Womens Missionary Society, CWD
- CA W C02
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Women's Missionary Society/Missionary Women of Canada: (records of local congregations are filed under with congregation), district conventions, study guides, operations
Womens Missionary Society, CWD
Women's Missionary Society/Missionary Women of Canada: (records of local congregations are filed under with congregation), district conventions, study guides, operations
Gull Lake Bible Camp board minutes, programs, finances, policies
CWD Partner Denoms. Ministries
Ministries of denominations under which the CWD served and in which it was involved
In 1944 Rev. A. G. Knopp opened a Bible school in Vancouver in the basement of a private home. The school originally was an extension of Regina Bible Institute. It later moved to the Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church after the 1946 merger. The school closed in 1953 when Rev. Knopp was transferred to another pastorate. Originally named Western Bible Institute, the name was later changed to Evangelical Bible Institute.
Shirley Brander, with the assistance of her husband Clayton, spent most of their married life compiling this eleven volume collection of missionary newsletters, prayer letters, personal correspondence, and articles from publications related to missionaries of the United Missionary Church and its successors who served in many of the mission fields of the world.
The collection was actually started by Mrs. Gertrude Brander, Clayton’s mother, who began writing to missionaries in 1945. When Shirley and Clayton were married in 1950 Gertrude passed the responsibility to Shirley. Collecting missions documents and having missionaries in their home created a strong missions emphasis that impacted and influenced members of their family and the church community. The Branders completed their collecting about 2000 and subsequently donated their work to the EMCC National Collection.
Three hundred and thirteen missionary couples or single missionaries are addressed in the collection. For many of these the collection is extensive, for a few there is not much more than their names and mission fields served.
Burstall Hope Church began in 1914 as part of the Happy Land Mission of the NWCC Evangelical Church.
Records of an Evangelical congregation that began in 1919 on the prairies outside of Medicine Hat and has gone through many changes in building and congregation and continues to minister.
Records from the congregation in Condor, Alberta which opened in 1936 and closed in 1984.
Records of the congregation at Drayton Valley, Alberta which opened in 1986 and closed in 1991 under pastors David Turner and Greg Pritchard
Records of the congregation at James River, Alberta which opened in 1933 and closed in 1964.