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Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Homemakers supported young couples by organizing both serious and social events. A panel discussion, 1954. Left to right: John Brubacher, Marjorie Musselman, Doris Bechtel, Wilfred Erb."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Alice Bachert examines Idali in a Columbia marketplace. The girl had recently lost a brother and sister to illness."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Alice Bachert, on a rare furlough, visits with the Rohr family and Andrew Shelly. Left to right: Andrew Shelly, Gloria Coats (Rohr), Elaine Shantz (Rohr), Alice Bachert, Ken Rohr, Edward Rohr, Milton Rohr."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Campers at Braeside with Andrew Shelly. Circa 1945."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Anna Cameron at Stirling's 75th Anniversary with the silver service given to the Church in memory of her parents, Allan and Catherine Shantz, in 1954."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Full circle. MCC Country Representative Bonnie Klassen receives Alice Bachert's shawl to take back to Colombia as a gift from Stirling. From left: Anne Eby Millar, Bonnie, Anita Schroeder Kipfer."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Andrew Shelly with baptismal class, 1940s."

Family members at the Bauman (or Bowman) family reunion at "Grandpa" Emmanuel M. Bauman's house on Ruggles Road, Floradale. The house is no longer extant.First row: Jonathan (John) Martin (fourth from left), Carolyn (Bauman) Morris (fifth from left, child of Orvie and Adell (Snider) Bauman), Marianne (Burkholder) Ford (eighth from left, child of Walter and Florence Burkholder), Harold Burkholder (sixth from right, child of Walter and Florence Burkholder), Bruce Bauman (third from right, child of Howard and Pauline Bauman).
Second row: Pauline Bauman (seventh from left), Ida Bauman (eighth from left), Frainey Bauman (sixth from right), Florence (Bauman) Burkholder (fourth from right, child of Emmanuel Bauman), Walter Burkholder (third from right), Stuart Burkholder (second from right), Carol (Bauman) Bauman (first from right, child of Emmanuel and Ida Bauman).
Third row: Emmanuel Bauman (first from left, husband of Ida Bauman), Norman Bauman (second from left), Phyllis (Bauman) Fennell (eleventh from left, child of Orvie and Adell (Snider) Bauman), Shirley Bauman (twelfth from left, child of Pauline and Harold Bauman), Mrs. Bowman (seventh from right, wife of Owen Bowman), Adel (Snider) Bauman (sixth from right, wife of Orvie Bauman), Maida Bowman (third from right, wife of Coleman (Cole) Bowman), Gladys (Bauman) Cressman (second from right, child of Emmanuel and Ida Bauman).
Fourth row: Howard Bauman (fifth from left), Coleman (Cole) Bowman (seventh from left), Owen Bowman (eighth from right), Donny Bowman (seventh from right), Orvie Bauman (sixth from right), Bryan Bauman (fifth from right).

A formal photograph of the Benjamin M. and Esther (Brubacher) Eby family. Front row (left to right): Vera (Eby) Hurst, Esther (Brubacher) Eby, Beulah (Eby) Shantz, Ada (Eby) Shantz, Benjamin M. Eby, Alpheus Eby. Back row (left to right): Elmina "Mina" (Eby) Shantz, Phares Eby, Mabel (Eby) Bearinger, Samuel Eby, Luella (Eby) Snider.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "The Millar family hosting a bicycle hike, 1940s. Their farmhouse still stands on Highland Road." A large group of Stirling Avenue youth and their bikes gathered beside the Ida (Bergey) Millar and Fred Millar home.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Stirling men raising a new barn for the John and Lucinda Burgetz family in June 1942. Stirling women provided lunch."

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "'Members met each other much as they always have.' Stirling's Catherine Shantz visits with Ontario Conference members Fannie and David B. Betzner." Fannie (Hess) Betzner was from Pennsylvania, which accounts for her more traditional form of Mennonite dress.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Chapel, 1960s." The chapel was located in the basement of the church, and is no longer extant.

Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Charter members cutting a cake at the 60th anniversary celebrations in 1984. Left to right: Salome Habermehl, Alice Bachert, Ruby Weber, Florence Becker, Eileen Kinzie, Howard Weber, Erma Bingeman, Helen Shantz (background), Beula Moss."