Bethel Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located about eight miles (13 km) southeast of Canby, Oregon, and an equal distance from Hubbard and Aurora, was a member of the Pacific Coast Conference. Members of the Zion and Hopewell congregations living in this community, five to ten miles (8-16 km) from their respective home churches, held Sunday school and preaching services in local schoolhouses while the roads were muddy in the wet season and dusty in the dry season, until 1912, when a church was built for their community. On 4 May 1919 a congregation was organized and a resident minister placed in the community. Such names as Roth, Mitchell, Strubhar, Nofziger, Bond, Hostetler, Rogie, Yoder, Troyer, Christner, Kropf, Bressler, Schultz, Greenwood, Miller, Kauffman, Good, Snyder, Zook, Schrock, Gingerich, Bontrager, Switzer, Diener, and Birkey were known as being or having been among the worshipers at Bethel. In 1953 the membership was 80. Due to declining attendance the congregation disbanded in 1969 when the membership was about 35.
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This collection includes its history, membership records, congregational records, sermon outlines, VBS records, and other assorted documents.
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A brief congregational history (11 pages) is available in the PNMHS Library (Notebook 1: Brief congregational histories, 1887-1976: Oak Hill - Western Mennonite; call number 289.7795 LIN)
These records are open to public research.
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A brief history of the congregation (11 pages) is available in PNMHS II-1890-1-Notebook 1: Brief congregational histories, 1887-1976: Oak Hill - Western Mennonite
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Growing Together, ca. 1957 50 Years of Christian Literature Service, 1958
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Summer Bible School report, 1955 Missionary Evangel IV(3), April-June, 1948 tract on divorce conference constitution and discipline, 1953 BMF ballot for 1970 The Reporter V(7), March 1947 Billy Graham crusade songbook, c1960
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1) Hartzler, J. S., "Nonresistance in Practice," Mennonite Publishing House, 1929 2) Umble, John, "Mennonite Pioneers," Mennonite Board of Missions and CHarities, 1940 3) "Bearing Witness of the Light," 1951, Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, 38th annual meeting at Weaverland Mennonite Church, March 10-12 (or 11-13), 1952 4) Report (MCC) 5:1 and 2, Summer 1964: Russian Baptist visit and 3 other articles
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1) Report of actions of 1950 PCC conference session 2) Divine Healing 3) situation with Omar Miller 4) agreement to sell church property
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