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New York Mennonite Conference is a regional conference of Mennonite Church USA comprising 14 churches Upstate New York. Officially founded in 1973 as the NYS Mennonite Fellowship , its primary goal was to facilitate fellowship amongst congregations, while leaving most conference functions to the conferences from which members originated.
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.
Like the Stauffer or Pike Mennonites (origin 1845 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania), the Groffdale Conference, and the Old Order Mennonite Conference of Ontario, they stress separation from the world, excommunication, and the wearing of plain clothes. Some Old Order Mennonite groups are unlike the Stauffer or Pike Mennonites in that their form of the ...
Many of the conferences that were considered part of the Old Mennonite Church participated in the Mennonite General Conference from 1898-1971 and the Mennonite General Assembly from 1971-2002. [1] The Mennonite General Assembly voted to merge with the General Conference Mennonite Church at a joint session in Wichita, Kansas , in 1995.
Only five states — California, Connecticut, Maine, New York and West Virginia — have allowed no non-medical exemptions, according to the conference, but West Virginia is taking steps this year ...
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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.
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