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1 photograph; b&w: 17 x 12 cm
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This photo is of John Redekop (left) and Jake Fransen (right) shaking hands, with Anna and Isaac Tiessen standing at the left and Henry Brucks standing at the right. The photo was taken at the Conference of Mennonites in Canada convention in Waterloo, Ontario. Fransen was there on behalf of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada accepting an apology from the Canadian Mennonite Brethren for past tensions. The Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren also met that year in Waterloo, Ontario, July 4-7, 1986, and affirmed the wording of the apology dealing with modes of baptism, membership, and marriage.
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For a copy of the text of the apology letter, see pp 8-9 in the 1986 yearbook of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, viewable at http://cmbs.mennonitebrethren.ca/theological-resources/canadian-conference-yearbooks/.
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See also photos related to the Mennonite Bicentennial at https://archives.mhsc.ca/mennonite-bicentennial-1986-vineland
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- Redekop, John Harold, 1932- (Subject)
- Fransen, Jake (Jacob N.), 1930-2012 (Subject)
- Tiessen, Isaac H., 1904-1999 (Subject)
- Conference of Mennonites in Canada (Subject)
- Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (Subject)
- Tiessen, Anna (Huebert), 1908-2000 (Subject)
- Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (1986) (Subject)
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NP149-02-0372__MB_apology_to_GCs_1986_Isaac_Tiessen_Redekopp_Jake_Fransen.jpg
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