A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church, Ja Toews

ive group from North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches CO — Conscientious Objector CPS - Civilian Public Service CS — Christian Service Dirigentenkurse — choir conductors' workshops Empfaengnisstaette — place of inception EFC — Evangelical Fellowship of Canada EFMA — Evangelical Foreign Missions Association ETTA — Evangelical Teacher Training Association Forsteidienst — forestry service Froehliche Richtung — the joyous or exuberant movement Fuersorgekomitee — Supervisory Commission Gebietsamt — colony administrative office GC — General Conference Mennonite Immigrantenkomitees — immigrant committees Initiativniki — initiators or dissenters xiv GLOSSARY XV Jugendverein — Christian Endeavor Kanaedier — Canadians Kernlieder — congregational songs unique to the MB spiritual heritage Kirchenkonvent — council of elders Kirchenvorstand — church council Kirchenordnung — church organization Kleine Gemeinde, Grosse Gemeinde — small church /congregation, large church/ congregation Kolchos — collective farm KfK — Kommission fuer Kirchenangelegenheiten (Commission for church affairs) KMB — Krimmer Mennonite Brethren Kulturkampf — internal religio-cultural conflict between progressives and conservatives Kunst — art, or the arts Kurseleiter — workshop director Landwirtschaftlicher Verein — Agricultural Improvement Society Leseverein — Christian Literature Society Licht den Indianern — Light to the Indians MB — Mennonite Brethren MCC — Mennonite Central Committee MWC — Mennonite World Conference Missionsstunden — mission meetings NAE — National Association of Evangelicals Oberschulze — colony adminstrator OM - (Old) Mennonite Prediger-Wirt-Schulz Komplex — preacher-landowner-colony administrator complex Russlaender — Russian countrymen Saengerfest — song festival Saengerkurse — choir workshops Sanitaetsdienst — noncombatant medical corps Schulze — village mayor Schulzenaemter — village offices Selbstschutz — self defense corps Singstunden — evening singing schools STP — Service Training Program for lay church workers Studienkommission — study commission Suchdienst — tracing service for missing persons VBHH — Verband Buerger Hollaendischer Herkunft (Association of Citizens of Dutch Extraction) VMSR — Verband der Mennoniten Sued-Russlands (Union of Mennonites in South Russia) Vereinsschule — school of the association VS — Voluntary Service Vorsaenger — lead singer Waisenheim — orphanage Ziffern — a system of music notation by number or cipher List of Illustrations No. Page 1. Anabaptist martyrs 9 2. Menno Simons, Dutch Anabaptist leader 9 3. Bernhard Harder, Mennonite evangelist 29 4. Eduard Wuest, Pietist revival preacher 29 5. August Lenzmann, Gnadenfeld Mennonite elder 29 6. Johann Claassen, early MB leader 45 7. Heinrich Huebert, first elder of MB Church 45 8. Johann Harder, elder of Ohrloff Mennonite Church 5