EMCC History

John Wesley

  • Forming the Ministry: The Probationer’s Reading Course Part 1

    Sarah Pool applied to be a “probationer” in the Canada Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church in March 1894. She was from Markham, ON, and was hoping to be a preacher in the MBiC.1 The first interview she… Continue reading

    Forming the Ministry: The Probationer’s Reading Course Part 1

  • 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

    Mennonite Brethren in Christ Public Worship and

  • We Worship Part 1

    When I was a church-planting pastor under the Home Mission Board, I planned and led many worship services, generally imitating the patterns in the Missionary Churches I knew (mainly Lakeshore in North Bay, Evangel in Kitchener and Riverside in Toronto).… Continue reading

    We Worship Part 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