County Line Mennonite Church (Dalton, Ohio, USA)
The County Line Mennonite Church (Ohio Wisler Mennonite) is located near Dalton, Wayne County, Ohio. The church was organized in 1889. It was originally an Old Order Mennonite congregation belonging to the Ohio and Indiana Conference. The congregation also worshiped in the Chestnut Ridge Mennonite Church. The present church was built in 1891, when the Pleasant View Mennonite Church (with whom they alternated services) began to build a new building, on which project they could not agree.
In the spring of 1953 a group withdrew from the Chestnut Ridge-County Line congregation because the congregation refused to begin Sunday school, prayer meetings, and mission work. This withdrawing group then worshiped every Sunday at the Chestnut Ridge meetinghouse, while the continuing Chestnut Ridge-County Line Old Order (Wisler) congregation worshiped every Sunday at the County Line meetinghouse. The withdrawing group was received into the Virginia Mennonite Conference.
In 2014 the church had 88 members and was a member of the Ohio Wisler Mennonites. The ministerial team included Bishops Alvin Z. Oberholtzer, Jr. and David VanPelt, Ministers Elvin Neuenschwander and Ernest Steiner, and Deacons Clarence Eberly and David Steiner.
Bibliography
Mennonite Church Directory 2014. Harrisonburg, VA: Christian Light Publications, Inc., 2014: 118.
Additional Information
Phone: 330-828-2096
Denominational Affiliation:
Ohio Wisler Mennonite Churches
| Author(s) | Harold Bauman |
|---|---|
| Richard D. Thiessen | |
| Date Published | May 2014 |
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Bauman, Harold and Richard D. Thiessen. "County Line Mennonite Church (Dalton, Ohio, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. May 2014. Web. 16 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=County_Line_Mennonite_Church_(Dalton,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=131588.
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Bauman, Harold and Richard D. Thiessen. (May 2014). County Line Mennonite Church (Dalton, Ohio, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=County_Line_Mennonite_Church_(Dalton,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=131588.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 725. All rights reserved.
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