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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Mission Board
  Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church). It was organized on 1 December 1911 with the name "Mission Board of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite
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• Conference of Mennonites in Canada
  Mennonite Churches of Ontario; Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada. Notes: 1. Individuals are listed alongside the convention at which they were appointed
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• El Salvador
  estimated to be 6,052,064. The population is 85% Mestizo, 12% White/Caucasian, and 1% Amerindian (Pipil, Lenca). According to a survey in 2008, 52.6% of El Salvador's
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• Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536)
  commentaries. The services rendered by Erasmus for the Reformation are very great, (1) In his work to improve the scholarly editions of the Greek and Latin New Testament
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• Jansen, Cornelius (1822-1894)
  Petershagenfeld, West Prussia - ca. 1832). Cornelius married Helena von Riesen (1 December 1822, Danzig-Schidlitz, West Prussia - 2 December 1897, Beatrice,
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• Melanchthon, Philipp (1497-1560)
  Anabaptists. He had far better opportunity to become acquainted with them. On 1 December 1535 he took part in a long cross-examination of Anabaptists imprisoned
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• Mississippi (USA)
  "freedoms" promised by Peters would actually be granted, it was decided on 1 June 1920 that a delegation make a down payment of $250,000 on the land; at
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• Apocrypha
  Bible (German) until recent times. The fourteen books of the Apocrypha are: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, The Rest of Esther, The Wisdom of Solomon
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• Twisck, Pieter Jansz (1565-1636)
  reformatorische denkbeelden. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1914: 4, 43 note 1, 68, 111, 164, 186 note 1. MLA style Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Twisck, Pieter Jansz (1565-1636)
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• Deutsch-Wymysle (Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
  19° 49′ 59″ E]; population in 2013, 183) is located 16.2 kilometres (km) (10.1 miles) south-east of Płock, 24.8 km (15.4 miles) north-east of Żychlin, 35
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• Jamaica
  Church (2%), Methodist (2%), Jehovah's Witnesses (2%), Moravian (1%) and Plymouth Brethren (1%). The Rastafari movement had 24,020 adherents, according to
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• Herold der Wahrheit (1912- ) (Periodical)
  the Mennonite Publishing House from 1 January 1912, the first issue, until 15 June 1956, and at Kalona, Iowa, since 1 July 1956. The periodical has always
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• Yoder, John Howard (1927-1997)
  Sexual Abuse.” It was published in The Mennonite Quarterly Review Volume 89/1 (January 2015): 7-80 (along with other essays on the theme of sexual abuse
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• Old Colony Mennonites
  prospect of getting nonresistant Mennonites in their states. At a meeting on 1 June 1920, although the Mennonites had not received the desired "privileges
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• Leer (Niedersachsen, Germany)
  It had only a lay minister; for communion, which was called "unity" after 1 Corinthians 10, and baptism, the elder of Emden was called in. During the time
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• Brielle (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
  When Brielle was taken by the Geuzen (followers of the Prince of Orange) on 1 April 1572, and Catholicism was compelled to yield to the Reformed faith, there
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• Burkina Faso
  Witness. Carol Stream, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1990. Mennonite Reporter (1 October 1984). Mennonite World Conference. "2000 Africa Mennonite & Brethren
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• Germantown Mennonite Settlement (Pennsylvania, USA)
  Mennonite groups joined the Germantown settlement from other localities: (1) from Hamburg-Altona, Germany, eight Dutch-speaking families came in 1700—two
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• Panama
  3,360,474 in 2009. As of the year 2000, the majority of the population, 50.1%, was Mestizo (people of mixed European and Amerindian heritage or descent)
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• Bethel Evangelical Missionary Church (New Dundee, Ontario, Canada)
  constructed in 1878 on a corner lot of the Wendell and nancy Hallman farm, 1.5 km north and 1.5 km west of New Dundee. The first service was held Christmas Day
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• Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization
  paid as interest. The balance of the accrued interest due, amounting to about 1.5 million dollars, was canceled by the CPR, and the interest payment of $180
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• Walcheren (Zeeland, Netherlands)
  Walcheren from 28 May 1946, to 22 December 1947. After the flood disaster of 1 February 1953, a Mennonite voluntary service group worked on Walcheren. Doopsgezinde
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• Krauel Colony (Alto Krauel District, Santa Catarina, Brazil)
  from the railhead at Hansa Hammonica, about 12 miles (20 km) long and 1/2  to 4 miles (1 to 6 km) wide. The sides of the valley rise to a maximum of 2,300
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• Herold der Wahrheit (1864-1901) (Periodical)
  monthly, but on 15 April 1899, an 8-page semimonthly until its last issue 1 November 1901, when it was merged with the Mennonitische Rundschau. Editors
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• Brenneman, Daniel (1834-1919)
  House, 1937: 39. Wenger, John C. Mennonite Historical Bulletin (July 1948): 1. MLA style Storms, Everek R. "Brenneman, Daniel (1834-1919)." Global Anabaptist
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• Hiebert, Nicholas Nikolai (1874-1957)
  he married Susie Wiebe (19 July 1879, Waldheim, Molotschna, South Russia - 1 January 1963, Hillsboro, Kansas, USA) in Bingham Lake, Minnesota, USA. Nicholas
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• Wormerveer (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  Wor­merveer op't Noord, and a Frisian, usually called Wormerveer op't Zuid. 1. Concerning the early history of the North con­gregation (op't Noord) there
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• Nonresistance
  it said: "The Mennonite Brethren Church believes in nonresistance because: (1) Nonresistance is a Biblical principle clearly exemplified by Jesus Christ
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• Friesland (Netherlands)
  (West Frisian, Fryslân), a province in the North of the Netherlands (area 1,431 sq. miles, 1949 pop. 464,450; 13,328 Mennonites or nearly 3 per cent; 2005
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• Dress
  of the small group from the larger general society has worked powerfully (1) to produce distinctive non-worldly costume, and (2) to restrain the group
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• Fischer, Christoph Andreas (1560-after 1610)
  österreichische Geschichte 81, 1 (1895): 62-66. Pam­phlets number 2, 3, and 4 are in the Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen, Indiana), number 1 is in the Mennonite
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• Chilliwack (British Columbia, Canada)
  population reported English only as their mother tongue, 1.3% reported French only, and 11.1% reported a non-official language only (including German,
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• Janzen, Henry H. (1901-1975)
  (containing Africa Mission Society material) Box 18 A255.1-13 to A256 (material to 1937) and Box 19 A256.1 (material from NAT 1938), are held in the Centre for
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• DeFehr, Cornelius A. (1881-1979)
  Brethren Historical Society Newsletter, 5, no. 2 (Dec. 1982): 1-8, and 5, no 3 (April 1983): 1-6. MLA style Dueck, Abe J. and Richard D. Thiessen. "DeFehr
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• Christian Leader (Periodical)
  youth paper of the Mennonite Brethren Conference of North America, was begun 1 March 1937 as a monthly 32-page paper, 9 x 6 in. The size was changed to a
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• Rattenberg (Tyrol, Austria)
  no doubt it was a strong and vigorous group. Only two facts are certain: (1) The Anabaptist "bishop" Leonhard Schiemer was caught in this town on 25 November
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• Funk, John Fretz (1835-1930)
  Indiana, with the printing and publishing business he had established in Chicago 1 January 1864. Here he spent the rest of his long and active life.  The ten
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• Hege, Christian (1869-1943)
  published a warm tribute to him in the Theologische Literaturzeitung, 1944, Nos. 1 and 2. Ernst Correll wrote a biography and appreciation in the Mennonite Quarterly
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• Church Records
  der Archiefstukken (Vol. II) of the Mennonite Church of Amsterdam lists (pp. 1 ff) church records of the various congregations starting with the year 1612
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• Sanctification
  derivative meaning of make clean or purify is, however, also clearly used (1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:25; Romans 15:16; Ephesians 5:36, etc.). The two
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• Brabant (Belgium/Netherlands)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 399. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Mennonite Board of Missions (Mennonite Church)
  for which it was responsible. The stated purposes of the organization were (1) to systematize and extend evangelistic work; (2) to establish and support
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• Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
  Mennonite Heritage Centre. Canadian Mennonite (30 June 1964): 1, 6; (18 July 1967): 3; (20 June 1969): 1; (30 January 1970): 10. Good, E. Reginald. Frontier Community
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• Ottius, Johann Heinrich (ca. 1617-1682)
  judiciis, ac quicquid praeterea ad rem facere videtur. His Præmissa prolegomena 1. Ad lectorem. 2. de variis Anabaptistarum fectis tractatio duplex. 3. collatio
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• Diener am Wort
  high esteem and consider them worthy of double honors and reward" (1 Thessalonians 5:13; 1 Timothy 5:17). The duties of the Vorsteher were of course heavier
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• Tasch, Peter (16th century)
  Leonhard Fälber. Bucer persuaded him in the Marburg colloquy (30 October - 1 November 1538) to join the Reformed Church, and he was frequently used to lead
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• Franeker (Friesland, Netherlands)
  the Jan-Jacobsgezinden merged with this congregation. Shortly before, on 1 July 1766, the congregation of nearby Tjummarum had also united with it. Until
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• Clock, Leenaert (d. after 1638)
  second hymn in every church service (see J. W. Yoder, Amische Lieder, 1942, No. 1). Clock published the following five hymnbooks: (a) Veelderhande schriftuerlijcke
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• Salzburg (Austria)
  "In Austria the young girls come running and request to be put to death." On 1 November four were put to death, among them Wolf Paumann, the judge of Tittmoning;
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• Grubb, Nathaniel B. (1850-1938)
  services at Herstines, Bertolets, Skippachville, Rock Hill, and Rich Valley. On 1 October 1882 he became pastor of the First Mennonite Church of Philadelphia
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• Hutter, Jakob (d. 1536)
  The capture of Hutter was immediately reported to Brixen and from there on 1 December to Innsbruck, where the news was received with pleasure, and orders
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• Ghana
  94 7 201 Ghana Mennonite Church 16 607 17 1,200 21 3,537 28 5,000 30 5,100 Ohio Wisler Mennonite Church 1 15 1 25
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• Hershberger, Guy F. (1896-1989)
  in rural schools until his marriage to Clara Hooley, of Goshen, Indiana, on 1 August 1920. Their two children were Elizabeth (Bauman) and Paul. Guy and Clara
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• Cuauhtémoc (Chihuahua State, Mexico)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 743-744; vol. 5, p. 213. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global
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• First Mennonite Church (Bluffton, Ohio, USA)
  town to match the Ebenezer and St. John buildings located outside of town. On 1 April 1906 the Swiss Mennonite congregation dedicated the church building in
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• Bachmut (Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)
  Alf. "Michael Ignatieff and Ignatyevo Colony." Mennonite Historian XXXV, 1 (March 2009): 3. MLA style Epp, Dietrich H. "Bachmut (Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)
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• Oecolampadius, Johannes (1482-1531)
  against the Swiss Brethren, threatening them with loss of property and life. On 1 July 1528 Oecolampadius wrote to Zwingli, "Recently there were over 100 together
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• Berne (Indiana, USA)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 298. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Deknatel, Jeme (Joannes) (1698-1759)
  of the congregation with a salary of 1,200 guilders. He preached his sermon of installation on 13 January 1726, on 1 Timothy 4:16. His colleagues were Dominicus
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• Internationale Mennonitische Organisation
  re-settlers (Umsiedler) in Europe. In 1987 the annual budget of IMO amounted to 1.3 million West German marks. IMO wants to engage itself in Asia, Africa, and
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• Christology
  Christological images: the Word in John 1, the new Adam in Philippians 2, Creator of principalities and powers in Colossians 1, High Priest in Hebrews, and the
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• Roth, Moses H. (1898-1978)
  Roth: bishop and farmer; born 1 February 1898 in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada to Rudolph "Rudy" Roth (10 December 1868-1 March 1943) and Lavina (Hostetler)
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• Bucer, Martin (1491-1551)
  Denk, und andere Wiedertäufer schweren Irrtum erregen, betreffend, I. Joh. 4, 1, of 2 July 1527, prepared chiefly by Bucer, Michael Sattler is called "a dear
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• Puritanism
  combination of doctrinal Calvinism and intense personal piety. Puritans stressed (1) the purified church (2) personal righteousness, and (3) the absolute authority
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• Kreuznach (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  the Hutterian brotherhood by Hans Schmidt. The reasons for this step were: (1) Although they have taught and learned that one should give himself completely
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• Bender, Harold Stauffer (1897-1962)
  Mennonite Encyclopedia Source: Mennonite Church USA Archives-Goshen HM 4-83, Box 1/1
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• Henry County (Iowa, USA)
  the Henry County congregation in 1871 built its first church, Sugar Creek, 1/4 miles (.4 kilometers) southeast of the village that is now called Wayland
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• Arnaud (Manitoba, Canada)
  Arnaud is a village located about five miles (eight km) east and one mile (1.5 km) south of Morris, Manitoba, across the Red River on the Soo Line (Canadian
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• Gingrich, Newton L. (1925-1979)
  one daughter. Some years after Newton's sudden death from a heart attack on 1 August 1979, Mary married widower Ervin Erb (30 October 1917-2002) on 6 January
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• South Central Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  the Mennonite Church (MC) in a revision of church polity in 1954-1955 by (1) the introduction of the office of regional overseer appointed by the executive
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• Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 690-691. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Grace
  Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 4:16) bestowed upon the undeserving. At other times, they indicate a living, transforming energy (Acts 4:33; John 1:14-17; 1 Corinthians
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• Grace University (Omaha, Nebraska, USA)
  workers in an inter-Mennonite context. The organizational meeting was held on 1 June 1943. The ten ministers in attendance included August Ewert, Albert Ewert
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• Mosaic Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)
  at Souderton Mennonite Church. Eastern District and Franconia reconciled on 1 February 2020 and operated as Eastern District and Franconia Conference until
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• Evangelical United Brethren Church
  the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada on 1 January 1968. Those that did not merge included the Pacific Northwest Conference
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• Cheyenne People
  Mennonites of North America, 2 vols. Canton, Ohio: The Author, 1898-1938. Vol. 1 available in full electronic text at http://www.archive.org/details/thehis
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• Zur Heimath (Periodical)
  published the journal as an 8-page semi-monthly for a subscription price of $1.00, with slightly enlarged page size (1880-81 at 10½ x 15 in.). David Goerz
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• Regier, Peter (1851-1925)
  was ordained as elder by his father of the Rosenorter Mennonite Church on 1 July 1888 (his father Peter was elder of the Fürstenwerder Mennonite Church)
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• Netherlands
  tension when, in 1867, the ministers J. W. Straatman and C. Corver proposed (1) that baptism be made optional, (2) to gradually do away with the communion
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• Constantinople (Turkey)
  Mennonite Relief (AMR) (Mennonite Central Committee). From 27 September 1920 to 1 July 1922 an AMR unit administered relief in Constantinople to Russian refugees
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• Universalism
  28:21; Jeremiah 3:21; Romans 5:18; Romans 11:32; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Ephesians 1:10; Colossians 1:20; and 1 Timothy 2:4. Article 17 of the Augsburg Confession
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• Wiebe, Gerhard (1725-1796)
  had at least four children. Gerhard died 26 November 1796 in Ellerwald Trift 1, Prussia. Gerhard was ordained as elder of the Elbing-Ellerwald Mennonite Church
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• Ries, Hans de (1553–1638)
  dat de twaelf Jongheren, daer d'Euangelist Lucas van meldet, Act. 19, vers 1. twee mael met water ghedoopt zijn (Amsterdam, 1597), and Ontdeckinghe der
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• Abundance Canada
  the name of Mennonite Foundation of Canada was granted in December 1973. On 1 July 1974, a head office in Winnipeg managed by J. K. Klassen, and a regional
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• Klassen, Johann Peter (1868-1947)
  Klassen (22 October 1825 - 13 February 1905) and Aganetha (Schultz) Klassen (1 April 1832 - 7 December 1920); his father had four children from his first
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• Mennonite Benevolent Society (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  consequently incorporated under the province of British Columbia’s “Society Act” on 1 September 1953. The Board continues with twelve members, who are elected at
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• Taiwan
  religious groups were Buddhism (35.1%), Taoism (33%), Yiguandao (3.5%), Protestantism (2.6%), and Roman Catholicism (1.3%). The majority of Taiwanese people
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• Kiss, Holy
  with the holy kiss (Romans 16:16; 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26) or the kiss of love (1 Peter 5:14) considerable use has
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• Conversion
  becomes a chief end of preaching and involves turning from darkness to light (1 Peter 2:9), from vanities to the living God (Acts 14:15), from death to life
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• Bethel College Academy (North Newton, Kansas, USA)
  president of the College. In 1915 the purpose of the academy was stated as "(1) to prepare students for college, (2) to give normal training for teaching
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• Zaandam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  Doops-gezinden in de bevolking en de arbeid van Zaandam," in Stemmen VII (1958): No. 1, 1-16. Information by J. Aten, H. M. Romijn and G. Honig. Congregation: Doopsgezinde
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• St. Jacobs Mennonite Church (St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada)
  cleared for the first time by pioneering families. On 29 October 1844, just over 1 ¼ acres of land was bought from one John Brubacher for five shillings by John
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• God (Trinity), Doctrine of
  Its Implications for a Modern Anabaptist Theology." Conrad Grebel Review 1, no. 1 Winter 1983): 13-32. Koontz, Gayle Gerber. "The Trajectory of Scripture
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• Broadway (Virginia, USA)
  (Virginia, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 1 May 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Broadway_(Virginia,_USA)&oldid=170492
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• Mennonite Educational Institute (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  to take care of the first classes of 35 children in Kindergarten and Grade 1. By 1997 a new elementary school was built at a cost of $4,000,000. and with
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• Terhorne (Friesland, Netherlands)
  baptized 30 persons here in 1561-66, and it is supposed that the letter of 1 September 1557(?), by Menno Simons, Letter to the Brethren in Waterhorne, was
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• Zofingen Disputation
  Bullinger provided considerable advice by letter. The proceedings began on 1 July 1532, with 23 Anabaptists present, of whom Martin Weniger of Schaffhausen
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• Zaunring, Georg (d. 1531/38)
  The date is either 1531 or 1538. We have from Zaunring's hand two writings: (1) a brief but very fine, typically Anabaptist tract, Eine kurze Anzeigung des
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• Mennonite Hospital and Sanitarium (La Junta, Colorado, USA)
  resources. This equipment was turned over without cost to the Board, and on 1 January 1920 four nurses from the Sanitarium, Lydia Heatwole, Ada Burkhart
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• Tragheimerweide (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  2012, 330), lies 13.8 km (8.6 mi.) north of Kwidzyn (Marienwerder), 21 km (13.1 mi.) south south-west of Malbork (Marienburg), and 59 km (37 mi.) south of
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• Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Indiana, USA)
  Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Ind.) Records, 1872-2001. III-14-002. Box 15, Folder 1. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana. https://www.flickr
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• Bretten (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
  district of Bretten (see Baden); they lived at the following places: Bretten 1, Bonartshäuserhof near Gondelsheim 17, Erdbeerhof near Gondelsheim 7, Heimbronnerhof
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• Augsburg (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)
  that he had delivered against the Anabaptists in the church of St. Peter. On 1 October the council had all the Anabaptists called in who had been released
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• Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica
  1570. Volume V, published in 1909 (664 pages), presents Dutch anabaptistica. (1) Die Slotel van dat Secreet des Nachtmaels. Geschreven door eynen Henrick Rol
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• Steen (Antwerp, Belgium)
  Jaarboekje (1952): 21-29. Génard, Petrus. Antwerpsch archievenblad VIII: 355, note 1. Map:Steen, Het (Antwerp) MLA style Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Steen (Antwerp,
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• Canadian Foodgrains Bank (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
  maximum of $25 million (in 2013). In its first 30 years it has provided over 1.1 million tonnes of food and seeds, worth over 682 million Canadian dollars
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• Lenzmann, Herman (1909-2005)
  January 1881 - 27 February 1965) and Emma (Schroeder) Lenzmann (8 August 1884 - 1 July 1922), (he was the grandson of educator Hermann A. Lenzmann). He was the
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• Hairdressing
  this constitutes a "shame" (1 Corinthians 11:6), and that woman's long hair was given to her (by God) for a "covering" (1 Corinthians 11:15). Such Mennonites
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• Biestkens Bible
  the oath, etc., were changed and some passages, such as Acts 2:30 and Romans 1 and Romans 3, were given a different form for reasons of dogma. Keller called
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• Kinderbote (Periodical)
  per year, 4 pages, 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. In 1980-1981 the number of issues was reduced to 20 per year. The last issue was published 1 December 1981. It was
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• Wiebe, Gerhard (1827-1900)
  daughter of Jacob Defehr (13 November 1780 – 1823) and Maria (Peters) Defehr (1 March 1781 – ca. 1799) and had been previously married to Wilhelm Esau and
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• Coaldale (Alberta, Canada)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 630. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Peters, Isaak (1826-1911)
  preacher (ordained 1866) and elder (1867) in the Pordenau con­gregation; was born 1 December 1826 in Fürstenau, Molotschna Mennonite settlement, the fifth child
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• Born (Limburg, Netherlands)
  religious freedom, which actually resulted in a lightening of their oppression. On 1 September 1622, the Count Palatine, who was also the lord of Jülich, decided
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• Western Gospel Mission
  The division took effect on 1 March 1961, and the mission closed. Schellenberg, Dave.  “The Western Gospel Mission: Part 1.”  The Messenger 38:9 (May 3
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• Lapp, George Jay (1879-1951)
  eight children of Samuel W. and Sarah (Gross) Lapp. He was married twice: (1) Esther Ebersole, 25 June 1905; (2) Fanny Hershey, 14 April 1920. Mrs. J. Lawrence
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• Bohemian Brethren
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 383. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Cool, Pieter (1807-1891)
  article (1-15), "De hoogste roeping der Friesche Doopsgezinde Societeit en soortgelijke vereenigingen," and in 1877 (101-132), 1878 (78-97), and 1880 (1-41)
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• Cruciger, Kaspar (1504-1548)
  Kaspar (Caspar) Cruciger (also Creuziger and Creutzinger), born 1 January 1504, died 16 November 1548, was the reformer of Leipzig, Germany, professor
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• Hymnology of the Mennonites in the Netherlands
  dichtgenootschap Laus Deo Salus Populo of 1759 in 2; Zwolsche Liederen in 1. In 1940 these figures were: Godsdienstige Liederen of the "Protestantenbond"
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• Roseville Mennonite Church (Roseville, Ontario, Canada)
  meetinghouse took place in September 1999. The church is located on Roseville Rd., 1 km  west of Roseville. Canadian Mennonite (4 January 1957): 4. Mennonite Reporter
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• Nepluyevka Mennonite Settlement (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)
  Forgotten Village of Neubergthal (Russia)." Mennonite Historian XXXI, 1 (March 2005): 1, 4, 5. MLA style Krahn, Cornelius and Richard D. Thiessen. "Nepluyevka
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• Sunflower Cultivation
  characteristics, but generally was a relatively short growing variety averaging 1.0-1.3 meters in height. It matured in the late part of September, about 120 days
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• Cambodia
  took control in 1975. The Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979 saw the death of 1.5-3 million people. The Khmer Rouge were overthrown in 1979 by Vietnamese forces
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• Concern Pamphlets Movement (section Concern No. 1 (June 1954))
  God or Mammon. Pp. 22-58.    1. Introduction    2. Accumulating possessions (Matthew 6:19-21).    3. Insurance (Ps. 23:1)    4. Voluntary indebtedness
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• Israel
  Israeli Arabs, 8.8% are Christian and 8.4% are Druze. Christians make up 2.1% of the total population of Israel and consist of both Arab Christians and
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• Troeltsch, Ernst (1865-1923)
  demonstration, they carried out three basic Christian principles, namely (1) separation of church and state, (2) voluntarism in the formation of church-bodies
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• Mennonite Central Committee United States
  to the U.S. constituency. MCC U.S. has a four-fold statement of purpose: (1) to carry overall responsibility for MCC domestic programs in the United States;
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• Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)
  269 members. The Ohio and Eastern Conference had eight congregations with 1,400 members in this area, although part of the membership is in the bordering
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• Champa (India)
  Conference Mennonite), Madhya Pradesh, India, could be described in three parts: (1) the Champa station or compound; (2) the Leprosy Home and Hospital; (3) the
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• Japan
  membership in both Catholic and Protestant churches exceeds no more than about 1.1 percent of the entire population. The impact of Christians however far outweighs
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• Akron (Pennsylvania, USA)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 30. All rights reserved. ©1996-2023 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Fürstenwerder (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  Mitteilungen der Konferenz der ost- und westpreussischen Mennonitengemeinden, Nos. 1-3 (September 1948, November 1943, and February 1944). A mimeographed copy in
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• Calvin, John (1509-1564)
  could be made to reach an understanding. This book deals with the following: (1) infant baptism; (2) the ban; (3) admitting to communion, "on which they say
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• Peters (Pieters) Family
  2, Montana 1, Mississippi 1, Manitoba 4, British Columbia 2, Ontario 1, Saskatchewan 1; MB-8: Manitoba 6, British Columbia 1, California 1; Old Colony
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• Bruchsal (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
  isolated Mennonite families settled there (see Baden). According to the census of 1 December 1910 there were 16 Mennonites in the district, six of them in Waghäusel
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• Mennonite Christian Service Fellowship of India
  MCSFI was registered as a service society with the following objectives: (1) to encourage and promote Christian service in the Spirit of Christ in educational
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• Morris (Manitoba, Canada)
  250 baptized members, who worshipped in a church built in 1950, located 2 1/2 miles (4 km) from the other church. The social relationship between the two
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• Nairobi (Kenya)
  blossomed into East Africa's largest metropolis with a population exceeding 1 million (in 1987) and 2.5 million (in 2001). The city serves as industrial
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• Schleitheim Confession
  Snyder suggests that in "A Summary of the Entire Christian Life," published 1 July 1525, Balthasar Hubmaier established the ecclesiological foundations of
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• Schlaffer, Hans (d. 1528)
  3 February 1528, slightly more than eight weeks. These are the writings: (1) Kurzer Bericht eines christlichen Lebens (also Kurzer Bericht und Lehr eines
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• Église Chrétienne de Saint-Laurent (St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada)
  Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. Before purchasing their own building on 1 May 1974, the St-Laurent church had moved around five times during their first
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• Busschaert, Hans Bouwens (16th century)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 485; vol. 4, pp. 648-649. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global
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• Basel-Schänzli (Basel Switzerland)
  since 1900. The seal of the church is an open book with the verses 1 Corinthians 3:11 and 1 John 5:5, with a cross underneath, around which two hands are clasped
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• Hawkesville Mennonite Church (Hawkesville, Ontario, Canada) (section Table 1: Hawkesville Mennonite Church Pastoral Leaders)
  place of worship. After renovations, the dedication service took place on 1 January 1950. The original trustees in 1949 were David Heintz, Oscar Snyder
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• Television
  Brethren in Christ life found that adult church members were watching television 1.2 hours a day and 27 percent admitted that television ads influenced their
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• Hiebert, Peter C. (1878-1963)
  Katharina (Gossen) Warkentin, a widow with five children. Peter was married on 1 January 1907 in Hillsboro, Kansas, USA to Katharine L. Nikkel (19 October 1885
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• East Friesland (Niedersachsen, Germany)
  7-8) names 7 for Emden, 5 for Leer, 7 for Neustadt-Gödens, 3 for Norden, and 1 for Oldersum. The Oldersum congregation must have died out soon after this
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• Erb, Allen Hess (1888-1975)
  brothers was Paul Erb. On 20 June 1912 he married Ethel Stella Cooprider (1 April 1888-28 Oct 1959); they had no children, but had several foster children
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• Worms (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  theses with "seven articles," which had been promulgated by the press. On 1 July the city council of Worms resolved to banish Kautz and Hilarius from the
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• Creation, Theology of
  (Dordrecht, art. 1), 80 (Schleitheim, art. 4), 87/85 (General Conference/Ris, 1766/1895, art. 1), 204 (Church of God in Christ, 1952, art. 1). Goudie, S.,
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• Epp, Claas (1838-1913)
  1838 in Fürstenwerder, Prussia, the seventh of eleven children of Claasz Epp (1 January 1803, Schoensee, Gross Werder, Prussia - 21 January 1881, Russia) and
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• Korba Mission Station (Madhya Pradesh, India)
  population of 230,000 in the 1950s, and over 1,000 villages. There were four outstations. The first church was organized on 1 December 1915; and the first meetinghouse
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• Wagner, Georg (d. 1527)
  severely tortured in the Falkenturm. He persisted in four articles of faith: (1) the priests cannot forgive sin; (2) God or Christ is not bodily in the bread;
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• Golden Rule Bookstore (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada)
  of Provident Bookstore in Southwestern Ontario (Kitchener (2), Cambridge (1), London (2), increasing competition from large book chains resulted in gradual
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• Wall, Aaron (1834-1905)
  Evangelical Mennonite Brethren (now Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches); born 1 January 1834, at Pordenau, Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, South Russia. On
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• Hershey, Eusebius (1823-1891)
  Canada, making 13 trips to Canada. Hershey felt the call to Africa, and on 1 November 1890, he sailed from New York, arriving at Sierra Leone after 38 days
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• Yellow Creek Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana, USA)
  younger minister, was discharged, and his wing organized the Bethel Church 1.5 miles northwest of the Yellow Creek meetinghouse. The membership of the Yellow
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• Mount Salem Community Church (Aylmer, Ontario, Canada)
  ON, N5H 2R5. (519) 773-8569. Located 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Aylmer, 1 km (1/2 mi) east of McOnnel Nursery on Lakeshore Rd. Pastor John P. Loewen provided
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• Hymnology (1989)
  Ohio, and Sarasota, Florida, 1972), compiled by John J. Overholt, includes 1,002 hymns. The compiler has included 12 hymns from theAusbund, two by Menno
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• Christian Mennonite Conference
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 566-567; vol. 5, pp. 142-143. All rights reserved. ©1996-2023 by the Global
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• Colmar (Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France)
  Colmar archives are the following documents dealing with the Anabaptists: (1) Edict of King Ferdinand against the Anabaptists, 26 May 1535; (2) Edict of
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• Hutterite Article Book
  94-102; (1932): 1-9. Müller, Lydia, ed. Quellen zur Geschichte der Täufer, vol. 3: Glaubenszeugnisse oberdeutscher Taufgesinnter, vol. 1, Quel­len und Forschungen
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• Castelberger, Andreas (ca. 1500-after 1531)
  Castelberger in May 1525 was published with annotations in Mennonite Quarterly Review 1 (July 1927) 41-52. -- Neff Andreas Castelberger was resident in Zürich after
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• Hallum (Friesland, Netherlands)
  congregation, however, at this time had its center not in Hallum, but in Hijum, about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) west of Hallum. Of its oldest history very little is known
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• Haarlem (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
  organizations were sponsored by the church council or the deacons in the 1950s: (1) a "deacon ministry" (diaconie) in which the work is carried on by a welfare
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• Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
  Ontario Mennonite Brethren Churches." Mennonite Historian 13, no. 2 (1987): 1-2. Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. Yearbook (1996): 85
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• Rheydt (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  or to Wettschewell (Wolter of Wetschewell signed the Concept of Cologne on 1 May 1591, for the Odenkirchen congregation). The persons named were, however
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• Nes Mennonite Church (Ameland, Netherlands)
  Doopsgezinde gemeenten op Ameland." Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1889): 1-50; (1890): 1-30; (1897): 250. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches
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• Peters, Cornelius C. (1889-1973)
  Katharina died in 1920, soon after her youngest child Frank was born. On 1 November 1920 Cornelius married Anna Reimer (27 September 1880–9 August 1971)
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• Zambia
  prevalence rate among adults aged 15-49 of 15.2% in 2008, with approximately 1.1 million children and adults aged 0-49 living with HIV at the end of 2007.
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• Penner, Heinrich D. (1862-1933)
  Daniel Penner (19 November 1824 – 27 January 1871) and Gertruda (Fast) Penner (1 July 1828 – 14 May 1878). On 29 April 1884, he married Katherina Dalke (10
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• Znaim (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
  their leaders. Thus Matthes of Auer confessed that he had been staying for 1½ years in and around Znaim with 50 Brethren. Stoffel Aschenberger, the leader
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• Pietism
  and thought it has always been present. It arose in the 17th century out of (1) the moral, and spiritual chaos attending the Thirty Years' War; (2) the sterility
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• Aurich (Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen, Germany)
  unaware of any wrongdoing; and that they had been surprised by the police on 1 February 1644 in nearby Oldeborg at divine services, and their leading preacher
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• Doopsgezinde Vredesgroep
  were in hiding because of the Gestapo, etc. After the war, on 31 August and 1-2 September 1945, the Vredesgroep was founded during a peace meeting in the
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• Steinbach (Manitoba, Canada)
  B. "Historical Sketches of Steinbach and District. Carillon News VII, Nos. 1-18 and 20. Steinbach, 1952. "Steinbach. The First Mennonite Settlement in Western
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• Martin, Abraham W. (1834-1902)
  fleshy," with a "pleasing countenance" and an easy and dignified bearing. On 1 September 1861 Joseph Hagey ordained Abraham Martin as the minister for the
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• Mennonite Press (Newton, Kansas, USA)
  Church and Bethel College of Newton, Kansas. It came into official existence 1 July 1949 after a two-year period of negotiations. Its purpose, as expressed
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• Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada)
  founded in 1926, 1,291; Sargent Avenue in 1928, 323; Bethel in 1938, 379; Bergthal Winnipeg Mission in 1950, 222); Mennonite Brethren - 1,521 in 4 congregations
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• Church Membership
  into the membership of the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement (church) has been (1) a matter of the action of the local congregation or its ministers, and (2)
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• Pandora (Putnam County, Ohio, USA)
  from 2 miles north of Pandora to about 4 miles south of the village, and from 1 mile west to 4 miles east of the village. About half of the members live in
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• Pacifism
  viewpoint of New Testament nonresistance as found in the Anabaptist tradition: (1) Pacifism too frequently sees peace as an end in itself, whereas the New Testament
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• Wisler, Jacob (1808-1889)
  order" groups near Wadsworth, Orrville, and North Lima, Ohio. Wisler died on 1 May 1889, and was buried in the old Mennonite cemetery across the road from
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• Illinois Mennonite Mission Board
  financial auxiliary of the Illinois Mennonite Conference in the following ways: (1) to create and promote missionary interest, and to assist the various congregations
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• Voth, Heinrich (1851-1918)
  Heinrich Kornelsen (15 June 1807 - 30 March 1857) and Sara (Wall) Kornelsen (1 August 1826 – 13 September 1897). Heinrich and Sarah had 11 children (nine
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• Messenger of Truth (Periodical)
  editor, which office he filled for 36 years. Reuben J. Koehn became the editor 1 January 1943. During the first 54 years of its existence the Messenger of Truth
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• Gross, Jakob (16th century)
  away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God" (1 Peter 3:21). He would have nothing to do with infant baptism; for baptism is
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• Bielefeld (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  Bielefeld, located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (coordinates: 52° 1′ 0″ N, 8° 31′ 0″ E) in the northern part of Germany, first became a home to
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• Église évangélique mennonite de Joliette (Joliette, Quebec, Canada) (section Table 1: Membership of Église évangélique mennonite de Joliette)
  1979-1983 Armand Roussin (1/4 time) 1984 Armand Roussin 1985-1991 François Malouin 1992-1994 No resident pastor 1994-2005 Daniel Genest (1/4 time) 2005 Doug and
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• Sprunger, John A. (1852-1911)
  Society in 1893, which established the Light and Hope Orphanage in Berne on 1 April 1893. Sprunger also established a deaconess training school in connection
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• Wenger, Amos Daniel (1867-1935)
  Trustees. He married Mary Hostetter (d. 1898) of Millersville, Pennsylvania, 1 July 1897. On 27 September 1900, he married Anna May Lehman, also of Millersville
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• Neunhuben (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  26' 45" N, 18° 39' 41" E]; population in 1905, 99), is located 8.1 kilometers (km) (5.1 miles) west south-west of Grudziądz (Graudenz), 14.4 km (8.9 miles)
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• Borozenko Mennonite Settlement (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 391. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Gruppe (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
  between the two groups. The Montau branch opposed Bartel in three respects: (1) he added acceptance of the military order to the baptismal formula; (2) he
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• Grace Hill Mennonite Church (Whitewater, Kansas, USA)
  cornerstone-laying service on 18 October 1953. They dedicated the new building on 1 August 1954. On 14 May 1970, the church voted to build an educational wing
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• Hopewell Church (Elverson, Pennsylvania, USA)
  (November-December 1982): 1. Kurtz, Omar. "Dedication at Hopewell." Atlantic Coast Conference Currents 1, no. 1 (March-April 1980): 1. Stoltzfus, Grant M. Mennonites
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• Baptists
  never popular with the state churches. Among their distinct doctrines were: (1) church membership based on adult confession of faith, and consequent renunciation
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• Secondary Education
  300, of which ca. 1,650 were in the 10 MC schools. In 1958 Canadian Mennonites were operating 11 high schools, 5 MB, 4 GCM, 1 MC, and 1 inter-Mennonite.
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• Welsh Mountain Industrial Mission (New Holland, Pennsylvania, USA)
  On 24 January 1924, Arthur T. Moyer, who had served as superintendent from 1 April 1913, was fatally shot by a resident of the community who was caught
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• Pacific Coast Conference (Mennonite Church)
  The Pacific Coast Conference was organized 1 November 1906, to include the three Mennonite churches of Oregon and Idaho which had previously belonged to
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• Bergklooster (Overijssel, Netherlands)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 279. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Oldeboorn (Friesland, Netherlands)
  without a minister the two congregations decided to merge; this took place on 1 January 1887. K. Schuiling, the minister in the Oude Huis at that time, became
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• Slavgorod Mennonite Settlement (Siberia, Russia)
  the settlement had 3,005 horses, 1,530 cows, 1,702 sheep, and 710 pigs; in 1927 there were only 1,752 horses, 1,205 cows, 1,600 sheep, and 515 pigs. Similar
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• Orphanages
  Orphan Aid Society (General Conference Mennonite) in 1884 on the "Orphan Farm" 1½ miles (2 km) south of Halstead, Kansas, although the work was primarily to
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• Conestoga Mennonite Church (Morgantown, Pennsylvania, USA)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 668. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario, Canada)
  Mennonite Church congregations in the county with 1,894 members, a large Old Order Mennonite community with 1,730 members in 14 meeting places, and three other
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• Reublin, Wilhelm (1480/84-after 1559)
  Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967: 86 note 1. Bergdolt, Johannes. Die freie Reichsstadt Windsheim im Zeitalter der Reformation
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• Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference (EMMC)
  meetinghouses. The Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference was formed on 1 July 1959 from the Rudnerweider Mennonite Church, which had been organized
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• Buitenpost (Friesland, Netherlands)
  built by a group of Mennonite Voluntary Service workers, was dedicated on 1 December 1957. Buse, H. J. "De verdwenen Doopsgeinde Gemeenten in Friesland
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• Schagen, Marten (1700-1770)
  Biografisch Woordenboek, vols. 1-10. Leiden, 1911-1937: v. 1, 1452-55. Sepp, J. C. Johannes Stinstra en zijn tijd. vol. 1. Amsterdam, 1865-66: 75, 139,
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• West Point Mennonite Church (Lee County, Iowa, USA)
  were chosen preachers. Their first building, a log structure, was located 1.5 miles east of the present village of Franklin and four miles from West Point
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• Mannhardt, Hermann Gottlieb (1855-1927)
  publication he saw a means of strengthening Mennonite group consciousness. From 1 January 1888 to his death in July 1927, he was an associate editor of the Mennonitische
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• Mexico
  Mexico. Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area -- 1,972,550 km2 (761,606 square miles). With an estimated population in 2009 of
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• Kautz, Jakob (1500-1532?)
  to some theses published in both Latin and German, the council decided on 1 July 1527 to banish the two preachers from the city. On 2 July the Strasbourg
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• Harder, Cornelius D. (1866-1946)
  Cornelius D. Harder: minister and elder;  born 1 December 1866 in Blumstein, Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, South Russia. He was the son of David Harder
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• Yugoslavia
  1929 was known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, established on 1 December 1918. The second country with this name was proclaimed in 1943 by
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• Paul I, Emperor of Russia (1754-1801)
  Paul I, Emperor of Russia 1796-1801, was born 1 October 1754, the son of Peter III and Catherine II. He succeeded his mother upon her death on 5 November
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• Blankenburger Allianzkonferenz
  to Ephesians"; 1949, "The Glorious Hope of the Christians, according to 1 Peter 1:3-2:10"; 1950, "The Returning Lord and the Waiting Church." The executive
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• Smucker, Donovan E. (1915-2001)
  He was the third son in a family of four sons. He married Barbara Claassen (1 September 1915-29 July 2003) on 21 January 1939. They had two sons and one
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• Loserth, Johann (1846-1936)
  Loserth zum 80. Geburtstage, 1. Sept. 1926." Zeitschrift des deutschen Vereins für die Geschichte Mährens und Schlesiens 28 (1926): 1-8. Volker, Karl. "Der Historiker
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• Hendrick Alewijnsz (d. 1569)
  died. In prison he wrote some devotional letters. These were soon published: (1) Veele schoone grondige leeringen wt des Heeren woort, 1577, n. p.; (2) Een
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• Christian Press, Ltd. (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
  firm which was owned jointly by the Mennonite Brethren Conference of Canada (1/8th of the stock) and private shareholders (7/8), who were all Mennonites.
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• Stadler, Ulrich (d. 1540)
  separated as the copyist felt moved. Here is the list as complete as possible: (1) Vom lebendigen Wort und geschriebenen, ein kurzer Unterschied und Bericht
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• Mennonite Mirror (Periodical)
  year, 21 x 28 cm in size. It began publication in September 1971, with vol.1, no 1 and ceased in June/July 1991 with vol. 20, no.10. Until October 1975 the
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• Blenheim Mennonite Church (New Dundee, Ontario, Canada)
  Conference of Ontario,1935: 64-66. Canadian Mennonite (15 September 1964): 1. Cressman, Kenneth. "The Development of the Conservative Mennonite Church of
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• Rempel, Johann G. (1890-1963)
  Johann "John" Gerhard Rempel: teacher, minister, and elder; born 1 February 1890 in Nieder-Chortitza, Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, South Russia, the
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• Froschauer, Christoph (d. 1564)
  business, which he enlarged in 1532 by the purchase of a paper mill. He died 1 April 1564. His nephew Christoph took over the printing business, Eustachius
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• Klopreis, Johann (d. 1535)
  on the rack. His "confessions" were published by J. Niesert (102 pages). On 1 February 1535 he was burned at the stake at Brühl. Klopreis was no doubt one
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• Mennonitisches Hilfswerk Christenpflicht
  overhead expense; in 1921, for instance, the cost of distribution was only 1.3 per cent of the turnover. In addition to Ingolstadt relief was given to the
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• Mennonite Historical Bulletin
  articles of a semipopular nature. The Bulletin has maintained the same format, 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Editors have been John C. Wenger, Edward Yoder, Grant Stoltzfus
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• Goshen (Indiana, USA)
  1955 was the seat of five Mennonite churches with a total membership of over 1,600, and shopping center for an area including at least 3,000 more Mennonite
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• Church at Nairn, The (Ailsa Craig, Ontario, Canada)
  at Mennonite Archives of Ontario. Address: R.R. 1, Box 9, 26459 Bear Creek Side Rd., Ailsa Craig, ON N0M 1A0 Location: 4 km south of the town of Ailsa Craig
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• Beatrice (Nebraska, USA)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 256. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Gingerich, Ephraim (1917-2010)
  Gingerich, farmer, pastor and bishop, was born near Zurich, Ontario, Canada on 1 October 1917, the second youngest of the eight children born to Christian Gingerich
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• Metamora Mennonite Church (Metamora, Illinois, USA)
  and dedicated it on 16 November 1952. It built a new parsonage in 1956. On 1 April 1918, during World War I, a gang painted the church building with yellow
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• Johns, Otis N. (1889-1975)
  Pennsylvania Mennonites (Mennonite Church), Otis Nathan "O. N." Johns was born 1 June 1889 at Goshen, Indiana, the son of Bishop Daniel J. Johns. He married
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• Bilthoven (Utrecht, Netherlands)
  Sweelincklaan 1 - Broederschapshuis Doopsgezinden." 7 April 2014. Web. 15 October 2014. http://reliwiki.nl/index.php/Bilthoven,_Sweelincklaan_1_-_Broeders
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• Butler County (Ohio, USA)
  of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 486. All rights reserved. ©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite
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• Overijssel (Netherlands)
  a province in the Netherlands, area 1,295 sq. miles, pop. 554,000 in 1959, including 2,700 Mennonites in 1959; 1,109,250 in 2005. In 1959 the 2,700 Mennonites
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• Blooming Glen Mennonite Church (Blooming Glen, Pennsylvania, USA)
  Melvin A. Bishop (1930-1953) the following new activities were introduced: (1) singing classes taught by J. W. Yoder and L. D. Hunsicker; (2) teachers' meetings
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• Mennonite Observer (Periodical)
  The Mennonite Observer, a 12-page, 10 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. weekly companion to the Mennonitische Rundschau, has been published by the Christian Press at Winnipeg
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• Cooperatives
  motivations, and needs, especially those of women (Development International, vol. 1; vol. 2, 40ff). The Mennonite interpretation of and experimentation with cooperatives
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• Ordinances
  ordinances. Both of the latter originate in the New Testament (2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Corinthians 11:2ff.) and have been practiced throughout the centuries but have
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• Borissovo Mennonite Settlement (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)
  Chortitza colony on land purchased by them. It consisted of three villages, No. 1 - Kondratyevka, No. 2 - Nikolaipol (Nikolaifeld), and No. 3 - Lyubomirovka
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• Blumenort Community Church (Blumenort, Manitoba, Canada)
  (now Kleefeld), Steinbach, and Blumenort. The original community was about 1.5 km south of the present-day community. The village of Blumenort, north of
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• World War (1914-1918)
  The Russian Empire suffered humiliating international invasion and defeat (1,700,000 dead), domestic political revolution, civil anarchy and war, and the
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• Coaldale Mennonite Brethren Church (Coaldale, Alberta, Canada)
  Mennonite Brethren Churches General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Vol. 1, p. 631 by J. B. Janz Coaldale Mennonite Brethren Church, a member of the Northern
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• Horsch, John (1867-1941)
  church through writing was also partially frustrated due to three factors: (1) his lack of intimate knowledge of the American Mennonite Church, its leadership
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• Clearbrook Mennonite Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)
  church. Clearbrook Realty and Insurance Agency sold the lot to the church for $1.00, and the sanctuary, built with much volunteer labor, cost $12,000. Clearbrook
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