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• Mennonite Church USA
  membership was 68,753 people in 641 congregations in 18 area conferences: Allegheny, Atlantic Coast, Central District, Central Plains, Eastern District, Franconia
  12 KB (1,447 words) - 19:20, 11 March 2024
• Prayer Veil
  the teaching of the Scriptures and as the long-established custom of the people and the church. But when Protestant women ceased wearing it during religious
  18 KB (2,822 words) - 18:35, 31 December 2018
• Quilts
  making tradition. The ongoing householder role and the Amish preference for "plain style" has contributed to the popularity of the Amish woman's quilt. Together
  8 KB (1,289 words) - 07:46, 17 October 2013
• Funk, Christian (1731-1811)
  Christian Funk agreed with his fellow ministers that "as a defenseless people, the Mennonites could neither institute nor destroy any government." But
  4 KB (585 words) - 00:25, 16 January 2017
• Canada
  1786-1920: The History of a Separate People. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. Epp, Frank H. Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: A People's Struggle for Survival. Toronto:
  49 KB (5,578 words) - 13:52, 29 March 2021
• Communion
  plates or baskets in which wine and bread were served—were originally very plain. They became more ornamental during the "Golden Age" (17th century) in the
  41 KB (6,309 words) - 14:08, 31 December 2018
• Friesen, David W. (1879-1951) (category Business People)
  individual. “We always knew our father to be a man of simple tastes and plain lifestyle. That was attested by the fact that one day a week he fasted and
  6 KB (925 words) - 00:59, 20 June 2017
• Grebel, Conrad (ca. 1498-1526)
  wise and statesmanlike decision, but in terms of absolute principle and plain Scripture teaching it was indefensible. At least so it seemed to Conrad Grebel
  75 KB (11,932 words) - 12:30, 15 May 2019
• Lyndon Amish Mennonite Church (Lyndon, Kansas, USA)
  of a desire to spread out to different areas that did not have a Godly, plain church in its midst. In 2018 the church had 60 members and was a member of
  3 KB (456 words) - 13:07, 10 April 2018
• Flanders (Belgium)
  Leliaart. Behind our heroes of faith rises the shadow of the great man of the people, Jacob van Artevelde. Henri Pirenne in his history of Belgium (III, 404
  18 KB (2,486 words) - 20:50, 12 May 2020
• Emmanuel Mennonite Fellowship (Amanda, Ohio, USA)
  congregation started as a daughter congregation of the Haven Fellowship in Plain City, Ohio In 2017 the church was a member of the Beachy Amish Mennonite
  1 KB (211 words) - 11:29, 25 October 2019
• Kroeker, Susanna Schowalter (ca. 1879-1941)
  the outcaste Chamar and Ghasia people located on the west side of the Hasdeo River on the central part of the northern plain known historically as Hindustan
  3 KB (546 words) - 19:52, 20 August 2013
• Hoogezand-Sappemeer (Groningen, Netherlands)
  was made that the landowners were not allowed to sell their land to the "people of the Uke Walles sect." In 1642 the Ukowallists are said to have held their
  26 KB (3,643 words) - 07:34, 20 November 2016
• Society of Friends
  principle of simplicity with them. The great similarity of Mennonite and Quaker "plain" costumes in Eastern Pennsylvania suggests definite Quaker influence. Good
  34 KB (4,735 words) - 14:53, 9 April 2020
• Crowley's Ridge Mennonite Church (Advance, Missouri, USA)
  Springs Amish Mennonite Church. Cedar Springs began the outreach to "plant a plain witness in a community where there is none." Seven families, including the
  2 KB (270 words) - 14:15, 16 September 2021
• Derstine, Mary Elizabeth Kolb (1901-1971)
  compulsory for women to wear the bonnet. Due to this controversy, a group of people left to form the Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church. In the midst of this
  4 KB (574 words) - 13:13, 12 November 2019
• Amish Romance Novels
  in the nostalgic settings of rural plain Christian life. In these romance novels Amish are viewed as chaste people countering a rather worldly and technologically
  6 KB (873 words) - 10:51, 4 March 2021
• Hillsdale Mennonite Fellowship (Hillsdale, Pennsylvania, USA)
  running out of space, and it believed the best option was to establish a "plain" Anabaptist witness in another community. On 1 July 1991 eight families were
  2 KB (294 words) - 13:22, 3 November 2018
• Cumberland Valley Mennonite Church
  covering of consistent size, and requirements for men to wear the regulation plain clothing. Televisions in the home were not permitted, nor were radios for
  5 KB (559 words) - 20:33, 23 January 2018
• Methacton Mennonite Church (Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA)
  community rather than centrally located. The church has always needed to draw people from the local community, from the Worcester/Collegeville area, since there
  6 KB (692 words) - 12:20, 15 July 2020

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