Planting a church in a pandemic
The ideal time for planting a church is likely not the middle of a pandemic, but Josh and Cindy Wallace have discovered that it can be done. “We sort of left everything behind on the premise of a house church,” says Cindy. In 2019, Josh resigned as pastor of Warman (Sask.) Mennonite, where he had…
‘House church with a building’
With eight members, Northgate Anabaptist Fellowship of Dawson Creek is the smallest congregation in Mennonite Church British Columbia. It is also the most remote, located about 1,880 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, near the Alberta border. Northgate was not always its current size. It began as a Mennonite Brethren church plant in 1962, first known as…
Kitchener-Waterloo House Church
Families of the Kitchener-Waterloo House Churches sing hymns around a piano in 1974. This particular house church began services in 1969. North American Mennonites rediscovered the house-church model, first described in the New Testament, in the 1950s. Small groups of believers coming together to experience close relationships have been associated throughout Christian history with times…
