We regret this listing published in the 2001 Yearbook is outdated
Updated Listing for
MENNONITE
CHURCH CANADA
2000
Figures
Full/Inclusive Membership: 36,128
Congregations: 252
Pastors: 665
Total Number of Clergy: N/A
Number of Sunday Schools: N/A
Total Sunday School Enrollment: 14,577
Mennonite
Church Canada
This body has its origins in Europe in 1525 as an outgrowth of the Anabaptist movement. It was organized in North America in 1898. Mennonite Church Canada began in 1902 as an organized fellowship of Mennonite immigrants from Russia clustered in southern Manitoba and around Rosthern, Saskatchewan. The first annual sessions were held in July, 1903. Its members hold to traditional Christian beliefs, believer’s baptism and congregational polity. They emphasize practical Christianity: opposition to war, service to others and personal ethics. Further immigration from Russia in the 1920s and 1940s increased the group which is now located in all provinces from New Brunswick to British Columbia. In recent years a variety of other ethnic groups, including native Canadians, have joined the conference. This conference is affiliated with Mennonite Church USA whose offices are at Newton, Kansas. (See: Mennonite Church USA description in the section "Religious Bodies in the United States")
Headquarters
600 Shaftesbury Blvd., Winnipeg, MB R3P 0M4 Tel. (204)888-6781 Fax (204)831-5675
Media Contact, Dan Dyck
Email: office@mennonitechurch.ca
Website: www.mennonitechurch.ca
Officers
Chpsn., Ron Sawatsky
Gen. Sec., Dan Nighswander
Periodicals
Canadian Mennonite