This is a very difficult question to answer. Because each organization can have a different formats. To say one service is organized and the other not may offend one church or meeting house because they are free to express themselves differently. However that said for the most part they are different while one may see similar ceremony in say a UCC / Lutheran service with a Mennonite service. For the most part a service of Quaker/Friends would be strange to a Traditional Christian Service. I live in an area where there are many Quakers meeting houses and Mennonite Churches. Mennonite I have attend Mennonite services where they have a minister who conducts the service on Sunday they follow the Scripture, sing and have a teaching. Organization founded in Switzerland. There is a structure to the organization and services. Mennonites have adult baptism not infant baptism. They also have a form of Holy Communion. MENNONITE GENEALOGICAL RECORDS CAN BE FOUND IN MANY OF THE MENNONITE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA LANCASTER HAS A LARGE ONE THERE IS ALSO ONE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR HARLEYSVILLE. Quaker A Quaker meeting does not have a minister, pastor, [in some case they have elders who keep order and direction]. There is a clerk who records what happens, who attends there is no ceremony per say. People enter sit in silence until some on is lead by the Spirit to say something [to uplift or admonish] for the assembly. The meeting ends when someone is led to shake hands with their neighbor and then all do. The structure of the meeting may vary from one meeting house to another. They do not have sacraments. One of the crucial testimonies of Friends is that the grace of God can be received directly by any person without the need for any human intermediary such as priest or pastor. Friends believe that Jesus Christ baptizes his followers directly with the Holy Spirit. Friends also believe that it is important to live in daily, inward, communion with God. No outward ceremonies can substitute for the inward reality of these experiences. The Religious Society of Friends is organized into Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Meetings. The basic unit is the Monthly Meeting, the equivalent to the local congregation in most other churches. It is customary for Friends to worship every Sunday at a designated time. It is also the practice to hold business meetings once a month. Members of a Monthly Meeting are also members of the Quarterly meeting which meets for worship and business every three months, at the meetinghouse of one of the monthly meetings. Similarly, all members within a certain geographic region belong to a Yearly Meeting which meets for several days once a year QUAKER GENEALOGICAL RECORDS WOULD BE FOUND IN THE CLERK NOTES WHO WAS MARRIED, DIED OR ACCEPTED INTO THE MEETING DON'T LOOK FOR BAPTISM. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE HAS MANY OF THE OLD RECORDS FROM MEETING HOUSES IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Hope this is helpful and know that it. Ted von Mechow Praise God for everything he has done for us! 'IN GOD WE TRUST'

Ted, An excellent explanation of the differences. Thanks, Lloyd Shenberger -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted von Mechow Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 3:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PAYork] difference between Quaker and Mennonite and Genealogy This is a very difficult question to answer. Because each organization can have a different formats. To say one service is organized and the other not may offend one church or meeting house because they are free to express themselves differently. However that said for the most part they are different while one may see similar ceremony in say a UCC / Lutheran service with a Mennonite service. For the most part a service of Quaker/Friends would be strange to a Traditional Christian Service. I live in an area where there are many Quakers meeting houses and Mennonite Churches. Mennonite I have attend Mennonite services where they have a minister who conducts the service on Sunday they follow the Scripture, sing and have a teaching. Organization founded in Switzerland. There is a structure to the organization and services. Mennonites have adult baptism not infant baptism. They also have a form of Holy Communion. MENNONITE GENEALOGICAL RECORDS CAN BE FOUND IN MANY OF THE MENNONITE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA LANCASTER HAS A LARGE ONE THERE IS ALSO ONE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR HARLEYSVILLE. Quaker A Quaker meeting does not have a minister, pastor, [in some case they have elders who keep order and direction]. There is a clerk who records what happens, who attends there is no ceremony per say. People enter sit in silence until some on is lead by the Spirit to say something [to uplift or admonish] for the assembly. The meeting ends when someone is led to shake hands with their neighbor and then all do. The structure of the meeting may vary from one meeting house to another. They do not have sacraments. One of the crucial testimonies of Friends is that the grace of God can be received directly by any person without the need for any human intermediary such as priest or pastor. Friends believe that Jesus Christ baptizes his followers directly with the Holy Spirit. Friends also believe that it is important to live in daily, inward, communion with God. No outward ceremonies can substitute for the inward reality of these experiences. The Religious Society of Friends is organized into Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Meetings. The basic unit is the Monthly Meeting, the equivalent to the local congregation in most other churches. It is customary for Friends to worship every Sunday at a designated time. It is also the practice to hold business meetings once a month. Members of a Monthly Meeting are also members of the Quarterly meeting which meets for worship and business every three months, at the meetinghouse of one of the monthly meetings. Similarly, all members within a certain geographic region belong to a Yearly Meeting which meets for several days once a year QUAKER GENEALOGICAL RECORDS WOULD BE FOUND IN THE CLERK NOTES WHO WAS MARRIED, DIED OR ACCEPTED INTO THE MEETING DON'T LOOK FOR BAPTISM. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE HAS MANY OF THE OLD RECORDS FROM MEETING HOUSES IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Hope this is helpful and know that it. Ted von Mechow Praise God for everything he has done for us! 'IN GOD WE TRUST' ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAYORK ********* Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry PAYORK Message Board are gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed messages may not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed messages by clicking on the link and replying on the board. ************ Visit the York County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Project at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~payork/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ted von Mechow <[email protected]>wrote: > This is a very difficult question to answer. Because each organization can > have a different formats. To say one service is organized and the other > not > may offend one church or meeting house because they are free to express > themselves differently. However that said for the most part they are > different while one may see similar ceremony in say a UCC / Lutheran > service > with a Mennonite service. For the most part a service of Quaker/Friends > would be strange to a Traditional Christian Service. > Ted, I appreciate the time expended in answering my question. It is indeed a big help to me. Thanks. Lou Lou > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >