Avon Mennonite Church (Stratford, Ontario)

Organisation

Avon Mennonite Church (Stratford, Ontario)

1952-

The Avon Mennonite Church in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, began with a Summer Bible School sponsored by the Ontario Amish Mennonite Conference in July 1951. In 1963 this conference dropped "Amish" from its name, and became the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference. In 1987 this conference decided to disband their separate organization in favour of becoming a part of Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada (MCEC) which was created by an inter-Mennonite Conference that also included the Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario and the Mennonite Conference of Ontario. With the creation of MCEC, all the congregations that were not already members of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC), became CMC associate members. Avon Mennonite Church was one of these, and along with other churches originating in the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, became a full CMC member congregation in 1995.

Stratford (Ontario)

History added with MHA fonds June 2020 by AHR.

Steiner, Samuel J. Avon Mennonite Church (Stratford, Ontario, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. April 2014.

Ens, Adolf. "Becoming a National Church: a history of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada." Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2004: 188.