Evangelical Mennonite Conference

The Evangelical Mennonite Conference ( in German: Evangelical Mennonite Conference ) is a Mennonite church in Canada.

History

The Evangelical Mennonite Conference goes back to the year 1812 in the Molotschna colony in Ukraine by Klaas Reimer founded Small community. With its foundation, joined primarily a critique of the established communities of German-Russian Mennonites. The new movement saw himself in the line of the early Anabaptists and emphasized stronger moral aspects and principles such as non-violence. In many ways parallels with the later also created in Ukraine Mennonite Brethren showed.

In 1874 the community finally wandered virtually closed to North America. One group settled in the Canadian Manitoba, another in the U.S. Nebraska. However, both were soon under the influence of other Mennonite movements such as the Mennonite Brethren churches and founded by pennsylvaniadeutschen preacher John Holdeman Church of God in Christ, Mennonite. There were many crossings. In consequence, the remaining communities in Canada finally opened the anglizierten North American Protestantism increasingly. Evangelical community and forms of worship were adopted and in 1952 the name Evangelical Mennonite Church has changed. 1959/60 the name was changed again in Evangelical Mennonite Conference. The community association is now almost completely angliziert, but without having given up the Anabaptist- Mennonite theology core. In 2012, the Evangelical Mennonite Conference celebrated its bicentennial anniversary.

The Evangelical Mennonite Conference today consists of approximately 7,200 members and 60 local churches in several Canadian states. The community association is heavily involved in missionary and is a member of the Canadian branch of the World Evangelical Alliance ( Evangelical Fellowship of Canada), the Mennonite World Conference and the Mennonite Central Committee.