Slanesville Community Mennonite Church (Slanesville, West Virginia, USA)
The Slanesville Community Mennonite Church in Slanesville, West Virginia, USA was established in 2000. The congregation started as outreach of the Mine Road Amish Mennonite Church.
The Mine Road church, located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania became aware of a non-Mennonite couples in Slanesville who wanted to fellowship with a conservative Christian church. The fact that the area had no conservative Anabaptist church appealed to those considering the area. Several families from Mine Road, including Minister Elmer Glick, moved into the area in 2000 to evangelize the community. Other families joined the group from Faith Mission Fellowship (Free Union, Virginia), Harmony Christian Fellowship (Millington, Maryland), and New York state.
In 2017 the church was a member of the Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowship and had a membership of 48. The bishop was Elmer D. Glick, and the minister was Daniel R. Stoltzfus.
Bibliography
"Amish Mennonite Churches in West Virginia." The Beachy Amish Mennonites. 2013. Web. 19 March 2018. http://www.beachyam.org/churches/wv.htm.
Anderson, Cory. The Amish-Mennonites of North America: a portrait of our people. Medina, New York: Ridgeway Publishing, 2012: 15.
Anderson, Cory Alexander. "The Diffusion of Beachy Amish Mennonite Congregations in the US South: A Regional Chronicle and Spatial Analysis." Unpublished paper, 2006: 26. Web. 19 March 2018. http://www.beachyam.org/librarybooks/Anderson(2006)_Diffusion.pdf.
Mennonite Church directory (2017): 47.
Additional Information
Address: 922 Slanesville Pike, Slanesville, West Virginia
Phone: 304-496-9524
Website:
Denominational Affiliations:
Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowship
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Slanesville Community Mennonite Church
Author(s) | Sam Steiner |
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Date Published | March 2018 |
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