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Educators who particularly promoted the cause were David H. Epp, A. A. Neufeld, and Jacob A. Klassen. The financial sponsors were mostly Mennonite industrialists

Among the teachers of this period were Johann Neufeld, Abraham Ediger I, Johann Voth, Peter J. Neufeld, Jacob Wiebe, and Gustav Rempel. Some of the outstanding

Töws, A. A. Mennonitische Märtyrer. Winnipeg, MB, 1949. Annual reports and country reports by Amnesty International. MLA style Neufeld, Jacob A. and Peter

org/index.php?title=Neufeld,_Jacob_%E2%80%9CJay%E2%80%9D_(1932-2016)&oldid=157016. APA style Wiens, Walter. (November 2017). Neufeld, Jacob “Jay” (1932-2016)

Manitoba; Isaac Regehr, H. A. Regier, Jacob G. Thiessen in Saskatchewan; Benjamin B. Janz, Johann A. Toews, Aron A. Toews in Alberta; J. A. Harder, Cornelius C

Tides: Religious Persecutions in Soviet Russia. Winnipeg, MB, 1940. Neufeld, Jacob A. Tiefenwege: Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse von Russland-Mennoniten in

losing all they had. In the fall of 1913 all left Ssadovoye. MLA style Neufeld, Jacob A.. "Ssadovoye (Voronezh, Russia)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia

background, who came to Kansas in 1874. In 1957 Moundridge had a number of stores, a milling company, a co-operative creamery organized in 1932, Co-op Elevator

Abram Janz and later by Dietrich Görzen. Other ministers were Peter Neufeld, Jacob Wall, Heinrich Franz, David Thielmann, Wilhelm Federau, Cornelius Plett

1948, after which a recession occurred, due to economic difficulties and floods. In 1949 there were 13 churches in the conference with a total membership

Mennonite World Conference, 1984): 131. Peters, Jacob. "Organizational Change Within A Religious Denomination: A Case Study of the Conference of Mennonites

https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Neufeld,_Jacob_C._(1916-1974)&oldid=142047. APA style Koop, Astrid. (February 2003). Neufeld, Jacob C. (1916-1974). Global Anabaptist

translated from the German by Sarah Dyck. Waterloo, 2006. ISBN 0-9781489-0-8 Neufeld, Jacob A. Path of Thorns: Soviet Mennonite Life Under Communist and Nazi Rule

purpose was to be a united force in the cause of Christ, to serve as guardian of the faith in the Anabaptist tradition, and to be a beacon to attract and

for a building to house a district center for peace and district offices, in addition to a continued vision for church planting.  -- Ernest Neufeld In 2001

Jacob H. Janzen was a Mennonite teacher, preacher, elder, and author, a man of rare gifts and rich understanding. He had a strong influence in the General

appointed 12 ministerial candidates by letter, among whom were Jacob Wiens, Gerhard Neufeld, and Behrendt (Bernhard) Penner, representing both the Flemish

was the school and a brewery, on the upper the church; but later on the lower floor was used as a church, and the former church became a school and council

Bahnmann, J. D. Jantzen, and A. J. Jantzen, volunteered their time to teach over three and a half months, and students paid no tuition. A society was formed in

conference numbered 21 affiliated congregations, with a total membership of 1,918. Each congregation was served by a professionally trained, salaried minister. In

Manitoba, Mexico, and South America. Each village had a mayor (Schulze) and all the villages of a single Mennonite settlement were administered by the Gebietsamt

School, was given a more permanent basis. With the introduction of a day program there followed a decade of steady growth. In 1944 Jacob F. Redekop was appointed

1878-1887, Gerhard Dürksen 1887-1904, and Jacob Dürksen 1904-1910. Molotschna had a mutual fire insurance agency and a Waisenamt, which took care of the orphans

establish a Mennonite church there, but not until 1898 was a congregation organized at that place. In 1953 this Mennonite (MC) church had a membership

private era it was a four-year program with a fifth year for those students wishing to specialize. This fifth year was dropped when it became a conference institution

exception of a cold storage plant at Greendale, the remaining four cooperatives were berry processing plants. Jacob C. Krause of Yarrow, A. A. Rempel and

children: Jacob (died aged two), Hedwig, Katherine, Helena, and Walter. Jacob died 25 August 1977 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he was buried. Jacob taught

elders, Aaron Wall, Heinrich Voth, Gerhard Neufeld, and Heinrich H. Regier. Other personalities of note were Jacob J. Balzer, I. I. Bargen, and John Rempel

ownership of the school in the first decades changed a number of times and technically it was not always a Mennonite Brethren school. In 1911 the Northern District

1988). Neufeld, Arnie. "The First Mennonite Brethren Church in Canada." Mennonite Brethren Historical Society of Canada Newsletter (June 1981). Neufeld, Arnie

and Jacob B. Ratzlaff families from Canada and the Jacob Hoeppner family from Hillsboro, Kansas, settled in the vicinity of what is now Winton, a congregation

(Apostolische Brüdergemeinde), and the movement of A. Peters, who led a group to Central Asia to meet the Lord at a specifically designated place. Among these

church work. In 1931 Rev. Jacob J. Nickel pointed out to Ältester Jacob H. Janzen the need in the Saskatchewan Conference churches for a Bible School. Ältester

suffered severely in a flood; the same fate (Heimatsblätter für Ludwigshafen a. Rh., 1915, No. 5) befell them in 1824 and 1882-1883 because of a broken dam (Heimatsblätter

Mennonites shared a schoolhouse as a place of worship. An honorarium was paid to the pastor, H. A. Neufeld, beginning in 1919, although a full-time salaried

with a scriptural theme or a portion of the Bible, frequently a Pauline epistle. I. W. Redekopp served as pastor of the church from 1953 to 1967, a span

had enough size to organize separately. After Jacob H. Janzen arrived in Waterloo, Ontario in December 1924, a congregation was organized in Waterloo, and

("Rainbow"), a Mennonite publishing company established at Halbstadt, Molotschna settlement, Russia, after H. J. Braun  had purchased of P. Neufeld the print

were, in order: Klaas Wiebe, Heinrich Reimer, Johannes Wiebe and Peter P. Neufeld; of the Gnadenfeld branch: Peter Schmidt, Gerhard Fast. Heinrich Siebert

of all their privileges. No Mennonite could marry a Lutheran without a dispensation and the payment of a fee, and then only on the condition that the children

Mennonites in Ontario who had come from Russia were united by Elder Jacob H. Janzen into a single organization, called at first the General Refugee Church

Davlekanovo also had a Zentralschule and later a Bible school. In Berezovka was located a "school for the poor" (Armenschule), founded by Jacob Martens, an evangelist

J. Braun, John E. Friesen, H. R. Wiens, P. R. Toews, R. M. Baerg, Jacob "Jay" Neufeld, Robert Vogt, Grayson Piepgrass, and James Aiken. Center for Mennonite

Church Canada General Conference Mennonite Church (1938-1999) MLA style Neufeld, C. G. and Marlene Epp. "Bergthal Mennonite Church (Didsbury, Alberta, Canada)

Toews, 1879 to 1912; Klaas Kroeker, 1912 to 1936; and P. T. Neufeld, 1936 to 1953. The church was a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church (later

employed by the school included Gerhard Harder, Isaac Dick, Jacob Pankratz, Abram Schierling, Jacob Franz, and David Ewert. Classes were held until 1946. In

was the Oberschulze Jacob A. Reimer, from Zagradovka. With the establishment of Slavgorod as a city and district, this also became a business and industrial

founded in the 1330s and was granted the Chełmno Rights (Kulm Law, a legal constitution for a municipal form of government) on 12 August 1352 by Winrich von

up at the end of 1918 with Jacob Niebuhr and Jacob Martin Dueck as leaders. It was to include all males 20-35 years of age. A nearby Chortitza daughter

admitted a non-Mennonite missionary, Moritz, to the Lord's Supper in his congregation; (3) he promoted the work of a Russian Bible Society, a branch of

ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2367022. Mennonite Reporter (16 May 1977): 4. Neufeld, G. G. Die Geschichte der Whitewater Mennoniten Gemeinden in Manitoba, Canada

Rückenau and the Halbstadt Zentralschule and was a teacher at Tiegerweide, Molotschna. He served as a teacher for 20 years. In 1901 Jakob Wiens was elected

1801 and John Fretz deacon. A log schoolhouse was used at first for the services. In 1810 a site was provided on the farm of Jacob Moyer for the first meetinghouse

elder 1772, Jacob Penner 1766-1773, Hans Horn 1775-after 1802, Jan (Johann) Quiring 1775-after 1802, Peter Dan 1794-?, Cornelis Fröse 1794-?, Jacob Bergthold

leaders, including Willie Berg, William Neufeld, William A. Dueck, E. C. Brandt, John M. Schmidt, and Jacob A. Froese. It was also common during these

Heimat for a conference of schoolteachers, religious teachers, and elders to consider school matters. Such a meeting was held on 15 November 1877 in a rural

plant was nurtured by Henry H. Neufeld, who at that time was principal of Bethel Bible Institute in Abbotsford. Neufeld was appointed by the Home Mission

building on 8 October 1878. It built a new building in 1901 and added a basement in 1942. The congregation also operated a German parochial school from 1885

leading minister, and Gerhard A. Neufeld from Wembley and Jacob D. Nickel from Lymburn also served as ministers. Neufeld and Nickel were ordained by Elder

built a meetinghouse in Ladekopp which seated 600 persons. For the members living in the southwest a church was built at Pordenau in 1800, with a seating

studied voice in Vancouver, created a large youth choir in Yarrow, directed a brass band and assisted Walter and Menno Neufeld in developing programs in violin

feet. By 1945 the growth required a new structure with a basement on the old site. The congregation built a manse in 1960, a porch in 1964 and an extension

was asked to serve the new group. Occasionally ministers such as Jacob Friesen and Jacob H. Janzen from Waterloo and Kitchener, also ministered to the growing

home a few miles south of West Point. In 1849 these settlers organized the West Point Mennonite Church and elected two ministers, Krehbiel and Jacob Ellenberger

Heinrich Neufeld, the preacher of the Ibersheim church; since that time the three congregations have joined in supporting a preacher. When Neufeld took over

this was apparently found inadequate. Then Jacob, a French violinist, advised in 1769 that the staff without a signature should be used and numbers be used

seeking to obtain recognition of the newly founded MB Church. For a while he was a teacher in Liebenau, Molotschna, but lost his posi­tion in 1861 because

Map:Niagara United Mennonite Church (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada) By Jacob A. Dyck. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from

Boese, Gerhard Bartel, John A. Nickel, John A. Harder, Jacob J. Kroeker, G. A. Flaming, William Neufeld, and P. R. Lange. In 1955 the Lehigh congregation

Elder Peter Neufeld in the Mennonite Church at Chortitza. John immigrated to Cabri, Saskatchewan in 1926. During the six-and-a-half years John was a widower

Franz, H. A. Neufeld, Heinrich J. Janzen, Heinrich Jantz, Peter A. Ediger, Heinrich Unruh, J. K. Klett, P. H. Heese, David Nickel, Peter Unruh, Jacob Esau,

decided to send Elder Jacob H. Janzen from Ontario to Vancouver in 1935 to help organize a Mennonite congregation in the city. Jacob and his wife Elisabeth

met in a private home on K Street. Kornelius G. Neufeld and Johann P. Rogalsky, both educators from Russia, carried on the work after Wilhelm Neufeld left

published with a brief additional preface by Peter Neufeld, Halbstadt 1903, in a smaller format, and by H. Braun, Neu-Halbstadt 1904, in a larger format

reluctant to marry a second time, she did marry widower Gerhard Neufeld, a minister in Fürstenau, late in 1875. In Minnesota Gerhard Neufeld became the first

suggestion of Jacob H. Janzen, Jacob Thiessen, a minister residing in Armstrong, came to minister to the group in Oliver in 1937. In spring 1938 Jacob Thiessen

15-year old Neufeld worked for a time on the farm of a Swiss Mennonite, Eldon Hunsberger, west of Waterloo, and attended a country school. After only a few days

hymns, and a conversion story, Bin Gnadenwunder (published by P. Neufeld, Halbstadt).  Children of Heinrich and Maria include Johannes (1868-1917), a minister

Lehman areas. By February 1947, a decision was made to purchase 5 acres on the corner of Ross and Sinclair in order to build a sanctuary, to be known as East

congregation became part of the Mennonite Brethren conferences in 1963. Jacob "Jay" Neufeld was the first pastor. Through the efforts of Dan Reimer, who had already

Zentralschule and devoted his entire life and work to it. In 1905, when A. A. Neufeld withdrew, he became the principal of the school and gave instruction

to receive a salary at $300.00 a month, plus housing. The year 1965 marked another significant milestone for the Clearbrook MB Church. With a membership

In 1943, Hilda Neufeld wrote a letter to Abe Stobbe of South Abbotsford Mennonite Brethren Church, who was working with the West Coast Children's Mission

enrollment increased. Qualifications for a teacher included a commitment to the Lord, membership in a Mennonite church and a BC teaching certificate. Although

Abbotsford, BC (1 December 2009). Neufeld, John J. Abbotford Growers Co-op 50th Anniversary 1948-1998. MLA style Neufeld, John J. "Abbotsford Growers Co-operative

Nickel, and Jacob Bartel. Some of the programs were broadcast. The combined singing was usually under the direction of W. H. Hohmann. As a rule the mass

population, 58 had a Zentralschule education, 10 a normal training, four a secondary training, and two university training. Heinrich D. Epp, a teacher of the

for longer than a year and a half. Keith Poysti was interim pastor from 1995 to 1996. He was instrumental in helping the church articulate a vision for the

then Heinrich Neufeld, 1856-1869. Under the ministry of these men new catechisms appeared in 1841, 1854, and 1861; a new hymnal in 1854, 1876; a minister's

however, felt that a mission day school was a necessity. Hence a day school building was built with a capacity of about 80 pupils, and a new day for this

declined to about 20. On 5 November 1939 a new church building was dedicated. In 1954 the membership was 34, with Jacob R. Quiring as pastor. The congregation

was led by Jacob M. Wiens, and had 4 ministers. The church had 481 members, a total of 1,024 members and adherents, and 156 families. In 1968 a larger meeting

provision that it would not be used for a tavern. In a real sense, the Summerfield Mennonite congregation was a haven in the 19th century for new settlers

Bakerview. In 2010 the church had three Sunday services: a traditional service, a contemporary service, and a liturgical service. The congregation had 613 members

continued his education, earning a doctorate from the University of Munich in 1927. He taught in several private schools owned by a wealthy Jewish aristocrat

Mennonite in 1963-64 over the language issue. In 1965, Jacob Wiebe became the first hired pastor, but a large contingent of lay pastors were included in the

Canada: A. Neufeld, New Westminster, BC; A. J. Neufeld, Lena, Manitoba; B. G. Neufeld, Manitou, Manitoba; Gerhard Neufeld, Oliver, BC; H. H. Neufeld, Abbotsford

Services were conducted every Sunday in German; there was a Sunday school for the children, a chorus, a young people's organization, and three women's missionary

building was enlarged and a basement was added. In 1950, a larger church was built and in 1964, an extension added. In 1978 a fellowship hall was built

Margaret. An eleventh child, Jacob, died in infancy. They settled in Peace River, Alberta, where Martin worked as a farmer and a minister, and in 1945, they

The congregation first met in a home purchased on 18 November 1934, known as "The Old House." Construction began on a sanctuary in May 1937 and the first

November 1953. Jacob Heide was the leader and minister of the church in 1925-1944. In 1952 John J. Neufeld was serving as pre­siding minister and A. W. Klassen

by 241 to a total of 279. During the Janzen era there was a trend toward indigenization—a shift from a mission-dominated administration to a "sister church"

passed a resolution “that we have an English worship service once a month after the S.S. hour.” The shift to English was gradual, occurring over a span of

dress restrictions, they have been at times a positive and at times a negative factor in the development of a wholesome Mennonite church and community life

Confession of Faith." This could be for a period of five to seven years, at which time all parties could discern a way forward on the topic. If no common

Mennonite girls worked as domestics in Winnipeg, prompting the establishment of a girls' home (Maedchenheim) in October 1926. The home was sponsored by the Home

1935 Jacob married Helen Bergen and the family was blessed with five children: Arnold, Evelyn, Carl, Dan, and Neta. Jacob passed away suddenly in a car

sit well with Jacob. Jacob initiated a campaign to obtain a Clearbrook Post Office, which he eventually succeeded in doing. In 1959 Jacob successfully campaigned

daughter of Peter Lohrenz (19 November 1811 – 13 March 1900) and Elisabeth (Neufeld) Lohrenz (24 June 1819 – 11 July 1907). Abraham and Katharina had nine children

such a large area, transportation presented a serious problem. Some of the families began meeting in homes to fellowship around God’s Word. After a short

but it in the 1950s it was too early to make a study of it. Jacob Sudermann, an artist and poet, died in a concentration camp. Signs of literary efforts

Der Bote (2 March 1976): 12. Neufeld, Abram J. History of Plum Hollow School District #549, 1888-1962. Winnipeg, A.J. Neufeld, 1982: 11ff. "Search BC Archives

10. The families included Jacob Hoeppner, P. H. Epp, Peter Warkentin and Henry Dyck. Jacob Hoeppner had come to Manitoba as a young boy in 1876, in 1893

Church) in 1942. In 1955 Neufeld was elected as the Elder of the church and remained in that position until he resigned in 1961. Neufeld served on the Conference

for the teacher which served as a temporary school was built. A second teacher, Jacob J. Dueck, was employed. In the fall of 1909 an impressive Zentralschule

teacher of a school organized in 1900. During the next four years a number of families from Molotschna, Ignatyevka, and Crimea, including Elder Jacob G. Wiens

of Herman A. Neufeld (1860-1931) and Katharina (Klassen) Neufeld (1864-1940) and was the sister of the well-known choral musician K. H. Neufeld (1892-1957)

the "Russian-Mennonite" block-print artist Dietrich Neufeld, a distant cousin who visited the Neufeld/Janzen family around 1930. Kate moved briefly to Vancouver

siblings. Jacob grew up during the Depression with years of hard physical labor on the farm. God placed in Jacob’s heart a passion and a desire to be a missionary

Congregational leaders prior to 1955 included Jacob B. Penner, J. J. Buller, P. Shultz, G. Klassen, John J. Neufeld and A. A. Hyde. After dissolution the church

his son Jacob helped the AMR in a Mennonite village. The Regehrs were determined to emigrate and despite receiving a visa for Germany and a job offer

teaching a year at Arkadak he immigrated to Canada in 1925 and lived for a while in Rosthern and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In 1928 he purchased a farm at

institutions a subsidy on a per student basis. During the restructuring of the Ontario MB Conference in 1968, the Bible School Board was renamed a Committee

Ukhta-Pechorski Kray where he was last seen by Jacob A. Neufeld in 1942. Earlier he had spent five and a half years in the concentration camp in North Russia

baptized. The other two congregations had a total of 178, of whom 90 were baptized. The first minister was Peter Neufeld who was elected on 12 January 1873,

prepare for a more permanent arrangement. Those interested met at the home of Henry and Margaret Neufeld in Osler on 11 November. During that week, a small building

conference minister, born 7 July 1931 on a farm east of Didsbury, Alberta, the youngest child of 11 children of Jacob and Helena Braun, members of the Bergthal

Olga Neufeld (8 May 1900, Schönau, Molotschna, South Russia - 24 November 1995, Abbotsford, British Columbia), daughter of Isaak Gerhard Neufeld and Katharina

Hopefield cemetery. Goering, Jacob M. and Anna J. The Rev. Jacob Stucky Family Record 1824-1953. North Newton, 1954. Neufeld, I. G, "Jacob Stucky—Pioneer of Two

Blumenort until 1982 when a new church building was constructed. In 1986 a church was built at Tompkins Landing, and in 1995 a new church building was constructed

officially chartered as a congregation and joined the Mennonite Brethren Church of Manitoba. In the summer of 1979 construction of a new church building began

Foothills Mennonite Churches. On 27 April 2005 the church began construction on a new sanctuary located in the foothills just south of Calgary, and on 17 September

Bender. Family Record of Jacob and Magdalena Bender . . . Tavistock, Ontario, 1925, 61 p.; Jacob R. Bender, Genealogy of Jacob and Magdalena Bender . .

Mennoniten Gemeinde) was formally organized. In 1929 it was decided to build a meeting house at Ste. Elizabeth. This was the first meeting house built by

Molotschna, South Russia). Jacob was the youngest of 13 children (of which three died in infancy). Jacob married Sara Neufeld (14 June 1903, Marienthal

Alliance group for a several years, the group elected Johann Thiessen as a leader in 1935 and proceeded to build their church. It became a member of the Manitoba

and formally organized in 1926. The first building was occupied in 1929. Jacob A. Penner is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation

ordained elder in 1868 in the home of Cornelius Neufeld in Neukirch by Johann Fast of Rückenau. Movements of a highly emotional nature (die Fröhlichen), which

 Peter married Katharina (Neufeld) Martens, a widow with two children. The couple had two children together, a daughter and a son, both of whom survived

obtain a permanent teacher’s licence. Jacob quickly fell in love with Anna, oldest daughter of Hermann Neufeld, and the couple married in 1942. Jacob was

Siemens; Berezovka —Jacob J. Martens, David Thiessen, J. Isaak, and P. Duck; Karanbash—Wilhelm Baerg and Gerhard Wiens; Davlekanovo—K. G. Neufeld, Heinrich Thiessen

entered the workshop of missionary Henry Neufeld on 14 October 1964. His longstanding trust in Henry Neufeld was enough for St. John to share his quest

Colony. Peter D. Neufeld was baptized on 31 May 1843 in Bergthal and married just over a year later, on 11 June 1844. The couple soon started a family, but

South Russia. She was the fifth of six children born to Jacob E. Loewen (b.1776) and Catarina Neufeld (ca 1764- before 1835). It is not known when she was

Waltner (b. 1895), a painter, taught art from 1934 to 1960 during which time a minor in art was begun. Robert W. Regier (b. 1930), a printmaker-painter

unsuccessful attempt in 1885-1890 to establish a church, known as the "Mennonite Brethren Group North of Lehigh." Jacob Kliewer and Henry Bergthold had served

meetinghouse, also a wooden structure, was erected in 1911 with a seating capacity of about 350. It was replaced by a modern brick building with a seating capacity

married Anna Marguerite Neufeld (1907-1998) on 2 June 1930. She was born to Jacob C. Neufeld (1879-1928) and Katherina Hiebert Neufeld (1879-1951) at Noelton

org/index.php?title=Willms,_Jacob_(1935-2016)&oldid=139608. APA style Fehderau, Nancy Riediger. (October 2016). Willms, Jacob (1935-2016). Global Anabaptist

thought it prudent to purchase a parcel of land with a two-room shack and a second building that could be combined to form a modest place of worship.  However

on the life of a legendary Canadian eccentric. Barbara Smucker of Ontario is a reputable writer of juvenile fiction. She writes with a compassion and understanding

many years. Henry was a visionary. He encouraged Mennonite settlers to start a co-op grocery store, a local co-op fire insurance plan, a bulldozer co-op for

afternoon. Isaak Neufeld, a deacon from Russia, and C. K. Gloeckler were the first leaders. A church building was erected in 1899 at a cost of $583.00 and

van) Vogt (1886-1968) who was also Buhr's brother-in-law, pastor Heinrich A. Neufeld who also served on the Board of CMBoC. Both Buhr and Hiebert had not been

operation. A Bible school education, Derksen felt, would counteract the spirit of materialism already taking root among young people. By October 1930, a year

industry in various capacities, including a feed truck driver, a bookkeeper, a buyer for feed, and eventually a salesman, where he made many new and lasting

Wesley Methodist Church at William and Juno with a seating capacity of 1,200. Wanting a location with a higher profile and needing more space, especially

retirement. C.D. Toews was a student all his life. Although he never attained a formal academic degree, he pursued learning in a wide variety of venues. He

leaders of the church were Heinrich H. Dueck, Jacob J. Baerg and Aron J. Jantzen, and Nicolai W. Bahnmann and Jacob B. Wiens served the church alternately as

of salvation. A gracious aunt helped Sally by pointing out Isaiah 43:1: “But now, this is what the Lord says - He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed

(1584-1660), the leader of a famous school of art and a well-known art dealer, was a Mennonite, a cousin of Rembrandt's first wife Saskia and a close friend of his

from Germany to Lee County, Iowa. These included the families of Jacob Krehbiel(I) and Jacob Galle. After an initial exploratory visit from their temporary

settlers in the district, were unable to make a living on this land, the railroad in 1935 gave the land to a corporation of farmers, to which the farmers

there were 117 members. Jacob B. Wiens and Gerhard Wiens are considered the founding leaders of the group. In 1927 they built a meeting house. In 1936 the

charter members under the leadership of Elder Jacob B. Wiens and Gerhard Wiens. In 1926 there were 117 members. A meeting house was built in 1927. By 1936 the

Honduras under minister Jacob B. Guenter in 1951 (this group was refused entry and forced to return home); and a third in 1962, when a small group moved to

services and formally organized in 1907 as a branch of the Rosenorter Mennonite Church group in Saskatchewan. A dedication service for the church's first

The Canadian Pacific Railway built a station at the current town site of Morden in 1882. This caused the towns of Mountain City to the south and Nelson

organize a new congregation -- the Mennonite Refugee Congregation of Ontario (Mennoniten Flüchtlingsgemeinde in Ontario) -- under the leadership of Jacob H.

leaders prior to 1960 included Frank Janzen, Franz C. Thiessen, Jacob F. Redekop, Jacob Wedel, Jacob Bargen, Isaak Janzen, Herman Voth and John J. Stobbe. The

School program. After 1967, a variety of ministers took turns serving the congregation. Eventually, disagreements led to a split and a decline in membership

first building was occupied in 1937, with a subsequent building program in 1960. The first meeting place was a rented implement shed where services were

 The language transition from German to English began in the 1950s. In 1958 a new meeting house was constructed. The original Messiah Church building, built

dress restrictions, they have been at times a positive and at times a negative factor in the development of a wholesome Mennonite church and community life

from Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1941. In the fall of 1946 they invited Jacob A. Janzen, an ordained elder who had just immigrated to Canada, to become

museum and assembly room, a windmill to serve as a restaurant, a small gift shop, and a replica of a sod dwelling. Fundraising for the project faced stiff resistance

rewarding them with small drawings of a flower or a bird. At other times the reward might be a certificate (Zeugniss) or a writing-sample (Vorschrift). The

congregation was part of a movement of Mennonites to South Russia, where they established a village by the name of Alexanderwohl. A Church was constructed

Bergthal. When a school was built in Altona in 1895, it became the centre for Bergthaler services. However, in keeping with the policy of the time, a church building

Brethren Church joined resources to purchase land with the intent on initiating a new church in Vancouver. At this time, Killarney Park Mennonite Brethren Church

of higher levels of education. Oberschulze Jacob B. Reimer was a significant partner in these changes. Jacob A. Braun (1893-1979) was particularly responsible

begun in 1922 and operating for years as a six-week day school, now functions as a night school two nights a week for a month. Most of the conservative Mennonite

congregation. The Bethel congregation built a church in 1890, followed by a larger building in 1895. It erected a new building in 1942 and added an educational

place on a basement. This facility was used mainly for education including a German Bible school. Then in 1928 a decision was made to construct a similar

in which the two congregations could plant a new congregation. A joint task force was formed in July and a proposal to merge was presented to both congregations

Without doubt hymns were a factor in Anabaptist evangelism, both sung and read. Christian Neff said (Mennonitisches Lexikon II, 86), "A flood of religious songs

larger sanctuary, as well as a number of classrooms for Sunday School, a large library area, a large and well-equipped kitchen, and a lower hall that could accommodate

childhood, Wall lived in a Mennonite Alternative Service Forestry Camp at which his father was administrator and chaplain. He received a good education and graduated

editions), though a very influential book is not actually a full-fledged confession of faith, nor cast in the form of a confession, but a theological treatise

Daniel Schroeder, A. W. Slagel, P. H. Unruh, and H. C. Yoder. In August and September 1921, Jacob Koekebakker, pastor of Middelburg, as a representative of

France, and making a deep impression on them. As a result of his visit in the Palatinate a special conference in 1824 authorized a missionary box in every

Moravia is a unit in itself, as well as a purely descriptive essay, making the assumption that it is a reproduction, perhaps from memory, appear a fact. For

Anabaptists had a sound theology of the state and a consistent view of the Christians' attitude toward and responsibility to the state based upon a consistent