Mennonite Mission Board of Ontario: Pioneering Urban Mission in Toronto

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Hist. Mss. 10.5

Date of creation: 1982

4 sleeves containing 80 35mm colour slides. Included is a printed script for an audio-visual presentation commissioned by the Mennonite Mission Board of Ontario. The audio cassette for use with the slides is located at Hist. Mss. 9.52.1

The script for the presentation is by John Bender; narration is by Willis Breckbill. Photographs by John Bender, with some slides provided by Missions Minister Hubert Schwartzentruber. Music is used by permission of Mennonite Board of Mission (Elkhart, Ind.)

The set was donated to the Archives by the Ontario Mennonite Resource Centre in the late 1980s.

Created Nov. 1997 by Sam Steiner

  1.     City hall (Toronto) - night scene
  2.     Office lights at night
  3.     Office lights at night
  4.     Toronto skyline at night
  5.     Streetcar at night
  6.     CN Tower (Toronto)
  7.     Title slide
  8.     Ontario map
  9.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Exterior view
  10.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Church sign
  11.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Ethel Sarson, an early participant
  12.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Ethel Sarson and son, John Sarson
  13.     Toronto Chinese Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Church sign
  14.     Toronto Chinese Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Pastor Winfred Soong
  15.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Food container for Meals on Wheels
  16.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Food containers for Meals on Wheels
  17.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Delivering Meals on Wheels
  18.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Senior Diners Club
  19.     O'Conner Community Centre - Exterior view
  20.     Children
  21.     Parma Court housing complex
  22.     Table set for meal
  23.     Danforth Mennonite Church (Toronto, Ont.) - Barbara Bryson and Cheryl Battams
  24.     Old radio
  25.     Cheryl Battams in front of Wocunda Housing Centre
  26.     Female senior
  27.     Cheryl Battams and senior citizen
  28.     Male senior citizen
  29.     St. Clair O'Conner Community under construction
  30.     St. Clair O'Conner Community sign
  31.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Exterior picture
  32.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Pastors John Hess and Connie Zehr
  33.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Reception of members in chapel
  34.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Pastor John Hess with two youth
  35.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Children's Sunday school
  36.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Child at study
  37.     Apartment tower in Scarborough
  38.     High rise apartment buildings
  39.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Helen Brenneman directs nursery school
  40.     Child on slide
  41.     Teesdale Place (Scarborough, Ont.) - Exterior view
  42.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Volunteer Gloria Swartz
  43.     View from high rise balcony
  44.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Carol Jantzi and Ruth Hess teach pottery
  45.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Clay modeling
  46.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Finished cup
  47.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Playground for daycare
  48.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Table game
  49.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Wednesday lunches for seniors
  50.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Annual bazaar for fund raising
  51.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Food preparation for Meals on Wheels
  52.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Distribution of Meals on Wheels
  53.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Volunteers
  54.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Administrator Benno Barg
  55.     Warden Woods Church and Community Centre (Scarborough, Ont.) - Exterior picture of Benno Barg picking up trash
  56.     Apartment building at 15 Tobermory (Downsview, Ont.) - Exterior view
  57.     View of city from 15 Tobermory
  58.     View of city from 15 Tobermory
  59.     Community Chaplain Dalton Jantzi
  60.     Floradale Mennonite Church (Floradale, Ont.) - Group visiting 15 Tobermory
  61.     Floradale Mennonite Church (Floradale, Ont.) - Group visiting 15 Tobermory
  62.     Floradale Mennonite Church (Floradale, Ont.) - Group visiting 15 Tobermory
  63.     Meal at 15 Tobermory
  64.     Meal at 15 Tobermory
  65.     Activity at 15 Tobermory
  66.     Children at 15 Tobermory
  67.     Dalton Jantzi and June Schwartzentruber with resident
  68.     Worship centre in chapel at 15 Tobermory
  69.     Hagerman Mennonite Church (Markham, Ont.) - Exterior view
  70.     Hagerman Mennonite Church (Markham, Ont.) - Woodworking with area youth
  71.     Hagerman Mennonite Church (Markham, Ont.) - Weaving a string
  72.     Guelph (Ont.) Flower garden
  73.     Rose
  74.     University of Guelph
  75.     Guelph Mennonite Fellowship (Guelph, Ont.) - School where congregation meets
  76.     Guelph Mennonite Fellowship (Guelph, Ont.) - Pastor Martha Smith Good
  77.     Missing
  78.     Mennonite Mission Board of Ontario - Members of the Board
  79.     Mennonite Mission Board of Ontario - Members of the Board
  80.     Credits     

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