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dress features shared by most plain groups of Swiss Mennonite background are the plain coat and the cape dress. The plain coat has a standing collar and

the Moravians; and (3) the "plain people" (also called Sects). Among the "plain people" (so named because of their plainness in dress) are the various groups

congregations, some members considering this fashion too worldly for the plain people of Menno. Claes Jacobsz, the preacher of Den Burg on the island of Texel

classic Anabaptist literature, and an assortment of pamphlets for the plain people. Biggest sellers are the Pathway Readers, a complete set of stories compiled

Order Amish Mennonites." http://www.thearda.com/Denoms/D_1022.asp.  "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by

Église de Dieu en Christ Mennonite, Haiti Boynton, Linda Louise. The Plain People: An Ethnography of the Holdeman Mennonites. Salem, WI: Sheffield Publishing

in 1952. The congregation began with evangelistic meetings among the Plain People of Wayne and Holmes counties. Minister Paul Swartley of Souderton, Pennsylvania

themselves as plain people by virtue of their inner values and simple life-style. The Old Order Amish are the largest group of Plain People. The Old Order

house by Elder Anken, which a part of his congregation, composed of very plain people, considered too sumptuous and too worldly. The Oude Zwitsers were the

Gemüths-Gespräch (1769, 1770). Alderfer, E. Gordon. "Pioneer Culture of the Plain People." Mennonite Life 5 (October 1950): 32. The First Century of German Printing

lumber business, flour mills, and agricultural machinery. Some of the plain people are still excellent wagon manufacturers. European Mennonites used the

through an advertisement in The Budget. The area seemed receptive to plain people and suitable for a horse and buggy community. In spring 1998 five families

God." The German and Czech versions of the Manifesto appealed to the plain people (Am Volk zweifle ich nicht) ; the Latin version, much milder, addressed

attempts at fiction appeared in Mennonite periodicals. Jake, a Story of Plain People, by S. M. Grubb, was published in The Mennonite in 1911 and deals with

Story of the Brethren in Christ. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1978. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by

Mennonite Quarterly Review 63 (April 1989). Beck, Ervin. "Glass Painting by Plain People." Folklife Annual. Washington, D.C.: American Folklife Center, 1988.

Lutheran of Pennsylvania-German stock, some of her works deal with the "plain people," including the Mennonites. Her novel I Heard of a River (1948) tells

such a change set young people off into so small a group that satisfactory social fellowship was almost impossible. Few young people could bring themselves

industrial cities come primarily to see the plain people in their picturesque agricultural community. The People's Place and the Mennonite Information Center

1786-1920: The History of a Separate People. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. Epp, Frank H. Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: A People's Struggle for Survival. Toronto:

the painting of barns in Pennsylvania was introduced around 1830. The "plain people" including the Amish and the Mennonites accepted this innovation but

of Lancaster Conference. Scottdale, PA, 1931: 130, 139, 148, 385-395. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by

unknown people in an unknown land." Thanks, among other factors, to the settlements made in the interior by the Mennonites, the land and the people are no

groups gradually became thought of and often labeled as "the plain people" or "the plain sects." The Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia areas

congregations along with the need of a winter Bible School for their young people. Most of these ministers were from the midwestern United States. A few were

shall be my people." 1 Peter 2: "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people." "But are now the people of God."

about clandestine luxuries here and there; in short the old plain ways of committed people had tangibly deteriorated, and no one seemed to know how to

churches, e.g., Hans de Ries in the Grootekerk at Alkmaar in 1638, and the plain people in the cemeteries. It was done in this way until burial in the churches

another as much deviated from the old Mennonite plain style of living, the Frisians looking upon the less plain dress and manners of the Flemish as worldly

a country with numerous cultures, languages, and ethnic groups.Mestizos (people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry) comprise about 34% of the population

other churches. At the present time the three bodies are holding the young people of their families fairly well." (Burkholder: 41). Other scattered Ontario

title=Foundation_and_Plain_Instruction_of_the_Saving_Doctrine_of_Our_Lord_Jesus_Christ&oldid=144128. APA style Krahn, Cornelius. (1956). Foundation and Plain Instruction

instruments in worship, and the use of the prayer veil. While never emphasizing "plain clothes" to the extent that the eastern conferences did, the Illinois Conference

preaching, holding baptism and communion services, and seeking to bring people of both Mennonite and non-Mennonite background into the church. Although

Mennonite Communities in Southern Maryland." Thesis, U. of Maryland, 1951. "Plain People of Pennsylvania." Penn State On Demand panel discussion moderated by

calmness marked his relationships with people. In spite of his great wealth and influence Cornies remained a plain Mennonite farmer. Epp, D. H. Johann Cornies

Geographically present-day Virginia is divided into three areas—the coastal plain or tidewater Virginia, the Piedmont Plateau, and the Great Valley area between

the constituencies. In all the Mennonite communities nearly all the young people attended high schools by the 1950s. In some of them religious instruction

of the Old Testament will be plain to them in the New Testament. It should be noted that Schiemer does not tell his people that they should ignore the Old

replaced by a large two-story stone structure with a tile roof, which in its plain structural design was reminiscent of the Dutch and Prussian meetinghouses

in the canton of Bern, and the older congregations of the Alsatian Rhine plain, which alone are known to have adopted the Dordrecht Confession, whose eleventh

1786-1920: The History of a Separate People. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. Epp, Frank H. Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: A People's Struggle for Survival. Toronto:

groups were reported in Costa Rica: 65.8% White / Castizo; 13.65% Mestizo (people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry); 9.03% Immigrants; 6.72% Mulatto;

"China, People's Republic of." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1987. Web. 12 May 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=China,_People%27s

and alternate service in the 20th century broadened the horizons of many people, especially young adults from this community. As a result, Lancaster Conference

feeble start of 1841 in Elkhart County. These Old Order Amish wear severely plain dress, wear the beard, use the German in their services, generally shun all

region in 1858 led to the first important settlements of English-speaking people. An Act of Congress established the Colorado Territory in 1861, and 15 years

young people's societies began in the larger congregations in 1898. These societies proved to be of immense value in occupying the young people and keeping

Reading which became extinct by 1786 as the result of raids by Indigenous people, one in Chester County near Malvern, which died out before 1800, and one

Ezra Eby pronounced his preaching “plain, practical and impressive.” He witnessed the conversion of hundreds of people. Noah Detweiler’s last missionary

obedience." The same statement emphasizes that the "Bible is the Book of the people of God," i.e., the understanding and credibility of its message are to be

Mennonite people in several local communities. Formal tourist sites play several important roles in structuring the encounter between plain groups and

instruments and firearms were not permitted in the unit. Men were required to wear plain suits, and women a dark type of footwear in addition to cape dresses. A similar

has contributed immensely to the emancipation of individuals and groups of people from dehumanizing forces, it is wrong to assume that either individuals

or fed or aided in any possible way. This mandate was to be read to the people by the pastors on several successive Sundays and holidays and also by other

enterprises. From then on the nickname Habaner became the general name for these people. In Transylvania the Brethren had dwindled to scarcely more than a small

have included people with disabilities who, according to prevailing attitudes, were probably viewed as children of innocence and people needing assistance

Sturdy Oak. Kidron, Ohio: Ohio Conference Office, 2011. Miller, Levi. Our People: The Amish and Mennonites of Ohio. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1983. Stoltzfus

Muskhogean people lived in what is now Mississippi. Pressure for land to raise cotton took 15 million acres of their land. Removal of Indigenous people in 1830

Amish Road, Plain City, Ohio Phone: 614-873-8301 Denominational Affiliation: Beachy Amish Church Map:Canaan Fellowship Mennonite Church (Plain City, Ohio)

the pulpit, and privately, he denounced its evils. As early as 1532 some people in the vicinity of Witmarsum had been baptized. Menno even had some discussions

membership grew quickly, drawing attendees from a fairly wide geography–-people from across the region who were attracted to a more congenial Mennonite

in Plain City, Ohio, USA was established in 1960. It was originally known as the Bethesda Amish Mennonite Fellowship. Old Order Amish in the Plain City

near Grandin, Missouri, USA, began in 1969, after a number of families from Plain City, Ohio and other locations chose to begin a conservative Mennonite congregation

understood, folklore is not the quaint and curious ways of isolated, backward people. Everyone has folklore. In fact, it is made up of the most essential --

enriched by people connected with two groups in Arabella area: a Western Gospel Mission work in Arabella that dissolved and the Swan Plain Mennonite Church

resulted from the establishment of the Darlington Mission. In 1891 some people who had settled between the present towns of Okarche and El Reno, Canadian

established in 1977 as an outreach led by Ivan Yutzy of Bethesda Fellowship in Plain City, Ohio and families from Leon, Iowa. Part of the goal was to avoid "liberal

2014 only about one-third of the 170,000 postal subscribers were members of plain Anabaptist groups; the rest — including more than 40,000 prison inmates —

Sunnyside Nursing Home. The congregation asked that Lester Gingerich of Plain City, Ohio pastor the congregation in 1970; at this time affiliation was

excommunication. Worship services, two or three hours in length, were conducted in plain meetinghouses furnished with backless wooden benches. The Vorsänger (choristers)

chronicles of the Hutterian Brethren report, "In this year, 1585, so many people came from Switzerland that they could not all be received; but a good part

80,000, with a total population of about twice that number. The Old Order people see the automobile as a disintegrating force affecting the family, church

http://mennoworld.org/2015/04/13/opinion/opinion-chasm-between-plain-and-liberal/. Stella, Rachel. “Plain Anabaptist conference seeks common ground.” Mennonite

loans from the local bank. The Dueck's first dwelling was a structure of plain shiplap boards covered with black tar paper. Although providing for the physical

the teaching of the Scriptures and as the long-established custom of the people and the church. But when Protestant women ceased wearing it during religious

just off the coast of the Asiatic mainland, were crowded over 80 million people in 1955. In 1955, farming was the main occupation, and as the country is

since World War II been a socialist republic, but the religious life of its people has been conditioned by a turbulent history that antedates the establishment

years before the general union of 1698) but the lowland plains, from the uncertainties from which people sought refuge in the privileged free city. Names like

plates or baskets in which wine and bread were served—were originally very plain. They became more ornamental during the "Golden Age" (17th century) in the

wise and statesmanlike decision, but in terms of absolute principle and plain Scripture teaching it was indefensible. At least so it seemed to Conrad Grebel

time baptized a class of young people. Others would have united with the church but were unable to decide in favor of a plain church. Many of the descendants

membership was 68,753 people in 641 congregations in 18 area conferences: Allegheny, Atlantic Coast, Central District, Central Plains, Eastern District, Franconia

cultures, Bible principles find a consistent practical application among God's people in every generation. (2) Believer's baptism. Only those who show evidence

making tradition. The ongoing householder role and the Amish preference for "plain style" has contributed to the popularity of the Amish woman's quilt. Together

Leliaart. Behind our heroes of faith rises the shadow of the great man of the people, Jacob van Artevelde. Henri Pirenne in his history of Belgium (III, 404

Christian Funk agreed with his fellow ministers that "as a defenseless people, the Mennonites could neither institute nor destroy any government." But

1786-1920: The History of a Separate People. Toronto: Macmillan, 1974. Epp, Frank H. Mennonites in Canada, 1920-1940: A People's Struggle for Survival. Toronto:

was made that the landowners were not allowed to sell their land to the "people of the Uke Walles sect." In 1642 the Ukowallists are said to have held their

individual. “We always knew our father to be a man of simple tastes and plain lifestyle. That was attested by the fact that one day a week he fasted and

principle of simplicity with them. The great similarity of Mennonite and Quaker "plain" costumes in Eastern Pennsylvania suggests definite Quaker influence. Good

of a desire to spread out to different areas that did not have a Godly, plain church in its midst. In 2018 the church had 60 members and was a member of

congregation started as a daughter congregation of the Haven Fellowship in Plain City, Ohio In 2017 the church was a member of the Beachy Amish Mennonite

the outcaste Chamar and Ghasia people located on the west side of the Hasdeo River on the central part of the northern plain known historically as Hindustan

Springs Amish Mennonite Church. Cedar Springs began the outreach to "plant a plain witness in a community where there is none." Seven families, including the

compulsory for women to wear the bonnet. Due to this controversy, a group of people left to form the Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church. In the midst of this

in the nostalgic settings of rural plain Christian life. In these romance novels Amish are viewed as chaste people countering a rather worldly and technologically

running out of space, and it believed the best option was to establish a "plain" Anabaptist witness in another community. On 1 July 1991 eight families were

struggled valiantly to emancipate the country and bring political freedom to its people. The United States governmental organization has been generally the model

covering of consistent size, and requirements for men to wear the regulation plain clothing. Televisions in the home were not permitted, nor were radios for

better soil and larger than the average, were occupied by the Kleine Gemeinde people, while all the others belonged to the Bergthal group. Not all the places

community rather than centrally located. The church has always needed to draw people from the local community, from the Worcester/Collegeville area, since there

$8.25 (U.S.) an acre. By December 1922 more than 2,000 Mennonites peopled the plains where ranch cattle had roamed before. By 1926 well over 16,000 colonists

this study, aiming to make the data and conclusions understandable to lay people. Twenty years later, Harder, Kauffman, and Leo Driedger collaborated on

pamphlets were translated into foreign languages and distributed not only among people arriving in America, but also among prospective immigrants in Europe. One

that she wore. Sarah had to put away her beads and jewellry, and wear a plain dress to suit the bishops. Sunday school at Shantz Mennonite began in about

movement that sought a more zealous faith. Minister Henry P. Unruh led 95 people from Friedensberg into the Sharon Evangelical Mennonite Brethren congregation

conference passed actions to permit Bible studies, young people's meetings, and young people's institutes, and eventually permitted presentations by special

https://www.facebook.com/people/Ashland-Christian-Fellowship-Montana/100071108295049/ Denominational Affiliations: Central Plains Mennonite Conference Mennonite

(1962). The Mennonite World Conference commissioned Merle Good to write These people mine (1972) and Robert Hostetter to write Cheyenne Jesus buffalo dream (1978)

suitable for block settlement in the United States and Canada. The central plains offered the best opportunities for this. The Canadian government, having

Abraham J. Becker: Mennonite Brethren missionary to the Comanche people; born in Wohldemfuerst, Kuban, South Russia on 25 February 1872 to Jacob P. and

research on Anabaptist and Pietist churches, especially Plain groups. Scott's published books include Plain Buggies (1981), Why Do They Dress That way? (1986)

established in the mid-1960s. The settlement for a number of years was a mix of plain Amish and Mennonite groups that had a vision for a unique Christian community

family-life talks in a manner that was both commanding and engaging. She embraced plain dress and modesty, and for over three decades gave talks on human sexuality

kerk). The earlier word vermaning (literally admonition, or place where the people are stimulated to faith and Christian life), formerly very common, especially

church community and helped establish a literary society (1904) for the young people of the church. J. Harvey became known for his collaborative efforts in building

Mennonite Church USA. The best are simple, colourful, and easily imprinted on people for visual recognition. Emblems can be worn as a badge, displayed on publications

Ontario, a role she held until September 1981. Delphine Martin was one of the people that Conrad Grebel College president Ralph Lebold called together in 1981

company. In four years' time, Yoder, Wyoming, grew to a town of 500-600 people, but its population declined significantly during the Great Depression of

Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains. When it was discovered the community of Victory Gardens (named after the vegetable gardens people planted during World War

nonresistance, lay ministry, difference of the functions of elder and preacher, plain dress, Biestkens Bible. From 1800 to his death in 1844 Meine Obes (Obbes)

On 28 July 1620, on a Tuesday morning at three o'clock, "while all the people were lying in bed without worry," the Bruderhof was attacked by imperial

have uncut hair. Men, as a rule, do not enter the professions. They wear plain clothing (dress), and their life is built around the church, schools, and

Finally, however, yielding to the pleas of the missionary and some of his own people and one of his wives, Parker led the missionary to the place where he believed

Mennonites in Ontario. Kitchener, Ontario: Herald Press, 2015. Stotzfus, Sam. Plain Communities Business Exchange (November 1993). MLA style Lichti, Fred. "Ebersol

The Swiss Mennonite women of southeastern Pennsylvania undoubtedly wore plain and simple headgear from the first, likely a form of beaver hat, or the old

Danville, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, and a Bible school for young people at Numidia, Pennsylvania. In 1968, the Lancaster Conference adopted a new

grew up in Shirati, a Luo people's village in an area called Kiseru, in Mara Region between Lake Victoria and the Serengeti Plain. Following Luo custom, he

congregations to combat the enormous pressure for conformity to the world the young people were experiencing. The emphasis on the Mennonite high schools over the elementary

Kleinsasser, the first pastor. The 1953 membership was 89, and all were rural people. The original frame meetinghouse, erected in 1922 and seating 180, was still

members purchased a former 1883 Methodist church building in Bridgewater. More people began attending, and in 1928 Michael J. Hofer became the group's minister

structure was ripped apart and its occupants hurled into the air." Ten of the 18 people died while the other eight were injured; nine of the ten deceased were children

This tradition, plus their desire to perpetuate themselves as a peculiar people, resulted in church regulations which often prohibited residence in towns

presented annually to the congregations in 1639-1716, stating that young people should not marry without the consent of the parents, that boys and girls

the adoption and maintenance of the plain Quaker bonnet by many women during the 19th and 20th centuries. In the plainer congregations of the conference,

years she served half-time as a United States Government field matron to the people. The job of field matron involved record-keeping of land ownership, rent

shunning members whose only offense was transferring membership to another plain Anabaptist denomination. When innovation adoption and/or shunning became

the home of Isaac Dyck, a General Conference Mennonite from Swift Current. People were happy to come and had a wonderful time of fellowship. He encouraged

Fisher, both of Lancaster City. "The Reformed Mennonites are a small body of people who adhere to the doctrines and principles of love taught in the New Testament

distress. It was written at the time when he bade farewell to his wife and his people in Klagenfurt. Two other songs should also be mentioned. “Susanne war in

population in the Ukraine, the government helped provide medical aid to the people. As the Mennonites advanced culturally and economically, they also became

Anderson, Cory. The Amish-Mennonites of North America: a portrait of our people. Medina, New York: Ridgeway Publishing, 2012: 66. Anderson, Cory Alexander

to ascertain the extent of mental illness and mental deficiency among our people, and thus the need for church-administered institutional care; second, to

Although many people have participated in the life of the congregation, initially, the group seldom numbered more than ten. Eventually, people would feel

expensive, complex, use much equipment and technology, and require many people with different skills. The visual, audible, and emotional impact on viewers

as nonresistance and nonparticipation in politics. They wore simple, or plain, clothing, and they practiced brotherhood in such matters as church discipline

of people confronting the powers of our culture by living in direct contrast to the way of life of this world." The group joined the Central Plains Mennonite

Tyson Foods, where many Spanish-speaking people worked. In 2023 the congregation was part of the Central Plains Conference of Mennonite Church USA. "Congregation

Mennonite and Catholic Worker traditions. By this time community had about 20 people living in two households--Clare House and Sattler House. They had several

the city that suffered from economic decline and drug-related crime. As people moved away and membership declined, the church decided to end. Northside’s

group in order to have a car. In the words of one Amishman, "The first thing people do when they leave our church is go out and buy a car." The car transformed

March 1959, it changed its name to Beemer Mennonite Church. The first Young People's Bible meetings began in 1918, and a women's sewing circle began in 1930

Bethany Mennonite Church, Freeman, South Dakota (Central Plains Mennonite Conference began in 1896 when area Mennonite churches began a Sunday school in

Cheyenne Mennonite Church) to build a chapel. It served Northern Cheyenne People in or near the reservation. Alfred and Agnetha Wiebe were the first local

sometime after 1897. It built a new brick meetinghouse in 1912 that seated 500 people. During World War I, East Union experienced some hostility. A mob wanted

$3260.71. It dedicated the new meetinghouse on 11 February 1900. The young people of the congregation purchased the carpet, the organ, and the church bell

Mennonite Church. (The Busby band of Cheyennes had been known as the White River People since returning from Oklahoma and South Dakota and this name change seemed

congregations that joined the new Central Plains Mennonite Conference in 2000. In 2023 the congregation was part of the Central Plains Conference of Mennonite Church

became common. Influenced by their non-Mennonite neighbors, Mennonite young people gradually began to attend academies and high schools and some went on to

Union Amish Mennonite Church with adherents from a wide area. Sometimes people called it the Warey Church. The Union Church built a meetinghouse in 1889

2005 edition of the Mennonite Church USA Directory." "New church has 40 people." Gospel Herald 84, no. 31 (30 July 1991): 13. "Peace Community Fellowship

Church USA) of Henderson, York County, Nebraska, is a member of the Central Plains Conference (formerly Northern District Conference), with a membership of

Church USA. "Eighty people attended...." Gospel Herald 51, no. 16 (22 April 1958): 384. Yoder, Holly Blosser. The same spirit: History of Iowa-Nebraska Mennonites

Scripture was used to expose abuses in Christendom caused by the clergy, lay people were emboldened to take Scripture into their own hands, to read it, to apply

manuscript songbooks of the Ephrata Cloister of the mid-18th century, small plain manuscript songbooks made in Mennonite schools in the early 19th century

somewhat new, and is by no means the generally accepted view of the Mennonite people. The Scriptures do teach to a certainty that Christ is coming again; and

about a people who choose not to be modern, inquiries that frequently have received ambiguous or erroneous answers when addressed to the people in nearby

the old group dwindled to 40 members. Through social contacts of the young people with the young members of the Groffdale Old Order Mennonites many of the

new directions for service and ministry. Kreider had a gift for uniting people of different lifestyles and commitments in common endeavor. Coming from

sentence: "The Mennonites are a people which at no opportunity have failed to extend noteworthy charity toward the people of the Reformed faith. Only recently

as the solution of his life-problem, especially since he must view these people as heretics. The question arises here, from what source the author derived

of American Mennonite women is no longer their rural communities or their plain dress, but rather their strong faith in Jesus Christ. MGP Bainton, Roland

God is praised, the truth and the right are confirmed, lies are stopped, people are brought to peace, obedience is done, and strife is overcome, since God

conservative of the Mennonite conferences, with most of the men wearing the "plain" coat, and women the "cape" dress in the late 1950s. The woman's veiling

stimulated an attachment to the frontier. In America, being an agricultural people, Mennonites felt more at home and more competent working with the rural

history the AnabaptistsAnabaptism and Mennonites have also been a frontier people. They have felt some of the same pressures to which Turner refers -- the

singing in the vernacular by the church because "the heretics were leading people astray" by "composing songs and teaching them to the children in the streets

Thurman, Colorado, Tofield, Alberta and Miller, South Dakota. The first Young Peoples’ Bible Meeting was held on 16 February 1896. In 1920 the question of sewing

brethren have done, more or less, in other countries. Being largely an urban people engaged in business and the professions, they have become an integral part