Gar Creek Mennonite Church (Gar Creek, Indiana, USA)
The Gar Creek Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church) is now extinct. About 1854 Mennonites first settled at Gar Creek, a village 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Among them Michael Rothgeb, Abram and Jacob Bixler, John Federspiel, Hezekiah Rothgeb, and Nancy Lowery. Services were held in Bethel Chapel, a union building. There was no resident minister. Eli Stoffer, a minister in the Hudson (Indiana) congregation, and others conducted occasional services. In 1900 there were 20 members. After the establishing of the Fort Wayne Mission in 1903, the mission workers assumed responsibility for the services at Gar Creek. On 22 October 1905 the building was rededicated for church services. Regular services were discontinued about 1910.
| Author(s) | Hubert L Osborne |
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| Date Published | 1956 |
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Osborne, Hubert L. "Gar Creek Mennonite Church (Gar Creek, Indiana, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 16 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gar_Creek_Mennonite_Church_(Gar_Creek,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=87660.
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Osborne, Hubert L. (1956). Gar Creek Mennonite Church (Gar Creek, Indiana, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gar_Creek_Mennonite_Church_(Gar_Creek,_Indiana,_USA)&oldid=87660.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 439. All rights reserved.
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