Pelly Fellowship Chapel (Pelly, Saskatchewan, Canada)

Pelly Fellowship Chapel, 2012. Source: Evangelical Mennonite Conference archives.

Pelly Fellowship Chapel, part of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference, was started in 1950 through the outreach efforts of the Western Gospel Mission. Ben Eidse was the first worker, serving from 1950 to 1953, first as an unmarried man and then with his wife Helen (nee Reimer), whom he married on 30 March 1952.

In the winter of 1954 to 1955 an 18.5x27.6 meter building was moved from Mikado, Saskatchewan, into Pelly as a chapel.  In 1972 it was replaced by the building formerly used by the Valley Stream church (an Evangelical Mennonite Conference congregation that dissolved in 1971), which was moved into Pelly in 1972 and placed on a new lot just south of the old site. A manse was built in 1964.  When the Western Gospel Mission was dissolved in 1961, Pelly Fellowship Chapel was transferred to the Evangelical Mennonite Conference that year, though it was formally organized only in 1963. The congregation was later enlarged and enriched by people connected with two groups in Arabella area: a Western Gospel Mission work in Arabella that dissolved and the Swan Plain Mennonite Church that later merged with Pelly Fellowship Chapel during Ernest Funk’s period of service.

In 2012, the average Sunday School attendance was 25 and the average worship attendance was 30.  Lewis and Vivian Anfinson became a deacon couple in 1967, the only couple officially to serve in that position to date.

Bibliography

EMC Yearbook for 20012: Including a Record of the Proceedings of the 62^nd Annual Sessions of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference July 6-8, 2012. Steinbach, MB: Evangelical Mennonite Conference, 2012.

"Helen (Reimer) Eidse, 1928-2010." The Messenger 50 no. 9 (September 2012): 32.

Smith, Terry M. "A Rich Place of Meeting in Christ." The Messenger 36, no. 10 (27 May 1998).

Additional Information

Meeting place: 311 Main St., Pelly, Saskatchewan

Address: Box 70, Pelly, SK, S0A 2Z0

Phone number: 306-595-4511

Website: Pelly Fellowship Chapel

Denominational Affiliation: 

Evangelical Mennonite Conference

Pelly Fellowship Chapel Ministers

Minister	Years of Service
Ben Eidse	1950-1953
Ben Friesen	1953-1957
Ben Andres	1957-1961
Abe Giesbrecht	1962-1967
Jake Cornelsen	1966-1969
Ron Penner	1969-1971
Cornie Dueck	1971-1975
Dan Thiessen	1975-1977
Frank Reimer	1977-1980
Ernest Funk	1980-1990
Robin Bignall	1990-1991
Murray Vader	1992-1995
Kenton Penner	1996-2004
John Froese	2005-2013
Dallas Halvorson	2014
Hyoungjin (Frankie) Kim	2015-

Membership at Pelly Fellowship Chapel

Year	Membership
1965	8
1970	4
1975	16
1980	34
1985	39
1990	61
1995	31
2000	39
2005	38
2010	38
2015	40

Author(s)	Terry Smith
Date Published	February 2013

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