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IV-20-25
Women's
Missionary and Service Commission
Marian
Hostetler, Executive Secretary, 1987-97
Records 1958-97 (Bulk 1987-93)
5 Boxes (3 Gray, 2 Pronto)
Series and Box Listing
Executive Committee and Staff Related, 1972-95
Boxes 1-2 (Gray) Page 1
Box 3 (Pronto)
Involvement With Other Programs, Agencies, 1968-90
Box 3 (Pronto) Page 2
Overseas Relationships, 1974-92
Box 3 (Pronto)
Page 3
Audio – Visual Materials, 1983
Boxes 3-4 (Pronto)
Page 3
District Conference Materials, 1958-95
Box 4 (Pronto)
Page 3
Skits originating in conferences
Box 4 (Pronto)
Page 4
Additional materials, 1981-97
Box 5
(Gray) Page 4
Appendix: Index to individual slides found in Slide Set "Mennonite
Women: Building Together as Living Stones," 1983, by Alice W.
Lapp
Pages 5-23
Inventory
Box 1
(Gray)
Executive
Committee and Staff Related, 1972-95
Yellow copies (all correspondence produced in office), 1985, 1986,
1987, 1988, 1989, 1990
1/1 Financial statements, 1975
1/2 Yellow Copies, 1985
1/3 Yellow Copies, 1986
1/4 Yellow Copies, 1987
Box 2
(Gray)
2/1 Yellow Copies, 1988
2/2 Yellow Copies, 1989
2/3 Yellow Copies, 1990
2/4 Dockets for Executive Committee Meetings, 1987
Box 3
(Pronto)
3/1 Executive Committee Bi-annual Meeting
Minutes, 1978-91
3/2 Procedures Manual, 1991
3/3 Monthly Memos to Exec. Committee to Exec.
Secretary, 1991- Aug. 94
3/4 Monthly Memos to Exec. Committee, 1987-90
3/5 Exec. Committee Correspondence with Board
members, 1987-90
3/6 Miscellaneous Correspondence
3/7 Form Letters - 1972-1977
3/8 Reference Council and other Sub-committees - 1992
3/9 Convention Planning, Harrisburg 73
3/10 Convention Planning, Eureka 75
3/11 Convention Planning, Estes Park 77
3/12 Convention Planning, Waterloo 79
3/13 Convention Planning, Bowling Green 81
3/14 Convention Planning, Bethlehem 83
3/15 Convention Planning, Ames 85
3/16 Ad Hoc Future Models Commitee - 1990-1991
3/17 Laurelville Officers Retreat - September, 1976
3/18 Officer Letters to Conference Counterparts -
1987-1993
3/19 Coordinator for Business & Professional
Women - 1989-1991
3/20 Secretary of Devotional Life (Vice Pres) -
1987-1995
3/21 Secretary of Family Life - 1987-1995
3/22 Secretary of Literature - 1990-1995
3/23 Secretary of Peace and Social Concerns -
1987-1993
Involvement
With Other Programs, Agencies, 1968-90
3/24 Books Abroad - 1968-1978
3/25 MCCE and MBCM Mtg at Laurelville - May, 1971
3/26 MCC Peace Section - 1971
3/27 Region IV/Central District - 1976-1978
3/28 Special Projects - 1972-1975
3/29 Special Projects – 1975-77
3/30 Alice Brunk Memorial
3/31 "Oliver" (puppet for Foundation series) - 1976
3/32 Miscellaneous Program Materials
3/33 Sexuality Video Task Force - 1988-1990
Overseas
Relationships, 1974-92
3/34 Latin WMSC Groups - 1974-1975
3/35 Hispanic Women's Conferences - 1976, 1978, 1992
3/36 Fraternal Visitors - Dr. and Mrs. H. Martin -
1997
3/37 All Mennonite Women's Conference - November, 1977
3/38 Irene Weaver and Marie Moyer trip to India – 1990
Audio – Visual
Materials, 1983
3/39 "Mennonite Women: Building Together as Living
Stones," by Alice W. Lapp, 1983. Shown at Mennonite Church
General Assembly, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1983, a joint conference
with General Conference Mennonite Church. Includes script, cassette
tapes and reel to reel tape. Index
of individual slides are found in Appendix.
3/40 Mennonite Women: Building Together as Living
Stones, script with annotations
3/41 Slides, Tray 1
3/42 Slides, Tray 2
3/43 Slides, Tray 3
Box 4
(Pronto)
4/1 Extra slides collected but not used in set - over
600 slides
4/2 Extra slides (continued)
4/3 Choir music and instructions for choir, 1983
4/4 "Living in Peace" - Pauline Yoder, tray 1
4/5 “Living in Peace,” tray 2
4/6 “Living in Peace” accompanying cassette tape -
one copy
District
Conference Materials, 1958-95
4/7 Allegheny - 1958-1993
4/8 Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada - 1985-1993
4/9 Franklin - 1990-1993
4/10 Gulf States - 1980-1990
4/11 Illinois - 1985-1993
4/12 Indiana-Michigan - 1985-1993
4/13 Iowa-Nebraska - 1987-1993
4/14 Lancaster - 1985-1993
4/15 Ohio - 1985-1993
4/16 Pacific Northwest - 1985-1993
4/17 South Central - 1984-1993
4/18 Southeast - 1985-1993
4/19 Virginia - 1985-1993
4/20 Summaryof Annual Reports - 1975, 1982-1995
4/21 Summary of GMSA Annual Reports - 1975-1978,
1980, 1984, 1987, 1989-1990
4/22 Conference Officer Lists - 1983-1995
4/23 Miscellaneous Correspondence from Mennonite
Church Constituency 1987-1994
Skits
originating in conferences
4/24 "Talented" - Marilyn Troyer Yoder
"Patchwork Choices" - Ferne Bukhardt and Rhoda
Cressman
4/25 "Take Up Your Cross" - Mildred Martens
4/26 "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" - Barb
Robinson and other skits:
“Love builds, “ – Letha Froese, “Numbers
33.13,” – Mag Richer,
“Forgiveness,” - K. Snyder, “Eileen,” – Lawrence Ressler
“The Church, Caring, Sharing, Daring,” – Olive Yoder
4/27 "The Indispensable Ingredient" - Grace E. Rhodes
"We Would See Jesus Through Bible Women"-Grace E.
Rhodes
"Women Who Met Jesus...& What They Heard Him
Say" -Nancy L Martin
Ohio Pagent
Box 5
(Gray)
Additional
materials, 1981-97
5/1 Secretary of Literature, 1981-1985
5/2 Mennonite Women, clipping, 1983
5/3 Books Abroad, Reports, 1987-90
5/4 Study Guide, 1996-97
5/5 Newsletter, 1996
5/6 Voice, 1996
5/7 Voice, 1997
5/8 Minutes, 1997
August 15, 2006 / Posted on Internet by Dennis Stoesz
August 15, 2006 / Updated by Marilyn Voran
File: "IV2025 Executive Marian Hostetler.doc"
Mennonite
Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700 S. Main St. Goshen, Indiana 46526
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Appendix: Index
to Individual Slides in the Slide Set
[These
slides as found in a Slide Set composed of 3 Trays are found in Box 3
Pronto)
"Mennonite
Women: Building Together as Living Stones," 1983
by
Alice W. Lapp
Shown at Mennonite Church General Assembly,
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1983, a joint conference with General
Conference Mennonite Church.
Three-carousel slide set -
Accompanying cassette tape (music and narration) -
three copies
Original narration on reel-to-reel
Hard copies of script with instructions - three
copies
Slide Tray #1
Tray # / Slide #
Script and Slide identification
Title Slides and Credits
Slide #1/1 Title “Mennonite Women: Building Together
as Living Stones”
Slide #1/2 “Commissioned by: Women in Mission,
Newton, KS Women’s Missionary and Service Commission, Elkhart, IN”
Slide #1/3 “Produced and Directed by: LaJane
Yoder Assisted by: Alice Lapp, Arlene Mark, Barbara Reber,
Kathryn Swartzendruber, Joan Wiebe”
Slide #1/4 “Script and Narration: Alice Lapp
Music: Karen Wiebe, guitar”
Slide #1/5 “Transparencies from: WM/WMSC
Organizations of North America”
Slide #1/6 “And…Carol Z. Brubaker, J. Frederick Erb,
Jan Gleysteen, Mennonite Central Committee, LaJane Yoder
Mennonite women have built together in North
America for three hundred years now. We are living stones in a
growing structure of home, church, and community. These pictures
will show the more positive experiences of life. The pain is not
often visible. Today let us celebrate our good times as a growing
community of believers.
Slide #1/7 “Living Stones,” Columbia Gorge, Portland,
OR (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/8 Waterfall and rocks, Poconos (Pa.)
(Alice Lapp)
Slide #1/9 Monterey Beach, California (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/10 Brunk, Edna (Jan Gleysteen photography)
Slide #1/11 Mennonite woman (older woman with prayer
covering), unidentified (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/12 Thomas, Adrian and unidentified child
(Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/13 The Coons (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/14 Zehr, Diane (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/15 Mother and Daughter (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/16 Krall, Mrs., Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania (Jan
Gleysteen photography)
From the beginning we worked first with our families
to create homes in the wilderness. As settlements enlarged, some
of us moved north to Canada. Others went west or south.
Others arrived here in the years since 1683. All of us did just
about any kind of work that needed doing in those days and needs to be
done today wherever God calls us.
Slide #1/17 Dug Out, no location given. (D.
Haury. Mennonite Library and Archives)
Slide #1/18 Saskatchewan – Mennonite Family
Slide #1/19 Unidentified, Mennonite Library and
Archives (David Haury)
At Bethlehem ’83, both General Conference women and
Mennonite Church women met together to celebrate the growth of the
church and to rejoice at the accomplishments of our sisters at all
stages of life. Over 500 slides were contributed by church women
across the continent and these represent Mennonites of all colors and
of several ethnic backgrounds who all share similar goals to help build
the church.
Slide #1/20 WMSC Meeting, Indiana-Michigan May
’83 (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/21 Lindberg, Anita and foster children (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/22 WMSC, Robstown, TX, Hispanic (Mary
Bustos)
Before the church can grow, the home must build upon
this foundation with precious stones. We were all born—at home in
the early days; now nearly always in a hospital. Mennonite women
through the years have traditionally created homes for their
families. Modern inventions have lightened some of the
housekeeping burdens but have created others.
Slide #1/23 Sohar, Sandy, Birth of Sarah, 4/82,
Orrville Mennonite, Ohio Conference
Slide #1/24 Sohar, Norm and Sandy, Birth of Sarah,
4/82, Orrville Mennonite, Ohio Conference
Slide #1/25 Sohar, Sandy and Sarah, Orrville
Mennonite Church, Orrville, Ohio
Slide #1/26 Martin, Roger, Shirley, Travis, and
Crescent, Neffsville Mennonite, Pa.
(LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/27 Cutting Christmas Tree, Rick and Kathy
Stiffney Berkey Ave. Mennonite
(Ind.) (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/28 Unidentified
We take the usual cooking, feeding and bathing
children, baking, feeding adults, cleaning, laundering, ironing,
repairing things around the house, yardwork, entertaining, farmwork,
redecorating, and gardening more or less for granted. Nearly
every woman does some of these. So do a good many of the
men. Even food preservation or preparation has now become an art
where formerly it was a necessary chore.
Slide #1/29 Family – Erb, Harrisonburg, VA
(Fred Erb)
Slide #1/30 Unidentified (Elizabeth H. Kreider)
Slide #1/31 Mother and baby (Zehr)
Slide #1/32 Martin, Crescent in bath, with mother,
Shirley – Neffsville Mennonite, Pa.
(LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/33 WMSC, Ontario, Baking Bread
Slide #1/34 WMSC, Ontario, Catering-mixing salad
Slide #1/35 Cleaning (Zehr)
Slide #1/36 Zuercher, Verda, hanging out clothes,
Kidron, OH-Kidron Mennonite (Carol Z. Brubaker)
Slide #1/37 Ironing (Zehr)
Slide #1/38 Thomas, Gretchen, Furniture Refinishing,
Neffsville Mennonite, Pa.
(Everett J. Thomas)
Slide #1/39 Miller, Doris trimming shrubs, Kidron
Mennonite-Ohio (Carol Z. Brubaker)
Slide #1/40 Schlabach, Ruth, hostess, Benton
Mennonite, Ind. – Mich.
Slide #1/41 WMSC, Ontario, Chore-time, milking
Slide #1/42 Lehman, Ginger and Ross, washing
woodwork, Kidron Mennonite Church
(Carol Z. Brubaker)
Slide #1/43 Homegrown Tomatoes (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/44 Clemens, Sylvia (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/45 Frey, Cheryl, cake decorator,
Washington/Franklin Conference, Pa./Md.
Always the “plain folks,” as some of us used to be
known, have gotten together to fellowship at the dinner table, to host
other folks, and to sit around chatting on a Sunday afternoon.
Slide #1/46 Misc. Mennonite Fellowship Hour (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/47 Ann, W. and Carpenter, Edna, Laurelville
picnic (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/48 Oliver, Elizabeth and Grandma Werner (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/49 Retreat, women and pies, Harrisonburg, VA
(Fred Erb)
Slide #1/50 Lapp
But perhaps the traditional Sunday dinner with
guests and an afternoon of chat on the front porch is going the way of
the horse and buggy or carpet beating. These activities don’t
seem to happen as often as they used to. Now it seems that
potluck dinners at church are the more recent social activity.
Slide #1/51 Buggy, Lancaster County Pa. (Alice Lapp)
Slide #1/52 Buggy, Lancaster County Pa. (Alice Lapp)
In modern times women are not tied to the house as
tightly as before and have developed more of our God-given
talents. Arts and crafts of all kinds; embroidery, flower
arranging, crocheting, spinning, carpentry, chair craning, weaving,
quilting, and fraktur designing are only some of the useful and
beautiful creations we make.
Slide #1/53 Neufeld, Jo, Ontario, Canada, Northern
District, Bazaar
Slide #1/54 Embroidery (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/55 WMSC, Ontario, Embroidering
Slide #1/56 Floral arranging, Newton, KS
Slide #1/57 Stoesz, Geneva, flower arranging, Mt.
Lake Min.
Slide #1/58 Espaiza, Maria, Hispanic, WMSC
(Mary Bustos)
Slide #1/59 Spinning (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/60 Building deck (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/61 Lehman, JoAnna, chair caning,
Washington/Franklin Conf, Pa./Md.
Slide #1/62 Thomas, Joyce, loom, World’s Attic
Allegheny Conference, Somerset,
Pa.
Slide #1/63 Petersheim, Ethel, Prof. Quilter,
Washington/Franklin Conference, Pa./Md.
Slide #1/64 Shisler, Esther Ruth, Fraktur (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
The family is still important although few of us can
count our brothers and sisters on more than one hand nowadays.
Mothers are always teachers whether they claim to be or not.
Grandmothers are always welcome for shelling peas or cuddling younger
tots. Grandmothers have a great deal of wisdom that can be gently
shared in many ways. But today many youthful grandmothers are
sometimes busier than their grown children.
Slide #1/65 Erbs, Fern and Fred, grandparents,
Virginia Conf, Harrisonburg (Fred Erb)
Slide #1/66 Unidentified (Elizabeth H. Kreider)
Slide #1/67 Beck, Eric, swimming lesson (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/68 Erb, Fern, with grandson at puzzle,
Harrisonburg, VA (Fred Erb)
Slide #1/69 Unidentified (Elizabeth H. Kreider)
All through our lives from birth on are the
milestones of life. The Christian journey begins with a
dedication of the child as the first stepping stone. There is
nursery school now, followed by kindergarten, then by the grades.
Slide #1/70 Cornerstone, G.C. library, Goshen, Ind.
Slide #1/71 Brave new world (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/72 Horst, Blanche, assisting in child
dedication, E. Chestnut St.
Slide #1/73 Martin, Travis A., 5th birthday, Mt. Joy,
Pa. (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/74 Unidentified (Elizabeth H. Kreider)
Slide #1/75 Unidentified (Elizabeth H. Kreider)
Slide #1/76 WMSC, Ontario, Teaching vacation Bible
School
Junior high and senior high school culminate in a
graduation which for some is the biggest celebration they have ever had
so far. Better even than a birthday.
Slide #1/77 Graduation: Bethany H.S. at College
Mennonite (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/78 Graduation: EMHS, 1979 (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/79 Graduation (Alice Lapp)
Slide #1/80 Birthday Celebration-Ontario,
Canada-Northern District
Somewhere in these years the young person accepts
Christ as her personal savior and is baptized into church
membership. This, too, is a major milestone, probably the most
important of all.
For many, another stepping stone is a wedding
usually
followed by the birth of children. Family reunions and
anniversary celebrations mark the
years as well. Eventually, as the cycle revolves, a funeral marks
the passing of someone
dear.
Slide #1/81 Baptism by Bill Shumaker, Benton
Mennonite, Ind. (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/82 Sauder, Pam, bride, with mother,
Sharon-W. Clinton Mennonite, OH (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/83 Sauder, Pam and Graber, Wes Wedding, West
Clinton Mennonite, OH (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/84 Bauman, Leon and Lynette Wedding (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/85 Double Latvian Refugee Wedding
Slide #1/86 Yoder, Liz, pregnant, Walnut Hill
Mennonite, Goshen (Everett Thomas)
Slide #1/87 Lapp Reunion (Alice Lapp)
Slide #1/88 Family Reunion (Alice Lapp)
Slide #1/89 Weber 50th Wedding Anniversary (Alice
Lapp)
Slide #1/90 Weber 50th Wedding Anniversary (Alice
Lapp)
Slide #1/91 Funeral, Cortege, Goshen, IN (LaJane
Yoder)
Slide #1/92 Gravestone, Doris Liechty Lehman, Goshen,
IN (LaJane Yoder)
Living stones. We build together as living
stones. But women never have been only homebodies.
Tradition says woman’s place is in the home. But more and more
women for reasons of economics and of personal growth are working
outside the home, especially since we as a group are no longer mostly
farm families.
Slide #1/93 Rock, Carefree, Arizona (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/94 Stones and Flowers, Phoenix, Arizona
(LaJane Yoder)
Slide #1/95 Kauffman, Beulah (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/96 Junior botanist shows flowers (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/97 Jones, Sheryl, Fort Wayne (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/98 Duerksen, Mary, missionary
Slide #1/99 Parade of Banners, Hispanic Women’s
Conference (Mary Bustos)
From early days women have
helped with the church work of all kinds. Ephesians 4:11-12 says, “He
gave some to be apostles and some to be pastors and some to be
evangelists, and some to be teachers to prepare God’s people for works
of service so that the body of Christ may be built up.”
Slide #1/100 Young Adult House Group, Springfield, OH
(Fred Erb)
Slide #1/101 Dyck, Elfrieda, Akron Mennonite
Slide #1/102 Nussbaum, Janet and children, nursery
storytime (Carol Z. Brubaker)
Slide #1/103 Unidentified (Elizabeth H. Kreider)
Slide #1/104 Storytelling (Zehr)
Slide #1/105 Martin, Fran, childcare, Wash./Franklin
Conference, Pa./Md.
Slide #1/106 Leticia teaching children songs,
Hispanic, Davenport IA (Mary Buscos)
Slide #1/107 Sunday School (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #1/108 Suderman, Alice, Project Teach, chair of
COE, Mt. Lake, MN
We have thought of women usually
as the teachers in the Sunday Schools in every department but
particularly with the smaller children. How many of us have
taught in Sunday School or Summer Bible School at one time or
another! Many of us have participated in weekly Bible studies to
aid our own personal Christian growth. Some work in the church
library.
Slide #1/109 Landis, Kass, Sunday School Teacher,
Salford Mennonite
Slide #1/110 Strones, Sunday School Teacher, First
Mennonite Church, Paso Robles, CA
Slide #1/111 Stoesz, Geneva, Mt. Lake, MN
Slide #1/112 Unidentified (Elizabeth H. Kreider)
Slide #1/113 Erb, Cheryl and Brenneman, Marie, Summer
Bible School, East Chestnut St.
Slide #1/114 Claassen, Ruth, Child Care Center, First
Mennonite Church, Paso Robles, CA
Slide #1/115 Sunday School Teacher and students,
Harrisonburg, VA (Fred Erb)
Slide #1/116 Franz, Gladys, five of their children;
adopted four of mixed parentage, Mt.
Lake, MN
Slide #1/117 Heming, Elsie, Sunday School class with
teacher, Leamington, Ont.
Slide #1/118 Martin, Joan, Librarian, EMHS, Parkview,
VA. Conference
Slide #1/119 Unidentified (Elizabeth H. Kreider)
Slide #1/120 Sunday School superintendent, Newton, KS
Slide #1/121 Smucker, Mary Lu, teacher, Neil Av.
Mennonite, Columbus, OH (LaJane
Yoder)
Slide #1/122 Ruth, Roma, directing children’s
singing, Salford Mennonite
Slide #1/123 Garcia, Francisco, Bible Class,
Hispanic, Davenport, IA (Mary Bustos)
Slide #1/124 English Bible Class, women, Hiroshima,
Japan
Slide #1/125 Snack time at Sunday School, WMSC,
Ontario
Women work with church music both vocal and
instrumental. Indeed we do make a joyful noise unto the Lord, and
serve Him with gladness. We help in prison ministries, in
retreats, in prayer groups, in committee work, and in individual
counseling.
Slide #1/126 Festival Singers (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/127 Ladies Chorus, Verna Winbler, piano,
First Mennonite Church, Paso Robles, CA
Slide #1/128 Church organist, Mt. Lake, MN (G. Stoesz)
Slide #1/129 Englewood Children’s Choir, Illinois
Conference, Annual WMSC meeting
Slide #1/130 Directing children’s choir, Newton, KS
Slide #1/131 Women’s chorus, Harrisonburg Relief
Sale, ’83 (Orv Yoder)
Slide #1/132 The Helmut Harders (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #1/133 Landis, Sallie and Landis, Esther and
Mel, Prison Ministry, Salford Mennonite Church
Slide #1/134 Lehman, Louise and David, Retreat,
Greencastle, Pa., Egg business, David-EMC Board of Trustees Directors;
Menno Haven Home (Fred Erb)
Slide #1/135 WMSC Retreat, Kalona, IA, March 4-6, ‘83
Slide #1/136 Women’s Camp Retreat, Central District
Conference (A. Fast)
Slide #1/137 Detweiler, Mary Jane and Wenger, Sara,
pastor’s wife/counselor, Parkview Mennonite, VA-Conference
Slide #1/138 Sharing (Zehr)
Slide #1/139 WMSC Retreat, Kalona, IA, March 4-6, ‘83
Slide #1/140 Rocks, California coast (LaJane Yoder)
Slide Tray #2
We help with GMSA and with the youth in MYF. We help in seasonal
church dramas and in some that aren’t seasonal.
Slide #2/1 GMSA girls sing at annual WMSC meeting,
Illinois conference
Slide #2/2 Cora S. and Wayfarer girls
Slide #2/3 Sharing
Slide #2/4 Drama: Upper Room, Woman at Well,
Esther Diener, Ohio Conf. – West
Clinton,
Archbold, OH
Slide #2/5 Jane Haldeman, Carol von Donk,
Drama/reading “The Quilt” by Joel
Kauffman, Ill.
Conference
Slide # 2/6 Drama: Woman at the Well, from The
Upper Room. Jane Waidalele
And Kim
Nafziger, Ohio Conference, West Clinton, Archbold, OH
Slide # 2/7 North Kildonan WM drama, Wpg, Manitoba
The church is supported and nurtured by the women who work in its
administration. Although the percentage is still low, women are
accepting more and more responsibility in offices and on committees as
well as in leadership. Both the church boards and the local
congregations are finding women willing and able to further the work of
the church in preaching, in visitation, in counseling, in prayer, in
leading small groups, and in workshops. Many boards, such as the
Mennonite Board of missions, Mennonite mutual Aid, Mennonite
Publication Board, the Commission on Home Ministries, the Commission on
Overseas Missions, the Women’s Missionary and Service Commission, and
Women in Mission executive committees, conference news editors, and the
general boards, all include women in the ranks these days.
Slide #2/8 “God’s People in Mission”, Pinto Mennonite
Slide #2/9 Barb Reber – MC, Joan Wiebe – GC,
Executive Committee Meeting,
MBM, Elkhart,
IN
Slide #2/10 Ginny Hostetler
Slide #2/11 Thelma Brunk, Pastoral Council,
Harrisonburg Menn. VA. Conference
Slide #2/12 Mary Jane Detweiler and Richards – EMC,
Harrisonburg, VA
Slide #2/13 Barbara Reber, Exec. Secretary WMSC,
Elkhart, Indiana
Slide #2/14 E. Richards, Lombard, Mennonite
Slide #2/15 WM Minister, Joan Wiebe – Newton
Slide #2/16 VA District WMSC Executive Committee,
1982-82, Daisy Yoder,
President, VA
Conference
Slide #2/17 Joy Lovett. MC/GC Exec Mtgs. MBM,
Elkhart
Slide #2/18 Viola Kropf – Conference Secretary, Betta
Kym – preschool teacher and
Pastor’s
wife. Viola Kropf, Pres. WMSC Dist., 17 years. Pacific
Coast
Conference Consultation.
Slide #2/19 Mary Swartley, Arden Ramseyer, Nov. 1952,
Board of Directors,
Mennonite
Mutual Aid, Goshen, IN
Slide #2/20 Marjorie Nafziger, Chair, Christian
Education Committee, Pacific Coast
Conference,
Lebanon Mennonite, Pacific Coast Congerence
Slide #2/21 Shirley King – MC Board of Overseers,
Roma Jean Diller – W. Mennonite
HC
Board. Marlene Kropf, writer, Pacific Coast Conference
Consultation
Slide #2/22 Rhoda Oberholtzer, Resource Person EMBMC,
WMSC Salunga, PA
Slide #2/23 Mennonite Publication Board, Feb. 1983,
Merle Good, not present
Ervin Beck, Jr.
Slide #2/24 Esther K. Martin, Editor “Currents”
Atlantic Coast Conference
Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are God’s workmanship
created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance
for us to do.” The women of the church work in the community as
well by volunteering to deliver Meals on Wheels, to work with the Red
Cross in hospitals, blood banks, or in nursing homes and in countless
other formal and informal ways. Without women volunteers many
good things would not be done. Princess Anne recently presented
an award to the Women in Mission Councils of Manitoba for their
community work.
Slide #2/25 Meals-on-wheels Celsta Snyder and driver,
College Mennonite, Goshen
Slide #2/26 Alice Lapp, Red Cross volunteer
Slide #2/27
Slide #2/28
Slide #2/29 Christine Waltner, Rehab. Program, Good
Samaritan Village, WM Mt.
Lake, MN
Slide #2/30 Elsie Fleming, Leamington, Ont.
Senior Lady reading to seniors.
Slide #2/31 Reward from Princess Anne of England for
sewing. WM Wpg, Manatoba
We build as living stones. I Peter 2:5 says,
“You also like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to
be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ.” Someone once said, “There is no limit to
what you can do if you aren’t particular about who gets the
credit.” Mennonite women have consistently worked behind the
scenes accomplishing much to further the well-being of their
communities and they have been modest about who gets the credit.
Frequently their husbands or their bosses do.
Slide #2/32 Stones and AZ blue sky
Slide #2/33 Stones and Flowers, AZ
Slide #2/34 Volunteer addressing envelopes
Slide #2/35 Irene Koch
Slide #2/36 Refugee mother and child
Slide #2/37 Katie Wagner
Slide #2/38 WMSC President, Hispanic
Slide #2/39 Albena Deckert, Fresno, teacher – 30
years, deaconess, volunteer
The WMSC/WM organizations of the church began with
traditional sewing to help the needy, or with making soap. Woman
alone are responsible for these activities whether it is quilts or
noodles. The young also help. This work has expanded and
includes preparing for and helping at the Mennonite Central Committee
Relief sales and Thrift or Self-Help shops. It includes sorting
and mending used clothing, rolling bandages, packing and mailing books
abroad, and canning meat for MCC. It includes setting up Hispanic
literature racks.
Slide #2/40 Alta Erb, 92 years old, Kingview Church,
Scottdale, PA, Allegheny Conf.
Slide #2/41 Sisters quilting, IN/MI
Slide #2/42 Soapmaking, WMCentral Dist. Conference
Slide #2/43 Edna Zehr, MCC Homemade Soap. She
made 1,010 lbs. Lowville Menn.
N.Y. State
Fellowship
Slide #2/44 Gulfport Mennonite WMSC, Gulfport, MS
Slide #2/45 Altona WIM Manitoba making noodles
Slide #2/46 Bandage Work Night WM, Worthwhile Circle
1st Mennonite, Reedley, CA
Slide #2/47 Ellen Widrick, Loretta Widrick (Pres.),
Clara Rees, Lena Lyndaker,
WMSC Lowville
Menn. N.Y. State Fellowship
Slide #2/48 WM First Mennonite Phoenix, AZ
Slide #2/49 Work Day at Eden ’83, Schwenksvilla,
PA. WIM
Slide #2/50 IL Conference, Dewey Mennonite Church,
Wayfarer’s group
Slide #2/51 Amy Zehr, Anna Wagler, Edna Zehr
(Vice-President), WMSC
Lowville
Mennonite N.Y. State Fellowship
Slide #2/52 Elizabeth Showalter, Books Abroad, Zion,
VA Conference
Slide #2/53 Meat Canning
Slide #2/54 Francista Eash, Goshen, IN. Spanish
book display
Slide #2/55 WMSC Mennonite Community church, Fresno
Slide #2/56 1981 WIM Conference Manitoba, Crafts
Display
Slide #2/57 WIM Exec. Committee, Manitoba
Slide #2/58 Hispanic Women’s Conf. at Goshen, WMSC
Slide #2/59 Sargent Ave –Verein rolling bandages
Slide #2/60 Daughters of Dorcas, Springs Menn.
Church, Allegheny Conference
Slide #2/61 Douglas Helping Hands, Springfield
Sewing, WM Wpg. Manitoba
Slide #2/62 Church Breakfast being served, Elsie
Fleming, Leamington, Ont.
Slide #2/63 WIM Manitoba, bake sale
Slide #2/64 Relief Sale
Slide #2/65 Lancaster Mennonite School Fundraiser,
10/82
Slide #2/66 Lawndale mennonite, IL Conference, WMSC
Taco Meal
Slide #2/67 Ruth Wedel MCC Self-Help
Slide #2/68 Elsie Klassen, Board, Care and Share, WM,
Mt. Lake, MN
Slide #2/69 Mary Swartzentruber, Mabel Moyer WMSC
sewing, Lowville Mennonite
Fellowship,
N.Y. State
We do all kinds of sewing. We sort labels and
coupons as well as sew draperies or curtains and redecorate lounges at
the several Mennonite Colleges. Many women help with fundraising
bazaars of various kinds from bake sales and taco suppers to garage
sales and anything else that comes to mind. Ecclesiastes 1:10
says, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”
Indeed we women are doing whatever our hands find to do.
Slide #2/70 Rag rugs. Miriam Ulrich Machine,
Verna B---, Metamora WM SC
Slide #2/71 Soup label collection to buy equipment,
WM Central Dist. Conf.
Slide #2/72 Sewing drapes for Bluffton College
Slide #2/73 Sewing drapes for dorm at Bluffton College
Slide #2/74 WM – Didsbury, Alberta, CAN
Slide #2/75 Relief Sale
Slide #2/76 KS women make venike for MCC sale
Slide #2/77 WM – Didsbury, Alberta, CAN
Slide #2/78 Feeding the Multitude, Bethel College
Fall Fest, Esther Foth, WM
Newton, KS
Slide #2/79 Dorothy Kreider, MCC Self-Help, Zion
Mennonite VA Conference
Slide #2/80 Tressler Menn. Ch. Allegheny Conf., women
in church building process
Slide #2/81 WM craft sharing night, Worthwhile Circle
First Menn. Reedly, CA
Slide #2/82 Vera K—VS – EMC
Slide #2/83 Elizabeth Thomas volunteer – Thrift
Shop
Slide #2/84 Making Clothing at Care and Share
Slide #2/85 Thrift Shop, WM – Didsbury, Alberta, CAN
Slide #2/86 MCC Clothing
Slide #2/87 WMSC Ontario, washing dishes at
Anniversary dinner
Quilting is one art of women’s activities in many
places. Women of all ages and kinds enjoy the fellowship around
the quilt frame. American Indian women are helping, too.
Let’s note the variety in the quilts. Across the continent we
women are united because we have a job to do and we are doing it.
What’s more, we enjoy these times of building together. Our faith
is demonstrated as much by our works or perhaps even more so than by
our words.
Slide #2/88 Quilting
Slide #2/89 Quilters, Calvary Mennonite WM, Aurora, Or
Slide #2/90 Sine Willis, Susan Stemple, Nellie
Willis, Pearl River Menn., WMSC, Philadelphia, MS
Slide #2/91 WMSC Mennonite Community church, Fresno,
Faith Wenger
Slide #2/92 Completed Quilt, Northern dist. WM,
Ontario, Canada
Slide #2/93 Martinsburg Mennonite church WMSC,
Allegheny Conference
Slide #2/94 Conforter Knotting at Women’s Retreat,
Central Dist. Conference, WM
Slide #2/95 IL Conference
Slide #2/96 WM First Mennonite, Phoenix
Slide #2/97 Quilters: Frieda Stauffer, Iona
Burkey, Nebraska
Slide #2/98 Ida Hofstetter (Reuben), Kidron Mennonite
Church, quilting
Slide #2/99 WM – Didsbury, Alberta, CAN
Slide #2/100 Quilting, WIM United Mennonite Church,
Quakertown, PA
Slide #2/101 Hopedale, IL WMSC
Slide #2/102 Harvest Fest Quilt Auction, Bethel
College, WM, Newton, KS
Slide #2/103 Phyllis Schultz and ladies of Red Top
Mennonite do quilt. Chair. Peace And Social Concerns, North
District,. WM, Bloomfield, MT
Slide #2/104 Quilting, WM, First Mennonite, Reedley,
CA
Slide #2/105 Quilt, WM, Calvary Mennonite, Aurora, Or
Slide #2/106 Sarah Dixon, ellen Dixon, Pearl River
Mennonite WMSC, Philadelphia, MS
Slide #2/107 Work Day at Eden ’83, Schwenksville, PA,
quilting, WIM
The MCC emblem appears in many places. Women
of all ages work in voluntary service with the mission boards and with
Mennonite Central Committee. Health workers such as doctors,
nurses, or nutritionists assist third world people to better their
lives. Teachers of many topics further the education of these
same people who may have no other resource. Of course, the Gospel
is present wherever these Christian workers appear and aid the local
people and God’s kingdom grows.
Slide #2/108 WM – Bergthal, Didsbury Alberta MCC sale
quilt
Slide #2/109 MCC – Overseas
Slide #2/110 MCC - Doctor
Slide #2/111 MCC – Health
Slide #2/112 MCC – Health
Slide #2/113 MCC – Doctor
Slide #2/114 CRM – Helping Women’s Group
Slide #2/115 MCC Overseas
Slide #2/116 Snyder conducts –new song on road --?
Slide #2/117 MCC – Overseas
Slide #2/118 Teaching Overseas
Slide #2/119 MCC Teacher
Slide #2/120 MCC Overseas, Teacher
Slide #2/121 Teaching overseas
Slide #2/122 Teaching reading
Slide #2/123 MCC – Overseas, Gardening
Slide #2/124 MCC – Overseas, Gardening
Slide #2/125 WM, Missionary Martha, Vandenberg, J.
Wiebe
Slide #2/126 MCC – Overseas
Slide #2/127 MCC – Overseas
Slide #2/128 Ruth Yoder, MCC Haiti, Hesston, KS
Slide Tray #3
We are living stones building the kingdom. We
are all ages and personalities. But we do work together. In
the world of work for those women who are more than homemakers,
teaching is one of the favorite and long accepted professions.
Slide #3/1 Camp Friedenswald cleaning day, Central
District Conference (A. Fast)
Slide #3/2 Waterfall/Rocks, Pocono Mountains (Alice
Lapp)
Slide #3/3 Gross, Irene (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/4 Hinojosa, Esther, Brownsville, TX (Mary
Bustos)
Slide #3/5 Covington, Rose, February ’83, (Mennonite
Publishing House)
Slide #3/6 Foth, Marge (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/7 Epp, Dorothy, Freeman Choice Books, Sunday
School Superintendent Director
Slide #3/8 Schrok, Alta E. (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/9 Preheim, Siglinda, Freeman Editor of
Northern Light Teachers College Aux
Slide #3/10 Ruth, Eleanor (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/11 Snead, Brenda O., teacher, VA Conference,
Newport News, VA
Day care has become a growing area where Christian
women can have an early influence for good on impressionable young
lives. Mennonite women teach in many public schools and in
private schools at every level. Colleges and universities include
Mennonite women on their faculties. Lawyers and social workers
study for their professions in these schools.
Slide #3/12 Vogt, Wilma and class (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/13 Yoder, Ellen works in North Main Nursery
School, North Main Congregation, Ind.-Mich. Conference
Slide #3/14 Glick, Carol teaching (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/15 Martin, Pat and Lapp, Anita, Community
Child Center, Parkview Mennonite, Virginia Conference
Slide #3/16 Mosseman, Linda, teacher, Wash./Franklin
Conference, Pa./Md.
Slide #3/17 Teaching piano, Newton, KS
Slide #3/18 Landis, Peggy, counselor, Eastern
Mennonite College, Harrisonburg (Fred
Erb)
Slide #3/19 Teacher/Counselor, Rockway Mennonite High
School, Ontario Conference, Canada
Slide #3/20 Teacher, Western Mennonite High School,
Pacific Coast Conference, OR
Slide #3/21 Principal, Western Mennonite High School,
Salem, OR, Pacific Coast Conference
Slide #3/22 Lovett, Joy (LaJane Yoder)
Health care finds many women wearing the nurse’s
uniform as nursing instructors, public health workers, surgical
assistants, bedside nurses, or in other nursing roles. Medical or
laboratory technician work or physical therapy are other health-related
professions in which Mennonite women are present. Some women
medical doctors and research scientists are among us, too, but not in
as great number as are the nurses.
Slide #3/23 Freeman, Sharon Waltner, began nursing
program at FJC, on Boards, Sunday School Teacher, organist
Slide #3/24 Nurses at EMC Commencement, Harrisonburg,
VA (Fred Erb)
Slide #3/25 Nurse Aibonito, Mennonite General
Hospital (Jan Gleysteen Photograph)
Slide #3/26 Wenger, Shirley, now an LPN, in August
’82 as a student nurse, East Chestnut Street
Slide #3/27 Dyck, Janet, MCC-Haiti, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Slide #3/28 EMC nursing student, Harrisonburg, VA
(Fred Erb)
Slide #3/29 Pruitt, Naomi, center, EMC Nursing grad,
Harrisonburg, VA (Fred Erb)
Slide #3/30 Blum, Cheryl, R.N., Salford Mennonite
Church
Slide #3/31 Unidentified (MCC Health)
Slide #3/32 Fleming, Elsie, Leamington, Ontario
Slide #3/33 Gingerich, Wilma, nurse, VA Mennonite
Home, Parkview Mennonite, VA
Conference
Slide #3/34 MCC Doctor (MCC)
Slide #3/35 Lab technicians (Zehr)
Slide #3/36 Fleming, Elsie, assistant supervisor with
senior in Home for Aged, Leamington, Ontario
Slide #3/37 Nurse (Zehr)
In the business world women function as all kinds of secretaries.
They run flower shops. They are Tupperware dealers or auto
saleswomen. They are saleswomen at any counter in almost any kind
of business. Some of us are computer operators, or programmers,
accountants or graphic artists; some are in the publishing business or
are tax consultants.
Slide #3/38 Ruth, Eleanor, Christopher Dock High
School (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/39 Shenk, Dorothy, Confectionately Yours
Shop, cake decoration and flowers, Weavers-Virginia Conference
Slide #3/40 Fretz, Goldie, Tupperware Dealer,
Washington/Franklin Conference, Pa./Md.
Slide #3/41 Bergey, Leanne, family car business,
Bergey’s Inc., Franconia Mennonite Church
Slide #3/42 Meadowbrook Farmer’s Market, Leola, PA
(LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/43 Meadowbrook Farmer’s Market, Leola, PA
(LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/44 EMC Faculty, Computer Department,
Harrisonburg, VA (Fred Erb)
Slide #3/45 Anderson, Joan, MPH (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/46 Johnson, Sandy, map finishing, MPH (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/47 Berg, Janet, labeling machine, MPH (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/48 Harshbarger, Mary and Myers, Wilma,
assembling, MPH (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/49 Kolb, Lavonne, teacher, Christopher Dock
Mennonite High School, Pottstown Mennonite
Antique dealers, restaurateurs, bank tellers, or
bookstore managers are all present. Our Kansas Mennonite business
owned and managed by women is providing wheat for craft shops
throughout the country.
Slide #3/50 Sala, Romaine, Antique shop, Meadowbrook
Market, Leola, PA, Forrest Hills Mennonite
Slide #3/51 Diener, Esther, Essen Haus restaurant
owner, Pettisville, OH (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/52 Diener, Esther, Essen Haus restaurant
owner, Archbold, OH (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/53 Bank teller (Zehr)
Slide #3/54 Beechy, Bertha, Provident Manager (LaJane
Yoder)
Slide #3/55 Craft Wheat, Newton, KS
Slide #3/56 Craft Wheat, Newton, KS
Slide #3/57 Craft Wheat, Newton, KS
Slide #3/58 Craft Wheat, Newton, KS
Slide #3/59 Craft Wheat, Newton, KS
In communications Mennonite women have participated
in radio from the early days of “Heart to Heart” which is now “Your
Time” and in minute spots. Women write scripts, read them, and
participate in dramas as well as photograph and report these and other
events.
Some of us write books as did Elaine Sommers Rich
who was commissioned by the WMSC to write a story of 300 years of
Mennonite women in North America. MENNONITE WOMEN: A STORY OF
GOD’S FAITHFULNESS 1683-1983 was drawn from material solicited from
Mennonite Church women at large about their ancestors and
friends. The WM-sponsored book entitled WOMEN IN SEARCH OF
MISSION was written by Gladys Goering.
Slide #3/60 Foth, Margaret, Radio Speaker, Your Time,
Harrisonburg, VA
Slide #3/61 Yoder, June, Ind.-Mich., drama workshop,
5/83 (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/62 Unidentified
Slide #3/63 Birgitt, Photographer (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/64 Rich, Elaine Sommers, autographing
“Mennonite Women” (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/65 Rich, Elaine Sommers, autographing
“Mennonite Women,” Elkhart, IN (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/66 Goering, Gladys, in Historical library
Slide #3/67 Goering, Gladys, autographing “Women in
Search of Mission,” July 1980
Many artists are among us: sculptors, painters,
ceramists or “mud hens” as some folks used to call them. Jenny
Lind was not the first nightingale. From singing the baby to
sleep to soloing in the concert choir, women have done it all.
Instrumentalists of much skill accompany or solo in ensembles or
orchestras. There clearly have been many more women than men
among full-time missionaries. Many single women have made
significant impact on the mission field. So have missionary
couples.
Slide #3/68 Augsburger, Esther and Myron, Washington
Community Fellowship
Slide #3/69 Mast, Carla Janzen, artist, Harrisonburg,
VA (Fred Erb)
Slide #3/70 Mast, Carla Janzen, artist, Harrisonburg,
VA (Fred Erb)
Slide #3/71 Sala, Romaine, Landisville Homes, women’s
choir, Leola, PA
Slide #3/72 Linda Jo and cello (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/73 Bertsche, Sandy, Akron Mennonite
Slide #3/74 Special music, Newton, KS
Slide #3/75 Friesen-Henderson, Hulda, retired
missionary
Slide #3/76 Sell, Branche, missionary, India (MBM
Elkhart)
Slide #3/77 Ressler, Ruth and Rhoda and Graber,
Minnie, missionaries (MBM Elkhart)
Slide #3/78 Shenk, Ruth and Charles, missionaries,
Japan (MBM Elkhart)
Increasingly these calls for women’s gifts in
ministry and leadership produce new role adjustments in the
family. But they do give opportunity for cooperation and
interdependence there. Women and men together are learning to
cope with twentieth century changes.
Slide #3/79 Gerber, Fran, missionary to South America
(LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/80 Espindola family, Grace Community,
Chicago (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/81 Glick, Charlotte, pastor, Waterford
Mennonite, Goshen, IN (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/82 Glick, Charlotte, pastor, Waterford
Mennonite (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/83 Unidentified
Of course there have been farmers from the
beginning. Pilots are a bit more rare. Egg marketer,
seamstress, waitress, bicycle repair woman, meat cutter, baker,
custodian, bus driver, and historical librarian as well as at least one
woman who raises chinchillas for their fur are all somewhere in the
workaday world of today’s Mennonite women.
Slide #3/84 Lunchtime for a hungry farmer, WMSC,
Ontario
Slide #3/85 Steffin, Jean, Sonnenberg Mennonite,
“gassing up” tractor (Carol Z. Brubaker)
Slide #3/86 Schloneger, Carol, with kids, milking
goats, Kidron Mennonite (Carol Z. Brubaker)
Slide #3/87 Helmuth, Sheila, airplane pilot, Dayton
Mennonite, VA Conference
Slide #3/88 Helmuth, Sheila, airplane pilot, Dayton
Mennonite, VA Conference
Slide #3/89 Packing eggs, WMSC, Ontario
Slide #3/90 Seamstress (Zehr)
Slide #3/91 Waitress in drive-in (Zehr)
Slide #3/92 Waitress, M.H.C., with L. Gross (Jan
Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/93 Linda Jo, bike servicing (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/94 Martin, Lisa, meat cutter/ clerk,
Wash./Franklin Conference, Pa./Md.
Slide #3/95 Good, Wanda, cook, Heritage Family
Restaurant, Harrisonburg, VA Conference
Slide #3/96 Stoesz, Geneva, Mt. Lake, Minnesota
Slide #3/97 Martin, Carolyn, bus driver for Christian
school, Wash/ Franklin Conference, Pa./Md.
Slide #3/98 Charles, Carolyn (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/99 Keller, Wilma, raising chinchillas,
Souderton Mennonite, treasurer, Franconia Conference, 1983
Women now find their recreation and
exercise in other ways than did their grandmothers. Volleyball,
skiing, running, tennis, swimming, bicycling, canoeing and many other
activities keep us nimble and healthy.
Slide #3/100 Richer, Tammy, baketball, N. Clinton
Mennonite, OH (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/101 Schroeder, Deb and Harter, Wanda and
Yoder, Dianna, city volleyball league, N. Main, Nappanee, Ind.-Mich.
Conference
Slide #3/102 Diller, Esther, skier leader, shipmate
and Youth Life Planning Program, Portland Mennonite, Pacific Coast
Slide #3/103 Out Spokin’ Europe (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/104 Canoeing (Everett J. Thomas)
Slide #3/105 Bontrager, Bob and Beth, Koinonia
Mennonite, Tempe, AZ (LaJane Yoder)
We Mennonite women of 1983
have come a long way from our sisters in 1683. We have many more
choices now. But we continue to be living stones in God’s great
edifice of the church. In the home, the marketplace, and the
community the work of the church goes on. We all represent Christ
wherever we appear. This building will not be completed in even
the next 300 years if the world survives. These stones will all
be used, including the ones that the builders may have rejected.
So although some of us are tall or short, fat or thin, dark or light,
plain or fancy, General Conference or Mennonite Church, we want what
most of the people of the world want—peace, goodwill and a chance to
develop our talents for the betterment of God’s kingdom here on
earth. Over one half of the people in the church are women.
We are God’s living stones chosen for a purpose and we will respond
with enthusiasm when God calls us to build.
Slide #3/106 Church in red rocks, Sedona, AZ (LaJane
Yoder)
Slide #3/107 Untitled: Mennonite Women (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/108 Living Stones, Carefree, AZ (LaJane
Yoder)
Slide #3/109 Annie (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/110 Markham, IL, Day Care Center, Central
District Conference
Slide #3/111 Erdman, Jody (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/112 Eash, Francista, Spanish Peace Lit.
Work, Goshen, IN (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/113 Untitled, girl with cat (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/114 Lee, Nancy, Japan
Slide #3/115 Fuller, Alice (Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/116 Young, Yvonne, and other GC students
(Jan Gleysteen Photography)
Slide #3/117 Knight, Zina, Tampa, Fla. (Jan Gleysteen
Photography)
Slide #3/118 Reflection of young church women, EMC,
Harrisonburg (Fred Erb)
Slide #3/119 Oberholtzer, Alta, Lancaster, Pa.,
admiring spring flowers (Carol Z. Brubaker)
Slide #3/120 Nofziger, Ilene and girls, W. Clinton
Mennonite, OH, Living stones (LaJane Yoder)
Slide #3/121 At the ocean (Zehr)
Slide #3/122 Living Stones, Columbia Gorge, Portland,
OR (LaJane Yoder)
August 15, 2006 / Posted on Internet by Dennis Stoesz
August 15, 2006 / Files numbered, and inventory typed into the computer
by Marilyn Voran
June 23, 2003 / Index of Slide Set on “Mennonite Women” 1983, listed by
Kelly Shenk and Nelda Nussbaum
March 25, 2003 / Update of Box 5 by Cathy Hochstetler
September 16, 1996/ Preliminary inventory by Dennis Stoesz
File: "IV2025 Executive Marian Hostetler.doc"
Mennonite
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