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Eighth Street Mennonite Church
Eighth Street Mennonite Church is a Mennonite Church located in Goshen, Indiana. It is a member of the Central District Conference of Mennonite Church USA. History Eighth Street was organized by former members of Silver Street Mennonite Church in 1913 and held services in a building on Fifth Street, an avenue which gave the congregation its name until the 1920 construction of a larger building on Eighth Street. In the 1920s, the Eighth Street congregation expanded as much of the College Mennonite Church joined it in the wake of conflicts within CMC and Goshen College. In 1956–57, the church building was remodeled and enlarged. 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. Early leaders at Eighth Street Mennonite include: *Jonas S. Hartzler *I. R. Detweiler *A. E. Kreider Innovations Eighth Street was one of the Central District Conference congregation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mennonite
Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radical Reformation, Simons articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders, with the early teachings of the Mennonites founded on the belief in both the mission and ministry of Jesus, which the original Anabaptist followers held with great conviction, despite persecution by various Roman Catholic and Mainline Protestant states. Formal Mennonite beliefs were codified in the Dordrecht Confession of Faith in 1632, which affirmed "the baptism of believers only, the washing of the feet as a symbol of servanthood, church discipline, the shunning of the excommunicated, the non-swearing of oaths, marriage within the same church, strict pacifistic physical nonresistance, anti-Catholicism and in general, more emphasis on "true Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goshen, Indiana
Goshen ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. It is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the northern part of Indiana near the Michigan border, in a region known as Michiana. Goshen is located 10 miles southeast of Elkhart, Indiana, Elkhart, 25 miles southeast of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend, 120 miles east of Chicago, and 150 miles north of Indianapolis. The population was 34,517 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The city is known as an extremely prominent recreational vehicle and accessories manufacturing center, the home of Goshen College, a small Mennonite liberal arts college, and the Elkhart County 4-H Fair, the largest county fair in the United States. History Before the arrival of white colonists, the land that is today Goshen, Indiana, was populated by Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central District Conference
The Central District Conference is a conference of Mennonite Church USA, made up of 45 congregations located in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Virginia, 16 of which are also affiliated with other conferences, including the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, the Illinois Mennonite Conference, and the Ohio Mennonite Conference. Two congregations are also affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. History The Central District Conference belonged to the General Conference Mennonite Church The General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) was a mainline association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002. The conference was formed in 1860 when congregations in Iowa invited North American Mennonites to join ... (GC) and was created through a merger of two GC conferences, the Middle District, and the Central Conference, in 1957. It was the second-largest GC conference. Today The Central District Conference owns and operates C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mennonite Church USA
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. 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 and 78,892 members in 2016. In May 2021 the main page of their website stated a membership of about 62,000. History Mennonite Church (MC) (Mennonite General Conference and Mennonite General Assembly) Dutch and German immigrants from Krefeld, Germany, settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683. Swiss Mennonites came to North America in the early part of the 18th century. Their first settlements were in Pennsylvania, then in Virginia and Ohio. These Swiss immigrants, combined with Dutch and German Mennonites and progres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Street Mennonite Church
Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite. Most silver is produced as a byproduct of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining. Silver has long been valued as a precious metal. Silver metal is used in many bullion coins, sometimes alongside gold: while it is more abundant than gold, it is much less abundant as a native metal. Its purity is typically measured on a per-mille basis; a 94%-pure alloy is described as "0.940 fine". As one of the seven metals of antiquity, silver has had an enduring role in most human cultures. Other than in cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
