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Last updated 7 February 2007

Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Title: Pleasant Point Mennonite Church fonds
Dates: 1973-2006
Extent: 16 cm of textual records

Historical note

The Pleasant Point congregation began began services in 1924 and formally organized in 1925. The group was originally part of the Nordheimer church group which included Dundurn, Hanley and Elbow, all under the guidance of one bishop. Johann J. Klassen is considered the founding leader of the group. Though the congregation was allowed use of their current church building in 1928 by the Moravians, the purchase was not actually completed until 1950. Major renovations were done in 1959. The meeting house is about 15 km south of Clavet, Saskatchewan and equally north of Dundurn, Saskatchewan. The last bishop Gerhard Warkentin retired in 1972, and the subsequently the Nordheimer church group dissolved by 1975, after which Pleasant Point Mennonite Church emerged as an independent congregation (1976). The membership was 71 in 1976 and 95 in 1995. The leaders of the congregation were: Gerhard Zacharias (1930-1974), Heinrich Schröder (1944-1983), Rudy Daniels (1984-2000), Harry Harder (2001- ).

Scope and content note

The fonds contains annual reports (1973-1977), histories (1976, 1995), year-end reports (1977-1991), congregational journal (1978-2001), membership list (1978), Gemeinde meeting minutes (1978), Gemeinde council meeting minutes (1978), congregational meeting minutes (1979-2000), church council meeting minutes (1979), programmes (1977-1979), financial statement (1979), year-end reviews (1980-1991), and bulletins (1992-2002). The records pertain to the founding and development of the Pleasant Point Mennonite Church at Clavet, Saskatchewan.

Finding aids

Inventory file list available.

Notes

Restrictions on access

No restrictions on access.

Other notes

Textual records have been deposited by the congregation at the Mennonite Heritage Centre on a regular basis. Described by Bert Friesen 28 February 2002.

Pleasant Point Mennonite Church fonds file list:

Volume 1621

  1. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church annual report (1973)
  2. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church annual report (1974)
  3. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church annual report (1976), a brief meeting house history (1976)
  4. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church annual report (1977), year-end service programme (1977)
  5. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church congregational journal (1978), membership list (1978), Gemeinde meeeting minutes (1978), Gemeinde council meeting minutes (1978)
  6. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church congregational journal (1979), church council meeting minutes (1979), executive committee meeting minutes (1979), funeral programme (1979), congregational meeting minutes (1979), financial statement (1979)
  7. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church congregational journal (1980), congregational meeting minutes (1980), year-end review (1980)
  8. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church year-end reviews (1981, 1982)
  9. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church year-end reviews (1983)
  10. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church year-end review (1984)
  11. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church year-end review (1985)
  12. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church year-end review (1986)
  13. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church year-end review (1987)
  14. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church year-end review (1988)
  15. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church year-end review (1989)
  16. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church congregational journal (1993), year-end reviews (1990, 1991)
  17. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church brief congregational history (1995), bulletins (1992-1994)
  18. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (1995)
  19. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (1996), congregational journal (1996), congregational meeting minutes(1996), DVBS report (1996)
  20. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (1997), congregational journal (1997)

Volume 4688

  1. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (1998), congregational journal (1998), congregational meeting minutes (1998), newsletter (1998)
  2. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (1999), congregational journal (1999)
  3. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (2000), congregational journal (2000), congregational meeting minutes (2000), directory (2000)
  4. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (2001), congregational journal (2001)
  5. Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (2002)

Volume 2879

1.  Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (2003)

2.  Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (2004) incomplete

3.  Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (2005)

4.  Pleasant Point Mennonite Church bulletins (2006)