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• Elim Bible School (Yarrow, British Columbia, Canada)
  operation. A Bible school education, Derksen felt, would counteract the spirit of materialism already taking root among young people. By October 1930, a year
  9 KB (647 words) - 23:38, 26 March 2023
• Thiessen, John A. (1935-2016)
  industry in various capacities, including a feed truck driver, a bookkeeper, a buyer for feed, and eventually a salesman, where he made many new and lasting
  5 KB (764 words) - 08:52, 23 February 2017
• Toews, Cornelius D. (1900-1970)
  retirement. C.D. Toews was a student all his life. Although he never attained a formal academic degree, he pursued learning in a wide variety of venues. He
  6 KB (861 words) - 22:37, 21 March 2023
• Bethel Mennonite Church (Langley, British Columbia, Canada)
  leaders of the church were Heinrich H. Dueck, Jacob J. Baerg and Aron J. Jantzen, and Nicolai W. Bahnmann and Jacob B. Wiens served the church alternately as
  11 KB (1,324 words) - 22:46, 3 June 2023
• Isaak, Sally Schroeder (1926-2009)
  of salvation. A gracious aunt helped Sally by pointing out Isaiah 43:1: “But now, this is what the Lord says - He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed
  5 KB (726 words) - 17:19, 8 January 2017
• Art (1955) (category A)
  (1584-1660), the leader of a famous school of art and a well-known art dealer, was a Mennonite, a cousin of Rembrandt's first wife Saskia and a close friend of his
  54 KB (7,180 words) - 20:04, 28 November 2022
• Zion Mennonite Church (Donnellson, Iowa, USA)
  from Germany to Lee County, Iowa. These included the families of Jacob Krehbiel(I) and Jacob Galle. After an initial exploratory visit from their temporary
  9 KB (991 words) - 14:16, 24 July 2023
• Fiske Mennonite Church (Fiske, Saskatchewan, Canada)
  there were 117 members. Jacob B. Wiens and Gerhard Wiens are considered the founding leaders of the group. In 1927 they built a meeting house. In 1936 the
  4 KB (328 words) - 23:52, 4 March 2023
• Herschel Ebenfeld Mennonite Church (Herschel, Saskatchewan, Canada)
  charter members under the leadership of Elder Jacob B. Wiens and Gerhard Wiens. In 1926 there were 117 members. A meeting house was built in 1927. By 1936 the
  4 KB (440 words) - 23:57, 4 March 2023
• Bergthal Mennonites
  Honduras under minister Jacob B. Guenter in 1951 (this group was refused entry and forced to return home); and a third in 1962, when a small group moved to
  19 KB (2,359 words) - 23:01, 24 May 2021
• Aberdeen Mennonite Church (Aberdeen, Saskatchewan, Canada) (category A)
  services and formally organized in 1907 as a branch of the Rosenorter Mennonite Church group in Saskatchewan. A dedication service for the church's first
  4 KB (390 words) - 23:48, 4 March 2023
• Morden Mennonite Church (Morden, Manitoba, Canada)
  The Canadian Pacific Railway built a station at the current town site of Morden in 1882. This caused the towns of Mountain City to the south and Nelson
  4 KB (398 words) - 22:20, 22 March 2023
• Peardonville Mennonite Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  School program. After 1967, a variety of ministers took turns serving the congregation. Eventually, disagreements led to a split and a decline in membership
  5 KB (571 words) - 06:20, 5 March 2023
• Vineland Mennonite Brethren Church (Vineland, Ontario, Canada)
  first building was occupied in 1937, with a subsequent building program in 1960. The first meeting place was a rented implement shed where services were
  4 KB (346 words) - 05:05, 1 December 2017
• Living Hope Bible Church (Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada)
   The language transition from German to English began in the 1950s. In 1958 a new meeting house was constructed. The original Messiah Church building, built
  5 KB (489 words) - 21:32, 23 June 2023
• Plattdeutsch
  dress restrictions, they have been at times a positive and at times a negative factor in the development of a wholesome Mennonite church and community life
  16 KB (2,368 words) - 07:06, 11 June 2023
• First Mennonite Church (Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada)
  from Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1941. In the fall of 1946 they invited Jacob A. Janzen, an ordained elder who had just immigrated to Canada, to become
  6 KB (718 words) - 21:22, 27 May 2023
• Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia (section The Dream of a Mennonite Museum)
  museum and assembly room, a windmill to serve as a restaurant, a small gift shop, and a replica of a sod dwelling. Fundraising for the project faced stiff resistance
  8 KB (1,164 words) - 17:20, 26 May 2023
• Fraktur (Illuminated Drawing)
  rewarding them with small drawings of a flower or a bird. At other times the reward might be a certificate (Zeugniss) or a writing-sample (Vorschrift). The
  21 KB (2,796 words) - 19:17, 8 August 2023
• Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church (Goessel, Kansas, USA) (category A)
  congregation was part of a movement of Mennonites to South Russia, where they established a village by the name of Alexanderwohl. A Church was constructed
  24 KB (2,751 words) - 15:13, 9 January 2021

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