Mennonites in Ontario
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Washing of the Saints’ Feet
When my family settled in Hamilton, Ontario, in 2001 so I could attend McMaster Divinity College, we went knowing that just a few years before, the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada congregation there (Calvary) had closed. I chose the church… Continue reading
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How to Kill a Program of “Women in Ministry” Part 1
Why are there no discussions about the problem of “Men in Ministry”?1 Think about that while we turn to the disabilities that hampered and practically shut down the public ministry of women in the early EMCC in Ontario by about… Continue reading
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One Hundred and Thirty-Three Women
Banner: City Mission women early 1930s. Back: L to R: Annie Srigley, Martha Doner, Edith Raymer, unknown, unknown, Front: Rosie Sargeant, unknown, unknown, Annie Yeo, unknown, Winnie Barfoot? From a reader-friendly-blog point of view, I am going to do something… Continue reading
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Nonconformity to the World Part 3, Mennonite Brethren in Christ Experience
When I was a young preacher in the Missionary Church of Canada, before the 1993 merger produced the EMCC, I attended a conference promoting a simple lifestyle. I signed a promise to live a simple lifestyle as much as possible.… Continue reading
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High Bright Buggy Wheels: a Stouffville Story, Sort of
Browsing one day in the United Missionary Church of Africa Theological College library in Ilorin, Nigeria, I came across a curious book in the fiction section, a 1951 dark red hard cover novel called High Bright Buggy Wheels. It was… Continue reading
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Peace and War and the EMCC Part 2
The remoter wars of the USA and Canada in the second half of the 19th century did not greatly disturb the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, but the outbreak of a Great War in Europe in 1914 did. By 1917,… Continue reading
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Peace and War and the EMCC
At the close of our youth fellowship meeting in North Bay, a young man came dressed in a uniform of the US Army. Several in our group knew him and gathered around, amazed. He was Canadian, about 19 years old,… Continue reading
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Troubled Borders
Does it matter where an EMCC General Assembly meets? Could the world take interest in any action or teaching of our church today? We grumble in many congregations about issues supported by current Canadian culture with which we disagree, but… Continue reading
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New Mennonite Church Part 3: Distinctives
While researching for the profiles of NMC preachers I wrote for GAMEO,1 I gradually drew a picture of their unique community. They were Ontario Mennonites, definitely, and they added other features for a made-in-Canada mix. Frequently, Anabaptists who liked the… Continue reading
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New Mennonite Church of Canada West and Ohio Part 2: Appointments, Preachers and Deacons
I last mentioned the New Mennonite Church in connection with their missionary society founded in 1859.1 The NMC, which existed from about 1849 to 1875, was a precursor Church to the EMCC. From the imperfect memory and perspective of the… Continue reading
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