Douglas Mennonite Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

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Douglas Mennonite Church, August 2017.
Photo: Bert Friesen.

Douglas Mennonite Church began services in 1978, and formally organized in 1980. It began as a daughter congregation of Springfield Heights Mennonite Church. The seven men that drew up the plan for this congregation were born in Boissevain (2), East Prussia (1), Old Colony in Russia (2), Orenburg, USSR (1) and Germany (1). Some of them returned to Springfield Heights later on. One of its strengths was its strong group of lay ministers that worked with the pastor, and later became ministers elsewhere in Canada. Lay ministers included Erwin Strempler, Guenther Strempler, John Sawatzky, James Schellenberg and Jake Harms.

A new building was dedicated in 1995.

Bibliography

Mennonite Reporter (11 December 1995), 15.

Ens, Anna. In Search of Unity: Story of the Conference of Mennonites in Manitoba. Winnipeg, Manitoba: CMBC Publications, 1996.

Hiebert, Angi. "The History of the Unique Separation of the Douglas Mennonite Church from the Springfield Mennoniten-Gemeinde (1976-1982)." Research paper, Canadian Mennonite Bible College, 1983, 30 pp., Mennonite Heritage Centre.

"Brief History." Unpublished typescript, 1 p. Mennonite Historical Society of Canada collection, Mennonite Archives of Ontario.

Additional Information

Address: 1517 Rothesay, Winnipeg MB R2G 3G5

Telephone: 204-668-7432

Website: Douglas Mennonite Church

Denominational Affiliations:

Conference of Mennonites in Manitoba (1980-present)

Conference of Mennonites in Canada (1980-present)

Douglas Mennonite Leading Ministers

Minister Years of service
Franz Wiebe 1980-1982
George K. Epp 1983-1986
Cornelius Plett 1987-1992
Gerhard Epp 1993
Hugo Jantz 1993-1996
James Schellenberg 1997
Kathleen Rempel Boschman and
Don Rempel Boschman
1997-2002
Don Rempel Boschman 2002-2023
Kara Friesen (Interim) 2023-

Douglas Mennonite Church Membership

Year Members
1985 249
1995 329
2000 356
2020 554


Author(s) Marlene Epp
Samuel J. Steiner
Alf Redekopp
Date Published March 2020

Cite This Article

MLA style

Epp, Marlene, Samuel J. Steiner and Alf Redekopp. "Douglas Mennonite Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. March 2020. Web. 9 Oct 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Douglas_Mennonite_Church_(Winnipeg,_Manitoba,_Canada)&oldid=178214.

APA style

Epp, Marlene, Samuel J. Steiner and Alf Redekopp. (March 2020). Douglas Mennonite Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 9 October 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Douglas_Mennonite_Church_(Winnipeg,_Manitoba,_Canada)&oldid=178214.




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