MHSA Archival Description Record
Title and Physical Description
Westheimer Mennonite Church (Rosemary) fonds. -- 1930-1990. -- 12 cm
of textual records. -- 1 church stamp
Administrative History
The congregation began services in 1928, and formally organized in 1930.
The first building was occupied in 1937, with subsequent building programs
in 1961 and 1990. H.H. Janzen is considered the founding leader of the
group. The congregation originated through immigration from the Soviet
Union. In 2000, George Baerg served as congregational leader. The congregation
has been affiliated with the Mennonite Church Alberta (1930-), Mennonite
Church Canada (1930-), and General Conference Mennonite Church (1938-).
The language of worship is English and German; the transition from German
occurred in the 1950s.
The congregation was known as the Westheimer Gemeinde until 1959 when
the constitution was rewritten.
Rev. P.P. Dyck, one of the ministers at Rosemary, began a Bible school
in his home in 1931. The school grew and moved into its own quarters
in 1934. It was discontinued in 1941; students began attending the Menno
Bible Institute at Didsbury.
Custodial History
The records were transferred to the Mennonite Church Alberta.
Scope & Content
The fonds consists of minutes, church registers, church transfer documents
and some correspondence.
Variations in Title Proper
Also known as Rosemary Mennonite Church fonds.
Source of Supplied Title
Title based on the contents of the fonds
Source of Acquisition
Gift by Mennonites Church Alberta through Henry Goerzen, MCA Archivist
Arrangement
According to Subject and date
Access Restrictions
Access to personal information in church registers & financial records
is subject to MHSA privacy policy
Finding Aids
See Files Inventory
Associated Materials
Records associated with the Westheimer Mennonite Church fonds held by
Mennonite
Heritage Centre, Winnipeg.
Related Materials
For records related to the Westheimer Mennonite Church fonds, see Mennonite
Church Alberta fonds
For history of congregation, see Mennonite Church, Rosemary: Formerly
Westheimer Mennoniten Gemeinde, 1980 (MHSA Library), and Chapters
IV & V in The Mennonite Conference of Alberta: A History of its
Churches and Institutions, 1980, by C.L. Dick. (MHSA Library)
Accruals
Not expected
Notes
Accession 2002.014
Language - English and German
Also known as Rosemary Mennonite Church
Sources:
* Canadian Mennonite Encyclopaedia
* Mennonite Encyclopedia,
"Westheimer"
* Canadian Mennonite (March
26, 1954), 1; (Feb. 11, 1955), 7; (Oct. 6, 1961), 7
* Mennonite Reporter (Nov.
26, 1990), B2
* David Adrian, ed. Marvelous
are the ways: a brief history of the Rosemary Mennonite Church (Rosemary,
Alta.: Rosemary Mennonite Church, 1961), 16 pp.
* Mennonite Church, Rosemary:
formerly Westheimer Mennoniten Gemeinde (Rosemary, Alta.: Rosemary
Mennonite Church, 1980), 113 pp.
* C.L. Dick, The Mennonite
Conference of Alberta: a history of its churches and institutions
(Edmonton: The Mennonite Conference of Alberta, 1981), 147 pp.
Last updated 6 Jan 2004 - Judith Rempel
Files Inventory
1-1 Bylaws - n.d.
1-2 Westheimer Mennonite Church Register [separated to oversize]
1-3 Minutes - 1947-1957
1-4 Minutes - 1956-1958
1-5 Minutes - 1958-1968 [separated to Vertical File Box #2]
1-6 Financial Records - 1949-1958 [separated to Vertical File Box #2]
1-7 Church Transfer Records, Historical Summary - 1936-1990
1-8 Certificates of Church Transfer - 1971-1976
1-9 Miscellaneous Notes - 1946-1990
1-10 Gem Mennonite Church History - n.d.
1-10 Gem Church History Gathered by G. Paetkau - 1930-1977
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