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India Church will Celebrate 100 Years

Dhamtari, India — Bethel Mennonite Church in Balodgahan will be marking 100 years in a Jubilee celebration October 29-30, 2006. The church is part of the Mennonite Church in India whose head office is here.

Bishop Mahlon and Sarah Lapp were pioneer missionaries who established the Balodgahan mission station. In 1906, The Mennonite Board of Missions in North America (predecessor agency of Mennonite Mission Network), started boarding schools for girls and boys, a home for widows, a training centre and other schools.

The church building, a stone-block structure, is worth seeing. We will not forget the brothers and sisters from North America who served in this church, said a leader of the church.

The church is inviting brothers and sisters of the Mennonite World Conference family, especially those with family members who served as mission workers here, to join them for this celebration. Mennonite Mission Network in Elkhart, Indiana, can provide travel and other information.

"God has blessed us on various occasions. We request prayer for this event that it will be successful and we will give God all the glory," says the invitation.

— Pramod Kumar Singh, secretary of the Mennonite Church in India