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: "Elven Shantz teaching a women's Sunday School class, 1958. In the following decade, Stirling women would no longer feel obliged to wear hats to church."
Erma Cressman working at the Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church Clothing Centre on Weber Street, Kitchener. The Centre opened in 1972 when the church began collecting clothing for local needy people.
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling members showed they still have 'a mind to work.' The participation of many brought the cost of renovation in 1992 down significantly. Left to right: Reuben Musselman's son Tom and other volunteers begin work." Men working by hand and with a backhoe tearing up the front yard of the church as part of the renovation.
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The WMA Thanksgiving display was made up of items destined for the House of Friendship." An array of canned and fresh foods set out in front of the church's communion table by the Women's Missionary and Service group.
Slide with hymn text and a forest scene produced by the United Church Publishing House in Toronto. Slide was likely used in informal church services or youth events at Stirling Avenue. The text is the third verse of "Tell me the old, old story."