Bethel Mennonite Church (Waka, Texas, USA)
Bethel Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite Church), located near Waka, Ochiltree County, Texas, was a member of the Western District Conference. The congregation was organized in April 1922, the first meetings being held in the Jacob B. Wiebe home and later in a schoolhouse. In May 1924 another school was rebuilt into a church, which was still used in 1950 as a meetinghouse with a seating capacity of 100. In 1962 the Bethel congregation merged with the Perryton Mennonite Churchat Perryton, Texas, with that congregation meeting in Perryton.
Author(s) | Herman Wiebe |
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Date Published | 1953 |
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Wiebe, Herman. "Bethel Mennonite Church (Waka, Texas, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 14 Aug 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bethel_Mennonite_Church_(Waka,_Texas,_USA)&oldid=75552.
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Wiebe, Herman. (1953). Bethel Mennonite Church (Waka, Texas, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 14 August 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bethel_Mennonite_Church_(Waka,_Texas,_USA)&oldid=75552.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 313. All rights reserved.
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