In Pursuit of Faithfulness

In 1841 four Amish Mennonite families left their homes in southwestern Pennsylvania and traveled in horse-drawn wagons to Elkhart County Indiana. Their journey was distinctly American as they joined a wave of white settlers searching for new and cheaper lands where they could live work and worship. It was also distinctly Anabaptist as they sought to live out complicated commitments to Christ nonviolence and community. In this lively narrative historian and journalist Rich Preheim investigates the heritage and innovations of Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference an area conference of Mennonite Church USA that have profoundly shaped Mennonite faith and practice since the nineteenth century. Standing at the crossroads of tradition and change Mennonites in Indiana and Michigan wrestle to pursue faithfulness to Christ in the twenty-first century. 420 Pages.