Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship

The Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship was founded in 1978. It consisted of 13 congregations located in south central Pennsylvania (9), central Pennsylvania (2), northern Pennsylvania, (1), and southern New York (1). The fellowship was organized by a number of ordained brethren from various independent congregations and congregations affiliated with regional Mennonite Church (MC) conferences who felt the need for a broader church organization to give cohesion for missions, Christian education, and fellowship in the historic Anabaptist vein of life and practice.

In 1987 the fellowship consisted of 985 members with 6 bishops, 23 ministers, and 15 deacons providing leadership. There was a strong emphasis on Christian education for the youth. Mission emphasis, in addition to local evangelism by individual congregations, consisted of full-time prison ministry, a street and tract evangelism ministry, and support of foreign missions, with workers in Guatemala, Haiti, and Canada. In 2006 there were 19 congregations with 1,498 members, growing to 21 congregations and 1,685 members in 2010.

Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship does not sponsor or send delegates to the Mennonite Church (MC) General Assembly or to regional conference meetings. The fellowship's members enjoy fraternal relationship with the Mid-West Mennonite Fellowship, Southeastern Mennonite Conference, Cumberland Valley Mennonite Church, and various other independent churches of similar faith.

In 2010 the following congregations were members of the Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship:

Congregation	Location	State	Founded	Members
Bairs-Hostetters Mennonite Church	Littlestown	Pennsylvania	1774	60
Blue Ball Mennonite Church	Blue Ball	Pennsylvania	1986	118
Calvary Mennonite Fellowship	Denver	Pennsylvania	2006	56
Cornerstone Mennonite Church	Memphis	Missouri	2006	44
Fairhaven Mennonite Church	Myerstown	Pennsylvania	1973	110
Haycock Mennonite Church	Quakertown	Pennsylvania	1938	34
Lakeland Mennonite Church	Lakemont	New York	1995	45
Lebanon Valley Mennonite Church	Mt. Aetna	Pennsylvania	1979	99
Millmont Mennonite Church	Lewisburg	Pennsylvania	1962	162
Mount Pleasant Mennonite Church	Paradise	Pennsylvania	1986	53
Mountain View Mennonite Church	McConnellsburg	Pennsylvania	1967	55
New Haven Mennonite Church	Lititz	Pennsylvania	1972	166
Open Door Mennonite Fellowship	Adamstown	Pennsylvania	1996	80
Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church	Ephrata	Pennsylvania	1981	207
Pleasant View Mennonite Church Fellowship	Manheim	Pennsylvania	1999	55
Shalom Mennonite Church	Milton	Pennsylvania	1997	71
Sharon Mennonite Fellowship	Lebanon	Pennsylvania	1977	100
Sixth Street Mennonite Church	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	1992	7
Spring Hill Mennonite Church	Latham	Missouri	1992	66
Strodes Mills Mennonite Church	McVeytown	Pennsylvania	1981	62
Union Valley Mennonite Church	Ulster	Pennsylvania	1958	35
Total				1,685

Bibliography

Horsch, James E., ed. Mennonite Yearbook and Directory. Scottdale: Mennonite Publishing House (1988-89): 95.

Mennonite Church Directory 2010. Harrisonburg, VA: Christian Light Publications, 2010: 85-87.

Author(s)	Richard K Herr
Date Published	October 2010

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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 584. All rights reserved.

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