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Last updated 21 April 2004

Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

First Mennonite Church (Edmonton, Alberta)

Retrieval numbers: Volumes 89, 1630, 2412, 2434, 3250, 3310, 3904, 4026, 4425, 4608, 4915.

Title: First Mennonite Church (Edmonton, Alta.) fonds
Dates: 1959-2000
Extent: 88 cm of textual records
Repository: Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives

Historical note

First Mennonite Church in Edmonton was founded in 1959 with 24 charter members. Meetings were first held in 1950 and attracted rural students who had come to the urban centre for university education. They met in rented facilities. In 1966 they built their own meeting house. The membership was 91 in 1966. A children's choir was founded in 1968. In 1972 the membership was 100. A day care programme was begun in their meeting house in 1980. In 1980-1981 they formed another congregation, Faith Mennonite Church. In 1986 the membership was 147. In 1996 they built a new meeting house and moved into this facility in 1997. In 2000 the membership was 172. The leaders of the congregation were: Arthur Dick (1959-1962), Herman Walde (1963-1966), Alfred Heinrichs (1967-1969), Paul Paetkau (1970), Henry Dick (1971), Gary Harder (1972-1986), Paul Bergen (1987-2000), Harold Peters-Fransen (2001), Donita and Tim Wiebe-Neufeld (2002- ).

Scope and content note

This fonds contains bulletins (1960-2000), newsletters (1961-2000), annual and other reports (1960-2000), congregational meeting minutes (1961-1999), correspondence (1959-[1967]), directories (1963-1993), church council meeting minutes (1976-1999), day care committee meeting minutes (1982-1997), constitution and bylaw amendments and revised (1982), other minutes (1987-1999), and financial records (1989-1998). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Edmonton, Alberta. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.

Subject terms

First Mennonite Church (Edmonton, Alberta)

Creators

First Mennonite Church (Edmonton, Alberta)

Adjunct descriptive data

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual records have been deposited by the congregation on a regular basis at the Mennonite Heritage Centre. Described by Bert Friesen 7 November 2002.

First Mennonite Church, Edmonton, fonds file list:

Volume 89

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1960)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1961), newsletters (1961)
  3. First Mennonite Church annual reports (1960), congregational meeting minutes (1961)
  4. First Mennonite Church newsletters (1962-1963)
  5. First Mennonite Church correspondence (1959-1965), reports (1964-1965)
  6. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1962)
  7. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1963), directory (1963)
  8. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1964), annual reports (1964)
  9. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1965, 1968)
  10. First Mennonite Church congregational meeting minutes (1976, 1977), directory (1976), annual reports (1975,1976), church council meeting minutes (1976)
  11. First Mennonite Church newsletters (1976-1978)

Volume 1630

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1966)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1967), congregational meeting minutes (1967), correspondence ([1967])
  3. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1975), church council meeting minutes (1975), congregational meeting minutes (1975), newsletters (1975), nursing home survey (1975)
  4. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1978), newsletters (1978), annual reports (1978)
  5. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1979), directory (1978-1979), newsletters (1979)

Volume 2412

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1980), directory (1980), administrative guide (1980), church council meeting minutes (1980), congregational meeting minutes (1980), annual reports (1979), newsletters (1979-1980), Sunday School teachers list (1980)

Volume 2434

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1981), church council meeting minutes (1981), newsletters (1981), congregational meeting minutes (1980,1981), annual reports (1980)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1982), church council meeting minutes (1982), newsletters (1982), directory (1981,1982), congregational meeting minutes (1982), day care committee meeting minutes (1982), annual reports (1981,1982), constitution and bylaw amendments and revised (1982)
  3. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1986), newsletters (1986), directory (1986), Conference of Mennonites in Alberta annual reports (1986), congregational statistics (1986), church council meeting minutes (1986), congregational meeting minutes (1986), reports (1986), day care committee meeting minutes (1986), annual reports (1985), day care study (1986)

Volume 3250

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1983), directory (1981-1983), annual reports (1982), newsletters (1983), congregational meeting minutes (1983), church council meeting minutes (1983), McKernan Park day care meeting minutes and reports (1983)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1984), congregational statistics (1980), statistical report (1984), congregational meeting minutes (1984), congregational office holders list (1984), church council meeting minutes (1984), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes (1984), 25th anniversary committee report (1984), newsletters (1984), pictorial directory (1984), annual reports (1984)
  3. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1985), church council meeting minutes (1985), congregational meeting minutes (1985), congregational office holders list (1985), congregational archive proposal (1985), McKernan Park day care documents, meeting minutes (1985), congregational ushers' documents (1985), newsletters (1985), Sunday school teachers' list (1985)

Volume 3310

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1987), church council meeting minutes (1987), growth committee meeting minutes and report (1987), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes, newsletters (1987), congregational meeting minutes (1987), constitution and bylaws (1987), newsletters (1987), Sunday school teachers' list, pastor's letter of resignation, feasibility study report for church planting (1987), annual reports (1986), directory (1987), congregational office holders (1987), Tofield Mennonite Church 50th anniversary service programme (1987), annual reports (1987)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1988), reports (1988), church council meeting minutes (1988), newsletters (1988), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minute and directory (1988), worship committee meeting minutes (1988), congregational meeting minutes (1988), directory (1988), congregational office holders (1988)
  3. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1989), newsletters (1989), church council meeting minutes (1989), congregational meeting minutes (1989), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes and financial statement (1989), convention planning committee meeting minutes (1989), worship committee meeting minutes (1989), Inter-Mennonite housing project committee meeting minutes (1989), directory (1989), annual reports (1989)

Volume 4026

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1990), reports (1990), annual reports (1990), church council meeting minutes (1990), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes (1990), congregational meeting minutes (1990), fund raising committee meeting minutes (1990), newsletters (1990), convention planning committee meeting minutes (1990), Mennonite ministerial meeting minutes (1990), directory (1990)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), newsletters (1991), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes (1991), pastoral review committee meeting minutes (1991), directory (1991), worship committee meeting minutes (1991), facilities committee meeting minutes (1991), church council meeting minutes (1991), congregational meeting minutes (1991), congregational office holders (1991), fund raising committee meeting minutes (1991), financial statement (1991), annual reports (1991)
  3. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1992), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes (1992), congregational meeting minutes (1992), church council meeting minutes (1992), newsletters (1992), reports, mission statement (1992), directory (1992), summer pastoral internship committee meeting minutes (1992), facilities committee meeting minutes (1992)

Volume 3904

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1993), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes and statement of philosophy, policies, and administrative procedure (1993), church council meeting minutes (1993), newsletters (1993), summer pastoral internship committee meeting minutes (1993), reports (1993), directory (1993), congregational meeting minutes (1993), financial statements (1993), annual reports (1993)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1994), church council meeting minutes (1994), newsletters (1994), congregational meeting minutes (1994), financial statements (1994), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes (1994), reports (1994)

Volume 4425

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1995), congregational meeting minutes (1995), church council meeting minutes (1995), newsletters (1995), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes (1995), reports (1995), annual reports (1995)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), church council meeting minutes (1996), congregational meeting minutes (1996), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes (1996), newsletters (1996), reports (1996), annual reports (1996)

Volume 4608

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1997), newsletters (1997), church council meeting minutes (1997), McKernan Park day care committee meeting minutes (1997), annual reports (1997), congregational meeting minutes (1997), newsletters (1997), financial statements (1997), Southview child care committee meeting minutes (1997), directory (1997)
  2. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1998), church council meeting minutes (1998), newsletters (1998), congregational meeting minutes (1998), reports, financial statements (1998), annual reports (1998)
  3. First Mennonite Church bulletins (1999), newsletters (1999), annual reports (1999), church council meeting minutes (1999), executive committee meeting minutes (1999), congregational meeting minutes (1999)

Volume 4915

  1. First Mennonite Church bulletins (2000), newsletters (2000), reports (2000)
  2. First Mennonite Church phone directory (2002)