52 Treffer anzeigen

Silver Lake Mennonite Camp staff in their office at the Pandora Press building (formerly The Gun Room store) at the corner of Kent Avenue and Charles Street, Kitchener. Left to right: Reynold Friesen (director), Paul Janzen (computer consultant and former assistant director), Henry Pauls (administrator), Janelle Weber (assistant director), Mike Shantz (assistant director).

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Generations of hard work: the Gordon & Verna Weber Farm (circa, 1950). Formerly U.K. & Maggie Weber Farm, Old Chicopee Road."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church decked out with gates and flowers for Sunday School Promotion Sunday. Note the open Bible and motto as U.K. Weber requested. The presence of the piano indicates the photo was taken after 1932."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Norman and Clara Critchison." Norman was choir director at Stirling Avenue beginning in the 1930s, and had had been the organist at Benton Street Baptist Church. Clara (Killer) Critchison was the first person to sing a solo at Stirling during a church service.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "These young friends made different decisions in the face of war. l to r: Donald Millar, Gordon Eby, Bob Rahn, Doug Millar. The Millars served as COs. Gordon Eby, a United Church member, and Bob Rahn, a Lutheran, joined the Air Force. Rahn was killed overseas." Donald and Doug Millar are in civilian clothes while Gordon and Bob are in military uniform.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "A Stirling tradition, Cradle Roll graduates walk through the gates to officially join the Sunday School. Erma Cressman, teacher, 1956." A group of kindergarten-age children walk through wooden gates set up in the sanctuary of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Starting a new tradition. Stirling youth at the Kitchener train station heading to camp. Circa 1945."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Reminding the congregation of far-off mission fields. Wayfarer girls, circa 1957, dress in saris [from India]. Left to right: Carol Shantz, Diane Cressman, Jenny Feick, Marjorie Snyder, Nancy Leis, Margaret Cameron."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Winfield Fretz at Stirling, 1988." Fretz standing addressing a group of people in the church basement.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The evolution of the Clothing Centre. From the church basement to the church house at the corner of Stirling and Weber. (1991) Left to right: Erma Cressman, Judy Shantz, Marguerite Cameron, Judy Klassen, Bob Shantz, Lenore Dueck."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Ordination service for Mary Mae Schwartzentruber, 1982. Standing, left to right: Katherine Schwartzentruber, Doug Millar, Herbert Schultz, Peter Janzen, Janice Rohr."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "New beginnings. The office of the Peace and Justice Working Group and Coalition for Refugee Support. Standing: Vernon Leis, Pauline Buhr, Mary Mae Schwartzentruber. Seated: Angelica Reyes, Carrie Harder."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The completed facade, 1992."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The new basement set for a potluck." The fellowship hall at Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church with the "WMA Room" in the background.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling members showed they still have 'a mind to work.' The participation of many brought the cost of renovation in 1992 down significantly. Left to right: Reuben Musselman's son Tom and other volunteers begin work." Men working by hand and with a backhoe tearing up the front yard of the church as part of the renovation.