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This collection includes assorted records from 1948-2022, including Elder materials 1983-2005; Council & congregational meeting minutes 1987-1994; Bulletins 1947-2022; cassettes of church sermons 2003-2008 and some earlier recordings on cassette.

Program for the organization of a congregation at Western Mennonite School, 7 Mar 1948; "Congregational organization at Western Mennonite School," 7 Mar 1948, with 29 signatures; Constitution and By-laws of the Pacific Coast Mennonite Conference School Board (undated); brief notes summarizing council meeting attendance, communion attendance, marriages, etc., 1951-1952 and 1951-1969; records of members and their families, 1948-1965: Melvin Bittihofer family, "Mel" Bittihofer, Jr., Williis A. Byers family, Orrie Garver family, Thurlough Gingerich family, Eldon Hamilton family, Marvin Headings family, Willard Peter Kennel family, Lloyd Lind family, Marcus F. Lind family, Paul W.. Miller family, Albert Nisly family, Lloyd Nisly family, Reuben Reist family, Glenn Roth family, Mahlon Schlabach family, Manasa Schrock family, Julius W. Schultz family, Paul Snyder family, Fannie Stoll, Richard Wenger family, Joe Yoder family, Tobias Miller family, Norman Lind family, Edward L.Garver family, Perry Yoder, Roy Roth family, Edwin J. Gingerich family, Victor Byers family, Henry Becker family, Jake Hostetler, Louis Burford "Bird" Fore family, David Hostetler family, Edwin L. Keener family, Lea King family, Emerson Martin family, Melvin Reed family, Bernard Showalter family, Joe Ann Sattler, Leon Stutzman family, David Stutzman family, Solomon J. Yontzi family, Joseph A. Birky family, Timothy Strubhar family, Anna Christner, Menno Snyder family; notes from business meetings and conferences, 1958-1974; membership list beginning 1 Nov 1975, with updates to 1991

Includes Congregational History Information 1947-1974, with brief biographies of ordained men who had served at Western (Gingerich, Frederick J., 1878-1955; Lind, Marcus Francis, 1908-1995; Birky, Joseph Alvin, 1895-1980; Snyder, Menno Samuel, 1902-1966; Hamilton, Eldon Leslie, 1915- 2001; Becker, Henry D., 1907-2001; & Hostetler, David L., 1912-1986); Western Mennonite Church History, June 15, 1998; miscellaneous materials including event programs, baptisms, and other materials, 1966-2008; Newspaper story on the 1991 death of Paul Allen Showalter; Wedding program of Candee M. Sherman Meeds and Michael Fenton Galer, 4 Nov 1995; Senior Piano Recital program for Eliza K. Barnhart, 24 May 2004

includes 1977, 1988, 1994, & 2000 constitutions