Lancaster Mennonite Conference

Lancaster Mennonite Conference is a conference of Mennonite churches formerly associated with Mennonite Church USA (MC USA). It is a body of 163 Mennonite churches in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, consisting of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Maryland. There are also a few conference churches in Delaware, Virginia, and the city of Washington D.C., as well as two located in Hawaii.

The churches of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference (LMC) make up 26 districts including: Bowmansville-Reading, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Groffdale, Harrisburg, Juniata, Lancaster, Landisville, Lebanon, Lititz, Manheim, Manor, Martindale, Mellinger, Millwood, New Danville, New York City, North Penn, Pequea Valley, Philadelphia, Spanish, Washington-Baltimore, Weaverland-Northeast Pennsylvania, Williamsport-Milton, Willow Street-Strasburg, and York-Adams Districts.

The conference office is located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The office employs Joanne H. Dietzel, Conference Coordinator; L. Keith Weaver, Conference Moderator; Dale W. Stoltzfus, Conference Minister; Jon Heinly, Conference Youth Minister; and other staff. The Bishop Board, a collection of all the bishops from the districts in the Conference, is the executive board of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. The Conference Leadership Assembly, composed of all bishops, ministers, deacons, deaconesses, and chaplains in the Conference, is the governing body of Lancaster Mennonite Conference.

Lancaster Mennonite Conference publishes a magazine Shalom News, and oversees several agencies, including Eastern Mennonite Missions, Friendship Community, Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Lancaster Mennonite School, Landis Homes, Philhaven, and Sharing Programs.

The Lancaster Mennonite Conference first convened in 1711, only a few months after the Swiss-Palatine immigrants had established themselves in what is now Lancaster county. In 1725, five representatives, Martin Baer, Hans Burkholtzer, Christian Herr, Benedikt Hirsche, and Johannes Bowman, attended the first general Mennonite Conference when the Dordrecht Confession was translated into English.

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