
Hidden in Plain Sight
Sam Goudie and the Ontario Mennonite Brethren in Christ
- 388 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The Evangelical Missionary Church in Ontario was born out of the Canadian Mennonite church modified by Wesleyan holiness revivalism in the nineteenth century. Sam Goudie (1866-1951), from a Scottish and Swiss-German Mennonite family in Waterloo County, led the Ontario Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church through the period of the formation of the Pentecostal movement, establishment of a western Canadian conference, and the First World War. With Goudie's support, the rural denomination attempted to evangelize small-town Ontario through teams of women preachers with some success until the Depression. Goudie also led in the formation of the denominational mission, beginning in Nigeria, adding missions in India and the Middle East during his presidency. He also chaired the Executive Committee of the binational MBiC church for over thirty years.This book clarifies the relation of the MBiC to the parent Mennonite Church and corrects some of the prevailing stories of early Pentecostalism in Canada. It explores differences between collectivist denominational life in the denomination's first generations shared with other rural holiness Canadian churches and the congregationalist culture of twenty-first-century evangelical Canadian Christianity.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Goudie Family Gets Established in Ontario
- Chapter 2: New Mennonites and Other Revivalist Mennonites in Ontario
- Chapter 3: The Young Sam Goudie 1866β1885
- Chapter 4: Elder Sam Goudie
- Chapter 5: The Maturing Goudie 1897β1905
- Chapter 6: Presiding Elder Sam Goudie 1905β1907
- Chapter 7: The Pentecostal Crisis 1907β1908
- Chapter 8: Who Left? Who Stayed?
- Chapter 9: Meanwhile Back in Ontario
- Chapter 10: The Great War of 1914β1918
- Chapter 11: A History and a Mission
- Chapter 12: Friendly Visitors, Mennonite Unions, Holiness Affairs
- Chapter 13: Conference Matters 1924β1933
- Chapter 14: Return to the Pastorate 1933β1940
- Chapter 15: Family and Last Things 1940β1951, 1957
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Bibliography