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Noah Hoover Mennonite, called "Old Order Mennonite Church (Hoover)" by the Mennonite World Conference, and sometimes called "Scottsville Mennonite", is a group of very plain Old Order Mennonites that originally came from the Stauffer Mennonites and later merged with several other groups. Today it is seen as an independent branch of Old Order Mennonites.〔Donald Kraybill and the Mennonite World Conference list them as an independent group.〕 The group differs from other Old Order Mennonites by having settlements outside North America (Belize) and by attracting new members from other groups on a larger scale. They have more restrictions on modern technology than all other Old Order Mennonite groups. They are rather intentionalist minded than ultra traditional. == History == The Noah Hoover Mennonites have a complicated history because they did not just separate from one other Old Order Mennonites group but emerged from a series of splits and mergers of different Old Order groups. The events, that led to the Noah Hoover Mennonites as an independent group of Old Order Mennonites, started in 1944 when a group around bishop Phares O. Stauffer left the main body of the Stauffer Mennonites in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, because they strongly opposed the use of food ration stamps during World War II. Traditional Mennonites are opposed to everything that has to do with war. In 1945/46 a controversy about church discipline led to the withdrawal of the vast majority of the members of the shortly before established Phares O. Stauffer group forming an new group which choose Aaron Martin as minister and later as bishop.〔Stephen Scott: Old Order and Conservative Mennonites Groups, Intercourse, PA 1996, page 102.〕 Deacon Jonas Nolt of the new Aaron Martin group objected to growing and using tobacco and too many modern farm machinery. He felt strongly that chicks should be hatched by brooding hens instead of being bought from a hatchery. The people around him formed a new group in 1949 that over several years attracted more and more people from the Aaron Martin group and eventually choose Titus B. Hoover as bishop.〔Stephen Scott: Old Order and Conservative Mennonites Groups, Intercourse, PA 1996, page 103.〕 In 1952 the new Titus Hoover group in Snyder County was joined by a group from Tennessee which had been affiliated with the "Reformed Amish Christian Church", a group that originally had been established in 1895 near Berne, Indiana by David Schwartz and that dissolved in 1952.〔 Amish from Hohenwald, Tennessee (originally from Adams County, Indiana) and individual "Russian" Mennonites and Orthodox Mennonites joined the Titus Hoover group.〔Donnermeyer, Joseph, and Cory Anderson: "The Growth of Amish and Plain Anabaptists in Kentucky." in Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 2(2):215, page 232, 2014.〕 When in 1954 a group of twenty-five people from the extended Hoover and Sherk families left the David Martin Mennonites in Ontario they and the Titus Hoovers tried to merge, but in the end less than half of the ones, who had left the David Martins chose to unite with the Titus Hoovers and move to Pennsylvania. The ones, who did not merge with the Titus Hoovers, tried to merge with the Reidenbach Mennonites and later with other groups formed the Orthodox Mennonites.〔(Orthodox Mennonite Church at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online )〕 The Noah Hoover Mennonites then emerged from a split from the Titus Hoover group in 1963 in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, over Titus Hoover's doctrine of the one true church, which was rejected by a majority who subsequently formed the new Noah Hoover group.〔Stephen Scott: Old Order and Conservative Mennonites Groups, Intercourse, PA 1996, page 104.〕 In the late 1960s, North American, Pennsylvania German-speaking Mennonites settled in Pilgrimage Valley and Upper Barton Creek in Belize, where they were joined by some Plautdietsch-speaking "Russian" Mennonites, who had come to Belize from Mexico starting in 1958. Later some of these Mennonites joined the Noah Hoover group. In 1987 Noah Hoover Mennonites were located in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, Allen County, Kentucky (near Scottsville) and Upper Barton Creek in Belize, Central America. They had an associated group in Huron County, Ontario. In 1988, they left Snyder County and shifted their center to Scottsville, Kentucky, where they created their main settlement. After the death of Elmo Stoll in 1998 the five “Christian Communities”, he had founded, disbanded. One of these communities, located in Holland, Kentucky joined the Noah Hoover Mennonites, while parts of the community in Decatur, Tennessee moved to Delano, Tennessee, where they also joined the Noah Hoovers.〔(''Community'' by Elmo Stoll at anabaptistchurch.org )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Noah Hoover Mennonite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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