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On April 1, we began worshiping in our new meeting place. Click here for directions.
Please check our calendar.
Sunday School follows worship. We have classes for all ages, from toddler to adults.
Visitors are Welcome! Since we sometimes meet in parks or have potluck meals, it might help to call our church phone for this Sunday's meeting place. We've posted our calendar, which has this information also.
The Rochester Area Mennonite Fellowship is a gathering of God's people in Rochester, NY. About 40-45 people meet weekly for worship and regularly in homes for small group study. We are a member congregation of the New York Mennonite Conference, and were dually affiliated with the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Church until they joined as Mennonite Church USA in 2002.
Our group started in the middle 1970's when a group of believers connected in the past to the Mennonite Church started meeting informally in homes for prayer and study. Gradually they began meeting more regularly on Sunday afternoons at the Friends Meeting House and in 1986 moved to the Harley School for Sunday morning worship. We met at the Arnett and Maplewood YMCAs, then in a cafeteria in 1998. March 2005 we moved to sharing space with the Rochester Friends Meeting again.
Members of the congregation have come from a variety of backgrounds: ethnic Mennonite, Catholic, Protestant, and unchurched. We are drawn to its Anabaptist ideals and the opportunity for Christian worship in the context of church as family.
We have no paid staff. Members of the Fellowship provide all worship, Sunday School, administration, and adult education on a voluntary, shared basis.
Though we are a small congregation, we are committed the way of peace and contribute to several mission projects.
Want to know more about us? We've attached a list of our mission and a general calendar to outline some of our major activities. If you have questions, please contact us. Of course, you're welcome to visit anytime.
Mennonites came out of the sixteenth century Anabaptist Christian movement in Europe. Anabaptists took a more radical approach to the Bible than the Protestant reformers, emphasizing the teachings of Christ as they related to peace issues, social justice, mutual support, and accountability. They believed church and state should have no involvement in each other's affairs.
For Mennonites, church is the primary, alternative community. The church is the gathering of believers in Christ Jesus, not simply a proscribed belief system or an institutional hierarchy. We choose to become members of this community, symbolized in adult baptism. The love and relationships with and as the church provide an alternative to the brokenness in society around us. Together, we are committed to being instruments of God's healing and hope.
A good Web site for more information about Mennonites is the MennoLink Mennonite Information Center. The Confession of Faith from a Mennonite Perspective describes what we believe quite well. For a contemporary discussion of what being a Mennonite means, visit the Third Way Café.
111 Hillside Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610
Church Phone: (585) 473-0220
email: RAMF@mac.com
Questions or comments? Want more information? Please email us.
http://www.RAMF.org/index.html
Last modified 2007-09-24
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