Host to Ohio Mission Board annual meeting May 1, 1948, when the Wadsworth Declaration was adopted. Five men have been ordained from this congregation for service at other places: Joe Kauffman, Eldon King, John C. King, Dean Yoder, and Herb Yoder. Ministers who served: David Hilty, Christ Byler, J. B. Smith, John Y. King, B. B. Stoltzfus, Frank Byler, Newton Weber, Edward Stoltzfus, Chauncey Kauffman, Loren King, Ralph M. Smucker.

Big Laurel 1951

Big Laurel Road, Grayson, N.C. 3. Aquila Stoltzfus 4. Aquila Stoltzfus 5. 23

6. This work in the mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina, began through the request of John Maberry, who lived in Oxford, Pa. His desire was for the Mennonite people to work among his own people in North Carolina. The Sunday school is self-supporting. The Conestoga and Maple Grove congregations give partial support to the workers. The Rainbow congregation at Shouns, Tenn., was started as an outreach of the Big Laurel congregation.

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Birch Grove 1954

Two Mile Road, Port Allegany, Pa. 3. Calvin Kennel 4. Alvin E. Miller 5. 26

6. Started through spiritual vision of

deer hunters who saw the need for

summer Bible school. First school held in

1952.

Black Oak 1953

Fourteen miles south of Breezewood Exit Pa. Turnpike off Pa. Rt. 70, left on Pa. Rt. 484; at four miles 484 branches three ways; take center road. Hancock, Md., R.D. 1.

3. Michael M. Horst

4. Michael M. Horst

5. 28

Bowman's 1843

Canal Winchester, Ohio.

3. Jacob Bowman

Located on Brice Pike, on the north side of Columbus-Winchester Pike. Building sold 1898 and services continued in Stemen's Church until 1911. Cemetery maintained on Gender Road. John M. Brenneman was minister at Bowman's while he lived at Canal Winchester, before moving to Elida, Ohio. Congregation extinct.

Bethel, West Liberty, Ohio

Big Laurel, Grayson, N.C.

Birch Grove, Port Allegany, Pa.