Personal tools
You are here: Home → Encyclopedia → contents → North Kildonan Mennonite Brethren Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

North Kildonan Mennonite Brethren Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

Church interior photo. Canadian Mennonite photo.
Interior of church in 1957

The North Kildonan area of Winnipeg was first settled by Mennonites in 1928 after immigrants came to Canada a few years earlier and settled in the core area of Winnipeg.  The North Kildonan area was set up to be a rural Mennonite village with small farm lots which appealed to the immigrant Mennonites.  New arrivals came again after the second World War and soon this was a cosmopolitan urban area.

The early pioneers were members of the North End Mennonite Brethren Church but because the distances were too great a Sunday School program and soon a worship service were begun in 1928 in private homes.  The first meeting house was built in 1929 and served both the Mennonite Brethren (MB) and the General Conference (GC) Mennonites.  In 1935 the GCs built their own meeting house.  The MB meeting house was located on Edison Avenue and was enlarged five times.  Then in 1956 a new meeting house was built on Kingsford Avenue.  This building was destroyed by fire in 1998.  A new meeting house was then built on Gateway Road in 2000.

In 1950 there were 320 members; in 1965, 571; in 1985, 539; in 1995, 510; in 2000, 543. The congregation has been affiliated with the Mennonite Brethren Church of Manitoba (1938-), the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1938-) and the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1938-). The languages of worship are German and English; the transition from German occurred in the 1970s.

The pastoral leaders of the congregation have included Johann J. Klassen (1928), Gerhard Klassen (1928-1929) the son of Johann Klassen, Herman Klassen (ca.1930-1933), Heinrich M. Janzen (1933-1937), Gerhard Epp (1938-1942), A. Heinrich Toews (1942-1950), I. W. Redekopp (1950-1953), William Falk (1953-1964), Victor Toews (1965), Wm. Neufeld (1966-1978), Roland Marsch (1979-1986), Victor Toews (1987), John B. Epp (1988-1993), Alvin Enns (1994), Johannes Stolz (1995-1998), Bob Marsch (1999), George Klassen (2000-  ).

The church is located at 1315 Gateway Rd., Winnipeg, MB, R2G 1G5. (204) 985-6050.

Bibliography

Records at Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies.

Canadian Mennonite (4 October 1957): 3; (11 October 1957): 3; (20 May 1960): 12.

Mennonite Brethren Herald (27 May 1988): 43.

Fuenfundzwanzig Jahre der mennonitischen Ansiedlung zu Nord Kildonan, 1928-1953. Winnipeg,1953, 70 pp.

Fast, Karl, ed., Fiftieth Anniversary of the Mennonite Settlement in North Kildonan. Winnipeg: The Anniversary Committee, 1978, 128 pp.

©1996-2008 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.

To cite this page:


MLA style: Neufeld, Herman and Marlene Epp. "North Kildonan Mennonite Brethren Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. September 1986. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2008 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/N6773ME.html>

APA style: Neufeld, Herman and Marlene Epp. (September 1986). "North Kildonan Mennonite Brethren Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2008 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/N6773ME.html>
Document Actions