Anabaptist Church History
Language: English

1937 · event

Rudnerweider church organization

A renewal movement among Sommerfeld Mennonites organized as the Rudnerweider church in 1937.

A renewal movement among Sommerfeld Mennonites led to the organization of the Rudnerweider church. The supplied chart marks the movement in 1936, while the official archival description dates church organization to 1937. These dates are retained as different stages rather than silently forcing the two sources into one year.

The new fellowship developed within the colony-based Mennonite history in Manitoba. It later adopted the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference name in 1959. Its archived congregational records, conference material, and mission history provide the evidence for following that development from a call for renewal into a continuing church organization.

Sources for this history: [1] [2]

References

  1. Mennonite Heritage Archives: EMMC fonds
  2. Supplied timeline photograph 9379