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People of Peace

People of Peace: A History of the Virginia Mennonite Conference

A new history book is being printed that will narrate signs of God's kingdom in a unique southern context, distinct from other area Mennonite conferences. The emphasis will be on Virginia Mennonite Conference churches, but other congregations or groups that have intersected with or emerged out of VMC will be included. 

The 526-page hardback book, published by Masthof Press, will be available for purchase at the Virginia Mennonite Conference Assembly, August 21-23.  Copies can be purchased at Masthof.com or later, on Amazon.com.




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Steven M. Nolt is a professor of history and Anabaptist studies at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and is director of the college's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.


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Elwood Yoder is an educator, writer, and historian from Harrisonburg, Virginia.


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Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2025

SMH Spring 2025 Vol 33 No2: Susanna and Henry G. Brunk; 500th Anniversary Photos (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2025 Vol 33 No1: Susanna and Henry G Brunk; 500th Anniversary Photos (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2023-2024

SMH Autumn 2024 Vol 32 No4: SAGA Resource: Mount Clinton Mennonite Church at 150 years (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2024 Vol 32 No3: Peggy's War history tour; Brethren and the "Underground Railroad" (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2024 Vol 32 No2: Confederate Civil Disobedience (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2024 Vol 32 No1: Switzerland Tour; Peake Mennonite; Coors Controversy; Musical Heritage (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2023 Vol 31 No4: Morning View Mennonite; Park View Mennonite; Joseph Wenger; Harold Huber (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2023 Vol 31 No3: Apology from Brunk family about instruments: Crooked and Weedy railroad (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2023 Vol 31 No2: Brunk Apology; Mt. Pleasant Mennonite Church; Rhodes Family; John Shank (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2023 Vol 31 No1: Mt. Jackson; Pike Mennonite Church; Looking for a Common Anab. Faith (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2021 - 2022

SMH Autumn 2022 Vol 30 No4: VMC 2022; Glendon Blosser Tribute; YPCA Photo 1938; L.J. Heatwole Sermon (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2022 Vol 30 No3: Immigrant Stories: Daniel Kyuma and Ahadi Kiyana; Telephone Company 1898 (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2022 Vol 30 No2: Linville Cemetery; Crossroads; Sausage Event; Integrating Ridgeway (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2022 Vol 30 No1: Peter Good Genealogy; Smucker farm in Rock. Co.; Fannie Swartzentruber (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2021 Vol 29 No4: Brethren Mennonite Heritage Center; Ethiopian Mennonite Immigrants (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2021 Vol 29 No3: 2021 Directory of Mennonites and Amish in Virginia; Joseph Funk letter (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2021 Vol 29 No2: Annie Beery Geil; Chairman's Report; Uncle Jack; Holy Experiment Warwick (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2021 Vol 29 No1: The Show Towel of Anna Heatwole Suter; Bank Mennonite Church (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2019 - 2020

SMH Autumn 2020 Vol 28 No 4: Tusing Sisters, Goods in W. Va.; Naomi Shank Brunk; Crest Hill Church (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2020 Vol 28 No 3: Pandemic 1917; Pandemic 2020 Photos; Paul Frye Rising; Witness of 72 (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2020 Vol 28 No 2: A. D. and Annie Wenger; Jacob Wenger house; Daniel Good's 1830s Ordnung (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2020 Vol 28 No1: History of Dayton Mennonite Church; 1820s Letter in Virginia Conference (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2019 Vol 27 No4: VMM Centennial; Samuel M. Burkholder; Early Cemetery, Harold D. Lehman (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2019 Vol 27 No3: Reminisces of the Dewitt and Elizabeth Ann Knicely Home; EMHS, 1964-1982 (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 2019 - 2018

SMH Spring 2019 Vol 27 No2: A New Look at the Beginning of Eastern Mennnonite School; Fire at Mt. Clinton Mennonite Church; Brethren Mill Owner; Rhodes Family Cemetery (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2019 Vol 27 No1: Dale Enterprise School; The Sunday Morning Radio Broadcast on WEMC; Knoxville Mission; DNA Ancestry Studies (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2018 Vol 26 No 4: Mt. Carmel Parochial School, Harrisonburg, Va., 1943-1957 (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2018 Vol 26 No3: Stuarts Draft Amish Church 7th Anniversary; Virginia Mennonite Men in WWI (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2018 Vol 26 No2: Relief Aid in Virginia: Page County Shenandoah Mennonite Historians Tour in 1994 (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2018 Vol 26 No1: Mark C. Showalter; Mt. Pleasant Mennonite Church; Harold and Arlene Eshleman book (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 2017-2015

SMH Autumn 2017 Vol 25 No4: EMS and EMU Centennial; Tribute to Lewis J. Heatwole (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2017 Vol 25 No3: Daniel M. and Frances Smucker (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2017 Vol 25 No2: Jacob A. Shenk and Melvin Weaver (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2017 Vol 25 No1: Drivers in America; Elizabeth S. Showalter (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2016 Vol 24 No4: Virginia Mennonites; Upper Room Revival; George R. Brunk II (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2016 Vol 24 No3: Daniel and Magdalene Lehman Family; Riverside Mennonite Church (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2016 Vol 24 No2: Showalter Tour; James O. Lehman Tribute (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2016 Vol 24 No1: Augusta County Churches; Brunk Revivals (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2015 Vol 23 No 4: 2015 Directory of Mennonites & Amish in Va. (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2015 Vol 23 No3: Kratz and Martin couples in W.Va. Ministry (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2015 Vol 23 No2: Mennonite Teachers in Public Schools; Lambert Mennonite Church (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2015 Vol 23 No1: Old Order Mennonite Schools; Civil War (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 2014-2013

SMH Autumn 2014 Vol 22 No4: Civil War Refugee Train; Suters in Civil War (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2014 Vol22 No3: Hildebrand Church; Lewis Shank (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2014 Vol22 No2: Abraham B. Burkholder; Harmonia Sacra (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2014 Vol 22 No 1: Twentieth Year Historian Anniversary Edition; Past Editors of Historian (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2013 Vol 21 No 4: "The Mennonites" Reprint from 1895 Part 3; Book Reviews by James O. Lehman (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2013 Vol 21 No 3: "The Mennonites" Part 2 Reprint from 1895; 1919 Mennonite General Conference (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2013 Vol 21 No 2: Sketches of Mennonite Churches; "The Mennonites" reprint Part 1 1895 (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2013 Vol 21 No 1: Geils in Civil War; Geil Family History; Unionists and the Civil War Book Review (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2012-2011

SMH Autumn 2012 Vol 20 No 4: Archives as Ministry; Virginia Mennonite Conference votes to join Mennonite Church USA (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2012 Vol 20 No 3: Peter Burkholder family, by Sheldon "Pete" Burkholder (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2012 Vol 20 No 2: Early Historians on Virginia Mennonite History; Showalter family history in Virginia (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2012 Vol 20 No 1: 2012 Directory of Mennonites, Amish, and Anabaptist Groups in Virginia (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2011 Vol 19 No 4: Early Page County Virginia Mennonites; Elk Run Meetinghouse; 1825 Virginia Schism (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2011 Vol 19 No 3: Civil War History; Hildebrand family; The Bishop's Letters book review (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2011 Vol 18 No 2: Mennonites and Slavery Before the Civil War; Bank Mennonite Church and Freed Slaves; Marion and Ethel Coakley family; Civil War in 1861 (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2011 Vol 18 No 1: Peter Blosser; Page County "White House" purchase; Shenandoah Refugees 1864; Salem Mennonite Fellowship, North Carolina; Emerging Churches in Virginia Conference (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2010-2009

SMH Autumn 2010 Vol 17 No 4: Martin Burkholder's letters; John M. Brenneman; Peace Oak in Shenandoah Valley; Review of Zion Mennonite Church history book (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2010 Vol 17 No 3: Chicago Avenue Mission becomes Harrisonburg Mennonite Church; Mission Home at Job, WV (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2010 Vol 17 No 2: Virginia Conference 175 years celebration; Martin Burkholder letters; Amish Settlements in Virginia; Muddy Creek Meeting House, 1851 (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2010 Vol 17 No 1: Directory of Mennonites, Amish and Anabaptist Groups in Virginia (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2009 Vol 16 No 4: Vera's Journey Book and Tour (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2009 Vol 16 No 3: Weavers Mennonite Church and L. J. Heatwole; L. J. Heatwole era (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 2009-2008

SMH Spring 2009 Vol 16 No 2: Augusta County, Va. Mennonites (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2009 Vol 16 No 1: Daughters of Timothy and Nancy Showalter: John L. Stauffer (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2008 Vol 15 No 4: Bishop Timothy Showalter; Bishop Abraham Shank (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2008 Vol 15 No 3: Highland Retreat Camp; Tent Meetings at Highland (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2008 Vol 15 No 2: Directory of Mennonites and Amish in Virginia: G. Heatwole & A. Blosser (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2008 Vol 15 No 1: The Watchful Pilgrim; Anti-Sunday School Movement; Early Private School (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 2007-2004

SMH Autumn 2007 Vol 14 No 4: Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War, a book review; Lewis J. Heatwole; Review of Unionists book, Volume IV (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2007 Vol 14 No 3: VMC History and Size, by James O. Lehman; Michael Shank's Will; (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2007 Vol 14 No 2: Articles about Michael Shank's Diary; (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2007 Vol 14 No 1: Deacon Frederick A. Rhodes in 1867; John S. Coffman, Evangelist; Baptismal Class of 1888 (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2006 Vol 13 No 4: Early Virginia Mennonite History; Building Meetinghouses; 1825 Schism; Recordless era of "Spiritual Prosperity"; Mennonite congregations in Va. and W.Va. in 1905 (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2006 Vol 13 No 3: Articles about Mennonites in 19th Century Greenbrier County, W.Va.; (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2006 Vol 13 No 2: Directory of Mennonite and Anabaptist Churches in Virginia; (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2006 Vol 13 No 1: Virginia Mennonites, during Civil War, Engage in Civil Disobedience; (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2005 Vol 12 No 4: Coffmans at Mannheim, Rockingham County, Va. (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2005 Vol 12 No 3: Profile of Virginia Conference Congregations; Page County Mennonites; (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2005 Vol 12 No 2: John M. Brenneman; Abraham Brenneman family and descendants (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2005 Vol 12 No 1: Civil War Experiences in Edom, Greenmount and Linville; Dutch Mennonites send relief money to Virginia Mennonites (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2004 Vol 11 No 4: Peace and Nonresistance in World War II; Lindale Mennonite Church new building (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2004 Vol 11 No 3: VMRC 50th Anniversary; Directory of Mennonites and Amish in Virginia; Mt. Vernon, Stephens City, and Lynside Mennonite Churches (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2004 Vol 11 No 2: Brethren and Mennonite relationships in 1898 from Michael Shank (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian 2004-2001

SMH Winter 2004, Vol 11 No 1: Excerpts from Volume 1 of Unionists and the Civil War Experience in the Shenandoah Valley (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2003 Vol 10 No 4: The "Fence Corner" at Mole Hill; Divorce and Remarriage 1867 (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2003 Vol 10 No 3: Northern District map; Northern District photos of church buildings and meetinghouses 1949-53 (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2003 Vol 10 No 2: Mennonite Conscientious Objectors in American wars: Dwight Hartman to CPS in WWII (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2003 Vol 10 No 1: Virginia Mennonites, Joseph Funk, and Racial Questions (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2002 Vol 9 No 4: West Virginia Missions Outreach Tour: West Virginia Missionary Lands in Jail; Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2002 Vol 9 No 3: Virginia - West Virginia Mission Work (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2002 Vol 9 No 2: Martin Burkholder; Martin Burkholder's Letters; 1848 Mennonite Petition to Virginia General Assembly (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2002 Vol 9 No 1: 100th Anniversary Harmonia Sacra Singing Weavers Mennonite Church;Index for 1994-2001 (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 2001 Vol 8 No 4: Heritage Center for a Common People; History of Park School, 1918-1967; (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2001 Vol 8 No 3: Progress Report on Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center; Peake Mennonite Church; Zion Hill Mennonite Church (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2001 Vol 8 No 2: Trissels Church Cemetery; Trissels Church Memories (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2001 Vol 8 No 1: 175 Years at the Pike (pdf)Download

ShenanDoah Mennonite Historian, 2000-1998

SMH Autumn 2000 Vol 7 No 4: Stuarts Draft Community; Early history of Eastern Mennonite School (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 2000 Vol 7 No 3: Peace Church Dilemmas during Revolutionary War (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 2000 Vol 7 No 2: A Century of Deaconesses in the Middle District of Virginia Menn. Conf. (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 2000 Vol 7 No 1: The Germans in Virginia; L. J. Heatwole, Astronomer and Almanac Maker (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 1999 Vol 6 No 4: L. J. Heatwole, Astronomer and Almanac Maker; Review of The Burning book (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 1999 Vol 6 No 3: Stories of David H. Burkholder; L. J. Heatwole as Weather Observer (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 1999 Vol 6 No 2: The Life of L. J. Heatwole; From Stringtown to Park View (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 1999 Vol 6 No 1: The Life of L. J. Heatwole; The Sharon Manufacturing Company (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 1998 Vol 5 No 4: Morning View Mennonite Church history; Abram Swartz stories (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 1998 Vol 5 No 3: Lindale Church Centennial; Ridgeway Mennonite Church; Aldine Brenneman (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 1998 Vol 5 No 2: Park View Mennonite Church history; Linden Wenger Northern District book (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 1998 Vol 5 No 1: John W. Wayland, Educator, Historian, Author (pdf)Download

Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, 1997-1994

SMH Summer 1997 Vol 4 No 2: Bishop Henry Rhodes; Trissels Church Celebration 1997 (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 1997 Vol 4 No 1: Henry Funk 1730-1817; Heritage Center work (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 1996 Vol 3 No 4: Heritage Center Planning; Daniel Showalter, 1738-1822 (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 1996 Vol 3 No 2-3; Hildebrand Mennonite; Henry Shank 1758-1836; Heritage Center work (pdf)Download
SMHWinter 1996 Vol 3 No 1: Joseph G. Wenger 1747-1812; program about John S. Coffman (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 1995 Vol 2 No 4: David Heatwole 1767-1842; (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 1995 Vol 2 No 3: Bishop Jacob Hildebrand & Secession; Plains Academy Church (pdf)Download
SMH Sspring 1995 Vol 2 No 2: Bishop Jacob Hildebrand & Scession; Brennemans Mennonite Church (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 1995 Vol 2 No 1: Family Almanac; Pike Mennonite Church; Jacob Geil 1746-1794 (pdf)Download
SMH Autumn 1994 Vol 1 No 4: Trissels Mennonite Church; Abraham Brenneman 1744-1815 (pdf)Download
SMH Summer 1994 Vol 1 No 3: Abraham Strickler; Annual Meeting (pdf)Download
SMH Spring 1994 Vol 1 No 2: Mennonites to Page County; Martin Kauffman Sr. (pdf)Download
SMH Winter 1994 Vol 1 No 1: New Historical Organization Formed; Peter Burkholder, Jr. 1783-1846 (pdf)Download

Article about Mennonite Bishop Daniel Good's Ordnung

Attached find an article about and translation of Virginia Mennonite Bishop Daniel Good's Ordnung from the early 19th century

Daniel Good's Ordnung By EK Knappenberger, revised 2020 (pdf)

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Elwood Yoder's Blog

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Virginia Anabaptist Families

Attached is a file that Darvin Martin presented to the Shenandoah Mennonite Historians Annual Meeting, November 10, 2018

Virginia Anabaptist Families by Darvin Martin November 10, 2018 (pdf)

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