Stauffer Mennonite

Stauffer Mennonite

Stauffer or Piker Mennonites are Team Mennonites, meaning they use horse drawn transportation. The original church was founded in 1845 but split into several separate churches very quickly. Today these groups are among the most conservative of all Swiss Mennonites outside the Amish. They stress strict separation from ‘the world’, adhere to social avoidance of excommunicated members (shunning), forbid or limit cars and technology much like the Amish and wear very plain clothing. They are now considered to be part of the larger less-conservative Horse and Buggy Old Order Mennonite group which formed from later schisms.

ee also

* Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church

References

*Scott, Stephen (1996), "An Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups", Intercourse, Pennsylvania : Good Books, ISBN 1-56148-101-7

External links

* [http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S72788ME.html Stauffer Mennonite Church] in "Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online"


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