Fonds 25 - Sherbrooke Mennonite Church fonds

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CA MHSBC 25

Title

Sherbrooke Mennonite Church fonds

Date(s)

  • 1954-2010 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

55 cm of textual records

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Name of creator

(1965-)

Administrative history

The Sherbrooke Mennonite Church in Vancouver, British Columbia began services in 1965 and occupied its first building in that same year. It was an outgrowth of the First Mennonite Church of Vancouver which had grown to the point of needing to divide due to size.

Sherbrooke organized itself as an independent congregation on 1 January 1968 with 174 members. Over a period of 10 years (1968-1978) the membership more than doubled, necessitating already in 1973 the building of an annex. The services in Sherbrooke were initially all in the German language. In 1973 separate German and English language services were introduced. Bilingual services helped for a while, but in 1974, separate services in English and German came into effect. This arrangement lasted until early 2010.

Sherbrooke is the parent church to Peace Mennonite Church in Richmond, which formally organized in 1980. Ministries to various ethnic groups resulted in the birth of the Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite Church in 2001, followed by the Sherbrooke Korean Mennonite Fellowship in 2004, with both congregations meeting in the facilities of the parent church.

(See GAMEO for names of leaders and for membership numbers.)

Archival history

Donated by Unknown

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Scope and content

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Constitutions - 1968-1995 - (1 file) Box 61
2) History - (1 file) Box 61
3) Correspondence - 1969-1970, 1977, 1980-1981, 1984-1985 - (1 file) Box 61
4) Financial Records - 1984 - (1 file) Box 61
5) Reports - 1955-1986, 2006, 2009-2010 - (3 files) Box 61
6) Publications - 1954-2004 - (24 files) - Boxes 61& 62

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Some records are in German

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Note

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42

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Record created January 14, 2008
Record modified August 30, 2008

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