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Hillcrest Mennonite Church (New Hamburg, Ontario)
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Dates of existence
1964-
History
The Hillcrest Mennonite Church was founded in 1964 near New Hamburg, Ontario. It was founded by the East Zorra Mennonite Church who needed another meeting house because of increasing numbers of attendees or potential attendees. The East Zorra congregation assisted in purchasing land and building a meeting house for the Hillcrest congregation.
Hillcrest Mennonite Church was a member of the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference. In 1987 this conference decided to disband their separate organization in favour of becoming a part of Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada (MCEC) which was created by an inter-Mennonite Conference that also included the Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario and the Mennonite Conference of Ontario. With the creation of MCEC, all the congregations that were not already members of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC), became CMC associate members. Hillcrest Mennonite Church was one of these, and along with other churches originating in the Western Ontario Mennonite Conference, became a full CMC member congregation in 1995.
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New Hamburg (Ontario)
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History added with MHA fonds June 2020 by AHR.
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Sources
Epp, Marlene. Hillcrest Mennonite Church (New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. January 1989. Web. 27 Jun 2020.
Ens, Adolf. "Becoming a National Church: a history of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada." Winnipeg, MB: CMU Press, 2004: 188.