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gregation which grew to 100 members. Since 1962 this church has started a daughter congregation at Farmington with fifteen charter members.

The Mennonite congregation in Wooster, Ohio, came about as a result of evangelistic efforts of the Salem congregation during the late 1930's. In 1943 a mission station was started and in the following year a congregation was organized by D. D. Miller of Berlin, Ohio. The congregation drew members from a variety of backgrounds, including nonchurch homes. By 1957 it became independent of the mission board which had done much to launch it. '

There was also new growth in congregations in the eastern Pennsylvania area in the 1940's. The Monterey Mennonite Church at Monterey, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was organized in December 1946 by Bishop O. N. Johns. The thirty-seven charter members were residing in the area and came from numerous conferences in the Middle West and in the East. The congregation purchased an abandoned Church of the Brethren meetinghouse as a place of worship and later remodeled it. In April 1948 Glenn Esh was ordained as pastor of the congregation which has seen a steady growth since its beginning. In 1959 a daughter church of Monterey was established at Akron, Pennsylvania, with Glenn Esh serving as pastor until 1962 when he was succeeded by Kermit Derstine. A new congregation at Beckersville, Pennsylvania, came into being, occupying an abandoned Methodist church and named Zion Mennonite Church at the time of its organization in 1951. Many of its members came from the Conestoga Church of Morgantown. Ross Goldfus and Dr. Noah Mack serve as pastors.

The Ebenezer Mennonite Church near Elverson, Pennsylvania, was organized in 1957 by a few Mennonites families in the community. In 1958 it became a part of the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference with Allen Ebersole of Leetonia, Ohio, as the first bishop. He was succeeded by O. N. Johns, and presently John R. Martin is overseer. Elmer B. Stoltzfus is the pastor of this young congregation. The congregation's building is an old one, and was owned at one time by the Methodist Church.

Another congregation founded in eastern Pennsylvania is the Zion Church in York where J. Eby Leaman is pastor. The congregation dates from 1954, and in 1966 had a membership of seventysix. The Bethany Church at East Earl was founded in 1958 and