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- 1960-2006 (Creation)
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40 cm of textual records
55 Photographs
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The Olivet Mennonite Mission was founded in 1960 with 52 charter members. It was formed as on outgrowth of the Clearbrook Mennonite Church with the English-language as its language of worship. In 1963 they completed their own meeting house. This meeting house was expanded in 1980. The congregation changed its name to Olivet Mennonite Church in 1967.
On 11 December 2004 the 40 year-old sanctuary of Olivet Mennonite Church was ravaged by fire. The church suffered enough damage that it needed to be demolished and rebuilt. During this transition period, Olivet Mennonite Church held its services at Columbia Bible College just as it did when the first church building was under construction. The church offices and youth programs were located in empty portables at the local Dormick Park Elementary School. Olivet completed their new building in 2007 on the same site as their previous sanctuary.
The Olivet Mennonite Church decided to withdraw from Mennonite Church Canada in 2006 and from Mennonite Church BC on 12 November 2007. Without a specific denominational affiliation the name of the congregation became Olivet Church. After several years of discussion between the conference and the church, the Mennonite Church British Columbia voted on 5 November 2011 to transfer title of the church property from the conference to the congregation.
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Donated by Unknown
Donated by John H Derksen
Donated by Barry Block (2019)
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The Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Constitutions - 1967, 1973, 1979, 1981-1983, 1985, 1987, 1990; Mission Statement, 1988, 1998 - (3 files) Box 451
2) Policy - Spiritual Gifts, N.D., Marital Harmony & Spiritual Consistency N.D., Congregational Distancing from our Confession of Faith, N.D. - (1 File) Box 451
3) Minutes - 1966-2003, 9 bound books - Box 453, (51 files) Boxes 451-453
4) Reports - (8 files) Boxes 453 & 454
5) Financial Records - 1980-1983, (3 files + 1 bound ledger) - Box 454
6) Legal - (1 file) Box 454
7) Lists - Membership, Fellowship groups, 1978 - (3 files) Box 454
8) Vital Statistics, 1960-2004 - (11 files) Box 454 & 455
9) Personal records - 1972-1975, 1980-1983, 1989, 1993-94, 1997, 2000-2001 - (5 files) Box 455
10) Correspondence, 1959-1978, 1999-2001, 2003 - (3 files) Box 455
11) Sermons, 1974, 1978-1979 - (1 files) Box 455
12) Publications - Bulletins, 1970-1995 - (4 files) Box 455; (5 files) Box 456
13) Photographs - 55 photographs - Box P1 Aisle 5 Bay E
14) Clippings - 1960, 1980, 1990 - (1 file) Box 454
15) Ephemera, Guest Books - 1967-1998, Miscellaneous, N.D. - (3 files) Box 454
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English
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S4 - 2, Reports, Annual Meetings, 1966-1974, contains the following reports:
Some reflections on Divorce and Remarriage, by Henry Poettcker
Remarriage of the Divorced in the Light of Scripture, by Dr. G. W. Peters
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Record created January 07, 2008
Record modified April 14, 2016
2019-131 added February 15, 2024, LJK