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Black Mennonite communities have existed in the United States and Canada since the late 1800s. Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are home to the second and fourth largest populations of Mennonites in the world.
All sources can be found below. 1886: Krimmer Mennonite Brethren establish the first African American Mennonite mission in the mining community at Elk Park, North Carolina. Missionaries involved included Heinrich V. Wiebe, Elizabeth Pauls Wiebe, Jacob M. Tschetter, Peter H. Siemens.
Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, part of the Holy Roman Empire, present day Netherlands.
The Lark vision helped start churches in black communities in Sarasota, Florida; Youngstown, Ohio; Saginaw, Michigan; and Los Angeles, California, all of which became early communities of black Mennonites.
By the 1940s, at least 13 Mennonite churches had been established in African-American communities (six in the East, six in the Midwest and one on the West Coast). Summer Bible school programs, led by white volunteers and directed towards children, marked the beginning of many of the churches.
Known as the Afro-American Mennonite Association until the early 1990s, AAMA provides a base from which scattered black and integrated congregations support and encourage one another.
It is the story of mission efforts by fourteen Mennonite-related groups seeking to establish believers’ congregations in black communities. There are four parts to his larger story. Bechler delineates the historical and cultural legacy of blacks in the United States, including the role of the church during years of slavery.
