Northern Light Gospel Mission Conference (NLGMC)
The Northern Light Gospel Mission Conference (NLGMC), based in Red Lake, ON was originally formed in 1965 by U.S. Mennonites as an outreach and church-planting program to reach Natives on northern reserves in Ontario and Minnesota. A growing staff of more than 100 people, spread over 19 mission outposts of the Northern Light Gospel Missions, resulted in the need for a conference structure. The conference was intended to provide ordinations of both staff members and Native brethren, to be the official organ for recognition with government offices etc., and to provide an annual gathering of missionaries in a conference setting.
With the emergence of the Christian Anishinabec Fellowship (known as the Native Mennonite Conference from 1990 to 1996) and the reorganization of the mission, the original mandate of NLGMC was met. By 1997, all of the former NLGMC churches had either become member congregations of the Christian Anishinabec Fellowship, or continued as unaffiliated Mennonite churches.
See also Christian Anishinabec Fellowship; Indian Ministries, North America.
Bibliography
Mennonite Yearbook & Directory, 1988-89, ed. James E. Horsch. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1989: 96.
Mennonite Yearbook & Directory, 1997, ed. James E. Horsch. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1997: 111.
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