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The North Goshen Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana, began as a mission Sunday school run by Goshen College students in a rented house in the North Goshen community in 1935, with hopes already to build a small chapel. In the summer of 1936, the College Mennonite Church purchased the former Beulah Baptist Church near Wayland, Iowa for about $300, dismantled it with the aid of Iowa Mennonites and rebuilt it at the corner of North Eighth Street and Summit Street in Goshen. The reconstructed building was dedicated on 30 May 1937. The congregation enlarged the building in 1945/46 and again in 1952/53. On 31 May 1964 it dedicated a new fellowship and educational wing built after it purchased a neighboring house and lot.

The North Goshen congregation, which grew rapidly, helped to establish the East Goshen Mennonite Church in 1942. In 1956, it established the Walnut Hill Mennonite Church.

North Goshen outreach has evolved. In the early years, college students brought Sunday school to the Appalachian immigrant factory workers who lived in the North Goshen area. The congregation then became a magnet for Amish families seeking to leave the strict regulations common in Amish churches in the 1950s. As Hispanic people began arriving in North Goshen in the 1980s and 1990s to work in the local factories, North Goshen Mennonite began outreach to this new group that made up half of the community. This included providing mattresses to families sleeping on floors or holding a "Christmas store" for families of low incomes. This also led the church to worship in both Spanish and English.

Bibliography

Author(s)	Samuel J Steiner
Date Published	July 2024

Linsenmeyer, Dean. "North Goshen Mennonite." Gospel Evangel 87, no. 8 (December 2006): 10.

"Our history." North Goshen Mennonite Church. 2023. Web. 12 July 2024. https://www.northgoshenmc.org/about-us.

Preheim, Rich. In Pursuit of Faithfulness: Conviction, Conflict, and Compromise in Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. Harrisonburg, Va.: Herald Press, 2016: 148, 246, 305, 311.

"The North Goshen Mennonite Church...." Gospel Herald 57, no. 17 (5 May 1964): 370.

Wenger, John Christian. The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1961: 215-216.

Yoder, Edward. "Goshen College." Gospel Herald 28, no. 37 (12 December 1935): 795-796.

_____. "Goshen College news." Gospel Herald 29, no. 29 (15 October 1936): 619.

Additional Information

Address: 501 North 8th Street, Goshen, Indiana 46528

Telephone: 574-533-4255

Website: https://www.northgoshenmc.org/

Denominational Affiliations:

Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference

Mennonite Church USA

Pastoral Leaders at North Goshen Mennonite Church

Name	Years of Service
College Church ministers	1936-1937
Paul E. Mininger (1908-1997) (Bishop)	1937-1943 1943-1955
John C. Wenger (1910-1995)	1944-1949
Russell R. Krabill (1917-2005) (Bishop)	1948-1955 1955-1965
Ralph M. Smucker (Assistant)	1962-1965
Aaron Donald "Don" Augsburger (1925-2022)(Bishop)	1965-1970
Ronald Kennel (Assistant)	1966-1967
Richard Yoder (Assistant)	1967-1970
Timothy H. Brenneman (1905-1977)(Bishop)	1969-1974
Dean G. Slagel (1926-2019)	1970-1973
Donald L. Brenneman (1934-2017)	1974-1982
Local Leadership	1982-1984
Harvey Chupp (1937-2015)	1984-1992
Darrel M. Hostetler (1933-2024)(Assistant)	1984-1989
Jerry Wittrig (Assistant/Associate)	1989-2006
Rosemary Fry (1933-2019)(Assistant)	1989-1995
Delmar J. Glick (Interim)	1993
Arthur E. Smoker	1993-2005
Lisa Enns-Bogoya (Associate)	1998?-2002?
Raul Bogoya (Hispanic)	2000?-2002?
Dean A. Linsenmeyer	2005-2011
Marian Brendle Hostetler (Seniors)	2006-2008
Bek Linsenmeyer (Young Families)	2008-2011
Izaete R. Nafziger (Outreach)	2008-
Mark Schloneger	2012-2018
Steven E. Slagel (Transitional)	2019-2020
Nathan Graber-McCrae	2020-2023
Nick King (Interim)	2023-

North Goshen Mennonite Church Membership

Year	Members
1940	58
1950	305
1960	343
1970	366
1980	240
1990	237
2000	201
2009	164
2020	125

Original Mennonite Encyclopedia Article

The North Goshen Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church (MC)), located on Eighth Street, Goshen, Indiana, is a member of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. It was an outgrowth of Sunday school work begun by the Goshen College YPCA as early as 1915. In 1936 an abandoned Baptist church near Wayland, Iowa, was hauled to Goshen, rebuilt, and dedicated in May 1937. This building has since been enlarged several times. Paul Mininger was pastor of the congregation when it became independent from the Goshen College Mennonite Church in 1942. The membership in 1957 was 328, with Paul Mininger serving as bishop, and Russell Krabill as bishop-pastor. John C. Wenger also served the congregation as deacon and minister prior to 1951.

Cite This Article

MLA style

Steiner, Samuel J. "North Goshen Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. July 2024. Web. 16 Jul 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=North_Goshen_Mennonite_Church_(Goshen,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=179292.

APA style

Steiner, Samuel J. (July 2024). North Goshen Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 July 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=North_Goshen_Mennonite_Church_(Goshen,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=179292.

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