Stayner Missionary Church

  • EMCC Church Buildings: Part 2: Built, Bought, Rented

    The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Discipline had instructions about how church buildings were to be constructed. They were to be “plain” (Mennonite language) and, borrowing an idea from the Free Methodists, pew rents were not allowed: “Let all our buildings… Continue reading

    EMCC Church Buildings: Part 2: Built, Bought, Rented
  • A Speculation About Theodore Roosevelt

    Sometime before 1947, when the Mennonite Brethren in Christ changed its name to the United Missionary Church, a certain “Mrs W J Sproule” donated a book to the “Stayner Mennonite [ie MBiC] S. S.” That was very kind of her.… Continue reading

    A Speculation About Theodore Roosevelt