This collection of photos show some aspects of the work of Mennonite Pioneer Mission, an outreach ministry begun by the Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Manitoba, which became part of Conference of Mennonites in Canada in the early 1970s, changing the name in 1974 to Native Ministries, a ministry of Conference of Mennonites in Canada.
Negative also. Used in CM 8-21-5. Two Indigenous young men in front of a log house. One young man is sawing wood. Taken where MPM personnel worked? See arts. & photos re. MPM in CM 7-16-5 to 7-16-8. Smaller photo (9x6.5) also.
Used in CM 3-18-7. 14 members of the MPM Board of the Bergthaler Mennonite Church in Man. pose at their semi-annual meeting. Seated in front (l-r): Rev. George Groening, Wpg., chair; Rev. David Schulz, Altona; Rev. J.M. Pauls, Winkler; Is. Loewen, Winkler; Rev. H. J. Gerbrandt, Altona, sec-treas. See CM for names of the others. (Bernie Loeppky is standing 3rd from right.)
Negatives for both photos. 2nd photo, same pose (16.5x11) but they are looking down & smiling more. Missionaries who spoke at the mission conf. of 20 Man. Bergthaler Mennonite & other churches. l-r: (seated) Rev. & Mrs. J. M. Unrau, Mennonite Pioneer Mission, Man.; Mrs. S. T. Moyer; (standing) Rev. W. E. Harder, GC. missionary to Africa; S. T. Moyer, GC missionaries to India; Rev. C. J. Smith, mission to lepers; Rev. Peter Voran, GC. missionary to Japan.