Mennonite Mission Board of Ontario: Mission Stories from Rural Ontario

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. 9.52.2

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, as well as Wilmer Martin and Denis Schultz. 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.     Map of James Bay area
2.     Lake scene
3.     House on lake shore
4.     Willow tree on lake
5.     Road through the woods
6.     Canoeists on river
7.     Sundown on lake
8.     Railroad tracks at dusk
9.     Hunta (Ont.) on James Bay map (Wilmer Martin pointing)
10.     Wild flowers
11.     Wild flowers
12.     Daisy
13.     Wild flowers
14.     Arctic watershed sign
15.     Beaver ditch
16.     Fallen tree
17.     Monument of bear at Cochrane (Ont.)
18.     Clay Belt Diner (Hunta, Ont.)
19.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Church sign, with building in background
20.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Pastor Harold Sherk with children
21.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Worship in sanctuary
22.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Volleyball game
23.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Pulling three wagons of hay
24.     Cows in stanchions
25.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Glen and Rita Carney in front of partially completed log house
26.     Closeup of log house joints
27.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Home of Pastor Harold and Ruth Sherk
28.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Ruth Sherk
29.     Wild flowers
30.     Title slide
31.     Dungannon Christian Fellowship (Dungannon, Ont.) - Exterior picture of window
32.     Mennonite World Conference handbook, 1978
33.     Map of Mennonite migrations
34.     Pioneer picture from Frank H. Epp's Mennonites in Canada, v. 1
35.     Anabaptism: neither Catholic nor Protestant by Walter Klaassen
36.     Bible text
37.     Mennonite Conference of Ontario and Quebec - Exterior picture of entrance to offices at Erb Street Mennonite Church (Waterloo, Ont.)
38.     Ontario map
39.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Eli and Mary Landis - early founders
40.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Bob Landis milking cows
41.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Exterior picture
42.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Glen & Rita Carney family
43.     Native Friendship Centre sign (Cochrane, Ont.)
44.     Apartment in Cochrane where Voluntary Service unit is housed
45.     Drop-In Centre
46.     Hunta Mennonite Church (Hunta, Ont.) - Pastor Harold Sherk with visitors Sam and Verda Weber
47.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Exterior picture
48.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Pastor Tom Warner and family
49.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Adult Sunday school?
50.     Text from book
51.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Hubert and Marian Lawrence teach Sunday school
52.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Marian Lawrence teaches Sunday school
53.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Children's Sunday school
54.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Potluck dinner
55.     Log house where Hubert and Marian Lawrence live
56.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Members Jon and Dorothy Coffman
57.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Members Bernie and Francine Lantaigne
58.     Calvary Mennonite Church (Monetville, Ont.) - Youth class
59.     Dungannon Christian Fellowship (Dungannon, Ont.) - Exterior view
60.     Dungannon Christian Fellowship (Dungannon, Ont.) - Sanctuary
61.     Dungannon Christian Fellowship (Dungannon, Ont.) - Church bench
62.     Dungannon Christian Fellowship (Dungannon, Ont.) - Martin family
63.     Clothes on wash line
64.     Rural landscape
65.     Dungannon Christian Fellowship (Dungannon, Ont.) - Members Noah and Florence Frey
66.     Dungannon Christian Fellowship (Dungannon, Ont.) - Interim Pastor Henry Yantzi with Florence Frey
67.     Family at dinner table
68.     MacArthurs Mills Christian Fellowship (Bancroft, Ont.) - Exterior picture
69.     MacArthurs Mills Christian Fellowship (Bancroft, Ont.) - Pastor Harold and Judy Shantz and family
70.     MacArthurs Mills Christian Fellowship (Bancroft, Ont.) - Pastor Harold Shantz with Roberta Neale
71.     Family in home
72.     Fraser Lake Camp (Bancroft, Ont.) - Water scene
73.     Fraser Lake Camp (Bancroft, Ont.) - Camp Pastor Brice Balmer
74.     Log fence row
75.     Ina Martin
76.     Hubert Schwartzentruber and Herb Schultz
77.     Maple tree at dusk
78.     Country road at dusk
79.     White birch tree
80.     Credits

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