Appendixes

Appendix I

List of Congregations

Compiler's Note: The list of congregations includes extinct churches, also churches once members of conference but who have transferred to other Mennonite district conferences. Cross-references are provided giving obsolete names of churches. Congregations whose organization had the use of two or more meetinghouses are listed as districts; most if not all of these districts are now reorganized into more than one congregation. The date of the division of these districts into independently organized congregations is noted as the organizational date for those congregations formed from a district. A number of these districts were found in Allen, Columbiana, Fulton, Mahoning, Medina, and Wayne counties in Ohio, also in Chester, Lancaster, and Mifflin counties in Pennsylvania. The list is current to Jan. 1, 1968.-Wilmer D. Swope.

Form:

1. Name of congregation and date of organization   4. Present minister

2. Location and address   5. Membership

3. First minister   6. Pertinent facts and information

Akron 1959

Diamond St., Akron, Pa.

3. Glenn Esh

4. Kermit Derstine

5. 139

6. About 40 members of the Monterey congregation, Leola, Pa., formed the nucleus of this new church. Services were held in the Brownstown Fire Hall from October 1959 until June 1963. Glenn Esh preached for both Monterey and Akron congregations until Kermit Derstine came to Akron as pastor in August 1961.

Allensville 1863

Pa. Rt. 655, Allensville, Pa. 3. Solomon Byler 4. Raymond R. Peachey 5. 344

6. Transferred to Allegheny Confer

ence 1957. See Allensville-Maple Grove

District for early history.

Ark Bible Chapel 1964 Located off Reservoir Rd.,

north of Earlville. Boyertown,

2.

3. Elmer Petersheim (Supt.) 4. Elmer Petersheim (Supt.) 5. 22

6. Associated with the Oley congregation, Oley, Pa.

one mile Pa. R. D.

Allensville-Maple Grove District 1863

Services alternated between the Allens

ville and Maple Grove meetinghouses.

Allensville and Maple Grove developed   Bancroft 1945

as separate congregations between 1925   5559 W. Bancroft St., Toledo, Ohioo

and 1933; during this period the alter-   3. Henry Wyse

nation of services between the two   4. Henry Wyse

meetinghouses was discontinued. (See   5. 36

Allensville and Maple Grove.)   6. The first Mennonite church in Tole

300