Sub-series 1 - Coaldale Mennonite Brethren Church

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Constitution - (1 file)
2) History of Coaldale MB Church (1 file)
3) Church Council Minutes, 1952-1955 - (1 file)
Committee members, make-up, duties and responsibilities, 6 pages; Guidelines for Christian weddings and engagements.
4) Coaldale MB Church Minutes 1926-1931;1932-1933; 1933-1935;1936-1938; 1938-1945;1945-1955.
Closing of the Coaldale Mission Announced, 1957, Harold Janz, MB Herald,
5) Coaldale MB Church Yearbooks 1950, 1954,1956-1973, 1974,1977, 1980-1982, 2016-17,
6) Financial Records and Reports 1930-1973
7) Legal Documents, Certificate of Title of the land in South Alberta, 1 page, Fire and Storm Insurance, 2 pages, 1942 Church Construction 1954 , Insurance, Zur Siedlungdfrage , 1954;
8) Youth Work Protokolle & Programme unter der Arbeit unter der Jugend 1933-1940,104 pages. Entstehung und Entiwckelung der Jugendarbiet in the Coladale M.B. Gemende, D.J. Pankratz, 1951, 2 pages.Protokoll Maerz 1953-1955, A H Unruh 5 pages, Resolution 1956, 3 pages,
9) Coaldale Bible School history, Handreichung fuer Eintretende in die Bibelschule zu Coaldalele. 1929, 4 pages; Entfallung und Entwicklung der Bibelschule in Coaldale, Wertschaetzung der beiden Schulen, Bibelschule und Hochschule, 6 pages. (Committee Report)
10) Missions, A Report : unknown author "Entstehung der MB Gemeinde in Russland" history of missions 1860 to 1948, 28 pages. Letters to American Mennonite Mission, J.J. Dick, B.B. Janz, B.P. Epp, Aaron Toews, H.K Siemens, Franz, J.Friesen; A report with statistics 1950 by Heinrich Kornelsen, 5 pages; A list of 72 Coaldale missionaries.
11) Church Music, "History of Music as I see it" by Henry Dueck, 2 pages; "Wogen und Wellen in der Stuerm und Drang", 1956-1957" by Peter H Regehr, 86 pages.; English translation, 46 pages; Letter by choir leader Peter Dick re: the conflict about the singing of the Oratorio 'Der Messia"; "The Singer's Curse" lyrics by Ludwig Uhland, 2 pages and translation 1 page.
12) Seniors, Altenverein, Maria Martha Verein, Founding of Maria Martha Verein, 1930, by Gertrude Martens. 1 page; Establishment and history and statistics of the Alterverein,1937, 2 pages; Fifty Five Plus Remembrance Day Meeting, 1998; "As I Remember Rev. B.B. Janz: Margaret Martens Janz, 7 pages; " As I Remember It" Peter Martens, 5 pages; Tributes by Margert Riediger, Peter Regier Jr..1995.
13) Membership Lists Coaldale MB Church Membership Lists and Year-end reports, 1950, 1951-1953. List of 41 Coaldale members in ministry assignments List of 22 ministers who served in Coaldale (1926-1976), 4 pages
14) Coaldale MB Church Anniversary Celebrations, 25th, including "Gedenk und Dankfest" book, 81 pages, history, programs, sermons, reports and congratulations, 45th Anniversary, " Coaldale Revisited"; 50th Anniversary Book, 52 pages; 60th, Diamond Jubilee Program, 75th Anniversary notes; 90th Anniversary "Great is thy Faithfulness"
15) Sermons, Lectures, Reports, H.H. Kornelsen, B.B. Janz, A.A. Toews, David Nickel, P.R. Toews, and others unsigned.