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The village of Wiesenfeld, about 10 miles from the railroad station of Zaitsevo, Pavlograd district of the province of [[Ekaterinoslav Guberniya (Ukraine)|Ekaterinoslav]] (now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast), South Russia, was founded by members of the Gnadenfeld Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church in the [[Molotschna Mennonite Settlement (Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)|Molotschna settlement]], most of them from the [[Andreasfeld Mennonite Brethren Church (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)|Andreasfeld]] area, and the church became an affiliate of the Gnadenfeld church. When the [[Einlage Mennonite Brethren Church (Einlage, Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)|Einlage M.B. Church]] became better established and more members arrived from this church, the congregation here affiliated itself with Einlage. The first minister of this group was Peter Friesen, a blacksmith and bonesetter. Later Jacob D. Reimer and Cornelius Reimer served as ministers. The congregation had at one time 107 members. Because of a misunderstanding the church was closed for some time during [[World War (1914-1918)|World War I]], but the right of public worship was later reinstated. In 1919 during the [[Russian Revolution and Civil War|Revolution]] the entire village was destroyed by [[Makhno, Nestor (1888-1934)|Makhno]] bands and the church ceased to exist. Its last minister was Cornelius Reimer, the father of Jacob Reimer of Sardis, [[British Columbia (Canada)|British Columbia]].
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