The Landises descended from Swiss Mennonites who had emigrated to Alsace before coming to the United States.

There are more than 400, 000 of other German ancestries including Mennonites and German Swiss.

The earliest settlers of what was to become Bird-in-Hand were Quakers and Swiss Mennonites.

Many early settlers were Huguenots or Swiss or German Mennonites and several church congregations of various faiths formed during the 1760s.

The village was founded in 1832 by Swiss Mennonites German Reformists, and Irish Catholics.

Another important aspect in the schism was a conference held at Ohnenheim, Alsace, by several Swiss Brethren ministers and elders in 1660, in which they formally adopted the Dordrecht Confession of Faith that had been drawn up by Dutch Mennonites.

Doctrinally they are similar to other Swiss Mennonites, but show the influence of the Dutch Mennonites.

The first American settlement of the Amish Mennonites — who separated from the main body of Swiss Brethren and followed Jacob Amman — was in Berks County, Pennsylvania, around 1710 – 1720.

Swiss Mennonites came to North America in the early part of the 18th century.

These Swiss immigrants, combined with Dutch and German Mennonites and progressive Amish Mennonites who later united with them, until 2002 made up the largest body of Mennonites in North America ( in the past often referred to as the " Old Mennonites ").

The Swiss Mennonites are the oldest and possibly the most influential body of Anabaptists.

Records of the conferences of the Swiss Mennonites have been consistently recorded since 1889, but various records indicate that an annual conference was an " old custom " in the 18th century.

Though the Swiss conference is currently a relatively small body, the Swiss Mennonites have contributed greatly to the spread of Anabaptism across the world.

* The European History of Swiss Mennonites, by Martin O. Schrag

He joined the Swiss Brethren ( later called Mennonites ) and became a bishop.

Swiss Mennonites of Amish descent from Galicia settled near Dubno, Volhynia province in 1815.

Swiss Volhynian Mennonites settled in the Moundridge, Kansas and Pretty Prairie, Kansas areas.

Leiter's family was of German Swiss descent, and some of his ancestors had been Mennonites.

Many groups were influenced by biblicism ( like the Swiss Brethren ), spiritualism ( like the South German Anabaptists ) and mainly absolute pacifism ( like the Swiss Brethren, the Hutterites and the Mennonites from Northern Germany and the Netherlands ).

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

Mennonites, Church of the Brethren and Friends have opposed the death penalty since their founding, and continue to be strongly opposed to it today.

They are known historically as the peace churches, and have incorporated Christ's teachings on nonviolence into their theology so as to apply it to participation in the use of violent force ; those denominations are the Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, and the Church of the Brethren.

His mother, previously a member ( with David ) of the River Brethren sect of the Mennonites, joined the International Bible Students Association, which later became Jehovah's Witnesses.

These groups include the ' Brethren ' ( often both ' Open ' and ' Exclusive '), the Churches of Christ, Mennonites, Primitive Baptists, and certain Reformed churches, although during the last century or so, several of these, such as the Free Church of Scotland have abandoned this stance.

Some Christians believe insurance represents a lack of faith and there is a long history of resistance to commercial insurance in Anabaptist communities ( Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites, Brethren in Christ ) but many participate in community-based self-insurance programs that spread risk within their communities.

Groups within the Protestant tradition that reject infant baptism include the Baptists, Apostolic Christians, Disciples of Christ and the Churches of Christ, most Pentecostals, Mennonites, Amish, Plymouth Brethren, Seventh-day Adventists, most non-denominational churches, and other Arminian denominations.

* The Mennonite Brethren originated among Russian Mennonites in 1860.

Historically, the Brethren are considered one of the " peace churches ", like the Quakers and the Mennonites.

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.

" The Last Supper "-museum copy of Master Paul's sculpture The Washing of the Feet is a traditional component of the celebration in many Christian Churches, including the Armenian, Ethiopian, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Schwarzenau Brethren / German Baptist groups, Mennonites, and Roman Catholic Churches, and is becoming increasingly popular as a part of the Maundy Thursday liturgy in the Anglican / Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches, as well as in other Protestant denominations.

In April 1917 — days after the United States joined World War I by declaring war on Germany and its allies — a group of Quakers met in Philadelphia to discuss the pending military draft and how it would affect members of peace churches such as Quakers, Mennonites, Brethren, and the Amish.

After the American Revolution, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, invited pacifists from the former American Colonies, including Mennonites and German Baptist Brethren to settle in British North American territory on the promise of exception from military service and the swearing of judicial oaths.

The seven-shape ( Aikin ) system is commonly used by the Mennonites and Brethren.

The historic peace churches such as the Brethren, the Mennonites and the Quakers teach that Jesus advocates nonviolence, and that his followers must do likewise.

These include Amish ; Old Order, Conservative, Conservative Mennonites, and Old Colony Mennonites ; Old German Baptist Brethren ; the Hutterites ; and Old Order River Brethren ; and at one time Quakers, the Brethren in Christ ( BIC ), and Shakers, Dunkards.

Between 1874 and 1880, of the approximately 45, 000 Mennonites who had been living in South Russia, 10, 000 departed for the United States and 8, 000 for Manitoba.

Some other North and South American Mennonites of Dutch and Prussian origin speak what is actually a Low German dialect, referred to as Plautdietsch, which is quite different from Pennsylvania German.

Although seven-shape books may not be as popular as in the past, there are still a great number of churches in the South, in particular Primitive Baptist, Independent Fundamental Baptist, and Churches of Christ, as well as Conservative Mennonites throughout North America, that regularly use seven-shape songbooks in Sunday worship.

For example, many Finns went to Minnesota and Michigan, Swedes to South Dakota, Norwegians to North Dakota, Irish to Montana, Chinese to San Francisco, German Mennonites in Kansas, and German Jews to Portland, Oregon.

The conference, which has its main office in Steinbach, Manitoba, prints the CMC Chronicle as its official publication and has a radio program ministry that ministers to German-speaking Mennonites in South America, Mexico, Belize, and Canada.

Neff, through the Conference of Mennonites in South Germany, issued the call for the first gathering in 1925, and personally proposed the following meetings in 1930 and 1936.

Mennonite Brethren were among the migration of Mennonites from Russia to North America between 1874 and 1880, settling mainly in Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

The Russian Mennonites are a group of Mennonites descended from Dutch and mainly Germanic Prussian Anabaptists who established colonies in South Russian Empire ( present-day Ukraine ) beginning in 1789.

Between 1874 and 1880, of the approximately 45, 000 Mennonites in South Russia, ten thousand departed for the United States and eight thousand for Manitoba.

Mennonites of Dutch-Prussian descent ( who speak a language known as Plautdietsch, which can be loosely translated as " Low German ") settled much of South Central Kansas.

Amongst them are small groups ( such as those in Namibia ) and many very large groups ( such as the almost 1 million non-evacuated Germans in Russia and Kazakhstan or the near 500, 000 Germans in Brazil ), groups that have been greatly " folklorised " and almost completely linguistically assimilated ( such as most people of German descent in the USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Brazil ), and others, such as the true linguistic minorities ( like the still German-speaking minorities in the USA, Argentina and Brazil, in western Siberia or in Romania and Hungary ); other groups, which are classified as religio-cultural groups rather than ethnic minorities, ( such as the Eastern-Low German speaking Mennonites in Paraguay, Mexico, Belize or in the Altay region of Siberia ) and the groups who maintain their status thanks to strong identification with their ethnicity and their religious sentiment ( such as the groups in Upper Silesia, Poland or in South Jutland in Denmark ).

Because of growing Prussian militarism and ongoing discrimination against Mennonites, a large portion of the Przechówko Church migrated in 1820-21 under the leadership of Peter Wedel to the Molotschna Mennonite colony in South Russia.

Camargo is ethnically diverse, but mostly of European origin, composed of Spanish, Basque, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Mennonites, South African Boers and Conchos Indians.