{"id":30,"date":"2015-03-21T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T20:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:55:39","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 100 years, the Duchess Mennonite Church has been attempting to live out their faith in Christ and in doing so, serve the community of Duchess. The Duchess Mennonite Church was founded in 1917 by settlers from Pennsylvania with Swiss Mennonite roots. We are affiliated with the <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" title=\"Northwest Mennonite Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nwmc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northwest Mennonite Conference<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We adhere to the Statement of Faith laid out in &#8220;<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Confession of Faith From a Mennonite Perspective<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0<\/span>published by the Mennonite Church. A summary pdf is provided here:<\/p>\n<p>[listyofiles folder=&#8221;wp-content\/documents\/confession&#8221; sort=&#8221;reverse_alphabetic&#8221; filter=&#8221;pdf&#8221; options=&#8221;table&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Our Mission Statement<\/h2>\n<p>To Experience and Share the Love of God as Shown By Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Vision Statement<\/h2>\n<p>As followers of Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit we desire to proclaim God\u2019s kingdom and to grow in grace, joy, and peace so that His healing and hope will flow through us into our community and beyond.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/about-us\/who-we-are\/\">Who We Are<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/about-us\/facility\/\">Facility<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/about-us\/staff-2\/\">Staff<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 100 years, the Duchess Mennonite Church has been attempting to live out their faith in Christ and in doing so, serve the community of Duchess. The Duchess Mennonite Church was founded in 1917 by settlers from Pennsylvania with Swiss Mennonite roots. We are affiliated with the Northwest\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/about-us\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}