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• Mountain Valley Mennonite Church (Willcox, Arizona, USA) (category Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Congregations)
  established in 1988. The congregation was rooted in two families from Wisconsin visiting Church of God in Christ, Mennonite missionaries in Mexico. On the return
  3 KB (373 words) - 16:21, 17 November 2020
• Church of Living Water, The (Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada) (category Evangelical Mennonite Conference Congregations)
  largely consists of Low German-speaking Mennonites, most with roots in Mexico. In 1997 or 1998 Mount Salem EMC pastor Wilbert Friesen desired that a church be
  3 KB (468 words) - 14:33, 3 September 2018
• Mennonite Colonization Board (Newton, Kansas, USA)
  possibility of settlement in Mexico was reported to the Mennonites in Russia there was immediate response and a considerable movement to Mexico set in at once via
  7 KB (1,078 words) - 19:26, 21 May 2021
• Southern District of Mennonite Brethren Churches (United States Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches)
  the Southern District Conference (Mennonite Brethren) consisted of 40 congregations in the following states: Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, and Arkansas
  9 KB (819 words) - 11:20, 24 February 2021
• Old Colony Mennonite Church of Ontario
  serving the congregations in the Essex and Kent counties. Congregations were formed first in Aylmer, followed by Wheatley in 1965. Other congregations were formed
  4 KB (605 words) - 19:03, 15 January 2021
• Rural Life
  tried to recreate the rural community in the New World, in Canada, the United States, and in a few new settlements in Central America, notably Belize
  31 KB (4,468 words) - 23:09, 15 January 2017
• Old Colony Mennonite Church (Aylmer, Ontario, Canada)
  Old Colony Mennonites from Mexico began immigrating to the Aylmer, Ontario area, near Waterloo, in 1954. Services were organized in 1957 by Aeltester Jakob
  2 KB (361 words) - 21:39, 1 January 2017
• Elementary Education
  Mennonites organized elementary schools in their homes to comply with the new law. During the last half of the 19th century there were at least 20 such
  16 KB (2,212 words) - 06:29, 20 February 2014
• Weddings
  the ceremony, lengthy descriptions of the wedding in the local papers, were new practices in Mennonite (MC) circles reflecting the gradual adoption of common
  21 KB (3,148 words) - 19:25, 8 August 2023
• Schisms
  emigration in 1789. While that rift was gradually being overcome in Russia, a new division began about 1812. Klaas Reimer objected to the low level of morality
  13 KB (1,787 words) - 03:35, 20 February 2014
• Conservative Mennonites (Dutch-Prussian-Russian)
  settlement. It established the first secondary schools, with their new curriculum, and introduced new farming methods. Through Johann Cornies it attempted to impose
  21 KB (2,840 words) - 07:31, 20 November 2016
• Seminaries
  Mennonite Biblical Seminary (MBS), which was opened in Chicago in 1945 as a new institution chartered by the General Conference Mennonite Church, but to be
  22 KB (3,100 words) - 15:58, 31 January 2019
• Neufeldt, Peter P. (1911-1961)
  been diagnosed with glaucoma, the family was forced to settle in Vera Cruz, Mexico. However, a year later, the Neufeldts received permission to immigrate to
  7 KB (985 words) - 07:26, 4 January 2017
• Neufeldt, Henry Peter (1909-2001)
  what was left of their once large farm, they immigrated to Mexico. In 1926 they left Mexico, traveling by train to Drake, Saskatchewan and settling in
  5 KB (779 words) - 07:35, 20 November 2016
• Wiebe, Johann (1837-1905)
  crossed the Red River and joined those on the West Reserve, introducing some new patterns of culture and economic and religious life to which Johann Wiebe
  5 KB (658 words) - 15:26, 19 August 2015
• Ministry (Prusso-Russian Background Mennonites)
  courses offered for ministers in larger congregations were of great significance. Some of the older congregations with cultural centers and secondary schools
  16 KB (2,345 words) - 23:08, 15 January 2017
• Tres Palmas Colony (Paraguay)
  available to the new colony. With this land available at reasonable price settlers came from numerous other colonies in Paraguay, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay
  2 KB (375 words) - 18:45, 18 November 2014
• Meetinghouses
  the smaller congregations usually met in the home of a member, who placed a room at the disposal of the congregation. Larger congregations at this time
  30 KB (3,743 words) - 14:17, 3 May 2024
• Family
  schools. Some congregations have a committee that promotes family life education in the congregation, particularly among the youth. Some congregations promote
  68 KB (10,569 words) - 18:23, 28 July 2018
• Mission Boards
  substantial programs, including international projects. Since the 1950s a number of new agencies have been formed by groups which either were never formally a part
  12 KB (868 words) - 14:09, 31 August 2021

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