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The Missouri-Iowa Mennonite Conference ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]) was organized in 1873 (first meeting at the Bethel Church, [[Morgan County and Moniteau County (Missouri, USA)|Moniteau County]], Missouri, on 24 October 1873) as the Mennonite Conference of Missouri, Iowa, and eastern Kansas, later extended to include the few Mennonite (MC) congregations west of [[Illinois (USA)|Illinois]] in [[Louisiana (USA)|Louisiana]], [[Texas (USA)|Texas]], [[Minnesota (USA)|Minnesota]], and [[North Dakota (USA)|North Dakota]]. When the merger and reorganization of the Mennonite and [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonite]] conferences west of [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]] took place in 1920-1921, this conference was dissolved, and its congregations redistributed among the Missouri-Kansas (later [[South Central Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|South Central]]), [[Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church)|Iowa-Nebraska]], and Dakota-Montana (later [[North Central Conference of the Mennonite Church|North Central]]) conferences. In 1920 the Missouri-Iowa Conference included the following 17 congregations, with a membership of 723: [[Missouri (USA)|<em>Missouri</em>]] 434—[[Mount Zion Mennonite Church (Versailles, Missouri, USA)|Mount Zion]] at Versailles 89, [[Bethel Mennonite Church (Garden City, Missouri, USA)|Bethel at ]][[Garden City (Missouri, USA)|Garden City]] 110, Proctor 14, Palmyra 24, Pea Ridge 40, [[Mount Pisgah Mennonite Church (Leonard, Missouri, USA)|Mount Pisgah]] at Cherry Box 42, [[White Hall Mennonite Church (Oronogo, Missouri, USA)|White Hall]] at Oronogo 65, Jasper 16, Oakland 17, [[Berea Mennonite Community Church (Birth Tree, Missouri, USA)|Berea]] at Birch Tree 49, and five missions: [[Iowa (USA)|<em>Iowa</em>]] 57—[[Liberty Mennonite Church (South English, Iowa, USA)|Liberty]] at South English 50, [[Coal Creek Preaching Point (What Cheer, Iowa, USA)|Coal Creek]] at What Cheer 7; <em>Minnesota</em>—[[Alpha Mennonite Church (Alpha, Minnesota, USA)|Alpha]] 42; <em>North Dakota</em> 89—[[Fairview Mennonite Church (Surrey, North Dakota, USA)|Fairview]] at Surrey 43, Spring Valley at Baden 46; <em>Montana</em> 24—[[Bloomfield (Montana, USA)|Bloomfield]] 20, [[Coalridge Mennonite Church (Dagmar, Montana, USA)|Coalridge]] 4; <em>Texas</em>—[[Tuleta Mennonite Church (Tuleta, Texas, USA)|Tuleta]] 49; <em>Louisiana</em>—[[Lake Charles Mennonite Church (Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA)|Lake Charles]] 15, Allemands 13. Among the outstanding leaders of the conference were D. D. Kauffman (d. 1896) of Versailles, [[Kreider, John Mellinger (1869-1946)|J. M. Kreider]] (dead 1946) of Palmyra, J. R. Shank of Carver, [[Mininger, Jacob D. (1879-1941)|J. D. Mininger]] (d. 1941) of [[Kansas City (Kansas and Missouri, USA)|Kansas City]], and Andrew Shenk (dead 1937) of Oronogo, Missouri, USA).

The conference had a district mission board for home mission work, organized in 1898, and a Sunday school conference, organized before 1905.
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