Men (volunteers) load boxes of meat cans into train car from truck parked beside r.r. tracks. At bottom left is Corny Rempel. At top right Orville Bechtel & to his right Oren Gimble. Similar photo in Mennogespraech, Mar. 1989
This photo is of two men [MCC volunteers?] transferring food from a truck box into a refrigerated train car in Kitchener, Ontario [the food is on its way to MCC programs in Germany?].
Note on back of photo: "A scene in Kitchener, Ont. showing one of the trucks bringing a load to the station where it is transferred to a refrigerator car." The photo is numbered "2"; 1092 is "4".
This file contains a sampling of the glass slides collected and used at Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in the 1940s. Some of the slides were created from photographs of church activities or supplied to the church by mission organizations. Others, mostly texts of hymns, were ordered from the United Church Publishing House in Toronto and used in informal worship services. All slides in this file bear the United Church Publishing House label (not visible in scans), which would indicate that this publishing house did the work of transforming all of these photographs into slides.
Several mission and service activities supported by the congregation are highlighted. They include: 1) The Stirling Crusaders program whereby children and youth grew produce, raised livestock, collected recycling and did odd jobs to raise funds for war relief and missions projects; 2) the activities of missionaries Lillian and Cyril Forth of the Sudan Interior Mission (a non-Mennonite mission in Nigeria supported by the congregation); 3) the House of Friendship in Kitchener. These slides were used by the congregation in meetings and informal services to highlight these mission and relief activities.
Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ontario)