Fonds 4 - Cedar Hills Mennonite Church fonds

Cedar Hills traces its beginning to a Sunday school ministry in New Westminster in the mid-1930s. Formal services began in 1938 led by ministers from the surrounding area including Mennonite Brethren ministers. The first building was occupied in 1943 and the congregation formally organized in 1945 as the United Mennonite Church of South Westminster. The congregation joined the Conference of United Mennonite Churches of British Columbia on 13 January 1946.

Peter Dyck and John Goertz are considered the founding leaders of the group. The congregation was later known as New Westminster United Mennonite Church and became known as New Westminster Mennonite Church in 1960.

By 1962 the congregation was looking for a new site for a church because their current accommodations were getting too small. In 1963 land was purchased and early 1964 construction began. However, the contractor went out of business and the congregation was forced to finish the work themselves. 4 October 1964 the first service was held in the basement, the building was dedicated 21 March 1965 and the congregation renamed Cedar Hills Mennonite Church.

On 12 September 2004 the congregation merged with Living Hope Christian Fellowship which had been meeting at the church and Cedar Hills was officially dissolved on 31 December that same year.