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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.

-Mennonite Brethren began meeting in Winnipeg in 1907;
-met in a chapel on Burrows Avenue in 1911
-initially known as the Winnipeg Mennonite Brethren Church and then as the North End Mennonite Brethren Church
-began meeting on College Avenue in 1929
-built a new building in 1953 which they named Elmwood Mennonite Brethren Church

-known as Elmwood Mennonite Brethren Church after 1954

In the 1950s members from the South End Mennonite Brethren Church conducted a mission Sunday school in the Brooklands area of Manitoba. In 1957 the Home Missions Committee of the Manitoba Mennonite Brethren Church assumed responsibility for this work. In 1963 this committee appointed Abe and Anne Quiring as home missions workers for this mission.
On April 26, 1964 while meeting in the Butterworth school auditorium the church was organized with 12 charter members. A building was built at 44 Tentler Street (Brooklands, later a part of Winnipeg) and on September 19, 1965 a dedication service was held for this place of worship. Initially the church was named the Brooklands Mennonite Brethren Church. In 1966 it was agreed that the name should be Brooklands Community Church of the Mennonite Brethren. The building was enlarged in 1983. The church had a strong Sunday school program, operated a Vacation Bible School for a number of years and several other outreach programs such as the Mom’s program. Membership reached a high of 116 in 1992. The final service (closing celebration) was held on June 22, 1997.

The Fort Garry Mennonite Brethren Church started in a tiny chapel called the Gospel Light Mission located on Logan Avenue in Winnipeg. When it re-located to 760 McMillan Avenue, it was called the Fort Rouge MB Church. Many people joined the congregation, especially from the old South End MB Church. The dedication of the Fort Rouge MB Church was held in 1959. In 1963, the need for a larger building was there again and so they built a new church building on Pembina Highway.

-began as an outgrowth of the Winnipeg City Mission that had purchased (with Conference help) the old Swedish Baptist Church (406 Logan Ave) in 1949
-organized as Gospel Light Mission (Mennonite Brethren) Church in 1956
-moved to 760 McMillian Avenue in 1959 and renamed Fort Rouge Mennonite Brethren Church
-moved to 1771 Pembina Hwy into a newly constructed church building, which opened in 1963 as the Fort Garry Mennonite Brethren Church

-moved to 691 Alexander Avenue in 1965 and changed name to Salem Mennonite Brethren Church

-merged with Brooklands in October 1990

-known as South End Mennonite Brethren Church, 1933-1961
-name changed to Portage Avenue Church in 2005