Negatives also (3). Monument to Menno Simons with view of the plaque on the low brick wall nearby. Members of the tour group from the MWC in Amsterdam are walking up to the monument. C.f. 14.3983.
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)
Negative also. Used in CM 15-33-3. Participants at 8th MWC touring places important in Mennonite History (hereafter called MWC Tour). At Menno Simons memorial in Witmarsum. Smaller copy also (9x13). C.f. 14.4380.
Negative also. Used in CM 15-33-3 with art. on places visited by the MWC Tour. Front & side of Menno Simons Memorial Kerk in Witmarsum, erected in 1961. People are gathered informally in front of it.
Negative also. Used in CM 15-33-3. Side view of church building where Menno Simons last served as Roman Catholic rector. Located near the Memorial Kerk (see 14.3984). Visited by MWC Tour.
A portrait of Menno Simons, likely taken from a photo reproduction of a painting by Willem Bartel van der Kooi found in John Horsch, "Mennonite History, Volume I: Mennonites in Europe," 1950.