John C. Wenger (December 25, 1910 – March 26, 1995) was an American Mennonite theologian and professor.
[1] He was born at the Reese H. White farm in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania, which his parents rented.
[1] His family moved in 1923 to Telford, where his father had gotten the job of janitor at the Rockhill Mennonite Church.
[1] He was the vice-president of the junior class, president of the Young People's Christian Association, and a director of the Mennonite Historical Society.
[1] On 3 April 1937, Wenger married Ruth Derstine Detweiler (19 December 1906, Sellersville, Pennsylvania - 19 February 1992, Goshen, Indiana).
In 1935, he was invited to write the history of the Franconia Mennonite Conference between two years of study towards a master's degree at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
[1] Wenger joined the editorial board of the Mennonite Weekly Review in March 1939.
[1] Wenger's personal records are held at the Mennonite Church USA Archives and can be found here.