©Mennonite
Heritage Centre 2003
Last updated 26 February 2019
Mennonite
Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Title:
Superb Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1970-2017
Extent: 16
cm of textual records
Historical note
The Superb Mennonite
Church began as one of the meeting places within the
Ebenfeld Mennonite Church (Gemeinde) in 1928. Mennonites from
Russia arrived in the
Herschel area of Saskatchewan in the winter of 1924-1925.
They organized the Ebenfeld church (Gemeinde) in 1925 and
joined the Conference of Mennonites.
In 1926 there were 117 members.
In 1936 the membership was 278. As one congregation
or meeting place within a multi-congregation church
(Gemeinde),
their size remained small, with fewer than 100 members. They
met in homes
until 1944-1945 when they purchased the Luseland Dispatch
Printing Office
and converted it into a regular meeting place on the Wiebe farmyard. In
1972 the
Ebenfeld Gemeinde dissolved and subsequently Superb
Mennonite
Church became an independent congregation in 1973. (The church is
located 24 km
west of Kerrobert, 1.5 km south of Hwy. 51.) The membership
was 45 in
1973 and 50 in 2000. The leaders of the congregation were: Rev
P.J. Klassen (1928-1948); Rev P.A. Warkentin (1934-1974);
Werner
Zacharias (1974-1986); Dave Feick (1986-1994); Eileen Wiebe
(1994-1999);
Grant Martens (2001-2006); Rev Lois Siemens
(2006- ).
Scope and content note
This fonds contains bulletins
(1982-2017), annual reports (1983-2004, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017), programmes (1990-1994), membership
lists (1972, 1991), constitution (2003), and congregational meeting minutes (1991-2001). The records
document some of the activities and life of this congregation.
Finding aids
Inventory file list
available.
Notes
Restrictions on access
No restrictions on access.
accession number 2004-030.
Other notes
Textual records were deposited
by the congregation at the Mennonite Heritage Centre on a regular basis. Described
by Bert Friesen 21 January 2002, updated by Connie Wiebe Feb 11, 2013, Conrad
Stoesz May 3, 2013, and Selenna Wolfe Feb. 26, 2019.
Superb Mennonite Church fonds
file list:
Volume 3903
- Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1982-1988), Annual meeting minutes and
reports (1983-1987), ordination service report (1987), financial reports (1970-1982),
memberhsip list (1971).
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1989), annual reports (1989)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1990), obituary of Wiebe and funeral service programme
(1990), annual reports (1990)
- Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), congregational meeting minutes
(1991), membership list (1991), resolution on the gulf war (1991), annual
reports (1991), Constitution (1991).
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1992), congregational meeting
minutes (1992), funeral service programmes (1992), membership list
(1972), 40th
anniversary service bulletin (1984), annual reports (1992)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1993), congregational meeting minutes (1993), annual reports
(1993),
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1994), memo of understanding
(1994), annual reports (1994), congregational meeting minutes (1994),
funeral service programmes (1994)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1995), congregational meeting minutes (1995), annual reports
(1995)
Volume 4493
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1996), congregational meeting minutes (1996), annual reports
(1996)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1997), annual reports (1997), congregational meeting minutes
(1997)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1998), congregational meeting minutes (1998), annual reports
(1998)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (1999), congregational meeting minutes (1999)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (2000), annual reports (2000), congregational meeting minutes
(2001)
- Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2001)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (2002)
Volume
2767
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (2003)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins(2004), annual report book (2004);
Constitution (revised Sept./03)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (2005)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (2006)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (2007)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (2008)
- Superb Mennonite Church
bulletins (2009)
Volume 5534
1. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2010); annual report book
2. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2011)
3. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2012); annual report book
4. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2013)
4. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2014): annual report book
5. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2015); "Superb Mennonite Church. 70 Years of Faithfulness"
6. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2016); Good Friday Drama Script
7. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2017) [incomplete]; annual report book (2017)