Carroll Community Worship Center (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA)
Henry Easterday and Lee Sailors of the Fort Wayne Mennonite Mission established a Sunday school in 1933 in a schoolhouse in Eel River Township, Allen County, Indiana. The Leo Mennonite Church sponsored the outreach.
Joseph S. Neuhouser, a minister in the Leo congregation, led the new Anderson Mennonite Church, which became an independent congregation in 1940.
In 1949, the congregation launched the New Bethel Mennonite Church near Ossian.
For a time, the Anderson congregation met in an abandoned Baptist church on Carroll Road. In 1957, the congregation dedicated a new church building.
In about 1998, the Anderson Mennonite Church changed its name to Carroll Community Worship Center.
In 2015, the Carroll Community Worship Center congregation withdrew from the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. This move was part of a larger realignment of Mennonite congregations in the 2010s that were formerly part of Mennonite Church USA. These congregations were unhappy with Mennonite Church USA's failure to take stronger disciplinary actions against area conferences and congregations that expressed openness to the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons. Carroll Community Worship Center became part of the Evana Network.
Bibliography
"Anderson." Gospel Herald 59, no. 13 (5 April 1966): 296.
Neuhouser, Jos. S. "Anderson Mennonite Church." Gospel Herald 33, no. 48 (27 February 1941): 1018.
Preheim, Rich. In Pursuit of Faithfulness: Conviction, Conflict, and Compromise in Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. Harrisonburg, Va.: Herald Press, 2016: 308.
Wenger, John Christian. The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1961: 226.
Additional Information
Address: 4506 Carroll Road, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46818
Phone: 260-637-2309
Website: https://www.carrollcommunity.org/
Denominational Affiliations: Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Until 2015)
Mennonite Church USA (Until 2015)
Evana Network (2016- )
Pastoral Leaders at Carroll Community Worship Center
| Name | Years of Service |
|---|---|
| Joseph S. Neuhouser (1896-1962) | 1933-1962 |
| Oney L. Hathaway (1914-1997) | 1961-1963 |
| Earl W. Hartman (1914-1995) | 1964-1967 |
| Visiting ministers | 1967-1972 |
| Orville J. Crossgrove (1919-1995) | 1972?-1978? |
| Lay leadership | 1978?-1980? |
| Roger R. Miller (1935-2015) | 1980?-1987? |
| Lay leadership | 1987-1989 |
| Verlin Haarer | 1989- |
| Keith Haarer (Youth) | 2020?- |
Carroll Community Worship Center Membership
| Year | Members |
|---|---|
| 1941 | 50 |
| 1950 | 67 |
| 1960 | 37 |
| 1970 | 37 |
| 1980 | 45 |
| 1990 | 58 |
| 2000 | 40 |
| 2009 | 59 |
Original Mennonite Encyclopedia Article
By Joseph S. Neuhouser. Copied by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 119. All rights reserved.
The Anderson Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church) is located on the Carroll Road, ten miles northwest of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The first Mennonite Sunday school in the area was conducted by Henry Easterday and Lee Sailors of the Fort Wayne Mennonite mission in May 1933. The work was sponsored by the Leo congregation until its organization as a separate church in 1940. The building used for worship was an abandoned Baptist church.
The first pastor, Joseph S. Neuhouser, ministered to the spiritual needs of the congregation from its beginning. The membership in 1953 was 15. The congregation also sponsored a mission Sunday school fifteen miles south of Fort Wayne, near Ossian, Indiana.
| Author(s) | Samuel J Steiner |
|---|---|
| Date Published | April 2024 |
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