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Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Taber Mennonite Church

Retrieval numbers: Volumes 94, 654, 1950, 4027, 4497.

Title: Taber Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1952-1997
Extent: 40 cm of textual records
Repository: Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives

Historical note

Taber Mennonite Church was formed in 1963 in Taber, Alberta. Services had begun in the area in 1949. It was a mission outreach of the Coaldale Mennonite Church. They built their own meeting house in 1953. It was formally organized in 1963 with 38 members. A year later there were 47 members. They reached their peak at around 1980 with 70 members and then declined slowly to 53 members at the time the congregation dissolved in 1998. The leaders of the congregation were: D. J. Nickel (1955-1964), Jacob Wiebe (1965-1969), Menno Bergen (1970-1974), Jacob Reimer (1975-1980), Abe Friesen (1981), David Thiessen (1982, 1987), Elwin Epp (1983-1986), and Nick Dyck (1988-1999).

Scope and content note

This fonds contains bulletins (1961-1997), constitution ([196-?]-1993), congregational reorganziation paper ([196-?]), church council meeting minutes (1967-1997), correspondence (1952-1964), joint meeting of the conference mission committee and congregational representatives (1952) reports (1953), reproduction photocopy of congregation at the dedication day (1953), annual reports (1976-1996), congregational meeting minutes (1983- 1997), directories (1988-1994), friendship circle meeting minutes (1989-1997). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation Taber, Alberta. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

Subject terms

Taber Mennonite Church

Creators

Taber Mennonite Church

Adjunct descriptive data

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual records were deposited by the congregation at the Mennonite Heritage Centre. Described by Bert Friesen 13 December 2002.
One file comes from the Conference of Mennonites in Canada Treasurer's records.

Taber Mennonite Church fonds file list:

Volume 94

  1. Taber Mennonite Mission Church bulletins (1961), Taber Mennonite Church constitution ([196-?])
  2. Taber Mennonite Mission Church bulletins (1962)
  3. Taber Mennonite Mission Church bulletins (1963), congregational reorganziation paper ([196-?])
  4. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1964)
  5. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1965)
  6. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1966)
  7. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1967), church council meeting minutes (1967), brochures (1967), financial statement (1967)
  8. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1968)
  9. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1969)
  10. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1970)
  11. Taber Mennonite Church correspondence (1952-1964), joint meeting of the conference mission committee and congregational representatives (1952) reports (1953), reproduction photocopy of congregation at the dedication day (1953)

Volume 654

  1. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1971)
  2. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1972)
  3. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1973)
  4. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1974)
  5. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1975)
  6. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1976), annual reports (1976)
  7. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1977)
  8. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1978)
  9. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1979)
  10. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1980), annual reports (1980)

Volume 1950

  1. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1981)
  2. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1982), annual reports (1982)
  3. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins, (1983), congregational meeting minutes (1983), annual reports (1983)
  4. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1984), church council meeting minutes (1984), congregational meeting minutes (1984)
  5. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1985)
  6. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1986), annual reports (1986)
  7. Taber Mennonite Church congregational meeting minutes (1987), annual reports (1988), directory (1988)
  8. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1989), congregational meeting minutes (1989), annual reports (1989),church council meeting minutes (1989), friendship circle meeting minutes (1989)
  9. Correspondence with Conference of Mennonites in Canada and other documents related to a church building loan (1984-1987).  (This file originates from the CMC Treasurer's files -- kept for historical reasons by the archives.)

Volume 4027

  1. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1990), congregational meeting minutes (1990), annual reports (1990), friendship circle meeting minutes (1990), church council meeting minutes (1990)
  2. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), friendship circle meeting minutes (1991), congregational meeting minutes (1991), church council meeting minutes (1991), annual reports (1991)
  3. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1992), congregational meeting minutes (1992), church council meeting minutes (1992), friendship circle constitution ([199-]), friendship circle meeting minutes (1992), annual reports (1992)
  4. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1993), friendship circle meeting minutes (1993), church council meeting minutes (1993), congregational meeting minutes (1993), constitution (1993)
  5. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1994), directory (1994), friendship circle meeting minutes (1994), church council meeting minutes (1994), annual reports (1994)
  6. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1995), friendship circle meeting minutes (1995), church council meeting minutes (1995), congregational meeting minutes (1995), annual reports (1995)

Volume 4497

  1. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), church council meeting minutes (1996), congregational meeting minutes (1996), friendship circle meeting minutes (1996), annual reports (1996)
  2. Taber Mennonite Church bulletins (1997), church council meeting minutes (1997), congregational meeting minutes (1997), friendship circle meeting minutes (1997)