Basic Information

The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, was founded in 1859 by John Holdeman, a former member of the Mennonite Church.

History

split into Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (1859)

Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	75	100	+25 (33.3%)
Adherents	12,535	15,337	+2,802 (22.4%)

Notes

Snapshot data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc.

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]