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Bihar Mennonite Mandli is a Mennonite denomination of India. It has about 1175 members. It has 24 congregations.Bihar Mennonite Mandli dates to an attempt by Mennonite missionaries in the 1950s to establish a church that would not be dominated by large institutional mission structures. The conference was officially established in 1948 and became self-sustaining with the departure of missionaries in the 1980s. In 1999, the state of Bihar was divided into two states, with the Mennonite center being in the new state of Jharkhand. The conference, still retains the name Bihar Mennonite Mandli.
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Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from one of the early prominent leaders of the Dutch Anabaptist movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radical Reformation, Simons articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders, with the early teachings of the Mennonites founded on the belief in both the mission and ministry of Jesus, which the original Anabaptist followers held with great conviction, despite persecution by various Roman Catholic and Mainline Protestant states. Formal Mennonite beliefs were codified in the Dordrecht Confession of Faith in 1632, which affirmed "the baptism of believers only, the washing of the feet as a symbol of servanthood, church discipline, the shunning of the excommunicated, the non-swearing of oaths, marriage within the same church", strict pacifistic physical nonresistance, anti-Catholicism and in general, more emphasis on "true Christianity" involving "being Christian and obeying Christ" however they interpret it from the Holy Bible.
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Annie Clemmer Funk was an American Christian missionary and one of the more than 1500 people who died in the sinking of RMS Titanic. Since 1906, she had been a missionary in the Janjgir-Champa district in Chhattisgarh, India. She was on her way to visit her ailing mother.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bihar:
Black Mennonites are people who are both Mennonite and Black. Black Mennonites live in Africa, the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. Black Mennonite communities have existed in the United States and Canada since the late 1800s. Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are home to the second and fourth largest populations of Mennonites in the world. Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Angola also have some of the larger populations of Mennonites in the world. Glen Alexander Guyton, the first African-American leader of the Mennonite Church USA, has stated that "The typical Mennonite is an African woman", due to Mennonite missionary outreach in Africa, and that African Mennonites "are now sending missionaries to Europe and the United States." While Mennonites have historically been mostly white people of Central or Eastern European descent, with population centers in North America and Europe, Black Mennonites now outnumber white Mennonites globally. African Mennonite churches have had a larger number of members than North American Mennonite churches since 2006.