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  • ...nd for openness to each other. As a part of the nurture of individuals and congregations we will promote congregational study of the complex issues of sexuality, th ...reporting to the national conventions in 1983 and testing the study in the congregations. The final study was published in 1985 as <em>Human sexuality in the human
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  • ...en Fellowship. The church began 1) to relieve overcrowding in several area congregations, and 2) to provide a church for people on the northwest side of Goshen, the ...he possibility of beginning a church plant in cooperation with other local congregations.
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  • ...cially associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. In 2006 GMC had 23 congregations and in 2009 had 5,014 members.<ref>"North America." ''Mennonite World Confe ...convention came to an end, Thompson spent time visiting numerous Mennonite congregations throughout Europe. Eventually he ended up at the Mennonite Centre in London
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  • ...As Christians, we believe we are called to welcome these sojourners in our congregations and communities, especially as our government creates increasingly harsh im ==Immigrants in our congregations==
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  • .... Advent Lutheran Church. || Dialogue between local Lutheran and Mennonite congregations in Harleysville, PA. ...ran-reconciliation/ “Lutherans reconcile with Virginia Peninsula Mennonite congregations."] November 1, 2010. Virginina Mennonite Missions.|| Reconciliation service
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  • We experience this in 46 congregations holding dual-conference memberships, in linking of families through marriag 2. To support congregations which have affiliated with more than one denomination in order to manifest
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  • ...Trinity College (Dublin), and New College (Edinburgh). He is well-known in congregations for his enthusiastic biblical sermons. He is the author or editor of three
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  • [http://www.btg-online.de/ Alliance of Baptism-minded Congregations] ''Bund Taufgesinnter Gemeinden (BTG)''.
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  • ...roup associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] in Jamaica with 13 congregations:
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  • ...mented by the respective district and provincial conferences together with congregations, with the counsel of conference leadership.</li> <li>That the Canadian and
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  • ...p available to students in an academic setting as well as to lay people in congregations. In retirement Dan continues to write, preach, lead Bible studies, and teac
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  • ...babwe, or the mission outreaches in Paraguay, or the socially conservative congregations of Lancaster County, or my own relatively liberal church in Goshen, Indiana ...ginning, and that the conflicts and questions that have frequently brought congregations together and driven them apart are the best way we can define “Mennonite.
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  • ...ct is an essential part of our evangelism. As representatives of Mennonite congregations throughout North America, we declare here and now that expressions and atti ...r fellowship with congregations of other racial heritages. Where feasible, congregations should join in projects of common service and witness.
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  • ...group associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] in Panama with 13 congregations:
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  • In 1980, Paul was ordained bishop and supervised pastors in five congregations, a position he held for twenty-five years. In 1987, he graduated from Easte
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  • ...with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] in Hong Kong with 193 members in 4 congregations:<ref name="mwc" />
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  • ...ich grew out of his experiences as an itinerant Bible teacher in Mennonite congregations, was followed by ''From Word to Life: A Guide to the Art of Bible Study'' (
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  • ...ife of the church throughout his whole life. He has been a pastor in three congregations: Cassel Mennonite and Waterloo North Mennonite in Ontario, and Jubilee Menn
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  • ...d group associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] in Chile with 6 congregations:
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  • ...ends in Germany supplied the required funds. “Patriarch” for most of these congregations is 1929-born Nikolai Dikman (or Dieckmann) from Marionovka, who was forced ...rgest Mennonite congregation in the region of the former USSR. Other small congregations of Church Mennonites are located in Nieudachino to the east of Omsk and in
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  • </li></ol> </li> <li>That conferences and congregations be urged to provide financial and other support for the Peace Tax Fund opti ...ist the collection of that part of their [[Taxes|taxes]], we encourage our congregations to be supportive by: <ol> <li type="a">Studying the pertinent biblical tex
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  • <h4>A Report of the Study by Congregations</h4> <strong>Steps Leading to the Study</strong> ...73, and the delegates authorized revision and circulation to all Mennonite congregations for study, action, and response. The document "Amnesty: a Peace Church conc
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  • '''We further''' urge congregations to take action to support abolition of the death penalty through prayer, le
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  • ...d the study document, "Women in the Church." it was then made available to congregations and women's groups for study, action, and response. At the request of the M <h3>Responses to the Study from Congregations</h3> Responses regarding use of the study document were solicited by Mennon
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  • congregations are no longer being threatened with draft or conscription. I think that in many congregations this has caused the stance on
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  • ...with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. Six of the 17 groups are made up of congregations in both the United States and [[Canada]].
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  • |Row 1 title = Congregations ...de Iglesias Paraguayas Hermanos Menonitas. In 2006 the conference had 76 congregations and 3,500 members. To learn more about the broader Mennonite experience in
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  • ...onestly acknowledge a host of pastoral questions that Anabaptist-Mennonite congregations continue to confront:
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  • |Row 1 title = Congregations
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  • ...lly associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. In 2006 MCUSA had 950 congregations and 110,696 members.<ref>"North America." ''Mennonite World Conference''. h ...received a sympathetic audience among the larger of these Dutch-Mennonite congregations around Krefeld, Altona-Hamburg, Gronau and Emden.<ref>Smith p.139</ref> It
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  • |Row 1 title = Congregations The '''Nicaraguan Mennonite Conference''' has 6000 members and 123 congregations. It is a member of the Mennonite World Conference.
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  • |Row 3 title = Congregations ...e “biblical,” “evangelistic” and”peaceful,” and embracing diversity within congregations. The conference plans on implementing these suggestions as well as promoti
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  • ...more about the “hidden” parts of God’s word helped us better teach our own congregations.
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  • He and his wife, Rachel Hilty Friesen, served as copastors at Mennonite congregations in North Carolina and South Dakota from 1993 until 2007. He was a member of
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  • ...as confirmed or endorsed by area Mennonite Church area conferences and/or congregations. The effect of such statements is similar in the General Conference Mennoni
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  • ...renewed in 1607 at the same place by the assembled representatives of the congregations, This Abrede der Diener und Eltesten (Agreement of the Preachers and Elders ...ons of church life, for the most part dealing with the organization of the congregations, supply of ministers, discipline, ordinances, marriage, care of orphans, et
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  • ...as confirmed or endorsed by area Mennonite Church area conferences and/or congregations.
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  • ...ominational staff assignments, Gardner pastored two Church of the Brethren congregations in northern Ohio, 1971-1974: the Paradise and Wooster Christ churches.
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  • The Mosaic Mennonite Conference was comprised of 57 congregations and 7,587 members at the time of its formation. One congregation announced ==Mosaic Mennonite Conference Congregations==
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  • ...th [[Mennonite World Conference]] in Canada. Six of the 25 are made up of congregations in both the [[United States]] and Canada.
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  • ...Committee, Great Lakes. He has also provided pulpit supply for a number of congregations facing senior pastor interims. McDermond has written many essays, article,
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  • ...ritten with seminary education in mind, as part of an effort to have local congregations more closely identify with seminary trained pastors. The board for the new
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  • ...a and Washington.</li> </ol> As we send this to our missionaries, our home congregations, and to heads of state, we are persuaded with the Apostle "that there is no ...1, the nearly one thousand delegates representing over three hundred local congregations in [[Canada|Canada]] and the United States, unanimously adopted the attache
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  • II. As congregations, institutions and members we resolve to ...th-care ethics and health-care alternatives. Through education we can help congregations become health-promotion communities.<br><br>
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  • ...he medium for continuing a pastoral conversation when separated from their congregations. As apostle to the Gentiles, Paul adapted the letter form in effective ways
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  • ...cle. They found a receipt book that was used to collect offerings from the congregations and they claimed they had found evidence that these pastors were part of a
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  • |Row 1 title = Congregations ...group has six congregations with about 175 members. The group has related congregations in Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and the United States..<ref>
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  • ...k, <b>Because</b> the minister is a key to the development of strong local congregations within the General Conference, ...d since a variety of models of pastoral leadership are held by persons and congregations; and the call of pastoral leadership is not only a function of the colleges
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  • |Row 1 title = Congregations ...an area of high crime and unemployment in Burgos. In 1989 three Christian congregations in Burgos joined together to form the United Christian Fellowships of Burgo
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  • ...baptize believers who are unwilling to become members of one of our local congregations. (See [[Confession of Faith (Mennonite Brethren, 1975)|1975 Confession of F
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  • ..., these three individual letters were written to leaders of young, growing congregations in the context of Roman society. The first major theme, God Our Savior, con ...e Pauline in character but worded to fit the Cretan context. Some of these congregations were small house churches predominately Jewish in origin who were open to a
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  • ...ority as confirmed or endorsed by Mennonite Church area conferences and/or congregations.
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  • |Row 5 title = Number of Congregations ...urch in South Africa has reported to have 1,027 members in seven different congregations.<ref>"Africa." Africa Summary. Mennonite World Conference, 2011. Web. 17 Ap
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  • ...0 participantes en 75 congregaciones. There are related Brethren in Christ congregations in Canada, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Uni
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  • 2. We will ask our members and congregations to urge their congressional representatives to support legislation that wou
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  • ...ities (in italics) of Vision: Healing and Hope. Conferences, districts and congregations are encouraged to utilize these specific responses as they continue to nurt
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  • ...Fairhaven congregation began a Christian school and planted three daughter congregations: Fellowship Haven Amish Mennonite (Monkton, Perth County, 1991), River of L
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  • ...iliated with [[Mennonite World Conference]] as well as various independent congregations and colonies.<ref>"2006 Mennonite World Conference Directory for Caribbean,
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  • ...ral Assembly approves "Peace in our Time," for study and discussion in our congregations and conferences.'' ...as confirmed or endorsed by area Mennonite Church area conferences and/or congregations.
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  • In 2020, the Conference had 1,645 baptized members in 17 congregations. ...nd buggies, which resulted in a great deal of tension within the Old Order congregations. Because of this, "The Old Orders of Waterloo had ceased to affiliate with
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  • ...Dodd’s analysis and pleads that in application to the life and ministry of congregations, it is not appropriate that sharp distinctions between preaching and teachi ...congregations.'' In spite of the criticisms of preaching and of preachers, congregations continue to give good preaching a high rating in their desires and expectat
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  • ...ationship were established bringing together indigenous people in Ecuador, congregations from Mennonite Church USA’s Central Plains Conference, the Colombia Menno
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  • |Row 5 title = Number of Congregations ...n Christ Church in South Africa has over 764 members in thirteen different congregations.
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  • |Row 5 title = Number of Congregations ...st is growing rapidly. In 2006, the church had over 33,000 members in 317 congregations. Zimbabwean leadership of the Mennonite World Council and the recent Zimb
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  • ...n to miscarried fetuses or funerals held for them. From the responses from congregations it is clear that most people, when there is a case of life against life (mo ...[[Bluffton (Ohio, USA)|Bluffton, Ohio]], a resolution called for study by congregations on "the moral issues of [[Abortion|abortion]], and practical ways in which
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  • As of 2020, the church had 7 congregations with about 1000 baptized members.
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  • |Row 6 title = Number of Congregations ...d''' is associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. In 2011, it had 3 congregations and about 120 members.
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  • ...inue the use of the death penalty and that we refer to our conferences and congregations for study and discussion the paper, [[Christian Declaration on Capital Puni
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  • |Row 6 title = Number of Congregations ...with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. In 2006 BGCMK had 6727 members in 26 congregations.<ref name="mwc" />
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  • ...ite World Conference in Nigeria, including over 19,600 members and over 50 congregations. Other Anabaptist groups in Nigeria include the Church of the Brethren and |Row 3 title = Congregations
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  • ...ority as confirmed or endorsed by Mennonite Church area conferences and/or congregations.
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  • .... In January 1925, Pätkau took part in the General Conference of Mennonite Congregations (Allgemeine Mennonitische Bundeskonferenz) in Russia and was elected into t
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  • ...terites, and Amish. Even then there are so many variations in each of the congregations in each of these Anabaptist groups.
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  • ...ists heritage through communal worship. But, since there were no Mennonite congregations to join and members of the denomination were spread out, they began to be e ...gations in Australia, like the Catholic and Anglican churches, but for new congregations it is almost impossible to create a congregation if people do not commit th
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  • ...blée de la Grâce is the founding church. GAN today consists of twenty-four congregations, one orphanage, and seven schools. ...Network becomes partners in mission with Souderton, Rockhill and Hopewell congregations of Franconia Mennonite Conference in the U.S. The purpose of the partnershi
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  • ...and local congregations in the north to join Colombian churches and local congregations, strategically located throughout the country. Through interdependent frate
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  • |Row 8 title = Number of Congregations ...rence associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. In 2012, IMC had 21 congregations and 701 members.<ref>"Philippines Membership," ''Mennonite World Conference
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  • ...American missionary efforts in Africa and the growth of Africa Anabaptist congregations and conferences.
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  • We call upon our congregations in [[North America|North America]] to act in faithfulness to Jesus Christ: ...onal councils of churches as well as those of individual denominations and congregations, including African independent churches. These relationships inform our pro
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  • |Row 6 title = Number of Congregations ...dia affiliated with MWC. In 2012 the conference had 103,488 members in 840 congregations.<ref name="mwc" /> In 2015, it was estimated that there were as many as 20
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  • |Row 6 title = Number of Congregations ...June 2010).</ref> In addition to the 484 official Meserete Kristos Church congregations, there are also 834 congregation planting centers. <ref>Meserete Kristos Co
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  • ...ts a news bulletin online. Also included on the site are links to various congregations and conferences in Latin America as well as Anabaptist seminaries in Latin
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  • |Row 4 title = Number of Congregations ...orld War II era. Today, the Italian Mennonite Church has 250 members and 5 congregations (Mennonite World Conference).
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  • ...de Lares. The conference has a central committee which represents all the congregations and fellowships. It is a predominantly Quechua conference.<ref>Global Gift The church continues to grow rapidly, four congregations have grown to ten. The authority of the Mennonite churches in Cuzco is off
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  • ...their television programming. Also, ask them for suggestions on how local congregations and church groups can get involved in supporting and helping to produce mor ...s at the triennial convention of the denomination are not binding on local congregations or district conferences unless they are also formally adopted by those bodi
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  • ...f the Puerto Rican Mennonite Church Convention, which is now made up of 11 congregations with 394 members. ...ve challenge is the lack of inspiring Mennonite leadership in Puerto Rican congregations, mostly due to a lack of educated pastors and leaders. Though there is the
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  • We urge pastors and congregations to foster a climate of openness so that these decisions can be worked out p ...expected and unwanted pregnancies. If we want to create safe places in our congregations where people can talk about their problems, we must learn to listen in a no
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  • Therefore, we the Mennonite General Conference, representing congregations in United States, Canada, and India, assembled at Archbold, Ohio, August 18
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