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Mennonite Church

Mennonite Church

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A Christian group that lives simply and seeks peace
  • noun
  • /ˈmɛnəˌnaɪt tʃɜrʧ/
translation icon : Iglesia Menonita
  • This scene from Tyler's novel should help you capture what it means to graduate from Goshen College, a school of the Mennonite Church.
  • the First Mennonite Church

Examples

  • The Peace and Justice Support Network (a partnership of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Mission Network) has the conversation you're looking for.

    Blog text (34)
  • Goshen is a college sponsored and supported by the Mennonite Church, though non-Mennonites also belong to the faculty and student body.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Published: October 9th, 2012, by Mennonite Church USA

    Blog text (34)
  • The Mennonite Church took no official stance, while both the Friends and the Brethren became steadfast advocates of Japanese Americans and their rights.

    Academic text (2004)
  • From the world's perspective, it is something of a disability that your degree is from a strange little college in Goshen, Indiana, sponsored by the Mennonite Church.

    Academic text (1992)
  • And so like your book points out, there isn't just one single Mennonite church or Amish church that everybody who's Amish belongs to.

  • For forty-some years, he taught adult Sunday school at Goshen Mennonite Church, one of three Mennonite churches within a morning's walk of the farm.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • During our first week in Bogotá, we meet daily at the local Mennonite Church, where we question a wide variety of visiting Colombian experts, some of whom support Plan Colombia and others who don't.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The members of the Mennonite Church are known for their commitment to peace and community service.

  • At the Mennonite Church in my town, the congregation gathers every Sunday for worship and fellowship.

Surface Forms

Morphology

Mennonite + church

The meaning 'a church/denomination associated with Mennonites' is directly compositional from 'Mennonite' (the group/denomination) + 'church' (a Christian body), so a learner who knows both constituents can derive the phrase's meaning. This Proper-name + institution pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish Iglesia Menonita), supporting straightforward transparency for a B1 learner.

Etymology

Mennonite Church comes from Menno Simons, a Christian leader in the 1500s whose followers were called 'Mennonites'. Because he taught 'peace' and 'simple living', Mennonite Church refers to the Christian group known for those values.