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Was A Minister Who Lived At Rr#1 Mt. Lehmann In May 1938. S1A071 sayshis n.s. birth date was 6 Dec 1864. Resident of Schoenthal. JoinedBergthal Church on 31 March 1907. Then joined another church. Epp, Peter P. (1864-1953) EppPeterP.jpg Peter & Maria Epp Peter Epp was born in Russia 6 December 1864 (O.S. 24 November), andcame to Canada with his parents, Peter Kornelius Epp and Maria(Doerksen) Epp in October 1874 at the age of ten. He was the eldest ofnine children. He married Katharina Wiebe (6 November 1863-27 August1896) in 1883 and had eight children. After her death he married MariaDerksen (5 June 1868 [O.S. 24 May]4 February 1947) on 8 December1896, daughter of Isaak Derksen and Maria (Penner) Derksen, a widowwith three children (her first husband, Bernhard Dyck, died in 1896).Three children were born to Peter and Maria. Peter died in Yarrow,British Columbia 29 June 1953. Peter was baptized in the Sommerfelder Mennonite Church 10 May 1883.In 1907 he joined the Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba and wasordained for ministry 10 December 1911 in the Bergthaler congregationin Edinburg. Thereafter he served the Bergthaler Mennonite Churchthroughout southern Manitoba. When the Mennonites formed the Canadian Central Committee for WesternCanada in 1920 in response to the needs of Mennonites in Russia afterWorld War I, Epp became chairperson of the committee. It was probablydue to Epp's influence that the Bergthaler Church played such anactive role in the Russian Mennonite relief effort. In April 1922 theCanadian Mennonite Board of Colonization was formed and as a boardmember Epp was among those sent to Quebec City to meet and accompanythe first group of immigrants to arrive in 1923. During this timePeter's wife Maria spent hundreds of voluntary hours preparingclothing shipments to Russia. Peter became the leading minister in the Morden Bergthaler church whenhe moved there from Schoenthal near Altona in October 1923. Epp wasable to provide the stable leadership needed by the Morden groupthroughout the 1920s and Epp became instrumental in establishing theBergthaler Mennonite Church in Morden in December 1930. Peter P. Epp served as the official leader of the congregation from1931 to 1935. However, his influence began to wane in the 1920s withthe coming of the Russlaender Mennonites to Manitoba. Epp's age andtraditional approach to church life were eclipsed by the youth and newmethods of men like Jacob M. Pauls, who had been ordained as ministerin the congregation in 1932. It was ironic that the Russlaender, whohad benefited so greatly from Epp's advocacy in earlier years, werenow seen by him as the cause of considerable pain. Peter and Maria left Morden without farewell or fanfare and moved tothe Fraser Valley of British Columbia in the spring of 1936. Here hisretirement was interrupted when an Abbotsford group called on him togive leadership to the new United Mennonite Church of Abbotsford(later renamed West Abbotsford Mennonite Church). Epp led thecongregation for three years through its early organization and theconstruction of a sanctuary in the fall of 1937. In 1939 Peter was able to hand over leadership of the church and againretire. Two months after their golden wedding anniversary his wifeMaria passed away. She was a well-informed woman "who looked farbeyond most of her contemporaries" (Gerbrandt: 187) and wrote numerousreports to Der Bote, Der Mitarbeiter and Die Mennonitische Rundschau.Peter P. Epp spent his last days in the Yarrow Old Folk's Home untilhis passing in 1953. Bibliography Epp, Esther Ruth. "The Origins of Mennonite Central Committee(Canada)." M.A. thesis, University of Manitoba, 1980. Epp-Tiessen, Esther. Altona: The Story of a Prairie Town. Altona, MB:D. W. Friesen & Sons Ltd., 1982. Gerbrandt, Henry J. Adventure in Faith: The Background in Europe andthe Development in Canada of the Bergthaler Mennonite Church ofManitoba. Altona, MB: D. W. Friesen and Sons Ltd., 1970. Loewen, David. Living Stones: A History of West Abbotsford MennoniteChurch 1936-1986. Abbotsford, BC: West Abbotsford Mennonite Church,1987. Milestones and Memories: Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Morden, 1931to 1981. Morden, MB: The Bergthaler Mennonite Church, Morden, 1981. Peters, Gerhard. Remember Our Leaders. Steinbach, MB: The MennoniteHistorical Society of British Columbia, 1982. Sommerfelder Gemeinde Buch, 1A and 1B. ©1996-2009 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Allrights reserved. To cite this page: MLA style: Ens, Alvin G. and Richard D. Thiessen. "Epp, Peter P.(1864-1953)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. April2002. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 29July 2009 APA style: Ens, Alvin G. and Richard D. Thiessen. (April 2002). "Epp,Peter P. (1864-1953)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite EncyclopediaOnline. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 29July 2009
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