Mennonite Pioneer Mission/Native Ministries worker Ernie Sawatzky sitting with a young man wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots in Cross Lake, Manitoba.
A photo of a Gert Sawatzky pulling a sled of goods through the snow at Cross Lake, Manitoba. Gert and her husband Ernie served as missionaries in Cross Lake for a few years with Mennonite Pioneer Mission.
Henry Berg and several men are building the chapel. Building homes & schools was also part of MPM's work. See 14.4255 re. completed building & Otto Hamm's book, p.16 where this photo was used.
Negative also. Margaret Hamm and children stand in front of mission home with six Cross Lake children and Helen Willms. They began Sunday School Nov. 1956 when the Hamm family came to Cross Lake. See 14.4252 f., CM 7-16-6.
Negative also. Used in CM 5-41-5. Mission chapel at Cross Lake; end & side of building Built with the joint support of MPM & the CMYO. Otto Hamm was in charge; dedicated Oct. 6. Smaller cropped photo (8.5x7.5) also. See 14.4268.
People constructing the Mennonite Pioneer Mission house in Cross Lake, Manitoba. Otto Hamm, who served as a missionary there for many years, might be in the photo with a J. Hildebrandt.
The old Mennonite Pioneer Mission house and Jeremiah Ross's house in Cross Lake, Manitoba. The mission house is on the left while the Ross house is on the right.
