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Yellow Creek Mennonite Church is a
In 1861, the congregation required a larger building and built a new structure across the road.
Today, Yellow Creek has an average attendance of 400-425.
Beginning in 2005, Yellow Creek has hosted an annual Carnival as a Halloween alternative.
Yellow Creek Mennonite has partnered with the ecumenical Wakarusa Ministerial Association to hold joint community services for Good Friday, Easter Sunrise, and Thanksgiving.
Services are held every Sunday at 9 a.m. with Sunday school following at 10:30. Sunday evening services are held for community hymn sings, the Christmas service, Service trip reports, and special music events.
Yellow Creek's institutional records are held at the
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 Radic ...
Church located in Elkhart County, Indiana. It is a member of the LMC, a fellowship of Anabaptist
Anabaptism (from New Latin language, Neo-Latin , from the Greek language, Greek : 're-' and 'baptism', german: Täufer, earlier also )Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term (translation: "Re- ...
churches.
History
Mennonites settled in Elkhart County, Indiana, beginning in 1839. In 1849 the first Mennonite log meeting house was built near the village of South West, and it was named Yellow Creek after a stream nearby. Bishop Martin Hoover, who moved to Indiana at age 85, died in 1850 and was replaced by Jacob Wisler, ordained bishop in 1851
In 1861, the congregation required a larger building and built a new structure across the road. Daniel Brenneman
Daniel Brenneman (June 8, 1834 – September 10, 1919) was an influential Mennonite minister and modernizer of the Mennonite Church (MC), who later founded his own church.
Born in Ohio he was ordained there to the ministry in the Mennonite Church ...
, known for his more evangelical theology, and John F. Funk John Fretz Funk (April 6, 1835 - January 8, 1930) was a publisher and leader of the Mennonite Church. Funk published the ''Herald of Truth'' from 1864 until 1908 when it merged with the ''Gospel Witness'' to form the ''Gospel Herald''. Jacob Clemen ...
, founder of the ''Herald of Truth
The ''Herald of Truth'' was a religious newspaper founded by John F. Funk in 1864. It was the first periodical of the "Old" Mennonite Church (MC) and was also published in German as the ''Herold der Wahrheit''. Funk published the ''Herald'' throug ...
'', moved to the Elkhart area in 1864 and 1867 respectively. These two ordained men were known as able preachers and often preached in English, rather than the German language. Because of his skill in English, Brenneman was in great demand in frontier Indiana for funeral services.
Difficulties between the progressive and the conservative preachers, including Jacob Wisler (1808-1889), Daniel Brenneman, John Funk, as well as Joseph Rohrer and Joseph Holdeman, resulted in the expulsion of the conservative preachers, first Rohrer and Holdeman, and then Wisler in 1872. Jacob Wisler was then instrumental in the forming of the Ohio-Indiana Mennonite Conference The Ohio-Indiana Mennonite Conference, also called Wisler Mennonites, is an Old Order Mennonite church body, whose Ordnung allows the ownership and private use of cars. They are quite similar to the Weaverland Old Order Mennonite Conference.
Histo ...
, also called Wisler Mennonites. About 100 church members sided with Jacob Wisler.
In 1874 Daniel Brenneman was also expelled. John F. Funk John Fretz Funk (April 6, 1835 - January 8, 1930) was a publisher and leader of the Mennonite Church. Funk published the ''Herald of Truth'' from 1864 until 1908 when it merged with the ''Gospel Witness'' to form the ''Gospel Herald''. Jacob Clemen ...
was ordained bishop in 1892, serving for a decade until 1902 when church politics forced him to retire from active preaching.
After this division, the Wisler and Funk branches shared the Yellow Creek building, holding services there on alternating Sundays until 1912.
Today
Today, Yellow Creek has an average attendance of 400-425.
Beginning in 2005, Yellow Creek has hosted an annual Carnival as a Halloween alternative.
Yellow Creek Mennonite has partnered with the ecumenical Wakarusa Ministerial Association to hold joint community services for Good Friday, Easter Sunrise, and Thanksgiving.
Services are held every Sunday at 9 a.m. with Sunday school following at 10:30. Sunday evening services are held for community hymn sings, the Christmas service, Service trip reports, and special music events.
Yellow Creek's institutional records are held at the Mennonite Church USA Archives The Mennonite Church USA Archives was founded in 2001 under the denominational merger of the (old) Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church. Prior to 2001, the two largest Mennonite denominations maintained separate archives: t ...
in 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 ...
.
References
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