About the Brotherhood Beacon Archive
History of the Brotherhood Beacon
Conservative Mennonite Conference first affiliated itself with an official publication in 1912, a semi-monthly magazine called the Herold de Wahrheit. It regularly contained twelve pages in German and four pages in English.
In the early 1950s the Conference began to feel that the Herold de Wahrheit was "failing to meet the needs" of the conference, and began publishing the quarterly Missionary Bulletin in 1952.
In 1969, the newly formed Publication and Literature Committee recommended that the Missionary Bulletin be assimilated into a new publication, which would include the concerns of the entire conference rather than focusing primarily on missionaries' activity. The paper was titled the Brotherhood Beacon, a name submitted by Richard Showalter in the naming contest, and Ivan J. Miller was appointed editor. The first issue of the publication was produced in 1971.
Source: Brotherhood Beacon, January 1971, p. 3-4.
