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Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church with horse sheds in the back. (circa 1935)"

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: "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: "WMS Picnic at the I.K. Weber residence on Schneider Avenue, c. 1930."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Sunday School class, 1930s. Back Row: Estella Weber, Cora Snyder, Florence Becker, Lena Weber, teacher, Eva Snyder, Nellie Bachert, Mary Plummer, Beulah Snyder. Front row: Miss Kraft, Ethel (Witmer) Weber, Unidentified, Unidentified." This was a class for young women.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Christmas pageant, 1938."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "U.K. Weber preaching in the early 1940s. Note the addition of an electric organ."

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: "Offering during a Crusader service, 1945. [Left to right]: Armand Musselman, Helen (Snyder) Reusser, Wally Litwiller, Ivan Kinzie, Olie Plummer, Wilfred Cressman, Art Plummer, Phyllis Plummer, Elaine (Rohr) Shantz, Wilfred Ulrich, Minister." Crusaders projects raised funds for mission and relief work.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: " 'Doing What We Can': Sharon Kinzie will donate her wages from helping to tidy the sanctuary." Children were encouraged to raise funds through the Crusaders program, started at Stirling during the Second World War, for relief and missions efforts.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "After the renovations. The congregation at worship, 1950s."

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."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The WMA Thanksgiving display was made up of items destined for the House of Friendship." An array of canned and fresh foods set out in front of the church's communion table by the Women's Missionary and Service group.

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."