Bellefontaine Community Fellowship (Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA)

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The Bellefontaine Community Fellowship, Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA, began as a Sunday school class in the 1970s at the Oak Grove Mennonite Church in West Liberty for persons with intellectual challenges. Keith and Thelma Matthews gave leadership to this outreach that developed into a house church and eventually moved to a rented facility in August 1983. The West Liberty churches and the Ohio Mennonite Conference supported the effort as a church plant.

In its last years, the congregation met at the Logan County Friendly Seniors Center in Bellefontaine.

In 2000, Bellefontaine Community Fellowship merged with the Jubilee Mennonite Church; the merged congregation continued under the Jubilee Mennonite Church name.

Bibliography

"[Annual Conference] Minutes." Central District Conference. 21-23 June 2018.

"Jubilee Mennonite Church." Central District Conference Reporter (September 2018): 3-4.

Additional Information

Meeting Address: 934 South Main Street, Bellefontaine, Ohio

Phone:

Website:

Denominational Affiliations: Central District Conference

Mennonite Church USA

Pastoral Leaders at Bellefontaine Community Fellowship

Name Years
of Service
Keith Matthews 1983-1989
Lay Leadership 1989-1991
Philip R. Blough 1991-1996?
John R. Kesler 1996?-2000

Membership at Bellefontaine Community Fellowship

Year Membership
1990 45
2000 50


Author(s) Samuel J Steiner
Date Published March 2023

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Steiner, Samuel J. "Bellefontaine Community Fellowship (Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. March 2023. Web. 18 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bellefontaine_Community_Fellowship_(Bellefontaine,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=175015.

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Steiner, Samuel J. (March 2023). Bellefontaine Community Fellowship (Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bellefontaine_Community_Fellowship_(Bellefontaine,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=175015.



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