I'm getting ready to start a new thread on MN titled "Acronyms used on MennoNet"
Hopefully this can be made a "sticky" on the Announcements and Introductions Forum
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Acronyms used on MennoNet
MN – MennoNet
MD – MennoDiscuss – the predecessor of MennoNet
BT = Bunny Trail
BTW = By the way
LOL = Laughing out loud
IMO = In my opinion
IMHO = In my humble opinion
IMVHO = In my very humble opinion
e.g. = example
i.e. = in other words
D&R - Divorce and Remarriage
MAP = Mission to Amish People
WIM - Women In Ministry
A document explaining the different plain people.
https://www.churchplantersforum.org/wp- ... People.pdf
Anabaptist Acronyms
CA = Conservative Anabaptist
CM = Conservative Mennonite
MB = Mennonite Born or Mennonite Background - also Mennonite Brethren (an evangelical-leaning Mennonite group most common in the great planes of Canada & the US)
NMB = Not Mennonite By Birth but identifies as a Mennonite in adulthood
AB = Anabaptist Background as a child; cradle Anabaptist
NAB = Person who was not raised Anabaptist but identifies as an Anabaptist as an adult
Anabaptist Conferences and Fellowships
BA or BAM = Beachy or Beachy Amish-Mennonite
BBF = Biblical Brethren Fellowship (not to be confused with the Bible Brethren which is far more conservative!)
BMA = Biblical Mennonite Alliance (A progressive-conservative group established in 1998)
BRF = Brethren Revival Fellowship
COB = Church of the Brethren
COGICM or CGCM = Church of God in Christ Mennonite; “Holdeman Mennonites”
CMC = Conservative Mennonite Conference; "Conservative Conference"; (conservative in theology; not plain in practice)
DB = Dunkard Brethren
EMC = Evangelical Mennonite Church
EMMC = Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference
KMF = Keystone Mennonite Fellowship (A moderate/progressive-conservative group that broke away from Lancaster Conference)
MC-USA = The more liberal/mainstream branch of Mennodom that is a result of the General Conference & Old Mennonite merger in the 1990's
MCC = Mennonite Central Committee (aid organization of MC-USA)
MDS = Mennonite Disaster Serevice
OGBBC-NC = Old German Baptist Brethren Church – New Conference
OGBBC-OC = Old German Baptist Brethren Church – Original Conference
OO = Old Order (Anabaptists who keep to old forms of worship and sometimes old forms of technology)
OOA = Old Order Amish
OOM = Old Order Mennonite
OORB = Old Order River Brethren
UMC = United Mennonite Church
Here are some acronyms out of the Fröhlich / ACC / Nazarene spectrum:
ACC = Apostolic Christian Church = Common English designation for the Fröhlich congregations.
ACCA = Apostolic Christian Church of America = "unvertragsam" ("intolerant", i.e. facial hair prohibiting) branch in America (plus Japan, Canada and Mexico) post 1905 split. Note: the strict stance of the ACCA on facial hair seems to have somewhat alleviated recently.
ACF = Apostolic Christian Faith Church = conservative split off the ACCA in 2012.
ACCN = Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarean) = "vertragsam" ("tolerant", i.e. facial hair allowing) branch post 1905 split in America (plus Canada, Mexico). In Australia, the spelling is Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarene).
NCC = Nazarene Christian Congregation (aka Doroslovac Group) = split off Eastern Europe Nazarenes in 1948. Has congregations in the US. Note: Nazarenes is the common/colloquial designation for the Fröhlich congregations in Eastern Europe.
GACC = German Apostolic Christian Church = conservative split off the ACCA 1932, initially went by the name of CAC but is called GACC since 1955.
CAC = Christian Apostolic Church = split off the GACC in 1955 but took the CAC name.
INAC = Iglesia Nazarena Apostolica Cristiana = Spanish name for the Fröhlich congregations used e.g. in Argentina.
GET = Gemeinschaft Evangelisch Taufgesinnter = original German name of the Fröhlich congregations in Western Europe (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Sweden), now only used by the few remaining strict ("intolerant") branches in Switzerland and Germany. The strict German GET congregations add "Altmennoniten" (i.e. GET (Altmennoniten)). Attention: most of the conservative "tolerant" branches that are not affiliated with the ETG Federation (see below) use the name of GET (Nazarener). As a rule of thumb, when the word "Nazarene" is used, it is a "tolerant" branch.
ETG = Evangelische Täufergemeinde = name used since around 1984 by the "tolerant" congregations in Western Europe affiliated with the ETG Federation (now only Switzerland and Germany plus one non-affiliated congregation in Austria that goes by the ETG name). Before that, since the 1905 split, the branches were known as GET I and GET II. The non-affiliated "tolerant" branches now go by the name of GET (Nazarener) or something along these lines.
