They came to be known as Old Order Amish, Mennonites and finally as Old Order Amish. Amish Mennonites were some congregations, interested in missions and social service, publication, use of meetinghouses, Sunday schools, etc., that had not joined the Amish Mennonite conferences. When these congregations met in their first conference in 1910 they adopted the name as their own. In 1964 the Conservative Mennonite Bible School was moved from the Pleasant View meetinghouse near Berlin, Ohio, to the village of Rosedale on Rosedale-MC Road, Irwin, Ohio. Known as Rosedale, Bible Institute, the school offers courses in Bible, theology, evangelism, teacher training, music, and related subjects on both high school and college levels.
Credits are transferable to various colleges and seminaries.
So also are the conference archives. In 1961 Rosedale Mennonite Mission opened mission work in Costa Rica. By 1974 the Costa Rica Mennonite Conference had been formed, with fraternal ties to the parent conference. The Costa Rica conference in 1986 had 1,053 members in 19 congregations with 20 ordained or licensed ministers. In 1968 mission work was opened in Nicaragua.