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Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
Young people on a trailer being pulled by a tractor. This is possibly a potato digging machine. They are probably a Stirling Crusaders group gathered to harvest potatoes.The farm could be the Edwin Eby or Clayton Moss farm.
Father, children and dog in field
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
A father, three children, and a dog stand in a field, probably of potatoes or turnips. Perhaps their farm was used in one of Stirling Avenue's Crusader projects.
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
A father and two children with a tractor. They appear to be cutting hay. The family is probably associated with Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church.
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
Joyce Schrag with a bassinet. She is probably participating as a babysitter in the Crusader program's "Busy Bees" division to raise fund for war relief and missions.
Returning from the potato harvest
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
Several men with a group of children in a horse-drawn wagon in front of a barn. Equipment to sort and bag potatoes is also visible in this farm yard. This is probably a group harvesting potatoes for the Stirling Avenue Crusader program.
Evelyn Weber with garden produce
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
Evelyn Weber stands on a porch with garden produce. She is probably raising funds for the Stirling Crusader program.
Mary Burkhart with basket of potatoes
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
Mary Burkhart with a basket of potatoes, as part of the Stirling Crusader program to raise funds for missions and relief
Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
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)
Ordained minister in 1878 at Hagey Mennonite Church (forerunner of Preston Mennonite Church) in Mennonite Conference of Ontario. (L.J.Burkholder collection).
Samuel and Barbara Bechtel family photograph collection
Family photographs collected and saved by descendants of Samuel and Barbara Bechtel, most recently George Bechtel (1932-2019)
Bechtel family (Hespeler, Ontario)
Lovina Groh, Hannah (?), Lizzie Bechtel
Part of Samuel and Barbara Bechtel family photograph collection
Lovina (Bechtel) Groh, Hannah (?), and Lizzie Bechtel. "Hannah" is possibly Hannah (Woolner) Bechtel, sister-in-law to Lovina and Lizzie. "Lizzie" is possibly Elizabeth (Bechtel) Groh, sister to Lovina.
Part of Samuel and Barbara Bechtel family photograph collection
The photograph is labeled on back "Great Aunt Charlotte." This is possibly Charlotte (Eby) Van Pelt (1859-1927), great-great aunt to Grace (Schott) Bechtel.
Hester Bechtel with husband and siblings
Part of Samuel and Barbara Bechtel family photograph collection
Solomon and Hester (Clemens) Bechtel on bottom right of photograph. Pictured with Hester's brothers and sisters.
Noted on back of photograph: "1. Solomon Bechtel -- grandfather to Ida E. (Groh) Snyder; 2. Esther [Hester] Bechtel -- she had a lovely garden full of flowers. My how we used to love to roam through her garden!"
Jacob Y. Shantz with grandchildren Mary and Arnott
Mary Shantz (1891- ) and Arnott Shantz (1894- ) are the children of Dilman B. Shantz (1857-1939) and grandchildren of Jacob Y. Shantz. Left to right: Mary, Jacob Y., Arnott