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Date(s)
- 1927-1993, 2004-2006 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
12 cm of textual records
1 reel of microfilm
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Administrative history
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 affiliate with the Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba after 1954,
Repository
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the congregation
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Scope and content
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.
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Some German
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Some materials were microfilmed in 1980.
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By Bert Friesen 23 November 2001. Updated by Selenna Wolfe 10 April 2019.