Documents relating to the ministry of Norm and JoLynn in the pastorate and as District Superintendent

EMCC Women western programs, publications, constitution, with selected denominational records, 1993 to when their ministry concluded.

A Society responsible for the Chinook Village development on the former HCC campus.

Several congregations in southern Alberta have operated a camp since about 1961 beginning as Cypress Camp and with a name change to Whispering Pines Camp.

Records of the congregation that resulted from the merger of several congregations including Salem, International Friendship and Marlborough Park churches

Records of a Calgary congregation worshiping in the Marlborough Park school which begam in 1986 and closed in 1997

The Church began in 1902 under the Evangelical Association as the “Didsbury Mission” growing to include, as a circuit, Siebertville, Mayton, Kansas, and Sunnyslope. In 1994 it joined with the Missionary Church in Didsbury to form Zion EMC Church.

When the Missionary Church of Canada first came into existence in 1979, Rev. Alf Rees pushed to have a gathering of Missionary Church Presidents from around the world. The First International Missionary Church Conference was held in Jamaica Feb. 22 to March 1, 1979. (Emphasis, April 15, 1979, p. 12-13). The second international conference of Missionary Church National Presidents was held Sept. 8-11, 1986 in the Dominican Republic (Emphasis, Nov., 1986, p. 12). There was later a lull in its activity but it was revived again in about the year 2000 and its name changed to World Partners International.

The President and World Partners Director of the EMCC attend each of the gatherings.  Representatives from Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, USA and Canada gathered in April, 2013.

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.

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.