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In recent years, the Missionary Church has sought a closer return to its Mennonite roots. In 2003, the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, another body with Mennonite and Pietist heritage, began pursuing an attempt to join their 200-some churches in the United States with the Missionary Church. The leadership of both denominations were ...
In the 1850s, the origins of the Missionary Church emerged when a number of Mennonite ministers were dismissed from their former churches for conducting unsanctioned prayer meetings, attending and conducting revival services, and allowing women to share public testimonies.
The Missionary Church (in this article the term Missionary Church will also generally refer to its immediate predecessors, including the Mennonite its Anabaptist and Pietist heritages, stands with the pre-Constantinian, primitive Church over against attempts to establish it within a “divinely sanctioned” empire. road to becoming a part of ...
- David Cramer
Apr 15, 2019 · The MBIC remained Mennonite in identity well into 20th century. But it changed its name to the United Missionary Church in 1947, evidence of its decreasing Anabaptist identity and increasing affinity for evangelicalism. In 1969, the United Missionary Church merged with the Missionary Church Association, which originated among the Amish in the ...
Recognizing that risk, this essay seeks to introduce major features of Mennonite faith alongside an overview of Anabaptist-Mennonite history, and particularly those Mennonite streams that historically fed what is now the Missionary Church.*
- David Cramer, John Roth
At a time when North American Mennonites are questioning the legacy of mission, this essay reviews three strands of thinking that are converging to reaffirm a believers church perspective on mission even as the Anabaptist church develops a more global identity.
In recent years, the Missionary Church has sought a closer return to its Mennonite roots. They are also currently engaged in merger negotiations with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ , another body with Mennonite and Pietist heritage.
