A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church, Ja Toews

pp. 32-35. 27. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1957), pp. 57-58. 28. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1961), p. 109. 29. Yearbook ICanadian Conference, 1962), p. 216. 30. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1964), p. 51. 31. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1965), pp. 53-54. 32. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1964). p. 50. 33. Yearbook (General Conference, 1969), p. 110. 34. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1969), p. 105. 35. Mission Sunday schools have been subjected to severe criticism because they served as a means of segregating the children of the community from the children of church members. It should be remembered, however, that in the 1950's most M.B. Sunday schools in Canada were still conducted in German, and thus this "mission Sunday school" appeared to be the best solution. 36. H. F. Toews, cited by Unruh, op. cit., p. 652. 37. Quoted by Ruth Wiens in "A Study of the Present Task of the Sunday School in the Light of Its Historical Background and Today's Changing World" (Unpublished M.R.E. thesis, M.B. Biblical Seminary, 1965), p. 2. 38. Cf. Peters, "A Study of Youth Work in the Mennonite Brethren Church" (Unpublished B.D. thesis, M.B. Biblical Seminary, 1965), p. 5. 39. Kriesen, op. cit., pp. 569-653. 40. As given by Unruh, op. cit., p. 164. 41 . Ibid., p. 241. The writer was a member of a Christian "boys' club" [Knabenvcrein] in the 1920's. The club would meet on Sunday afternoons, and had as a primary objective the conversion of unsaved friends. 42. In "Our Youth," A Century of Grace and Witness, p. 63. 43. Wiebe translates Jugendvereine with the more modem designation of "Christian Endeavors." Ibid. 44. Ibid. 45. The complete draft of the constitution of the Jugendverein of the Winkler M.B. Church is reproduced by Unruh, op. cit., pp. 641-645. 46. Alan Peters, op. cit., pp. 10-11. 47. Yearbook (General Conference, 1945), p. 66. 48. Yearbook (General Conference, 1933), p. 62. 49. Yearbook (General Conference, 1951), p. 19 (with slight revisions). 50. Cf. Yearbook (General Conference, 1943), p. 58. 51. See Alan Peters, op. cit., p. 11. 52. Ibid., p. 25. 53. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1944), p. 85. 54. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1945), p. 104. 55. Ibid., p. 106. In accepting this recommendation the delegates also went on record that The Christian Leader, the youth paper of the M .B . General Conference, should be more widely recommended and read by Canadian young people. 56. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1957), p. 103. FOOTNOTES 457 57. Yearbook (Canadian Conference, 1962), p. 231. 58. Wiebe, in A Century of Grace and Witness, p. 66. 59. Ibid., p. 67. 60. Harold Janlz. in Mennonite Brethren Herald (January 14, 1972), p. 12. 61 . Yearbook (Southern District Conference, 1969), p. 15. The present director (1972) is Victor Timnick, returned missionary from Austria. 62. The K.M.B. churches had been cooperating with other Mennonites at Camp Byron