Lame Deer Mennonite Church (Lame Deer, Montana, USA)
Petter Memorial Mennonite Church (General Conference Mennonite Church), formerly called the Lame Deer Mennonite Mission Church, is located in the Lame Deer Valley, Rosebud County, Montana, on the Tongue River Indian Reservation, the home of the Northern Cheyenne Indians. The church was built in 1908 by P. A. Kliewer, who carried on the work from Busby until 1910. Other workers were Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wiebe 1911-15, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Neufeld 1915-16, Mr. and Mrs. Rodolphe and Marie Petter 1916-47, and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Habegger (d. 1956), who assisted from Busby from 1946, then moved to Lame Deer in 1949. Marie Petter continued to help in the work after her retirement. Petter died on 6 January 1947, having served 25 years among the Southern Cheyennes and 30 years among the Northern Cheyennes. Native pastors of this church have been Frank Littlewolf and Milton Whiteman (d. 1958). By the late 1950s over 235 had been baptized since the beginning of the work, with a membership of about 75 in 1947. At this time both the Cheyenne and English languages were used in the work here. Mr. and Mrs. Donavin Diller had been missionaries at Lame Deer since March 1957.
| Author(s) | Alfred Habegger |
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| Date Published | 1959 |
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Habegger, Alfred. "Lame Deer Mennonite Church (Lame Deer, Montana, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Lame_Deer_Mennonite_Church_(Lame_Deer,_Montana,_USA)&oldid=67024.
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Habegger, Alfred. (1959). Lame Deer Mennonite Church (Lame Deer, Montana, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Lame_Deer_Mennonite_Church_(Lame_Deer,_Montana,_USA)&oldid=67024.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 155. All rights reserved.
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