TheOhio Wisler Mennonite Churches, also calledOhio Wisler Mennonite Conference, are a group of churches with aMennonite tradition, that formed in 1973. They are not considered to beOld Order anymore, but are widely seen asConservative Mennonites.Stephen Scott lists them as "Ultra Conservative" (Mennonites).[1]
In 1973 a large group of Wisler Mennonites in Ohio split from theOhio-Indiana Mennonite Conference, a car-drivingOld Order Mennonite group, and formed the more modern Ohio Wisler Mennonites.[2][3]
After the division from the Ohio-Indiana Mennonite Conference, the Ohio Wisler Mennonites adoptedSunday Schools and a more aggressive approach to outreach.[4] They have altered the manner of worship from the Old Order form.[5]
In 1995 the Ohio Wisler Mennonite Churches had 131 households in four congregations.[6] In the year 2000 they had 421 adherents with a total population of about 800 people in five congregations, all inOhio.[4] According to website of theMennonite World Conference they had 322 adherents in four congregations in 2018.[7]