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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 Book1 KB (279 words) - 15:56, 16 December 2014
- Wingerts and the Melvin Gingerichs as workers. American personnel in 1955 in Japan numbered as follows: Mennonite Church 17, General Conference Mennonite 1814 KB (1,865 words) - 14:54, 3 April 2021
- 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)5 KB (813 words) - 18:53, 23 May 2014
- presentation of the MB Church therefore calls for a treatment of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia; the Mennonite Brethren Church in North America; and67 KB (7,839 words) - 12:44, 23 September 2023
- 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 conference18 KB (2,581 words) - 11:56, 23 June 2016
- (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, with41 KB (5,673 words) - 08:52, 8 January 2024
- 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 has66 KB (7,634 words) - 14:26, 25 February 2023
- Charities). In July 1952 the American Mennonite Mission in India was amalgamated with the India Mennonite Church to form the Mennonite Church in India, an13 KB (1,728 words) - 14:43, 29 November 2021
- 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 2nd91 KB (9,318 words) - 19:09, 11 March 2024
- 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 it47 KB (5,386 words) - 17:44, 20 August 2021
- 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,3 KB (564 words) - 15:49, 27 July 2014
- {CategoryIndex}} This category includes church workers in Japan who were not ordained as missionaries, ministers, bishops or elders.1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:03, 16 December 2014
- 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 many31 KB (4,305 words) - 15:52, 26 June 2019
- ministries of evangelism, discipleship and church planting. These have resulted in national MB church conferences in India (entered 1898), D.R. Congo (adopted14 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 carport16 KB (1,864 words) - 15:01, 11 March 2024
- 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 Mara9 KB (1,456 words) - 01:41, 25 January 2023
- 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 this4 KB (619 words) - 15:59, 27 July 2014
- missionary couples in the city, representing the Brethren in Christ, General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM), and Mennonite Church (MC). In 1964 the Mennonite-related3 KB (492 words) - 20:10, 28 October 2014
- Europe and later in North America and Japan. Workers left their agrarian communities to work in centers where these machines were located, establishing12 KB (1,787 words) - 22:59, 15 January 2017
- there has been impressive growth in church agency activity, in educational programs, and in theological sophistication. In the wider Christian world, the36 KB (5,027 words) - 08:08, 8 January 2024
- 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 grapple78 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 children5 KB (772 words) - 18:31, 2 May 2015
- conferences—Mennonite Church British Columbia, Mennonite Church Alberta, Mennonite Church Saskatchewan, Mennonite Church Manitoba, and the Mennonite Church Eastern Canada)9 KB (1,086 words) - 13:34, 30 October 2019
- former worker in the Mennonite Mission in Chicago, Illinois. Two children of this marriage, Ruth and Rhoda Ressler, served as missionaries in Japan. Ressler4 KB (571 words) - 00:57, 16 January 2017
- 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 direct64 KB (8,469 words) - 18:00, 25 January 2023
- American Mennonite workers in Europe seeking to make a peace witness to NATO. Niebuhr, Reinhold. "Why the Christian Church is Not Pacifist," in Christianity7 KB (1,129 words) - 23:05, 15 January 2017
- Missionary Church Association. A home organization was effected in 1912 based on supporters in these four groups, the board being incorporated in 1913 as2 KB (353 words) - 07:55, 30 November 2015
- Nationwide Fellowship Churches. There was also a Mennonite Brethren mission in the north. The Peace Church Network was planted by Mennonite Church Canada and established9 KB (1,198 words) - 14:53, 7 April 2021
- buried in the highlands with other missionaries killed in Vietnam. Captured along with Daniel Gerber were two Christian and Missionary Alliance workers, Eleanor5 KB (918 words) - 03:30, 20 February 2014
- 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.4 KB (644 words) - 15:49, 27 July 2014
- Congo Inland Mission in Africa. In 1947 work was started in Colombia, South America, mainly with untainted leper children. Eight workers are there at present7 KB (1,145 words) - 18:20, 26 January 2023
- leaders from ICOMB members and emerging national church conferences. Missiology compendium called “The Church in Mission” jointly published with the mission11 KB (1,056 words) - 14:17, 15 September 2021
- 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 Jesus3 KB (389 words) - 19:10, 13 December 2017
- 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’s11 KB (1,592 words) - 16:30, 27 September 2023
- 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 the20 KB (2,933 words) - 23:08, 15 January 2017
- from the Japanese occupied area in China and joined them. Through these events many in the Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church became interested in this part2 KB (400 words) - 02:57, 22 November 2015
- concentration in such countries as Malawi, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. Teaching assignments in China and Japan became common in the 1970s6 KB (831 words) - 19:49, 20 August 2013
- 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 every162 KB (17,876 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2021
- philosophy. Already in the 1930s the Muria church experimented with a special church-run business to support church ministries. In the 1970s a local endowment23 KB (3,630 words) - 16:07, 27 July 2014
- occupied by the Japanese military forces in 1938 and the work was badly disrupted and forced to discontinue in 1942. The Chinese church nevertheless continued866 bytes (212 words) - 18:51, 20 August 2013
- each organized church, a schoolteacher, and a Bible woman, with other itinerant workers. In 1941 the work was disrupted by the Japanese occupation. Missionary1,001 bytes (238 words) - 19:02, 20 August 2013
- 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 was56 KB (7,446 words) - 19:16, 8 August 2023
- 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."15 KB (2,248 words) - 10:41, 12 May 2022
- with other churches in theological education mentioned above, the Evangelical Church of Java, in cooperation with the Muria Christian Church of Indonesia33 KB (5,095 words) - 21:10, 13 April 2014
- 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.45 KB (5,011 words) - 14:23, 17 March 2023
- 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 orphanage71 KB (10,321 words) - 19:23, 8 August 2023
- of the Evangelical Mennonite Church earning the highest incomes. Michael Yoder's survey of members of the Mennonite Church in the United States (1982) showed11 KB (1,172 words) - 12:01, 9 April 2020
- 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, Ohio19 KB (2,750 words) - 14:32, 17 March 2023
- 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 F31 KB (4,572 words) - 11:22, 24 February 2021
- 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 school1 KB (247 words) - 19:02, 20 August 2013
- services. The Hsi-tun Mennonite Church, located in Taichung, Taiwan, had its beginning in the Wung's home. During his 17 years in the pastoral ministry, Wung2 KB (476 words) - 14:25, 23 August 2013
- important role in the church; they will undoubtedly be increasingly important. In fact we can no longer conceive of the church without its schools. In 1951-5233 KB (4,650 words) - 14:27, 17 March 2023
- separate collection in 1928, holdings in 1956 about 4,000 volumes; Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Chicago, established in 1944, holdings in 1956 about 1,600;24 KB (2,796 words) - 19:10, 8 August 2023
- sabbatical year in Japan and Korea, Viola contacted former students and taught English at the International Christian University in Japan. Viola enjoyed4 KB (694 words) - 14:52, 23 August 2013
- coordinators for Vietnamese refugees in Manitoba, and they also taught English in Japan with the Language Institute for Evangelism. In their retirement years, John4 KB (692 words) - 20:28, 8 January 2017
- encouragement. In 2012, the Brethren in Christ Church in North America separated into two distinct conferences: The Brethren in Christ Church in the U.S., and41 KB (3,777 words) - 23:29, 24 January 2023
- Patkau, Esther (1927-2017) (category Mennonite Church Canada Ministers)graduating with a degree in theology in 1950, followed by another bachelor’s degree in education at Bethel College in Kansas in 1951. Esther Patkau was5 KB (701 words) - 23:27, 11 January 2023
- work in Vietnam in 1954. The twelve relief workers on the field in 1957 were located at Banmethuot with the Leprosarie de Mission Evangélique and in Saigon14 KB (2,025 words) - 12:02, 12 April 2021
- women are never church officials, both participate in the Rat (Council) of the church. Increasingly, men are taking temporary jobs in area factories while12 KB (1,829 words) - 23:06, 15 January 2017
- problem of church and state in Mennonite history, one which has escaped the attention of most Mennonites interested in this problem, occurs in those instances79 KB (11,709 words) - 12:00, 19 February 2022
- service (1) in the shops of the Navy Department; (2) in fire companies, or (3) in mobile companies in the Forestry Department. Service in the medical corps12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:14, 12 August 2022
- became teachers in the field. In the 1980s, in North America, like almost everywhere that Mennonites live in the world (there are exceptions in isolated places29 KB (4,258 words) - 19:11, 8 August 2023
- includes church workers who were not ordained as missionaries, ministers, bishops or elders in the Nihon Kirisutokyo Keiteidan (Japanese Brethren in Christ1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:05, 16 December 2014