EMCC History is a personal, informal and unofficial look at EMCC history that you won’t find in the denominational or scholarly books, yet! These accounts are mostly from Ontario, but sometimes we will roam more widely.

Clare Fuller was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up there and in North Bay. After completing a BSc in General Science at the University of Toronto, he briefly worked as a geophysics surveyor in northern Ontario. Switching to theology, he eventually graduated with BTh (Emmanuel Bible College), MTS (Ontario Theological College) and MTh in Church History (McMaster Divinity College). Along the way, he was a pastor in Sudbury and Elk Lake, and a lecturer in two theological schools of the United Missionary Church of Africa in Nigeria, assigned under the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada. Every year he was assigned to teach Systematic Theology and he loved it. He had a biography of an early missionary to Nigeria published in 2001, has another biography published November 2024, and published 20 profiles of preachers and missionaries through Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, all about early EMCC-related men and women. Four more GAMEO articles (two in collaboration) report on congregations or other topics. Since 2011, Clare has been the curator of the Missionary Church Historical Trust for the EMCC for eastern Canada.

Clare also collects rocks, minerals and fossils. He lives with his family in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Banner: Clare in a quarry in Flamborough ON. Photo courtesy Mark Fuller, 2019.