Memories from MAID

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#MBThrowback Spiritual balance “Individual Christians tend to develop blind spots in understanding and interpreting Scripture…. The total of spiritual insight and understanding of a united Christian body exceeds anyone’s individual …

#MBThrowback See God through the body “The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So …

#MBThrowback Drama at Christian Day Camps “We are not interested in erecting buildings, but in calling men and women to Christ and into His service.”—1970 Home Missions Committee letter to …

  #MBThrowback Christian rock band Although our idea of what’s all that and a bag of chips has shifted since the ’90s, young people still express the desire to be …

MBBC students At winter camp (1988–89), Mennonite Brethren Bible College students play sports in the snow. Do you know the people in this photo? Please help CMBS identify them by …

space  space “If youth has something to do with the success with which a home for the elderly can be run, Donwood Manor should [prove to] be a success,” reported …

  space  space Circa 1973, Helen Goertzen plays accordion and Decilo Guevarra plays guitar as Christians worship and sing together. Photo from the Herta J. Voth collection.  space  space Photo …

space  space Conscientious objectors in an alternative service camp in Blubber Bay, B.C., circa 1943, formed a baseball team during their off hours. In May 1942, it was decreed that …

space  space Students at Steinbach Bible College present a declamatorium (chancel drama) on the fruit of the Spirit in 1941. The boxes list in German the qualities from Galatians 5:22–23 …

Christmas cheer in a bleak time space space In 1929, the local people hosted a Christmas celebration for the Mennonite refugees in the camp in then-Hammerstein, Germany (now Czarne, Poland). …

The lighter side of school space  space Years before MB Mission invited youth to SOAR in Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Vancouver, Winkler (Man.) Bible Institute students gave a classmate some air …

A green convention /// /// Men and women wash dishes at the 1963 annual convention of the Canadian Conference of MB Churches in Herbert, Sask., while delegates take a meal …

On the eve of its first anniversary, the Mennonite Archival Image Database (MAID) welcomes the Mennonite Library & Archives (ML&A) at Fresno (Cal.) Pacific University as our newest archival partner.