The Islands: Biographies: Wolfe Island Bio John M. Ford

Wolfe Island Biographies

John M. Ford

Taken from The Disciples of Christ in Canada Since 1830 (1949)
by Reuben Butchart
pg 633
http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/rbutchart/dcc/DCC27.HTM#Sec2

Here it seems fitting to record something of the personality of the main leader in Saskatchewan province for some years. John M. Ford may well be known as "founder of Saskatchewan churches". He was born of Irish parentage on Wolfe Island, Ontario, on August 10, 1860, his parents being adherents, (not members) of the Presbyterian church. He was the first of his family to accept Christ. At the age of twenty-two he was converted at a Salvation Army meeting. When he was twenty-three he met Agnes Hammett, from whom he learned of the Disciples of Christ. On June 24, [634] 1885, they were married and he then came in contact with the Christian Standard. Mrs. Ford was a member of the church in Bowmanville, Ontario. She proved to be an inspiration to him, encouraging him to go further in Christian service. And so, in 1904, they were homesteading in Saskatchewan and in a position truly too pioneer for Christ and his church. Some of the results mentioned herein are a witness of what God can do with a life truly consecrated. John M. Ford was a pioneer church founder in Canada and his life and other facts about him (but not here related), afford a challenge to all. (Facts from story by Charles W. Clark, in Canadian Disciple, January, 1926.)

The Islands: Biographies: Wolfe Island Bio-John M. Ford