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Album of photos taken during the 200th Anniversary celebrations of the Mennonite Churches of Cambridge (Wanner and Preston Mennonite Churches) from September 15 to 17, 2000.

The weekend began on Friday night with a banquet and program at Fairview Mennonite Home. Saturday featured a picnic and program at Linear Park. A portion of this park was on this day was renamed Settlers Fork Park. A commemorative plaque was unveiled for the stump of an old elm tree at the park, and clocks made from the tree's wood were presented to representatives of the Preston and Wanner churches. This was followed by tours of the Pioneer Tower, Sherk homestead, Blair, Hagey, and Wanner cemeteries, and Preston and Wanner Mennonite churches. The weekend concluded on Sunday with a joint worship service and finger food lunch at Preston Mennonite Church.

Photographs taken by Hildegard Martens and her father, G. J. Martens, in southwestern Ontario, Rainy River in northern Ontario, and Manitoba Colony, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico during her research for a report on Mennonites from Mexico returning to Canada. The research project was directed by Frank H. Epp and funded by Mennonite Central Committee Canada and Canada Manpower and Immigration. Hildegard Martens was the author and researcher, Frank Epp wrote the introduction, and Martens and Epp together wrote the recommendations.

Photographs in this file include pictures of Old Colony and other Low German community Mennonite churches, agricultural activities of Mennonite individuals and families, and street scenes in Mexico.

Photographs relating to the Ontario Mennonite Immigrants Advisory Committee (OMIAC) program of Mennonite Central Committee Ontario, which served the Low-German community in southwestern Ontario.

Photographs taken at Ontario Mennonite Women in Mission events, and also at some activities of the women's groups in their local churches

The "Peace Factory" toured through southwestern Ontario in winter 1997, and included a stop at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate in Kitchener. An interactive exhibit, Peace Factory was a cooperative project of several Mennonite groups. Its goal was to "help all Christians connect their faith in God with a life of peacemaking." It covered approximately 2000 square feet and had several different learning stations for adults and children.

Quilts and crafts that will be sold at the Relief Sale are on display in a store window. Three photos in all. Taken in Kitchener?

Family photographs collected and saved by descendants of Samuel and Barbara Bechtel, most recently George Bechtel (1932-2019)

Photographs of Carl Reesor and Simeon Reesor, 2nd cousins from the Markham, Ontario area at the Niagara-on-the-Lake military training camp. They were required to attend camp until their conscientious objector status was confirmed.

This file contains a sampling of the glass slides collected and used at Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in the 1940s. Some of the slides were created from photographs of church activities or supplied to the church by mission organizations. Others, mostly texts of hymns, were ordered from the United Church Publishing House in Toronto and used in informal worship services. All slides in this file bear the United Church Publishing House label (not visible in scans), which would indicate that this publishing house did the work of transforming all of these photographs into slides.

Several mission and service activities supported by the congregation are highlighted. They include: 1) The Stirling Crusaders program whereby children and youth grew produce, raised livestock, collected recycling and did odd jobs to raise funds for war relief and missions projects; 2) the activities of missionaries Lillian and Cyril Forth of the Sudan Interior Mission (a non-Mennonite mission in Nigeria supported by the congregation); 3) the House of Friendship in Kitchener. These slides were used by the congregation in meetings and informal services to highlight these mission and relief activities.

Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church formed the first Canadian Mennonite peace centre lodged in a congregation in 1987. The centre was supported by the Peace and Justice Working Group, formed in the early 1980s. The group's activities included participation in public protests and actions for peace and justice, and education of the congregation around issues of peace and justice.

This file contains scans of photographs used in the publication "RIsk and Endurance: A History of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church."

No information was acquired with these photographs. They may have been used for display purposes at The Mennonite Story. They appear to be taken at sites of Anabaptist and Mennonite historical interest in France, Switzerland or Germany, and North America.