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- 1965-2017 (Creation)
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72 cm of textual records
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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.)
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the congregation
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This fonds contains bulletins (1973-2014, 2016-2017), newsletters (1965-1985), annual reports (1974-1996, 1998-2006, 2008-2012, 2014-2017), directories (1975-2004, 2007, 2009-2010), constitution (1976, [197-?]), and a brief congregational history (1978). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Vancouver, B.C. They document some of the leaders and participants in the congregation.
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Some German
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By Bert Friesen 20 February 2003; updated by Selenna Wolfe 2019.