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The Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, also called Wenger Mennonites, is the largest Old Order Mennonite group to use horse-drawn carriages for transportation. Along with the automobile, they reject many modern conveniences , while allowing electricity in their homes and steel-wheeled tractors to till the fields.
It was formed from a merger of Gospel Witness (Scottdale, Pennsylvania) and Herald of Truth (Elkhart, Indiana). As part of the merger of the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church, Gospel Herald merged with The Mennonite of the General Conference Mennonite Church to form a new periodical titled The Mennonite. [1]
The Principle of Nonresistance as Held by the Mennonite Church : An Historical Survey, Scottdale, PA, 1927 The Hutterian Brethren 1528-1931, Goshen, Indiana, 1931. Menno Simons' Life and Writings, a Quadricentennial Tribute, 1536-1936, Scottdale, Pa., 1936.
The Mennonite Church USA Archives was founded in 2001 under the denominational merger of the (old) Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church.Prior to 2001, the two largest Mennonite denominations maintained separate archives: the Archives of the Mennonite Church, located on the Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana) campus, housed materials pertaining to the (old) Mennonite Church ...
Ira David Landis (January 12, 1899 – February 27, 1977) was a Mennonite minister, amateur historian, and writer famous for his contributions to the Mennonite Research Journal and for founding the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society and Hans Herr House museum. He also ran a farm with his wife in Lititz, PA.
Old Order Mennonites (Pennsylvania German: Fuhremennischte) form a branch of the Mennonite tradition. Old Order are those Mennonite groups of Swiss German and south German heritage who practice a lifestyle without some elements of modern technology, still drive a horse and buggy rather than cars, wear very conservative and modest dress, and have retained the old forms of worship, baptism and ...
The Mennonite Publication Board was founded in 1908 in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, as an organization through which the (old) Mennonite Church could own and operate its own publishing and periodicals. It served as the overseeing board for the printing and sale of denominational texts, operating the Mennonite Publishing House in Scottdale along ...
The Mennonite Publishing House was a non-profit publishing operation in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, controlled by the Mennonite Publication Board of the (old) Mennonite Church. It served as the primary publisher of the denomination's periodicals, books, and congregational materials from 1908 to 2002.