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Herman op den Graeff, delegate of Krefeld, in front of the 1632 Dortrecht Mennonite Church Delegation and as a signer of the Dordrecht Confession of Faith. The Dordrecht Confession of Faith is a statement of religious beliefs adopted by Dutch Mennonite leaders at a meeting in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, on 21 April 1632.
Traditionally, Mennonites sought to continue the beliefs of early Christianity and thus practice the lovefeast (which includes footwashing, the holy kiss and communion), headcovering, nonresistance, the sharing of possessions and nonconformity to the world; these things are heavily emphasized in Old Order Mennonite and Conservative Mennonite ...
The Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the United States. Although the organization is a recent 2002 merger of the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church, the body has roots in the Radical Reformation of the 16th century.
Beliefs: Mennonite Faith and Practice, Choosing Against War: A Christian View, Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be, and Teaching that Transforms: Why Anabaptist-Mennonite Education Matters John D. Roth (born 1960) was a professor of history at Goshen College (1985-2022), the editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review (1995-2022), and director of ...
The spread of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite among other Mennonites and among the Amish was minimal until the arrival of Mennonite immigrants from the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), so called 'Russian' Mennonites who are of Dutch and Prussian heritage and who settled in Canada, mainly Manitoba and in the US, among other places in ...
The Church has its origins in an American mission in 1957. [1] It was founded in 1964.The Mennonite Central Committee, which is the social service branch of the Mennonite Church, was one of the few Western charitable organizations to continue work in Vietnam after the Northern regime communist victory in 1975 and the subsequent reunification of the country.
In 1959, he joined the Mennonite Church's Peace Problems Committee. [1] He played a pivotal role in founding Mennonite Mutual Aid and the Mennonite Community Association. [ 1 ] He helped to found The Mennonite Quarterly Review where he was an editor from 1963–1965 and was on the board of the Mennonite Historical Society, The Mennonite ...
In addition to articles, booklets, and chapters in larger works, Wenger wrote 22 books [1] such as the following: History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference, 1937. Glimpses of Mennonite History and Doctrine, 1947. Separated Unto God, 1951. Introduction to Theology, 1954. The Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan, 1961. Even Unto Death ...