Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, a Western District Conference congregation.

Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, in Goessel, Kansas

* Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church

Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, 2007

The Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church of Goessel, Kansas, is a congregation affiliated with Mennonite Church USA.

Passports were obtained on 15 July 1874 and distributed in the Alexanderwohl Church on the 18th.

Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, 2007

Today, Alexanderwohl has approximately 500 members and is affiliated with the Mennonite Church USA and Western District Conference.

Entire communities such as Alexanderwohl and Bergtal prepared to move as a unit as well as many individual families from among the other Mennonite villages.

The entire Alexanderwohl church membership plus other families ( about 800 persons ) embarked on two ships.

Alarmed at the possibility of losing control of their schools and military exemption, a delegation of Mennonite leaders, including Jacob Buller, a minister of the Alexanderwohl congregation, visited North America in 1873 to investigate resettlement possibilities.

This group consisted of Leonhard Sudermann and Jacob Buller of the Alexanderwohl congregation representing the Molotschna settlement ; Tobias Unruh from Volhynia settlements ; Andreas Schrag of the Swiss Volhynia congregations ; Heinrich Wiebe, Jacob Peters and Cornelius Buhr from the Bergthal Colony ; William Ewert from West Prussia ; Cornelius Toews and David Classen of the Kleine Gemeinde and brothers Paul and Lawrence Tschetter representing the Hutterites.

The Przechówko church in West Prussia, the mother church of Alexanderwohl, was composed of Mennonites who settled near Schwetz and Culm on the Vistula River.

During this journey they met Czar Alexander I of Russia, who wished them well ( German: " wohl "), prompting the naming of the new village, Alexanderwohl.

Two of the immigrant structures were near the middle of the section on which the Alexanderwohl church now stands.

Alexanderwohl church membership grew rapidly from 265 in 1874 to 467 in 1880.

The outstanding family of Central Nazarene Church will be picked by ballot from among eight families during the 10:45 a.m. Sunday service marking National Family Week.

Serf mobility was heavily restricted, and in matters of who they can marry and how they lived, they had to follow rules put into place by the State and the Church, by landowners, and finally families and communities established certain social mores that was theirs to follow because the serfs were born into it.

Indeed many students from wealthy and influential families came to Alexandria purposely to study privately with Hypatia, and many of these later attained high posts in government and the Church.

To those who give aid to the Christians in the Orient is granted the remission of sins, and their families and possessions are taken under the protection of the Roman Church.

For effectively crushing the tyranny of the infidels, we grant to those who go to Jerusalem and also to those who give aid toward the defense of the Christians, the remission of their sins and we take under the protection of St. Peter and the Roman Church their homes, their families, and all their belongings, as was already ordained by Pope Urban II.

Church members are encouraged to marry and have children, and Latter-day Saint families tend to be larger than average.

The Council " promotes the pastoral care of families, protects their rights and dignity in the Church and in civil society, so that they may ever be more able to fulfill their duties.

While still in France, Paine formed the Church of Theophilanthropy with five other families ; this civil religion held as its central dogma that man should worship God's wisdom and benevolence and imitate those divine attributes as much as possible.

Nevertheless, The United Methodist Church " implore families and churches not to reject or condemn lesbian and gay members and friends " and commits itself to be in ministry with all persons, affirming that God's grace, love, and forgiveness is available to all.

Conditions in Normandy were unsettled, as noble families despoiled the Church and Alan III of Brittany waged war against the duchy, possibly in an attempt to take control.

Following the impasse during the previous conclave and to escape from the infighting of the powerful families that had produced earlier Popes, such as the Colonna and the Orsini, the Roman Church looked for a safer place and found it in Avignon, which was surrounded by the lands of the papal fief of Comtat Venaissin.

The Whig tendency supported the great aristocratic families, the Protestant Hanoverian succession, and toleration for nonconformist Protestants ( the " dissenters ," such as Presbyterians ), while some Tories supported the exiled Stuart royal family's claim to the throne ( Jacobitism ), and virtually all Tories supported the established Church of England and the gentry.

" The leading group in each village was the Church Family, and it was surrounded by satellite families that were often named for points on the compass rose.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spend one evening per week called Family Home Evening ( FHE ) or Family Night usually Monday, that families are encouraged to spend together in study, prayer and other family activities.

The News from Lake Wobegon does not have a set structure, but features recurring characters and places such as the Chatterbox Café, the Sidetrack Tap, Pastor Ingqvist of the Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church and his successor Pastor Liz, Father Emil of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Roman Catholic Church ( a parody of Our Lady of Perpetual Help ), the Lake Wobegon Whippets sports teams, various members of the Bunsen and Krebsbach families, and an assortment of nearby " Norwegian bachelor farmers.

With a shortage of sufficient land and water in Sanpete County and a strong desire by LDS Church leaders to acquire unoccupied land in the region before non-Mormons did, young families began moving into Castle Valley in the fall of 1877 to take up homesteads in what would become the settlements of Huntington, Ferron, Castle Dale, and Orangeville.

* " Sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally.

* Bonnie Woods, a former member who began counseling people involved with Scientology and their families, became a target along with her husband Richard in 1993 when the Church of Scientology started a leaflet operation denouncing her as a " hate campaigner " with demonstrators outside their home and around East Grinstead.

During the 1950s, a Moravian Church and a Russian Orthodox Church were built in Aleknagik and over 35 families lived along the lake.

The original bell, cast in 19th century, stand outside St. James Church today as a testament to the history and sacrifices of so many families of Sauk Village.

The Church of Christ at Noble was established by families who came to Noble during the oil boom in the late thirties.

It is believed that the town was planned as a stop on the Underground Railroad with many families of the Religious Society of Friends and the Wesleyan Methodist Church supporting the cause.

St. Boniface Catholic Church was established for the local families that established New Vienna.

Some Protestant charismatic and British New Church Movement churches include " apostles " among the offices that should be evident into modern times in a true church, though they never trace an historical line of succession.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Assyrian Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy and some other churches, Orthodox bishops trace their lineage back to the apostles through the process of apostolic succession.

New charismatic groups such as the Association of Vineyard Churches and Newfrontiers trace their roots to this period ( see also British New Church Movement ).

The Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .) has, in the past, been a leading United States denomination in mission work, and many hospitals, clinics, colleges and universities worldwide trace their origins to the pioneering work of Presbyterian missionaries who founded them more than a century ago.

The orders of the original Old Catholic Church are regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as valid, though no such declaration of recognition has been issued with regard to the several Independent Catholic Churches that claim to trace their episcopal orders to this Church.

The Orthodox Church in Alaska can trace its activities back to early Russian missionaries.

The ruins of the keep are still in place today, and Castle Street and Church Street trace the elliptical shape of the former outer bailey.

Patriarchs of the Church of the East, sometimes also referred to as Nestorian, the Church of Persia, the Sassanid Church, or, in modern times, the Assyrian Church of the East, trace their lineage of patriarchs back to the 1st century.

The Old Catholics maintained that their ordinations were valid within the Catholic tradition, and the Liberal Catholic Church thus claims to trace its apostolic succession back to Rome through Old Catholicism.

Christ Church and the adjacent school were destroyed in a World War II bombing raid and no trace remains today, the site being occupied by a children's play area and sports court.

Unlike most other churches that trace their origins to antiquity, the modern Assyrian Church of the East is not in communion with any other churches, either Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, or Catholic.

It is often easier to trace the Norwegian mother first by Church records as an example.

Several American church groups trace their history to the Campbells ' leadership, including the Churches of Christ, the Christian churches and churches of Christ, Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, and the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ).

The United Reformed Church in Beaconsfield can trace its roots of non-conformist worship in the town back to 1704.

The political unification of the region into the state called Kievan Rus ', from which modern Belarus, Russia and Ukraine trace their origins, occurred approximately a century before the adoption of Christianity in 988 and the establishment of the South Slavic Old Church Slavonic as the liturgical and literary language.

Codrington was buried in St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, but due to shoddy maintenance work in 1953 and a large fire in 1987, there is no remaining trace of his tombstone or body.