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Information on back of photo: Participants (mostly young women) in the missionary skit "Out of Darkness into Light" pose in the choir loft with candles in hand; some are in costume. Members of the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church, B.C. , a CMC church. Taken Sept. 1959. See 1992-14.3965 for neg. & more information.

Negative also. Information from back of photo: front of the West Abbotsford Mennonite church, a CMC church, shown with motto "The World is our field, Go ye therefore…" Flowers have been used to decorate.

Used in CM 10-41-9. 2 scenes from the thanksgiving & mission festival of the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church, B.C. Pastor Peter J. Froese (left) & J. K. Klassen (right), evangelist stand. Flowers decorate the front of the church & above them hangs the German motto, "Ich will danken in der Grossen Gemeinde." ("I want to thank you in the greater church"). See related photo in 1998-14.273.

Used in CM 10-41-9. Evangelists J. K. Klassen (center) & Gerhard Shartner (left) with missionary Peter Voran (right) pose at the front of the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church, B.C., at their thanksgiving & mission festival. Flowers decorate the front of the chiurch and above them is the motto:"The world is our field."

Delegates (ministers) attending the CMC annual conference held at the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church. It is a large group & they stand on the front steps of the church. Compare to photo of the church building in the CM 9-46-13. 6 men are seated in the front of which J.J. Thiessen, chair of the conference is 3rd from the right.

Side view from a distance of BBI main building located beside the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church, site of the CMC annual meeting. Fotovix copy of neg. enclosed. See related photo in 1998-14.163. See 1992-14.3002 for view of BBI main building.

Enlarged to15.5x10.5 for use in the CM 6-27-6. Baptismal group of the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church.

Front row (left to right): unknown, Erna Rempel, Gerda (Hampel) Milne, Lena (Foth) Goertzen, Rev. A. A. Harder, Mary (Buhler) Sawatzky, Erna (Dueck) Wedel, possibly Katharina Bergen.

Middle row (left to right): Frank Reinke, Jacob Wiebe, Harold Funk, Rudolph Nickel, Victor Klassen, unknown, Albert Heinrichs, Siegfried Klassen, Jacob Wiebe, Abram A. Olfert.

Back row (left to right): Peter Krueger, Frank Reimer, Bruno Epp, possibly Bill Reimer, Jacob Tilitzky, Edward Enns, Heinrich Neudorf, Peter J. Froese

Used in CM 7-25-18. Baptismal group of the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church. See CM for their names. In the centre of the front row are: Rev. A. A. Harder (left) who officiated and Rev. P. J. Froese (right), the leading minister.

Back (left to right): Erika (Thiessen) Reimer, Hermann Reimer, Alvin Epp, Jake Janzen, Ed Peters, Peter Peters , John Dyck

Front: (left to right): Nettie (Regehr) Dyck, Linda (Loewen) Danallanko, Rev. Harder, Rev. Froese, Margaret (Froese) Reimer, Helen (Wiebe) Schroeder

Used in CM 8-26-5, neg. also. Baptismal group of 20 of the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church. Seated in the centre of the front row are: Rev. P. J. Froese (left) and Rev. A. A. Harder (right).

A group of people standing in an auditorium. On a copy of the original photo, people numbered 1-12 are unknown. Number 13 is Helen Ratzlaff, 14 is Peter Ratzlaff, 15 is Jacob Thielmann, 16 is Elfrieda Thielmann. Numbers 17-23 are unknown. 24 is Dietrich Rempel.

Irene Ens handing out bibles to Grade 5 children, September 1991. (Left to right): Christa Hendy, Irene Ens, (handing out bibles), Robin Toews, Jennifer Toews, Nathan Prachnau and Jonathan Falk.

Church choir and orchestra rehearsing on stage with director Jake Olfert.

Roof and exterior finish of the church has been removed.

Construction to Sunday School has been completed.

Mennonite church in Abbotsford (called West Abbotsford Mennonite Church after 1950).