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Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Altona Mennonite Church

Retrieval Numbers: Volumes 21, 22, 855, 2218, 2219, 2285, 2955, 3927, 4495, 2771, 5811, 5743; microfilm no. 347, 348.

Title: Altona Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1962-2018
Extent: 71 cm of textual records
Extent: 2 microfilm reels

Historical note

The Altona Mennonite Church was an outgrowth of the Altona Bergthaler Mennonite Church. That congregation had space needs and there was a group which wanted more English language services. So in 1962 a new congregation was formed with 22 charter members. Its mission was to reach out to the English-speaking people of Altona and the surrounding area. The congregation met in rented facilities. In 1964 it completed its own meeting house. The congregation gradually grew. In 1979 the membership was 79. In 1982 the membership was 113 and in 2000 it stood at 122. A number of members have served in various capacities in different roles around the world. The leaders of the congregation were: Frank Epp (1962-1965), Henry Friesen (1965-1970), Paul Dyck (1970-1973), Lawrence Klippenstein (1973-1975), Ed Cornelson (1976-1982), David Regehr (1982-1985), Marilyn and Ray Hamm (1985-1994), Ray Hamm (1995-1997), Jessie and Larry Kehler (1998), Jake Pauls (1999), Gordon Driedger (2000- ).

Scope and content note

The fonds consists of a congregational history (1972), constitutions (1962-1993), bulletins (1962-2018), directories (1963-2018), founding documents (1962-1963), annual reports (1962-2017), newsletters (1962-1988), financial records (1963-1990), minutes of congregational meetings, church council, and various committees (1962-2000), correspondence (1962-2000), and church and family registers (1971-1981). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Altona Mennonite Church and they documents the leaders and participants of the congregation.

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual record were microfilmed at the Mennonite Heritage Centre in 1982. Textual records were deposited by the congregation on a regular basis and by Ted Friesen in 2000. Described by Bert Friesen 24 December 2001.

Altona Mennonite Church fonds file list:

Volume 21

  1. Altona Mennonite Church brief congregational history (1972), congregational constitution (1974), course descriptions ([197-])
  2. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1962)
  3. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1963)
  4. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1964)
  5. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1965), directory (1965)
  6. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1966)
  7. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1967)
  8. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1968)
  9. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1969)
  10. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1970)
  11. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1971)
  12. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1972)
  13. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1973), church council report (1973), Financial report (1973)
  14. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1974) , constitution (1974), newsletters (1974)

Volume 22

  1. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1975), membership commitment document ([197-?]); newsletters (1975), directory (1975), meeting minutes (1975), church council report (1975), church council report (1976), annual meeting minutes (1976)
  2. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1976)
  3. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1977), annual report book (1976)
  4. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1978), church council meeting minutes (1978), annual reports (1978)
  5. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1979)
  6. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1980), directory (1980)
  7. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1981), brochure ([198-?])
  8. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1982), annual reports (1982), directory (1982)
  9. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1983)
  10. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1984), newsletter (1984)
  11. Altona Mennonite Church financial statement (1966), congregational meeting minutes (1976)
  12. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1975-1977), congregational meeting minutes (1977) 

Volume 855

  1. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1993), directory (1993-1994), church council meeting minutes (1993), congregational correspondence (1993), congregational office holders (1993), annual reports (1993), congregational meeting minutes (1993)
  2. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1994), congregational meeting minutes (1994), church council meeting minutes (1994), congregational correspondence (1994), congregational constitution (1993), annual reports (1994)
  3. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1995), congregational meeting minutes (1995), church council meeting minutes (1995), congregational correspondence (1995), annual reports (1995), LIFE plans (1995-1996), correspondence (1995), notes on Lord’ Supper (1995)
  4. Altona Mennonite Church council meeting minutes (1996) 

Volume 2218

  1. Altona Mennonite Church founding documents (1962)
  2. Altona Mennonite Church correspondence (1964-1965), annual reports (1963-1964), financial statements (1964), directory (1964)
  3. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1962), financial statement (1963), slate of nominees (1963), directory (1963)
  4. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1963)
  5. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1965, 1966)
  6. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1966), correspondence (1967)
  7. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1967), financial statements (1968), directory (1968)
  8. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1968), Canadian Mennonite , Vol.5, no.3 (1969)
  9. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1969), correspondence (1969), congregational office holders (1969)
  10. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1970, 1971), congregational meeting minutes (1970), correspondence (1971)
  11. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1970, 1971), congregational meeting minutes (1971, 1972)
  12. Altona Mennonite Church annual reports (1972), congregational meeting minutes (1973), congregational office holders (1972)
  13. Altona Mennonite Church congregational meeting minutes (1962), congregational brochure ([196-]), correspondence (1962)
  14. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1962), congregational meeting minutes (1962, 1963), charter document with signatures (1962), congregational newsletter (1962), congregational brochure ([196-]), correspondence (1962-1964)
  15. Altona Mennonite Church correspondence (1963), building drawings (1963)

Volume 2219

  1. Altona Mennonite Church correspondence (1962-1964), financial records (1964), church council meeting minutes (1962-1964)
  2. Altona Mennonite Church financial records (1965), correspondence (1965), congregational workshop programme (1964)
  3. Altona Mennonite Church correspondence (1965, 1966), directory (1966), financial records (1966), Conference of Mennonites in Manitoba Missions Committee report (1966), rental guidelines ([196-?]), guiding principles for weddings in the Bergthaler Mennonite Church ([196-?])
  4. Altona Mennonite Church financial records (1967), correspondence (1966-1967), newspaper clippings (1967)
  5. Altona Mennonite Church pastor contract (1967), financial statement (1967), congregational newsletter (1968), correspondence (1968), financial records (1968)
  6. Altona Mennonite Church stewardship and pledging (1968-1969), financial records (1969), correspondence (1969)
  7. Altona Mennonite Church correspondence (1970), worship schedule (1970), model of shared ministry ([197-?]), financial records (1970), correspondence (1970)
  8. Altona Mennonite Church financial statement (1969), financial records (1970), congregational newsletter (1970), correspondence (1970), worship schedule ([1971?]), church council meeting minutes (1970), congregational meeting minutes (1970)
  9. Altona Mennonite Church financial records (1971), correspondence (1970-1971), MCCC news release (1971), newspaper clipping (1971), Bulletin (1971)
  10. Altona Mennonite Church Sunday School teaching schedule (1971), church council meeting minutes (1971-1972), correspondence (1972), financial records (1972), congregational meeting minutes (1972)
  11. Altona Mennonite Church correspondence (1973), church council meeting minutes (1973), congregational meeting minutes (1973), financial records (1973), newspaper clipping (1963), CMBC report (1973)
  12. Altona Mennonite Church constitution (1962), application for membership ([196-?]), correspondence (1966-1967), congregational meeting minutes (1967), financial records (1967)
  13. Altona Mennonite Church council meeting minutes (1966), correspondence (1966), building drawings (1966)
  14. Altona Mennonite Church executive/council meeting minutes (1962-1964), congregational meeting minutes (1962-1964), congregational workshop (1963), building committee meeting minutes (1963-1964)
  15. Altona Mennonite Church stationery ([196-?])
  16. Altona Mennonite Church financial records (1963-1965), correspondence (1963-1965), acoustic brochure ([196-?])

Volume 2955

  1. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1985)
  2. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1986), directory (1986), annual reports (1986)
  3. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1987), congregational meeting minutes (1987), congregational newsletter (1987), church council meeting minutes (1987), correspondence (1987), annual reports (1987)
  4. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1988), directory (1988), congregational newsletter (1988), church council meeting minutes (1988), congregational meeting minutes (1988), annual reports (1988)

Volume 3927

  1. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1989), church council meeting minutes (1989), congregational meeting minutes (1989), annual reports (1989)
  2. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1990), financial records (1990), position paper on marriage, covenant, and remarriage ([19-?]), missions and service commission meeting minutes (1990), church council meeting minutes (1990), education committee meeting minutes (1990), congregational meeting minutes (1990), directory (1989-1990), annual reports (1990)
  3. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), missions and service commission meeting minutes (1991), education committee meeting minutes (1991), ), congregational meeting minutes (1991), church council meeting minutes (1991), rental guidelines (1991), Sunday school register (1991), directory (1991-1992), annual reports (1991)
  4. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1992), congregational meeting minutes (1992), church council meeting minutes (1992), annual reports (1992)

Volume 4495

  1. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), directory (1996-1997), correspondence (1996), church council meeting minutes (1996), congregational meeting minutes (1996), annual reports (1996)
  2. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1997), directory (1994-1995, 1995-1996, 1996-1997,1997-1998), annual reports (1997), church council meeting minutes (1997), congregational meeting minutes (1997), correspondence (1997),
  3. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1998), correspondence (1998), church council meeting minutes (1998), congregational meeting minutes (1998), annual reports (1998)
  4. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (1999), newsletters (1999), correspondence (1999), church council meeting minutes (1999), congregational meeting minutes (1999), pastoral search committee reports (1999), directory (1998-1999)

Volume 2285

  1. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2000), directory (1999-2000, 2000-2001), correspondence (2000), church council meeting minutes (2000), congregational meeting minutes (2000), congregational office holders (2000), annual reports (1999), directory (2001-2002)
  2. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2001)
  3. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2003)
  4. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins, annual report book (2004)
  5. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins, annual report book, directory (2005)
  6. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (incomplete), directory, annual report book (2001)

Volume 2771

1.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2006), annual report book (2006), membership listing (2007), congregational meeting minutes (Feb. 2007)

2. Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2007), annual report book (2007), directory (2008).

3.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2008); annual report books (2008)

4.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2009); annual report book (2009); phone directory (2010)

Volume 5811

1.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2013)

2.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2014), annual report book

3.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2015); report book (2015); 2015 Directory

4.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2016); annual report book (2015)

Volume 5743

1.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2017) [incomplete]; local directory (2017); Annual General Meeting (2016) 

2.  Altona Mennonite Church bulletins (2018) [incomplete]; church directory; Annual General Meeting (2017)

Microfilm

Microfilm No. 347 (MHC Project No. 94)

  1. Church Registers
    1. Book I, started in 1971.
      1. Register of members
    2. Book II, started in 1976.
      1. Index
      2. Family Register, Record of Baptisms, Record of Marriages.
  2. Minutes
    1. Congregational Meeting Minutes and Report, 1963-1966.

Microfilm No. 348 (MHC Project No, 94)

  1. Minutes
    1. Congregational Meeting Minutes and Report, 1967-1977, also includes Reports 1978-1980.
  2. Constitutions of the Church adopted, 1962, 1974.
  3. Membership Directories, January 1964-1966, December 1968, January 1973-1974, January 1978, December 1978.
  4. Correspondence, ca. 1963-1975.