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  • |Box title = Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe ...nter>Danisa Ndlovu<ref>Brethren in Christ of North America, “Bishop of BIC Church in Zimbabwe assumes presidency of
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  • On the 21st of May, 1804, he was baptized in the Conestogo Mennonite Meeting House, by Bishop Christian Burkholder, and on the same day he was a ...d Eby Mennonite Church, which has since moved and become Erb St. Mennonite Church. The graveyard is still in its original location.</ref>, Daniel Eby, John E
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' Mennonite church, so the church plays a big role in my life.
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' The history of Anabaptism and it's transformation into the Mennonite
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  • *[[Phnom Penh Mennonite Church]] ....gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/C30.html Cambodia] ''on Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online''.
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  • ...gather for the 46th triennial sessions of the General Conference Mennonite Church. ...Native Ministries Board of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada, and the Mennonite Indian Leaders Council to prepare action for 1992 and beyond, which will sy
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  • |Row 3 title = Church members ...uenos Aires that identifies itself with the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church.
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  • ...ÓN, Paraguay – Two hundred feet from Tyler Doerksen’s host home is a small church whose doors are open to people of all ages and backgrounds. Since its planting, Emaús Mennonite Church, located in Mariano Roque Alonzo, Paraguay, has grown into a vibrant congre
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' My "vision" of what it means to be Mennonite, or better yet Anabaptist,
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' of Christian beliefs and laughed together over "ethnic Mennonite" things
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  • Millard Lind, author of ''Ezekiel'', was a member of College Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana, and husband of writer Miriam Sieber Lind. Together they r ...980); ''Monotheism, Power, Justice'' (1990); and articles in scholarly and church magazines.
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  • The Mennonite Brethren Evangelical Church of Peru has 215 members in 12 congregations. They are concentrated on the n ...s was followed by the official formation and government recognition of the church in 1986.<ref>Global Gift Sharing Report (MWC, 2005), 115.</ref>
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  • |Box title = Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowships, Costa Rica La Iglesia Beachy Amish Mennonite Church emergió en Costa Rica en 1968. La iglesia estableció colonias donde los m
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  • BOGOTÁ, Colombia (Mennonite Mission Network) — The tantalizing scent of rice and chicken wafted aroun ..., ministries of Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia (Colombia Mennonite Church). The meals provide nourishment for the bodies and souls of the youngest me
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  • {{GoogleTranslateLinks}} ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...American Mennonitism today. I am now comfortable referring to myself as a Mennonite, but only as long as there is an asterisk attached.
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  • {{GoogleTranslateLinks}} ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...heir Yoder, Kulp or Kraybill ancestors. In this context, the definition of Mennonite becomes a question of ethnicity.
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  • ...tle = Countries with Anabaptist-Related Groups Formally Associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] ...resence also grew in Asiatic Russia beginning in the late 1800s as Russian Mennonite groups emigrated from eastern Russia.<ref name="bender" /> In the latter h
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' Asking why I am Mennonite means, for me, addressing the unique
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  • ...ently practiced in the bi-national Conference (Canadian and United States) Mennonite Brethren Churches. The following reasons gave rise to this discussion: ...and license.</li> <li>That the Board of Faith and Life with the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies arrange for a system whereby records of ordination/affirma
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  • We believe God is challenging the General Conference Mennonite Church to respond to this call with clearer commitment. ...ssion on Home Ministries consult with ethnic and language minority groups, church schools, camps, congregations, district and provincial conferences, boards
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  • |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated? |Row 5 info = ''Is the group associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]?''
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  • ==Why is a statement by Mennonite Church USA against human trafficking needed?== * A statement can be used to assist Mennonite Church USA members and agencies in advocacy for laws which protect victims.
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  • ...on, the service agency of the newly created Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church, agreed to mission work in Guatemala. This was the first foreign mission pr ...pleted and named La Iglesia Menonita de La Victoria (La Victoria Mennonite Church).<ref name="Rud" />
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  • ELKHART, Ind. (Mennonite Mission Network/Mennonite World Conference) -- Nearly 30 Mennonites living and ministering in indigen ...aguayan conferences to visit their congregations and communities following Mennonite World Conference Assembly 15 in Asunción, Paraguay next July.
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  • 1. Acknowledge together that conflict is a normal part of our life in the church. (Romans 14:1-8, 10-12, 17-19; Romans 15:1-7) ...lves, we will use those with gifts and training in mediation in the larger church. (Philippians 4:1-3)
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  • ...tle = Countries with Anabaptist-Related Groups Formally Associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] (2009) ...e first adult baptism.<ref>Diether Götz Lichdi, "An Overview of Anabaptist-Mennonite History, 1525-1800," in ''Testing Faith and Tradition'', ed. John A. Lapp a
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  • ...e aqui: <u>'''[https://archive.org/details/InterpretacionBiblica Mennonite Church General Assembly. ''Interpretación bíblica en la vida de la iglesia: guí [[Category:Mennonite Church General Assembly]]
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  • ==Peace in Our Time (Mennonite Church, 1993)== ...spond to government or UN. use of military force in certain cases, we as a Mennonite people must reclaim and restate our priorities as Christians who are given
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  • |Box title = The Lutheran Church ...leases, and other materials related to these dialogues, see [[Reception of Mennonite-Lutheran Dialogues]].
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  • ...ter. The fact that Tim was able to write his commentary on Mark (Believers Church Commentary Series, 2001) while helping to parent their youngsters is a trib ...Studies (Fresno, 1978). He then spent five years planting and pastoring a church in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, before earning a Ph.D. in New Testament (Aberdeen
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  • ...tle = Countries with Anabaptist-Related Groups Formally Associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] (2009) ...ian indigenous phenomenon in the continent. The [[Mennonite-Related Groups|Mennonite]] and [[Brethren in Christ]] Churches in Africa will continue to grow in co
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  • ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...overed since the day of my baptism is that I learn more and more about the church and what it means to be a part of the community that has formed around it e
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  • ...11, in Silver Spring, Maryland, headquarters to the Seventh-day Adventists Church.
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  • AKRON, Pa. – A Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) worker in Afghanistan, Glen D. Lapp of Lancaster, P ...te of Johns Hopkins University, Eastern Mennonite University and Lancaster Mennonite High School.
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  • ...tment to a future “when the distinguishing mark of Lutheran and Anabaptist-Mennonite relationships is boundless love and unfailing service” in Stuttgart, Germ ...nite-Lutheran dialogues -- both formal and informal -- and their impact in Mennonite and Lutheran communities in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' ...myself at a Mennonite college writing this paper on the meaning of being a Mennonite.
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  • ...). She earned an MDiv from Goshen Biblical Seminary, now called Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS); she received an MA and PhD in religion, with a fo She currently lives in Indianapolis, where she attends Shalom Mennonite Church.
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  • ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...engths, complexities, and ongoing tensions within the Anabaptist/Mennonite church tradition.
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  • ...n North American and in several international contexts. He was director of Mennonite Central Committee programs in Israel and Palestine (West Bank) from 1968 to He and his wife, Rachel Hilty Friesen, served as copastors at Mennonite congregations in North Carolina and South Dakota from 1993 until 2007. He w
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  • Mennonite World Conference AS: And what church are you currently a part of? And where is it located?
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  • ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...te tradition. In fact, before this class, I never knew too much about the Mennonite faith at all. By attending Goshen College, I learned bits and pieces but m
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  • ...as Eastern District and Franconia Conference until taking the name Mosaic Mennonite Conference on Pentecost 2020 (31 May 2020). ...nged merged with the General Conference Mennonite Church to form Mennonite Church USA in 2002, cooperation between the two conferences increased. Joint assem
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' Why am I a Mennonite? First and foremost I am a Mennonite because I
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  • |Box title = Conference of Mennonite Churches in Hong Kong Limited |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • FORMOSA, Argentina (Mennonite Mission Network) — After years of work parsing words and debating cultura ...illis Horst, workers on the Mennonite team in the Chaco since 1971 through Mennonite Mission Network, spent two weekends in October traveling to Pilagá communi
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  • The Nurture and Evangelism of Children (Mennonite Church, 1955) <strong>A Statement Adopted by Mennonite General Conference, August 26, 1955.</strong>
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  • BARRANQUILLA, Colombia (Mennonite Mission Network) — Sixteen years ago, Edwin Cardona tried to make a pact ...freedom from their past and a new life in Christ. As the leaders of a new church in a poor neighborhood, they are reaching out to the children of the local
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  • ...rsons during the first few months. In November the Fellowship moved to the Mennonite Mutual Aid building in Goshen, where the congregation met for nearly two ye ...ter members, and affiliated with the Mennonite Church (now the [[Mennonite Church USA]]).
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  • ...ive.org/details/unavisincomparti00menn Mennonite Church Canada y Mennonite Church USA. ''Una visión compartida del liderazgo ministerial: Manual de polític
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  • ...ps|Progressive Old Order Mennonite group]] known as the [[Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference]], although there are significant differences. The '''Old Mennonite Church''' was created on January 1, 2024.
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  • ...is an Anabaptist related conference in Indonesia, and is associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. Currently there are almost 40,000 members and 155 congr ...ped in order to be part of the church. This led to a split within the GKMI church and the formation of a new group--the GKMII--under the leadership of Dr. Lu
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  • The [[Mennonite Church USA]] desires to be a people of God characterized by a commitment to biblic ...spirit of mutual commitment to Jesus Christ and to the body of Christ, the church.
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' windows of the church. The service ends with an uplifting song sang in the
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' As I look at this question, why am I a Mennonite, numerous muddled
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  • ...portunity toward which various Indian tribes converged. In the 1930s three Mennonite groups formed a missionary association, Light to the Indians.They aimed to ...ferent groups of outside white people who came to them. They had killed a Mennonite settler, Paul Stahl, and three of his children. The Ayoreos had a history
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  • ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...gathered community’s restless and stubborn struggle to live as a renewed “Church.”
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  • ...It is officially associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. The first church was founded in 1955 and today the group has 22 member churches. ...aiwan that would eventually lead to the establishment of the Fellowship of Mennonite Churches in Taiwan.
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  • ...small but growing conservative sub-division within the Old Order Mennonite Church in Ontario. As of 2020, the Church consisted of 409 baptized members in 5 congregations.
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  • {{GoogleTranslateLinks}} ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...t few paragraphs I will attempt to describe my take on what it means to be Mennonite, as well as briefly describe why this denomination is for me.
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  • |Box title = African Faith Tabernacle Church |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' means to be a Mennonite and why I am a part of this body of believers. One
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  • The church is called to respond to this crisis out of its biblical concern for both he ...ealing ministry of Jesus (Matthew 4:23-25) has been carried forward by the church in efforts to restore health and wholeness to individuals and communities.
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  • |Box title = Italian Mennonite Church |Row 3 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' Why am I a Mennonite? This question had begun to weigh heavily on my mind
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  • ...f all nations are united in love under the one Head, Jesus Christ. To this church He has entrusted the ministry of reconciliation, man with God, and man with ...ly Spirit came upon all who repented. By the power of the Spirit the early church broke the barriers of class, race, and nation.
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  • ...ent is autonomous, but there is also much cooperation between them through church work and other organizations. This conference coordinates service and socia [[Category:Russian Mennonite Groups]]
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  • ...nation of the Primary Reason why I am in Unity with the Orthodox Mennonite Church and why I am not in Unity with the Other Churches (Primary Source, unpublis ...me that the church legally registered with the name of "Orthodox Mennonite Church of Wellesley Township".<ref> Ibid, page 21.</ref>
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  • The '''Sommerfeld Colony''' is one of several Mennonite Colonies in [[Paraguay]]. |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • .... However, we must also be aware of changes in our society and also in our church. Thus, the form and expression of our vision must be revised from time to t ...abaptist]]. The vision we adopt at this convention can only be realized as Mennonite Brethren leaders, members and their agencies shape their efforts in the nex
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  • ''Return to [[What Does It Mean To Be Mennonite; Goshen College; April 2011]]'' ...cy to defer to authority, avoidance of conflict, etc), to be a present-day Mennonite is to be an ideological descendent of the early Anabaptists.
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  • FORMOSA, Argentina (Mennonite Mission Network) – Richard Friesen spent hundreds of hours in hospitals i ...on in the face of great suffering, said Gretchen Kingsley, coworker on the Mennonite team in the Chaco.
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  • In 1948 about 800 '''Kleine Gemeinde''' (“small church”) emigrants from Canada settled in Mexico. Ten years later some Kleine Ge ==Important Individuals in the Life of the Church==
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  • |Box title = Grace Community Church |Row 3 info = <center>Leon Pula<ref>"Africa." Africa Summary. Mennonite World Conference, 2011. Web. 17 Apr. 2011. <www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/files/Memb
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  • ...1-and-2-timothy-titus/''1 & 2 Timothy, Titus'', by Paul M. Zehr (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...hurch, women have taken leadership roles. Evidence exists that the Eastern church ordained deaconesses. The strong reaction that developed to it at a later t
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  • ==Resolution on Health Care in the United States (Mennonite Church, 1993)== ...on the national agenda. This climate has created a new opportunity for the church to be involved in reforming the system.
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  • [[Media:A Mennonite evangelist tied to a corpse.pdf|A Mennonite evangelist tied to a corpse]] [[ Media:A Mennonite rebel.pdf| A Mennonite rebel]]
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' Since I was born I have been in the Mennonite church. My dad is a
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  • ...missionaries in the 1960’s. The first national pastor soon emerged and new church works were begun around Heredia. The convention has grown and multiplied st ...Bible into an indigenous language. Under local Costa Rican leadership, the church grew and expanded to 26 congregations with about 1,475 members. Nine of the
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  • |Row 6 title = Groups Associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] ...name="menno">"2006 Mennonite and Brethren in Christ World Membership," ''[[Mennonite World Conference]]''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/PDF-PPT/2006mbictotal.pdf
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' remember thinking Michael Dukakis was more Mennonite than George Bush. I
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  • ...e [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]] in the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[Canada|Canada]] a ...m of God. When religion or God is used to justify a state's action and the church has become its captive, we have become idolatrous.
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  • <h4>The Christian Faith</h4> In such a time of urgency the Christian church cannot be silent. It must through its members voice clearly its Christian c ...ation on Peace, War, and Military Service, A (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1953)|A Christian Declaration on Peace, War, and Military Service]]) adopt
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  • ...emiah'', was Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and President Emeritus of Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, Fresno, California (now Fresno Pacific Biblical ...Biblical Seminary in Fresno, California, and a member of the North Fresno Mennonite Brethren congregation.
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  • ...h, a member of the [[Integrated Mennonite Churches, Philippines|Integrated Mennonite Churches of the Philippines]]. ...be a pastor at the age of the 20 at one of the outreaches of Lumban Bible Church, at that time. [00:01:30;12]
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  • Resolution on South Africa (Mennonite Church, 1987) ...peace in southern Africa. We affirm the August 29, 1986, statement of the Mennonite agencies working in southern Africa ([[#Additional Information]]).
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  • Communism and Anti-Communism (Mennonite Church, 1961) <h4>Communism and Anti-Communism</h4> A Statement of Position Adopted by the Mennonite General Conference, [[Johnstown (Pennsylvania, USA)|Johnstown]], [[Pennsylv
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  • ...e aqui: <u>'''[https://archive.org/details/EspirituSanto_201902. Mennonite Church General Assembly. ''El Espíritu Santo en la vida de la iglesia'']'''</u>== [[Category:Mennonite Church General Assembly]]
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  • ...village of Nuagaon, which will able to hold five hundred people for large church gatherings such as their Annual Prayer Meeting and their Leadership Trainin '''Ministries of Church''':
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' During every single Lenten service this year at my home church in
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  • ...06 MCUSA had 950 congregations and 110,696 members.<ref>"North America." ''Mennonite World Conference''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006carcsam.pdf</ref>. ...bishop of this Germantown congregation. This early group of Mennonites and Mennonite-Quakers wrote the first formal protest against slavery in the United States
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  • ...; and, that they voluntarily step aside for a period of time and allow the church to determine readiness for service (1 Timothy 3:2, Titus 1:6). ...conference at Vancouver, i.e., "The services such members can render in a church will largely be determined by what the membership is ready to receive from
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  • ...wen, Jacob A. "Mennonites, Chaco Indians, and the Lengua Spirit World." <i>Mennonite Quarterly Review</i> 39, no. 4 (October 1965): 280-306.]] ...b A. "A Mennonite Encounter with the 'Innermost of the Lengua Indians." <i>Mennonite Quarterly Review</i>. 39, no. 1 (January 1965): 40-67.]]
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  • ...leading of the Holy Spirit through prayer and mutual consultation with the church in that place. Further, as they see terror and oppression about them, may t ...s driven by a series of high profile cases of harassment of North American Mennonite volunteers -- Patricia Erb in [[Argentina|Argentina]] and Thomas Capuano in
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  • ...eoples Confronts Racism, A (General Conference Mennonite Church; Mennonite Church, 1989) ...diversity and thus a cause for celebration. We are becoming more like the church for which our Lord prayed (John 17:11-12, 20-23; Ephesians 2:11-22).
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  • Statement on the Believers' Church (GCMC, 1956) ...of the [[Board of Education and Publication (General Conference Mennonite Church)|Board of Education and Publication]] to be presented to the General Confer
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  • |Box title = Brethren in Christ Church, South Africa |Row 3 info = <center>Frank Nkala<ref>"Africa." Africa Summary. Mennonite World Conference, 2011. Web. 17 Apr. 2011. <www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/files/Memb
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' ...d along with the world, yet has kept a safe distance away from the world. Mennonite values present themselves as a modern day compromise of Anabaptism. Standa
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  • ...ted not only a keen mind but also a deep commitment to his Lord and to the church. When the search was on for Congolese to join the teaching staff at Kandala ...nauté Mennonite au Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo Mennonite Church]].
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  • |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated? |Row 5 info = ''Is the group associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]?''
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' We learned later that a conservative Mennonite owns the grocery store in
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  • == Church Origins == ...Mennonite missionaries, Jansz and his son later worked toward establishing Mennonite “colonies,” like Margorejo in the Muria area of central Java, with the
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' I am a Mennonite now, I am sure, but I have spent my fair share of time
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  • To the total body of church elders of our Molotschna Mennonite Church! ...!), when in the market places before the very eyes of their neighbors, our Mennonite brethren live satanic lives; and even the ministers go about and see it, ye
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  • Dan Epp-Tiessen is retired from teaching Bible at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, where he served for twenty-five years. Dan’s spec ...of their life. Esther and Dan are active members of Home Street Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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  • Christian Stewardship of Energy Resources (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1977) As a Mennonite church, our concern for responsible stewardship of energy resources has a strong t
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  • ...th">Peter P. Klassen and Willard H. Smith, "Paraguay," ''Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO)'', http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/P The Fernheim Colony was the second Mennonite colony to be established in [[Paraguay]], following the [[Menno Colony, Par
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  • ...Grace Stories from Congo's Mennonites 1912-2012 (A Project of Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission)]]==== ====[[Teusaquillo Mennonite Church-Peter Stucky]]====
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  • ...ounty, Kansas. He was a member of the Hoffnungsfeld (Hopefield) Mennonite Church. In 1917 when the United States went to war against Germany, Schrag refuse ...e jail door where they could shout insults and hurl spit at the humiliated Mennonite.
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  • ...orking with orphaned children or mothers with young children. According to Mennonite missionary John Driver, the Spanish people they worked with appreciated tha ...d volunteering at the Evangelical Hospital in Barcelona, attending a local church women's group, and homemaking and hospitality to members of the growing Chr
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  • |Box title = Integrated Mennonite Churches, Inc. Integrated Mennonite Church of the Philippines, Inc.
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  • ...Mennonite Brethren in Colombia today; thus it appears the presence of the Mennonite Brethren in Colombia is a mainly an outcome of the mission work that began ...d a significant global missions program, from which the Mennonite Brethren Church of Colombia would emerge.
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  • ...nt-Child Relations]]</li> <li>[[The Church and the Family (GCMC, 1962)|The Church and the Family]]</li> <li>[[Conclusion (GCMC, 1962)|Conclusion]] ...rise above difficulties and overcome the present threats to the home. The church is therefore being called upon to help the family.
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  • |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated? ...100 members.<ref>"2006 Mennonite World Conference Directory for Europe," ''Mennonite World Conference''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/index.php?option=com_conten
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  • ...is now, and will continue to be one of the great problems confronting the Church. ...that can be done to restore them to rightful relationship with God and the Church.
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  • ...tle = Countries with Anabaptist-Related Groups Formally Associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] ...os pueblos indígenas, y a través de la imigración de los Amish y Old Order Mennonite en Norte América quienes buscaban oportunidades económicas y aislamiento
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  • ...ots in seventeenth-century churches planted by immigrants from Europe. Our church continues to grow and be enlivened by immigrants who join us from many coun ...Undocumented church leaders are often unable or afraid to travel to larger church gatherings without identification. Congregations without immigrant members
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  • This year, we left the Chaco after 38 years as part of a Mennonite team of workers from across the world, in Argentina solely to walk alongsid ...heir own. Why should we stay? There are many places in the world where our church’s money is needed to meet more urgent needs.”
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  • |Box title = Jesus Village Church |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • ...affiliated house churches. In 1992 John was ordained as pastor for a house church that became responsible for the Blenheim Retreat and Bible Study Centre.
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  • |Row 4 info = Catholic 25.8%, Anglican 18.7%, Uniting Church 5.7%, Presbyterian and Reformed 3%, Eastern Orthodox 2.7%, other Christian |Row 6 title = Groups Associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]]
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' Why am I a Mennonite? This is a question that, until recently, I have not
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  • ...ty creates accountability, but we also remember that for the Christian the church is always primary and the state, at best, secondary. ...s political views, be doubly careful not to create bad publicity for God's church."
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  • Christian Declaration on Capital Punishment, A (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1965) ...l> </li> <li>[[Our Confession and our Prayer (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1965)|Our Confession and our Prayer]]
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  • ...elder and a minister. And when the lead pastor died, Neufeld served Grace Mennonite in his place. ...n Neufeld’s earlier life made him want to devote himself to service in the church: During the last year of World War 1, the US Army called him for service, a
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  • 3.As a church, we are a community of those whom God's Spirit calls to turn from sin,ackno Adopted by Mennonite World Conference
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  • Over the centuries, the Christian church has looked for effective ways to spread the gospel throughout the world whi For more than 55 years, the missionary presence of the workers of the Mennonite team in the Argentine Chaco has been involved in the search for practices n
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  • Recreation (Mennonite Church, 1961) ...hurch, 1961)|What Should the Church Do?]]</li></ul> A Statement Adopted by Mennonite General Conference, August 25, 1961.
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  • ...’s only Amish-Mennonite community, is 75 people directly associated with [[Mennonite World Conference]]. In 2012 the Beachy Amish had 12,960 members in 201 con ...ish Mennonite, Mennonite Christian fellowship and the Midwest Beachy Amish Mennonite.
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' It is hard to determine exactly what it means to be a Mennonite. We are a
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  • ...0 p.m. The churches involved are the Mennonite-Brethren – a split off the “Church Mennonites” (called General-Conference Mennonites in the USA) which occur ...oday the lay preachers preach primarily in Russian. The brotherhood had no church buildings of its own prior to Gorbachev – today it enjoys 17 new chapels
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  • |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated? ...Free Christian Community, and the Pentecostal Church. There are 160 Free Church communities in all of the provinces of Austria. [2]
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  • ...engages other world communions and organizations. Every six to seven years Mennonite and Brethren in Christ conferences and groups gather for a general assembly ...dings and perspectives of these churches."<ref>"Global History Project," ''Mennonite World Conference,'' http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/index.php?option=com_conten
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  • ...had 23 congregations and in 2009 had 5,014 members.<ref>"North America." ''Mennonite World Conference''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006carcsam.pdf</ref>. ...grow the Mennonite Church there, and was subsequently commissioned by the Church to do so. 1
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  • ...d to fight in wars. Among those who came for such reasons were some of our Mennonite and Brethren in Christ forebearers. Many came as fugitives from compulsory </li> <li>As Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Christians, we oppose all wars and believe that the
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  • |Box title = Phnom Penh Mennonite Church |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • ==Shared Convictions ([[Mennonite World Conference]], 2006)== 3. As a church, we are a community of those whom God's Spirit calls to turn from sin, ackn
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  • In 1950, delegates from Mennonite and Brethren in Christ church bodies in North America met at Winona Lake, Indiana, to consider their comm ...find it helpful to once again state clearly our convictions regarding the church's calling to be God's people of peace. We look toward the future with hope
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  • ...reffen sich alle mennonitischen und Brüder-in-Christus (Brethren in Christ Church) Konferenzen und Gruppen weltweit zu einer Generalversammlung, der Mennonit ...erspektiven dieser Kirchen wiederspiegelt.<ref>"Global History Project," ''Mennonite World Conference,'' http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/index.php?option=com_conten
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  • ...to Korea to aid in introducing the Anabaptist story to the broader Korean church and society. Currently, KAC has over 400 individuals (from Korea, Canada, C ...the conventional church model and soon became disenchanted with the Korean church in its recent forms. This dissatisfaction sparked several years of home stu
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  • Misioneros de Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions and Service empezaron a trabajar en Panamá en 1 ==Important Individuals in the Life of the Church==
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  • The Christian Witness to the State (Mennonite Church, 1961) <h3>The Christian Witness to the State</h3> A Statement Adopted by Mennonite General Conference, August 25, 1961.
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  • ...egación que lucha por sobrevivir - Por Matthew Shedden, pastor de Defiance Church, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. [[Category:Red Menonita de Misión/Mennonite Mission Network]]
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  • ...t Upon the Mennonite Church (GCMC, 1977)|II. The Effect Upon the Mennonite Church]] ...this has upon children in our country and especially within the Mennonite church. Statistics and studies on violence on television differ slightly, but all
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  • Amnesty (Mennonite Church, 1975) <h3>Amnesty</h3> A Summary Statement Accepted by [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite General Assembly]] August 5-10, 1975, Eureka, Illinois
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  • ...ary.” Last edited 2010. http://www.mennoweekly.org/2009/1/5/first-peruvian-church-marks-18th-anniversary/</ref> <br> The National church of Cusco, Peru, is made up of five established congregations in the city of
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  • ...pment programs overseas. More must now be done. In the spirit of the inter-Mennonite consultation on hunger and population held in [[Chicago (Illinois, USA)|Chi ...and to <i> offer their vocational skills</i> to agencies sponsored by the church, by private enterprise, and by our governments, engaged in the battle again
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  • ''Return to [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]'' I am sitting here with a lap top (something I'm sure my Mennonite Ancestors
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  • ...sident of the [[Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia|Colombian Mennonite Church]]. He was also the director of World Vision Colombia. Jose was a very capab
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  • |Box title = Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches, India |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • ...t this resolution is the result of a letter he received from the Colombian church. It was written by the Resolutions Committee, with help from Marilyn Houser ...h appreciation and concern, the letter of July 1, 2000, from the Mennonite Church in Colombia.<br>
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  • The following is a complete List of '''Old Order Mennonite Ministers and Deacons in Canada''', as of 2022: [[Old Order Mennonite Church in Ontario]]
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  • ...e exempted. All their efforts were to no avail. A later report mentioned a Mennonite kept under “close confinement” for refusing to wear a side arm, a requi Source: Mark Jantzen, ''Mennonite German Soldiers: Nation, Religion and Family in the Prussian East, 1772-188
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  • ...big shocks until 1937. Up to this time, they even were able to hold small church services there.
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  • ...gregations and 2182 members.<ref>"Membership." Mennonite World Conference. Mennonite World Conference, 2012. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.</ref> *[[1970s church planting builds flourishing congregations today]]
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  • ...he world, we as representatives of The General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America, desire to set forth in the following statement our faith ...rch which has been held precious by our forefathers from the time that the church was founded in Reformation times in Switzerland (1525) and in Holland (1533
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  • Christian Parenthood (Mennonite Church, 1961) <h4>Christian Parenthood</h4> A Statement Adopted by Mennonite General Conference, August 25, 1961.
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  • Growing in Stewardship and Witness in a Militaristic World (Mennonite Church, 1987) ...commitment and action toward the [[Ten-Year Goals (Vision '95)| Mennonite Church goals for 1995]] have any impact on the growing militarism of our age?
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  • = Church History = ...o Rico. This eventually led to the formation of the Puerto Rican Mennonite Church Convention, which is now made up of 11 congregations with 394 members.
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  • |Box title = Bharatiya General Conference Mennonite Church |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • ...onference''' has 6000 members and 123 congregations. It is a member of the Mennonite World Conference. |PageName=Nicaraguan Mennonite Conference
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  • |Row 6 title = Groups Associated with [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] |Row 7 title = Membership in [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated Churches
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  • ....org/9780836192087/revelation/''Revelation'', by John R. Yeatts (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] Anabaptist eschatology has reflected the beliefs of the evangelical church in general. Yet the uniqueness of the Anabaptist interpretation of Revelati
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  • (Prepared by the Peace Problems Committee and adopted by the [[Mennonite General Conference]] at Turner, Oregon, August, 1937) ...reatening the peace of the world, we, the representatives of the Mennonite Church, assembled in General Conference near Turner, Oregon, on August 25 and 26,
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  • ...our time. Historically we, the members of the General Conference Mennonite Church, have affirmed the sanctity of human life. We continue to make that affirma ...Abortion Decisions</h4> <i>We believe that the New Testament pictures the church as a community</i> (koinonia) which seeks to discern the will of God and ta
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  • ...</center><ref name="WD2006">"Mennonite World Conference Directory (2006)." Mennonite World Conference. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/PDF-PPT/2006africa.pdf (acces |Row 4 title = Church members
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  • ...s of the Christian faith and Christian living. Particular doctrines of the Church have been attacked and there has been much compromising with the world on m ...the faith and teaching the Gospel as given by Christ and His apostles the Church has confessed in this formal manner her faith in and practice of the Gospel
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  • |Box title = Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowships, Belize Immediately after the destruction caused by Hurricane Hattie in 1961, Amish Mennonite Aid, an aid agency, began working on reconstruction in Belize and organized
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  • ...ey sought a country: Mennonite colonization in Mexico. With an appendix on Mennonite colonization in British Honduras. Berkeley: University of California.</ref> ...9). Between horse & buggy and four-wheel drive: Change and diversity among Mennonite settlements in Belize, Central America. Amsterdam: VU University Press. </r
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  • ...and Commitment with Respect to Peace, War, and Nonresistance, A (Mennonite Church, 1951) ...|In War and Military Service]]</li></ol> </li> <li>[[Conclusion (Mennonite Church, 1951)|Conclusion]]
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  • ...Sur de Texas y están afiliadas con la Conferencia Sur-Centro de Mennonite Church USA.<ref>Donald B. Kraybill, Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutte
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  • |Box title = Kanisa la Mennonite Tanzania |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated?
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  • ...Brethren in Christ World Missions. http://www.google.com/url?q=http://bic-church.org/wm/forms/download.asp%3Ffname%3D2009%2520Policy%2520Manual%2520Appendic |Row 4 title = Church members
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  • ...aragua''' has around 1.500 members and 22 congregations. It is a member of Mennonite World Conference ...a. They are the first missionaries from the Canadian Evangelical Mennonite Church in Manitoba, Canada.
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  • ...ation on Peace, War, and Military Service, A (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1953) The position of the General Conference Mennonite Church on love and nonresistance as adopted at Portland, Oregon, August 22, 1953.
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  • ...f the conversation about what it means to be part of the global Anabaptist church! * [[Why I Am Mennonite Essays; Goshen College; Goshen, IN; April 1999]]
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  • ...perform Christian work. Every believer is provided with gifts to teach the church and glorify the Lord. The fruit is proof of salvation and commitment to Chr ====We believe in the church====
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  • ==CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN ANABAPTIST-MENNONITE INTERPRETATION== ...most striking difference between sixteenth century Anabaptist and current Mennonite hermeneutic is the context and consequent function of each. The Anabaptists
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  • The Way of Christian Love in Race Relations (Mennonite Church, 1955) <h3>The Way of Christian Love in Race Relations</h3> A Statement Adopted by Mennonite General Conference, August 24, 1955.
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  • Mennonite World Conference, Harrisburg, PA E: Today is July 24, 2015 and we are at Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And could you please
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  • Biblical Understandings Concerning Women and Men (Mennonite Church, 1975) ...l Understandings Concerning Women and Men: a summary statement adopted by Mennonite General Assembly August 5-10, 1975</strong>
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  • |Box title = Kenya Mennonite Church ...o = <center>Moses Ben Otieno, Chairman</center><ref name="mwc">"Africa." ''Mennonite World Conference''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/PDF-PPT/2006africa.pdf (acc
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  • ...nd adequate pastoral leadership, and not enough students at our Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary are going into pastoral work, <b>Because</b> the minister Christian Stewardship of Energy Resources (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1977)
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  • |Row 6 title = Grupos asociados con [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] ...nnonite, Brethren in Christ & Related Churches World Membership 2009," ''[[Mennonite World Conference]]''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/files/Members%202009/Worl
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  • Abortion (Mennonite Church, 1975) <h3>Abortion:</h3> A summary statement accepted by Mennonite General Assembly
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  • ...nomedia.org/9780836196672/john/''John'', by Willard M. Swartley (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...p (140–79). Chennattu’s contribution is particularly helpful for believers church communities of faith.
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  • |Box title = Church of God in Christ, Mennonite ...er efforts and labors directly under her own church, the United Missionary Church, and became the denomination's first missionary (Lageer, 1979). In 1924, th
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  • ...y to the published [https://heraldpress.com/genres/commentaries/ Believers Church Bible Commentary series]. The various commentary introductions and essays i ...ects respectful dialogue within the theological diversity of the Christian church. Authors should not shrink from articulating a theological vision within th
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  • ...und Perspektiven dieser Kirchen enthält."<ref>"Global History Project," ''Mennonite World Conference,'' http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/index.php?option=com_conten ..." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1989. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 08 June 2009 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclope
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  • ...ations on biblical hermeneutics; these consultations were sponsored by/for Mennonite college Bible faculties, seminary Bible faculties, or alumni or several gro ...College Biblical Seminary Regional Alumni Meeting at Laurelville Mennonite Church Center, March 29, 1966. Nos. 24, 26.
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  • Resolution on Abortion (Mennonite Brethren Church, 1975) ...lso asked that a paper by the Board of Reference and Council entitled "The Church and Life/Death Issues" be included in the minutes following this resolution
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  • ...p;amp;amp;Itemid=16 (accessed 17 June 2009).</ref> To learn more about the Mennonite experience in [[Argentina]] click [[Argentina|here]]. ...mmunities are depopulating and coming to the city. This halted many of the church missions, due to halted growth. The third period, between 1940-present, is
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  • ...ships was a common desire to see the Anabaptist vision of discipleship and church life nurture and resource communities, local churches, house churches and i ...nnonite Conference in the USA. The network planned to partner with Eastern Mennonite Missions in the establishment of a pastoral worker.
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  • The Mennonite Brethren Church has throughout its history emphasized biblical authority in all matters of ...ions in the Anabaptist tradition were used in the preparation of the first Mennonite Brethren Confession of Faith.
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  • ...rrently interpreted and understood by the congregations of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference. ...s. While this statement reflects convictions inherited from the Anabaptist-Mennonite theology of the 16th-century Reformation, the Bible has been regarded as th
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  • The Use of the Law (Mennonite Church, 1981) ...to the courts without the counsel and support of the congregation or other church resource.
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  • ==9. The Church== ...t composed of those who have been "born again" and have joined the visible Church through water baptism; "there is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are c
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  • |Box title = Mennonite Air Missions This group began in 1972 as an outgrowth of Conservative Mennonite Fellowship mission work. Using airplanes to reach isolated areas in the roa
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  • ...rd). In comparison, doctrine refers to the entire scope of teaching in the church, including, but not limited to, theology. In ethics, for example, a doctrin ...h revealed in the Scriptures. This approach is based on the concept of the church having the task of faithfully interpreting and explaining the truth of the
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  • The Christian View of Marriage (Mennonite Church, 1959) <h4>The Christian View of Marriage </h4> A Statement Adopted by Mennonite General Conference, August 27, 1959.
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  • ...Respect to Christian Separation and Nonconformity to the World (Mennonite Church, 1955) A Statement Adopted by Mennonite General Conference, August 26, 1955.
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  • ME ''The Mennonite Encyclopedia.'' Vol. 5. Edited by Cornelius J. Dyck and Dennis D. Martin. S ...Confession of Faith: Commentary and Pastoral Application''. Winnipeg, MB: (Mennonite Brethren) Board of Faith and Life, and Kindred Productions, 2000. http://ww
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  • ...y of life for Christian disciples. Throughout the history of the Mennonite church this teaching has been continually reaffirmed. ...ation on Peace, War, and Military Service, A (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1953)| "A Christian Declaration on Peace, War, and Military Service."]] Co
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  • |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated? ...nter>6</center><ref name="menno">"Caribbean, Central and South America." ''Mennonite World Conference''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006carcsam.pdf.</ref>
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  • ...resource for congregational study and action.</li> <li>By encouraging the Mennonite Central Committee to continue exploring alternatives to prison systems.</li ...y to the criminal justice system, including correctional institutions. The Church should be moving forward with the same kind of innovative action that in th
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  • Five years after World War II [[Mennonite Central Committee]] Peace Section called for a study conference on nonresis Delegates from fourteen participating Amish and Mennonite conferences attended from both the United States and Canada. Bishop E. J. S
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  • As we look to closer cooperation among the several Mennonite groups, including possible integration and merger, we do well to look back ...s rooted in the Swiss; and the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Brethren, in the Dutch tradition.) Representatives of these groups came to
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  • General Conference convened at the Lone Tree Church, Moundridge, Kansas, November 23-26, 1896 Moderator: John Holdeman. ...therefore we believe, when a person unites to an organization outside the Church of God, receiving this emblem of water, that it does not signify the truth,
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  • ...e up to the biblical norms of morality will call for the discipline of the church which expects the converted homosexual to live a chaste life, just as it ex <em class="gameo_bibliography">Yearbook, 55th session, General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, August 7-11, 1981.</em> Winnipeg, Man. : Kindred Press,
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  • ...ia Evangélica Menonita Hondureña ''' fue fundada por misioneros de Eastern Mennonite Missions, quienes llegaron al norte de la costa Hondureña en 1950. Esta ob ...nd in Honduras.<ref>Jaime Prieto Valladores, Mission and Migration: Global Mennonite History (Kitchener, ON: Good Books, 2010), 251.</ref> However, the presence
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  • ...r mind because she didn’t want to create a problem for me as a wife in the church. I decided to tell her about her mother's involvement in the entire process ...she receives Christ in her life. When she agrees with the doctrines of the church and accept my relationship than we all can work together to face her father
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  • ...D. F. Dueck and John B. Loewen, "Spanish Lookout Colony, Belize," ''Global Mennonite Encyclopedia Online''. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S6803.htm ...ref>"Churches," ''Spanish Lookout'', http://www.spanishlookout.bz/churches/church.htm (accessed 29 July 2009).</ref> The Mennonites in Spanish Lookout are ma
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  • ...models of the believer’s relationship to Christ (discipleship) and of the church as the binding and loosing community are to be found in Scripture and are t ...nt as well, whereas Anabaptists insisted on the primacy of the New for the church.
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  • |Row 5 title = [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] Affiliated? ...c Mennonite church member of [[Mosaic Mennonite Conference]] and Mennonite Church USA located in South Philadelphia.
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  • |Row 1 info = Old Colony Mennonite (Car): 18 colonies <br> Old Colony Mennonite (Horse): 12 colonies |Row 2 info = Old Colony Mennonite (Car): 16,525 <br>Old Colony Mennonite (Horse): 3,200
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  • ...abaptists who had withdrawn from the established Reformed Church to form a church of their own, but for whom Giner was held responsible because they lived in ...since on the whole they refused to attend the services of the established church. Some of their number had already been exiled. Perhaps they came to Giner w
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  • ==Statement of Doctrine (Conservative Mennonite Conference, 1991)== ...rd). In comparison, doctrine refers to the entire scope of teaching in the church, including, but not limited to, theology. In ethics, for example, a doctrin
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  • ...ce, no one is to undertake of himself to preach or admonish from church to church unless he be sent or ordained thereto by the congregation or the elders. ...Wismar'', also ''Bespreck van Wismar'', were the result of a conference of Mennonite elders held in 1554 at Wismar in Mecklenburg, Germany. Present were (accord
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  • ...ptist Wiki]] is an interactive information sharing community of Anabaptist-Mennonite groups from around the world run by the [https://www.goshen.edu/isga/ Insti *[[Sermons at the Ouagadougou congregation of the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso recorded by Bruce Yoder]]
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  • Adopted by Mennonite General Conference August 22, 1963. ...ation which attempted to restore the New Testament church. We conceive the church to be a body of regenerated believers, a fellowship of holy pilgrims baptiz
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  • ...d on former [[Mennonite Church]] (1975) and [[General Conference Mennonite Church]] (1980) statements. Adopted by the 2003 Delegate Assembly. ...take care of the rest of creation."1 (Article VI, Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective)
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  • |Row 6 title = Grupos asociados con el Congreso Mundial Menonita o [[Mennonite World Conference|MWC]] ...name="menno">"2006 Mennonite and Brethren in Christ World Membership," ''[[Mennonite World Conference]]''. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/PDF-PPT/2006mbictotal.pdf
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  • ...ptist Wiki]] is an interactive information sharing community of Anabaptist-Mennonite groups from around the world run by the [https://www.goshen.edu/isga/ Insti *[[Sermons at the Ouagadougou congregation of the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso recorded by Bruce Yoder]]
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  • ...rson, ''The Amish-Mennonites Across the Globe,'' First printing ed., Amish-Mennonite Heritage Series, Book 2, (Millersburg, OH: Acorn Publishing, 2019)</ref> Fu [[Category:Mennonite-Related Groups]]
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  • ...groups from around the world. Initiated by the [http://www.goshen.edu/mhl Mennonite Historical Library] at [http://www.goshen.edu/ Goshen College], the site is *[[Church of the Brethren]]
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  • ...faith or dogmatic teachings, but in general discuss practical questions of church life, for the most part dealing with the organization of the congregations, ...ough Amish bishops in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio, and Indiana are now in the Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College. One of these was is translated above
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  • A Statement of Our Position on Military Service as Adopted by the Mennonite General Conference, August 29, 1917 ...f the Mennonite Church in General Conference assembled at the Yellow Creek Church, near Goshen, Indiana, August 29, 1917, representing sixteen conferences in
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  • ...on, Survival and Flourishing of Anabaptists and Mennonites.'' Goshen, Ind: Mennonite Historical Society, 2000. || ...n, H. Wayne. ''Essays in Anabaptist Theology.'' Elkhart, Ind: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1994. || Includes essay: “Anabaptist Theology of Martyrdom” b
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  • Biblical Interpretation In The Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1977) ...terpretation In The Life of the Church</h3> A Summary Statement Adopted by Mennonite General Assembly June 18-24, 1977, Estes Park, Colorado
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  • *[[Church of the Brethren|Church of the Brethren (Kirche der Brüder)]] *[[Mennonite-Related Groups|Mennonitische Gruppen]]
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  • ...because of its content, but because it was meant to be a statement for the church, and was drawn up, most likely at the request of the ministers' conference ...er of other Protestant Reformation creeds must be attributed to Anabaptist-Mennonite reluctance regarding confessions rather than to the quality of the confessi
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  • ...ration on the Authority of the Scriptures, A (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1962) ...ptures representing the position taken by the General Conference Mennonite Church at its 1962 triennial conference at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, expressing its
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  • The Holy Spirit In the Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1977) A summary statement adopted by Mennonite General Assembly June 18-24, 1977, Estes Park, Colorado
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  • ==PREACHING THE BIBLE IN THE CHURCH== ...ues must become the concern of responsibly informed preachers who serve in Mennonite pulpits or their equivalent, and (2) that preaching experience, broadly und
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  • ...van, 1975). From that approach, Richards derives the point “that the whole church teaches” (pp. 80, 81). The medium becomes a significant hermeneutic of th ...in congregational teaching is one of how we go about equipping the “whole church” to become a teaching, nurturing community that enables response to Chris
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  • *[[Church of the Brethren]] *[[Mennonite-Related Groups]]
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  • ...erman Anabaptist-Mennonite Church''', this confession was published by the Church in Rudnerweide in South Russia, Odessa in 1853 and adopted by the Turner, O ..., Son and Holy Ghost, as a true God. We believe also in the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the
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  • ....org/9780836192087/revelation/''Revelation'', by John R. Yeatts (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] Revelation has also served as the inspiration for many of the church’s favorite hymns (see Koester, 2001:33-35). From the descriptions of God
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  • .... The page also provides access to bibliographic information on Anabaptist-Mennonite ecumenical involvements, texts of working papers and formal statements, an [[image:Picture4.png|thumb|550px|right|''Mennonite World Conference President Bishop Danisa Ndlovu and LWF General Secretary R
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  • ==The Church of Christ== ...oly temple, the visible body of those who are disciples. Membership in the church is conditioned upon a voluntary response to God's offer of salvation in Chr
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  • On 3 April 1578, Hans de Ries, a young Mennonite minister from Antwerp, was arrested at the marketplace in Middelburg.1 The ===VIII. The Church===
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  • ...rtzendruber found that the man in the bunk over from his was a CO from the Church of the Brethren. They immediately began to quietly pray together and encour Mock, Melanie Springer. ''Writing Peace: The Unheard Voices of Great War Mennonite Objectors'' (Pennsylvania: Pandora Press US, 2003).
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  • ...the nature of Scripture and the meaning of inspiration. Our little country church lived far from the theological controversies and debates going on elsewhere ...recall the curtained off area and the hard benches in the basement of the church building where our class met but I remember even more vividly the poster si
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  • ...81513802442/1-corinthians/''1 Corinthians'', by Dan Nighswander (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] ...rection (15:1-58) is often quoted in part at funerals. The metaphor of the church as a body (12:12-26) has been used to address diversity of roles, and somet
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  • Adopted April 21, 1632, by a Dutch Mennonite Conference held at Dordrecht, Holland. ...created in righteousness and true holiness: for, neither baptism, supper, church, nor any other outward ceremony, can without faith, regeneration, change or
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  • Affirming Our Faith in Word and Deed (Mennonite Church, 1979) ...letion of the work of the Affirmation of Faith Task Force of the Mennonite Church General Assembly.
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  • *[[Church of the Brethren | Igreja dos Irmãos]] *[[Mennonite-Related Groups | Menonitas – Grupos Relacionados]]
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  • ...nnomedia.org/9780836190168/ezekiel/''Ezekiel'', by Millard Lind (Believers Church Bible Commentary)]'']] *Lind, Millard C. ''Monotheism, Power, Justice''. Elkhart, IN: Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1990.
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  • ...n to the new creation. The Father sent the Son, who gave the Spirit to the church. ...ation of God -- Jesus Christ. God spoke and offered direction to the early church through the apostles. God spoke of promised judgement and the hope of Chris
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  • ...simple instruction from the sacred scriptures, as taught by the Mennonite Church''. ==The Church and Her Ordinances==
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