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Last updated February 17, 2021

Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Title: Northdale Mennonite Fellowship fonds
Dates: 1974-1993
Extent: 44 cm of textual records
Extent: 1 microfilm reel

Historical note

The Northdale Mennonite Fellowship was established when a number of families from the Springfield Heights and North Kildonan Mennonite congregations wanted to have more English-language worship and church activities. A small group began worshipping together in 1972 in rented facilities. In 1975 they officially organized as a congregation with 43 charter members. In 1978 they completed their own meeting house. The membership was 48 in 1980 and 42 in 1990. This congregation merged with the Valley Gardens Community Church, a Mennonite Brethren congregation, to form a dual-conference affiliated congregation called Jubilee Mennonite Church in 1995. The leaders of the congregation were: Frank Dyck (1975-1993), Abe Rempel (1979-1985, 1987-1991), Hans Sawatzky (1986), Rick Neufeld (1989-1992), Paul Wiebe (1994). The leader of the merged congregation was: Sieg Wall (1995-2001).

Scope and content note

This fonds consists of church council meeting minutes (1974-1990), congregational meeting minutes (1975-1991), membership and family registers (1975-1981), brief congregational histories (1974-1990), annual reports (1975-1990), constitution ([197-?]), congregational directories (1976-1990), correspondence (1974-1981), bulletins (1974-1993), worship schedules (1974-1980), and newsletters (1986-1990). The records pertain to the founding and development of the congregation until shortly before the merger to form Jubilee Mennonite Church.

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.
Accession number 2019-016.

Other notes

Textual records were microfilmed at the Mennonite Heritage Centre in 1981. Textual records have been deposited at the Mennonite Heritage Centre by the congregation on an irregular basis.  Mary Funk, long time member of the congregation deposited materials she and her husband Edd Funk collected from the congregation in 2019.
Described by Bert Friesen 3 January 2002, updated by Andrew Klassen Brown in June 2020.

Northdale Mennonite Fellowship fonds file list:

Volume 1638

  1. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship church council meeting minutes (1974-1977)
  2. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship brief congregational history (1978)
  3. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship annual reports and congregational meeting minutes (1975-1980)
  4. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship constitution ([197-?]), directories (1976-1981), a brief congregational history (1975)
  5. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship mission reports (1977), correspondence (1974)
  6. Springfield Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1974), congregational office holders (1974)
  7. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1975)
  8. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1976)
  9. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1977)
  10. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1978), church council meeting minutes (1978)
  11. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1979), worship schedule (1974-1979)
  12. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1980), worship schedule (1980)
  13. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1981), correspondence (1981), church council meeting minutes (1981), directory (1980-1981)

Volume 2965

  1. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1982), annual reports (1982), church council meeting minutes (1982)
  2. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1983), directory (1982-1983), church council meeting minutes (1983)
  3. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1984), annual reports (1984), church council meeting minutes (1984), congregational meeting minutes (1984)
  4. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1985), directory (1984-1985), church council meeting minutes (1985), annual reports (1985), congregational self-evaluation report (1985)
  5. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1986), church council meeting minutes (1986), newsletters (1986), congregational meeting minutes (1986), annual reports (1986)
  6. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1987), newsletters (1987), annual reports (1987), church council meeting minutes (1987), congregational meeting minutes (1987), directory (1987)
  7. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1988), annual reports (1988), church council meeting minutes (1988)
  8. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1989), annual reports (1989), church council meeting minutes (1989)
  9. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship study commission report and related documents including correspondence and minutes (1980-1981)

Volume 4014

  1. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1990), directory (1990), church council meeting minutes (1990), congregational programme celebrations (1986-1990), newsletters (1990), brief congregational financial history (1990), annual reports (1990)
  2. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1991), congregational meeting minutes (1991)
  3. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1992)
  4. Northdale Mennonite Fellowship bulletins (1993)

Volume 6452

1.    Constitution of the Northdale Mennonite Fellowship. -- 1975, 1986.
2.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Newspaper Clippings. -- 1977-1983.
3.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Annual Reports. -- 1979-1993.
4.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Church Council Meeting Minutes. -- 1979-1993.
5.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Statistical Reports. -- 1978-1991.
6.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Directory. -- 1975-1990.
7.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Church Council Correspondence. -- 1981-1987.
8.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Retreat Committee Minutes. -- 1975-1990.
9.    Mennonite Church Rental Survey. -- 1980.
10.    Mortgage Agreement, Correspondence, Loan, and Burning Ceremony. -- 1978-1990.
11.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Building Committee Correspondence and Building Blueprints. -- 1975-1979.
12.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Founding Documents. -- 1974-1975.
13.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Financial Statements. -- 1975-1979.
14.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Financial Statements. -- 1980-1989.
15.    Northdale Mennonite Fellowship Financial Statements. -- 1990-1993.

Microfilm

(MHC Project No. __; MHC Microfilm no. 273)