Beginning in the 1940s, the church began to move away from a pattern of isolation. It is a supporting member of Mennonite Central Committee - the relief, development and education agency. There has been a growing rural to urban shift. The cultural make-up of congregations is changing, though the DG background is still dominant nationally. Ten churches have pastors or ministers of non-DG background.
Some churches have a multiple leadership pattern, others have new patterns.
Most churches now support the leading minister full-time. The church's name, Kleine Gemeinde, was changed to Evangelical Mennonite Church in 1952 and to Evangelical Mennonite Conference in 1960. Today, the Conference has over 50 churches located from British Columbia to Ontario and in all provinces in between. Membership exceeds 6,400. The Conference Board of Missions was organized in 1953 and presently administers mission programs in Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua and Paraguay.