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This is a photo of (left to right): Taysir al-Masri, MCC agriculture extension agent and Abul Khalaf standing beside an olive tree that he planted in 1978 with the help of Mennonite Central Committee. The plentiful harvest from Khalaf's 120 olive trees has encouraged others in Jordan's Mafraq area to plant olive trees. Abul Khalaf has been harvesting olives for the past seven or eight years and has been pressing olive oil for the past four years.

This is a photo of the participants at the August 1987 orientation. Third row (left to right): Jerry Hertzler Martin, Jeanette Hertzler Martin, Sue Schultz, Fern L. Kuhns, David Moser, Torrie Martin Brubaker, Betty Rheinheimer, Rollin Rheinheimer, Gladys Leisey, Susan Reesor, Denise Berkey, Debbie Letkeman and Marvin Letkeman. Second row (left to right): Moses Mast, Sadie Mast, Paul Gascho, Sharon Gascho, Keith Kirkendall, Pam Kirkendall, Erica Jantzen, Gladys Peters, William Peters, Betty Jean Lindquist-LaRoche and David Adolph-LaRoche. First row (left to right): Kimberly Baldwin, Galen Helmuth, Karen King, Kevin King, Anne Carney, Harold K. Shenk, Caroline Stuart and Laurel Borisenko. The children in the photo are not named.

This is a photo of two Manobo men splitting bamboo to repair a community meeting hall. The Manobo are one of the many tribal groups in the Philippines who are losing land to wealthy neighbours through force and political influence.

This is a photo of (left to right): Adla Issa, administrative assistant for the MCC West Bank country representative; kathy Bergen, MCC worker from Coaldale, AB and Paul Myers, MCC secretary for the Middle East, preparing to eat the "thank-you" feast prepared for MCC staff by the people of Khalet Wahsheh, a village just south of Hebron on the Israeli-occupied Bank.

This is a photo of MCC Executive Committee Member Siegfried Bartel of British Columbia making a point at the MCC annual meeting, January 30-31 in Saskatoon. Beside him are board members Werner Kroeker of California and Jeanette Flaming of Oregon.

This is a photo (left to right): Yolawnda Edge, a friend of Sides, and Judith Sides of Philadelphia, Pa., MCC U. S. worker holding a banner that reads: "NONE OF US ARE FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE". The banner was sewed by Sides and the Atlanta MCCers cared it in a January 24, 1987, march in Forsyth County, Ga. The march was a witness against the hatred and intimidation of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups in that area. In the centre of the photo, in back, is MCC U. S. Atlanta worker Maureen Peats of Waterloo, ON.

This is a photo of a man squatting in a field beside a small "bombie". These "bombies" lie hidden in the soil and cause injury and death years after war is over. The continuing effects of war is a theme of "Making War in Peace", a slide set on life after war by Titus Peachey and Linda Peachey, former MCC workers in Laos.

This is a photo of two male and two female Mennonite workers in Eastern Europe relaxing at a table, having coffee, during early February East Europe Fraternity meetings in Eichstock, West Germany.

This is a photo of MCCer Margaret Tremwell (right) talking with two Nicaraguan health workers at the Rescate clinic in northern Nicaragua about the use of herbal medicine.

This is a photo of the participants at the January 1987 orientation (first of two photos). Third row (left to right): Carolyn Rudy, Jon Rudy, Douglas Zehr, David Franklin, Leland Miller, Carol McLean, Kathy McDonough, Linda J. Herr, Tom Ewert, Barbara Hege-Galle and Reinhard Hege-Galle. Second row (left to right): Ted Koopmans, Lidia Bustamante de Zehr, Sandra Reisinger Franklin, Louise Pinard, Real Bonneville, Laura Quass, Wes Hubert, June Thomas-son and Tim Thomas. First row (left to right): Joanne Koopmans, Mark Van Koevering, John Brejda, Joan Zahler and Karen Hubert. The children in the photo are not named.

This is a photo of John K. Stoner, executive secretary of MCC U. S. Peace Section and member of the Lancaster, Pa. Brethren in Christ Church, speaking at a workshop at NAE Convention, March 4 in Buffalo, N. Y.

This is a photo o f cross-stitch creations drying on a clothes line on the roof of the newly built centre for the Surief Needlework Program in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The $54,000 building was built with contributions from the Swedish Lutheran Church, Mennonite Central Committee and Canadian International Development Agency.