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Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Peter A. Penner and his new bride Elizabeth (Dickman) Penner, and John F. Kroeker and his bride, Susie Hirschler, arrived in India on 9 December 1900.

Missionaries in India

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Between 1906 and 1909, nine new workers joined the Penners and Kroekers. Included in this group were P.J and Agnes (Harder) Wiens, C.H. and Lulu (Johnson) Suckau, P.A. Penner's 2nd wife, Martha Richert and others. Back row: 2nd from the left, C.H. Suckau with his wife Lulu in front of him, far left in the back, P.J. Wiens with his wife in front of him. P.A. Penner is in the middle in the front. P.A. Penner had 2 daughters, P.J. & Agnes Wiens had 2 sons, and C.H. & Lulu Suckau had a young son in 1911.

Henry J. and Maria (Miller) Brown

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

This photo shows General Conference Mennonite Church missionary family Henry J. and Maria (Miller) Brown and their three children -- Linda, Jessie and Roland. Brown founded a mission in China in 1909.

First General Conference missionaries to Latin America

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Gerald and Mary Hope Wood Stucky, Janet Soldner and Mary Becker arrived in Colombia in the fall of 1945.

MCC Mobile Unit

CA MHC 709-47
Item
[between 1948 and 1955]

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

In 1948, three years after Taiwan had been liberated from Japanese rule, the Mennonite Central Committee began medical work with mobile clinics among the aboriginal mountain tribes in Taiwan. After several years, the work was transferred to the General Conference Mennonite Church and the focus had shifted to the Taiwanese people who formed the largest population group on the island.

Glendon and Reitha Kaufman Klaassen family

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Glendon Klaassen, his wife Reitha (Kaufman) Klaassen and their children Mark, Steven, James and Marci.

H. David and Sara Schroeder Letkemann

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

World Conference Banners

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Banners from all corners of the earth displayed at the 10th Mennonite World Conference, conveying the international nature of Mennonitism that has resulted from missions begun only a hundred years earlier.

COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

CA MHC 709
Collection
[198-?]

This slide presentation provides an historical overview of the overseas mission work of the General Conference Mennonite Church in the countries of India, China, Congo, Japan, Taiwan, Colombia, and new fields in Africa and Latin America. Prepared with a written script to be read, as each image was projected with a Kodak slide projector.

Mennonite Library and Archives (North Newton, Kansas)