Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Homemakers supported young couples by organizing both serious and social events. A panel discussion, 1954. Left to right: John Brubacher, Marjorie Musselman, Doris Bechtel, Wilfred Erb."
A slide showing a shepherd and sheep, meant to evoke traditional life in the Bethlehem area. Produced by the United Church Publishing House in Toronto, this slide was likely used in informal church services, Sunday schools, or youth events at Stirling Avenue. Photographer is identified as "S.T.B."
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Alice Bachert, on a rare furlough, visits with the Rohr family and Andrew Shelly. Left to right: Andrew Shelly, Gloria Coats (Rohr), Elaine Shantz (Rohr), Alice Bachert, Ken Rohr, Edward Rohr, Milton Rohr."
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Anna Cameron at Stirling's 75th Anniversary with the silver service given to the Church in memory of her parents, Allan and Catherine Shantz, in 1954."
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Full circle. MCC Country Representative Bonnie Klassen receives Alice Bachert's shawl to take back to Colombia as a gift from Stirling. From left: Anne Eby Millar, Bonnie, Anita Schroeder Kipfer."
A large group, mainly of children, stand in front of a church building. The image appears to be reproduced from a newspaper or magazine. This could be a Mennonite church conference, although Stirling Avenue was an independent congregation in 1939. This could also be a conference for the "Lord's Acre Movement," an American organization that inspired Stirling's Crusaders program.
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Millar family hosting a bicycle hike, 1940s. Their farmhouse still stands on Highland Road." A large group of Stirling Avenue youth and their bikes gathered beside the Ida (Bergey) Millar and Fred Millar home.
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "'Members met each other much as they always have.' Stirling's Catherine Shantz visits with Ontario Conference members Fannie and David B. Betzner." Fannie (Hess) Betzner was from Pennsylvania, which accounts for her more traditional form of Mennonite dress.
