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 (Kitchener, Ontario)
letters 1786-1787 relating to the settlement of Chortitza colony; letters from Bartsch and Johann Epp to David Epp 1788-1811 Digitized from microfilm MF. MSS 16 http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_16%20(bartsch)/
I. Hauptabteilung: Gen. Directorium (General-Ober-Finanz-Krieges- und Domänendirektorium) Abt. 9. Westpreussen und Netzedistrikt c. Ämtersachen und Ämterverpachtungssachen, 1722-1816 Nr.77 Graudenz vol. 1: Acta betrefs die Veranschlagung und anderweite Austhuung der Grundstücke in Kommerau, Amt Graudenz 1806, 5 pages vol. 2: Einrichtungsakten Amt Graudenz, Mühlenconsignation 1803/04. These were apparently at Merseburg when they were filmed. Presumably they are now in the Geheime Staatsarchiv in Berlin.