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of Alsace-Lorraine, 1920 and 1921, presided over by Valentin Pelsy of Sarrebourg. In the spring of 1922 the congregation acquired a building of its own

of the Repaix congregation, later at Montbéliard) and Valentin Pelsy of Sarrebourg. Their efforts brought into being the French-language conference beginning

descended from the German-Lorraine congregation. On the linguistic border is Sarrebourg, derived in part from the Welschland and in part from the German-Lorraine

farms, as for example in Schacheneck, Imling, and Sarrebourg; later a meetinghouse was built in Sarrebourg, which was a rather central point for most of the

after World War I, the congregation being served by elders from Toul, Sarrebourg, and Montbéliard. Meetings ceased at the beginning of World War II (1939)

and exert unusual influence. With his close friend Valentin Pelsy, of Sarrebourg in Lorraine, and Pierre Kennel, of Montbéliard, his future brother-in-law

After 1925 the conference met semiannually, generally at Pfastatt, also at Sarrebourg or Colmar. Conference programs were prepared and proposals formulated

widely scattered territory, which once extended from near Metz to below Sarrebourg in the southeast. The first Mennonite settlers in the Duchy of Lorraine