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Leroy Umble of Maple Grove was ordained as minister. Wesley Chapel was used for a summer Bible school in 1949, and in 1955 Herman Glick was ordained as minister. At the same time that these churches were founded a congregation was started at Sadsburyville, Pennsylvania, to be known as Sandy Hill. The congregation serves members who moved into the community, and also the longer residents of the area. Puerto Rico migrants on occasions attend services at this church where Clair Umble was ordained as pastor in 1953.

The Snow Hill Mennonite Church at Snow Hill, Maryland, is another of the new churches to be started in this period. It dates from 1950 and 1951 when two recently married young men, Samuel and David Yoder, moved into the area with .the express purpose of establishing a church. Surveys were made, Sunday school work began, and in 1953 a church was built and dedicated. The congregation has had an outreach and service to the community, including the local jail. Omar Stoltzfus is the pastor and Amos King has bishop oversight of the congregation. For some years Snow Hill was an outpost of the Holly Grove Church at Westover, Maryland.

The Ridgeview congregation of Gordonville, Pennsylvania, is a branch congregation of Maple Grove at Atglen, Pennsylvania. The first services of the congregation were held in June 1962 and it now occupies a substantial new building on an elevation overlooking an open countryside. The membership has come to include persons in addition to former Maple Grove members. Elam Lantz is the pastor who was ordained to serve the congregation.

Ohio churches that established outposts in the 1950's include the church at Leetonia. After several years of teaching and chapel services in the city of Youngstown the Rockview Mennonite Church was founded, with Fred and Carolyn Augsburger in charge as superintendent and matron. The Grey Ridge Mission Church was started by Walnut Creek and Farmerstown members in 1950. The Flat Ridge Mission dates from 1949 when the Martin's Creek and Berlin congregations began work at Newcomerstown, Ohio.

The town of Ravenna in northeastern Ohio is the site of a church which ministers to formerly unchurched Negroes. The church building was purchased in 1961 by the Plainyiew congregation at Aurora after several years of successful summer Bible schools in the area. Eugene Yoder is pastor of the congregation.

The churches in Fulton County have formed many new con-