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the general conference was carried on by five boards: Board of Faith and Life, Board of Missions and Services, Board of Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary

meeting. The Conference Council elected officers to conference and paraconference positions, evaluated and accepted an annual budget, and approved all administrative

Directors, several administrative and faculty offices, a board room, a dining room for 125, a small library and archives area, and a chapel designed to seat 150

Semipalatinsk, Karaganda, and Akmolinsk, and the areas of the older Mennonite settlements and regions of Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Slavgorod, but also in

but only as a whole and only in so far as the authorities thought fit. Luther and Zwingli and their followers had to learn that, and only as far as they

neighborhood and in various other provinces smaller and larger estates. Also they established places of business and industries. The largest and best-known

Continent, 1655-1750; (2) Mennonites and Quakers in Colonial Pennsylvania; and (3) Mennonite and Quaker contacts and co-operation in North America in the

Uruguay (Conference of Mennonite Churches in Uruguay), and is affiliated with the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) in North America and the Vereinigung

1632 says: "We believe and confess that the Lord Jesus has forbidden His disciples and followers all revenge and resistance, and has thereby commanded them

Historical and Genealogical Society); Menno-Hof, Shipshewana, IN (1987; collaborative effort of several Mennonite conferences and agencies); Doopsgezinde

about 125 years ago and somewhat later into France, West Prussia, and Russia (both Mennonite Brethren and General Conference) and more recently into Switzerland

health and human services agencies, institutions, and programs in the United States and Canada. During this time Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Mennonite-related

to people of non-German and non-Mennonite backgrounds. In 1970 the provincial conference Missions Board became known as the Board of Church Extension (BOCE)

Dresden, and Prague, and spent five and one-half days in Vienna; then continued through Budapest and Bucharest and spent six days in Odessa and Kherson

provincial, Canadian, and international conferences and service agencies; and the developing competitiveness with its sister conferences accelerated the dissolution

memoirs, genealogies, and family histories, to biographies and congregational and conference histories. Volumes on special themes and regions, e.g., the role

Of this amount, the camper was paid 50 cents and the rest was used to take care of his board, lodging, and medical attention. The lease expired with the