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Plainview Mennonite Church ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]]), near Aurora, [[Ohio (State)|Ohio]], a member of the [[Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC)|Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Confer]][[Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC)|ence]], was founded by [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonites]] from [[Nebraska (USA)|Ne]][[Nebraska (USA)|braska]]. Several Stutzman families arrived in 1906 but their first minister was Eli B. Stoltzfus of West Liberty, Ohio, who had been ordained for [[Long Green Amish Mennonite Church (Baltimore County, Maryland, USA)|Long Green]], [[Maryland (USA)|Maryland]] in 1908, but moved to [[Portage County (Ohio, USA)|Portage County]] in 1909, and was ordained bishop in 1916. The congregation enjoyed economic and religious growth. Membership increased from 35 in 1908 to 100 in 1912. In that year the congregation built the present meetinghouse. Members of the congregation helped to found the [[Valley View Mennonite Church (Spartansburg, Pennsylvania, USA)|Britton Run Amish Mennonite Church]]<em> </em>in [[Crawford County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Crawford County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]], and still assist actively in the [[Burton Mennonite Church (Burton, Ohio, USA)|Burton Mennonite Church]] in Geauga County and in the [[Gladstone Mennonite Mission (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)|Gladstone Mennonite Mission]] in [[Cleveland (Ohio, USA)|Cleveland]]. The membership of Plainview in 1957 was 136. Development of the congregation is being hindered by inflationary land values and the encroachment of wealthy buyers of land for rural estates. The resident bishop in 1957 was Elmer Stoltzfus and the minister Eugene Yoder.
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= Bibliography =
 
Miller, Vern L. "The History of the Plainview Men­nonite Church . . ." 1950, unpublished paper in Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen, IN).
 
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