New York Mennonite Conference is a regional conference of

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 Radi ...

comprising 14 churches

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. 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. By 1987, the Fellowship had taken on the functions of a conference, primarily

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and nurture of pastoral leaders. In the early 1990s, the Fellowship took on the name, New York Mennonite Conference.Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/N49825.html/?searchterm=New%20York%20Mennonite%20Conference

Member congregations

Central District

*Rochester Mennonite Fellowship *Sojourners Mennonite Fellowship

Northern District

*Bethel Christian Church *First Mennonite Church of New Bremen *Lowville Mennonite Church *Pine Grove Mennonite Church *Watertown Mennonite Church

Southern District

*Chenunda Creek Fellowship *Community Mennonite Fellowship of Corning *Jesus Church *Yorks Corners Mennonite Church

Western District

*Buffalo Chin Emmanuel Church *Clarence Center-Akron Mennonite Church

References

New York Mennonite Conference, www.nymennonite.org {{Reflist Mennonite denominations Mennonitism in the United States Mennonite Church USA