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Members. 26,000. Official website. mennonitechurch.ca. Mennonite Church Canada, informally known as the General Conference, is a Mennonite denomination in Canada, with head offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a member of the Mennonite World Conference and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.
Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, part of the Holy Roman Empire, present day Netherlands. Menno Simons became a prominent leader within the wider Anabaptist movement and ...
The Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (CCMBC) "trace[s] [its] history to several villages in the Molotschna colony in Ukraine." [2] The Canadian conference incorporated and adopted its current name in 1946. [3] [4] It had previously been a constituent unit of the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches of North ...
Mennonite Heritage Village is a museum in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada telling the story of the Low German Mennonites in Canada. The museum contains both an open-air museum open seasonally, and indoor galleries open year-round. [1] Opened in 1967 and expanded significantly since then, the Mennonite Heritage Village is a major tourist attraction ...
A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church: Pilgrims and Pioneers. Fresno, California: Board of Christian Literature, General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. Smith, C. Henry (1981). Smith's Story of the Mennonites. Revised and expanded by Cornelius Krahn. Newton, Kansas: Faith and Life Press. pp. 277–282. ISBN 0-87303-069-9.
The Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference (MWMC) is a Canadian, progressive Old Order Mennonite church established in 1939 in Ontario, Canada. [1] It has its roots in the Old Order Mennonite Conference in Markham, Ontario, and in what is now called the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The Conference adheres to the 1632 Dordrecht Confession of ...
The David Martin Mennonites, officially called Independent Old Order Mennonite Church or Independent Old Order Mennonites, [1] are a horse and buggy group of Canadian Old Order Mennonites that is moderate concerning the use of modern technologies and that emerged in 1917. They numbered about 3,500 people in 2010 and live in Wellington County ...
Original copy of Mennonite Privilegium from the Mennonite Heritage Archives in Winnipeg. The Privilegium of 1873 (sometimes called " The Lowe Letter ") [1] is the original invitation letter from the Dominion of Canada to Mennonites living in the Russian Empire offering them land, military exemption, and private schools, among other privileges.