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Information with photo: Memebers of the World Council of Churches Central Committee listen to a discussion during sessions in Myborg, Denmark. The 90 member policy-making committee of the council met Aug 21-29.
The symbol of the WWC hangs behind the committee on the platform.

Information with photo: World Council of Churches Central Committee meeting Aug. 19-29, 1958. L-r: Dr. Ernest A. Payne, Central Committee vice-chairman, Baptist Union of Great Briatin and Ireland; Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, WCC general sec.; Dr. Roswell P. Barnes, WCC exec, sec, in the USA; Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, USA, WCC pres. Backs to camera: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, USA, WCC finance committee chairman; Dr. Norman Goodall, sec. of the joint committees of the WCC and International Missionary Council.

Information with photo: Procession enterting the church during the World Council of Churches' Central and departmental committeemeetings held in Aug. in Myborg, Denmark. Leading are 3 pastors of the Church of Denmark who assisted with hospitality: Pastor Jens-J Thomsen, sec. of the Danish Ecumenical Council; Pastor Nergaard of Frederikshaven and Pastor Arne Thomson of the Inter-Church Aid Dept of the Church of Denmark. Directly behind them are: Dr. Frankin Clark Fry, United Lutheran Church in America and Dr, Ernest A, Payne, Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Central Committee.

Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin-Brandenburg, 78 year old World Council of Churches' president preaches from the (ornate) pulpit above the audience, at the Council's 10th anniversary service in the cathedral of Odense, Denmark, Aug. 24, 1958during the Council's Central Committee meeting.

Infor. on back: Three day cf. of Youth Participants in the Fourth Assembly WCC prior to opening. Youth from different countries are shown. End of series on Fourth Assembly.

Infor. on back: Processional at opening service of Fourth Assembly of WCC, Uppsala, Sweden (l-r): Rev. Dr. Martin Niemoller, Germany, one of pres.; Rev. Dr. Ernest A. Payne, England,, vice-chair WCC Central Com.; Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, gen. sec.; Metropolitan Nicodim, Russian Orthodox Church; Bishop Johannes Lilje, Evangelical Church, Germany. See article in CM 16-31-4. Series continues to 2001-14.270.

Formal head and shoulders photograph of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in West Berlin during the World Conference on Evangelism. Used in CM 14-42-1.

Used in CM 18-32-1. Part of the crowd of 500 who participated in the service outside thechurch building The windows of the educ. building in the bkgd., were boarded up.

Neg also. Used in the CM 7-35-1. Vincent Harding, co-pastor of the Woodlawn Mennonite Church in Chicago (3rd from left) with Canadian young people at the Young People's Union sessions at Bluffton, Ohio. With him are: John Neufeld, Aldergrove, B.C.; Arthur Dick, Edmonton; Walter Paetkau, Rosemary, Alberta.

Used in CM 18-32-1. Curtis Burrell, pastor of thechurch, is speaking at a public worship service held outside the burnedchurch building to rally support. John Banker is seated behind Burrell.

Negatives also (2) & 9x9 copies of photos. The enlarged photo (in which Harding looks at Regier) was used in CM 7-34-1. & additonal photo, similar pose. ( l-r:) Arnold J. Regier, hospital chaplain in Newton, Kan.; Rev. Vincent Harding, co-pastor of interracial Woodlawn Mennonite Church in Chicago; David P. Neufeld, chairman, CMC B. of Christian Service, discuss the statement on race relations presented at the centennial sessions in Bluffton, Ohio.

Used in the CM 6-25-1. Kay Woelk, Abbotsford, B.C. is welcomed to the Bethel Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing. Other names are written on the back of the photo but more than 2 so the 2 nurses cannot be ident.

Used in CM 12-29-3. Members of Advisory Council of Institute of Mennonite Studies. L-r: Erland Waltner, John A. Toews, J. C. Wenger, John H. Yoder, William Keeney, Irvin B. Horst, Ross Bender, C. J. Dyck, Carlton O. Wittlinger, Guy F. Herschberger, J. Winfield Fretz.

South American youth committee: Peter Pauls, Peter Duerksen, Reinhard Rupp, Peter Wittenberg, Uwe Kliewer, Johannes Kroeker, Heinrich Paetkau, Dietrich Klassen, Rev. Bruno Epp. Used in CM 12-10-10.

Negative also. Used in the CM 4-4-7. Shown in the resident teacher's suite are Faculty: J. Wittenberg, H. Rempel, Ben Hoeppner (Dean of Students).