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Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Wendell and Anna Shantz family had numerous Waterloo County Mennonite connections. Many would become members of Stirling. Front, left to right: Anna ("Nancy") Bowman Shantz, Alberta ("Bertie"), Melinda, Sydney, Wendell Erb Shantz. Back, left to right: Louida, Urias, Allan, Susannah ("Susie")."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Kitchener (Berlin) Market, 1940s. For over a century, rural and urban life intersected here." Photograph shows produce vendors and customers outside the market building.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Kitchener Farmers Market in the 1950s from Scott Street near Duke, looking toward Frederick. The old city hall is on the left where Market Square now stands."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Despite the split, Stirling members cooperated with Conference members to host Russian Mennonite immigrants in the summer and fall of 1924. Teenage immigrant Abram Harder with Edwin S. Eby and team on the Eby farm." Abram A. Harder, son of Abram H. and Anna Harder, was a Russian Mennonite immigrant to Canada billeted briefly with the Eby family after his arrival in 1924.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The completed building, 1963."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Waters Mennonite Church, Sudbury, 1959: Doug & Anne Millar & family, Verna & Emerson Burkhart, Betty Ulrich, Verna and Gordon Weber, Florence & Catherine Snyder, Beulah & Clayton Moss, Ida & Ed Eby, Max & Florence Becker, Ron Ulrich." The church building behind them was not yet complete.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Allan and Catherine Shantz family on the way to church, early twentieth century." Family of seven in a buggy drawn by two horses.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "March 2003 Annual Meeting. The tradition of the Stirling potluck is as old as the church itself."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "These young friends made different decisions in the face of war. l to r: Donald Millar, Gordon Eby, Bob Rahn, Doug Millar. The Millars served as COs. Gordon Eby, a United Church member, and Bob Rahn, a Lutheran, joined the Air Force. Rahn was killed overseas." Donald and Doug Millar are in civilian clothes while Gordon and Bob are in military uniform.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church decked out with gates and flowers for Sunday School Promotion Sunday. Note the open Bible and motto as U.K. Weber requested. The presence of the piano indicates the photo was taken after 1932."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "New beginnings. The office of the Peace and Justice Working Group and Coalition for Refugee Support. Standing: Vernon Leis, Pauline Buhr, Mary Mae Schwartzentruber. Seated: Angelica Reyes, Carrie Harder."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Millar family hosting a bicycle hike, 1940s. Their farmhouse still stands on Highland Road." A large group of Stirling Avenue youth and their bikes gathered beside the Ida (Bergey) Millar and Fred Millar home.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "WMS Picnic at the I.K. Weber residence on Schneider Avenue, c. 1930."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Floyd and Pauline Bauman volunteered with Mennonite Central Committee in India from 1960 to 1963." Floyd and an Indian man unloading boxes from a van.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling's pastors gathered for the 60th anniversary. Left to right: Vernon Leis, Ron Rempel, Martha Smith Good, Wilfred Ulrich, Andrew Shelly, Don Smucker, Mary Mae Schwartzentruber, Jim Reusser. U.K. Weber died in 1972."