125:. Due to serious financial issues and debts for both Mennonite Publishing House and the General Conference publishing house, Faith and Life Press, this restructuring eliminated staff from the Mennonite Publishing House and ended their printing operations. By 2003, after taking out loans from several sources in order to pay back debts, all publishing responsibilities were placed under control of the new Mennonite Publishing Network board. In 2006, Mennonite Publishing Network sold the remaining Provident Bookstores it had been operating in order to pay off the last of the debts it had accrued before and during its restructuring. In November 2010, Mennonite Publishing Network relocated to
47:, the Mennonite Book and Tract Society and the Gospel Witness Company. Several conferences under the (old) Mennonite Church began expressing a desire to consolidate and control the production of denominational texts, including the Kansas-Nebraska Conference in 1898, with several other conferences expressing interest by 1907. In November 1907 a meeting in Elkhart of delegates from nine conferences voted unanimously that the church should control its publications. A committee was formed with J.S. Shoemaker elected as chairman, and the new committee began negotiating with the three privately operated Mennonite publishing houses, the
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