Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario fonds description

Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario

Retrieval numbers: Volume 679-681, 1894-1915, 2296, 2607, 3674-3678; Microfilm nos. 208-213

Title: Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario fonds
Dates: 1923-1987
Extent: 2.5 m of textual records
Repository: Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives

Historical note

The Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario traces is beginning to several thousand Russian Mennonites who immigrated to Ontario after World War I, settling primarily in three areas: Kitchener-Waterloo and vicinity, Essex County in the extreme southwest, and the Niagara peninsula. These immigrants organized themselves as United Mennonite congregations under the leadership of Bishop Jacob H. Janzen of Kitchener. Their broader afflilation was with the General Conference Mennonite Church with headquarters in Newton, Kansas. The need for a concerted effort in urban missions and education led to the organization of a provincial conference in 1944. The Conference supported the establishment of a private high school, the United Mennonite Educational Institute (Leamington), and took responsibility for ministry to a growing number of Mennonites in such cities as Toronto, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Ottawa, and Windsor, resulting in the establishment of city congregations. The Hamilton Mennonite Church, in turn, initiated an inner-city ministry, which grew into the Welcome Inn Community Centre and Church. Conference mission work also extended to Chinese, Laotian, and Latin American immigrants.

Increasing inter-Mennonite cooperation in education and mission marked the period from 1963 to 1988. The conference joined in establishing Conrad Grebel College in 1963 and in forming the Inter-Mennonite Conference of Ontario in 1973. In 1987 the conference agreed to dissolve in favor of the broader Mennonite unity represented by the emerging Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada (1988). At the time, the United Mennonite Conference comprised 22 congregations and 5,363 members.

Scope and content note

This fonds consists of programs, reports and minutes of annual delegate conferences (1947-1987) and of various conference committees and projects (ca. 1950-1977); records of the deacons and ministers conferences 1929-1976, minutes of related organizations such as the immigrant association, relief committee, Mennonite Central Committee, and Inter-Mennonite Executive Council; conference yearbooks (1947-1987); miscellaneous paper (1937-1977); and reports from several member congregations (Ottawa, 1960-1976; Waters, 1959-1963; Hamilton, 1954-1966; Rockway, 1962.

Index terms

Creators

Conference of United Mennonites in Ontario

Adjunct descriptive data

Finding aids

Inventory file list

Notes

Custodial history

Some materials have some various officers of the conference (e.g. chairman's files).

Language

Some German materials

Arrangement

Inventory updated by Alf Redekopp, March 2008.

Availability of other formats

80% on microfilm

Restrictions on access

none to access

Other notes

Acc. no. 88-132

CONFERENCE OF UNITED MENNONITE CHURCHES IN ONTARIO FONDS FILE INVENTORY LIST:

Volume 679
Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario

1.	Annual reports (stapled copies). – 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980.
2.	Ontario Youth Newsletter. – 1965.

Volume 680
Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario

1.	Yearbooks for 1947-1958
2.	Information booklet of Ontario U.M. Churches 1956.

Volume 681
Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario

1.	Yearbooks for 1959-1970

Volume 2296
Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario

1.	Yearbooks for 1971, 1972, 1973.
2.	Yearbooks for 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984.
(see also MHC "Conference Yearbook" collection for complete set)


Volume 2607
Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario

1.	Ministers’ and Deacons’ minute book #1, 1929-1968.
2.	Ministers’ and Deacons’ minute book #2, 1929-1968.

Volume 1894-1915
Conference of United Mennonite Churches of Ontario, Records 1923-1978
(s/a MHC microfilm # 208-213)

Volume 1894

I. Early Conference-Related Committee

1.	Prediger Konferenz - Ministers and Deacons Conference, 1943-1976
2.	Povincial Immigranten Komitee, 1934-1943
3.	Vertreter Versammlung, 1938, 1941, 1943
4.	Provincial Hilfskomitee, 1948, 1951-1958
5.	Distrikt Komitee - Distrikt Versammlung, 1938-1940
6.	Komitees der Kitchener-Waterloo Organization, 1931-1934

Volume 1895

II. United Mennonite Conference

A. Conference Committees and Projects
1.	Executive Committee #1, 1960, 1962-1977
2.	Executive Committee #2, 1960, 1962-1977
3.	Council of Committees, 1962-1977
4.	Committee on the Ministry, 1975
5.	Missions #1, 1950-1977

Volume 1896
1.	Missions #2, 1950-1977
2.	Missions #3, 1950-1977
3.	Missions #4, 1950-1977

Volume 1897
1.	Peace and Service #1, 1959-1967
2.	Peace and Service #2, 1959-1967
3.	Education (U.M. Conference Education Committee, U.M.C.I. and others)#1, 1955-1977
4.	Education (U.M. Conference Education Committee, U.M.C.I. and others)#2, 1955-1977

Volume 1898
1.	Education (U.M. Conference Education Committee, U.M.C.I. and others)#3, 1955-1977
2.	Education (U.M. Conference Education Committee, U.M.C.I. and others)#4, 1955-1977
3.	Education (U.M. Conference Education Committee, U.M.C.I. and others)#5, 1955-1977
4.	Financial #1, 1938-1977

Volume 1899
1.	Financial #2, 1938-1977
2.	Financial #3, 1938-1977
3.	Financial #4, 1938-1977
4.	Financial #5, 1938-1977
5.	Legal, 1941-1978

Volume 1900
1.	Conrad Grebel #1
2.	Conrad Grebel #2
3.	Conrad Grebel #3
4.	Silver Lake Camp#1

Volume 1901
1.	Silver Lake Camp#2
2.	Conference Moderators, 1966, 1970-1974
3.	Youth Organizations #1, 1952-1978
4.	Youth Organizations #2, 1952-1978
5.	Oshawa Men's Hostel, 1967-1969
6.	Rockhaven House, 1969

Volume 1902
Welcome Inn, 1972-1976
1.	Christian Nurture Council, 1969-1972
2.	Stewardship Institution, 1965-1969
3.	Ailsa Craig Boy's Farm, 1956-1970
4.	United Mennonite Conference (General), 1961-1971

Volume 1903
B. Ontario Mennonite Churches

1.	Ottawa Mennonite #1, 1960-1967
2.	Ottawa Mennonite #2, 1960-1967
3.	Waters U.M. (Sudbury), 1959-1963
4.	Hamilton Mennonite, 1954-1966
5.	Rockway U.M. , 1962

Volume 1904 to 1906
C. Annual Conferences, 1947-1978  (Programs, Minutes, Reports)

Volume 1907
D. Correspondence, 1937-1977

1.	Correspondence
2.	Correspondence
3.	Correspondence

Volume 1908
1.	Correspondence
2.	Correspondence
3.	Correspondence

Volume 1909
1.	Correspondence
2.	Correspondence
3.	Correspondence
4.	Correspondence

Volume 1910
1.	Correspondence
2.	Correspondence
3.	Correspondence

Volume 1911
1.	Correspondence
2.	Correspondence
3.	Correspondence
4.	Correspondence
5.	Correspondence

Volume 1912
III. Non-U.M. Conferences

1.	Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) #1, 1950, 1962-1970
2.	Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) #2, 1950, 1962-1970
3.	Inter-Mennonite Executive Council, 1975-1978

Volume 1913
Miscellaneous (some U.M.Conference materials)
1.	Miscellaneous #1  1937-1977
2.	Miscellaneous #2  1937-1977
3.	Miscellaneous #3  1937-1977
4.	Miscellaneous #4  1937-1977

Volume 1914
1.	Miscellaneous #5  1937-1977
2.	Miscellaneous #6  1937-1977
3.	Miscellaneous #7  1937-1977
4.	Miscellaneous #7  1937-1977
5.	Miscellaneous #8  1937-1977

Volume 1915
1.	Amalgamation Study Committee Report 1981
2.	Directory of Inter Mennonite Student Services
3.	MCOQ – WOMC Annual Conference 1985
4.	UMC, WOM, MCOQ Service of Praise & Celebration Program (1987)


VOLUME 3674
Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario
(Acc. 88-132)

Chairman’s Files (Ed Janzen, 1981-1986)

1.	Annual Conference Minutes 1980-1981
2.	Committee Membership Lists
3.	Conference Minister — Selection 1979-1982
4.	Conference Minister — Reports
5.	Correspondence -- Conference of Mennonites in Canada/General Conference Mennonite Church
6.	Correspondence - Congregations (Individual)
7.	Correspondence — Congregations (General)
8.	Correspondence — Other Organizations
9.	Education Committee
10.	Education Committee - Youth
11.	Executive Committee - Minutes


VOLUME 3675
Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario

1.	Executive Council/Council of Committees — Minutes
2.	Finances - Budgets
3.	Finances - Correspondence
4.	Finances -  General Conference Development Plan 1984-1985
5.	Finances -  Letters to Congregations
6.	Finances -  Reports
7.	Mennonite Central Committee
8.	Missions and Service - Committee Minutes
9.	Missionsand Service — Correspondence


VOLUME 3676
Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario

1.	Missions and Service - Hispanic Ministries (New Life Centre, Toronto)
2.	Missions and Service — Laotian Ministries (Niagara Peninsula)
3.	Missions and Service - Welcome Inn (Hamilton)
4.	Personnel Committee
5.	Program Committee
6.	Silver Lake Camp
7.	Inter Mennonite Amalgamation Study Conference 1979-1980


VOLUME 3677
Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario

1.	Inter Mennonite Board of Congregational Resources
2.	Inter Mennonite Conferences
3.	Inter Mennonite Conrad Grebel College
4.	Inter Mennonite Correspondence
5.	Inter Mennonite Executive Council
6.	Inter Mennonite Family Life Commission
7.	Inter Mennonite Financial Reports
8.	Inter Mennonite Conference of Ontario / Western Ontario Mennonite Conference
9.	Inter Mennonite Pastoral Leadership Training Board

VOLUME 3678
Conference of United Mennonite Churches in Ontario

1.	Inter Mennonite Service Board
2.	Inter Mennonite Shared Facilities Committee 1980-1982
3.	Inter Mennonite Youth

Chairman’s Files (John Cornies, 1987-1988)

4.	Annual Conference/Constitution
5.	Closing Celebration
6.	Conference of Mennonites in Canada
7.	Education Committee
8.	Executive Committee - Correspondence/Reports
9.	Executive Committee — Minutes
10.	Finances
11.	Mennonite Central Committee
12.	Missions
13.	Peace Sunday Resource Material
14.	Personnel
15.	St. Clair O’Connor Community
16.	Silver Lake Camp