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• Started in the home of J.B. Hamm in 1942.
• Community at that time was called Perrigo named after the man who owned quite a bit of land in the area.
• Early affiliation was with Yarrow Mennonite Brethren Church.
• Formally organized November 7, 1943.
• In 1988, the name of the Church was changed to Arnold Community Church.

The Elmwood Mennonite Brethren Church traces its beginning to 1907 when Johann Warkentin, leading minister in the Winkler Mennonite Brethren Church gathered believers together in Winnipeg for the purpose of establishing a Mennonite Brethren mission. Known as the Winnipeg City Mission, the group began meeting in a small chapel on Burrows Avenue in 1911. In 1913 they were formally organized as the Winnipeg Mennonite Brethren Church meeting. They met in the North End Chapel until a building was completed on College Avenue in 1929. As other Mennonite Brethren groups began to meet in North Kildonan and in Winnipeg's South End, the congregation meeting in the North End Chapel, was called the North End Mennonite Brethren Church. In 1953, a decision was reached to leave the location in Winnipeg's North End and build a new church on Henderson Highway, then called Kelvin Street. It was named the Elmwood Mennonite Brethren Church upon completion in 1954.

D.P. Enns was a teacher in Molotschna, Spat and Ufa. He held the rank of first Lieutenant in the army but never carried a weapon. The family emigrated to Canada in 1924. He served as Secretary Treasurer of the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization in Rosthern, Saskatchewan.