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• Hutterian Brethren (Hutterische Brüder)
  century. Table 1: Moravia, 1529-1622 (According to E. Crous, Mennonitisches Lexikon III, 420-422. For location of the Bruderhofs see the numbers 1-85 on Map
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• Russia
  8% of the population was ethnic Russian, with 3.8% Tatars, 2.0% Ukrainian, 1.1% Chuvash, 0.9% Chechen, and 0.8% Armenians. The Russian Orthodox Church is
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• Canada
  non-Christian religions, the largest of which was Islam (2.0%), followed by Judaism (1.1%). =1990 Article= Canada, once known as British North America, has been home
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• Paraguay
  89.6% of the population is Roman Catholic, 6.2% is Evangelical Christian, 1.1% is other Christian, and 0.6% practice indigenous religions. The Tropic of
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• Manitoba (Canada)
  desired to come to Manitoba. These "privileges" were briefly the following: (1) complete exemption from military service; (2) a free grant of land in Manitoba;
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• Mennonite Church (MC)
  Communities in America, 1683-1790, The Mennonite Experience in America, vol. 1. Scottdale, Pa.; Herald Press, 1985. Mennonite World Handbook. Strasbourg,
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• Old Order Amish
  Anderson 1; Ontario 5, with 260(?) members: Perth and Waterloo 3, Elgin 1, Grey 1; Michigan 5, with 226 members: St. Joseph 1, Hillsdale 3, Oscoda 1; Delaware
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• Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)
  3; Colorado, 1; Florida, 1; Idaho, 1; Kansas, 14; Louisiana, 1; Michigan, 2; Missouri, 1; North Dakota, 2; Ohio, 1; Oklahoma, 3; Oregon, 1; British Columbia
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• Ontario (Canada)
  common conference. In 1955 they had 18 congregations and a membership of about 1,800. In 1955 a similar group split off in the Markham and South Cayuga districts
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• Virginia (USA)
  Presbyterian 3%, Lutheran 2%, and Other Christian 28%); Buddhism 1%; Hinduism 1%; Judaism 1%; Islam 0.5%; and Unaffiliated 18%. Virginia, known since the
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• Ukraine
  mean "cut off from something in one’s possession" (Slavonic Encyclopedia: 1, 325). The story of Ukraine consists of chapters of nationalism, oppression
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• Minnesota (USA)
  Protestant - 1%; Pentecostal - 1%; Episcopalian/Anglican - 1%; Jewish - 1%; Non-Denominational - 1%; Congregational/UCC - 1%; Jehovah's Witness - 1%; Refused
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• Missouri (USA)
  1957, 1; Seymour (Webster), 1968, 3; Dogwood (Douglas), 1969, 1; Marshfield (Webster), 1970, 1; Windsor (Henry), 1975, 1; LaPlata (Macon), 1976, 1; Dixon
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• Lehrerleut (section Census of Lehrerleut Bruderhofs -- 1 July 1957)
  1948 90 Peter D. Hofer Rockport Pendroy 1948 127 Joseph J. Waldner Total     1,043  
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• Oklahoma (USA)
  Oklahoma was reported to be as follows: 14.5% German, 13.1% American, 11.8% Irish, 9.6% English, 8.1% African American, and 11.4% Native American, including
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• Lietboecxken, tracterende van den Offer des Heeren, Een
  Biestkens. There are eleven editions known of the (Offer and) Lietboecxken: (1) 1562-63; (2) 1566, n.p.; (3) 1567, n.p. (apparently printed by Biestkens);
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• Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
  204-669-6575 Web site: Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Notes: 1. The treasurer position, later changed to chief financial officer, was originally
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• Kansas (USA)
  Mennonite 19 and 3,145 (14 — 1,917); Evangelical Mennonite Brethren, 1 and 133 (2 — 297; Evangelical Mennonite Church, 1 and 222 (1 — 143); Conservative Mennonites
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• Belgium
  Catholic Church, 3.54% identified themselves as Muslim, and Protestants comprised 1.4% of the population. Estimates indicated that approximately 15% of the population
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• New York (USA)
  Churches: 1, 41; (7) Beachy Amish Mennonites: 1, 26; (8) Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship: 1, 20; (9) Franconia Mennonite Conference (MC): 1, 17; (10)
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• Church of the Brethren
  sinful amusements (1 Thessalonians 5:22; 1 Peter 2:11; Romans 12:17); extravagant and immodest dress (1 Timothy 2:8-10; 1 Peter 3:1-6). Labors earnestly
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• Chortitza Mennonite Settlement (Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  the total national economic pattern. These three steps are represented by (1) the years of settlement, (2) 1820-60, and (3) 1860-1917 The solicitude of
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• Argentina
  population.  In 2010, 92.1% of Argentines were Christian (the vast majority being Roman Catholic), 3.1% Agnostic, 1.9% Muslim, 1.3% Jewish, 0.9% atheist
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• Colorado (USA) (section 1955 Mennonite Encyclopedia Article, Vol. 1, p. 646)
  Non-Hispanic White Alone); 4.0% Black or African American; 1.1% American Indian and Alaska Native; 2.8% Asian; 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; 7.2%
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• Iowa (USA)
  Pentecostal - 2%; Assemblies of God - 1%; Church of Christ - 1%; Non-Denominational - 1%; Other Evangelical - 1%; Other - 6%; Refused to Answer - 5%. In
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• Abbotsford (British Columbia, Canada)
  Clearbrook, incorporated in 1892) and Abbotsford were officially amalgamated on 1 January 1995, as the City of Abbotsford. The first Mennonite settlers arrived
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• Anabaptism
  carried out by Harold S. Bender and others, Robert Friedmann asserts in volume 1 of the Mennonite Encyclopedia that Anabaptists were "nearer to the spirit of
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• Kentucky (USA)
  43); Ohio Mennonite Conference (1, 25); Virginia Mennonite Conference (1, 10); Washington-Franklin Mennonite Conference (1, 13). One other congregation was
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• Hungary
  (37.1% Roman Catholic, 11.1% Hungarian Reformed, 2.2% Lutheran, 1.8% Greek Catholic), 0.1% were Jewish, 0.06% were Muslim, 16.7% were irreligious, 1.5%
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• India
  percent); Sikhs, ca. 19.5 million (1.9 percent); others, ca. 18.5 million (1.8 percent); unspecified, ca. 1 million (0.1 percent). Mennonite and Mennonite-related
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• Lamist Mennonite Church (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  also Amsterdam; Singel Mennonite Church Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1863): 1-42; (1898), 1-54. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols
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• Mennonite Church USA
  Mennonite Church USA was born 1 February 2002, merging the U.S. congregations of the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) and Mennonite Church (MC)
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• Ekaterinoslav Guberniya (Ukraine)
  province were as follows: Bergtal (1836), 5 villages; Tchernoglas (1860), 1 village; Borozenko (1865), 7 villages; Brazol (1868), 4 villages; Yazykovo
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• General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)
  the world (Romans 12:1, 2; Ephesians 4:22-24), and the practice of Scriptural church discipline (Matthew 18:15-17; Galatians 6:1). "The General Conference
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• Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
  womb (Luke 1:41), on the example of circumcision in the Old Covenant, on the baptism of whole families by the apostles (Acts 10:48; Acts 16:33; 1 Corinthians
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• Infant Baptism
  recognized today almost unanimously by theologians. Even Schleiermacher (p. 1) said openly, "All traces of infant baptism presumably found in the New Testament
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• Winkler Bible Institute (Winkler, Manitoba, Canada)
  1962-1964 2 Henry Dick 1963-1964 1 G. P. Dyck 1957-1968; 1969-1970; 1971-1972 13 David Ewert 1963-1964 1 J. J. Peters 1963-1964 1 Don Kroeker 1964-1969 5 1967-1969
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• West Prussia
  (from Limburg 1, Gelderland 2, Utrecht 3, Friesland 10, Groningen 3, Drenthe 1, Overijssel 2, North Holland 8, South Holland 5, North Brabant 1). From what
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• Leenaert Bouwens (1515-1582)
  Immediately after Menno's death Leenaert Bouwens was accused by the church of (1) domineering ambition, (2) accepting 50 talers for spiritual services as elder
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• Mennonite Church Canada (section Mennonite Church Canada General Board Executive Members 1)
  all people may find healing and hope in all circumstances of life. Notes: 1. Individuals are first listed beside the conference at which they were appointed
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• Nationwide Fellowship Churches
  they believe were being compromised or abandoned in the Mennonite Church: (1) The supreme authority of the Bible for life and doctrine. Cutting across time
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• Alberta (Canada)
  percentage of non-religious residents in Canada (after British Columbia) at 23.1% of the population. Of the remainder, 13.5% of the population identified themselves
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• Flemish Mennonites
  agreed on four specific points. But the general discussion at Harlingen on 1 February 1567, did not lead to harmony; and the unyielding attitude of Dirk
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• Illinois (USA)
  Mennonite Church (GCM, 2,394); Evangelical Mennonite Church (1,042); Old Order Amish (1980 data, 1,014); Conservative Mennonite Conference (174); Beachy Amish
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• Washington (USA)
  Americans: 1.5%; Asian: 7.2% (1.4% Chinese, 1.4% Filipino, 1.0% Vietnamese, 0.9% Korean, 0.9% Indian, 0.5% Japanese, 0.3% Cambodian, 0.1% Laotian, 0.1% Thai);
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• LMC: a Fellowship of Anabaptist Churches
  Matthew 18:1-22 was the Scriptural basis of the sermon. At preparatory services, generally on the Saturday before communion, Matthew 6:1-18 was used;
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• Germany
  congregations were all (except Frankfurt) members of one of two conferences: (1) Vereinigung der Deutschen Mennonitengemeinden, mostly North Germany with the
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• Groningen (Netherlands)
  accurate. As Kühler shows (DB 1917, 1-8), four periods can be distinguished here as in the rest of the Netherlands: (1) from the beginning to about 1581;
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• South America
  Uruguay 1,500, Argentina 500. The number of baptized members was 7,150, distributed as follows: Paraguay 5,000 (GCM 1,560, MB 1,000, EMB 180, Menno 1,360,
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• Bern (Switzerland)
  the Anabaptists to return to the church. The Zofingen disputation took place 1-9 July 1532, with 23 Anabaptists present. The government had the minutes of
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• China, People's Republic of
  population in China are folk religionists, 18.2% are Buddhist, 5.1% are Christians, 1.8% are Muslims, 0.8% are of other religions, while unaffiliated constitutes
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• Indiana (USA)
  Whitley County (1, 13); Allen County (9, 350); Hamilton, Steuben County (1, 20); Daviess County (11, 374); Salem, Washington County (1, 15). The life-style
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• Herald of Truth (Periodical)
  published in the Mennonite Church (MC), first issue January 1864, 4 pp., 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 in., published by J. F. Funk in Chicago, IL, until 1867, thereafter
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• Mennonite World Conference
  Germany 6, France 3, Switzerland 2, Paraguay 2, Brazil 2, India 3, China 1, a total from overseas of 27. The MCC aided in the travel expenses of most
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• Menno Simons (1496-1561)
  Christ or the body of Christ. Again and again he refers to 1 Corinthians 12:13, 25-27, and Colossians 1:18-24. The prerequisites for church membership according
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• Antwerp (Belgium)
  Augustinian monastery, Hendrik Vos and Joannes van Essen, were burned as martyrs on 1 July 1523 in Brussels. In their memory Luther composed the song beginning,
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• British Columbia Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 431; vol. 5, p. 101. All rights reserved. ©1996-2023 by the Global Anabaptist
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• Children
  surely included in the covenant people of God (Genesis 12:1-4; 17:9-27; Exodus 24:7; Deuteronomy 1:34-39; Deuteronomy 6:5-8, 20-25; Deuteronomy 31:12; Matthew
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• Groningen Old Flemish Mennonites
  and Visvliet, Langezwaag, and Oldeberkoop; in East Friesland 1—Oldersum; in Overijssel 1—Kuinre; and besides this at Amsterdam and Middelburg (see Doopsgezinde
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• Saskatchewan (Canada)
  of 651,900 km2 (251,700 square miles). The estimated population in 2008 was 1,015,985. Regina is the capital of the province. One of the first members of
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• Uruguay
  Catholic (47.1%), non-Catholic Christians (11.1%), nondenominational (23.2%), Jewish (0.9%), atheist or agnostic (17.2%), and other (1.1%). Uruguay is
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• Nebraska (USA)
  Water (50), total UMC, 125. Other Mennonite institutions in the state were (1) Abbott Mennonite Mission (MC), established at Abbott in 1951, sponsored by
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• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  know as Russia. It still spans both Europe and Asia with a land are of 17.1 million square kilometres and in 2018 a population of 142 million people. In
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• Ban
  before the church according to 1 Timothy 5:20. Avoidance of the banned members is connected with the separation according to 1 Corinthians 5 and 2 Thessalonians
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• Wayne County (Ohio, USA)
  Old Order Amish, 14 with 1,061; Old Order Mennonites, 4 with 208; General Conference Mennonite, 1 with 204; Reformed Mennonite, 1 with 24. MLA style Umble
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• Elbing (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland)
  Mennonite surnames and 122 individuals. In 1820, the town had 288 Mennonites. On 1 January 1920 the congregation numbered 736 souls (male 346, female 390, baptized
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• Kenya
  Traditionalists 1.7%, other 1.6%, none 2.4%, unspecified 0.2%. For many years, Kenya was a British colony. It became an independent state on 1 June 1963, and
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• British Columbia (Canada)
  reported the following religious affiliations: No religious affiliation, 35.1%; Roman Catholic, 17.2%; United Church of Canada, 9.4%; Anglican Church, 7
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• North America
  Harold S. Bender (author of the article) and Sam Steiner (2006 figures) Table 1. Distribution of Mennonite Membership by Group and Country, 1956 & 2006 Merged
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• Frisian Mennonites
  see the article Flemish Mennonites, and also Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1893): 1-90, and Wilhelmus Johannes Kühler, Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Doopsgezinden
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• Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  history of the Anabaptists-Mennonites falls into three clearly defined eras: (1) from the origin of Anabaptism ca. 1525 to its almost complete extinction in
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• Mennonite Church Eastern Canada
  The Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada was officially inaugurated on 1 March 1988. In 1997 the conference numbered 97 congregations with 13,630 members;
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• Belize
  Kleine Gemeinde, and the Sommerfelders. In May 1959 over 360 families totaling 1,627 persons (775 children under 14) had settled in three locations in British
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• Florida (USA)
  6%; Pentecostal, 3%; Jewish, 3%; Jehovah's Witness, 1%; Muslim, 1%; Orthodox, 1%; other religions, 1%; and non-religious, 16%. Mennonites and Amish, largely
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• Zagradovka Mennonite Settlement (Kherson Oblast, Ukraine)
  three churches in Zagradovka: (1) Nikolaifeld Mennonite Church in Nikolaifeld, completed in 1891, with a membership of 1,241 in 1922; (2) Tiege Mennonite
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• Mennonitische Blätter (Periodical)
  was founded on 1 January 1854 by Preacher Jakob Mannhardt of Danzig. Determinedly and faithfully following the motto of Menno Simons (1 Corinthians 3:11)
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• World War (1939-1945) - Germany
  reach safety somewhere in the West. Among them were about 35,000 Mennonites: (1) 12,000 West Prussians and (2) more than 20,000 Ukrainian refugees who had
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• Orenburg Mennonite Settlement (Orenburg Oblast, Russia)
  proved to be a success, established tractor stations, dairying, etc. From 1 January to 1 September, 36 tons of cheese were produced. Great progress was made
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• Bote, Der (Periodical)
  serve the refugees and new immigrants. In January 2000 Der Bote changed to 8 1/2 x 11 inch biweekly. Because of declining subscriptions it ceased publication
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• Mennonite Central Committee (International)
  Series of Six Studies Designed for Use in Civilian Service Camps (1942) No. 1, H. S. Bender, Mennonite Origin in Europe; No. 2, C. Henry Smith, Mennonites
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• Harrisonburg (Virginia, USA)
  college for women, and Eastern Mennonite University, located in a suburban town 1.5 miles northwest of the courthouse. Harrisonburg is the shopping center for
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• United States of America
  smaller bodies range in size from 4,300 to 1,600; these are (1) the Krimmer Mennonite Brethren (KMB) with 1,600 (established in Russia by schism in 1869
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• Madhya Pradesh State (India)
  districts, viz., Rajandgaon, Durg, Raipur, Bilaspur, and Surguja. However, on 1 November 2000 the 16 Chhattisgarhi-speaking southeastern districts, including
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• Amish Mennonites
  first migration with its daughter colonies, has broken up into four phases: (1) the largest which remained strongly in the original (old) Amish pattern, independent
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• Lancaster (Pennsylvania, USA)
  the seat of the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies, meeting from 1 October 1777, for nine months. It was the state capital 1799 to 1812, when
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• Cramer, Samuel (1842-1913)
  province of Groningen. He was introduced by his father with a sermon on 1 Corinthians 4:1-2, which he himself followed with a sermon on 2 Corinthians 5:20. True
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• Molotschna Mennonite Settlement (Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  the stations of Halbstadt, Stulnevo, Tokmak, Lichtenau, and Feodorovka on 1 October 1941. Those that came to Lichtenau and Feodorovka were loaded on freight
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• Eastern District Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  comprised of 57 congregations and 7,587 members when it began to operate on 1 February 2020. Huber, Tim. "Franconia, Easter District Mend a 172-Year Split
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• Midwest Mennonite Fellowship
  were from the midwestern United States. A few were from eastern Ontario. On 1 October 1976, 15 of these interested ministers gathered at Fairview, Michigan
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• Idaho (USA)
  follows: 89.1 % of the population was White American; 0.6 % Black or African American; 1.4 % American Indian and Alaska Native; 1.2 % Asian American; 0.1 % Native
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• First Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) (section Table 1: First Mennonite Church Congregational Leaders*)
  events were held regularly. Mennonite Reporter (18 February 1974): 1; (10 June 1985): 13; (1 May 1989): 16. CMC Nexus (February 1996): 10. Burkholder, L. J
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• Roman Catholic Church
  Anabaptists with the Zwinglians, Lutherans, Flaccians, and Manichaeists. On 1 July  1562 there was discussion in the general assembly of the council as to
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• Riedemann, Peter (1506-1556)
  confession proper: (1) Wie man das Haus Gottes bauen soll und was Haus Gottes sei, and (2) Von den sieben Pfeilern an diesem Hause (Proverbs 9:1). In 1532 Riedemann
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• Colombia
  4% is of primarily African ancestry. Indigenous Amerindians comprise only 1% of the population. Official demographic statistics regarding religious affiliation
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• Oldeklooster (Friesland, Netherlands)
  turning of the hand, but found himself compelled to conduct a regular siege. On 1 April he decided to bombard the monastery with heavy artillery and tried to
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• Alsace (France)
  Uli Amman, which castigated the "unbiblical" conduct of the elder: it was (1) contrary to the law of Moses, (2) contrary to the Gospel, (3) contrary to
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• Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 461. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
  concern the entire church. The four district conferences at that time were (1) the Canadian, formerly known as the Northern, comprising all the Mennonite
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• Krimmer Mennonite Brethren
  popularly the name remained "Krimmer MB" In 1895 a new building was erected 2 1/2 miles south of Hillsboro. Elder Jacob A. Wiebe served until his resignation
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• Voluntary Service
  beginning 1 June 1949, and a year-round VS program in addition to the summer program was set up beginning 1 September 1949. This program grew until on 1 February
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• Iowa-Nebraska Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church)
  Conference and the Mennonite Conference west of Indiana, in 1987 had 1 congregation in Colorado, 1 in South Dakota, 2 in Minnesota, 2 in Illinois, 13 in Nebraska
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• Switzerland
  basic principles are best found in the records of the Zofingen Disputation, 1-9 July 1532, and the debate (Täufergespräch) in Bern, 11-17 March 1538. Their
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• Mandates
  81, 1 (1895). Meyer, Christian. "Zur Geschichte der Wiedertaufer in Oberschwaben." Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben und Neuburg 1 (1874)
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• Baptism
  "Did Menno Simons Practice Baptism by Immersion" (Mennonite Quarterly Review 1 (January 1927): 54-56). In fact Menno speaks at three places about the practice
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• Community of Goods
  that all true believers in Christ are of one body (1 Corinthians 12:13), partakers of one bread (1 Corinthians 10:17), have one God and one Lord (Ephesians
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• Austria
  an estimated population of 8,504,850. In terms of religious affiliation, 64.1% of Austrians in 2011 were members of the Roman Catholic Church and 3.8% were
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• Africa
  Anabaptist Songs in African Hearts, 3rd ed. Global Mennonite History Series 1. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2006. Mennonite World Handbook, ed. Paul N.
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• Ordination
  other Christians. One view of leadership in the New Testament is based on 1 Timothy where three terms are used: deacons, elders, and bishops. While the
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• Culm (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 745-746. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Taurida Guberniya (Ukraine)
  province. According to the 1897 census, there were 25,508 Mennonites comprising 1.76% of the population. During World War II when the German army approached
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• West Virginia (USA)
  Wikipedia. "West Virginia." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia (accessed 1 March 2009). MLA style Brunk, Harry A. and Paul K. Kratz. "West Virginia (USA)
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• Gospel Herald (Periodical)
  titled Missions (6 April 1916-5 March 1925), Gospel Herald Mission Supplement (2 April 1925-1 February 1941), and Christian Missions (7 March 1941-December 1947). It was
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• Kansas-Nebraska Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church)
  Junta, 111; Limon, 8); Texas-1 congregation at Plainview, 42 members; Oklahoma 1 congregation, Milan Valley at Jet, 37; Nebraska 1 congregation at Roseland
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• Divorce and Remarriage
  fourth (24.1 percent) of the blacks in his study had been separated or divorced at one time, while Asian Mennonites showed the lowest rate (1.8 percent)
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• Pennsylvania (USA)
  follows: Franconia, 5,311; Lancaster, 14,663; Allegheny, 2,721; Ohio and Eastern, 1,878; Franklin County, Pa., and Washington County, Md., 682; Conservative Conference
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• Fernheim Colony (Boquerón Department, Paraguay)
  nature of the subsoil. By 1 January 1935, the colony had dug 198 wells, of which 124 had sweet water and 75 salt water. On 1 January 1950, the colony had
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• Communion
  less should be used than the words found in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, and 1 Corinthians 11. The minister of the congregation should read them from one
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• Balk (Friesland, Netherlands)
  4:25. Pastor Gorter preached his inaugural sermon on 7 May 1854 on 1 Corinthians 8:1, "Knowledge puffern up, but charity edifieth." He remained until his
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• Chicago (Illinois, USA)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 554-555. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Concept of Cologne (Anabaptists, 1591)
  an agreement between the High German and Dutch Mennonites, was signed on 1 May 1591 at Cologne. Various previous attempts had already been made to bring
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• Tofield (Alberta, Canada)
  around south to north. About 4 per cent of the MC, 12 per cent of the GCM, and 1 per cent of the MB lived in Tofield. The MC group was first to arrive here
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• Brazil
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 408-410; vol. 5, pp. 94-96. All rights reserved. ©1996-2023 by the Global
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• Community
  convergence. The most general descriptive approach assumes that community has: (1) some type of delineation in space and time; (2) a semblance of being a social
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• Rosenort Mennonite Church (Rosenort, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  20 November 1814. It seated 600. In the fire the church records kept from 1 November 1772 to 1809 were destroyed. Later the records of 1840-55 was lost
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• Ethiopia
  devastated by wide-scale droughts and resulting famines, leaving approximately 1 million people dead. In 1991 the Marxist-Leninist government was removed and
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• Lieder der Hutterischen Brüder, Die
  Walter reports briefly about the sources from which he compiled the book: (1) a codex with 165 hymns, written sometime before 1600 (275 leaves, well preserved
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• South Carolina (USA)
  5%; Other Protestant: 19%; Roman Catholic: 7%; Other Christian: 1%; Other Religions: 1%; and Non-Religious: 7%. Since the 1950s Mennonites have moved into
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• Board of Foreign Missions (Mennonite Brethren Church of North America)
  of Brazil. (b) Divisional. Divisionally the work was done in four areas: (1) evangelization in the villages and the establishment and nurture of indigenous
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• Mennonite Brethren Church
  Brethren Church, according to the statistics compiled by A. A. Schroeter, as of 1 January 1948, was 19,169. Of these, 9,500 represented 59 local churches in
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• Haiti
  waters: the Mennonite church in the Caribbean." Courier Correo Courrier 35, no. 1 (April 2020): 13. Stoltzfus, Elaine. Tending the Vision, Planting the Seed
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• Galicia (Poland & Ukraine)
  to the government of Galicia and which designated the following conditions: 1. They were to be treated as Lutherans, since their case was not regulated by
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• Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan (1622-1706)
  outbreak of unrest. Pieter van Locren, who shared Galenus' views, preached on 1 October 1662 that in the Final Judgment the question would not be what man
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• South Africa, Republic of
  accounted for 1.5% of the population, Hindus about 1.3%, and Jews about 0.2%. 15.1% had no religious affiliation, 2.3% were other and 1.4% were unspecified
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• Dhamtari (Chhattisgarh State, India)
  (76 percent); Muslim (12 percent); Sindhi (2 percent); Punjabi (1 percent); Christian (1.5 percent) and others (7.5 percent). Dhamtari is the headquarters
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• Virginia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  Join Mennonite Church USA." Connections< 12 (March 2002): 1. Also published online. Accessed 1 July 2006. <http://vmbm.org/connections/2002/march.pdf> Address:
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• Olive Branch Confession of Faith (1627)
  forgiven you. 2 Peter 1:4; 1 Peter 1:23; John 3:6; 1 John 4:7; 5:1; James 1:18; John 1:13; Romans 8:16; Matthew 5:48; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 John 3:3; Luke 6:36;
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• Neuland Colony (Boquerón Department, Paraguay)
  emigration to Paraguay in 1947-1948. They arrived at station Fred Engen on 1 March 1947, and were the advance group of the many transports that were to
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• Fonds voor Buitenlandsche Nooden (Dutch Relief Fund for Foreign Needs)
  Krommenie, Wormer, Jisp, de Rijp, Graft, and Harlingen. Resolutions were passed: (1) that the Amsterdam representatives (Willem van Maurik, Jan Willink, Abraham
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• Ehrenpreis, Andreas (1589-1662)
  (Wolkan, Geschicht-Buch, 631, note 1, where a brief summary is given). There are two more tracts from Ehrenpreis's hand: (1) Kurze Widerlegung des grossen
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• Mennonite Church in India
  thereof was maintained. In 1955 the membership was 1,507. Another milestone was reached in the Conference on 1 July 1952, when the American Mennonite Mission
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• Pax
  Pax, even though Canada had no draft. Pax had been financed in two ways: (1) by contributions of $75 per month by the Pax man or his denominational service
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• Elkhart County (Indiana, USA)
  Goshen in Clinton Township. The county has been the scene of several schisms: (1) the Old Order (Wisler) Mennonite of 1871 west of Goshen; (2) the Brenneman
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• Jansen (Nebraska, USA)
  usually extended in a long narrow strip. Thus the farms were usually one mile ( 1.6 km) long and varied in width from about a few hundred feet (~35-100 m) to
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• Basel (Switzerland)
  Treyer were the prominent names. Oecolampadius wrote in a letter to Zwingli on 1 July 1528, "Recently over 100 met in the country." Men like Konrad Winkler
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• Emden (Niedersachsen, Germany)
  chorister (Vorsänger) was defined thus: the first song was to be Psalm 37:1; then Psalms 1, 25, and 116 were to be sung; Romans 16 was then to be read. Relations
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• California (USA)
  non-English speaking. In 1987 there are 10 Spanish-speaking congregations (7 MB, 1 GCM, and 2 MC). Four General Conference congregations are Chinese-speaking
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• Cuba
  waters: the Mennonite church in the Caribbean." Courier Correo Courrier 35, no. 1 (April 2020): 13-14. Wittlinger, Carlton O. Quest for Piety and Obedience:
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• Deacon
  Testament Greek word diakonos meaning minister or servant, used in Philippians 1:1, and 1 Timothy 3:8-13, where Paul states the qualifications for the office. Although
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• France
  without opinion, 4% identified as Muslim, 3% identified as Protestant, and 1% identified as Jewish. Throughout the late Middle Ages France was the major
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• Zonist Conference
  by the delegates of 23 Zonist churches at a second meeting held at Leiden 1, 2 October 1664. In this Verbondt they agreed upon certain principles, such
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• Jacob de Rore (ca. 1532-1569)
  Jacob de Rore wrote 19 letters. Letters 1, 7, 10, and 14-19 are undated. They are addressed to his wife (Nos. 1, 8, 18), to his children (Nos. 3, 4), to
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• Génard, Petrus (1830-1899)
  information, are found in Vols. VII-XIII (Antwerp, 1864 ff.). Vol. XIV, pp. 1-127, has a chronological list of over 1300 "heretics." MLA style Krahn, Cornelius
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• Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary (Fresno, California, USA)
  Langley and Winnipeg. Bruce L. Guenther became president of MBBS Canada on 1 February 2012 after serving as interim president for the previous year. He
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• Refugees
  Uganda (1.5 million), Pakistan (1.5 million), and Germany (1.3 million). In 2022 53.2 million more were "displaced persons" in their own countries who
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• Harlingen (Friesland, Netherlands)
  Doopsgezind Jaarboekje (1861): 135; (1877): 115-32; (1878): 78-97; (1880): 1-41; (1893): 1-90 passim; (1909): 147. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches
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• Taxes
  nothing, but not out of wickedness or arbitrariness, but out of the fear of God (1 Timothy 5) that we may not be partakers in strange sins." In the United States
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• Danzig (Poland)
  catechism in German, replacing Georg Hansen’s 1671 confession in Dutch. On 1 January 1771, a local Flemish preacher gave his sermon in German rather than
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• Dariusleut
  thereafter. Meanwhile three new Hutterite villages had been established: (1) Johannisruh (in 1853-1857), two and a half miles from Hutterthal, (2) Neu-Hutterthal
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• Guatemala
  Congregations in 2020 Caribbean Light and Truth (Guatemala) 7 1 Church of God in Christ, Mennonite 18 1 23 3 Conservative Mennonite Fellowship 133 5 Eastern Pennsylvania
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• Prayer Veil
  wedding veil. The Biblical basis for the worship veil is 1 Corinthians 11:2-16. In the section in 1 Corinthians 11 dealing with the practice of the Lord's
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• Fürstenland Mennonite Settlement (Kherson Oblast, Ukraine)
  consisted originally of six villages known by the following numbers and names: No. 1, Georgstal, 30 farms; No. 2, Olgafeld, 28 farms; No. 3, Michelsburg, 35 farms;
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• Deutsch-Kazun (Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
  500) is located 2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, 16.6 km (10.3 miles) west north-west of Łomianki, 17.1 km (10.6 miles) west of Legionowo
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• Mennonite Confession of Faith, 1963 (section Article 1. God and His Attributes)
  19; Luke 24:27, 44; John 1:1-16; John 20:31; Romans 1:19, 20; 2 Timothy 3:15, 16; Hebrews 1:1, 2; Hebrews 8:6, 7; 1 John 1:1-5. We believe that in the
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• Warkentin, Bernhard (1847-1908)
  March 1887, Terpenie, Russia). Bernhard married Wilhelmina "Minna" Eisenmayer (1 November 1852, Horse Prairie, St. Clair County, Illinois – 5 July 1932, Newton
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• Discipleship
  Taufgesinnter. Bd. 1. Leipzig, 1938. Simons, Menno. Opera omnia theological. Amsterdam, 1681. Quellen zur Geschichte der Täufer in der Schweiz. Bd. 1. Edited by
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• Christian Fundamentals (Mennonite Church, 1921)
  make intercession for us." John 1:1, 14, 18; Hebrews 1:8; Hebrews 13:8; Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:35; Matthew 1:20-25; Isaiah 53:5,6; 2 Corinthians
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• Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches
  Church. The ground given by Peters and Wall for separation was the need of (1) the new birth and changed life as a requirement for baptism and church membership; 
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• Costa Rica
  and Amerindian ancestry); 9.03% Immigrants; 6.72% Mulatto; 2.40% Amerindian; 1.03% Black; 0.21% Asian; and 0.88% other. The majority of whites are primarily
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• Civilian Public Service
  federal and state governments. The federal government spent approximately $1 1/3 million on CPS. Thus the United States benefited to the figure of $2 2/3
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• Hague, The (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  former Hague congregation now returned it to the new Hague congregation. On 1 April 1883, S. de Waard of Westzaan became the minister of the congregation
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• New Testament
  at the Last Supper, as saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood" (1 Corinthians 11:25 [RSV]). The idea of "old covenant" is expressed in 2 Corinthians
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• Missionary Church
  17, Illinois 9, Pennsylvania 3, Maryland 1, Tennessee 3, Arkansas 2, Missouri 1, Kansas 6, Nebraska 2, Colorado 1, Oregon 2, California 18, Arizona 3, Hawaii
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• Mennonitisches Lexikon
  Deutschland: Im Selbstverlag der Herausgeber, 1913. (4), 717, (3) pp. "Schlußwort zum 1. Band" is dated 6 September 1924. Zweiter Band: Friedrich–Mähren; Begonnen
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• Munich (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)
  Landeskirche Bayerns (1906) and in the Rheinisch-Westfalischen Gustav-Adolf-Blatt of 1 February 1909, from a copy in the central library of Zürich. This execution
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• Cate, Steven Blaupot ten (1807-1884)
  Zaandam-Oost. He also served this church nine years, resigning on 6 August 1848. On 1 January 1851 he was made a member of the provincial council and in the fall
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• Przechovka (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  World War I, and now Przechówko; coordinates: 53.39031, 18.38589 [53° 23' 25.1" N, 18° 23' 9.2" E]; population in 1910, 92), Poland, was formerly the seat
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• Lee County (Iowa, USA)
  and son, of Butler County, Ohio, who arrived in Fort Madison, Lee County, on 1 November 1839. The first Mennonite child to be born in Iowa was the Krehbiel
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• Aargau (Switzerland)
  the 1531 conversation with Pfistermeyer. [QGTS III, #156, note 1; QGTS III, #132, n. 1] The most recent scholarship thus indicates that when Christian
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• Terek Mennonite Settlement (Republic of Dagestan, Russia)
  took about a week. Each village received a name and a number, as follows: 1, Wanderloo; 2, Khartch; 3, Talma; 4, Konstantinovka; 5, Sulak; 6, Alexandrovka;
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• Emmerich am Rhein (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  knowledge of Scripture blocked the attempt (Doopsgezinde Bijdragen  1873, 58). On 1 December 1676 the magistrate of Emmerich granted freedom from taxation for
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• Mountain States Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  the General Conference Mennonite Church. The new structure formally began 1 January 2006. In 2017 the following congregations were members of the Mountain
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• Original Sin
  now, since He became the reconciliation for the whole world (Colossians 1:20;1 John 2:2), He has brought it about that original sin, "before it stirreth
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• Schijn, Herman (1662-1727)
  first volume of this new edition by Maatschoen contains eleven chapters: (1) Origin of the name Wederdopers (Anabaptists) and in how far the Mennonites
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• Hutchinson (Kansas, USA)
  become affiliated with the Mennonite Church (MC) has its church one mile (1.6 kilometers) north of Yoder, Kansas. This latter church has a membership of
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• Conscientious Objection
  4 under the National Park Service, 2 under the Bureau of Reclamation, and 1 under the Federal Security Administration. Beginning in 1942 a large number
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• Neff, Christian (1863-1946)
  in the series Schriften der Konferenz der Süddeutschen Mennoniten; namely, (1) Was sind Mennoniten? (1913); (2) Die Mennoniten Keine Wiedertäufer (1914);
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• Nigeria
  sovereignty to the British in 1911. It is the oldest kingdom in Nigeria. On 1 January 1901, Nigeria became a British protectorate. In 1914, the Niger area
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• Friesen, Peter Martin (1849-1914)
  1883, Halbstadt, Molotschna, South Russia) and Helena (Klaassen) Friesen (1 September 1814, Elbing, Prussia - 1879, Molotschna, South Russia). Peter married
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• Kikwit (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  350,000 people.  On 17 May 1995, its population was estimated to be around 1 million people. Mennonite missionary presence and work in the area dates to
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• Prague (Czech Republic)
  Mähren." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte XXX (1933): 1-36, 170-211; (1934): 61-102; (1935): 1-40. Schornbaum, Karl. Quellen zur Geschichte der Täufer
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• Brandenburg (Germany)
  Brandenburg, a province of Prussia, which included Berlin until 1 April 1881. In the eastern part of the province, in Netzebruch, there was at Brenkenhoffswalde
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• Urbanization (section Table 1.  Of Mennonites in Eleven Countries and Degree of Urbanization of These Countries, 1974-83)
  Mennonitism itself. There are some 1,500 Mennonites in Amsterdam, and some 1,300 in Haarlem in 1986 as well as more than 1,000 in a number of other cities
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• Keller, Ludwig (1849-1915)
  nach dem Untergang des Münsterischen Königreichs," Westdeutsche Zeitschrift 1, 1882, 429-468; and "Zur Kirchengeschichte Nordwestdeutschlands im 16. Jahrhundert
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• Lasco, John á (1499-1560)
  in the former Franciscan monastery, dealt with the following five points: (1) the incarnation of Christ,  (2) infant baptism, (3) original sin, (4) sanctification
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• Kleine Gemeinde
  had been elected minister at the Neunhuben Mennonite Church near Danzig on 1 September 1801, to become co-minister with his father-in-law, Elder Peter Epp
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• Veelderhande Liedekens
  Non-Mennonite editions of Veelderhande Liede­kens (besides the above Nos. 1-4) are: (34) Veelder­hande Gheestelicke Liedekens, n.p., 1558, a greatly modified
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• Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec
  Mennonite Church Records: An Interpretive Sketch." Mennogespräch 3 (1985): 1-3. Yearbook (Inter-Mennonite Conference [Ontario]): 13 (1986). Mennonite Conference
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• Elbing Catechism
  created Heaven and Earth, - Genesis 1:1. Who is God? The only God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. - Matthew 28:19, 1 John 5:7. How can we know that there
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• Privileges (Privilegia)
  Die Wehrfreiheit der Altpreußischen Mennoniten (Marienburg, 1863) LX-LXI (1, Lat.) and 80 ff. (German)--22 August 1694, King John III  Sobieski; printed
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• Lower Rhine (Germany)
  Catholic, their goods should be confiscated (Keller, I: 114). A mandate of 1 October 1585, against religious groups not included in the religious peace
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• Groffdale Old Order Mennonite Conference
  which are small one or two room structures. They have required only grades 1-8, and usually the teachers have been members of Old Order churches. All subjects
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• Gemeindeblatt der Mennoniten (Periodical)
  perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment" (1 Corinthians 1:10). The paper strove in the first place to promote and preserve the
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• Mennonitische Rundschau, Die (Periodical)
  of the latter." The subscription price was given as 50 cents, 3 marks, or 1 ruble. Since January 1899 was the first time that the subscription price for
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• Rosedale Network of Churches
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 700-702; vol. 5, p. 192. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global
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• Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  decided  to go to Moravia. The Branchweilerhof, which lies about one mile (1.5 km) east of the city, has been a Mennonite settlement and congregation since
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• Bluffton University (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)
  connections whatever. The movement above described had a threefold objective: (1) To provide a fully recognized standard college in connection with one of the
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• Avoidance (1953)
  instruction is "not to eat" with such a person, "not to keep company" with him (1 Corinthians 5:11). The term "avoidance" is taken from Romans 16:17 where the
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• Canadian Pacific Railway Company
  history of the Mennonites; a private business concern extended a credit of over 1.5 million dollars, without any security, to impoverished people for their transportation
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• Bethel Deaconess Hospital (Newton, Kansas, USA)
  Christian Hospital, founded in 1887, to form the Newton Medical Center on 1 January 1988. The Newton Medical Center is non-denominational, and is governed
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• Unruh, Benjamin Heinrich (1881-1959)
  Unruh" (an autobiography). Der Bote XXVIII (5 September 1951): 1 ff.; (12 September 1951): 1-3; (19 September 1951): 2 ff; (26 September 1951): 2 ff. Goossen
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• Uganda
  Anglican 35.9%, Pentecostal 4.6%, Seventh-day Adventist 1.5%, Muslim 12.1%, Sikhism & other 3.1%, Baha'i 0.3%, None 0.9%. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
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• Brunk, George R. (1871-1938)
  tactful solicitation of John S. Coffman. He was ordained to the ministry on 1 October 1893 and to the office of bishop on 23 October 1898. He served the
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• Jülich (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  Lowenburg to arrest all the Anabaptists who attended their forbidden meetings. On 1 Septeember 1622, followed a strict command to all magistrates and the clergy
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• Baden (Germany)
  circumstances" by a decree of 28 June 1812 (Kurbadisches Regierungsblatt No. XXIII, of 1 August 1812). The constitution of the grand duchy of 22 August 1818 (Kurbadisches
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• Disputations
  significance for both parties was the debate that took place 6-8 November 1525. 1. The November disputation at Zürich was arranged under the influence of the
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• Columbia Bible College (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  baccalaureate level, 7 majors for the two-year diploma and 4 options for the 1-year certificate. In 2023, student numbers had declined to approximately 275
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• Deaconess
  especially in the care of the sick. It is of apostolic origin. In Romans 16:1 we read: "I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church
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• Mennonite, The (1885-1998) (Periodical)
  can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." This motto from 1 Corinthians 3:11 was to remind readers that the church's foundation is Christ
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• Kühler, Wilhelmus Johannes (1874-1946)
  his professorship at the Mennonite Seminary, W. J. Kühler succeeded him on 1 September 1912 in Mennonitica and practical theology and on 10 February 1913
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• Justification
  justified when God declares them to be righteous in his judgment (Romans 8:33-34, 1 Corinthians 4:4). The early Anabaptists eagerly anticipated God's eschatological
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• Plum Coulee (Manitoba, Canada)
  incorporated as a village municipality in 1901 and officially opened as such 1 January 1902, with A. A. Harder as its first mayor. In 1897 Plum Coulee had
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• Bossert, Gustav (1841-1925)
  Austrian government in Württemberg, which is recorded in Ferdinand's decree of 1 October 1528, issued in Stuttgart, which ordered that the more bloody methods
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• Köhler, Walther (1870-1946)
  Täufertum in Calvins Institutio" (1937, pp. 1-4); "Der Verfasser des Libellus confutationis" (1938, pp. 1-10); "Die Verantwortung im Täufertum des 16.
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• Clearbrook Mennonite Brethren Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  Clearbrook Road and Old Yale Road was purchased from the Matsqui Municipality for $1.00. The legal title was registered as Lot Number 161616E on 28 July 1943. To
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• Marburg (Hessen, Germany)
  Martin Bucer was called, who debated with the prisoners from 30 October to 1 November 1538, and succeeded in converting them. Nevertheless there were remnants
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• Kitchener Mennonite Brethren Church (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
  History 25, no. 1 (June 2007): 1-10. Available in full electronic text at http://mhso.org/sites/default/files/publications/Ontmennohistory25-1.pdf. Wiebe,
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• East Reserve (Manitoba, Canada)
  The colonists who settled the East Reserve were composed of two groups: (1) the smaller Kleine Gemeinde group (some 35 families out of an original 100
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• Leiden (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  Pieterskerkstraat 1 - Lokhorstkerk." 20 September 2013. Web. 12 October 2014. http://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Leiden,_Pieterskerkstraat_1_-_Lokhorstkerk. Verhaat
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• Toews, Aron A. (1884-1969)
  stroke on 1 March 1963 and lost his eyesight completely. Mennonite Brethren Herald (31 March 1978): 31. Mennonitische Rundschau (10 December 1969): 1. Ratzlaff
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• Friedrichstadt (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
  earliest period there were in Friedrichstadt three Mennonite congregations: (1) the High German (merged in 1653 with the Flemish); (2) the Flemish; (3) the
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• Penner family name
  Montau-Gruppe 1, Rosenort 49, Schönsee 8, Thiensdorf-Preussisch Rosengart 88, Tiegenhagen 54, Tragheimerweide 27, Berlin 13, Gronau 7, Hamburg 1, making a
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• Uffhofen (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  worship in neighboring Erbesbüdesheim and on the Schniftenbergerhof about 1½ hours distant. In 1828-29 the congregation met in the "Geistermühle" near
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• Chaco (South America)
  (Argentina) and Chaco Mission (Paraguay) Bender, J. E. "Paraguay Calling, Part 1." Unpublished mss., Akron, Pennsylvania. Fretz, J. Winfield. Pilgrims in Paraguay:
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• Landau (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  fortified city in the Palatinate, Germany (coordinates: 49° 11′ 40″ N, 8° 7′ 1″ E). There was very probably an Anabaptist group here as early as 1526, to
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• Langenmantel, Eitelhans (d. 1528)
  his armchair. Eitelhans Langenmantel is the author of the following tracts: (1) Ain kurtzer begrijff von den Alten und Newen Papisten auch von den rechten
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• American Mennonite Relief
  of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) on 1 August 1925, called for the closing of the work of the AMR on 1 October, but the organization was not disbanded
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• Bethania Mental Hospital (Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  1911, housing 16 men. Among the 53 patients cared for from 15 August 1911 to 1 December 1912, were 11 acute and 20 chronic mental cases; 8 were epileptic
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• Mennonite Library and Archives (North Newton, Kansas, USA)
  Mennonite libraries based on the Dewey Decimal Classification system. By 1 January 1940, 1,130 books had been cataloged. Warkentin served as director of the library
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• Cleves, Duchy of
  Krefeld 50 per cent; Emmerich 15 1/3 per cent; Goch 12 1/3 per cent; Kleve 11 1/3 per cent; Rees 5 per cent; Duisburg 3 1/2 per cent; Hamm 2 ½ per cent.
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• Conference of Historic Peace Churches
  between the two organizations developed more systematically over time. On 1 April 1946, plans were adopted to affiliate the Non-Resistant Relief Organization
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• Emmental (Switzerland)
  be exterminated" (R.A. No. 2693). This appeal was not without purpose; on 1 February 1530 the magistrate of Bipp is to "guard the Anabaptists well and
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• Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)
  Mennonite population in the East. The Assembly Park, a 16-acre forest area, 1 1/2 miles northwest of Harrisonburg, with a large, three-story frame building
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• Dietrichstein family
  mainly the Hutterites. Three generations of this family require attention: (1) Siegmund von Dietrichstein (1480-1533), governor of Styria, (2) his son Adam
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• Brenkenhoffswalde and Franztal (Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland)
  Danzig, that the tsar would permit immigration on the following conditions: (1) presentation of a permit from the Prussian government to emigrate; (2) only
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• Ouddorp (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  1939-1946. Since 1946 the pulpit has been vacant. After a severe flood on 1 February 1953 had devastated a part of the island of Goeree, a Mennonite Voluntary
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• Schiemer, Leonhard (d. 1528)
  Glaubenszeugnisse II and in an edition of the Kunstbuch. The list is roughly as follows: (1) Eine hübsche Erklärung der 12 Artikel des christlichen Glaubens, contained
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• Neuwied (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  Neuwied is a town (pop. 20,670 in 1959, 67,021 on 1 January 2005) in the former Prussian Rhine Province of Germany, since 1945 in Rhineland-Palatinate
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• Tennessee (USA)
  congregations as follows: Virginia (2 congregations, 67 members); Atlantic Coast (1, 20). Indiana-Michigan conference had a new church planting effort in Nashville
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• Lemberg (Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)
  population, 330,000; 2001 population, 725,000; coordinates: 49° 51′ 0″ N, 24° 1′ 0″ E) formerly in Poland, now in Ukraine. In the 15th century Lemberg had
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• Ontario Amish Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church)
  Bishop Valentine Nafziger. The Conference-sponsored activities included: (1) the Winter Bible School under the administration of a Bible School Board appointed
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