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Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church with horse sheds in the back. (circa 1935)"

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Generations of hard work: the Gordon & Verna Weber Farm (circa, 1950). Formerly U.K. & Maggie Weber Farm, Old Chicopee Road."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Susannah Cressman with Fred, her daughter Laura's son. The occasion was a visit by Laura and Milton from their 'home in the far west.'"

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Marshall O. Bingeman's Kitchener Dairies. Bingeman would offer part of this building for use by the House of Friendship and the NRRO/MCC [Nonresistant Relief Organization and Mennonite Central Committee]." The building was at 205 King Street East, Kitchener.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Norman and Clara Critchison." Norman was choir director at Stirling Avenue beginning in the 1930s, and had had been the organist at Benton Street Baptist Church. Clara (Killer) Critchison was the first person to sing a solo at Stirling during a church service.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "U.K. Weber preaching in the early 1940s. Note the addition of an electric organ."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Rev. Andrew Shelly. Even ministers were affected by wartime gasoline rationing." Rev. Shelly on a bicycle facing the camera.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "A 1940s wedding party. Wellington and Dorcas (Ramseyer) Cressman and attendants."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Offering during a Crusader service, 1945. [Left to right]: Armand Musselman, Helen (Snyder) Reusser, Wally Litwiller, Ivan Kinzie, Olie Plummer, Wilfred Cressman, Art Plummer, Phyllis Plummer, Elaine (Rohr) Shantz, Wilfred Ulrich, Minister." Crusaders projects raised funds for mission and relief work.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: " 'Doing What We Can': Sharon Kinzie will donate her wages from helping to tidy the sanctuary." Children were encouraged to raise funds through the Crusaders program, started at Stirling during the Second World War, for relief and missions efforts.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "A Stirling tradition, Cradle Roll graduates walk through the gates to officially join the Sunday School. Erma Cressman, teacher, 1956." A group of kindergarten-age children walk through wooden gates set up in the sanctuary of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Starting a new tradition. Stirling youth at the Kitchener train station heading to camp. Circa 1945."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Andrew Shelly with baptismal class, 1940s."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling men raising a new barn for the John and Lucinda Burgetz family in June 1942. Stirling women provided lunch."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "After the renovations. The congregation at worship, 1950s."