Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)
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Vancouver, the great Canadian seaport (2006 estimated population, 611,869; 2007 metropolitan area estimate, 2,249,725) on the Pacific coast, is situated at the southwest corner of the province of British Columbia. Mennonites have been living in Vancouver since 1930. By the late 1950s their number was about 3,000, including Vancouver's smaller twin city, New Westminster. At that time most of the Mennonites lived in South Vancouver, where the four churches were located - two General Conference Mennonite and two Mennonite Brethren. There were 5 Mennonite physicians practicing in Vancouver. In the late 1950s, two homes, the Mary Martha Girls' Home and Bethel Girls' Home, cared for the single women working in the city.
Following World War II the number of Mennonites in Vancouver increased due to the relocation of Mennonites from the Fraser Valley and other areas of Canada as well as the immigration of Mennonites from Europe and South America. The population of Vancouver increased dramatically beginning in the 1980s due to immigration from Hong Kong and mainland China, other south-east Asian countries, India, and in more recent years, from South America. Both provincial Mennonite conferences focused much of their church planting work within a number of these immigrant groups, drastically changing the face of the Mennonite church in Vancouver.
Mennonite congregations in Metro Vancouver, 2008
Congregation | Denomination | Location | Members |
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Arabic Evangelical Church | Mennonite Brethren | Surrey | 33 |
Bethel Chinese Christian MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 259 |
Bethel Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Langley | 246 |
Burnaby Pacific Grace Church | Mennonite Brethren | Burnaby | 195 |
Cedar Park Church | Mennonite Brethren | Delta | 137 |
Chinese Grace Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Vancouver | 70 |
Coast Hills Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Surrey | 52 |
Culloden MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 192 |
Deaf Community Christian Church | Mennonite Brethren | Burnaby | 53 |
Discovery Church of Ridge Meadows | Mennonite Brethren | Maple Ridge | |
Eagle Ridge Bible Fellowship | Mennonite Brethren | Coquitlam | 138 |
East Ridge Community Fellowship | Mennonite Brethren | Maple Ridge | 60 |
Emmaus | Mennonite Brethren | Surrey | |
Esperanza Multicultural Church | Mennonite Brethren | Burnaby | 120 |
Faithwerks Oakridge | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | |
First United Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Vancouver | 282 |
First United Spanish Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Vancouver | 50 |
Fraserview MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Richmond | 211 |
Grace Ethiopian Evangelical Church | Mennonite Brethren | Burnaby | 85 |
Gracepoint Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Surrey | 403 |
Heritage Mountain Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Port Moody | 105 |
Hindi Punjabi Gospel Chapel | Mennonite Brethren | Surrey | 56 |
House For All Nations | Mennonite Brethren | Burnaby | 300 |
Hyde Creek Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Port Coquitlam | 75 |
Imago Dei Christian Community | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 10 |
Jericho Ridge Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Langley | 117 |
Killarney Park MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 141 |
Langley Mennonite Fellowship | Mennonite Church | Langley | 110 |
Lao Christian MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Surrey | 38 |
Living Hope Christian Fellowship | Mennonite Church | Surrey | 149 |
Maple Ridge Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Maple Ridge | 135 |
Mennonite Japanese Christian Fellowship | Mennonite Church | Surrey | 15 |
New Hope Christian Church | Mennonite Brethren | Delta | 156 |
North Langley Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Langley | 452 |
North Shore Bethel Christian MB | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 88 |
North Shore Japanese Church | Mennonite Church | West Vancouver | 11 |
North Shore Pacific Grace Mandarin | Mennonite Brethren | North Vancouver | 103 |
North Shore Pacific Grace MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | North Vancouver | 14 |
Pacific Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | |
Pacific Grace Mandarin Church | Mennonite Brethren | Burnaby | 104 |
Pacific Grace MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 322 |
Pacific North | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | |
Peace Chinese Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Richmond | 60 |
Peace Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Richmond | 189 |
Point Grey Inter-Mennonite Fellowship | MB / MC | Vancouver | 57 |
Port Moody Pacific Grace MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Port Moody | 335 |
Potter's Hand Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | North Vancouver | 17 |
Real Life Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Surrey | |
Reality Vancouver | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | |
Richmond Bethel Church | Mennonite Brethren | Richmond | 158 |
Richmond Chinese MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Richmond | 197 |
Richmond Pacific Grace MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Richmond | 50 |
Sherbrooke Korean Mennonite Fellowship | Mennonite Church | Vancouver | 12 |
Sherbrooke Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Vancouver | 223 |
Silver Valley Community Church | Mennonite Brethren | Maple Ridge | 22 |
South Hill MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 116 |
South Langley MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Langley | 210 |
South Vancouver Pacific Grace MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 156 |
Surrey Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Surrey | 15 |
Tri-City Chinese Christian Church | Mennonite Brethren | Port Moody | 50 |
Urban Journey | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | |
Vancouver Chinese MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 110 |
Vancouver Chinese Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Vancouver | 170 |
Vancouver Christian Logos Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 101 |
Vancouver Vietnamese MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 7 |
Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite Church | Mennonite Church | Vancouver | 31 |
Westside Church | Mennonite Brethren | Vancouver | 76 |
White Rock Mennonite Christian Fellowship | Mennonite Church | White Rock | 30 |
Willingdon MB Church | Mennonite Brethren | Burnaby | 2,031 |
Total | 9,510 |
The information for this table is taken from the 2007 directories for the British Columbia Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches and Mennonite Church British Columbia.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the Mennonite church in Vancouver was multi-ethnic and multi-lingual, with approximately 10,000 members and several thousand more attending worship services every Sunday.
Author(s) | Heinrich Goerz |
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Richard D. Thiessen | |
Date Published | December 2008 |
Cite This Article
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Goerz, Heinrich and Richard D. Thiessen. "Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. December 2008. Web. 16 Aug 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vancouver_(British_Columbia,_Canada)&oldid=85649.
APA style
Goerz, Heinrich and Richard D. Thiessen. (December 2008). Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 August 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vancouver_(British_Columbia,_Canada)&oldid=85649.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 798. All rights reserved.
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