The Beachy Amish Mennonites   

Mennonites   

Beachy Population Statistics

 Eighty years in God’s service: June 26, 1927 — 2007

About the sources:
The Mennonite Yearbook first began reporting data on the Beachy church in 1957. The yearbook continued to include data on Beachys (as well as other conservative Mennonite groups) in a separate section in subsequent years. In 1998, Beachys and other conservative groups were excluded from the directory. Christian Light Publications, a conservative Mennonite press in Harrisonburg, VA, published a directory of conservative groups including Beachys. In 2006, the CLP Directory began listing the ‘Maranatha Amish Mennonite’ churches separately, and in 2008 began listing ‘Berea Amish Mennonite’ churches and ‘Unaffiliated Amish Mennonite’ churches separately. These churches are considered part of the Beachy Amish Mennonites and are included in the totals. Annual aggregated sums of weddings and births are as reported by the Calvary Messenger, and are not representative of the total weddings and births among Beachys, but are presumably proportional to the total. The Calvary Messenger began printing in 1970, and a full year of data was not available until 1971.