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- 1968-2018 (Creation)
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49 cm of textual records
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The Crystal City Mennonite Church traces its beginning to the Fall of 1924 when twelve Mennonite families, recently immigrated from Russia arrive in the area and began to meet in private home for fellowship. The group grew to 20 families by 1930 with a few other Mennonite families from other groups joined them. This group became one of the congregations that Franz F. Enns established and led as part of the Whitewater Gemeinde. Lay member Peter Hildebrand donated an acre of land for a building in 1948. The church building was occupied in 1949 and a subsequent building program occurred in 1958. After the new meeting place was constructed in 1958, the old one was moved to Mather and there rebuilt for the use of the Mather congregation.
In Spring 2020 the congregation merged with the Trinity Mennonite Fellowship to form the Prairie Mennonite Fellowship, located in the former Crystal City building.
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This fonds contains congregational bulletins (1968-2018), brief congregational history ([196-?]), open letter to the Prime Minister Mulroney on abortion ([198-?]), invitation to the 40th anniversary celebration (1988), list of charter members of the Crystal City and Mather congregation ([1958?]), and a list of congregational office holders (1998). The records pertains to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Crystal City, Manitoba.
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Updated by Selenna Wolfe 12 May 2021.