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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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
Mennonite church buildings in Pennsylvania (2 P) Pages in category "Mennonitism in Pennsylvania" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
As the oldest Mennonite body in America, Franconia Conference is a three-century-old Mennonite “congregation of congregations” in southeastern Pennsylvania. Comprising about fifty congregations with some 7,000 members, it dates the arrival of its first members at Germantown near Philadelphia in 1683, and the first baptisms a quarter-century later in 1708.