AMERICAN MENNONITE HISTORY – 1900 TO THE PRESENT

Among the Old Mennonites by the 1930s a key slogan was, “every congregation an outpost.” New OM “mission outposts” doubled from 71 in 1930 to 140 in 1940. Some of the conservative missions were rural and some urban. Missions brought various new people into Mennonite congregations. Ex-moonshiners, ex-gamblers, and ex-prostitutes, as well as others joined. Persons came from various ... ................
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