Mennonite Publishing Company

[1] The creation of the Mennonite Publishing Company followed Funk's move to Elkhart, Indiana, from Chicago, at which point he purchased his own hand-powered printing press and ink.

In 1868, Funk constructed a two-story building at 320 South Main Street in Elkhart for hosting his presses, and this property was transferred to the Publishing Company when it was chartered in 1875.

Other notable texts released by the Publishing Company include English and German editions of Menno Simons' Complete Works and the Martyr's Mirror, as well as the "Old" Mennonite Church's "hymnals, catechisms, confessions, yearbooks, Sunday-school literature, etc.

"[1] In God Uses Ink, John A. Hostetler suggests that the historical and contemporary texts Funk chose to publish through the Mennonite Publishing Company represented his "convincement of the worth of the historic Mennonite faith and its principles for a new generation of believers.

"[2] Around the start of the 20th century, conflicts surrounding the Mennonite Publishing Company began to arise.