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Mennonite missionaries first arrived in [[Ethiopia|Ethiopia]] in 1945 following World War II, working as relief workers with the Mennonite Relief Committee of the Mennonite Board of Missions (MC). These missionaries considered it a part of their work to establish churches. Complete freedom for this was given in Muslim areas such as Hararge Province, but restrictions were placed on such activity at Nazareth, a strong Orthodox area. The first believers were baptized in 1951; they were from Nazareth but were taken to Addis Ababa for the ceremony because of the government restrictions. The service programs set up by the mission opened doors and helped establish confidence with the people and the government. Jobs in teaching and medicine brought young people into contact with the missionaries. Doctors prayed before treating patients and national evangelists were hired to minister to patients.
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The Vauxhall Mennonite Brethren congregation near [[Vauxhall (Alberta, Canada)|Vauxhall]], Alberta began services in 1933, and formally organized in 1934 with a membership of 44. The first building was occupied in 1937, with subsequent building programs in 1949 and 1984. Peter Langemann is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through colonization from [[Saskatchewan (Canada)|Saskatchewan]] and elsewhere in [[Alberta (Canada)|Alberta]]. The Vauxhall area was attractive to settlers because it offered opportunities for irrigation and there were numerous farms available to rent and later buy.
 
  
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On 17 June 1940 the church building was destroyed by fire by arsonists as an expression of anti-German feeling occasionally directed at the Mennonites during World War II. The [[Vauxhall Mennonite Church (Vauxhall, Alberta, Canada)|Vauxhall Mennonite Church]] (GCM) was burned the same night. The basement for a new church was completed in 1941 and used for services. The building was completed in 1949.
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The church officially began in 1959 when 11 Ethiopian lay leaders met with missionaries to set up a structure to coordinate the work of the five congregations which had formed on the mission stations. An annual Christian Life Conference helped make the church known to other evangelical groups. Under the direction of Daniel S. Sensenig and Chester L. Wenger a General Church Council was organized in 1959 with lay "counselors" chosen to each represent 20 members in the fellowship groups. By 1964 Ethiopians had replaced missionaries in the executive offices and missionaries then served as assistants. The council met semiannually to plan for nurture and evangelism and review institutional work. The name Meserete Kristos Bete Kristian (Christ Foundation Church) was chosen because the term "Mennonite" had no local meaning. The church took over the administration of the schools and hospitals begun by the mission in order to minister to the whole person. It organized a medical board, board of education, and evangelism board. These institutions helped the church become established. A number of leaders in the 1980s came to the church from contacts made during medical and secondary training. On Sundays eager Christians went into the surrounding areas to witness to the gospel.
  
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The church conducted its own Bible school 1937-43. The language transition from German to English occurred in the 1960s. Vauxhall Mennonite Brethren planted a daughter church in the community of [[Hays Gospel Chapel (Hays, Alberta, Canada)|Hays]] in April 1987.
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Congregations were established at Wonji, Shoa, and Meta Hara among people from other areas who moved to these places to work on sugar plantations along the Awash River. A church was built in the Bole area of Addis Ababa for the fellowship that met at the School for the Blind. By 1973 Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) had 8 congregations with 800 members, 11 elementary schools, 2 junior high schools, 1 boarding high school, 2 hospitals, 2 clinics, 2 guest houses, a bookstore with several branches and a literature program which produced a newsletter, <em>Zena.</em>
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= Bibliography =
 
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Esau, John J. "The Mennonite Brethren Settlement in the Vauxhall District." 1968, 4 pp. [http://www.mbconf.ca/mbstudies/index.en.html Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies]
 
  
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''Mennonite Brethren Herald'' (24 January 1986): 17; (27 May 1988): 5.
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From 1966 to 1974 MKC joined with the Baptist General Conference Mission to form Globe Publishing House which published Sunday school materials and leadership training courses for evangelical churches.
  
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Toews, John A. <em class="gameo_bibliography">A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church: Pilgrims and Pioneers.</em> Fresno, CA, 1975: 166.
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In 1972 the government outlawed the Mulu Wengel (Full Gospel) church. This Pentecostal church was started by a group of high school students learning English and a Mennonite doctor, influenced by the teachings of the Finnish Pentecostal Mission. Many members of this church joined Meserete Kristos Church congregations and had a significant influence on the denomination. After what had been a period of slow growth, a spiritual awakening began in 1973. As a result, the Meserete Kristos church is far more charismatic and Pentecostal than most of its sister Mennonite churches. Churches practice faith healing, exorcism of demons, and speaking in tongues.
  
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During this time [[Choirs|choirs]] and the writing of music began to proliferate in evangelical churches. A new type of music—neither western nor Orthodox—was developed and spread throughout the country by cassette tapes.
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Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Winnipeg, Manitoba: [http://www.mbconf.ca/home/products_and_services/resources/published_genealogies/mb_provincial_conferences_and_church_congregation_records/alberta_archives/vauxhall_mennonite_brethren_church_archives/ Volumes 340-341, Microfilms R49, pp. 1361–2294, R50, pp. 1–1193].
 
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'''Address''': Box 75, Vauxhall AB T0K 2K0; located 7 km north, 2 km east of Vauxhall.
 
  
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'''Telephone''': 403-654-4282
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With the coming of the communist military rule (known as the Derg) in 1974 workers who felt oppressed under the monarchy began to demonstrate and demand more rights and better pay. The church, unable to meet the worker demands, transferred the hospitals to the government. The Menno Bookstore was nationalized in 1977; the Bible Academy in 1982. In 1982 the government closed all 14 congregations of the Meserete Kristos Church and detained five of its leaders for four years. The church no longer officially met during this time, choosing instead to meet in small cell groups. [[Mennonite Central Committee (International)|Mennonite Central Committee]] continued to carry on agricultural development work, reforestation, resettlement of refugees, and distribution of food in times of famine.
  
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'''Website''': [http://www.vauxhallmbchurch.com/ Vauxhall MB Church]
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Even though the church was in hiding during the Derg years, membership grew dramatically. In 1982 the church had 5,000 members. By the time the Derg government had fallen in 1991, the church had grown to 53 congregations and 34,000 members. In 1994, 50,000 Meserete Kristos members gathered in a stadium to publicly congregate for the first time in 20 years. In 1994 the Meserete Kristos Bible Institute (now Meserete Kristos College) was established to produce new church leaders. Originally established in Addis Ababa, the college moved to Debre Zeyit in January 2007 and had 140 students at the main campus in fall 2009.
  
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=== Meserete Kristos Church Statistics ===
  
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[http://www.abmb.ca/ Alberta Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches] (1934-present)
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[http://www.mennonitebrethren.ca/ Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches] (1934-present)
 
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[[General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches]] (1934-2002)
 
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=== Vauxhall MB Church Leading Ministers ===
 
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|-
 
|-
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!Minister
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!Year
−
!Years
+
!Regions
 +
!Congregations
 +
!Church Planting<br>
 +
Centers
 +
!Baptized Members
 +
!Not Yet Baptized<br>
 +
Believers
 +
!Not Yet Baptized<br>
 +
Children
 +
!Total Faith<br>
 +
Community
 +
!Conversions
 +
!Baptisms
 +
!Church<br>
 +
Workers
 
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|Peter Langemann
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|1990
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| style="text-align: right;" |1934-1943
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|  
 +
|31
 +
|
 +
|10,000
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
−
|Peter Redekopp
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|2000
−
| style="text-align: right;" |1944-1945
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|  
 +
|231
 +
|
 +
|73,219
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
−
|Henry Rempel
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|2003
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| style="text-align: right;" |1946-194?
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|  
 +
|275
 +
|
 +
|98,025
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
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|David Baerg
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|2006
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| style="text-align: right;" |194?-194?
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|  
 +
|352
 +
|
 +
|130,727
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
−
|David Petkau
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|2008
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| style="text-align: right;" |194?-195?
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|  
 +
|484
 +
|834
 +
|172,299
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
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|D. J. Thiessen
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|2009
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| style="text-align: right;" |195?-195?
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|  
 +
|518
 +
|867
 +
|188,230
 +
|48,045
 +
|129,533
 +
|365,808
 +
|21,748
 +
|17,852
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
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|Henry A. Unruh
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|2010
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| style="text-align: right;" |1955-1956
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|27
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|-
+
|591
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|[[Epp, Bernard P. (1911-2006)|Bernard P. Epp]]
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|863
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| style="text-align: right;" |1957-1959
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|205,508
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|-
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|  
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|Henry A. Unruh
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|138,166
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| style="text-align: right;" |1960-1965
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|389,492
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|-
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|  
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|Abe Esau
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|17,345
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| style="text-align: right;" |1966-1968
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|  
 
|-
 
|-
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|Henry A. Unruh
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|2011
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| style="text-align: right;" |1969
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|27
 +
|631
 +
|863
 +
|213,352
 +
|45,818
 +
|
 +
|397,336
 +
|17,152
 +
|16,091
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
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|Wally Kroeker
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|2012
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| style="text-align: right;" |1970-1975
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|29
 +
|726
 +
|839
 +
|225,159
 +
|44,208
 +
|146,027
 +
|415,040
 +
|16,896
 +
|16,528
 +
|2,984
 
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|-
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|Gerhard Reimer
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|2013
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| style="text-align: right;" |1975-1977
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|29
 +
|756
 +
|875
 +
|237,561
 +
|47,277
 +
|150,681
 +
|435,519
 +
|
 +
|
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
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|Dewayn Isaac
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|2014
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| style="text-align: right;" |1977-1982
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|29
 +
|756
 +
|875
 +
|255,462
 +
|46,905
 +
|168,703
 +
|471,070
 +
|18,704
 +
|19,027
 +
|  
 
|-
 
|-
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|David Nightingale
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|2017
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| style="text-align: right;" |1982-1987
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|39
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|-
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|1,011
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|Adam Wiggins
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|1,121
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| style="text-align: right;" |1988-1992
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|310,877
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|-
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|
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|Leo Siemens
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|
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| style="text-align: right;" |1993-1997
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|562,939
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|-
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|
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|Rudy Heidebrecht (interim)
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|
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| style="text-align: right;" |1998
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|  
−
|-
 
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|Bill Glasspell
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |1999-2004
 
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|-
 
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|Harry Heidebrecht (interim)
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |2004-2005
 
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|-
 
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|Elroy Senneker
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |2005-2013
 
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|-
 
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|Harold Reimer
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |2016-present
 
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=== Vauxhall MB Church Membership ===
 
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!Year
 
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!Members
 
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|-
 
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|1965
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |83
 
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|-
 
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|1985
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |152
 
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|-
 
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|1995
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |102
 
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|-
 
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|2000
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |112
 
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|-
 
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|2010
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |120
 
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|-
 
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|2015
 
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| style="text-align: right;" |143
 
 
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Checole, Alemu. "Mennonite Churches in Eastern Africa." In <em>A Global Mennonite History: Volume One, Africa.</em> John A. Lapp and C. Arnold Snyder, gen. eds. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2003: 221-289.
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[[Category:General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Congregations]]
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<em>Ethiopian Protestantism: The "Pente" Churches in Ethiopia</em>. African Christianity Homepage. 7 June 2000. Web. 11 October 2008. [http://www.bethel.edu/%7Eletnie/AfricanChristianity/EthiopiaProtestantism.html http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/EthiopiaProtestantism.html].
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[[Category:Canadian Congregations]]
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Hansen, Carl E. "Meserete Kristos Church Surpasses One-half Million." Meserete Kristos College Newsletter. (March 2017): 1.
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Hansen, Carl E. "MK College Update Oct 12, 2010." Personal e-mail (12 October 2010).
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Hansen, Carl E. "MKC." Personal e-mail (10 November 2011).
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Hansen, Carl E. "MKC Statistics." Personal e-mail (14 October 2012).
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Hege, Nathan B. <em>Beyond Our Prayers: Anabaptist Church Growth in Ethiopia, 1948-1998</em>. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1998.
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Kraybill, Paul N., ed. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Mennonite World Handbook</em>. Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1978: 76-81.
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Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2006: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. <span class="link-external">[http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006africa.pdf http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006africa.pdf]</span>.
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Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2009: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. <span class="link-external">[http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/files/Members%202009/Africa%20Summary.doc http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/files/Members%202009/Africa%20Summary.doc]</span>.
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<em class="gameo_bibliography">Mennonite World Handbook Supplement</em>. Strasbourg, France, and Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1984 : 11.
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''Meserete Kristos College Newsletter'' (September 2013): 3.
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''Meserete Kristos College Newsletter'' (December 2014): 3.
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Ralph, James P. "The MKC Statistics." Personal e-mail (17 November 2009).
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Wikipedia. "Ethiopia." Web. 19 October 2012. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia].
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Yoder, Holly Blosser. "Landmark Decisions in Ethiopia." <em>Mennonite Weekly Review</em> (13 November 2006): 1-2.
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1990 Article

Mennonite missionaries first arrived in Ethiopia in 1945 following World War II, working as relief workers with the Mennonite Relief Committee of the Mennonite Board of Missions (MC). These missionaries considered it a part of their work to establish churches. Complete freedom for this was given in Muslim areas such as Hararge Province, but restrictions were placed on such activity at Nazareth, a strong Orthodox area. The first believers were baptized in 1951; they were from Nazareth but were taken to Addis Ababa for the ceremony because of the government restrictions. The service programs set up by the mission opened doors and helped establish confidence with the people and the government. Jobs in teaching and medicine brought young people into contact with the missionaries. Doctors prayed before treating patients and national evangelists were hired to minister to patients.

The church officially began in 1959 when 11 Ethiopian lay leaders met with missionaries to set up a structure to coordinate the work of the five congregations which had formed on the mission stations. An annual Christian Life Conference helped make the church known to other evangelical groups. Under the direction of Daniel S. Sensenig and Chester L. Wenger a General Church Council was organized in 1959 with lay "counselors" chosen to each represent 20 members in the fellowship groups. By 1964 Ethiopians had replaced missionaries in the executive offices and missionaries then served as assistants. The council met semiannually to plan for nurture and evangelism and review institutional work. The name Meserete Kristos Bete Kristian (Christ Foundation Church) was chosen because the term "Mennonite" had no local meaning. The church took over the administration of the schools and hospitals begun by the mission in order to minister to the whole person. It organized a medical board, board of education, and evangelism board. These institutions helped the church become established. A number of leaders in the 1980s came to the church from contacts made during medical and secondary training. On Sundays eager Christians went into the surrounding areas to witness to the gospel.

Congregations were established at Wonji, Shoa, and Meta Hara among people from other areas who moved to these places to work on sugar plantations along the Awash River. A church was built in the Bole area of Addis Ababa for the fellowship that met at the School for the Blind. By 1973 Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) had 8 congregations with 800 members, 11 elementary schools, 2 junior high schools, 1 boarding high school, 2 hospitals, 2 clinics, 2 guest houses, a bookstore with several branches and a literature program which produced a newsletter, Zena.

From 1966 to 1974 MKC joined with the Baptist General Conference Mission to form Globe Publishing House which published Sunday school materials and leadership training courses for evangelical churches.

In 1972 the government outlawed the Mulu Wengel (Full Gospel) church. This Pentecostal church was started by a group of high school students learning English and a Mennonite doctor, influenced by the teachings of the Finnish Pentecostal Mission. Many members of this church joined Meserete Kristos Church congregations and had a significant influence on the denomination. After what had been a period of slow growth, a spiritual awakening began in 1973. As a result, the Meserete Kristos church is far more charismatic and Pentecostal than most of its sister Mennonite churches. Churches practice faith healing, exorcism of demons, and speaking in tongues.

During this time choirs and the writing of music began to proliferate in evangelical churches. A new type of music—neither western nor Orthodox—was developed and spread throughout the country by cassette tapes.

With the coming of the communist military rule (known as the Derg) in 1974 workers who felt oppressed under the monarchy began to demonstrate and demand more rights and better pay. The church, unable to meet the worker demands, transferred the hospitals to the government. The Menno Bookstore was nationalized in 1977; the Bible Academy in 1982. In 1982 the government closed all 14 congregations of the Meserete Kristos Church and detained five of its leaders for four years. The church no longer officially met during this time, choosing instead to meet in small cell groups. Mennonite Central Committee continued to carry on agricultural development work, reforestation, resettlement of refugees, and distribution of food in times of famine.

Even though the church was in hiding during the Derg years, membership grew dramatically. In 1982 the church had 5,000 members. By the time the Derg government had fallen in 1991, the church had grown to 53 congregations and 34,000 members. In 1994, 50,000 Meserete Kristos members gathered in a stadium to publicly congregate for the first time in 20 years. In 1994 the Meserete Kristos Bible Institute (now Meserete Kristos College) was established to produce new church leaders. Originally established in Addis Ababa, the college moved to Debre Zeyit in January 2007 and had 140 students at the main campus in fall 2009.

2017 Update

Meserete Kristos Church Statistics

Year Regions Congregations Church Planting

Centers

Baptized Members Not Yet Baptized

Believers

Not Yet Baptized

Children

Total Faith

Community

Conversions Baptisms Church

Workers

1990 31 10,000
2000 231 73,219
2003 275 98,025
2006 352 130,727
2008 484 834 172,299
2009 518 867 188,230 48,045 129,533 365,808 21,748 17,852
2010 27 591 863 205,508 138,166 389,492 17,345
2011 27 631 863 213,352 45,818 397,336 17,152 16,091
2012 29 726 839 225,159 44,208 146,027 415,040 16,896 16,528 2,984
2013 29 756 875 237,561 47,277 150,681 435,519
2014 29 756 875 255,462 46,905 168,703 471,070 18,704 19,027
2017 39 1,011 1,121 310,877 562,939

Bibliography

Checole, Alemu. "Mennonite Churches in Eastern Africa." In A Global Mennonite History: Volume One, Africa. John A. Lapp and C. Arnold Snyder, gen. eds. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2003: 221-289.

Ethiopian Protestantism: The "Pente" Churches in Ethiopia. African Christianity Homepage. 7 June 2000. Web. 11 October 2008. http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/EthiopiaProtestantism.html.

Hansen, Carl E. "Meserete Kristos Church Surpasses One-half Million." Meserete Kristos College Newsletter. (March 2017): 1.

Hansen, Carl E. "MK College Update Oct 12, 2010." Personal e-mail (12 October 2010).

Hansen, Carl E. "MKC." Personal e-mail (10 November 2011).

Hansen, Carl E. "MKC Statistics." Personal e-mail (14 October 2012).

Hege, Nathan B. Beyond Our Prayers: Anabaptist Church Growth in Ethiopia, 1948-1998. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1998.

Kraybill, Paul N., ed. Mennonite World Handbook. Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1978: 76-81.

Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2006: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/2006africa.pdf.

Mennonite World Conference. "Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches Worldwide, 2009: Africa." Web. 2 March 2011. http://www.mwc-cmm.org/en15/files/Members%202009/Africa%20Summary.doc.

Mennonite World Handbook Supplement. Strasbourg, France, and Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1984 : 11.

Meserete Kristos College Newsletter (September 2013): 3.

Meserete Kristos College Newsletter (December 2014): 3.

Ralph, James P. "The MKC Statistics." Personal e-mail (17 November 2009).

Wikipedia. "Ethiopia." Web. 19 October 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia.

Yoder, Holly Blosser. "Landmark Decisions in Ethiopia." Mennonite Weekly Review (13 November 2006): 1-2.


Author(s) Nathan Hege
Richard D. Thiessen
Date Published October 2012

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