Mennonites

This source names Mennonites directly: "Mennonite World Conference's own official announcement, dated 27 November 2025, that the Meserete Kristos Church in Ethiopia withdrew its invitation to host the 2028 MWC Assembly due to an internal..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Charity Intelligence Canada's profile of Mennonite Central Committee Canada, a registered Canadian charity, reporting about 62.7 million Canadian dollars in total revenue, about 52.6 million dollars..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, adopted jointly by the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church and published by Herald Press in 1995, is the denomination's own..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "A news article by Paul Schrag in Anabaptist World, an independent Mennonite news publication, dated 26 November 2025 and updated 17 February 2026."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Mennonite World Conference's official page explaining its Fair Share member-church contribution system: annual contributions are based on the MWC budget approved by its General Council, individually..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Four Hundred Years with the Ausbund, by Paul M."

This source names Mennonites directly: "The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online is a standing reference work maintained collaboratively by Mennonite historical societies and related institutions, covering the history..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "The Amana Colonies in eastern Iowa were founded in 1855 by the Community of True Inspiration, a German Pietist communal sect that held property in common and worshipped in unadorned meeting houses..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Kansas entered the union through Bleeding Kansas, the 1850s violence between proslavery and free state settlers in which New England Congregationalist emigrant aid societies deliberately populated..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Thieleman J."

This source names Mennonites directly: "A combined citation covering the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online's entry on the Martyrs' Mirror and the Anabaptist Historians blog's published essay on Jan Luyken's engravings for..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Mennonite Church USA's February 9, 2022 news release on its Executive Board's February 3 to 4, 2022 meeting, reporting a clean audit from the named outside firm Regier Carr and Monroe LLP CPAs for..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Wikipedia's article on Menno Simons, the sixteenth century Frisian priest whose 1536 break from Roman Catholicism and subsequent leadership consolidated the Anabaptist movement that became known as..."

This source names Mennonite directly: "history: representatives of several Mennonite Relief Commissions met at Prairie Street Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Indiana on 27 to 28 July 1920 to form a provisional committee to bring famine..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "Mennonite Central Committee U.S."

Mennonite conferences worldwide are the member churches of the Conference.

This source names Mennonites directly: "Mennonite World Conference's official 2024 annual report, published on its resources page in multiple formats and languages."

This source names Mennonites directly: "This is the Mennonite World Conference's own published return of baptized membership figures for its member churches for 2024, hosted on the Conference's own website, distinguishing the world..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "William Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1681 as a holy experiment in religious toleration for his fellow Quakers, and Philadelphia grew into colonial America's most religiously diverse city as a..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer database record for Mennonite Central Committee U S, stating that no Form 990 data is held for the organization because the Internal Revenue Service designates it as..."

This source names Mennonite directly: "monograph on this specific quilt or on Mennonite quiltmaking generally."

This source names Mennonites directly: "The Black Hills, called Paha Sapa by the Lakota, are held sacred as the center of the Lakota Sioux universe, and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 guaranteed them to the Great Sioux Reservation before..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "The Dordrecht Confession of Faith is a primary seventeenth century Anabaptist confessional document, adopted by Dutch Mennonite ministers assembled at Dordrecht in 1632 and still used by some..."

This source names Mennonites directly: "The Radical Reformation is the name for the movements that judged Luther's and Zwingli's reforms incomplete, beginning with the first adult baptisms at Zurich in 1525."

This source names Mennonites directly: "later Anabaptist descended body, the Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish among them, currently holds or has revised these specific articles."

This source names Mennonites directly: "World Membership, the Mennonite World Conference's own 2025 published list of its constituent member churches, is an institutional self-account rather than independent scholarly analysis."

This source names Mennonites directly: "The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online's own article compiling the worldwide distribution of Mennonite membership across history, drawing on denominational and regional membership..."

The largest Anabaptist family.

The Dordrecht confession requires that a candidate be taught and believe before baptism, so the baptism of infants has no standing.

Sung in four parts without accompaniment, which is how a Mennonite congregation sings everything.

Mennonite bodies own the Ausbund as their own inheritance and as a record of their martyrs, but adopted other hymnals from the eighteenth century and do not sing from it.

Four-part unaccompanied congregational singing is a Mennonite mark, and the shape note tunebook Harmonia Sacra was compiled by a Mennonite and is still sung from.

Mennonite polity rests on the gathered congregation of believers and refuses a territorial church in which membership follows residence.

Relief work carried out as a body, and the refusal of military service, are treated as two halves of one testimony rather than as charity and politics.

Baptism follows instruction and profession and is ordinarily by pouring rather than immersion, which distinguishes Mennonite practice from Baptist.

The Dordrecht confession makes the washing of the saints' feet an ordinance in its own right, kept before or with the communion, and not a Maundy Thursday ceremony performed once a year by a celebrant.

Marriage is within the church, and the Dordrecht confession restricts it to those of the same faith.

The Shelburne Museum's own record describes this quilt specifically as Mennonite, distinct from the Amish tradition this atlas already records separately.

Mennonite Central Committee is named for and rooted in the Mennonite churches that formed it in 1920, though its US sponsoring bodies today also include Brethren in Christ and Amish conferences, so linked to Mennonites as its primary identified tradition.