Port Elgin United Missionary Church
The German-speaking residents of the Port Elgin area were first served by a missionary of the Evangelical Association Church in 1854. A church was erected at Port Elgin in 1868 and a Sunday School was organized in 1871. The Port Elgin Church became part of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1946, and became a church in the United Church of Canada in 1968.
This church building in Port Elgin, Ontario was built in 1877.
Grace Church – 562 Jones Ave. Toronto
Grace Chapel open in 1899. The work at Grace Chapel was not begun by city mission workers, but was handed over to them soon afterwards. In April 1962 the congregation built a new church building in Don Mills named O’Connor Hills Missionary Church. In 1980 the name was changed to Grace Memorial Church.
Grace Chapel was the home church for Alf Rees, Ann Bentley, Dorothy Bell, Earle and Carrie Prosser, Ed Prosser and Carol Wiley (nee: Prosser).
In 2015 the building was still being used as a church by Holy Trinity Christian ministries.
Grace Chapel – 562 Jones Avenue, Toronto
Grace Memorial Church, Broadlands Blvd., Toronto
Formerly kno0wn as O’Connor Hills Missionary Church it was renamed in 1980 as Grace Memorial Church in part pointing back to its origin as Grace Chapel on Jones Ave. in Toronto. It was built in 1962.
Altona Christian Missionary Church
This was a unique place of worship where two different denominations came together to build a place they could gather in. Members of the “Christian Church” denomination and members of the the “Mennonite Brethren in Christ” denomination together built this church in 1875. They would share facilities but hold separate services.
Altona Christian Missionary Church
Dickson’s Hill Missionary Church
The congregation began services in 1850s, and formally organized in 1859. Mennonite services are believed to have first been held in a frame building within the cemetery grounds that also served as an early schoolhouse.
ln 1868, a brick church replaced the old building to house a congregation formally organized in 1859 under the leadership of Abraham Raymer and J. H. Steckley.
In 1875, the Mennonite Brethren in Christ worshipped there. Later known as the United Missionary Church, and then simply the Missionary Church, a new church building was constructed to the south of the cemetery in 1951.
Dickson’s Hill Missionary Church
Markham Missionary Church – Mount Joy
The “New Mennonite Church”, Mount Joy, Ontario, as built in 1877. Before the church was built Sunday School had been held in the Mount Joy school house for some years. This “class” was one of several spreading out from the Dixon Hill Church where the first “New Mennonite” services in the area were held.
The young denomination Mount Joy was part of had its roots in the Mennonite Church later known as “Mennonite Brethren in Christ”.
Markham Missionary Church
The year is 1877 and a few families came together to begin a ministry. Farm land was given by Simon and Alice Raymer and the church completed by July 1877. It was named the “Mount Joy United Mennonite Church”.
The church outgrew the building and location so they built a new facility on farm land that was given by Jack and Pat Warriner along Major Mackenzie Drive near McCowan Road at: 5438 Major Mackenzie Dr E, Markham, ON.
Palmerston United Missionary Church
The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church had a “two-point charge” where one pastor served two churches Maryborough and Wallace.
Around 1946 another mission was started in Palmerston. The District Superintendant sent out a young graduate of Emmanuel Bible College, Donald Pugh, to start a ministry in Palmerston. He started holding services in a building next to the Blacksmith’s Shop.
By 1949 the attendance at Maryborough had dwindled to the point that the Church was on the verge of closing. They made the decision to move the building and congregation from Maryborough to Palmerston.
Palmerston MC – A History – John Quanz
Palmerston MC – A Service of Remembrance – Anniversary 2024 – Video
Palmerston Evangelical Missionary Church
Over the years the congregation of the Palmerston United Missionary Church grew to the point where the small building could not provide enough Sanctuary or Sunday School space.
During David Crouse’s ministry in Palmerston the congregation built a new church in 1972 on Prospect Street next to the elementary school. An addition with a larger sanctuary was done in 1987.
Palmerston MC – A History – John Quanz
Stouffville Missionary Church
In 1903 under the leadership of R. Eltherington, the pastor, and the local members of the Missionary Church (then known as the Mennonite Brethren in Christ) decided to build a church. A lot was purchased on the north side of Main Street in Stouffville and the church was built during the spring and summer of that year.
The dedication of the new church took place during the month of
November, 1903.
Stouffville Evangelical Missionary Church
In 1967, the members voted to build a new place of worship adjacent to the original structure which then became the Christian Education Centre. The ground breaking ceremony took place in the spring of 1968. In June of that year, Jacob Reesor, who had been officially chosen as a life long deacon, laid the cornerstone of the new church. In November, this structure was formally dedicated.
The Stouffville congregation built a new facility on the east side of Stouffville in 2005.
Markham Missionary Church – Castor Alberta
In the spring of 1907 the work on the Markham Missionary Church began. A group of pioneers from Markham, Ontario, settled at Castor. Some of the first to arrive at Castor with their families were I. Burkholder, Joseph & Wilmot Wideman, Oliver Zellar, Michael Troyer, David Weaver, Clarence Stouffer, Will & Ed Dunington.
It is reported that they were concerned about having a place to worship, even before they built homes for themselves. They held their first service in a tent and later in a house. The following year, 1907, this small congregation built a church and named it Markham after their old home in Ontario.
This is a model of the church built from wood salvaged from the demolition when the church was closed.
Wallace United Missionary Church
The Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church had a “two-point charge” where one pastor served two churches Maryborough and Wallace. The church was located at a crossroads called Brotherston.
One of the oldest United Missionary Churches in existence where members have worshipped since 1874.
Bethany MBiC Church, Berlin, Ontario 1907
Constructed in 1877 for the congregation in Berlin that came out of what is now First Mennonite Church in 1874, the “Blue Chapel” on Lancaster St was the home of the Berlin Evangelical Mennonite Church (after 1883, the MBiC). Berlin became Kitchener in 1916. Elder Charlie Krauth, pastor of Bethany 1906-1909, is standing in front of the building before it was demolished to make way for the current building in 1908.
Huron Chapel EMC – Auburn
The Auburn Evangelical Missionary Church had its beginning with a local men’s prayer group. In 1971, the group purchased a Presbyterian Church building. For the first two years, various speakers filled the pulpit until 1973, when Rev. Ron Curl was asked to become the pastor.
Bethel Church – New Dundee
Prior to 1877, small prayer groups met in various homes and buildings in the New Dundee area. These agreed together to build a church in 1878 on farmland one mile north-west of New Dundee.
Trinity Evangelical Missionary Church
Rev. Harvey Fretz. While a pastor at Lincoln Heights Church, Waterloo, he had a vision for a new church in a promising area of that city. He recruited two Emmanuel Bible College students to canvass the area with handouts and information.
St. Clair Church
The St. Clair Church in Scarborough had its beginning in a dingy Legion Hall where a member of Grace Chapel, Toronto East, began a Sunday school. Later, Rev. Harold Boadway, pastor of Grace Chapel, took charge.
Salem Church – Manitoulin Island
Rev. Wm. Schroeder (pastor and evangelist) was responsible for the beginning of the EMCC on Manitoulin Island. He felt called to Manitoulin Island and in October,1886, began revival services in a school house in Mindemoya.
Banfield Memorial Church
The church now known as Banfield Memorial Church was the vision of Noah Detwiler, minister and evangelist of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ. Pitching a tent on Spadina Avenue, Toronto, he was encouraged by the local interest to rent a hall. A congregation was formed and became known as Spadina Mission.
Mount Pleasant Church
The Missionary Church actually was born in October, 1886, in revival services conducted by Rev. Amos Eby in a school house across from the present Mount Pleasant Church.
Owen Sound Area (Mennonite Corners – Derby Township)
Six miles south west of Owen Sound was a short-lived Mennonite Brethren In Christ Church located at what became known as Mennonite corners. It was pastored by Rev. Alexander Bell who died two years after his arrival at the fledgling congregation.
Owen Sound Church
In 1899, the annual conference of the Mennonite Brethren In Christ stationed two City Mission Workers, Sarah Klahr and Maggi Spill, to Owen Sound. Named Beulah Mission, the first service was held in a hall above the local newspaper office on April 18, 1899. Services were conducted at 2.30 and 8.00 pm Sundays and at 8.00 pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
Shrigley Church
In the early 1890’s John McQuarie and local families worshiped in a log school house.
Stayner Church
Meeting in homes was the beginning of the Stayner Church. In 1881, Rev. John Sider be-came its first “elder”. Services began in an upper room over a store on the main street.
Elgin Memorial Church – Stratford
The present Elgin Memorial Church was born in 1906 when two young ladies began services in rented quarters in Stratford. City Mission workers served the church until 1939.
Gormley Evangelical Missionary Church
The first building on the present Gormley church site was erected in 1873. The congregation operated for the first ten years as a union church before being taken over by the Mennonites.
Evangel Church
Evangel is a daughter church of Bethany Church, Kitchener. In 1943, a group of Bethany members started a Sunday school in a public school.
Hanover (Elmwood) Evangelical Missionary Church
The Hanover church began as an extension of the Elmwood church. Pastors of both congregations lived in Elmwood from 1898 to 1947.
Mindemoya Church – Manitoulin Island
Mindemoya began as an outreach of the Salem congregation in 1940.
Collingwood Evangelical Missionary Church
A tent meeting in 1891 may have been the inspiration to found a church in Collingwood. At any rate, a “City Mission” began in 1897 in rented quarters with a number of lady workers faithfully ministering to a small but growing congregation.
Breslau Evangelical Missionary Church
As a result of the mid-19th century spiritual awakening in Ontario, several families in the Breslau area formed a new fellowship in the early 1880s.