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Line 17: The Mellinger meetinghouse was home to semiannual conferences each fall and at one of the three Rohrerstown meetinghouses every spring as far back as records exist, around 1740. But beginning in 1953, the spring meeting was moved to [[East Petersburg]] Mennonite Church. It was at this conference that decisions were made and either approved or rejected.<ref name=GAMEO-LancConf1957/> Expansion and growth led to differences of opinion within the conference. In 1960, nine ordained men withdrew from the conference to form the ''Mennonite Christian Brotherhood''. Differences over issues related to divorce and remarriage, television, and relaxed dress requirements resulted in the formation of the ''[[Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church]]'' in 1969. Two hundred members left in 1975 to formed the ''Conservative Mennonite Churches of York and Adams Counties'', Pennsylvania.<ref name=GAMEO-LancConf1990/> === Affiliations ===

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