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The group, formerly the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, had a continuing organized existence since 1857, when it separated from the [[Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|East Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Church]] (which later became a founding conference of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]]), led by [[Oberholtzer, John H. (1809-1895)|John H. Oberholtzer]], and called itself the <em>Evangelische Mennoniten Gemeinschaft</em> or simply the [[Evangelical Mennonite Society|Evangelical Mennonites]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><em></del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></em></del>Although the 1947 MBC General Conference voted a paragraph of the name-changing resolution which said, "One Annual Conference, the Pennsylvania, did not concur in the necessity for the present change in the church name, and was voted full and unqualified relationship to the General Conference of the body, while it continues to use the name Mennonite Brethren in Christ," the separation was in fact complete and the Pennsylvania Conference no longer sent delegates or exercised any fraternal relations to the General Conference of the United Missionary Church (UMC). Thus one of the component parts of the UMC body, which had merged with the United Mennonite Church (at a special conference on 6 November 1879 at [[Upper Milford Mennonite Church (Zionsville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Upper Milford]], Pennsylvania, when it had nine congregations with 175 members) to form the [[Evangelical United Mennonites|Evangelical United Mennonites]], withdrew after 68 years of collaboration and reverted to independent status. The basic causes for the separation in 1947 were differences in polity and administration, but there was apparently also a doctrinal difference. The Pennsylvania Conference had gradually accepted a degree of Calvinist theology, particularly the doctrine of eternal security, whereas the rest of the United Missionary Church continued on its original Wesleyan [[Arminianism|Arminian]] basis, with the emphasis on the "second work of grace." However, for some years the fellowship had become increasingly less close, with practically no interchange of ministers. The Pennsylvania Conference had long had its own independent foreign and home mission boards and Bible school.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church of Pennsylvania (became the Bible Fellowship Church in 1959) was the body which continued the denominational name after the General Conference of the [[Mennonite Brethren in Christ|Mennonite Brethren in Christ]] (MBC) on 3 November 1947 changed its name to [[United Missionary Church|United Missionary Church]]. The group, formerly the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, had a continuing organized existence since 1857, when it separated from the [[Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|East Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Church]] (which later became a founding conference of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]]), led by [[Oberholtzer, John H. (1809-1895)|John H. Oberholtzer]], and called itself the <em>Evangelische Mennoniten Gemeinschaft</em> or simply the [[Evangelical Mennonite Society|Evangelical Mennonites]]. Although the 1947 MBC General Conference voted a paragraph of the name-changing resolution which said, "One Annual Conference, the Pennsylvania, did not concur in the necessity for the present change in the church name, and was voted full and unqualified relationship to the General Conference of the body, while it continues to use the name Mennonite Brethren in Christ," the separation was in fact complete and the Pennsylvania Conference no longer sent delegates or exercised any fraternal relations to the General Conference of the United Missionary Church (UMC). Thus one of the component parts of the UMC body, which had merged with the United Mennonite Church (at a special conference on 6 November 1879 at [[Upper Milford Mennonite Church (Zionsville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Upper Milford]], Pennsylvania, when it had nine congregations with 175 members) to form the [[Evangelical United Mennonites|Evangelical United Mennonites]], withdrew after 68 years of collaboration and reverted to independent status. The basic causes for the separation in 1947 were differences in polity and administration, but there was apparently also a doctrinal difference. The Pennsylvania Conference had gradually accepted a degree of Calvinist theology, particularly the doctrine of eternal security, whereas the rest of the United Missionary Church continued on its original Wesleyan [[Arminianism|Arminian]] basis, with the emphasis on the "second work of grace." However, for some years the fellowship had become increasingly less close, with practically no interchange of ministers. The Pennsylvania Conference had long had its own independent foreign and home mission boards and Bible school.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:199%20Annual%20Conference%201913%201.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Annual Conference at Reading, Pennsylvania, 1913.<br /></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:199%20Annual%20Conference%201913%201.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Annual Conference at Reading, Pennsylvania, 1913.<br /></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Photo courtesy Bible Fellowship Church Historical Committee.'']]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Photo courtesy Bible Fellowship Church Historical Committee.'']]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the exception of the <em>Eastern Gospel Banner</em> (published sporadically 1917-1924), the Conference never had its own periodical organ, but beginning with 7 March 1953 it had a four-page weekly news supplement to the <em>Gospel Herald </em>published by the [[Union Gospel Press (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)|Union Gospel Press]] at [[Cleveland (Ohio, USA)|Cleveland]], [[Ohio (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">State</del>)|Ohio]]. The Conference had a friendly relation to this publishing house and its periodical, the publishing house having been founded by a leading minister of the Conference, [[Musselman, William Brunner (1860-1938)|W. B. Musselman]]. The Conference long used its Sunday-school helps. Dependence on the Union Gospel Press ultimately faded. In 2010 the denomination published a periodical entitled <em>Fellowship News</em>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the exception of the <em>Eastern Gospel Banner</em> (published sporadically 1917-1924), the Conference never had its own periodical organ, but beginning with 7 March 1953 it had a four-page weekly news supplement to the <em>Gospel Herald </em>published by the [[Union Gospel Press (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)|Union Gospel Press]] at [[Cleveland (Ohio, USA)|Cleveland]], [[Ohio (<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">USA</ins>)|Ohio]]. The Conference had a friendly relation to this publishing house and its periodical, the publishing house having been founded by a leading minister of the Conference, [[Musselman, William Brunner (1860-1938)|W. B. Musselman]]. The Conference long used its Sunday-school helps. Dependence on the Union Gospel Press ultimately faded. In 2010 the denomination published a periodical entitled <em>Fellowship News</em>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Following its separation and assumption of a new name, the Bible Fellowship Church began a process of re-thinking what had been called its "Doctrines and Disciplines." During the 1960s, the church reconsidered its doctrinal statements, giving explicit expression to the Reformed theology which had been growing within it. During the 1970s, the church redesigned its leadership structure to move away from the central authority of a district superintendent to the shared leadership principles inherent in the biblical teaching of rule by elders. In the 1990s, the church re-examined its statements with regard to lifestyle issues to bring them in line with what it considered to be proper biblical positions.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While many changes occurred during these decades, what remained constant was an aggressive international and domestic mission program. The church continued to support missionaries around the world. The church planting ministry continued to begin new churches in America. In recent years, the church included a focus on cross-cultural ministry among ethnic groups in America. The church has become international with the addition of a congregation in [[Mexico|Mexico]]. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>While many changes occurred during these decades, what remained constant was an aggressive international and domestic mission program. The church continued to support missionaries around the world. The church planting ministry continued to begin new churches in America. In recent years, the church included a focus on cross-cultural ministry among ethnic groups in America. The church has become international with the addition of a congregation in [[Mexico|Mexico]]. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church of Pennsylvania (became the Bible Fellowship Church in 1959) was the body which continued the denominational name after the General Conference of the [[Mennonite Brethren in Christ|Mennonite Brethren in Christ]] (MBC) on 3 November 1947 changed its name to [[United Missionary Church|United Missionary Church]]. The group, formerly the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, had a continuing organized existence since 1857, when it separated from the [[Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|East Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Church]] (which later became a founding conference of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]]), led by [[Oberholtzer, John H. (1809-1895)|John H. Oberholtzer]], and called itself the <em>Evangelische Mennoniten Gemeinschaft</em> or simply the [[Evangelical Mennonite Society|Evangelical Mennonites]]<em>. </em>Although the 1947 MBC General Conference voted a paragraph of the name-changing resolution which said, "One Annual Conference, the Pennsylvania, did not concur in the necessity for the present change in the church name, and was voted full and unqualified relationship to the General Conference of the body, while it continues to use the name Mennonite Brethren in Christ," the separation was in fact complete and the Pennsylvania Conference no longer sent delegates or exercised any fraternal relations to the General Conference of the United Missionary Church (UMC). Thus one of the component parts of the UMC body, which had merged with the United Mennonite Church (at a special conference on 6 November 1879 at [[Upper Milford Mennonite Church (Zionsville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Upper Milford]], Pennsylvania, when it had nine congregations with 175 members) to form the [[Evangelical United Mennonites|Evangelical United Mennonites]], withdrew after 68 years of collaboration and reverted to independent status. The basic causes for the separation in 1947 were differences in polity and administration, but there was apparently also a doctrinal difference. The Pennsylvania Conference had gradually accepted a degree of Calvinist theology, particularly the doctrine of eternal security, whereas the rest of the United Missionary Church continued on its original Wesleyan [[Arminianism|Arminian]] basis, with the emphasis on the "second work of grace." However, for some years the fellowship had become increasingly less close, with practically no interchange of ministers. The Pennsylvania Conference had long had its own independent foreign and home mission boards and Bible school.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Photo courtesy Bible Fellowship </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At the time of the separation in 1947 the Pennsylvania Conference had 38 congregations (officially called "appointments"), each with a responsible pastor, organized into two districts, Allentown and Bethlehem, each with a [[District Superintendent|district superintendent]], with 2,340 and 2,177 baptized members respectively. In addition to these there were six appointments under the Home Mission Society and 22 missionaries, with 88 additional members, for a total of 4,605 members. In 1955 the Conference had 4,635 members. All of the congregations were in Eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] except three in New Jersey ([[Jersey City Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA) |Jersey City]], [[Newark Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (Newark, New Jersey, USA)|Newark]], and [[Bible Fellowship Church of Staten Island (Staten Island, New York, USA)|Staten Island]]), which had a total of 337 members.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Church Historical Committee.'']] The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church of Pennsylvania (became the Bible Fellowship Church in 1959) was the body which continued the denominational name after the General Conference of the [[Mennonite Brethren in Christ|Mennonite Brethren in Christ]] (MBC) on 3 November 1947 changed its name to [[United Missionary Church|United Missionary Church]]. The group, formerly the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, had a continuing organized existence since 1857, when it separated from the [[Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|East Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Church]] (which later became a founding conference of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]]), led by [[Oberholtzer, John H. (1809-1895)|John H. Oberholtzer]], and called itself the <em>Evangelische Mennoniten Gemeinschaft</em> or simply the [[Evangelical Mennonite Society|Evangelical Mennonites]]<em>. </em>Although the 1947 MBC General Conference voted a paragraph of the name-changing resolution which said, "One Annual Conference, the Pennsylvania, did not concur in the necessity for the present change in the church name, and was voted full and unqualified relationship to the General Conference of the body, while it continues to use the name Mennonite Brethren in Christ," the separation was in fact complete and the Pennsylvania Conference no longer sent delegates or exercised any fraternal relations to the General Conference of the United Missionary Church (UMC). Thus one of the component parts of the UMC body, which had merged with the United Mennonite Church (at a special conference on 6 November 1879 at [[Upper Milford Mennonite Church (Zionsville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Upper Milford]], Pennsylvania, when it had nine congregations with 175 members) to form the [[Evangelical United Mennonites|Evangelical United Mennonites]], withdrew after 68 years of collaboration and reverted to independent status. The basic causes for the separation in 1947 were differences in polity and administration, but there was apparently also a doctrinal difference. The Pennsylvania Conference had gradually accepted a degree of Calvinist theology, particularly the doctrine of eternal security, whereas the rest of the United Missionary Church continued on its original Wesleyan [[Arminianism|Arminian]] basis, with the emphasis on the "second work of grace." However, for some years the fellowship had become increasingly less close, with practically no interchange of ministers. The Pennsylvania Conference had long had its own independent foreign and home mission boards and Bible school.</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Photo courtesy Bible Fellowship Church Historical Committee. '']] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>At the time of the separation in 1947 the Pennsylvania Conference had 38 congregations (officially called "appointments"), each with a responsible pastor, organized into two districts, Allentown and Bethlehem, each with a [[District Superintendent|district superintendent]], with 2,340 and 2,177 baptized members respectively. In addition to these there were six appointments under the Home Mission Society and 22 missionaries, with 88 additional members, for a total of 4,605 members. In 1955 the Conference had 4,635 members. All of the congregations were in Eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] except three in New Jersey ([[Jersey City Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA) |Jersey City]], [[Newark Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (Newark, New Jersey, USA)|Newark]], and [[Bible Fellowship Church of Staten Island (Staten Island, New York, USA)|Staten Island]]), which had a total of 337 members.</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Conference had an extensive series of subsidiary organizations: Board of Foreign Missions (which supported Mennonite Brethren in Christ missionaries under other boards but operated no foreign work itself), the Board of Home Missions and the Home Missionary Society, the Board of Publications and Printing, the Board of Education, which operated the [[Berean Bible School (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Berean Bible School]] in [[Allentown (Pennsylvania, USA)|Allentown, Pennsylvania]] after 1950, the Beneficiary Society, the Home and Farm at Center Valley, Pennsylvania, the Laymen's Benevolent Society, the Ministers' Retirement Fund, the Menno Youth General Committee, and several annual [[Camp Meetings|Camp Meetings]], Sunday School Conventions, and an annual Ministerial Convention.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Conference had an extensive series of subsidiary organizations: Board of Foreign Missions (which supported Mennonite Brethren in Christ missionaries under other boards but operated no foreign work itself), the Board of Home Missions and the Home Missionary Society, the Board of Publications and Printing, the Board of Education, which operated the [[Berean Bible School (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Berean Bible School]] in [[Allentown (Pennsylvania, USA)|Allentown, Pennsylvania]] after 1950, the Beneficiary Society, the Home and Farm at Center Valley, Pennsylvania, the Laymen's Benevolent Society, the Ministers' Retirement Fund, the Menno Youth General Committee, and several annual [[Camp Meetings|Camp Meetings]], Sunday School Conventions, and an annual Ministerial Convention.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:199%20Annual%20Conference%201913%201.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Annual </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:199%20Annual%20Conference%201913%201.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Annual Conference at Reading, Pennsylvania, 1913.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br /></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Church Historical Committee. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Church Historical Committee.'']] The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church of Pennsylvania (became the Bible Fellowship Church in 1959) was the body which continued the denominational name after the General Conference of the [[Mennonite Brethren in Christ|Mennonite Brethren in Christ]] (MBC) on 3 November 1947 changed its name to [[United Missionary Church|United Missionary Church]]. The group, formerly the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, had a continuing organized existence since 1857, when it separated from the [[Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|East Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Church]] (which later became a founding conference of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]]), led by [[Oberholtzer, John H. (1809-1895)|John H. Oberholtzer]], and called itself the <em>Evangelische Mennoniten Gemeinschaft</em> or simply the [[Evangelical Mennonite Society|Evangelical Mennonites]]<em>. </em>Although the 1947 MBC General Conference voted a paragraph of the name-changing resolution which said, "One Annual Conference, the Pennsylvania, did not concur in the necessity for the present change in the church name, and was voted full and unqualified relationship to the General Conference of the body, while it continues to use the name Mennonite Brethren in Christ," the separation was in fact complete and the Pennsylvania Conference no longer sent delegates or exercised any fraternal relations to the General Conference of the United Missionary Church (UMC). Thus one of the component parts of the UMC body, which had merged with the United Mennonite Church (at a special conference on 6 November 1879 at [[Upper Milford Mennonite Church (Zionsville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Upper Milford]], Pennsylvania, when it had nine congregations with 175 members) to form the [[Evangelical United Mennonites|Evangelical United Mennonites]], withdrew after 68 years of collaboration and reverted to independent status. The basic causes for the separation in 1947 were differences in polity and administration, but there was apparently also a doctrinal difference. The Pennsylvania Conference had gradually accepted a degree of Calvinist theology, particularly the doctrine of eternal security, whereas the rest of the United Missionary Church continued on its original Wesleyan [[Arminianism|Arminian]] basis, with the emphasis on the "second work of grace." However, for some years the fellowship had become increasingly less close, with practically no interchange of ministers. The Pennsylvania Conference had long had its own independent foreign and home mission boards and Bible school.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'']] The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church of Pennsylvania (became the Bible Fellowship Church in 1959) was the body which continued the denominational name after the General Conference of the [[Mennonite Brethren in Christ|Mennonite Brethren in Christ]] (MBC) on 3 November 1947 changed its name to [[United Missionary Church|United Missionary Church]]. The group, formerly the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, had a continuing organized existence since 1857, when it separated from the [[Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|East Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Church]] (which later became a founding conference of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]]), led by [[Oberholtzer, John H. (1809-1895)|John H. Oberholtzer]], and called itself the <em>Evangelische Mennoniten Gemeinschaft</em> or simply the [[Evangelical Mennonite Society|Evangelical Mennonites]]<em>. </em>Although the 1947 MBC General Conference voted a paragraph of the name-changing resolution which said, "One Annual Conference, the Pennsylvania, did not concur in the necessity for the present change in the church name, and was voted full and unqualified relationship to the General Conference of the body, while it continues to use the name Mennonite Brethren in Christ," the separation was in fact complete and the Pennsylvania Conference no longer sent delegates or exercised any fraternal relations to the General Conference of the United Missionary Church (UMC). Thus one of the component parts of the UMC body, which had merged with the United Mennonite Church (at a special conference on 6 November 1879 at [[Upper Milford Mennonite Church (Zionsville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Upper Milford]], Pennsylvania, when it had nine congregations with 175 members) to form the [[Evangelical United Mennonites|Evangelical United Mennonites]], withdrew after 68 years of collaboration and reverted to independent status. The basic causes for the separation in 1947 were differences in polity and administration, but there was apparently also a doctrinal difference. The Pennsylvania Conference had gradually accepted a degree of Calvinist theology, particularly the doctrine of eternal security, whereas the rest of the United Missionary Church continued on its original Wesleyan [[Arminianism|Arminian]] basis, with the emphasis on the "second work of grace." However, for some years the fellowship had become increasingly less close, with practically no interchange of ministers. The Pennsylvania Conference had long had its own independent foreign and home mission boards and Bible school.</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Reading-Preachers-26.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ pastors, </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Reading-Preachers-26.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ pastors, </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>ca. 1884-1885 at Reading, Pennsylvania. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>ca. 1884-1885 at Reading, Pennsylvania. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Photo courtesy Bible Fellowship Church Historical Committee. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Photo courtesy Bible Fellowship Church Historical Committee. '']] At the time of the separation in 1947 the Pennsylvania Conference had 38 congregations (officially called "appointments"), each with a responsible pastor, organized into two districts, Allentown and Bethlehem, each with a [[District Superintendent|district superintendent]], with 2,340 and 2,177 baptized members respectively. In addition to these there were six appointments under the Home Mission Society and 22 missionaries, with 88 additional members, for a total of 4,605 members. In 1955 the Conference had 4,635 members. All of the congregations were in Eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] except three in New Jersey ([[Jersey City Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA) |Jersey City]], [[Newark Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (Newark, New Jersey, USA)|Newark]], and [[Bible Fellowship Church of Staten Island (Staten Island, New York, USA)|Staten Island]]), which had a total of 337 members.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'']] At the time of the separation in 1947 the Pennsylvania Conference had 38 congregations (officially called "appointments"), each with a responsible pastor, organized into two districts, Allentown and Bethlehem, each with a [[District Superintendent|district superintendent]], with 2,340 and 2,177 baptized members respectively. In addition to these there were six appointments under the Home Mission Society and 22 missionaries, with 88 additional members, for a total of 4,605 members. In 1955 the Conference had 4,635 members. All of the congregations were in Eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] except three in New Jersey ([[Jersey City Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (Jersey City, New Jersey, USA) |Jersey City]], [[Newark Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (Newark, New Jersey, USA)|Newark]], and [[Bible Fellowship Church of Staten Island (Staten Island, New York, USA)|Staten Island]]), which had a total of 337 members.</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Conference had an extensive series of subsidiary organizations: Board of Foreign Missions (which supported Mennonite Brethren in Christ missionaries under other boards but operated no foreign work itself), the Board of Home Missions and the Home Missionary Society, the Board of Publications and Printing, the Board of Education, which operated the [[Berean Bible School (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Berean Bible School]] in [[Allentown (Pennsylvania, USA)|Allentown, Pennsylvania]] after 1950, the Beneficiary Society, the Home and Farm at Center Valley, Pennsylvania, the Laymen's Benevolent Society, the Ministers' Retirement Fund, the Menno Youth General Committee, and several annual [[Camp Meetings|Camp Meetings]], Sunday School Conventions, and an annual Ministerial Convention.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Conference had an extensive series of subsidiary organizations: Board of Foreign Missions (which supported Mennonite Brethren in Christ missionaries under other boards but operated no foreign work itself), the Board of Home Missions and the Home Missionary Society, the Board of Publications and Printing, the Board of Education, which operated the [[Berean Bible School (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Berean Bible School]] in [[Allentown (Pennsylvania, USA)|Allentown, Pennsylvania]] after 1950, the Beneficiary Society, the Home and Farm at Center Valley, Pennsylvania, the Laymen's Benevolent Society, the Ministers' Retirement Fund, the Menno Youth General Committee, and several annual [[Camp Meetings|Camp Meetings]], Sunday School Conventions, and an annual Ministerial Convention.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><em>Verhandlungen (1859-1895): proceedings of the Evangelical Mennonite Society, also known as the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, now known as the Bible Fellowship Church</em>. Coopersburg, PA : Historical Committee of the Bible Fellowship Church, 1989.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><em>Verhandlungen (1859-1895): proceedings of the Evangelical Mennonite Society, also known as the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, now known as the Bible Fellowship Church</em>. Coopersburg, PA : Historical Committee of the Bible Fellowship Church, 1989.</div></td></tr>
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