Pennville is a town in Penn Township, Jay County, Indiana, United States.

Pennville is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Pennville can refer to a place in the United States:

The Pennville Friends Church is located at 130 West Maple Street in Pennville.

Pennville is located at ( 40. 493323 ,-85. 147414 ), along the Salamonie River.

The Pennville Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. is located at 105 North Washington Street, and is a non-profit domestic corporation created October 23, 1961, the first fire department in the town having been organized in 1919.

Located approximately 1-1 / 2 miles east of the town limits on County Road W400N ( extended East Lagro Street ), this cemetery is the largest burial ground in the Pennville area.

Founded by Hicksite Quakers, who were early abolitionists, Pennville and the surrounding area is rich in the history of the Underground Railroad.

Pennville is located at ( 39. 789308 ,-76. 990642 ) in Penn Township, adjacent to the borough of Hanover.

The change to the town name of Pennville was gradual and began when the post office was applied for at Camden.

Southwest of Hanover at a tiny hamlet now known as Pennville, the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry struck the 18th Pennsylvania ’ s main column and split it in two.

The history of Pennville began when Samuel Grisell and Moses Hamilton left their homes in Columbiana County, Ohio in the spring of 1834 to search for government land for a permanent home.

Since Camden no longer existed after an earlier collapse of the corporation, and the post office was named Penn, this caused confusion and more and more the town was called Pennville.

In 1905 a petition was presented to the Jay County Commissioners asking that the town be incorporated under the name of Pennville.

Pennville has had two high schools, the first being organized around 1890 and existing until 1910.

The second Pennville High School was built in 1911 on Jones Hill ( sometimes called Gregg Hill ) and was in session until 1975, when the five smaller Jay County schools – Portland, Pennville, Bryant, Redkey and Dunkirk-consolidated into the countywide Jay County High School outside Portland, Indiana.

From 1903 until 1917, the Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago Railroad, sometimes referred to as the CB & C, ran through Pennville.

Provident Hospital, a precursor to the Caylor-Nickel Clinic in Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, existed in Pennville from November 1, 1907 until 1917.

Many early settlers of Pennville are interred here, including Samuel Grisell, who platted the town in 1836.

Pennville has one of the oldest houses in Jay County, the Chandler-Gregg-Hedges house, built by Goldsmith Chandler sometime between 1836 and 1841.

The Twin Hills lie approximately 2 – 3 miles east of Pennville.

Approximately 2-1 / 2 miles north of Pennville on Indiana State Road 1, near Balbec, Indiana, a marker was erected in 1923 to mark the site of the pioneer home of Jimmy and Rachel Silliven, an important “ station ” of the Underground Railroad.

Included are the following: Baptist Student Movement, Canterbury Club ( Episcopal ), Christian Science Organization, Friends' Meeting for Worship, Hillel ( Jewish ), Liberal Religious Fellowship, Lutheran Student Association, Newman Club ( Roman Catholic ), Presbyterian Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship ( Congregational-Baptist ), and Wesley Fellowship ( Methodist ).

Liturgical or Mainline Protestant communities ( e. g. Presbyterian, Congregationalist / United Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, etc.

International Forum on Globalization ( IFG ) held training at Foundry United Methodist Church.

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By the mid-nineteenth century there were Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, United Free Methodist, Congregationalist, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Unitarian, Roman Catholic and Catholic Apostolic churches in the town.

The United Methodist Hymnal also contains ( at # 882 ) what it terms the " Ecumenical Version " of this creed — a version which is identical to that found in the Episcopal Church's current Book of Common Prayer.

This form of the Apostles ' Creed can be found incorporated into the Eucharistic and Baptismal Liturgies in the Hymnal and in The United Methodist Book of Worship, and hence it is growing in popularity and use.

Unlike their counterparts in the United Methodist Church, ELCA and ELCIC synod bishops do not appoint pastors to local congregations ( pastors, like their counterparts in the Episcopal Church, are called by local congregations ).

In practice, " extraordinary " circumstance have included disagreeing with Episcopalian views of the episcopate, and as a result, ELCA pastors ordained by other pastors are not permitted to be deployed to Episcopal Churches ( they can, however, serve in Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, Reformed Church in America, and Moravian Church congregations, as the ELCA is in full communion with these denominations ).

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In the United Methodist Church bishops remain members of the " Order of Elders " while being consecrated to the " Office of the Episcopacy ".

Within the United Methodist Church only bishops are empowered to consecrate bishops and ordain clergy.

In all of these areas, bishops of the United Methodist Church function very much in the historic meaning of the term.

According to the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, a bishop's responsibilities are

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