Virginia Old Order Mennonite Conference

The Virginia Old Order Mennonite Conference, also called Cline Mennonites or Cline-Showalter group, is an Old Order Mennonite group to use horse-drawn carriages for transportation. It separated from the Virginia Mennonite Conference in 1901. The members of the group speak English only, unlike almost all other horse and buggy Old Order Mennonite groups, who speak Pennsylvania German as their first language. In recent years the group sometimes uses the name "Riverdale Old Order Mennonite Church".^[1]

^ "James O. Lehman: Amish Anabaptists and Mennonites in Virginia, A Directory of Groups, Conferences and Congregations in Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, Winter 2012, page 5" (PDF).

[1] "James O. Lehman: Amish Anabaptists and Mennonites in Virginia, A Directory of Groups, Conferences and Congregations in Shenandoah Mennonite Historian, Winter 2012, page 5" (PDF).

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