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place that the first American Mennonite Brethren missionaries came. They located their field adjacent to the Russian Mennonite Brethren field. The Mennonite

historical presentation of the MB Church therefore calls for a treatment of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia; the Mennonite Brethren Church in North America;

distinct Mennonite bodies or agencies (with years of adherence); viz., Mennonite Church (MC) 1920, General Conference Mennonite 1920, Mennonite Brethren 1920

congregation. The United Mennonite Church assigned Caspar Wideman to preach there from 1876-1878. From 1883 to 1889, the Mennonite Brethren in Christ (MBiC)

participating groups, the Mennonite Brethren and Krimmer Mennonite Brethren taking responsibility for the western field in Szechwan-Kansu and the Evangelical Mennonite

Mission Brethren in Christ World Missions Eastern Mennonite Missions Mennonite Brethren Missions Mennonite Mission Network Mennonite World Conference MLA style

three from the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Conference, and three from the General Conference Mennonite Church. The annual budget was $161,000. The official

concomitant of the open-field system, whereby all the owners of individual strips in a given field are compelled to plant the same crop or fallow at the same time

which belonged to the General Conference Mennonite Church, twelve to the Mennonite Brethren, three to the Mennonite Church (MC), two to the Old Order Amish

peasants of the 16th and 17th centuries. "They have the most beautiful houses," exclaimed even the archfoe of the Brethren, the Catholic priest Christoph Andreas

USA), the Church of God in Christ, Mennonites, and the Mennonite Brethren. In Newton are the General Conference Mennonite headquarters (now Mennonite Church

Regarding the third objective, special emphasis was placed upon the preparation of workers for the foreign mission field. As in the case of the Emmatal school

Church, the name chosen 3 November 1947, by the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church. At this same time the Pennsylvania Conference withdrew from the main

regards still unsurpassed. The Introduction is highly illuminating, setting forth the faith of the Brethren (along the line of the famous Schleitheim Articles

million from the contribution of men drafted to Mennonite CPS camps. To operate the camps under Mennonite direction, the churches contributed to the Mennonite

Mennonite Brethren Mission in the Congo was the result of the interest of the Mennonite Brethren Conference (MB) in doing mission work in Africa evidenced

therefore the authority of the church. The Anabaptists of the Reformation period, however, did not repudiate infant baptism because they denied the validity

members of the Board in an advisory capacity represented the three colleges of the General Conference and the alumni of the Seminary. The Mennonite Biblical

periodical as the official publication of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. In 1962 the conference began to publish the Mennonite Brethren

theological field until his death in 1941. The awakening of John Horsch's historical interest was the result of the intellectual movements in the Mennonite Church

branches of the Mennonite Church, both of them beginning in 1945. The Mennonite Brethren mission occupied a territory in Choco and in Valle on the Pacific

concerning the restoration of all of Moravia to the Roman faith, in which the expulsion of the Hutterian Brethren should become the very climax, since the Cardinal

was rather weak by the time of the Brenneman division of 1874, and eventually the Mennonite Brethren in Christ (now UMC) took up the work at Pleasant Hill

after 1913 at Hillsboro. The purpose of the publication of the Zionsbote was to acquaint the churches with the work in the field of evangelism and church

on the problem was different. The court records relate that he distributed to the poor the money collected from the members: "This Jakob," say the Geschichts-Bücher

Evangelical Mennonite Brethren accepted responsibility for the original Shandong-Honan field, while the Mennonite Brethren and the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren accepted

Columbia; the Randmission under the Alberta Mennonite Brethren Conference continued the work in Alberta; and the Saskatchewan activities came under the Saskatchewan

Hiebert: a Mennonite Brethren teacher and missionary; born 29 July 1874 in Lichtfelde, Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, South Russia, the oldest of the twelve

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

reunite the two groups, but without success. Finally in 1953 a merger was made with the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren to form the Evangelical Mennonite Conference

Conference of the Mennonite Brethren and the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches in North America. The records of the Southern District Conference

of the Flemish and the combined Frisians and High German group followed on the basis of the confessions of 1626 and 1632. With the exception of the three

gathered at the mission station Mulkapet to organize the first Mennonite Brethren Church among the Telugus under the auspices of the Mennonite Brethren Church

originally the official youth paper of the Mennonite Brethren Conference of North America, was begun 1 March 1937 as a monthly 32-page paper, 9 x 6 in. The size

divisions finally led to the separation of the followers of Wiedemann and Jäger, the Stabler, from their brethren, the Schwertler; the Stabler moved to Austerlitz

(copies in the Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen, Indiana and the Library of the University of Basel). The second debate with the Swiss Brethren allegedly

he founded the Lincoln Avenue Gospel Mission in Chicago in 1915. He edited the Wahrheitsfreund, the organ of the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Conference

father was the elder of the Mennonite (Kirchliche Mennoniten) Church at Karassan, Crimea, but Benjamin was baptized a member of the Mennonite Brethren Church

especially active within the Mennonite renewal and ecumenical charismatic movements. Springer, Nelson and A. J. Klassen, compilers. Mennonite Bibliography, 1631-1961

Bololo Mennonite Brethren Mission in Africa derived its name from the village in the Kasai District of the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo)

from members of the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren, Mennonite Brethren, Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, and Missionary Church Association. The mission was located

Anabaptists: the Swiss Brethren, the Dutch and North German Mennonites, and the Hutterites. Of particular value was Wolkan's research concerning the origin of

especially the Mennonite Church (MC) and the General Conference Mennonite Church. Voluntary Service arose initially early in 1943 in the Mennonite Church (MC)

organizations within the field. The corporation maintained an office in connection with the Mennonite Central Committee at Akron, PA. Through Mennonite Board of Missions

accepted the Sunday school: Old Order Amish, Old Order Mennonite, Reformed Mennonite, Stauffer Mennonite, Old Colony Mennonite, and Sommerfeld Mennonite. The

Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches MLA style Kliewer, J. P. "Corn Mennonite Brethren Church (Corn

anniversary of the founding of the Mennonite Church (1925). This became the first Mennonite World Conference. A painful loss resulted from the compulsory withdrawal

1527. After the destruction of the congregation at Styria he moved to Linz and became the elder of the congregation there. Here a broad field of labor opened

in 1987 as a registered church. The Franconia Mennonite Conference (MC), founded the Cuba Mennonite Mission in 1954. The missionaries worked out of two

buildings in 1937. The home was supported by voluntary contributions until 1944, when the Ontario Provincial Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church bought

miles west of the City of Worms on the west bank of the Rhine River in the heart of the German Lower (Rhenish) Palitinate in between the cities of Ludwigshafen

title=Mennonite_Brethren_Missions/Services_International_(Mennonite_Brethren_Church)&oldid=171272. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia

confine his polemics to the religious field, but attacked the Brethren above all from an economic angle, appealing to the jealousy of the surrounding population

in 2001) in the lower Inn Valley, Tyrol, Austria, the old capital of the Inn Valley, the seat of the district court, on the left bank of the Inn, 20 miles

those who thoroughly agreed, about the mysteries of the Judgment Day, of the end of the world, of the resurrection, of the Kingdom of God, of eternal judgment

of the Prussian Mennonites, in 1736 for the Swiss Brethren. In former times the church was led by the deacons, usually seven, from whom were chosen the preachers

significance to the Mennonites of Russia. The chairman of the Dutch Mennonite Board of Missions wrote in his memory, "The fact that during the years a number

(PIPKA), the mission board of the Muria Christian Church of Indonesia, began in the mid-1970s to invite the participation of Mennonite Brethren Mission

Russian general and later field marshal who received the honorable name Zadunaysky because he crossed the Danube River in the Russo-Turkish War (1770-74)

youth work and the care of the sick. The development of the Nalgonda Mission encouraged the Mennonite Brethren in America to open a mission station in

churches. The Japan Mennonite Brethren mission has from the beginning enjoyed a very amicable relationship with the Japan Mennonite Brethren Conference (Nihon

affected the country. The sustained drop in the price of copper from the highs of the 1970s resulted in the economic decline of Zambia, adding to the shortage

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

preached in many of the nearby Mennonite Brethren congregations. In 1936 he was ordained by the North Saskatchewan Mennonite Brethren Conference, and served

"upon the wish of the brethren" ordained an elder by the laying on of the hands of his own brother Obbe Philips at "Den Dam," i.e., Appingedam, in the Dutch

and Kansas. Representatives of the family have also been well represented in the ministry of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (now Evangelical

later, the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Fresno, California, established its Center for Training in Missions/Evangelism. Associated Mennonite Biblical

evangelism in the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, and he also worked as a resource person and minister with Mennonite Brethren Missions/Services

cooperative basis with the American Baptist Mission Union and he himself opened the first mission of the Mennonite Brethren Church to the Telugus of South India

Kitchener Mennonite Brethren where he served on the church council for many years. He was also committed to the larger church community, especially the Conference

it is well known that Württemberg was an active mission field of the Hutterian Brethren. At the end of December 1550 Glock lay imprisoned in Cannstatt with

Russian Mennonite Brethren missionaries served in German Baptist missions, particularly in Kamerun and India. In North America the Mennonite Brethren had considerable

Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, but also in the older churches. The American revival movements also influenced the Mennonites. John Oberholtzer, in organizing

dozen in the same year. The century from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th records the decline of the Anabaptist movement; the persecution

84ff.). The Statenvertaling displaced the Biestkens Bible among the Mennonites in the first half of the 18th century. For the West Prussian Mennonites a special

The usual sources given for the practice of community of goods (communism) among Christians are the chapters in the Book of Acts 2, 4-5, where the economic

Anabaptists.) The later parts of the book (after 1550) concentrate more consistently on the Dutch Mennonites, the Swiss Brethren, and the Austrian Hutterites

members of the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church and founders of the China Mennonite Mission in Shantung and Honan provinces, left this field in 1941

bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca

prison. On the next day they were taken to Modling and questioned on the rack before the judge and the council. "We gave testimony to the truth in such a way

together to the name of the Lord, each confirmed the other to the service of the Gospel and began to teach and to keep the faith. With ardent zeal the newly

dominated both the schools (from the elementary grades up to the university) and the confessionals. Hence they dominated both the youth and the conscience

returning to the field of publishing.  In 1954, Harms accepted the position of general manager of the Mennonite Brethren Publishing House in Hillsboro. The business

Central District of Mennonite Brethren Churches US Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches MLA style

Abbotsford, BC: File Box 992.1. Minutes of the Yarrow Mennonite Brethren Church. Archives of the Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia, Abbotsford

to the latter class, and some 30 of the 40 joined the movement. According to Blanke, from 22-29 January beginning the day after the founding of the Anabaptist

Philips and Leenaert Bouwens, the former on the side of the Flemish and the latter on the side of the Frisians, were factors in the impasse reached when Jan

Chinese churches were established in the surrounding territory. In 1919 the Mennonite Brethren General Conference took over the support and supervision of this

had been a responsive field for evangelism; the indigenous Mennonite Brethren Church of the Telugus at that time numbered over 1,000 members. MLA style Lohrenz

title=Shamshabad_Mennonite_Brethren_Mission_(Shamshabad,_Andhra_Pradesh,_India)&oldid=96392. APA style Lohrenz, J. H. (1959). Shamshabad Mennonite Brethren Mission

burned the castle, they zealously assisted in extinguishing the flames when the prison doors were opened; this so impressed the manager of the prison that

completed. Rosedale Mennonite Brethren Church was organized in November 1911. The church was the host church of the first conference session of the Pacific District

Training Programs: Mennonite and Brethren in Christ, Covering Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Landisville, PA: Mennonite Christian Leadership

Johannes Deknatel, the well-known pietistic preacher of the Amsterdam Lamist Mennonite con­gregation, from preaching in the Harlingen Mennonite Church. By this

preserving the unity of the church until the time of the Councils, at which religious debates constituted a part of the arranged program. The presupposition

present at the various unions of Mennonite groups that formed the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church. He did attend the first United Mennonite regular General

especially the Mennonite Brethren, of the settlements in Siberia, Samara, and Orenburg, some of whose leaders even visited the mission stations. A complete

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

personality among the Swiss-South German Brethren, the probable author of the significant Seven Articles of Schleitheim, appeared as the archetype of the peaceful

with the Anabaptists and was baptized there in 1530, apparently not by the Swiss Brethren nor by the group represented by Pilgram Marpeck. During the same

planned attack against the government in all the cross-examinations even on the rack. The prophecies concerning the punishment of the persecutors, which Hans

baptized in the Mennonite Brethren Church in Milloradovka (neighboring Katerinovka) in 1913 at the age of 16. She attended the Mennonite Brethren Bible School

result of discussions with the Mennonite Brethren, whose Mennonite Brethren Bible Institute (MBBI) had been growing during the 1960s, it was decided to close

built by the American Baptist Telugu Mission about 1890. In 1937 the American Mennonite Brethren Mission purchased the property and took over the field, the

out to the Baptist mission field in India a part of which was later obtained as a Mennonite Brethren mission field. On the other hand, the Mennonites and

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

published under the title The Mennonite Brethren Church (Hillsboro: Board of Foreign Missions, 1950). Also in 1919 the Lohrenzes co-authored the book Glaubenshelden

County, establishing Gnadenau village and the Gnadenau Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church. In the midst of the Mennonite migration from Russia to Kansas A. E

years between the triennial sessions of the General Conference, but because of the extension of the field and the widespread location of the congregations

directed the field work program at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries (AMBS) in Elkhart, Indiana. Harder served as a noncombatant in the U.S. Navy

there, the Grisons synod, and the Zürich clergy. The principal leader of the radicals, Camillo Renato, strongly emphasized the authority of the Spirit

Deverakonda, Andhra Pradesh, India, in the Telugu Mission field of the Mennonite Brethren Church, was established in 1920 for the training of indigenous workers

his trade), was one of the outstanding apostles of the Hutterian Brethren. Nothing is known of his birth date or early life. The Geschicht-Buch states that

ordained for the pastoral ministry. Reimer served the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church tirelessly and with great dedication: he planted the first church

The Evangelical Mennonite. -- H. F. Epp The attempt to merge the conferences of the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren and the Evangelical Mennonite Church

most other brethren in this field had been). He lived in Nikolsburg, the manorial estate of the Dietrichsteins, and most likely was for a while the assistant

widely in the field of Mennonite history and was among the most respected Mennonite historians in the world. His articles appeared in The Mennonite Quarterly

by 48 members of the various Mennonite groups General Conference Mennonite, Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, and Mennonite Brethren). The first missionaries

members, the Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite) with 350 members, and the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, also known as the Allianzgemeinde,

received by the Brethren in the border village of Drasenhofen. Fasser died the death of a martyr in Pogstall, having been sent out again in 1537. The martyr

strength from which the Reformation and the Anabaptist movement drew included the Brethren of the Common Life of the 15th century. The most noted of them

Bruderhof "on the open field." As in Frischau, Hutterian Brethren were also found in the village of Maskowitz. With a short interruption (1597-1598) the Brethren

From the late 1940s to the 1980s Mennonites and Brethren in Christ added 20 or more new mission efforts to the work started by the Mennonite Brethren and

average attendance of 62. The hospital at Kelet also belonged to the Kudus field. Kudus was the colportage center for the entire field. There were five colporteurs

family proceeded as missionaries to the Mennonite Brethren mission field of the Hyderabad state, South India. Six weeks after their arrival Katharina Bergthold

missionary of the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church; was born in Alexanderwohl, Molotschna Mennonite settlement, South Russia on 7 April 1865, the fourth child

interested in the Russian language. He taught in the secondary school in Halbstadt. As a young man he was converted and joined the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church;

again was on the Java mission field, now serving Margaredjo and the leper colony of Donorodjo. In the spring of 1925, after having visited the Dutch Mennonite

Mennonite Brethren Conference. On 24 October 1901, Pankratz and his wife were commissioned to go to India as missionaries for the Mennonite Brethren Conference

Portal Mennonite Brethren Church in Saskatoon, the place the Epps had chosen for retirement. From 1984 to 1987 Epp served as Dean of Students at the Graduate

Reedley Mennonite Brethren Church, (RMBC) a member of the Pacific District Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches and the U. S. Conference of Mennonite

thinking of the guarantee of the godparents) by stating that the faith of the person bringing the little child to the act of baptism comes to the assistance

and most of the others to the Mennonite Brethren. Several families belonged to the Allianz-Gemeinde and the Adventists. The Mennonite Church was divided

under the name "The American Brethren Mission Union" had its charter amended in 1909, changing the name to "The Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church

every Mennonite preacher's library, not to speak of the many bulky sermon collections, Mennonite and non-Mennonite. The most remarkable non-Mennonite book

Swalwell in 1933, but the two church­es have recently joined the Mennonite Brethren conference. Since 1918 the Hutterian Brethren have been establishing

in charge in 1949. The work done from this station as center includes mainly itinerating evangelism in the villages. The field in the 1950s had an area

Penner, a Mennonite Brethren couple from the Molotschna Mennonite Settlement in Russia, continued the mission work in the Gadwal field under the American

in the United States by schism, three from the Mennonite Church (MC) - (2) the Church of God in Christ (CGC), Mennonite (1859) with 4,300, (3) the Evangelical

outside the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren. and Mennonite Brethren groups, the Peters-Wall churches (later Evangelical Mennonite Brethren) and the large Old

title=Hughestown_Mennonite_Brethren_Mission_(Hyderabad,_Madhya_Pradesh,_India)&oldid=82298. APA style Lohrenz, John H. (1956). Hughestown Mennonite Brethren Mission

and unite with the Rückenau Mennonite Brethren Church. At first there was some tension between the Mennonite Brethren and the Mennonites in consequence

serious examination in the light of the Scriptures. Diligent study of the Bible led many to the apparently new discovery of the fact that the New Testament not

in Krefeld he preached in the Mennonite church. A faithful admirer of Tersteegen was Arnold Goyen (the son of the Mennonite preacher at Krefeld), who in

Rudolf Wolkan on the hymns of the Anabaptists (1903) and the Hutterian Brethren in America (1918), Christian Hege on the Anabaptists in the Kurpfalz (1908)

written word, the preaching of the Word among the brethren and the numerous guests and assistants on the Bruderhof was the most important work of the missionary

to Turkey. In connection with the organization of the Mennonite Brethren in the parent settlements, the Mennonites in the Molotschna and Chortitza colonies

1937 in the North Saskatchwan River, and joined the Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church in Laird, Saskatchewan. After his marriage to Esther the couple moved

Hutterian Brethren. Johannes Kleinsasser, who was for many years the head of the brotherhood, led them in the toilsome journey over the Transylvanian Alps

Hutterian Brethren, known as the Geschicht-Buch. In that account of the epochal meeting in the house of Felix Manz, when 15 brethren were gathered in prayer

Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 527. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All

house called The Brethren House was located at Elgin, Illinois. The official journal of the brotherhood was The Gospel Messenger. The Brethren Yearbook for

David. "The Early Years of the Yarrow Mennonite Brethren Church." 2002. Klassen, Agatha E. "Brief Historical Overview of the Earliest Mennonite Brethren Churches

operate one school. The agreement stipulated that the buildings and the Administration were to remain in the hands of the Mennonite Brethren; however, Conference

distinguished artist, who made incomparable achievements in the field of the oratorio as well as the song in all the capitals and music centers of Europe and earned

1 per cent of all the Mennonite families of the settlement, had been deprived of their head. At the retreat of the German army all the remaining settlers

robber bands plundered the Bruderhof and mistreated the people in a barbarous way. Then the colony accepted the offer of the Russian field marshal, Count Rumyantzev

members of the various Mennonite groups (General Conference, Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, and Mennonite Brethren). The first missionaries sent to the field

and Rosella Toews. Among the activities of note on the station were the various church services, the work in the hospital, the conducting of a middle and

into the public treasury. The Mennonites approved the second means of exemption. The new law led to the release of the men in prison, and also to the return

non-Mennonite background. During the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s new members moved to the Manitou Springs-Colorado Springs area from the Mennonite churches

(under the last great Vorsteher Ehrenpreis). The 18th century, then, saw a decline of both the religious and the communal life of the Brethren and the enforced

In the beginning the chairman of the conference was the elder of the congregation that served as host. Abraham Goerz and Bernhard Harder were the first

district in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), which was the location of the Mennonite Brethren Kasai district mission field. The area covered

responsive field for evangelism. In the early 1950s the indigenous church numbered over 1,000 members; in 2009 the number exceeded 4,000. Hege, Christian

The General Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church in 1909 discussed the matter of opening a mission in China, but the Board of Foreign Missions did

success almost only among the Mennonites. This was due in part to the similarities of the principles of the two groups, but also to the fact that attempts to

419. Wiebe, Katie Funk, ed. Women Among the Brethren. Hillsboro, KS: General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, 1979: 95-104. MLA style Deckert

frequently among the Swiss Brethren. At the end of the 16th century there were still some members of the family among the Swiss Brethren. They later emigrated

not only to the study of the old classics; it became the stimulus for the eager study of the original text of the Bible and the writings of the Church Fathers

missionary of the Mennonite Brethren Mission among the Telugus in the Hyderabad State of India. He erected most of the buildings on the Devarakonda Station

descriptions: "How the Brethren who go into foreign lands take leave from the brotherhood" and "Response of the elders to the Brethren who are about to leave

of the 1520s, which stood in the main under the influence of Hans Hut, and the movement after 1530, dominated by the Hutterian Brethren in Moravia, which

Goshen College Mennonite Historical Library. He became a baptized member of the Eighth Street Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite Church) during

subject to the General Conference of the Brethren in Christ Church. The Messiah College campus consists of 72 acres located on the eastern edge of the town of

while the elder recites the words of the institution of the service. The brethren hold the bread in their hands until the preacher says, 'Take, eat';

affiliation was Amish Mennonite through the choice of an Amish Mennonite bishop. (The first Middlebury Amish Mennonite church building was built in 1911.)

is the Creator of the earth and all that is in it, including humankind. Adam and Eve were formed from the dust, just as the creatures of the field. There

ce_of_the_Mennonite_Brethren_Church)&oldid=79409. APA style Schroeter, A. A. (1953). Board of Home Missions (General Conference of the Mennonite Brethren

North Carolina, the center of Krimmer Mennonite Brethren work among African Americans. In 1951 Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Siemens reported that the following churches

farewells from India, the captain of the ship asked him if he would conduct services on the ship. The staff had been on board the ship 8 Sundays from Los

none at all in other Mennonite branches, except in schools and colleges. The General Conference Mennonite and Mennonite Brethren literary societies found

groups of Mennonites, Amish, Dunkards or Church of the Brethren, Zion's Children, Brethren in Christ, and earlier the Schwenkfelder group. The Amish are

Scripture, namely, the covenant of God, the kingdom of God, the body of Christ, the end of the world, the judgment, the resurrection, and the eternal verdict;

Aldergrove to attend Mennonite Brethren Bible College (MBBC) in Winnipeg. In the spring of 1950, John became director and speaker of the Gospel Light Hour

congregation was now in the making. The Brethren evangelists asked the brotherhood to assume responsibility for the work and the foreign mission board (BIC)

service as the College's first President in 1963, and made an impact in the Ontario Mennonite community far beyond the College. The Ontario Mennonite leaders

in the northern group of the Mennonites he turns his attention to the Anabaptists in Italy and Poland. Finally in three chapters the history of the Anabaptist

prominent among these were the Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions and Services (consultant, beginning 1972), the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary (1977-1981)

Conference Mennonite Church, the Mennonite Brethren, the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, the United Missionary Church, and the Evangelical Mennonites, although

meetings of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Spadina Avenue mission under Noah Detwiler before the family moved to eastern Toronto. There she joined the Mennonite

Nicaragua. Palacios stated the growth of the church was due to the Brethren distinctives of the new birth, dependence on the Holy Spirit, peace witness,

directed the Russian Missionary Serv­ice with headquarters at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. J. P. Isaak with his wife joined the Mennonite Brethren Church

purpose. The Mennonite Church (MC) established three orphanages: the Mennonite Orphans' Home at West Liberty, Ohio (1896-1947), operated by the Mennonite Board

transferred the mission to the Mennonite Brethren board. In 1955 Clyde and Elisabeth returned to Kajiji to work with several other Mennonite Brethren missionaries

connection with the Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Bible School in Chicago, the Rosthern Junior College in Saskatchewan, and the Canadian Mennonite Bible College

tolerate the heretical sects" in his Moravian domain. Since Catholicism was to become the only religion of the realm, the persecution of the Brethren became

Conference Mennonite, 5 per cent Conservative Mennonite, 5 per cent Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, 4 per cent each Mennonite Brethren and Brethren in Christ

particularly in what is known as the "Grosswerder," i.e., the Great Delta. In the Kleinwerder and in the valley of the Vistula the Frisian party was dominant

outstanding achievements in the field of horticulture he was honored by the Russian government. In the year 1906 he was called to the Molotschna colony, where

leave the city. At the insistence of Charles V, Anna passed a mandate ordering all the adherents of a sect, especially the Anabaptists, to leave the city

background. Because of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ polity that required pastors to change pastorates every three to five years, the family moved frequently

Under the Board of Foreign Missions, The Mennonite Church Conference, Inc. Hillsboro, KS: Board of Foreign Missions of the Conference of Mennonite Brethren

This category includes the Brethren in Christ Historical Society and the Mennonite Brethren Historical Society of Canada. The Mennonite Historical Association

Bilgramites, the Gabrielites, and the Sattlerites. An interesting testimony of the faith of the Stras­bourg Swiss Brethren is found in a lengthy tract titled Concerning

churches and individuals. Since the mission field was incorporated in the missionary program of the Mennonite Brethren Church in 1943 Der Kleine Afrika-Bote

leaders by the Mennonite weekly review in 1968 found that 68 percent in the General Conference Mennonite Church, 42 percent in the Mennonite Church (MC)

assistant field agronomist for the State of Idaho, 1916-1918, and a missionary to India, 1923-1952. From 1953-1957 he administered the Mennonite Mission

States). The credit union movement became one of the fastest growing parachurch movements in the 1980s; the Mennonite Foundation; the numerous Mennonite mutual

Mennonite Christian Service Fellowship of India (MCSFI) is a service and fellowship organization of the six Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in

Balodgahan, a Mennonite (Mennonite Church) mission station in the village of that name in the Central Provinces of India. The village of 834 acres was

About the same time (1770) began the small rather pietistic movement called the River Brethren (Brethren in Christ), led by Jacob Engel, a Mennonite layman

Rempel: the first elder of the Mennonite congregations at Karassan in the Crimea, and the founder and elder of the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren at that

Anabaptism in the Low Countries began predominantly as a movement among the lower classes of the cities. In the Netherlands the Mennonites shunned the "world"

_of_the_Mennonite_Brethren_Church_of_North_America&oldid=86813. APA style Hiebert, P. C. (1953). City Missions Committee of the Mennonite Brethren Church

II, 29). The van der Smissens were leaders in religiously awakened circles, which were centered in the Moravian Brethren there (Dalton, 266). The head of

with the first party of Brethren in Christ in 1879. He felt the call to the mission field and left Abilene, KS, for Africa on 15 October 1897. The mission

married in the summer of 1951 in Virgil, Ontario. Peter was called to the ministry by the East Chilliwack Mennonite and West Abbotsford Mennonite congregations

attention to the problem of rebuilding the lands of the Palatinate devastated by the Thirty Years' War. For this purpose he admitted Mennonites coming from

associate member of the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. The withdrawal from MC Canada was rooted in disagreement with the theological directions

for his brethren the privilege of exemption from military service and the oath. These privileges and the prosperity soon achieved by the Brethren aroused

particulars on the Mennonite baptismal ceremony. Van Braght relates that he formerly had been a lay brother of the Monastery of the Brethren of the Holy Cross

of the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Board of Missions and later president of Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary; John A. Toews was the president of the Mennonite

direct the educational system. This was changed in 1843 when the Fürsorge-Komitee placed the management of the Mennonite schools in the hands of the Agricultural

Pausram; the soldiers took "from the crafts men and here and there in the house by force what they liked." The captain confiscated the wine; the seven barrels

refused to give the Brethren freedom of worship, and demanded that they stay in their new Catholic faith. During the 1780s the Brethren in the Ukraine five

Krimmer Mennonite Brethren congregation was in the hamlet. The congregation met in the German School building which had living quarters for the teacher

Under the Board of Foreign Missions, the Mennonite Brethren Conference, Inc. Hillsboro, KS: Board of Foreign Missions of the Conference of Mennonite Brethren

Tiege Mennonite Brethren Church, of the Zagradovka Mennonite Settlement in Russia. Among the first settlers there were six families who belonged to the

financially dependent on the churches in the United States of America and Canada during the early decades, the support of the Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions/Services

influence the Brethren in Christ constituency, as well as the local Niagara community, on matters of peace and justice as the 1992 awarding of the Fort Erie

new art form. Among Mennonites and related groups it was not immediately accepted by all. For example, in the 1880s, the Brethren in Christ feared that

into the bond with the Lord who calls the individual to follow and makes him a member in the community which is already following the dawning of the Kingdom

District Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches U. S. Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Map:Community

increase of the size of the colony caused by the compulsory abandonment of the Rhön Bruderhof in Germany and the transfer of the Alm Bruderhof, the membership

org/mirror/index.htm. Friedmann, Robert. "The Epistles of the Hutterite Brethren." Mennonite Quarterly Review 20 (1946): 164 f., with excerpts of one of these epistles

picture of the progress the Swiss Brethren had made. The disputed points were still the same as was also the demand made by the Swiss Brethren that the church

in the valley by conferences: Mennonite Brethren 3,599, General Conference Mennonite 769, Church of God in Christ, Mennonite 433, Krimmer Mennonite Brethren

three Mennonite conferences: the Mennonite Brethren (MB), the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) and the Mennonite Church (MC). In Zaire the Institut

study. In the autumn of 1866 he went to the University of Vienna. The professors to whom he owed most were Ottokar Lorenz and Theodor Sickel; the latter admitted

had to be the first up in the morning and the last to bed at night. He kept an eye on the fireplaces to prevent harm. The sick, the old, and the children

to the fore, but surprisingly it is not the rule. The Pauline style is often imitated as the Brethren felt a kinship to the spirit and life of the early

Political turmoil in the country necessitated the return of the family to Canada after just a year. While Hilda remained in Steinbach with the boys, Henry went

taught music at the Alberta Mennonite Brethren Bible Institute and for three years thereafter at Mennonite institutions in Paraguay. During the 1970s he served

Two families worked in the state of Sonora and the remainder in Sinaloa. By 1977 only the Tadeo family remained on the field; they were still involved

section of the biblical canon. The image of the church as the People of God has its background in the Old Testament. The image of the church as the Body of

During the 1940s the Mennonite Brethren (MB) sought to evangelize Old Colony and Sommerfeld Mennonites in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and

elder in 1927. The Mennonite Brethren had their own meetinghouse. Jakob Peters was the elder in 1927. Little is known about the fate of the settlement under

end in the Maritimes with the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Board of Evangelism assuming its duties in the early 1970s. By the late

Brethren in Christ members were single. In the 1982 Mennonite Church census conducted by Michael Yoder, 26 percent of all Mennonite Church adult members

Perspective of the Mennonite Church (1989); and the fifth volume of the Mennonite Encyclopedia (1990). IMS also managed the Mennonite Experience in America publications

Evangelical Mennonite Church, 1980: 67-68. Liechty, Joseph C. "Humility: the Foundation of the Mennonite Religious Outlook in the 1860s." Mennonite Quarterly

Hubmaier, chiefly on the question of the payment of war taxes and the use of the sword, another debate between the two parties took place in the parsonage of Pergen

to work for the Mennonite Central Committee in the Mennonite colonies of South America. The purpose of the assignment was to deal with the economic crisis

Together they took part in the conference in Emden in 1578 to ratify the "Humster Peace," and then signed the Flemish peace proposal to the Frisians, 2 April 1578

authorized the commission to unite its relief efforts with those of the all-Mennonite organization then in the process of formation, the Mennonite Central Committee

Brethren merged with the Mennonite Brethren Church in 1960. MLA style Plett, C. F. "Foreign Missions Committee (Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Church)." Global

with the Old Order German Baptist Brethren (Dunkards). Among the Russo-German Mennonites the Old Colony Mennonites were opposed in the 1950s to the use

in progress. The Mennonite Historical Bulletin (1939-), published by the Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church, and the Mennonite Historian (1976-)

and administer the sacraments with the consent of and in the service of the congregation. Finally, Luther applies the term "kingdom of priests" to all believers

later field secretary of the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren. Their son John was a missionary in China for 14 years and died on an Indian mission field in

retain the affirmation formula in place of the oath. In the matter of the payment of taxes for the support of the established (state) church, the conference

The Northern Minnesota Mission of the Mennonite Brethren Central District Conference was begun in 1926 by John H. Wiens, who under the Northern Gospel

Perrigo Mennonite Brethren Church existed but the villagers decided to pay Perrigo for his acre, and changed the name of the church to Arnold Mennonite Brethren

While pastoring the Ishibashi church, he also served as moderator of the Japan Field Council for six years. After the Japan Mennonite Brethren Conference reorganized

fire broke out in the smithy, which de­stroyed half the house with the goods in it, as well as some of the cattle. In the late fall the Bruder­hof was involved

conference leadership. In 1958 the BC Mennonite Brethren conference accepted the recommendation to change the name to Mennonite Brethren Mission of British Columbia

Martin Box Chapel, a Mennonite Brethren mission in the Ozarks, located near Marshall, AR, had its beginning with the extension work of the Southern District

Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 548. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All

This was the first church built in West Virginia under the auspices of the Mennonites of the Middle District of the Virginia Conference. The Brethren Church

Kimmel, Carolyn. No Turning Back: The Inspiring Story of the First Brethren in Christ Missionaries. Grantham, PA: Brethren in Christ World Missions; Nappanee

The Franconia Mennonite Conference (MC), founded the Cuba Mennonite Mission in 1954. The missionaries worked out of two centers, Rancho Veloz and Sagua

Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1998-present) Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1998-present) General Conference of Mennonite Brethren

Conference and the church's representative on the government Advisory Board for African Education. When he retired from the mission field, he served his

a true picture. He traces the rise of the Mennonites to Thomas Müntzer. In the divisions of the Dutch Mennonites he sees the "repulsive picture of raw

determine which Mennonite church could field the best team and receive the Western Canadian Mennonite Slow Pitch Cup for the year. The Western Canadian

preachers. The quarrel between the son of their patron and the Frischau Hutterite settlement in 1597 soon involved the Maskowitz Brethren as well. The baron

Phyllis. The Mustard Tree: The Story of Mennonite Brethren Missions. Fresno, California: Mennonite Brethren Boards of Education in cooperation with the Board

Columbia Bible College and Mennonite Brethren Missions. On their travels around the world, the Driedigers made visits with mission field workers one of their

Abe was baptized at Central Heights Mennonite Brethren Church in Abbotsford. Abe spent one year at Mennonite Brethren Bible Institute and then enrolled in

joined the leadership team in 2013, the same year FreeChurch became an associate member of the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. The group

mission agencies. On the seminary level three Mennonite groups (Mennonite Church, General Conference Mennonite Church, and Mennonite Brethren Church) have participated

teacher. In 1933 the congregation purchased the land on which to build and registered the church with the province under the name Bethel Mennonite Church. In

Incidentally, the name Putz is well known for the continued craftsmanship of the family in the field of ceramics. Local research has also proved the existence

to emerge. The California Mennonite Historical Society in 1997 issued a second edition of the Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry (GRANDMA)

1993-2003) of the Mennonite Brethren Bible School/College (Shamshabad). Rufus served as the first national Director of Mennonite Brethren Christian Education

Education degree from Mennonite Brethren Bible College. In spring 1952, Mennonite Brethren Missions/Services International (now Mennonite Brethren Mission) accepted

was baptized into the Mennonite Brethren church in Deutsch-Wymysle, Poland. In January 1922, the Russian government gave the Mennonite Central Committee

relation of Christ to the Father, and the latter with the relation of the divine and the human in the person of Christ himself The trinitarian controversy is

representatives from Mennonite mission boards, MCC, the Mennonite Medical Association, Mennonite Mental Health Associates, and interested Mennonite colleges. North

Friends Service Committee, the Brethren Service Committee, and the Mennonite Central Committee assumed the leadership in organizing the National Service Board

from the University of Winnipeg, and in the same year, was named to the Order of Canada for over 30 years of service and dedication in the field of nursing

presenting the Mennonites in America has chapters on the Mennonite Brethren, the General Conference Mennonites, and the (old) Mennonites. The preface is

overall history of the camp, description of the tour, vignettes of daily life on the survey, and glimpses into the lives of the men on the tour crew. "CPS

through 1950. The first and only separately published bibliography in the earlier period by Mennonite or non-Mennonite was (the Mennonite scholar) Marten

formally organized as the North Abbotsford Mennonite Brethren Church (known as the Clearbrook Mennonite Brethren Church after 1950). Anna was well-read, followed

Barker]. “Report to the Canadian Conference [MBiC].” Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canada Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church

period. In some instances the owners of the estates put rooms at the disposal of the Mennonite renters. Toward the end of the 18th century meetinghouses

Millersville. Martin, a former Mennonite, was ordained by the United Brethren Church. The congregation was known as the Progressive Mennonite Church until a new church

continued, and the typical Mennonite became the "Quiet in the Land," emphasizing the virtues of simplicity, honesty, and adherence to the faith of the fathers

they did not grant the state the right to banish them, referring to the verse of Scripture, "The earth is the Lord's" (Bossert, 315). The authorities, however

"Development of Brethren in Christ Church Work in Bulawayo." Look on the Fields published with the Evangelical Visitor 70 (17 June 1957): 2. Brethren in Christ

and also helped operate the printing press. In 1958 he moved to Kikwit and became the secretary of the legal representative of the mission. He was sent to

the Mennonite Brethren Church. Hillsboro, KS: Board of Foreign Missions of the Conference of The Mennonite Brethren Church of North America, 1947: 107.

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

seminary in the Mennonite Brethren Church was opened at Fresno, California in 1955 as the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, offering the standard three-year

hymnology. As the title indicates the bibliography is limited to first 139 years of Hutterite history. The compiler, Robert Friedmann (1891-1970), was the leading

church – Yarrow Mennonite Brethren Church, Susie was also much involved with volunteer work outside Mennonite circles, such as fundraising for the Chilliwack

Michigan, the first city mission of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ denomination. In October 1885 the first General Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ

privileges. In 1626 the Brethren acquired two more barren fields. In 1630 Caspar released the Brethren from the payment of fees which the Lutheran Church had

names: the Mennonite Brethren Church of India, the Mennonite Church in India, the Bharatiyah General Conference Mennonite Church, and the Brethren in Christ

1905-26 March 1982). He was the oldest in a family of three sons. J. Richard was baptized as a teenager into the Mellinger Mennonite Church. On 6 June 1952

Zinzendorf and the Moravians, for example, on Jesus as loving and kind, left its mark on Mennonites. The Mennonite and non-Mennonite sources of the Ernsthafte

reported among the 60 villages of the Molotschna settlement in 1880. The sense of brotherhood led the Russian Mennonite settlers to provide for the aged and

Etschtal). The chronicles of the Hutterian Brethren divided the martyrs of Tyrol into three groups: those in the Puster Valley, those in the Adige Valley

led by brethren from the outside (from the Jura churches, from Chrischona, from the Evangelical Association or the Free Church). In the care of the sick

Christian schools listed in the Mennonite Church Yearbook. The General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Brethren have been less inclined to

southeastern tip of Texas. The Mennonite Brethren moved into this region in 1927 and organized the Premont Mennonite Brethren Church, which in 1952 had

a bit. The Waterloo region was the second center to open a year later in December 1983. It opened in the facilities of the Erb Street Mennonite Church

"Women in the Mennonite Church, 1900-1930." Mennonite Quarterly Review  54 (1980): 163-207. Juhnke, James. "The Role of Women in the Mennonite Transition

would affect the inner life of the Brethren, thus having a harmful effect on the development of Hutterite craftsmanship. The old zeal of the brotherhood

concerning the history of Waldensians and the Bohemian Brethren, spearheaded new interest in archival history in the Baptist church, and initiated the publication

itself in the home mission field to city missions. The first Mennonite Church rural missions program was that of the Virginia Mennonites of the Shenandoah

constitutions of the General Conference, Mennonite Brethren, Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, Krimmer Mennonite Brethren, and other groups made provision for

some regularity are The Mennonite Mirror, The Christian Leader, Christian Living, The Gospel Herald, The Mennonite, and Mennonite Life. Poets whose work

describe the circumstances of the Anabaptists in Moravia and also of the migration of the Tyrolean Anabaptists to Moravia. In the case of the former, the conditions

by the Ontario District Mennonite Brethren Conference. World War II in an unexpected manner focused Mennonite attention on the tragic plight of the mentally

almost completely to the Protestant confessional pattern of the time. The occasion for the writing of this confession was the coming of the Brownists from Gainsborough

leaders. The diocese was enriched by fellowship and brotherly address in the Council of East African Mennonite Churches, Africa Mennonite and Brethren in Christ

such as the collection of the Mennonite Historical Association have been incorporated, although part of the latter collection went to the Mennonite Biblical

by the Mennonite district (Chortitza volost). The Chortitza Mennonite industrialists maintained a doctor for their laborers. In the early days the hospital

stressing in the main the difference of Anabaptist viewpoints from those of the large churches the Reformation. No Anabaptist ever felt the need for an

by many Mennonites. At the end of the 17th century the Lamists took full part in the Amsterdam amusements, and at the end of the 18th century the Dutch Mennonites—with

1957 two Mennonite agencies were working in this country. The Viet Nam Mennonite Mission (Mennonite Church) was founded by the Eastern Mennonite Board of

Developments in the general field of Christian education in the 20th century have given Mennonite educators new resources by which to review the validity and

in 1946 the Council of Mennonite and Affiliated Colleges in the United States sponsored an international student exchange whereby each Mennonite and Brethren

Under the Board of Foreign Missions, The Mennonite Brethren Conference, Inc. Hillsboro, KS: Board of Foreign Missions of the Conference of Mennonite Brethren

(1726-1813), was the co-founder of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, and became one of the best-known clergymen of the Middle States in the late 18th

a leader in the emerging Strawberry Hill (later Kennedy Heights) Mennonite Brethren Church. Towards the end of the 1950s, Paul and his wife moved to Vancouver

their own meals. The camp is one of five such ministries owned by the British Columbia (BC) Conference of Mennonite Brethren (MB) Churches. The operation however

Missionaries Serving under the Board of Foreign Mission of the Mennonite Brethren Conference, Inc. October, 1954. Hillsboro, Kansas: The Board of Foreign Missions

century the number of Brethren who were still loyal to the old ways had dwindled to about fifty, and when as the final test, the new type of persecution

Durnbaugh, Donald F. European origins of the Brethren; a source book on the beginnings of the Church of the Brethren in the early eighteenth century, a two-hundred-fiftieth

history of the Mennonites and Mennonite theology. J. Lawrence Burkholder’s article on philosophy for the 1989 expansion volume of the Mennonite Encyclopedia [below]

battle with cancer, while in the prime of his life and career. Ron was baptized in 1962 at Central Heights Mennonite Brethren Church, Abbotsford. BC. Following

(1995-2018), he also served on the board as member and moderator. He also served on the boards of Columbia Bible College, Mennonite Brethren Bible College, and Regent

member of the Hanseatic League speeded up the participation of the guilds of the city in public affairs. At the time of the Reformation, the guilds participated

Park Mennonite Brethren Church. In 1969 the Dycks began attending Willingdon Church in Burnaby, where in 1982 they donated a digital organ to the church

contributed to the support of the school for the deaf in the Molotschna, the mental hospital Bethania, the mission of the Dutch Mennonites in Sumatra and

Luther), the one the kingdom of Christ, the other the kingdom of this world ruled by Satan, they drew a clear line between the church and the general social

Neither the author nor the place of its publication is named. The document is signed by "the believing (christgläubig) comrades of the covenant of the tribulation

into four parts: (1) the judgment upon the house of God; (2) judgment upon the world; (3) the future; and (4) the resurrection. On the basis of Matthew 24;

create the impression of having told the whole truth, or to indicate the answer to a question, and yet leave the impression on the questioner that the answer

roots in the Beachy movement, including Maranatha Amish Mennonite, Ambassadors Amish Mennonite, Berea Amish Mennonite, Midwest Beachy Amish Mennonite, and

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

Krimmer Mennonite Brethren practice) or backward (Mennonite Brethren practice), or trine, forward (Brethren in Christ and Church of the Brethren). The practice

three-month period. The Department of Highways employed the men to construct the joining link of the Trans-Canada route. Most of the men worked in the gravel pits

In the Netherlands the Mennonite influence on architecture has been limited to church buildings, since the residences of Mennonites, both in the country

(PBI). It was founded by the Pacific District Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, which included all Mennonite Brethren congregations in California

five Mennonite groups: "the Evangelical Mennonite Conference of Canada, the Chortitzer Mennonite Conference of Canada, the Evangelical Mennonite Mission

Krimmer Mennonite Brethren, Church of God in Christ Mennonites. Among the acculturated groups, the practice has declined since the 1950s. The Mennonite Brethren

that one agrees with the faith of the church and has the urge and the joy to serve according to the intentions of the church. The latter or indirect and

The now widely distributed Mennonite Church began in central Europe and Holland in the 16th century. By the early 18th century the Mennonite Church was

between the worship services of the Lamists and the Zonists on the one hand and the Fijne Mennonites on the other hand. The order of service among the Fijne

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world

"marriage in the Lord." In the Amish congregations in America, among the Mennonites in Switzerland and France, and among the Mennonite Brethren in Russia

thereby correctly caught the significance of the Mennonite character. The first author who was a personal friend of the Mennonites was the Prussian official and