What is the difference between Beachy Amish Mennonites and: 1) conservative Mennonite, 2) Anabaptist?
1) In the late 1600s, the Mennonites of Switzerland divided into two groups: the Amish and the Mennonites. The Amish divided in the late 1800s, with the emergence of two groups: the Amish Mennonites and Old Order Amish. Amish Mennonites were more accommodating in practice, and many Amish Mennonite conferences were absorbed into main-line Mennonite churches in the 1910s and 1920s. Beachys were a later Amish Mennonite group that broke with the Old Order Amish in the 1920s. Thus, they are from Amish lineage. Conservative Mennonites are from the other lineage dating back to the late 1600s division in Switzerland. Many conservative Mennonite groups started their own conference in the mid to late 1900s when the main body of Mennonites were abandoning distinctive practice. Therefore, Beachys and conservative Mennonites have ended up at similar places in level of practice, but are from two lineages. Many conservative Mennonites are organized in conference structure, which pulls congregations u
