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College of the Disciples at St. Thomas fonds
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- College of the Disciples at St. Thomas fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Date Range
- October 1895-November 1906
- Accession Number
- 2004-09
- Storage Location
- R9 S5 Sh3 B7
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- College of the Disciples at St. Thomas fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2004-09
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- R9 S5 Sh3 B7
- Date Range
- October 1895-November 1906
- Physical Description
- 5 volumes
- History / Biographical
- The College of the Disciples of St. Thomas was located on Hiawatha Street near Owaissa Street. The college was affiliated with the Park Avenue Church of Christ Disciples and the Princess Avenue Church of Christ Disciples, which merged in 1987 to form the St. Thomas Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The building which housed the college is now an apartment building.
- The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), while founded on American soil in the early 1800s, is uniquely equipped to live up to its identity that it is a "movement for wholeness in a fragmented world." The denomination was born in the 1800s, and continues to be influenced by its founding ideals of our unity in Christ with openness and diversity in practice and belief.
- The church is identified with the Protestant “mainstream” and is widely involved in social and other concerns. Disciples have vigorously supported world and national programs of education, agricultural assistance, racial reconciliation, care of the developmentally disabled, and aid to victims of war and calamity.
- The denomination now counts about 700,000 members in the United States and Canada in about 3,700 congregations. Numerically, the strength of the Disciples of Christ runs in a broad arc that sweeps from Ohio and Kentucky through the Midwest and down into Oklahoma and Texas.
- Custodial History
- Ed Phelps received these books from the Alexander Gallery. They were then forwarded to the Elgin County Archives. The ECA purchased the books from the Alexander Gallery.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of the records of the College of the Disciples of St. Thomas, divided into the following series:
- -Financial records, October 1895-October 1906.
- -Minutes and membership series, 1896-1906.
- Name Access
- College of the Disciples of St. Thomas
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
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