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A group at the first meeting of the Basler Glaubenskonferenz, an annual summer weekend conference sponsored by Mennonite Central Committee, in 1947. Sign above the door reads: "Dein Reich Komme."

This photomontage includes graphic elements, portraits of individual choir members, and a photograph of a modest building (possibly a house church). Across the top are the words: "Singet dem herrn ein neues Lied : 1971 : Sangerchor von Batamschinsk." Names of choir members are identified as follows in the photograph. Bottom row (left to right): L. Klassen, E. Dueck, L. Pauls, K. Guenther, K. Selig, K. Sudermann. Second row (left to right): T. Martens, A. Martens, J. Pauls, A. Tiessen, A. Siebert, H. Toews. Third row (left to right): A. Duerksen, M. Voth, A. Regehr, A. Schultz, N. Klassen, A. Neufeld, L. Duerksen, L. Tiessen, M. Martens, T. Pauls. Fourth row (left to right): H. Dueckmann, W. Dueckmann, P. Dueckmann, H. Pauls, A. Dueck, A. Guenther, J. Janzen, H. Janzen, J. Martens, J. Duerksen, L. Duerksen. Top row (left to right): H. Schultz, J. Dueck, J. Siebert, K. Pauls, J. Schultz, D. Pauls, J. Pauls, K. Klassen, P. Regehr, K. Funk, K. Duerksen.
The area was a "closed city" until near the end of the Soviet era. This photograph was likely produced to celebrate the dedication service of the church building on 22 Aug 1971.

Construction of Vineland United Mennonite Church, August 1957

Johann J. Wichert as a younger man, about 1930

Laying of the cornerstone for Vineland United Mennonite Church, June 1957

Lena Fransen with children in her Sunday school class in the late 1940s.

A joint Sunday School teachers convention with the Vineland United Mennonite and Vineland Mennonite Brethren churches, 1940. The group is standing on the steps of the Vineland United Mennonite Church on Victoria Avenue. Note in German on the back of one photo indicates this is the 10th year anniversary of the convention, and the last time it was held jointly between the two churches.

At the opening of the new wing of the United Mennonite Home for the Aged in Vineland, Ontario. L-R: G. Boese, Building Committee Chair; N. Drew, Provincial director of homes for the aged; J. Epp, Board of Directors Chair.

Vineland United Mennonite Church on Victoria Avenue, nearing the end of construction, 1935. Congregants are exiting from the building.

Sunday School teachers at Vineland United Mennonite Church. Front row (left to right): Mrs. A. Rempel, Marie Neufeld, Louise Koop, Lena Fransen, Mary Fransen, Margaret Peters. Back (left to right): Cornelius Kaethler, Peter Dyck, John G. Neufeld, Abram H. Harder, Peter Neufeld, Abram A. Wall, Jacob Koop.

Vineland United Mennonite Church Bible School with Rev. A.H. Harder and Rev. J. Wichert

Vineland United Mennonite Church baptismal class, 1953. Back (L-R): Victor Dick, Peter Hildebrandt, Waldo Harder, Edward Goertzen. Front (L-R): Mary Penner, Rev. N.N. Fransen, Rev. A. Harder, Bishop J.J. Wichert, Deacon P.G. Janzen, Elsa Janzen