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GAMEO was started in 1996 as the Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia Online by the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada. [1] In 2005 the project was renamed to its current title and the scope expanded with the additional partnership of the Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission and the Mennonite Church USA Archives.
In the history of Virginia Old Order Mennonite Conference there was no split over the question if automobiles should be introduced, like in most of the other Old Order Mennonite groups in the early decades of the 20th century, but there was a division in 1952/3, "primarily because of personality differences between Bishop John Dan Wenger and ...
This decision acted against a church-wide forbearance resolution passed in 2015 by Mennonite Church USA, the denominational body that oversees Virginia Mennonite Conference. Virginia Mennonite's actions were covered in national news outlets, [6] and numerous commentaries [7] and editorials [8] were published in national and Mennonite media sources.
Gospel Herald (Scottdale, Pennsylvania) was the official publication of the Mennonite Church from 1908–1998. It was formed from a merger of Gospel Witness (Scottdale, Pennsylvania) and Herald of Truth (Elkhart, Indiana).
Total membership in Mennonite Church USA denominations decreased from about 133,000, before the merger in 1998, to a total membership of 120,381 in the Mennonite Church USA in 2001 [2] and 78,892 members in 2016. [3] In May 2021 the main page of their website stated a membership of about 62,000. [4]
The Mennonite Christian Fellowship churches, or just Fellowship churches, are an Amish Mennonite constituency within the conservative Anabaptist faith and tradition. The group is theologically and historically similar to the Beachy Amish Mennonite constituency.
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[130] [131] Another 78,892 of that number are from the Mennonite Church USA. [70] Total membership in Mennonite Church USA denominations decreased from about 133,000, before the MC-GC merger in 1998, to about 114,000 after the merger in 2003. In 2016 it had fallen to under 79,000. Membership of the Mennonite Church USA is on the decline. [70] [120]