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The congregation began services and formally organized in 1837. Worship services were held in homes until the first building was occupied in 1883, with subsequent building programs in 1925, 1951 and 1997. Nicolaus Roth is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through immigration from Europe and from the Wilmot Amish-Mennonite congregation due to the latter's growing size.

Preaching services were held every Sunday beginning in 1883. The first Sunday school was held in 1903. In 1920 the first Young People's Bible Meetings began. The church is located three miles southeast of Tavistock on the 16th Line, East Zorra Township The congregation has been affiliated with the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference (1923-1988), Mennonite Church (1959-), Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada (1988-) and Conference of Mennonites in Canada (1995-). The language of worship is English; the transition from German occurred in 1932.

East Zorra is the parent congregation to Cassel Mennonite Church (1935), Tavistock Mennonite Church (1942), and Hillcrest Mennonite Church (1964).

Mennonite bishop, teacher, farmer and author

The Église évangelique mennonite de Joliette began services in 1958, and formally organized in 1974. Harold and Pauline Reesor were the founding missionaries for the group, choosing this small industrial town, 70 km northeast of Montreal, because it had no French Protestant congregation at the time. Previous French United Church work had been abandoned. This mission venture originated through the Mennonite Conference of Ontario and the Mennonite Board of Mission (Elkhart).

The Reesors met together with fellow missionaries Tilman and Janet Martin, along with the Schmidt family from Rawdon for fellowship and worship in French. Harold Reesor visited many homes as follow-up for an evangelical effort to mail French Protestant material to every household in Quebec. In 1963, the Reesors handed over the responsibilities for the congregation to Clyde and Elisabeth Shannon, moving themselves to farm nearby Mascouche.

A church council was begun in 1974. Growth in the late 1970s led to gradual splitting off the members from nearby Rawdon for their own church and the buying of the present larger church building in Joliette in 1982. Since 1982, the congregation has had native French-speaking Quebecers in leadership but from 1994 to 2005 there was no resident pastor.After 2011 there was no pastor. The congregation did not meet officially for a number of years, and was declared closed at the Mennonite Church Eastern Canada annual meeting in April 2020.

The church was located at 470 Ellesmere Rd., Scarborough, Ontario.

The congregation began services in 1945. The first building was occupied in 1954. Leonard Brown is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through outreach by the Leonard Brown family who began a Sunday school.

Leonard Brown served in 1958 as a congregational leader. The congregation dissolved in 1958. It had been affiliated with the Mennonite Conference of Ontario since 1945. The language of worship was English.

Elmira Mennonite Church was planted by Floradale Mennonite Church. The lot was purchased in 1919 and the present brick building was erected in 1924. In 1976 the building was renovated and an extension was added.

Hmong refugees from Laos, who were part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church there, began meeting together for worship services at Steinman Mennonite Church in 1980. Vin Vanh Vang, whose family was sponsored by the Steinman Church, took the initiative in this work.

In January 1982 the congregation accepted an invitation to hold their worship services at First Mennonite Church, Kitchener, because almost 80% of the Canadian Hmong community had gravitated to Kitchener-Waterloo. On 16 March 1984 the congregation was accepted as a full member of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec (now Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada).

The congregation changed its name from Hmong Church to Hmong Christian Church, and in 1985 changed it again to Hmong Christian Church (Mennonite). On 31 December 2000 the name changed again to First Hmong Mennonite Church.

Joseph C. Fretz was the son of Manasseh Fretz and Mary Ann Cober. He was a member of the Shantz Mennonite Church, where he was ordained deacon in 1953. He served for many years as secretary of the Ontario Mennonite Mission Board, Mennonite Conference of Ontario historian, and manager of the Golden Rule Bookstore. He married Martha Reesor in 1918; they had four children.

The Hanover Mennonite Fellowship began mid-week services in 1961. The first meeting was held November 22, 1961 in the home of Albert Grove. Amos Martin of Glen Allen brought the message; seven persons were present.

In December 1963 the group began to meet in a chapel that was part of the Sam Shantz home and had been renovated for worship. In May 1967 construction began on the church building at 172 5th St. in Hanover; it was dedicated in April 1968.

In 1975 the congregation began a fellowship in Chesley, Ontario. For nineteen years the Hanover-Chesley Fellowship had two meetingplaces with one pastor and one organization. They met separately for Sunday worship and Sunday School. In 1995 the two groups agreed to proceed as separate congregations.

Christian Lehman Hoover. Deacon who served in the Wideman and Almira churches and Fraktur artist.

Samuel Lehman Hoover, produced a smaller number of hand-drawn records in the 1959-1960 period.

Fraktur artist in Pennsylvania and Ontario

conscientious objector, cabinet maker, pastor

Aeltester, Vineland United Mennonite Church, 1931-1944