©Mennonite Heritage Centre 2003
Last updated 10 April 2019. 

Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Title: Graysville Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1927-1993, 2004-06
Extent: 12 cm of textual records
Extent: 1 microfilm reel

Historical note

Mennonites moved into the Graysville area west of Carman in the 1930s. The spiritual life was nurtured by several conferences and churches including the Bergthaler Gemeinde and the Schönwieser Gemeinde. In 1953 they bought the Orr United Church which they had been renting. In 1960 this building was moved and renovated. The leaders of the congregation were: Franz Letkemann Sr. (1949-1960), ordained by the Schönwieser Mennoniten Gemeinde who continued giving leadership after the congregation decided to affilate with the Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba after 1954, Johann Janzen (1953-1967), Frank Letkemann Jr. (1967-1974), Edward Funk (1975-1981), A. H. Born (1982), Gerald Neufeld (1983-1986), Neil Funk (1987-1996), Edward Kuhl (1997), Irvin Penner (1998-1999).

Scope and content note

This fonds contains membership lists (1975-1980), family, marriage, and baptismal registers (1927-1978), congregational meeting minutes (1954-1993), annual membership meeting (1977), church council meeting minutes (1954-1979), financial records (1964-1979), minutes of committees concerning young people (1966-1979), building (1953-1954), Sunday School (1957-1974), service (1964-1970), missions (1965-1974), ladies (1965-1980), Jugendverein [youth society] (1957-1979), directory (1988), and constitutions (1979, 1990). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Bergthaler congregation in Graysville. They document the leaders and participants in this congregation.

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Language

Some German.

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual records were deposited by the congregation. Some textual records were microfilmed in 1980. Described by Bert Friesen 23 November 2001. Updated by Selenna Wolfe 10 April 2019. 

Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church fonds file list:

Volume 29

  1. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1975)
  2. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1976)
  3. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1977); annual membership meeting  (1977) 
  4. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1978)
  5. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1979)
  6. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church membership list (1976, 1977), congregational officers (1977)
  7. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1980), membership list (1980), annual reports (1980), congregational meeting minutes (1980)
  8. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1981), annual reports (1981), congregational meeting minutes (1981)
  9. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1982)
  10. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1983)
  11. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1984)
  12. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1985)
  13. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (1986)
  14. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church directory (1988)
  15. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church annual reports (1989, 1993), congregational meeting minutes (1989, 1993)
  16. Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church constitution (1990), directory (1994)

Volume 1977

  1.   Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (2002)

2.  Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (2003)

3.  Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (2004)

4.  Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (2005)

5.  Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church bulletins (2006), annual report (2006)

6.  Graysville Bergthaler Mennonite Church annual report (2007), bulletins (2007)

7.  Graysville Mennonite Church bulletins (2008) incomplete

           

Microfilm

Microfilm 202 (MHC Project No. 49)

  1. Church Registers
    1. Membership lists, 1975-1978.
    2. Transfers, 1966-1977.
    3. Kirchenbuch, 1927-1980
      1. Bruderberatung, 1927-1928.
      2. Familien registers, 1927-1949.
      3. Protokoll der Miami Gruppe, 1941.
      4. Accounts of church members, 1933-1940.
      5. Familien Verzeichnis - membership register, 1927-1980.
      6. Taufhandlungen - baptismal register, 1927-1980.
      7. Frauhandlungen - marriage register, 1927- 1980.
  2. Minutes
    1. Combined minutes
      1. Bruderschaft, 1954-1979 (inc. 1977 annual report)
      2. Church council, 1954-1979.
      3. Finance, 1964-1979.
    2. Young people, 1966-1979.
    3. Building committee, 1953-1954.
    4. Sunday School
      1. Registers, 1962-1964.
      2. Staff minutes, 1957-1974.
    5. Service committee, 1964-1970.
    6. Missions
      1. Sunday school mission project, 1966-1967.
      2. Mission conference committee, 1965-1974.
    7. Ladies organizations, 1965-1980.
    8. Jugendverein, 1957-1979.
  3. Miscellaneous
    1. Legal, re: dissolution of the Bergthaler Mennonite corporation, 1978.
    2. Constitution, 1979.