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- 1953-1996 (Creation)
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32 cm of textual records
1 microfilm reel
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Administrative history
Several individuals associated with First United Mennonite Church in Vancouver expressed interest in starting an English speaking church in Vancouver and began to meet in 1951. The Conference of Mennonites in Canada Home Missions Committee appointed Bethel Bible Institute Principal Henry H. Neufeld to provide services which began in August 1952. The congregation began worshipping in rented facilities and had their own meeting place by 1953. They were called the Vancouver Mennonite Mission Church. The congregation changed its name in 1972 to the Mountainview Mennonite Church. In 1977 they began a Chinese congregation which met in their meeting house until 1979.
Changing urban demographics, including rapidly rising housing prices, subsequently led to some members moving to other locations in the Greater Vancouver region. As an aging congregation with declining membership and limited financial resources, the congregation voted to close its doors in February 1996. Remaining members dispersed to other congregations.
(See GAMEO for name of leaders and membership numbers.)
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the congregation
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This fonds contains bulletins (1953-1961, 1963-1996), annual reports ([196-?]-1986), constitutions ([196-?]-1978), directories (1976-1992), 25th anniversary book, Chinese bulletins (1978-1981), Japan Anabaptist Center brochure ([197-?]), draft commitment proposal (1979), newsletters (1984-1990), and a brief congregational history ([1958]). The records pertain to the founding and development and dissolution of the Mennonite congregation in Vancouver, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.
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By Bert Friesen 3 January 2003. Updated by Selenna Wolfe 10 April 2019.