oftentimes with the same speed. Over the time people created a rubber belt which was put under the steel and helped on driving a tractor on streets without destroying so much of the road. The rubber belt split could be prevented, but the issues of steel wheel tractors being used on public roads is still oftentimes a conflicting issue (because of their scratching results on pavement), especially in Western states (see Mitchell County vs. Zimmerman, where the material for roads was changed and less resistant against steel wheels of Wenger Mennonites tractors). 2000s: Jacob Oberholtzer was a minister, who for decades tried to establish a functioning tractor-forbidding subgroup among the Wenger Mennonites, therefore moving from county to county, as the issue could hardly be hold, when tractor using families moved into settlements under his control. While in this point ultra conservative, he was more open minded to replace Pennsylvania Dutch and German as official church languages with English, so having another understanding of culture and religion, officially helping converts. Jacob Oberholtzer during his life time moved from Pennsylvania (here moving from one county to another) finally to Kentucky, and after becoming finally bishop in Casey County, Kentucky split off from the Groffdale Conference. This group is currently located close to Spencer, Tennessee, after moving away from Casey County, its location before. Several times Jacob Oberholtzer´s approach created problems due to the enforcement attempts to forbid tractors and a stricter enforcement of material ruling and due to the attempts replacing German by English in obviously steps without consent of the congregation. All these former splits were smaller ones. The numbers go into the tens, instead of hundreds. In spring 2018 a big split happened. 2018: The split resulted from the computer issue in spring 2018, while several other reasons played also a role in it, especially the conference structure of the church or more rights for the denominations in their settlements for variations. The nationwide binding of rules was more and more requested. This effected Missouri, Kentucky, New York and Indiana, Iowa where bishops, preachers and deacons left the Wenger Mennonites with a big amount of laity, but still (a sometimes high-numbered) minority locally and formed a loosely connected Midwest Conference. In 2016 already some problems were made public when a bishop of Missouri added some pages to the annual printing of Calendars and later this edition had to be destroyed