First Mennonite Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) - Revision history

AlfRedekopp at 16:12, 11 September 2023

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SamSteiner: /* First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg Leading Ministers and some Associates * */ updated table

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First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg Leading Ministers and some Associates *: updated table

SamSteiner: /* First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg Leading Ministers and some Associates * */

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First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg Leading Ministers and some Associates *

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First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg Leading Ministers and some Associates *

SamSteiner at 14:12, 21 June 2021

2021-06-21T14:12:52Z

RichardThiessen: Added hyperlink.

2021-04-01T02:35:59Z

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AlfRedekopp: /* Additional Information */

2017-09-01T00:37:54Z

Additional Information

AlfRedekopp at 23:56, 31 August 2017

2017-08-31T23:56:48Z

RichardThiessen: Text replace - "Phone:" to "'''Phone:'''"

2017-01-18T21:56:05Z

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 First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg can trace its beginnings to the itinerant ministry of [[Ewert, Benjamin (1870-1958)|Benjamin Ewert]] of the [[Bergthal Mennonites|Bergthaler]] Mennonite Church, who paid regular visits to Mennonites in [[Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada)|Winnipeg]] starting around 1917. In August 1921, Ewert moved to Winnipeg and arranged for monthly worship services in facilities rented from the Zion Reformed Church on Alexander Avenue at Ellen. By the mid-1920s, recent Mennonite immigrants from the [[Soviet Union]] outnumbered the earlier Mennonites in Winnipeg.
-Mennonite girls worked as domestics in Winnipeg, prompting the establishment of a [[Girls' Homes|girls' home]] (Maedchenheim) in October 1926. The home was sponsored by the [[Home Mission Board (General Conference Mennonite Church)|Home Mission]] of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference]], who assigned minister Gerhard A. Peters and his wife as house-parents. Gerhard Peters gave instruction to baptismal candidates, but it was assumed that they would be baptized by a bishop from their rural home. With more and more Russian Mennonite immigrants in Winnipeg, the Conference of Mennonites in Canada asked Ältester [[Klassen, Johann Peter (1868-1947)|Johann P. Klassen]], who lived in Starbuck, to provide communion and baptism services in Winnipeg.
+Mennonite girls worked as domestics in Winnipeg, prompting the establishment of a [[Girls' Homes|girls' home]] (Maedchenheim) in October 1926. The home was sponsored by the [[Home Mission Board (General Conference Mennonite Church)|Home Mission]] of the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference]], who assigned minister Gerhard A. Peters and his wife as house-parents. Gerhard Peters gave instruction to baptismal candidates, but it was assumed that they would be baptized by an ''Ältester'' from their rural home. With more and more Russian Mennonite immigrants in Winnipeg, the Conference of Mennonites in Canada asked Ältester [[Klassen, Johann Peter (1868-1947)|Johann P. Klassen]], who lived in Starbuck, to provide communion and baptism services in Winnipeg.
 First Mennonite Church in Winnipeg was known as the Winnipeg Schoenwieser Mennonite church until 1951, a name chosen in honour of the Russian home village of Ältester Johann P. Klassen. Sometimes First Mennonite Church is considered the mother church of the [[Schoenwiese Mennonite Church group (Manitoba)|Schoenwiese Mennonite Church group]], because of its size and prominence within the group. Klassen moved to Winnipeg in 1929. Johann H. Enns from Ste. Elisabeth, Manitoba, moved to Winnipeg in 1932 to work full-time as Aeltester Klassen’s assistant, since the number of Schoenwieser Mennonite Church branches had increased significantly.

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 | [[Friesen, John R. (1934-2011)|John R. Friesen]]*|| 1991-1999
 |-
-| Mark von Kampen*|| 1990-
+| Mark von Kampen*|| 1990-2022
 |-
 | Kathy Koop|| 2002-2021

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 | Mark von Kampen*|| 1990-
 |-
-| Kathy Koop|| 2002-2020?
+| Kathy Koop|| 2002-2021
 |-
 | David Driedger|| 2010-

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 {| class="wikitable"
 |-
-! Minister !! Years of service
+! Minister !! Years of<br />service
 |-
 | Gerhard A. Peters|| 1925-1930
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 | Erika Enns Rodine*|| 2010-
 |}
 === First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg Membership ===
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"

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 | Mark von Kampen*|| 1990-
 |-
-| Kathy Koop|| 2002-
+| Kathy Koop|| 2002-2020?
 |-
-| David Driedger*|| 2010-
+| David Driedger|| 2010-
 |}
 === First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg Membership ===
-{| class="wikitable"
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
 |-
 ! Year !! Membership
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 |-
 | 2000|| 1,280
 |}
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 | Jacob H. Wiebe|| 1965-1973
 |-
-| John Neufeld|| 1973-1983
+| [[Neufeld, John H. (1933-2021)|John H. Neufeld]]|| 1973-1983
 |-
 | Victor Kliewer|| 1984-1985

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-[[File:92-14-3665.jpg|400px|thumb|right|''First Mennonite Church in the early 1950s.<br />
+[[File:92-14-3665.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''First Mennonite Church in the early 1950s.<br />
 Source: Canadian Mennonite photo'']]
-[[File:FirstMCWpg.jpg|400px|thumb|right|''First Mennonite Church, August 2017.<br/>Photo: Bert Friesen.'']]
+[[File:FirstMCWpg.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''First Mennonite Church, August 2017.<br/>Photo: Bert Friesen.'']]
 First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg can trace its beginnings to the itinerant ministry of [[Ewert, Benjamin (1870-1958)|Benjamin Ewert]] of the [[Bergthal Mennonites|Bergthaler]] Mennonite Church, who paid regular visits to Mennonites in [[Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada)|Winnipeg]] starting around 1917. In August 1921, Ewert moved to Winnipeg and arranged for monthly worship services in facilities rented from the Zion Reformed Church on Alexander Avenue at Ellen. By the mid-1920s, recent Mennonite immigrants from the [[Soviet Union]] outnumbered the earlier Mennonites in Winnipeg.
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 First Mennonite Church in Winnipeg was known as the Winnipeg Schoenwieser Mennonite church until 1951, a name chosen in honour of the Russian home village of Ältester Johann P. Klassen. Sometimes First Mennonite Church is considered the mother church of the [[Schoenwiese Mennonite Church group (Manitoba)|Schoenwiese Mennonite Church group]], because of its size and prominence within the group. Klassen moved to Winnipeg in 1929. Johann H. Enns from Ste. Elisabeth, Manitoba, moved to Winnipeg in 1932 to work full-time as Aeltester Klassen’s assistant, since the number of Schoenwieser Mennonite Church branches had increased significantly.
-[[File:Aelt. Johann H. Enns.jpg|thumbnail|right|''Johann H. Enns, Aeltester from 1939-1964.<br />
+[[File:Aelt. Johann H. Enns.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Johann H. Enns, Aeltester from 1939-1964.<br />
 Source: Jubilate, p. 32'']]
 The First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg first met in and later purchased the Zion Reformed Church building on Alexander Avenue. They built their own church building on Notre Dame at Alverston in 1950. This building was further expanded in 1958 and 1983.
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 | Franz Wiebe|| 1986-2008
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-| John R. Friesen*|| 1991-1999
+| [[Friesen, John R. (1934-2011)|John R. Friesen]]*|| 1991-1999
 |-
 | Mark von Kampen*|| 1990-

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 Microfilmed records at [http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/programs/archives/index.htm  Mennonite Heritage Centre.]
 = Additional Information =
-'''Address:''' 922 Notre Dame Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0M9
+'''Address:''' 922 Notre Dame Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0M9 (Co-ordinates 49.904167 -97.168611)
 '''Phone:''' 204-772-2419

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 '''Address:''' 922 Notre Dame Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0M9
-<strong>Phone:</strong> 204-772-2419
+'''Phone:''' 204-772-2419
 <strong>Website:</strong> [http://firstmennonitechurch.ca/ First Mennonite Church (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)]