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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 ...
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church on 7/21/2009. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church is a little less than a half of a mile from the Bethel Post Office. The original building for the church was recently torn down and this picture is the new building. Within the last twenty years, the church has seen a new fellowship hall, a paved parking lot and ...
Goshen College closed for the 1923-24 school year after many students and some faculty left in protest of the appointment of Daniel Kauffman as college president. [3] This conflict carried over into the ranks of CMC, with many members, including Jonas S. Hartzler leaving and joining Eighth Street Mennonite Church, then a part of the General Conference Mennonite Church. [4]
In 1956–57, the church building was remodeled and enlarged. [ 2 ] Eighth Street Mennonite was a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church until it merged with the "Old" Mennonite Church to form Mennonite Church USA in 2002.
Mennonite Biblical Seminary (MBS), a General Conference Mennonite Church institution in Chicago, Illinois, was the second school that became part of AMBS. The General Conference Mennonites had a history of educating pastors and church leaders which started with Wadsworth Institute (1868–1878), then Halstead Seminary (1883) the forerunner of Bethel College and Witmarsum Theological Seminary ...
Assembly Mennonite Church is a Mennonite Church located in Goshen, Indiana. It is a member of the Central District Conference of Mennonite Church USA . Beginning as a small group of Members from Surrounding Mennonite Churches , Assembly broke from that congregation in the mid-1970s.
The Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference chartered a high school on June 4, 1953, to be built in Goshen on land that had been "home to a Potawatomi tribe". [4] It opened on September 7, 1954. There were building additions as the school grew, in 1957, 1964 and 1989. [4] Bethany Christian was founded to serve Mennonite secondary school students.
The Bethel athletic teams are called the Pilots. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Crossroads League (formerly known as the Mid-Central College Conference (MCCC) until after the 2011–12 school year) for most of its sports since the 1981–82 academic year; while its men's & women's swimming & diving teams ...