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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.
The John Dan Wenger Mennonites are an Anabaptist Christian denomination that belongs to the Old Order Mennonites. They use horse and buggy transportation and are mainly located in Virginia . Under the leadership of Bishop John Dan Wenger, they separated from the Virginia Old Order Mennonite Conference in either 1952 or 1953.
Tisa Joy Wenger [1] was born in 1969 [2] to Christine and Harold Wenger, [3] Mennonite missionaries who operated throughout Africa. [4] She got her BA (1991) in English at Eastern Mennonite University, [5] where she also made national headlines for introducing Virginia state legislator J. Samuel Glasscock at the college's Amnesty International-funded anti-death penalty forum. [6]
Joseph Wenger (1868–1956) [1] was an Old Order Mennonite preacher, who, in the 1927 schism of the Weaverland Old Order Mennonite Conference was ordained bishop by bishops in Indiana, Michigan, and Virginia, and made head of a new branch broken from the Weaverland Conference.
In 1927, after the Wenger Mennonites had left the congregation, there were about 500 baptized members in Weaverland Mennonite Conference and in 1957 there were 1,731 baptized members. [9] In 1994 the number of baptized members had risen to 4,767. [10] In 2008/9 membership was 7,100 in 40 congregations across 6 states.
Communauté Mennonite au Congo (86,600 members) [125] Old Order Mennonites (60,000 to 80,000 members in the U.S., Canada and Belize) Mennonite Church USA (about 62,000 members in the United States) [126] Kanisa La Mennonite Tanzania (50,000 members in 240 congregations) Conservative Mennonites (30,000 members in over 500 U.S. churches) [127]
They broke from the River Brethren in 1836 over issues of closed communion and meetinghouses. They are named for John Wenger, the leader who initiated the separation. In 1861 part of this group joined the Mennonite Brethren in Christ. The remainder became the Pentecostal Brethren in Christ, which joined the Pilgrim Holiness Church in 1924. [1]
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