Reesor United Mennonite Church (Reesor, Ontario, Canada)
The Reesor United Mennonite congregation began services about 1926, and formally organized in May 1927. Jacob H. Janzen is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through emigration from the Soviet Union via Waterloo, Ontario in 1925. The settlement disintegrated as families moved away.
The settlement was situated along the Trans-Canada highway west of Cochrane, Ontario. It was organized in a traditional Russian Mennonite manner with Jacob C. Toews as district man, Wilhelm Rempel as Schulze, Cornelius Penner and Herman Lepp as ministers and David Heidebrecht as schoolteacher. The settlement initially prospered, reaching a membership of 75 in 1932, but declined rapidly during the Depression. The congregation dissolved on 5 January 1948.
The community and congregation were named after Old Order Mennonite Thomas Reesor, who aided in establishing the community.
Minister Hermann P. Lepp served in 1947 as a non-salaried congregational leader. The congregation dissolved in 1947. It had been affiliated with the Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario. The language of worship was German.
Bibliography
Canadian Mennonite (8 September 1961): 5.
Dennis, Hedy Lepp. Memories of Reesor : the Mennonite Settlement in Northern Ontario 1925-1948. Leamington, Ont. : Essex-Kent Mennonite Historical Association, 2001.
Enns, John H. The Story of the Mennonite Settlement of Reesor, Ontario. Winnipeg: L.E. Martens, 1996, 116 pp.
Lepp, H. P. "Die Reesor Vereinigte Mennoniten Gemeinde." United Mennonite Conference of Ontario Yearbook. (1947): 41.
"Report on Mennonite Settlement at Reesor, Ontario, Canada on the Lines of the Canadian National Railways," 1928; Mennonite in Canada collection, (20-Reesor), Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
Additional Information
Denominational affililiation:
Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario (1927-1947)
Reesor United Mennonite Church Pastoral Leaders
| Minister | Years |
|---|---|
| Lepp, Herman P. | 1927-1947 |
| Penner, Cornelius | 1928-1939 |
Reesor United Mennonite Church Membership
| Year | Membership |
|---|---|
| 1935 | 63 |
| 1945 | 23 |
| Author(s) | Jacob C Toews |
|---|---|
| Date Published | 1959 |
Cite This Article
MLA style
Toews, Jacob C. "Reesor United Mennonite Church (Reesor, Ontario, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 24 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Reesor_United_Mennonite_Church_(Reesor,_Ontario,_Canada)&oldid=77142.
APA style
Toews, Jacob C. (1959). Reesor United Mennonite Church (Reesor, Ontario, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Reesor_United_Mennonite_Church_(Reesor,_Ontario,_Canada)&oldid=77142.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 266. All rights reserved.
©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.