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Last updated February 18, 2021

Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Title: Superb Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1935-2020
Extent: 64 cm of textual records

Historical note

The Superb Mennonite Church began as one of  the meeting places within the Ebenfeld Mennonite Church (Gemeinde) in 1928. Mennonites from Russia arrived in the Herschel area  of Saskatchewan in the winter of 1924-1925. They organized the Ebenfeld church (Gemeinde) in 1925 and joined the Conference of Mennonites. In  1926 there were 117 members.  In  1936 the membership was 278.  As one congregation or meeting place within a multi-congregation church (Gemeinde),  their size  remained small, with fewer than 100 members. They met in homes until  1944-1945 when they purchased the Luseland Dispatch Printing Office and converted it into a regular meeting place on the Wiebe farmyard. In 1972 the Ebenfeld Gemeinde dissolved and subsequently Superb Mennonite Church became an independent congregation in 1973. (The church is located 24 km west  of Kerrobert, 1.5 km south of Hwy. 51.) The membership was 45 in 1973 and 50 in 2000. The leaders of the congregation were: Rev P.J. Klassen (1928-1948); Rev P.A. Warkentin (1934-1974); Werner Zacharias (1974-1986); Dave Feick (1986-1994); Eileen Wiebe (1994-1999); Grant Martens (2001-2006); Rev Lois Siemens (2006-2017).  The Church held its last service on May 21, 2020.

Scope and content note

This fonds contains bulletins (1982-2017), annual reports (1964-2019), programmes (1990-1994), membership lists (1972-2017), constitutions (1939, 1991, 1997, 2003), church council meeting minutes (1994-1999), congregational meeting minutes (1991-2001), financial records (1937-2004), Christmas plays and materials (1950-1989), and Ladies Aid materials (1935-2011). The records document some of the activities and life of this congregation.

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

accession number 2004-030, 2020-023.

Other notes

Textual records were deposited by the congregation at the Mennonite Heritage Centre on an irregular basis. Described by Bert Friesen 21 January 2002, updated by Connie Wiebe Feb 11, 2013, Conrad Stoesz May 3, 2013, and Selenna Wolfe Feb. 26, 2019, and Andrew Klassen Brown November 2020.

Superb Mennonite Church fonds file list:

Volume 3903

1. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1982-1988), Annual meeting minutes and reports (1983-1987), ordination service report (1987), financial reports (1970-1982), memberhsip list (1971).
2. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1989), annual reports (1989)
3. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1990), obituary of Wiebe and funeral service programme (1990), annual reports (1990)
4. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1991), congregational meeting minutes (1991), membership list (1991), resolution on the gulf war (1991), annual reports (1991), Constitution (1991).
5. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1992), congregational meeting minutes (1992), funeral service programmes (1992), membership list (1972), 40^th anniversary service bulletin (1984), annual reports (1992)
6. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1993), congregational meeting minutes (1993), annual reports (1993),
7. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1994), memo of understanding (1994), annual reports (1994), congregational meeting minutes (1994), funeral service programmes (1994)
8. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1995), congregational meeting minutes (1995), annual reports (1995)

Volume 4493

1. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), congregational meeting minutes (1996), annual reports (1996)
2. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1997), annual reports (1997), congregational meeting minutes (1997)
3. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1998), congregational meeting minutes (1998), annual reports (1998)
4. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (1999), congregational meeting minutes (1999)
5. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2000), annual reports (2000), congregational meeting minutes (2001)
6. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2001)
7. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2002)

Volume 2767

1. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2003)
2. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins(2004), annual report book (2004); Constitution (revised Sept./03)
3. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2005)
4. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2006)
5. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2007)
6. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2008)
7. Superb Mennonite Church bulletins (2009)