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  Historical Committee
Scrapbook
page, North Newton
by John D.
Thiesen, Archivist
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Photograph
of the Eden Mennonite Church, Moundridge, Kansas, in about 1948. The
original membership was Swiss Volhynian immigrants who had come to
Kansas in the 1870s from Volhynia, Russia. Their church was Hopefield
Mennonite, which joined the General Conference Mennonite Church in
1881. A split in this congregation in 1895 led to form this Eden
congregation, which joined the General Conference in 1896. Source:
Mennonite Encyclopedia Photograph Collection |
Children at the entrance of
Woodlawn Mennonite Church, Chicago, Illinois in the early 1960s (?).
First used in Mennonite
Life, March 1988, p. 24
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West Swamp Mennonite Church,
Quakertown, Pennsylvania, built in 1873. |
List of ministers of the
Germantown Mennonite Church, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. It was back in 1683 that immigrants from Krefeld, on the
Rhine River in Germany, had established this congregation and elected
their first minister, William Rittenhouse, in 1699. This congregation
had joined the General Conference Mennonite Church in 1884. Source:
Germantown Mennonite Church
Cdollection.
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Mennonites
leaving Russia for Canada, ca. 1923. An emigrant train at
the Lichtenau station, Molochna, Russia.
First used in
Mennonite Life,
July 1948, p. 42. |
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Mennonite Historical
Bulletin
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Mission
Statement:
"God calls us to preserve our faith heritage, to interpret our stories,
and to proclaim God's work among us."
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