La Glace Bible Fellowship (La Glace, Alberta, Canada)

Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union began arriving in northern Alberta in 1926. Services began in 1927 and the congregation formally organized in 1928 as the La Glace Mennonite Brethren Church. A meeting house was constructed in 1929. These families came from various Mennonite conference backgrounds. In 1934 they founded a Mennonite Bible School which existed until 1946. The congregation joined the Alberta Mennonite Brethren Conference in 1929.

In the 1940s families began to leave for the Fraser Valley, BC. The transition from German to English occurred in the 1950s. Ministers prior to 1955 included G. Wiens, J. Schmidt, Martin Hamm, N. Siebert and A. Janz.

In 1961 the church built a new meeting house using the old Bible School building. A subsequent building program took place in 1980. The name of the congregation was changed to the La Glace Bible Fellowship Church in 1985.

Bibliography

Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies. "La Glace Bible Fellowship." Web. 14 March 2012. http://www.mbconf.ca/home/products_and_services/resources/published_genealogies/mb_provincial_conferences_and_church_congregation_records/alberta_archives/la_glace_bible_fellowship_archives/.

Epp, Mary Konrad. "History of the La Glace Mennonite Brethren Bible School, 1933-1946." Unpublished typescript, 1987, 4 pp. Mennonite Historical Society of Canada collection, Mennonite Archives of Ontario.

Jubilee Celebration: Mennonite Brethren Church, La Glace, Alberta, 1928-1978, 35 pp.

Mennonite Brethren Herald (1 September 1978): 19; (27 May 1988): 9.

Siebert, Mary N. "An Historic Overview of the MB Church of La Glace Now Called the La Glace Bible Fellowship." Unpublished typescript, 1985, 4 pp. Mennonite Historical Society of Canada collection, Mennonite Archives of Ontario.

Toews, John A. A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church: Pilgrims and Pioneers. Winnipeg, MB: Kindred Press, 1975: 166, 262.

Archival Records

Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Winnipeg, MB: Volume 334, Reel 54.

Additional Information

Address: Box 98, La Glace, AB T0H 2J0

Telephone: 780-568-4341

Denominational Affiliations:

Alberta Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1929-present)

Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1929-present)

General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1929-2002)

La Glace Bible Fellowship Ministers

Minister	Years
Johann P. Schmidt	1928–1937
Abram H. Konrad	1938–1943
Martin Hamm	1944–1945
Abram H. Konrad	1945–1951
John Kroeker	1951-1952
Ed C. Martens	1952–1957
Henry Willms	1957-1960
George Block	1960–1962
Victor Pankratz	1963-1975
Henry Loewen (interim)	1975-1976
Dwight Nickel	1976–1978
John P. Schmidt (interim)	1978
Art Isaac	1979–1983
Peter Boschman	1984–1994
Jack Janzen	1995
Henry Willms	1996
Nelson Senft	1997-present

La Glace Bible Fellowship Membership

Year	Members
1937	73
1955	52
1965	45
1985	48
1995	66
2000	84
2010	65

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 264. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

To cite this page:

MLA style: Toews, A. A. and Richard D. Thiessen. "La Glace Bible Fellowship (La Glace, Alberta, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. March 2012. Web. 24 May 2013. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/L18ME.html.

APA style: Toews, A. A. and Richard D. Thiessen. (March 2012). La Glace Bible Fellowship (La Glace, Alberta, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 May 2013, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/L18ME.html.

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