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• Aburatani Seiichiro (category Church Workers in Japan)
  the Hagi Church meetings and led a home meeting in his mother's house in Agawa. With his wife, he retired to a small house in Shimonoseki in 1982 Book
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• Japan
  Wingerts and the Melvin Gingerichs as workers. American personnel in 1955 in Japan numbered as follows: Mennonite Church 17, General Conference Mennonite 18
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• Lay Evangelists
  prospective converts. Many workers went on to become pastors and church leaders. Of the first five ordained ministers in the Mennonite Church in India (Dhamtari)
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• Mennonite Brethren Church (section The Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia)
  presentation of the MB Church therefore calls for a treatment of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia; the Mennonite Brethren Church in North America; and
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• China, People's Republic of (section Mennonites in China)
  and Mrs. F. J. Wiens in 1911 among the Hakkas at Shanhang in Fukien province. The home church was interested from the beginning and in 1919 accepted conference
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• Mennonite Central Committee (International)
  (summer of 1947) 317 workers were simultaneously in service in Europe. The program in Jordan for Arab refugees was begun in 1950. The work in the Far East, with
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• General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) (section Resolutions approved by the General Conference Mennonite Church)
  rapid growth has come in Canada. In the United States the increase in membership has been from 31,687 in 1950 to 35,333 in 1997. In Canada the increase has
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• Mennonite Board of Missions (Mennonite Church)
  Charities). In July 1952 the American Mennonite Mission in India was amalgamated with the India Mennonite Church to form the Mennonite Church in India, an
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• Mennonite Church (MC) (section Mennonite Church General Conferences and General Assemblies)
  decline in interest in millennialism in the 1950s. The growth of confidence in education and its value for the cause of the church was marked in the 2nd
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• General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (section The Development of the Conference in the First Half of the Twentieth Century)
  meetings in all the churches as well as in unchurched communities. Beginning in 1884, the conference published the Zionsbote as its church organ; in 1907 it
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• Nihon Menonaito Kirisutokyo Kyokai Kaigi (Japan Mennonite Christian Church Conference)
  Japan was made at the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) sessions held in Freeman, SD in August 1950. In 1951 ten missionaries arrived in Kobe,
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• Category:Church Workers in Japan
  {CategoryIndex}} This category includes church workers in Japan who were not ordained as missionaries, ministers, bishops or elders.
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• Mennonites in Asia (section Japan and South Korea)
  congregations in the two cities, membership totaled a little over 100 in total in 2018. In a fashion similar to China, Japan strongly resisted the church for many
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• Mennonite Brethren Missions/Services International (Mennonite Brethren Church)
  ministries of evangelism, discipleship and church planting. These have resulted in national MB church conferences in India (entered 1898), D.R. Congo (adopted
  14 KB (1,797 words) - 03:13, 13 April 2021
• Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA) (category Mennonite Church (MC) Congregations) (section Oak Grove Mennonite Church Leading Ministers)
  north of the church, was purchased for a new cemetery. In 1963 the parsonage was built, and in 1968 an educational wing was added to the church. In 2003 a carport
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• Theological Education by Extension
  are enrolled in the various Mennonite-related TEE programs. The first TEE program in the Tanzania Mennonite Church was started late in 1982 in the North Mara
  9 KB (1,456 words) - 01:41, 25 January 2023
• Nihon Menonaito Kirisuto Kyokai Kyogikai (Japan Mennonite Christian Church Conference)
  School (Doto Seisho Gakuin) was founded in 1965 in Kushiro (later in Obihiro). The stated purpose was to train workers in the Hokkaido context, and to do this
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• Tokyo Chiku Menonaito Kyokai Rengo (Tokyo Area Fellowship of Mennonite Churches)
  missionary couples in the city, representing the Brethren in Christ, General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM), and Mennonite Church (MC). In 1964 the Mennonite-related
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• Industrialization
  Europe and later in North America and Japan. Workers left their agrarian communities to work in centers where these machines were located, establishing
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• Peace (section The Peace Witness in the Life of the Churches)
  there has been impressive growth in church agency activity, in educational programs, and in theological sophistication. In the wider Christian world, the
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• Nonresistance (section Nonresistance in Germany)
  noncombatant service in the army which some accepted, both in the North and in the South. The church at that time showed a weakness in not being able to grapple
  78 KB (11,884 words) - 19:18, 15 November 2019
• Derksen, Peter (1928-2014) (category Missionaries in Japan)
  Conference Mennonite Church Commission on Overseas Mission. In 1956 Peter was ordained on the mission field in Japan. During their time in Japan four more children
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• Mennonite Church Canada (section Mission Statement of Mennonite Church Canada)
  conferences—Mennonite Church British Columbia, Mennonite Church Alberta, Mennonite Church Saskatchewan, Mennonite Church Manitoba, and the Mennonite Church Eastern Canada)
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• Ressler, Jacob Andrews (1867-1936)
  former worker in the Mennonite Mission in Chicago, Illinois. Two children of this marriage, Ruth and Rhoda Ressler, served as missionaries in Japan. Ressler
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• Inter-Mennonite Cooperation
  work in Europe in 1945 ff., which directly served Mennonites in all European countries, and brought some 300 workers from America to Europe often in direct
  64 KB (8,469 words) - 18:00, 25 January 2023
• Disarmament
  American Mennonite workers in Europe seeking to make a peace witness to NATO. Niebuhr, Reinhold. "Why the Christian Church is Not Pacifist," in Christianity
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• China Mennonite Mission Society
  Missionary Church Association. A home organization was effected in 1912 based on supporters in these four groups, the board being incorporated in 1913 as
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• Philippines
  Nationwide Fellowship Churches. There was also a Mennonite Brethren mission in the north. The Peace Church Network was planted by Mennonite Church Canada and established
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• Gerber, Daniel Amstutz (1940-1962?)
  buried in the highlands with other missionaries killed in Vietnam. Captured along with Daniel Gerber were two Christian and Missionary Alliance workers, Eleanor
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• Nihon Menonaito Burezaren Kyodan (Japan Mennonite Brethren Conference)
  1958 the Japan Field Council, in which Japanese leaders joined with the expatriate missionaries, was set up to promote the work of the Japan Conference.
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• Foreign Mission Board (General Conference Mennonite Church)
  Congo Inland Mission in Africa. In 1947 work was started in Colombia, South America, mainly with untainted leper children.  Eight workers are there at present
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• International Community of Mennonite Brethren
  leaders from ICOMB members and emerging national church conferences. Missiology compendium called “The Church in Mission” jointly published with the mission
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• Taber Evangelical Mennonite Church (Taber, Alberta, Canada) (category Churches) (section Membership at Taber Evangelical Mennonite Church)
  Mennonite Church began services in 1994 and was formally organized in 1996. Taber, Alberta was settled in 1903-1910, largely by members of the Church of Jesus
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• Canada Inland Mission (Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches)
  The CIM outreach strategies in Quebec included church planting and Bible School training. The first CIM church plant was in St-Jérôme under Ernst Dyck’s
  11 KB (1,592 words) - 16:30, 27 September 2023
• Modernity (section Modernity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America)
  emerged in an atmosphere in which "tradition" was blamed for many abuses in the church. Although in this sense they opened the way for modern ideas in the
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• West China Mennonite Brethren Mission
  from the Japanese occupied area in China and joined them. Through these events many in the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church became interested in this part
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• International Relations
  concentration in such countries as Malawi, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. Teaching assignments in China and Japan became common in the 1970s
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• Netherlands (section Attempts by the State Church to Suppress the Mennonites in Spite of General Toleration)
  Word of God (in general the Spiritualist position), others held fast to the concept of the visible church as a church without spot or wrinkle, in which every
  162 KB (17,876 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2021
• Persatuan Gereja-Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia (GKMI; Union of Muria Christian Churches of Indonesia)
  philosophy. Already in the 1930s the Muria church experimented with a special church-run business to support church ministries. In the 1970s a local endowment
  23 KB (3,630 words) - 16:07, 27 July 2014
• Nanlo (Hebei Sheng, China)
  occupied by the Japanese military forces in 1938 and the work was badly disrupted and forced to discontinue in 1942. The Chinese church nevertheless continued
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• Tsingfeng Mennonite Mission (Hebei Province, China)
  each organized church, a schoolteacher, and a Bible woman, with other itinerant workers. In 1941 the work was disrupted by the Japanese occupation. Missionary
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• Mission (Missiology) (section General Conference Mennonite Church)
  the MBC church was opened in Nigeria, Africa, by A. W. Banfield in 1901 and taken over by the church in 1905. This was well supplied with workers and was
  56 KB (7,446 words) - 19:16, 8 August 2023
• Worship, Private
  vision of her true mission in the world" and "that mothers and fathers in the church may have divine wisdom to lead their children in the way of the Lord."
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• Gereja Injili di Tanah Jawa (GITJ) (section Church Growth)
  with other churches in theological education mentioned above, the Evangelical Church of Java, in cooperation with the Muria Christian Church of Indonesia
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• Bible Colleges and Institutes (section Mennonite Bible Schools in North America arranged in order of establishment)
  school at Ampflwang in Austria (1984). In addition, the Haarlem Mennonite Church in The Netherlands has initiated a Bible school in 1988 in their own city.
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• Relief Work (section Relief Work in Russia)
  missions, the Mennonite Church in 1899 and the General Conference Mennonite Church in 1900. The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church in 1898 started orphanage
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• Social Class
  of the Evangelical Mennonite Church earning the highest incomes. Michael Yoder's survey of members of the Mennonite Church in the United States (1982) showed
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• Urban Church
  minorities in the large cities. Such missions were begun by Mennonite Church (MC) workers in Chicago in 1893; by Mennonite Brethren in Christ in Dayton, Ohio
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• Java (Indonesia)
  training of church workers and for the Sunday schools and the spread of Christian literature. For this purpose they asked for three workers. In 1951 Jan F
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• Tungming (Hebei Province, China)
  missionary family was assigned for residence in 1915. A church building was erected in the city with workers' homes, and a compound with a primary school
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