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Revision as of 13:34, 15 May 2024

The Faith Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana, USA began in October 1986 as the result of a small group at Assembly Mennonite Church developing a vision for local community outreach. The group originally met monthly and then biweekly in the Assembly Mennonite Church's building on Sunday afternoons for worship and a fellowship meal.

In 1990 the original group formally chartered as the Faith Mennonite Church. Initially, it was a member of both the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church (MC) and the Central District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church.

In 2005 the congregation purchased Faith House to provide space for meetings and church activities and to host short-term guests who were housing challenged. In 2016 it purchased an adjacent house to also help with transitional housing and gave it the name Hope House.

In 2022 the congregation was part of the Central District Conference of Mennonite Church USA; it dropped its affiliation with the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference in 2015.

Bibliography

Brill Bergstresser, Annette. "Congregation deepens commitment to providing transitional housing." Central District Conference Reporter (November 2017): 1-3.

Assembly Mennonite Church: A Collective History, compiled and edited by Anne Meyer Byler, Sally Weaver Glick, and Sandy Fribley. Goshen, Ind.: The Church, 2014: 78-81.

Preheim, Rich. In Pursuit of Faithfulness: Conviction, Conflict, and Compromise in Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. Harrisonburg, Va.: Herald Press, 2016: 308.

Rich, Elaine Sommers, ed. Walking Together in Faith: The Central District Conference, 1957-1990. Bluffton, Ohio: The Conference, 2003: 85, 89.

Additional Information

Meeting Address: 1201 South 11th Street, Goshen, Indiana 46526

Mailing Address: Faith House, 413 South 7th Street, Goshen, Indiana 46526

Phone: 574-533-6622

Website: https://faithmennonitegoshen.org/ [broken link in 2024]

Denominational Affiliations: Central District Conference Conference

Mennonite Church USA

Pastoral Leaders at Faith Mennonite Church

Name Years
of Service
Lay Leadership 1986-1989
Randy Grossmann 1989-1994
Amzie Yoder 1994-1997?
Gwen Gustafson-Zook 1997-2006
David Helmuth (1935-2020)(Associate) 2000-2002?
Teresa Dutchersmith (Co-Pastor) 2000-2003
Deron Brill Bergstresser (Co-Pastor) 2003-2022
Kay Bontrager-Singer (Co-Pastor) 2006-present
Mariah Martin (Co-Pastor) 2023-present

Membership at Faith Mennonite Church

Year Membership
1992 23
2000 26
2007 49
2020 73


Author(s) Samuel J Steiner
Date Published August 2022

Cite This Article

MLA style

Steiner, Samuel J. "Faith Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. August 2022. Web. 24 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Faith_Mennonite_Church_(Goshen,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=178852.

APA style

Steiner, Samuel J. (August 2022). Faith Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Faith_Mennonite_Church_(Goshen,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=178852.




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