Wichita (Kansas)

10th Mennonite World Conference Session in Wichita

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Mennonite World Conference"

At the 10th Mennonite World Conference, a Third World Mennonite, Million Belete of Ethiopia, led the gathering in Wichita, Kansas.

[African American?] choir singing

CA CMBS NP149-1-6346
Item
1978

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of close-up of an [African American?] choir singing at the tenth Mennonite World Conference.

African music group

CA CMBS NP149-1-6342
Item
1978

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of an African music group singing outdoors at the tenth Mennonite World Conference.

African music group close-up

CA CMBS NP149-1-6343
Item
1978

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of an African music group singing at the tenth Mennonite World Conference.

Africans in the audience

CA CMBS NP149-1-6353
Item
1978

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of Africans sitting in the audience at the Mennonite World Conference.

Albert Widjaja speaking.

CA CMBS NP149-1-8604
Item
1978

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of Albert Widjaja speaking at a Mennonite World Conference.

Asrat Gebre close-up

CA CMBS NP149-1-6362
Item
1978

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is a close-up of Asrat Gebre at the Mennonite World Conference.

Baby Aaron Daniel Braun in attendance

CA EMC D1970-P-05519
Item
1978

Part of 1970s

Menn. World Conf

Schellenberg, David K., 1917-2008

Banners

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Mennonite World Conference"

The conference theme "The Kingdom of God in a Changing World" fit in well with the demonstrations of the changes in world Mennonitism. The prominence of cultural diversity at the 1978 Mennonite World Conference (MWC) was both disturbing and invigorating for North American Mennonites.

Betty Paetkau of Winkler

CA MAO XV-19.3-1994-14-511
Item
1970

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Formal photograph. Betty Paetkau of Winkler, Manitoba began a one-year term of Voluntary Service with the Mennonite Board of Missions (Elkhart, Indiana) as a nursery aide in Wichita, Kansas. Used in CM 18-38-3.

Unknown

Brian Stiller speaking

CA CMBS NP149-9-19
Item
July 1999

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of Brian Stiller (president of Tyndale Seminary, Toronto) speaking at a General MB Conference convention.

Burlap bags

CA CMBS NP149-1-6341
Item
1978

Part of MB Herald Photograph Collection

This photo is of the burlap bag of the 1978 Mennonite World Conference.

Cessna Stadium

Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Mennonite World Conference"

The 10th Mennonite World Conference (MWC) culminated in a large evening worship service that brought together 16,000 Mennonites, the largest ever gathering of Mennonites.