations in Lagrange County: Old Order Amish, 17 congregations with ca. 1,000 members; six Mennonite (Mennonite Church) congregations with 1

County, Mifflin County, and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and Holmes County, Ohio, Elkhart and Lagrange counties, Indiana, and Johnson County, Iowa, who

Under the name Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference (later Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference), the merged conferences held their

Mennonite congregations, originally a part of the Indiana conference, received the permission of that conference to form a separate conference in 1871 and met

of Goshen and reaching well into Lagrange County with 1,600 members in 23 congregations. The first Mennonite settlers came from eastern Ohio in 1845, locating

Rupp, Stuckey and Wyse. The main body of the settlement eventually affiliated with what came to be the Ohio and Eastern A.M. Joint Conference of the Mennonite

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

released from their membership in the Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church (EPMC). They believed that the Eastern Pennsylvania denomination had become

compared with 108 congregations and 9 groups in 1955. The Western District. Conference was the largest district of the General Conference Mennonite Church

the three congregations (Ohio and Eastern Conference), all near West Liberty, in 1953 was 731. MLA style Umble, John S. "Champaign County (Ohio, USA)." Global

their conference leaders were able to provide. In November 1987 a consultation brought together leaders of charismatic congregations and conference leaders

Lancaster Mennonite Conference, and two-thirds of the membership and the Maple Grove meetinghouse stayed with the Ohio and Eastern Conference. Unusually, Maple

Amish Mennonite Conference, 52 to the Beachy Amish, and 464 to the Old Order Amish. The first Amish to move into the county came from Ohio and Pennsylvania

Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec (1851-1988) Mennonite Church (1898-1999) Mennonite Church Eastern Canada  (1988-present) Conference of Mennonites

century the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference decided to have only one ordination with charges to the several offices as they are assumed and as may be

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

Society of the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite), organized in 1905, was established as a fund-raising agency, and never operated

independent congregation known as Rock Mennonite Church. It became part of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference at that time. The "Eastern" part of that

from Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church Eastern Canada and became an associate member of the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches

The Ohio Wisler Mennonite Churches began in 1973, when a group of Ohio-Indiana (Wisler) Mennonite Conference congregations withdrew to form their own conference

Mennonites, 1890-1920, Eastern Amish Mennonites, 1893-1925. The last conference retained its name in the merged "Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint

1990 the 43 congregations in the city included congregations made up primarily of ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese Christians. In the Conference of Mennonites

or "Sam Yoder" group of five congregations, and the "Stutzman" group of two congregations. Some of these strict congregations were not in communion with

committee for merging the Ohio Mennonite Conference and the Eastern Amish Mennonite Conferences (1927); as secretary of the merged conference for its first 22 years;

Maryland, and eastern Tennessee. Miscellaneous Fellowship outreaches also sprang up in southern Ohio, Kentucky, central & western Tennessee, and several

some difficulties with the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference, the congregation voted to disband and razed the building. The majority

(Mennonite Church), a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, located 2 ½ miles northeast of Elida, Allen County, Ohio, was organized in 1841 with

the Ohio Mennonite Conference and the Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference that formed the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Joint Conference. He

Leetonia congregation voted to leave the Ohio Conference and Mennonite Church USA, and to become part of the Evana Network. "Release of congregations." Ohio

Mennonite Brethren General Conference Yearbook (1981): 113-114. Mennonite World Conference. "Global Map:Colombia." Mennonite World Conference. Web. 27 March 2021

Belleville, Pennsylvania and A. J. Steiner of North Lima, Ohio, who had been appointed by the Ohio-Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference to organize the group

new graduate studies program, and 24 faculty members and administrators. In addition, the new Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada has approved an ambitious

Lancaster County and adjoining counties and have been represented in many of the Mennonite congregations in the eastern United States and Canada. Many of

for men and hooks and eyes for suit coats. Hats are seldom worn and broadfall pants and suspenders are no longer required in many congregations. Beachy

php?title=Ohio_and_Canada_West_Mennonite_Conference&oldid=123671. APA style Bender, Harold S. (1959). Ohio and Canada West Mennonite Conference. Global Anabaptist

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

Virginia Mennonite Conference except Providence, which belonged to the Ohio and Eastern Conference. MLA style Carper, Eva Weber. "Newport News (Virginia, USA)

(MC) the leaders of the congregations east of Ohio after about 1900 taught the constant wearing of the veil throughout the day and this practice was fairly

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries the Kolbs are found also in the Palatinate; some were preachers and elders in the congregations at Mannheim, Kriegsheim

Kidron Mennonite Church under the Ohio and Eastern Conference. The Sonnenberg congregation suffered a later division which resulted in the organization of

Elida, Ohio, led by a minister, D. S. Brunk, and his son J. M. Brunk, later made a minister at La Junta, who arrived at Pueblo in December 1902 and joined

Mennonite Conference. In 1926 a meetinghouse was built at 2504 Fourth Avenue and named the First Mennonite Church. About one half of the congregation of 68

1977. On 8 March 1979, the WOM conference, later part of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC), jointly commissioned Doris and Rod as ministers, a designation

monthly, The Eastern Mennonite Testimony and also begun publishing books and curricula, sometimes in cooperation with Rod and Staff Publishers. MMM’s receipts

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

well as half the Ohio church and a few members from Franklin and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania. Tension between Bishop Simon Musser and Minister John

Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial Period in Pennsylvania to 1968. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History, no.

century. From Eastern Pennsylvania the Amish Yoders migrated westward to Somerset and Mifflin counties, and from there to Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and other midwestern

Faith: The Central District Conference, 1957-1990. Bluffton, Ohio: The Conference, 2003. Address: 2 East Main Street, Trenton, Ohio 45067 Phone: 513-988-0313

Maryland, and eastern Pennsylvania passed through this region. Many of the early Amish and Mennonite settlements in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and elsewhere

British Columbia. Four were by Mennonite Brethren congregations, four by General Conference congregations and one by the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren. During

Catholics and Protestants in the province. In time, other Mennonites joined their work and they helped to establish congregations in Joliette, Rawdon and Montreal

Mennonite Conference met with Bishop Otis N. Johns of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. They discussed launching a new congregation affiliated

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

of 42 years, Philip and his wife Cinderella traveled back to Shanesville, Ohio, to visit. Mrs. Yoder suddenly took ill and died, and her obituary appeared

environment. For example, the Old Order Amish of Eastern Pennsylvania are somewhat more conservative than those of Ohio and Indiana, who originally came from Western

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

It is improbable that the Ohio-Canada West (General Conference Mennonite) movement greatly affected the Shantz congregation. However, at the neighboring

member of the Ohio Mennonite Conference, later became a member of the Ohio and Eastern Conference. Paul Lantz was the pastor in 1954 and the reported membership

diverse backgrounds and stories, worshipping together and supporting one another, while following Christ’s example in working for peace and justice in its urban

the congregation was part of the Atlantic Coast Conference of Mennonite Church USA. That conference was formerly the eastern part of the Ohio and Eastern

missionaries in Africa; Glen and Elizabeth Nyce Good, missionaries in France; and Dr. Christopher and Lois Gross Leuz, plastic surgeon and nurse, who served in

Continent, 1655-1750; (2) Mennonites and Quakers in Colonial Pennsylvania; and (3) Mennonite and Quaker contacts and co-operation in North America in the

ordained minister. By 1883 he inclined to the conservative group and moved to eastern Ohio. In 1907 Nathaniel Bergey was ordained minister. In 1905 under

congregational and conference materials, and to further research on church-related themes. Other new centers in Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Virginia have

John A. Cooprider was superintendent of building and grounds, and Henrietta (Brunk) Cooprider was cook and matron. One building, later named Green Gables

Mennonite and Amish practice. In the Franconia Conference area the contact between the Quakers and Mennonites was particularly close, and in colonial and later

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

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

part of the Ohio Mennonite Conference. The minister was Doug King. Stoltzfus, Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial Period

program, and more recently a food pantry program for the community. Sandy Hill was originally a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference; it became

Logan County, Ohio, a member of the Ohio and Eastern Conference, was founded by Amish families from Wayne and Holmes counties, Ohio, and Mifflin County

descendants live in eastern Pennsylvania, among them (in the 1950s) eight Old Order Amish ministers. Five additional Mennonite and Amish Mennonite ministers

Franconia Conference. Jacob B. Hunsberger (1836-1919) served as preacher in the Coventry and Vincent congregations of the Franconia Conference from 1877

National Conference of Christians and Jews. Repentance, Littell pleads, will not come until Christian liturgy includes ". . . prayers and hymns and antiphonies"

German and Vistula congregations were very close. The latter were composed largely of refugees from the Netherlands (Friesland) and Flanders, and maintained

Marshall and Elkhart Counties was started around 1850 by families moving from Holmes County, Ohio, and also from the Amish settlement in eastern Elkhart

Mennonite Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference which descended from the "Eastern" part of the conference. With nine remaining members and no pastor

Goshen College for the year 1923-24 and divisions in a number of congregations in Indiana, Ohio, Ontario, and Eastern Pennsylvania, led to confusion in the

1957. The mission became part of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference in 1962 because of its link to Maple Grove and because it had less strict regulations

September 1957 at the Blue Ball Fire Company. The Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference made the new congregation a mission post of the Neffsville Mennonite Church

Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial Period in Pennsylvania to 1968. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history, no.

(Mennonite Church), near Louisville, Ohio, an organized congregation under the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, was established in 1938. It had 29

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

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

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

formed by General Conference Mennonites and Evangelical Mennonite Brethren for work in Menno Colony and eastern Paraguay. Four conferences composed of Indigenous

Mennoniten-Gemeinschaft" at Wadsworth, Ohio (1868-78), the Witmarsum Theological Seminary at Bluffton College, Ohio (1921-31), and then Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Boston joined both the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Ohio and Eastern Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC)

Central District Conference, 1957-1990. Bluffton, Ohio: The Conference, 2003. Address: 113 Main Street, PO Box 250, Sugarcreek, Ohio 44681 Phone: 330-852-2822

Grove, and Ridgeview congregations in Pennsylvania. It was affiliated with the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. In the late 1970s the "Eastern" part

Mennonite schools were primarily of two types: conference schools and patron schools. Unlike the colleges and seminaries, the Mennonite Board of Education

Daniel and a daughter of Howard D. H. Showalter, was professor at Eastern Mennonite College, and Amos M. Showalter, a great-grandson of Daniel and son of

of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. When the Atlantic Coast Conference formed in 1978, it became part of that new regional conference. In 2021

District of the General Conference Mennonite Church and several weeks later joined the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC). It

primarily a directory of congregations, ministers, institutions, and conference organizations and officers, with membership (and financial statistics) with

people's clubs, first in academies and colleges and then in local congregations. Elkhart Institute founded in 1894, and its successor Goshen College had

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

School Convention in the Eastern District Conference (General Conference Mennonite) on 2 October 1876, sponsored by A. B. Shelly, and held annually thereafter

worshiping at the Mennonite mission in Meadville, asked the Ohio and Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference for organization, which was effected in October 1937.

May 1958. That same year Faith Mennonite became a member of the Ohio and Eastern Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC). In 1971 construction began on the

Coast Conference Church." Atlantic Coast Conference Currents 6, no. 2 (March-April 1985): 1. Stoltzfus, Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference;

1870s. John L. Ruth's narrative history of the Franconia Conference and Eastern District Conference, Maintaining the Right Fellowship (1984), has added some

a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference and was organized in 1947. Its membership in 1959 was 82, with Leroy D. Umble and Phares I. Lantz

colleges and congregations, and (7) to organize and carry out efforts beneficial to the individual schools, administrators, board members, faculties, and students

College; Eastern Mennonite School at Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1917, later Eastern Mennonite College and now Eastern Mennonite University; and Tabor Academy

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

1½ miles (2.5 km.) northwest of Chesterville, Ohio, is a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. The first Mennonite settlers arrived in the

General Conference Mennonite Church and the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC). It became a member of both conferences in 1976

the late 1930s and then relocated to Red Lake, ON, about 1953. Schantz raised his support from interested individuals and congregations. In 1965 the churches

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

Walking Together in Faith: The Central District Conference, 1957-1990. Bluffton, Ohio: The Conference, 2003. Schrock, Jennifer Halteman. "Berea Mennonite

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

the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC). In 1979 it became part of the new region Gulf States Mennonite Conference. After

1918-1942, and Lansdale 1928-1929. He was secretary of the Eastern District Conference 1913-27, and one of the founders of the Mennonite, and was active

Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Jacob Frey, who migrated from France to North America in 1839, settled in Fulton County, Ohio, where numerous

1904 by a joint committee representing the Ohio Mennonite Conference and the Eastern Amish Mennonite conferences. This action grew out of a request for reopening

Orrville and Wooster in Wayne County, Ohio, a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, was founded in 1891 as a daughter congregation of the

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

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

Atlantic Coast Conference Currents 9, no. 1 (January-February 1988): 2. Stoltzfus, Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial

Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), near Aurora, Ohio, a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, was founded by Amish Mennonites from Nebraska

Bluffton, Ohio, 1955, 56 p. BAUER: Lister Oliver Weiss. A History and Genealogy of Hans Bauer . . . Akron, Ohio?, 1952, 126 p.; see also Stauffer and Strassburger

as Pleasant Hill), a member of the Ohio and Eastern Conference, located three miles (five km) northwest of Burton, Ohio, was organized in 1948 by persons

his death; he had emigrated from Europe and had lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Markham, Ontario, and Ohio. Noah S. Hoover (MC) served as a deacon

development of preparatory schools and eventually colleges among the General Conference Mennonites. The German Teachers' Association and the German Teachers' Institute

Anthony of the MBiC Michigan Conference and two Baptist young men. Althea, deferred, joined the MBiC city mission program instead, and was posted in 1902 to assist

Oberholtzer on a written constitution and the keeping of minutes in the conference. Oberholtzer's East Pennsylvania Conference of Mennonites in 1860 joined with

Waterloo and Kitchener, Ontario; central Kansas; Goshen, Indiana; Harrisonburg, Virginia, and others, such as central Ohio, central California, and eastern

Church), located in Milton Township, Wayne County, Ohio, is a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. The orig­inal meetinghouse was built in 1880

Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. Near the time that Jacob Esch, Sr. came to North America, James Esch also emigrated from Europe to Eastern Pennsylvania

Mennonite Church, and became for the first time an independent congregation, a member of the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference, no longer

years of active service in the pulpit and was an active participant in the work of the Ohio-Eastern A.M. Joint Conference. In the early 1900's he began a wide

Township, Wayne County, Ohio, formerly called the Eight Square Mennonite Church, is a member of the Ohio and Indiana Conference of the Old Order (Wisler)

Creek, Ohio, Amish Mennonite Church in the early 20th century and remembered for serving a jail term as editor of the Sugarcreek, Ohio, Amish and Mennonite

near Danvers, IL, was built in 1853 and the neighboring Partridge (Metamora) church in 1854. Congregations in Ohio which were leaving the "Old Order" Amish

authority from conference leadership to the congregation. In fact, the radical shift toward congregational freedom vis-à-vis conference authority may be

was moderator of the Ohio and Eastern Conference from 1962-1966 and 1969-1971, and moderator of the Mennonite Church General Conference from 1963 to 1965

Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial Period in Pennsylvania to 1968. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history, no.

group was organized as a separate congregation under the Ohio and Eastern A.M. Conference with Simon W. Sommer pastor and D. D. Miller of Martins Creek bishop

of eastern Pennsylvania. In 1957 there were five ministers with the Kennel family name serving Mennonite (MC) churches in eastern Pennsylvania, and John

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

Coast Conference (a descendant of part of the Ohio and Eastern Conference) to the Franklin Mennonite Conference. In 2018 the Franklin Conference became

Grove and Conestoga congregations gave financial support to the mission effort. Big Laurel affiliated with the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. In

at Canford and East streets, was founded in 1954 under the Ohio and Eastern Conference by a group who withdrew from the Lancaster Conference. In 1957 it

bishop, editor and conference leader, was born in Kidron, Ohio, USA on 17 August 1933 to Jacob M. Neuenschwander (6 May 1893-24 December 1974) and Lydia Martha

Commission and the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference saying that they encouraged "Yoder and the church to use his gifts of writing and teaching." The

Smithville and the Beech Church at Louisville. As late as 1900 the Eastern A.M. Conference appointed someone to serve the congregation. J. S. Gerig and John

literature evangelism, child care, and in elderly care. Many congregations are located in eastern Pennsylvania. Congregations are also located in New Jersey

crops included hay and vegetables. Two ministers arrived in the settlement in 1901 -- Emanuel J. Schlabach from Geauga County, Ohio and David D. Schlabach

the ordination of bishops and were experimenting with a system of district superintendents. The Ohio and Eastern Conference adopted the practice of only

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

Franconia and Lancaster Conference districts in Eastern Pennsylvania. The name is also well represented both in Ontario and Fulton County, Ohio. In 1746

Indiana; Freed and Kilmer to western Richland and eastern Crawford counties, Ohio. Risser helped found the General Conference congregation south of Ashland

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

General Conference Mennonite Church was formed, and another in the 1940s, when the Bethel Mennonite Church, then in the Ohio and Eastern Conference (MC),

members, Allegheny Conference 12 with 417, Lancaster Conference 9 with 178, Ohio and Eastern Conference 3 with 159, Conservative Conference one with 230, Beachy

took his congregation into the General Conference of Mennonites of North America when it disagreed with the discipline of the Ohio and Eastern A.M. Joint

Amish Mennonite congregations of Mifflin County, PA, members of the Eastern Amish Mennonite (later Ohio and Eastern Amish Mennonite) Conference, joined—Maple

Brenneman and Menno L. Troyer, and one of the ministers, Andrew Brenneman. After the group requested and was granted by the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern A.M.

the conference; Ira J. Buckwalter (1870-1950), a minister in the Martins and Pleasant View Mennonite congregations in eastern Ohio from 1893, and bishop

on Highway 7 and 8, in Waterloo County, Ontario, is a member of the Ontario Amish Mennonite Conference, and with the St. Agatha congregation had a combined

Grant M. Mennonites of the Ohio and Eastern Conference; From the Colonial Period in Pennsylvania to 1968. Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history, no. 13

conservative Pilgrim Mennonite Press, and was chair of the initial board. Paul and Mary briefly moved to Hartville, Ohio to help with the publication effort

preached and spoke at numerous youth retreats, conferences, and congregations on the role of Christian education. He was especially involved in summer camps

represented in the Lancaster and Franconia conferences (Mennonite Church) of eastern Pennsylvania. In Lancaster the name is spelled Rutt, and in Franconia, Ruth

the Ohio and Eastern Conference. Earlier a number had left to share in the organization of the Monterey Mennonite Church under the same conference, near

Wadsworth, Ohio, and to the newly organized Canton Mennonite Mission of the Mennonite Church. A few of these people still lived in the community and attended

Mission Conference; Southeastern Mennonite Conference; Washington-Franklin Mennonite Conference; and Western Conservative Mennonite Conference. The congregations

near Shipshewana, Indiana, and others. In 1939 winter Bible schools were begun in the Lancaster Conference District in Eastern Pennsyl­vania. An evening

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

Mennonite Conference (MC), and found also among the Mennonites and Amish Mennonites in Lancaster and Butler counties, Pennsylvania, and in eastern Ohio. Zieglers

in 1732 and 1737 by the Kauffmans, Fishers, and Beilers. In the 1950s there was a flourishing Mennonite church of the Ohio and Eastern Conference in this

to the Ohio and Eastern A.M. Conference, whereas Millwood, which formerly belonged to the same conference joined the Lancaster Conference. A considerable

planting and developing congregations in Colorado. In October 1957 the congregation was received as a member of the South Central Conference. Twenty persons

listed in 1925. The family has been most prominent in eastern Pennsylvania (Franconia Conference) and in Ontario. C. H. Smith lists a Christian Buercki, a

Germany and to Florimont and Audincourt, France. Others came to America, settling chiefly in Rockingham County, Virginia, and Putnam County, Ohio, where

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

Mennonite conferences including Franconia, Lancaster, Virginia, Ohio and Eastern, Ontario, North Central, Iowa-Nebraska, Pacific Coast, and the Conservative

Media Chapel and Sandy Hill, with a total of 580 members. Both of these groups are in the Ohio and Eastern Conference. The Millwood congregation broke off

suffering, and she also wondered if she had lost authority because of the expulsion of her congregation, Zion Mennonite, from the Ohio and Eastern A. M. Conference

General Conference Mennonite (GCM) congregations in 1960, 1970, and 1980; (8) Yoder's 1982 census of the Mennonite Church; (9) studies on marriage and divorce

plans, and programs. Conferences, Christian worker's institutes and youth fellowships emerged. A Christian Worker's Conference in Bluffton, Ohio, in January

1891-15 December 1966) and Hazel Stump Clouse (13 November 1895-October 1983). Alvin and Vera had two daughters, Brenda (Ray), born 1947, and Debra, born 1951

Mennonite Mission (MC), established at Newark in 1950 under the Ohio and Eastern Conference, had 47 members in 1955. -- Melvin Gingerich The Conservative

1957 150 and 102. The Ohio congregations in the Wisler group totaled 345 members in 1957, all of the more progressive group. The Indiana and Ohio progressive

the Ohio and Eastern Conference: from the colonial period in Pennsylvania to 1968. Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Herald Press, 1969. Umble, John. Ohio Mennonite

Mennonite Church (MC) and the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM), about 270 congregations were established between 1970 and 1985, and 60 percent of these

Historians of Eastern PA and the Heritage Center Mennonite Historical Library (Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio); the Library is searchable through the Ohio Private

Salem-Pike congregation withdrew from the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern A.M. Joint Conference after its bishop had been placed under conference censure, 80

located 4 miles (6.5 km.) northeast of Baltic, Ohio, a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, was organized in 1950, after having been a mission

ministry to children and teens located near Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Pinebrook Bible Conference, a retreat and summer conference for families near Stroudsburg

When the congregation became involved in difficulties with the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC) it withdrew from the conference in 1927 and transferred

Lancaster Conference and to a lesser degree in the Franconia Conference, of treating the group of bishops as a sort of upper house in the conference, like

Church, now extinct, located in Fairfield County, Ohio, a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, was founded in the early 1800s by settlers from

church and colony to be one. Two congregations have resulted: Light and Hope and Florida. In 1970 the Light and Hope Clinic was constructed and is operated

chaplain by Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference in 1971. He opened a halfway house with help of the Ohio Mennonite Evangelism Commission (1973) and continued

aggressive methods the conference has grown. In 1959 there were 14 congregations, 9 mission congregations, 4 resident bishops, 20 ministers, and 1,645 members.

Florida, was formally organized as a congregation under the Ohio Mennonite and Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference on 17 April 1945 with 20 charter members

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

The General Conference Mennonites, whose major elements were the Oberholtzer group (1847) in Eastern Pennsylvania, Swiss Mennonites in Ohio and Indiana coming

across the Alleghenies into Western Pennsylvania and Ohio and finally from Ohio and Ontario to Indiana and Northern Illinois took place in 1800-60. All this

different states and 2 provinces. Of these congregations, 54 were in Pennsylvania, 14 in Ontario, 10 in Ohio, 8 in Michigan, 7 in Kentucky, and 5 each in California

the Old Order Amish congregations of Pennsylvania and west. The Alsatian, Bavarian, and Hessian Amish who settled in Ohio, Ontario, and Illinois from 1824

group, until their congregations were dissolved in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Both Lamists and Zonists permitted more convenience and even some luxury

Columbia Mennonite Brethren Conference and by the Conference of Mennonites in British Columbia, which is part of the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)

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

Dresden, and Prague, and spent five and one-half days in Vienna; then continued through Budapest and Bucharest and spent six days in Odessa and Kherson

school for the deaf, and in 1911 a sanitarium for epileptics and those with nervous diseases. As in Europe, Russia, and in many countries and cultures where

(Mennonite Church), located south of Bremen, Ohio, a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference, had its beginning in 1858, when a meetinghouse

Church (MC), and related groups in North America; (4) the General Conference Mennonite Church in North America; and (5) Other groups in North and South America

members, with Herman N. Glick as pastor. The congregation is a member of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference. MLA style Gingerich, Melvin. "Wesley Chapel

November 1904 the congregation was re-established as a mission (see Canton First Mennonite Church) under the Ohio Mennonite and the Eastern Amish Mennonite

family name found among the Mennonites of eastern Pennsylvania, in the General Conference Mennonite Church and Mennonite Church groups. Immigration records

(1849-1934). The Lancaster Conference in 1955 had a minister and a deacon named Ebersole, and Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference had Bishop Allen Ebersole

North America, settling especially in Wayne and Fulton counties, Ohio, near Berne, Indiana, and in eastern Iowa and Ontario. The first of the family to come

that time were the Ohio and Eastern Amish Mennonite, the Lancaster Mennonite and the Conservative Amish Mennonite. All types of farm buildings, dwellings

the Mennonite Church (MC) and all related and conservative groups. Even in the worship of the Swiss congregations in Ohio and Indiana who later joined the

helping hand. He was an avid church conference attender, often sharing his ideas. David was a professor, minister and chaplain using the gifts God had given

Washington County (Maryland) and Franklin County (Pennsylvania) conferences, nor from the congregations of Fulton County, Ohio, which administered their own