Glimpses Past

During Eighth Street Mennonite Church’s centennial year, short essays on the congregation’s history appeared in the monthly Messenger newsletter. Additional essays will be added throughout 2013. A richly detailed History of the Eighth Street Mennonite Church, 1913-1978 (1987) by Rachel W. Kreider, is available in the church library.

• Mennonites in Goshen before 1913
• Eighth Street Roots, 1892-1913
• From Fifth Street to Eighth Street, 1913-1920
• The Turbulent 1920s
• Progressive Mennonites, 1920s-1960s
• The Spiritual Journey of Robert Friedmann
• Marking the Eighth Street Centennial: Did You Know That …? 
• Eighth Street Mennonites in War and Peace
• Music at Eighth Street Mennonite Church 
• The White Gift and The Window