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Not having Bishops isn’t the right answer. Having 1 bishop for several churches also doesn’t seem right. I don’t object to them helping a new church, but local leadership should eventually take over. In our case, we simply consider all ministers to hold the office of "bishop" as described...

Eastern and Pilgrim lift, I believe, quarterly offerings for ministerial aid. In Pilgrim, the bishops got double what the ministers (and I suppose the deacons were included) received. When a minister came from a distance to preach for a Sunday evening or a Winter Bible School message, they were pai...

Eastern and Pilgrim lift, I believe, quarterly offerings for ministerial aid. In Pilgrim, the bishops got double what the ministers (and I suppose the deacons were included) received. When a minister came from a distance to preach for a Sunday evening or a Winter Bible School message, they were paid...

I just received a UPS delivery from a lady in a purple jeep. Never had something like this happen before. Penske vans and so forth, yes. But not personal vehicles. As I understand it, UPS hires extra drivers this time of year and allow personal vehicles to be used. Has this been happening for a lon...

In the interest of simply getting down to facts are those you posting on this close to these churches? As with all things, there is some truth in the person who finds all the labels silly, and yet you need something to describe the differences in practices and where the churches stand. Yet that can...

I was told that Isaac Sensenig supposedly said that in Bible times Jerusalem was the center of the Church, It is now Lancaster Co. That is a staggering statement... It reveals a lot about the thinking of those in the East. Was he joshing? I don't know the context of that statement. In his lifetime,...

I heard that a Mennonite historian said once that, in Mennonite church associations, the churches "east of the river" (the Susquehanna) have always tended to make the rules for the churches elsewhere in the country. Discuss. Any truth to this? I was told that Isaac Sensenig supposedly sai...

My family was Virginia Conference going back many generations. My parents went with Southeastern in 1972 when that split off. I have one brother who is still there and has raised his family there. I did a quick calculation and it looks like out my high school class and the ones immediately before a...

Well, Pilgrim isn’t really any different. Fellowships on the other hand tend to have members vote on it. Pilgrim is a Conference . Aaron Shank was very much pushing that Pilgrim be a conference when it formed. Eastern is technically a conferring fellowship in that members vote for changes to the di...

RZehr wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:11 pm What does the C stand for in EPMC?

EPMC = Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church