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Eben-Ezer Mennonite Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia)
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- Ebenezer Mennonite Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia)
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Dates of existence
1963-
History
The Eben-Ezer Mennonite Church was founded in 1963 with 69 charter members in Abbotsford, B.C. They had their own meeting house from the beginning. This building was expanded in 1964 and again in 1970. This church ministered to German-speaking families that immigrated from Europe and Paraguay. The church has maintained strong ties to Mennonites in Latin America.
In 1978 some 40 members announced that they were ready to start an English-language congregation. This group formed what was to become the Emmanuel Mennonite Church in 1981. The departure of Emmanuel members underscored the need for the mother church to make some significant allowance for the remaining younger members in terms of the Sunday Worship services. For a period in the 1980s, Eben-Ezer offered separate German and English services. The occasional joint services had a distinctly bilingual flavor.
In 2011, services were integrated - a bilingual and inter-generational worship time, followed by Sunday school for children and youth, and separate English and German messages for adults.
(See GAMEO for names of leaders and membership numbers.)
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2051 Windsor Street, Abbotsford, British Columbia
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History added with MHA fonds June 2020 by AHR.
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Sources
Sawatzky, Peter. "Eben-Ezer Mennonite Church (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. February 2016. Web. 3 Apr 2016.