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District of the General Conference Mennonite Church east of the Mississippi. The Swiss congregations of Ohio and Indiana met together at Sonnenberg (Wayne Co., Ohio) in 1878 (ministers incl. John Moser of Allen Co., Christian Sprunger and Christian B. Lehman of Berne) and, except Chippewa and much of Sonnenberg, joined the General Conference in the early 1890s (Smith pp. 385–386). Founding date of the district: to verify.

Member congregations in this vault

Sources: Smith - Smith’s Story of the Mennonites (1981).

Record compiled 31 October 2026.

About this research

Supporting documentation is linked throughout. This project is an exercise in AI-assisted research and development, and I haven’t manually verified every link or conclusion. All transcriptions and translations of Swiss parish records were made with AI, and their accuracy should be treated accordingly.