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The constituency originated from several congregations separating from the Old Order Amish in the 1950s and 1960s. The congregations resembled the more conservative end of the Beachy Amish Mennonite constituency at that time. The two groups shared fellowship to the extent that these churches were incorporated into the Beachy affiliation.
In the 1950s and 1960s, this pattern began to change. Congregations began calling pastors to replace preachers. In the more progressive parts of the Mennonite church, these pastors were seminary-trained and salaried.
Seven ordinances have been taught in many traditional Mennonite churches, which include "baptism, communion, footwashing, marriage, anointing with oil, the holy kiss, and the prayer covering." [6] In 1911, the Mennonite church in the Netherlands (Doopsgezinde Kerk) was the first Dutch church to have a female pastor authorized; she was Anne Zernike.
In the 1950 they were joined by conservative withdrawals from the mainstream Mennonites. [6] "The first of these conservative withdrawals from the Mennonite Church occurred in the 1950s, and they continued in the 1990s. Many independent single congregations developed from this exodus." [9]
Anabaptist-Mennonite groups began arriving in Belize in the 1950s from Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Hurricane Hattie, which hit Belize hard in 1961, prompted the arrival of numerous Mennonite agencies to provide disaster relief, notably the Beachy Amish Mennonite and the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities.
In the late 1950s, Landis was entrusted with a large collection of papers from Christian E. Charles, one of the deacons at Landisville Mennonite Church. No longer able to house these documents at his home, he founded the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society in 1958 to store and maintain the new archive. [2]
In 1960, Brother Lark became the interim pastor at Calvary Mennonite Church in Los Angeles. The Black Caucus of the (old) Mennonite Church was formed in 1971. [6] Between 1950 and 1980, the number of Black Mennonites in the United States increased to 1,600 members in 49 Black and integrated churches. [4]
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.