©Mennonite Heritage Centre 2002
Last updated March 9, 2021

Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Title: Emmanuel Mennonite Church (Winkler, Man.) fonds
Dates: 1986-2014, 2016-2017, 2019-2020
Extent: 48 cm of textual records and 120 MB of electronic records.

Historical note

Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Winkler, Manitoba began as an expansion of the Winkler Bergthaler Mennonite Church (WBMC). Following a 1984 baptism service at the church, minister J.K. Klassen and WBMC leadership realized that their facility was no longer large enough for their growing congregation. They discerned that "birthing" a daughter church was the best option and discussions leading to the formation of the Emmanuel Mennonite Church began.

On March 2, 1986 a group met for their first worship service in a newly acquired building at 950 Pembina Avenue (former Grace Mennonite Church). Later that year, on October 19, 1986, Emmanuel Mennonite Church was officially founded with a membership of 102 adult believers.

Emmanuel chose to affiliate with Conference of Mennonites in Manitoba (later called Mennonite Church Manitoba) and Conference of Mennonites in Canada (later called Mennonite Church Canada) shortly after beginning as a church.

By 1994 the membership had doubled to 204 members (plus an additional 204 children and youth) and the church began exploring how to address the need for more space. A second service was established in 1997 and continued until the time when the Emmanuel membership made the decision to build a new facility.  The leaders of the congregation were: John Klassen (1986-1993), Abe Hiebert (1994), Marvin Koop (1995-ca. 2006), Larry Kehler (2006 interim), John Klassen (2007-2021).

Scope and content note

This fonds contains bulletins (1986-2017, 2019-2020), calendar of activities (1989-1996), directory (1994, 2006, 2007, 2016-2017, 2019-2021), and minutes of the congregation's education committee meetings, finance committee meetings, missions committee meetings, and worship committee meetings (1986-2006, 2016-2017, 2019-2020) , and the congregational worship calendars and themes (1986-2006). The records pertain to the beginning and development of the Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Winkler, Manitoba and they document the leaders and participants of this congregation.

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restriction on access.

Other notes

Textual records were deposited at the Mennnonite Heritage Centre on a regular basis. Described by Bert Friesen 21 December 2001, updated by Conrad Stoesz June 15, 2007, Selenna Wolfe February 1, 2019, and Conrad Stoesz Feb 12 and March 9, 2021.

Accession numbers: 2007-044, 2021-002.

Emmanuel Mennonite Church (Winkler) fonds file list:

Volume 3901

  1. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1986)
  2. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1987)
  3. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1988)
  4. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1989), calendar of activities (1989)
  5. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1990), calendar of activities (1990)
  6. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), calendar of activities (1991)
  7. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1992), calendar of activities (1992)
  8. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1993), calendar of activities (1993)

Volume 4437

  1. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1994), directory (1994), special membership meeting minutes (1994); education committee minutes (1994); finance committee minutes (1994), mission committee minutes (1994), worship committee minutes (1994), council meeting minutes (1994)
  2. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1995)
  3. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), directory (1996)
  4. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1997)
  5. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1998)
  6. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1999)
  7. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2000)
  8. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2001)
  9. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2002)
  10. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2003)

Volume 4301

  1. Emmanuel Mennonite Church Education Committee Minutes. -- 1986-1993
  2. Emmanuel Mennonite Church Finance Committee Minutes. -- 1986-1993.
  3. Emmanuel Mennonite Church Missions Committee Minutes. -- 1987-1993
  4. Emmanuel Mennonite Church Worship Committee Minutes. -- 1986-1993.
  5. Emmanuel Mennonite Church Worship Calendars & Themes. -- 1986-1994

Volume 847

1.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2004)

2. Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2005)

3.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2006), monthly calendars, church directory, Committee minutes for the following: Fundraising Committee, Missions Committee, S.S. Workers Minutes.

4. Church directory. -- 2007.

Volume 4761

1. Annual report books. -- 1987-1995.

2. Annual report books. -- 1996-1998.

3. Annual report books. -- 2004-2006.

4. Membership meeting minutes. -- 1986-1991.

5. Membership meeting minutes. -- 1996--2000.

6. Membership meeting minutes. -- 2001-2006.

Volume 4762

1. Church council minutes. -- 1986-1990.

2. Church council minutes. -- 1991-1993

3. Church council minutes. -- 1994-1996.

4. Church council minutes -- 1996-2000

5. Church council minutes -- 2001-2002
6.  Church council minutes -- 2003-2006
 

Volume 4763

1. Worship Committee minutes -- 1996-2000

2. Worship Committee minutes -- 2001-2006

3. Fellowship Committee minutes -- 2001-2006.

4. Ministerial Committee minutes -- 1992-2000

5. Ministerial Committee minutes --2001-2006

Volume 5276

1.  Education Committee minutes -- 1997-2000

2.  Finance Committee minutes -- 1997-2006

3.  Missions Committee minutes -- 1997-2006

Volume 5315

1.  Annual Report Book - 1999-2003

2.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (1994)

3.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church council minutes (2001)

4.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2007) annual report book (2007), monthly calendars (2007), church directory (2007)

5.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church Worship Committee minutes (2007), church council minutes (2007), education committee minutes (2007), fellowship/food committee (2007), finance committee (2007), fund raising committee (2007), congregational meeting minutes (2007), ministerial meeting minutes (2007), missions committee minutes (2007).

Volume 5392

1.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2008), monthly calendars (2008), annual report book (2008, Worship Committee minutes (2008), Church council minutes (2008), Education Committee minutes (2008), Finance and Facilities Committee (2008), Fundraising Committee minutes, Ministerial Committee Minutes (2008), Missions Committee minutes (2008)

2.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church Education Committee Minutes 1994-1996

3.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church Missions Committee Minutes  1994-1996

4.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church Worship Committee Minutes 1994-1996

5.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church Finance Committee Minutes 1994-1996

6.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church Membership Meeting Minutes 1994-1996

Volume 5476

1.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2009), 2009 Calendars, 2009 Report Book, 2009 Committee Reports (Ministerial, Council, Education, Fellowship, Food Services, Finance & Facilities, Membership & Missions); Worship Manual (revised in 2009)

2.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2010); 2010 monthly calendars, 2010 report book, 2010 committe reports (Council, Education, Finance & Facilities, Ministerial, Worship, Missions, Fellowship, Food Service), pictoral directory, church address directory

3.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2011); Committee Reports 2011 (Council, Education, Fellowship, Finance & Facilities, Ministerial, Missions, Worship)

Volume 5697

1.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2012); annual report book (2012); congregational/committee meeting minutes (2012)

2.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2013); annual report book (2013); monthly calendars (2013); Directory (2013-14); Annual Report book (2013); Church Council Minutes (2013); Education Minutes (2013); Facilities (2013); Fellowship Committee (2013); Fellowship Committee (2013); Ministerial (2013); Missions (2013); Worship (2013); Annual Membership Meeting Minutes (2013).

3.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2014); directory (2013-2014); membership meeting minutes (2013 & 2014); church council meeting minutes (2014); education committee meeting minutes (2014); facilities meeting minutes (2014); fellowship committee meeting minutes (2014); ministerial meeting minutes (2014); missions committee meeting minutes (2014) worship committee meeting minutes (2014)


Volume 6358
1.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2016); monthly event calendars (2016)
2.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church annual report (2016); phone directory (2016-2017); Council Meeting minutes (2016), Education Committee minutes (2016), Facilities Committee minutes (2016), Fellowship Committee minutes (2016), Membership committee minutes (2016), Ministerial committee minutes (2016), Mission committee minutes (2016), worship committee minutes (2016)
3.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church bulletins (2017) [incomplete]
4.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church Financial Statements (2017); directory (2017-2018); annual report book (2017); Worship Committee Minutes (2017); Mission Committee Minutes (2017); Ministerial Minutes (2017); Annual Membership Meeting Minutes (2017); Education Committee (2017); Facilities Committee (2017); Church Council (2017); Monthly Calendars (2017).


E- Records.
Congregational minutes, reports, and bulletins. -- 2019-2020.