Hidden in Plain Sight

Sam Goudie and the Ontario Mennonite Brethren in Christ

James Clare Fuller, Thomas E Dow

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Pickwick Publications
19 November 2024

Biography: religious & spiritual; Protestantism & Protestant Churches

Series: McMaster General Studies

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.

By: James Clare Fuller
Foreword by: Thomas E Dow
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 15
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 685g
ISBN: 9798385229390
Series: McMaster General Studies
Pages: 388
Publication Date: 19 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Clare Fuller taught theology in Nigeria for seventeen years. He is the curator of the Missionary Church Historical Trust, the archives and historical collection of the Evangelical Missionary Church for Eastern Canada. He published a biography of the first missionary for the Mennonite Brethren in Christ from Canada to Nigeria as well as over twenty articles for the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online.

Reviews for Hidden in Plain Sight: Sam Goudie and the Ontario Mennonite Brethren in Christ

""James Clare Fuller has provided a deeply researched, ecclesiastical biography of Samuel Goudie, a core leader of the maturing Ontario Conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, from his 1866 birth to his death after the Second World War. Especially helpful is Fuller's careful delineation of the theological influences--Mennonite, Wesleyan Holiness, and Pentecostalism--that impacted and sometimes threatened this small, rurally-based denomination."" --Samuel J. Steiner, retired archivist, Mennonite Archives of Ontario ""James C. Fuller's Hidden in Plain Sight is an encyclopedic exploration of a little-known person and a little-known Canadian denomination. It is meticulously researched, a refreshing and insightful tale of the growth of a tiny denomination as well as an inspirational account of faithfulness in the face of a host of challenges."" --Gordon Heath, professor, Centenary Chair in World Christianity, McMaster Divinity College