Berean Mennonite Church Youngstown Fred and Carolyn Augsburger

Burnside Mennonite Church   Columbus Paul and Martha Yutzy

Chippewa Mennonite Church   Powell John and Ruth Bartholomew

Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship Cincinnati Charles and Mabel Kalous

Fairpoint Mennonite Church Raymond and Gladys Shank

First Mennonite Church Dayton Jonas and Ada Hostetler

Highway Chapel East Greenville Marvin and Doris Hostetler

Hilltop Mennonite Church    Tazewell,Va.   Paul and Fannie Stoltzfus

Owl Creek Mennonite Church   Beaver   John and Ann Hostetler

Pinegrove Mennonite Church   Vinton   Elmer and Goldie Geiser

Rockview Mennonite Church   Youngstown Richardand~MaxineBartholomew

St. John's Chapel   Logan   Lester and Dorothy Roth

Wayside Chapel   Pedro   Chauncy and Ilva Grieser

Zane Manor   Chillicothe . Abram Kauiman (supply pastor)

The new congregational units represent a growing edge of the conference in the second half of the twentieth century. Generally the groups are small and among them there is variety in patterns of worship and church activities. In the cities they are a departure from the rescue mission of the past, yet on the whole they aim to gather into their fold anyone who is seeking a spiritual home.

Before 1920, 71 percent of Ohio's Mennonite congregations were located in the country in contrast to 48 percent by 1960. Village congregations increased from thirteen percent before 1920 to 24 percent during the same period. City churches increased from 10 percent to 12 percent.- From these figures it can be seen that there is a trend toward urbanization, though the rate of urbanization of Ohio Mennonite churches has not kept pace with the rapid urbanization of the larger American society.

The Mennonite Family Census of 1963 conducted by the Historical and Research Committee of the Mennonite General Conference brings to the surface a number of data that bear on the Ohio Conference. One clear item, already noted, is that the churches are no longer made up of persons engaged in farming or in farmrelated occupations. The implications are considered to be important, for no longer will rural life be a cohesive force which draws the church community together. Farming as an occupation in the Ohio and Eastern Conference was only 26.3 as compared to 38.9 for the entire Mennonite Church. Yet it would be a mistake to conclude that the majority of these nonfarm people are urban;