EMCC History

Free Methodist Church in Canada

  • Women’s Missionary Society/ Ministries 1

    Officially, the denominational Women’s Missionary Societies (WMS) of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church began Conference by Conference in 1937. That was the year the United Missionary Society, the mission board of the MBiC, urged the Conferences to allow women… Continue reading

    Women’s Missionary Society/ Ministries 1

  • Nonconformity to the world Part 2, Wesleyan holiness Background

    The EMCC today may seem like a generic evangelical church to some attenders, perhaps teaching therapeutic techniques, listening to non-denominational evangelical podcasts and singing pop evangelical worship songs, but it did not seem so to its first generations. The early… Continue reading

    Nonconformity to the world Part 2, Wesleyan holiness Background

  • Women Preachers in the MBiC Part 2: Edith Abbott

    Forgotten Women Preachers series According to my reckoning, 133 women in Ontario were recognized by the Canada/Ontario Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church as Christian workers who could evangelize, preach and lead worship from 1885 to 1945.1 Keeping… Continue reading

    Women Preachers in the MBiC Part 2: Edith Abbott