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John F. Funk, Mennonite leader who headed the Mennonite Publishing Company; Hans Herr, considered first Mennonite bishop to emigrate to America; Guy Hershberger, religious educator; Jacob and Anna Hostetler, spiritual leaders of the Jesus Church of Washington and leaders of the Amish-Mennonite Evangelism Network of the United Pentecostal Church
Over the decades, most Amish Mennonites groups removed the word "Amish" from the name of their congregations or merged with Mennonite groups. In the latest decades the term "Amish Mennonite" is sometimes erroneously used to designate horse-and-buggy Old Order Mennonites , whose lifestyle is more or less similar to the Old Order Amish.
These Amish moved away from the old Amish traditions and drew near to the Mennonites to become Mennonites of Amish origin. Over the decades all Amish Mennonites groups removed the word "Amish" from the name of their congregations or merged with Mennonite groups except the Kauffman Amish Mennonites, see below.
Congregations who took no side in the division after 1862 formed the Conservative Amish Mennonite Conference in 1910, but dropped the word "Amish" from their name in 1957; in the year 2000 many congregations left to organize the Biblical Mennonite Alliance in order to continue the practice of traditional Anabaptist ordinances, such as headcovering.
The name Mennonites is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, ... From 1941 to 1947, 4,665 Mennonites, Amish and Brethren in Christ ...
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
Swartzentruber is a Mennonite and Amish surname of Swiss origin, coming from the Trub river valley, located approximately midway between Bern and Lucerne. It has been thought to mean "seller of black grapes". [ 16 ]
These are people of Mennonite ancestry, but who are/were not members of the Mennonite religion. In some cases names listed here include people whose current status as Mennonites is undetermined. Sandra Birdsell, Canadian poet [46] Di Brandt, Canadian poet [47] Greg Brenneman, former CEO of Burger King [48] John Denver, folk singer-songwriter ...