Mennonite Mission Board of Ontario: Pioneering Urban Mission in Toronto

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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Last modified 22-Feb-2007 by Sam Steiner