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Mennonite & Brethren in Christ World Directory 2003. Available On-line at MWC – World Directory; Pannabecker, Samuel Floyd (1975), Open Doors: A History of the General Conference Mennonite Church, Faith and Life Press. ISBN 0873036360; Miller Shearer, Tobin (2010). Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and ...
By 1544, the term Mennonite or Mennist was used in a letter to refer to the Dutch Anabaptists. [10] Twenty-five years after his renunciation of Catholicism, Menno died on 31 January 1561 at Wüstenfelde, Holstein, and was buried in his garden. [3] He was married to a woman named Gertrude, and they had at least three children, two daughters and ...
The Mennonite community played an important role in the drainage and cultivation of the Vistula delta and the trade relations with the Netherlands. In the late 18th century a significant number of Mennonites emigrated further and formed the nucleus of the Mennonite settlements in Russia , while many remained in the region after the annexation ...
The General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) was a mainline association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002. [1] The conference was formed in 1860 when congregations in Iowa invited North American Mennonites to join together in order to pursue common goals such as higher education and mission work.
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.
John Holdeman (January 31, 1832 - March 10, 1900) was an American self-described prophet and the founder of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, also known as the Holdeman Mennonite Church. [1] [2] [3] This is a plain dress and theologically conservative Mennonite denomination that has 27,000 members, mostly in the United States and Canada ...
Old Colony Mennonites (German: Altkolonier-Mennoniten) are a part of the Russian Mennonite movement that descends from colonists who migrated from the Chortitza Colony in modern Ukraine near Zaporizhia (itself originally of Prussian origins) to settlements in Canada. Theologically, Old Colony Mennonites are largely conservative Mennonites. [1]
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