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Motto: "Other foundation can no one lay than that which is laid which is Jesus Christ." 1 Cor.3:11

The first Mennonite congregation in Essex and Kent Counties was established in 1925 when immigrants came to the area from the Ukraine. They met for worship in homes until 1929, when the Essex County United Mennonite Church (ECUMC) was formed. Rev. Nicolai N. Driedger was elected elder of the church in 1930, and the first meeting house was built on Oak Street East in Leamington in 1933. In 1953 a second church building, the "North Church," was erected to accommodate the increasing membership, and in 1958 the ECUMC was renamed the Leamington United Mennonite Church (LUMC). The first church building was replaced by the current structure in 1984.

Important aspects of the church program are the English and German Sunday morning worship services and Sunday School programs for all ages, the winter Girls’Club program and weekly classes for adults. The church has been centrally involved in starting such local programs as the Mennonite Home, the UMEI, and Shalom Counselling Services. On a larger scale, it participates in the work of the Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada (MCEC), Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC), and General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC), the Mennonite Central Committee, and other organizations.