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• Garden Chapel, The (Victory Gardens, New Jersey, USA)
  Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains. When it was discovered the community of Victory Gardens (named after the vegetable gardens people planted during World War
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• Smid family
  nonresistance, lay ministry, difference of the functions of elder and preacher, plain dress, Biestkens Bible. From 1800 to his death in 1844 Meine Obes (Obbes)
  4 KB (720 words) - 20:34, 13 April 2014
• Pribitz Bruderhof (Pribice, Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
  On 28 July 1620, on a Tuesday morning at three o'clock, "while all the people were lying in bed without worry," the Bruderhof was attacked by imperial
  7 KB (1,270 words) - 00:56, 16 January 2017
• Post Oak Mennonite Brethren Church (Indiahoma, Oklahoma, USA)
  Finally, however, yielding to the pleas of the missionary and some of his own people and one of his wives, Parker led the missionary to the place where he believed
  3 KB (607 words) - 17:35, 26 January 2023
• Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church
  have uncut hair. Men, as a rule, do not enter the professions. They wear plain clothing (dress), and their life is built around the church, schools, and
  12 KB (646 words) - 19:16, 8 August 2023
• Ebersol, John R. (1874-1950) (category Business People)
  Mennonites in Ontario. Kitchener, Ontario: Herald Press, 2015. Stotzfus, Sam. Plain Communities Business Exchange (November 1993). MLA style Lichti, Fred. "Ebersol
  7 KB (1,123 words) - 15:42, 9 September 2021
• Hats
  The Swiss Mennonite women of southeastern Pennsylvania undoubtedly wore plain and simple headgear from the first, likely a form of beaver hat, or the old
  6 KB (862 words) - 19:17, 8 August 2023
• Hope Mennonite Fellowship
  Danville, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, and a Bible school for young people at Numidia, Pennsylvania. In 1968, the Lancaster Conference adopted a new
  10 KB (1,139 words) - 19:12, 8 August 2023
• Kisare, Zedekia Marwa (ca. 1909-1999)
  grew up in Shirati, a Luo people's village in an area called Kiseru, in Mara Region between Lake Victoria and the Serengeti Plain. Following Luo custom, he
  6 KB (970 words) - 07:55, 22 December 2017
• Private Christian Schools (United States)
  congregations to combat the enormous pressure for conformity to the world the young people were experiencing. The emphasis on the Mennonite high schools over the elementary
  11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:28, 1 February 2019
• Emmanuel Mennonite Church (Doland, South Dakota, USA)
  Kleinsasser, the first pastor. The 1953 membership was 89, and all were rural people. The original frame meetinghouse, erected in 1922 and seating 180, was still
  1 KB (266 words) - 13:48, 6 July 2018
• Zion Bible Church (Bridgewater, South Dakota, USA) (category Central Plains Mennonite Conference Congregations)
  members purchased a former 1883 Methodist church building in Bridgewater. More people began attending, and in 1928 Michael J. Hofer became the group's minister
  4 KB (470 words) - 11:04, 28 September 2023
• Thurman Mennonite Church (Thurman, Colorado, USA)
  structure was ripped apart and its occupants hurled into the air." Ten of the 18 people died while the other eight were injured; nine of the ten deceased were children
  14 KB (2,154 words) - 16:10, 1 October 2014
• Farming Among Mennonites in North America
  This tradition, plus their desire to perpetuate themselves as a peculiar people, resulted in church regulations which often prohibited residence in towns
  13 KB (2,003 words) - 03:29, 20 February 2014
• Family
  presented annually to the congregations in 1639-1716, stating that young people should not marry without the consent of the parents, that boys and girls
  68 KB (10,569 words) - 18:23, 28 July 2018
• Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  the adoption and maintenance of the plain Quaker bonnet by many women during the 19th and 20th centuries. In the plainer congregations of the conference,
  28 KB (2,978 words) - 19:10, 8 August 2023
• Becker, Magdalena Hergert (1878-1938)
  years she served half-time as a United States Government field matron to the people. The job of field matron involved record-keeping of land ownership, rent
  2 KB (402 words) - 18:46, 20 August 2013
• First Mennonite Church (Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada)
  the home of Isaac Dyck, a General Conference Mennonite from Swift Current. People were happy to come and had a wonderful time of fellowship. He encouraged
  9 KB (1,151 words) - 22:32, 8 December 2023
• Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowship
  shunning members whose only offense was transferring membership to another plain Anabaptist denomination. When innovation adoption and/or shunning became
  63 KB (5,785 words) - 14:36, 17 March 2023
• Reformed Mennonite Church
  Fisher, both of Lancaster City. "The Reformed Mennonites are a small body of people who adhere to the doctrines and principles of love taught in the New Testament
  22 KB (2,882 words) - 16:06, 6 April 2020

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