Sommerfelder Mennonite Church (Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada)
The Sommerfeld Mennonite congregation at Burns Lake, BC began services in the 1940s. The first building was occupied in 1957. The congregation originated through colonization from the Prairies.
The congregation had been an independent congregation with historical connections to the Sommerfelder Mennonites. The language of worship was German. The congregation had closed by the 1970s or early 1980s. The congregational leader had been Bishop Franz Thiessen.
Bibliography
Reimer, Margaret L. One Quilt, Many Pieces. Waterloo, ON: Mennonite Publishing Service, 1983: 37.
Bergen, Peter. History of the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church : That is the Background and First Hundred Years of the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church. Altona, MB: The Church, 2001: 213.
Additional Information
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MLA style: Epp, Marlene. "Sommerfelder Mennonite Church (Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. December 1986. Web. 26 May 2013. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S661.html.
APA style: Epp, Marlene. (December 1986). Sommerfelder Mennonite Church (Burns Lake, British Columbia, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 26 May 2013, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S661.html.
