Paradise Mennonite Church (Hagerstown, Maryland, USA)

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Paradise Mennonite Church, Hagerstown, Maryland in July 1949.
Source: Mennonite Community Photograph Collection, The Congregation (HM4-134 Box 1 photo 010.1-20).
Mennonite Church USA Archives, Goshen, Indiana.

Paradise Mennonite Church (Washington-Franklin Mennonite Conference), located near Reid, Maryland, four miles north of Hagerstown. Services were first conducted in a schoolhouse near by in 1892-97, when a brick church was erected on the southeast corner of the Christian Eshleman farm, who also granted the land. In 1925 the building was enlarged and again in 1947. The ministers of the Miller Mennonite Church, of which it is a branch, have pastoral oversight. Irvin S. Shank was the minister in charge in 1956.

In 2014 the church was led by Bishop Enos Rudolph, Minister Norman G. Martin, and Deacon Wilmer R. Eby. The congregation had 147 members.

The congregation was originally a Mennonite Church (MC) congregation but later joined the Washington-Franklin Mennonite Conference.

Bibliography

Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg, VA: Christian Light Publications, Inc., 2014: 141.

Additional Information

Phone: 301-739-1709


Author(s) John D. Risser
Richard D. Thiessen
Date Published March 2014

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Risser, John D. and Richard D. Thiessen. "Paradise Mennonite Church (Hagerstown, Maryland, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. March 2014. Web. 24 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Paradise_Mennonite_Church_(Hagerstown,_Maryland,_USA)&oldid=117169.

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Risser, John D. and Richard D. Thiessen. (March 2014). Paradise Mennonite Church (Hagerstown, Maryland, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Paradise_Mennonite_Church_(Hagerstown,_Maryland,_USA)&oldid=117169.



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