Church of the Brethren

In order to fully tell what influence the church has had on me, I first need to start with my Grandparents. My Mom’s Father (Rev. Charles Martindale) is a Pastor who has preached at many different United Brethren, Evangelical United Brethren, and Union Churches. His brother (Rev. Marty Martindale) is also a pastor and I have had the pleasure of sitting with both of them and discussing their views on different Bible verses over the years. Charles Martindale married Virginia right after graduating

b. By 1653, persecuted Swiss Brethren began to move into the wasted lands, known as the palatinate c. Eleven years later, one of Palatinate’s dukes issued a special offer of toleration to the Swiss Brethren (he called them “Mennists”, correctly associating them with their fellow Mennonites in the north). The Mennonites would receive religious freedom for themselves, the duke promised, but they could not proselytize, meet in large groups, or construct church buildings. d. Despite these restrictions

The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:10-20 takes the opportunity to convey to the Church at Ephesus, the growing threat of the spiritual issues confronting the body of Christ. The central beliefs implant and reside in the texts, seem to be a battle cry that resounds from the heart of the Apostle Paul. Paul's aim in the texts is to shade light on the spiritual warfare that's outside of the eyesight of the believer. Furthermore, the battle that is in question is a spiritual battle that seizes eternal ramification

for Sattler’s conversion, by the time he leaves Oberglatt in late June, he had been baptized and was ready to be an influence for the Swiss Brethren Anabaptists. (3) Michael Sattler’s departure from Oberglatt marked the beginning of his very brief ministry. By late fall or early winter, Sattler was in the town of Strasbourg, debating and teaching Swiss Brethren beliefs. Strasbourg was the stronghold of the

The left over of John Smyth’s movement became endangered. The English law did not allow such independent churches to be formed or practiced. King James the first vowed to harshly take charge of anyone who chose to go against or refuse to attend the Church of England. The Gainsborough group had heard of a city in Amsterdam that provided religious freedom and decided to migrate across the English Channel to reach their religious freedom and to escape the persecution. Once they left, they were not yet

The Petitcodiac Mennonite Church was found in the late ’70 by two members of the Nairn Mennonite Church in Ontario. The congregation was then known as the Mennonite Fellowship-Sussex. In May 1985 the congregation changed its name to Petitcodiac Mennonite Church to better reflect its community involvement. Since 1995, church membership remains relatively stable and in 2015, the Petitcodiac Mennonite Church reported having 38 members. In 2005 the church purchased a Ten Thousand Villages store to sale

poverty starting with David and Ida Eisenhower. David started his family in the Bible Belt while joining The River Brethren. The River Brethren was a religious group that rejected infant baptism and the establishing church authority like many Christians, the brethren believed the bible is God’s true word. Uninterested in farming like the rest of the Bible Belt, David attended a Brethren in Christ college to study engineering which started his life of poverty. Dwight’s life was very altered while

Church folks, Flies and Ants There are so many church folks in this present day as never before. These church folks that come to church on Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving maybe, Christmas, hum let’s think about what day it falls on, New Year’s Eve Celebration and the most attended Sunday service along with Easter; Mother’s Day. The church folks forget about Father’s Day. If there is no father, then there will be no you, Amen. God said to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to be fruitful and multiply

Saint Cosmas of Aetolia is considered one of the great missionaries of the Orthodox Church. Much like Saint Paul, he traveled a great distance to proclaim the Gospel. He established schools and reinvigorated the Orthodox faithful of Greece who had endured several centuries of Ottoman occupation. Costa was his given name and he was born in 1714 in the village of Mega Dendron in the mountainous region of Aetolia. <?> At age 20, he worked as a grammar teacher under the guidance of Archdeacon

and left his family behind to fight against the Union armies (17-18). Three years later, the war had reached Tant’s home in northern Georgia. The homestead that he had labored to establish there was destroyed five days before the Battle of New Hope Church occurred, leaving his wife and three young sons to fend for themselves amid a hostile environment (12-15). This was J.D. Tant’s first taste of what the world offered. The years following the War, his parents did what they could to provide for their