248 / The Growth of Newer Congregations

gregations in the last few decades. The Tedrow Church at Wauseon began in 1944 and by 1955 was an independent congregation. In 1966 its 166 members had Carl V. Yoder as pastor and Roy E. Sauder as bishop. It is an outgrowth of the Central Church. Pine Grove Church at Stryker was founded by the Lockport congregation in 1951 and by 1956 had a membership of one hundred. D. Wyse Graber is pastor.

The Fulton County churches have had a ministry to Spanishspeaking migrants that dates from 1940. In addition to this outreach there are the following outposts: Bancroft Mission in Toledo; Salem Mission at Waldron, Michigan; Spencer Church at Swanton; and Springfield Township Chapel. The Spanish-speaking members now have a new building northeast of Archbold, the Good Shepherd Church, and are served by their pastor, Guillermo Tijerina.

The Fulton County churches also support mission outposts under the mission board. They are Hillside Chapel at Jackson; Hilltop Church at Tazewell, Virginia;, Lower Owl Creek Church at Lucasville; Pinegrove Church at Vinton; St. John's at Logan; and Wayside Chapel at Pedro.

Among the most recently founded churches is the Southmost Mennonite Church at Florida City. It is a daughter congregation of the Bay Shore congregation at Sarasota, Florida. The pastor is LeRoy Sheats in whose home the congregation began in 1964. In 1966 its eleven charter members were received as a congregation in the Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference.

Mission to the Choctaw Indians in Mississippi

In 1960 the congregation at Burton, Ohio, assumed responsibility for a mission to the Choctaw Indians at Macon, Mississippi. The mission had been started two years earlier by David Weaver under the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities. Thé first regular Sunday school and preaching services were held under an oak tree at the old chief's house. At this writing thirteen Indians have been baptized, and these together with twenty-two white persons comprise the Mashulaville Mennonite Mission. In December 1962 David Weaver was ordained as pastor to the Choctaw Indians. In cooperation with the local superintendent of schools the mission secures teachers for the public schools.

In 1961 work of a similar type was started among the Choctaw