| Vol. 11 No. 1 | Spring, 2005 |
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Future events: October 15, 2005. Annual fundraising banquet with speaker Dr. John Ruth. Dr. Ruth will be speaking on the Swiss-Mennonites and their part in the founding of MCC. 6 pm. Columbia Place (CBC gymnasium). February 18, 2006. Helmut Harder -The David Toews story and the Canadian side of the 1920’s immigration. "I came to the unwelcome conclusion that we fail to know our own past, not because it has left no evidence, but because we prefer not to know it. If we became one-fourth as skilled at preserving access to our past as we take the trouble skiing, playing the stock market, keeping houses in repair, or staying abreast of current clothes-fashion, our story would surround us richly. The God of our fathers is not a God of the dead but of the living. It is not that the past is dead, but that we, who have explained away our lethargy, are dead to the past. We have found other things to be more important than our own story, and thus closed our eyes and ears to it." (John Ruth, Mennonite Life, March 1977) Mennonite Historical Society of BC
Roots and Branches is a publication of the Mennonite Historical Society of B.C. and is mailed three times per year to those who donate $25.00 or more per year. Your help is urgently needed if this work is to continue. All donations will be receipted for tax purposes. Directors: Ben Braun, David Giesbrecht, Ed Hildebrand, John Konrad, Peter Neudorf, Henry Neufeld, Helen Rose Pauls, Louise Bergen Price, Lora Sawatsky, Ben Stobbe, Richard Thiessen & John B. Toews. Editorial Committee: Louise Bergen Price, Henry Neufeld, & Helen Rose Pauls Archivist: Hugo Friesen Staff: Mary Ann Quiring |