Early EMCC Missions
Examples of missionary activity in the EMCC
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United Missionary Church of Africa and the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Part 2
16. MBiC worship patterns. The leaders of what became the MBiC in Ontario were converted in testimony, prayer or protracted meetings (later called revivals), not in their Sunday Mennonite worship services. When they had to organize their own Sunday worship… Continue reading
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Mennonite Brethren in Christ Public Worship and
the United Missionary Church of Africa Part 1 This background to UMCA worship patterns is excerpted from an essay I wrote for a conference in Ilorin, Nigeria, in November 2019. The convener, Rev Professor Samuel Ango, a UMCA scholar and… Continue reading
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Armenian Mission Part 4, The UOM Society’s new mission in Syria, 1919-1938
In early 1915 Turkish nationalists turned on Armenians in Turkey and began to exterminate them.1 The desire was not new, but the plan implemented to exterminate was. Generally, men and boys 12 and up were disarmed, conscripted, put into labour… Continue reading
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Mennonite Armenian mission Part 3
The United Orphanage and Mission Early EMCC personnel played a significant role relieving destitute Armenians after each wave of persecution in Turkey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Max Haines, a member and former pastor of the Missionary… Continue reading
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Mennonite Armenian mission Part 2
The Mennonite mission for Armenian orphans in the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 19th century began after a round of violence that started in 1894. It led to massacres of Armenians in 1895-96 at various places in Turkey.… Continue reading
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Mennonite Armenian mission: Part 1 1898
A few years ago I read with interest an article in the Canadian magazine Faith Today1 telling the story of Canadian Presbyterians serving in a mission to assist Armenians after a massacre in 19th-century Turkey (officially known as Turkiye). Please… Continue reading
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What Happened to the Manitoba Mission? Part 2
City Mission Workers Society. In the Mar/Apr 1905 Mennonite Brethren in Christ Canada Conference annual meeting, Henry Schlichter Hallman, the CMWS President, announced that he was posting Emma Hostetler and Mary Markle to Winnipeg, MB. I assume as part of… Continue reading
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What Happened to the Manitoba Mission? Part 1
Michael Haug’s mission. Winnipeg. As early as 1884, the newly formed Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church in Ontario turned its attention to Manitoba as a place for missionary work. (See EMCC History blog page for “Formation of the EMCC.”) Winnipeg… Continue reading
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The Strange Case of the MBiC East End Mission
Parliament St, Toronto. [Banner: Grace Memorial EM Church, Toronto, ca 1999. Courtesy Glenn Menard Collection MCHT] Students of Canadian Pentecostal history are familiar with a storefront mission in Toronto at 651 Queen St East sometimes called the East End Mission,… Continue reading
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Missionary Stirrings in the New Mennonite Church (1859)
What a congregation or denomination does about Jesus’ Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) is a fair measure of its maturity in Christ. The organization does not need to be super-active in the mission of the Church–it may be beginning from zero–but… Continue reading
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