Shirley Brander, with the assistance of her husband Clayton, spent most of their married life compiling this eleven volume collection of missionary newsletters, prayer letters, personal correspondence, and articles from publications related to missionaries of the United Missionary Church and its successors who served in many of the mission fields of the world.
The collection was actually started by Mrs. Gertrude Brander, Clayton’s mother, who began writing to missionaries in 1945. When Shirley and Clayton were married in 1950 Gertrude passed the responsibility to Shirley. Collecting missions documents and having missionaries in their home created a strong missions emphasis that impacted and influenced members of their family and the church community. The Branders completed their collecting about 2000 and subsequently donated their work to the EMCC National Collection.
Three hundred and thirteen missionary couples or single missionaries are addressed in the collection. For many of these the collection is extensive, for a few there is not much more than their names and mission fields served.

Ministries to women under the denomination were a part of both merging denominations. Similar programs were continued under the EMCC for a period of time.

Documents related to the ministry of the Missionary Church of Canada as a denomination prior to its merger in 1993.

Programs for volunteer service in Canada and overseas

The United Missionary Church of Africa was incorporated in Nigeria in 1956. In 1978 the United Missionary Society turned over to the UMCA the work and property which it had begun and developed. Many missionaries stayed in Nigeria after the turnover working under the UMCA. These missionaries soon organized first as The Fellowship of Invited Missionaries and then as World Partners Nigeria.
The fonds include original documents effecting the transfer of responsibility from the U. M. S. to the U. M. C. A., They include minutes of board meetings, documents related to the quota system for registering expatriates ministering in the country and to the educational and medical systems developed. Most of these are incomplete whether financial statements or minutes, or quota controls.

The EMCC was created in 1993 by the merger of the Northwest Canada Conference Evangelical Church and the Missionary Church of Canada with its two districts: Canada East and Canada West. As of July 1, 2005 the EMCC restructured resulting in each district becoming a corporation whose purpose was to hold property and handle designated funds. The districts’ other responsibilities were assumed by the Denomination. In 2011 these district operations were also assumed by the Denomination and their existence subsequently ended.
This fonds collects the records of the EMCC.

Documentation of the missionary endeavors of the United Missionary Society in Brazil from its beginnings in 1955 to the transfer of most of the responsibility to the indigenous Missionary Church of Brazil and to the completion of its work in Brazil.

EMCC World Partners is the international, cross-cultural and relief & development arm of the EMCC operating in numerous countries of the world. At the 1993 EMCC merger, World Partners was continued as the joint missions program of the EMCC and MC Inc. governed by a single board. In January 1998, the missions program of the two denominations was divided and World Partners became World Partners Canada and World Partners USA. World Partners Canada became EMCC World Partners soon thereafter. Initially, WP Canada had the oversight of the fields of Mexico, Nigeria, and Spain, but later WP USA took oversight of Spain and WP Canada took oversight of the field in Brazil. In 2005 the Board of EMCC World Partners ceased to function under a new denominational organizational structure where the missions program was the responsibility of the President and the National Board.

Relief and volunteer programs within and outside Canada.

Records from the time when Mark Bolender was President of the EMCC.