Traditional Mennonite and German Baptist Brethren Churches such as the Church of the Brethren churches and congregations have the Agape Meal, footwashing and the serving of the bread and wine two parts to the Communion service in the Lovefeast.

Trinitarian Christian denominations that oppose infant baptism include Baptists, Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), Christian Churches / Churches of Christ, and Churches of Christ, Anabaptists such as Mennonite and Amish, Schwarzenau Brethren / German Baptists, Seventh-Day Adventists, some Methodists and most Pentecostals.

* The Swiss Brethren were an early Anabaptist group that later divided into the Amish and Mennonite groups ( particularly the Swiss Mennonite Conference )

* The Mennonite Brethren originated among Russian Mennonites in 1860.

The River Brethren owe their origins to the combined labors of Reformed pastor Philip William Otterbein and Mennonite Martin Boehm, beginning in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the latter half of the 18th century.

Fresno, CA: Centers for Mennonite Brethren Studies, 1997.

Promoting the more liberal ideas — including changing the name of the church because it is seen to be exclusionary of women, acceptance of homosexuals as members and ministers, and increased social and political activity — are groups such as Womaen's Caucus, Voices for an Open Spirit, and the Brethren Mennonite Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Interests.

An example within Christianity is the Mennonite and the Church of the Brethren denominations.

In the late 1800s, around the time of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Land Run, a Mennonite Brethren missionary stationed nearby invited fellow Mennonites from Kansas to homestead in the area.

* Eastview Community Church, a Mennonite Brethren local church

Up until this time, the Swiss Brethren ( who did not use the name " Mennonite " for themselves ) had no official confession of faith beyond the Schleitheim Confession.

United Brethren In Christ was an American religious sect which originated in the last part of the 18th century under the leadership of Philip William Otterbein ( 1726 – 1813 ), pastor of the Second Reformed Church in Baltimore, and Martin Boehm ( 1725 – 1812 ), a Pennsylvanian Mennonite of Swiss descent.

The Mennonite movement was a reform movement of Anabaptist origins begun by Swiss Brethren and soon thereafter finding greater cohesion based on the teachings of Menno Simons 1496 – 1561, and the 1632 Dordrecht Confession of Faith.

The Apostolic Christian Church, Church of God in Christ, Exclusive Brethren, some Mennonite, Amish, some churches in the Reformed tradition and Primitive Baptists also practice closed communion.

The Brethren in Christ Church ( BIC ) is an Anabaptist Christian denomination with roots in the Mennonite church, pietism, and Wesleyan holiness.

The denomination became the Mennonite Brethren in Christ on December 29, 1883 in Englewood, Ohio.

The Mennonite Brethren in Christ changed their name to the United Missionary Church in 1947.

The Missionary Church Association and the United Missionary Church ( formerly the Mennonite Brethren in Christ ) carried on fraternal relations for many years, and then merged in 1969 to form the Missionary Church.

The Missionary Church ( and the movements that formed it ) has experienced three divisions — the withdrawal of several leaders from the Missionary Church Association in 1923 over disagreements concerning the Holy Spirit ; in 1947 the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ withdrew over issues of doctrine and polity, and in 1959 became the Bible Fellowship Church ; and the Missionary Church of Canada withdrew from the Missionary Church in 1987 ( and merged with the Evangelical Church of Canada in 1993 to form the Evangelical Missionary Church ).

In 2003, the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, another body with Mennonite and Pietist heritage, began pursuing an attempt to join their 200-some churches in the United States with the Missionary Church.

The Old Order River Brethren is a small Christian denomination with roots in the Mennonite church and German pietism.

In 1883 the Brethren in Christ in Ohio merged with the Evangelical United Mennonites to form the Mennonite Brethren in Christ.

Non-Communist organizations also have Central Committees, such as the Mennonite Church and Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors ( to war ).

* Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church

The town is also home to the only Amish Mennonite Church in the area, Cedarcrest Mennonite Church.

There are churches for Baptists, Seventh-Day Adventists, Mennonite Church, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Grace Fellowship Community Church, Canyon Family Church, Foursquare Gospel Church, Chinle Potters House, and Catholic Church ( Our Lady of Fatima ), a meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a Kingdom Hall for Jehovah's Witnesses.

Gentry has an active faith community with churches of many different affiliations, including Seventh-day Adventist, United Methodist, Baptist, Church of Christ, Assemblies of God, Rastafarian and Mennonite.

Places of worship in Livingston and the immediately surrounding area include a Roman Catholic church, an Apostolic Assembly, an Assemblies of God church, a Southern Baptist church, a Church of Christ, Lutheran and United Methodist churches, a Mennonite church, a United Pentecostal Church, and two Sikh Gurdwaras.

Other churches include a Bible Baptist Church, a Methodist church, and Olive Mennonite Church just outside of Wakarusa.

The Zion Mennonite Church, which was built in Elbing in 1924, is the only church which remains in town.

In 1909, the Mennonite Church founded Hesston College.

Christian Churches are composed of the a United Methodist Church congregation and the Galva Christian Church ( Disciples In Christ ) congregation, within the city limits ; Lone Tree Mennonite ( Church of God in Christ-Holdeman ) located six miles south, one half mile east and one quarter mile south of town ; United Center Mennonite ( Church of God in Christ-Holdeman ) located three miles east and one mile north of town.

Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

One variety is known as " turkey red wheat ", and was brought to Kansas by Mennonite immigrants from Russia.

John Paul Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Eifel region, and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio ; she was disowned for marrying John and converting to Roman Catholicism.

After being adopted, Chasez was raised in Bowie, Maryland as a Mennonite.

The portion of land that Beasley had purchased was remote but it was of great interest to German Mennonite farming families from Pennsylvania.

One of these Mennonite families, arriving in 1807, was the Schneiders, whose restored 1816 home ( the oldest building in the city ) is now a museum located in the heart of Kitchener.

Berne was settled in 1852 by seventy devout Mennonite immigrants who came directly from Switzerland, and named the community for the capital of Switzerland.

The academy was established as a Mennonite school, but in 1966 it dropped its Mennonite distinctives to become an interdenominational Christian school.

The Mennonite Church at the southwest corner of Sherman and Fourth Streets was dedicated on March 15, 1959.

The town is named after Mennonite leader Menno Simons, and was founded on October 19, 1899 by David Koehn.

Alleghany Mennonite Meetinghouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

The Mennonite community in Harmony lasted until around 1904, by which time the town was selling more and more individual plots.

Still extant is an old Mennonite meeting house on a hill near Harmony that was built in 1825.

Freeman Junior College, started in 1903, was a small institution that begun the Mennonite based education in Freeman.

It was founded by Peter Unzicker, a Mennonite minister, who brought a colony of Mennonites from Cullom, Illinois, in 1906.

The Mennonite church, built that year, was used for school on weekdays.

She was raised in Reinland, a conservative, separatist Mennonite village in Southern Manitoba.

Today in North America, the Amish and Mennonites ( the Reist side became known as Mennonites after the schism ; in a paradox, it was the Amish side that was pushing for the introduction of Dutch Mennonite ideas, but those opposing the ideas eventually became known as Mennonites ) live side by side in many communities and work together peacefully in publishing, businesses, and charitable aid projects.

Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, was originally a Low Prussian variety of East Low German, with Dutch influence, that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia, today Polish territory.