twinpines wrote:
There must be a second charity like church in the area as the Dorchester church is all of Mennonite background. Lee Rufener probably is in the other group.
Lee was associated with Brad Baylor the last I knew.
My understanding is the Athens group has had several splits. Who is the Brad Baylor group?
(I used to work for Ned Isakov who lived in Athens pre-splits, and I also used to visit with Lee’s brother, who sadly I haven’t been able to see since this disease started.)
francis
Re: Apostolic Christian Church
PostSat Apr 11, 2020 1:47 am
Maybe I should start my own thread, but I was curious. I was looking up churches in Sarasota, FL (just giving the city for context,) and all the churches seemed to have fairly good relationships with one another (hosting choral concerts in one another's venues, etc.) and this was true for the Evangelicals, the Methodists, Presbyterians, and even the Beachy Amish.
But the one sizeable church that didn't seem to have any online presence or any relationship with other churches was the Apostolic Christian Church in Sarasota (ACCA not ACCN.) I assume that's because of its isolationist policies re: interacting with other churches but wasn't sure because the Beachy church had no issue performing songs with other non-Anabaptist congregations.
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I don't believe that any of the ACCA or conservative ACCN(east) churches would build a relationship with other churches, be it Evangelicals, Methodist,Anabaptist etc.
The only Froehlichen group that probably would, would be the ACCN(west) or possibly some of the ACCN(east) that are more in the "liberal" spectrum. Now that could change in the ACCN(east) in the future as they progress.
Josh
Re: Apostolic Christian Church
PostSun Apr 12, 2020 2:37 pm
ohio jones wrote:
Does http://www.acc-nazarean.org represent East, West, or both? The geographical distribution of the congregations listed does not make that obvious, though maybe that's not the origin of the labels.
Both. There are some subtle ways to tell which is which. Due to the shared background and property, they try to find ways to keep this going, although it’s becoming much like if Maranatha Amish-Mennonite and the CMC tried to keep having shared organisations
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The churches listed on this website are all eastern conference.
Fidelio wrote:
We have a member at the Livonia ACCA who is running for re-election to the Livonia City Council. However, that should be a non-partisan position, so may not get to the heart of the question.
Thanks. At our ETG church we have at least one guy active in communal politics and afaik most of us (except for an elder Nazarene brother) vote.
In case you don't know, in Switzerland, you not only get to elect politicians on all levels but also vote on laws, expenses, taxes, treaties etc. I can see why electing politicians can seem problematic insofar as it means you are supporting the world system but I see it as a privilege to be able to give my vote on all kinds of stuff and I don't see why I shouldn't do it. That's my personal opinion, of course, and I have not yet given this matter a lot of thought tbh.
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but an ACCA member recently won a primary for Indiana state Senate, and has a high chance of winning the general election.
At the time this thread started, an ACCA member was serving as county commissioner in a nearby county. He was since elected as a state representative, and is running for reelection, unopposed in the recent primary. As a Republican, he's virtually guaranteed to carry the general election.
ohio jones wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2026 12:43 pm
At the time this thread started, an ACCA member was serving as county commissioner in a nearby county. He was since elected as a state representative, and is running for reelection, unopposed in the recent primary. As a Republican, he's virtually guaranteed to carry the general election.
As far as I know, like Quakers, the ACCA never had much objection against running for office. Then again, from reviewing records from the 1700s in Pennsylvania, apparently Mennonites didn't used to either.
