Negative & smaller photo (6.5x6.5) also. A group of students are standing on the steps of the fron entrance. They were in the same en. as 14.1991 & 14.1990 which was marked 54-55.
Entrance to the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church Sunday School wing. People are gathered informally in front.Perhaps the building is being opened or dedicated. See "Mennonites in Canada" by Walter Quiring, p.169 for photo of the building as it sits relative to the Bethel Bible Institute.
Negatives also (2). SS teachers & pupils in front of building at Sumas Prairie near Arnold, B.C.; a SS begun by West Abbotsford Mennonite Church See CM 3-3-1; 6-9-5 & 6-38-9. C.f. Dave & Mrs. Wiebe. Negative for photo & add. similar one.
Negatives also (5). Used in the CM 9-46-21. Showing the classroom building & dormitories. Two copies of smaller copy (9x9). Negative for photo & negs. (4) of different buildings of BBI, faculty housing?
Three photos of sod turning of Bethel Bible Inst., Abbotsford, B.C. One larger photo (12x9) shows H. P. Neufeld directing the choir at the ceremony. Old en. dated April 1, 1958 (or 1956?).
Negative also (6x3.5). Used in CM 2-27-2. Some of the 3000 people who attended the misions Sunday of the annual CMC conference stand informally on the grounds of Clayburn Bible Camp. The camp auditorium where the meetings were held is in the upper right hand corner. At right (below the auditorium) are dormitory buildings of the camp. See also 1992-14.2493 for a similar photo where the youth are gathered beside the auditorium and the auditorium is closer up.
Used in the CM 2-41-1. Negative also, which shows the same view of the front & side of the building but taken at a different time (schrubs at front & side).
Neg only. Executive of the Canadian Mennonite Youth Organization, 1954. The 3 members, named in the CM 2-27-4 (and shown here?) were: Arthur Wiens, pres., Anne Giesbrecht and Paul Peters. See "Jugendseite" and related photo in 2010-14.135.
Negative also. Used in CM 2-27-2. Missionaries and members of the mission board attending the CMC Sunday missions festival. Standing (l-r) are the missionaries: Anne Penner, India; Melva Lehman, India; Rev. & Mrs. Peter Derksen & daughter Evangeline, Japan; Rev. & Mrs. John B. Jantzen & daughter, Africa. Seated (l-r) are members of the mission board: Rev. G.G. Epp; Rev. J.J. Thiessen; Rev. P.A. Wedel, chair of GCMC mission board & a speaker at the festival; Rev. Rev. Andrew Shelly, GCMC, board of missions.
Delegates (ministers) attending the CMC annual conference held at the West Abbotsford Mennonite Church. It is a large group & they stand on the front steps of the church. Compare to photo of the church building in the CM 9-46-13. 6 men are seated in the front of which J.J. Thiessen, chair of the conference is 3rd from the right.
Taken when the CMC held the mission festival associated with the annual meeting in the auditorium of the Clayburn Bible Camp in Abbotsford, B.C. People are standing in front and beside the building. Unlike in 1998-14.29, here the front and side of the auditorium are in full view. Above the entrance is the heading "Prepare to meet Thy God."
