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These are the last two postcards in this collection and the last one is actually from 1981 but it is included because it is written in German script.


I'm not real sure how I came into possession of this postcard. It was written to my dad's Uncle David Heinrichs in Canada from Jakob & Anna Dorn, also in Canada. It appears to be written in the more modern German script, rather than the Gothic.
I hope you have enjoyed looking through this collection of my postcards. I have enjoyed sharing them. I have a couple other small collections that I will post at a later date.

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Here's some postcard artwork just in time for Easter. These postcards are at the end of the collection because they were never postmarked. I know one is from 1909 but not sure on any of the others.

The postcard below has a signature on it. It is upside down and I believe it is C Heinrichs.

Just a few left in this collection.

Golden Wheat Chapter AHSGR Bierock Fundraiser

Today my dil and I picked up her daughter from preschool and went to Wichita to help other members of the Golden Wheat Chapter of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia make bierocks to raise funds for the chapter. Other members had been there since early this morning so baking was well on the way by the time we arrived. All bierocks were pre-sold, so it was just a matter of getting them made, all 320+.

I didn't get pictures of the preparation because I had immediately gotten busy helping and forgot to take pictures.
So I got pictures of bierocks cooling and dishes being cleaned.
All that was left was to get them packaged up and off to whoever was going to deliver them to the purchasers. This is the second year that we've done the bierock sale and this year was a little more fine tuned with a wonderful volunteer turnout to help. Next year we hope to do even better, taking notes from what we could improve on from this year. So we're all geared up for the next time, we may even try a second one this year, who knows.

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Not sure of the dates on any in this batch, but they appear to be older postcards. Some are in German and some in English.

Still more postcards to come!

Old German Gothic style

Thank you, Wendy, for sending me this translation key. I actually have a copy of it somewhere in my notebooks. I also have a copy of "Das A, B, C" somewhere, but I can't seem to put my hands on it. I looked for it a couple of days ago and it's not where I last recall seeing it.

For those of you that were unsure of what language some of the postcards were written in, you will be able to look at the following chart and see the straight, pointed lettering that is recognizable as German Gothic Script. I likened the spelling of my maiden name, Heinrichs, in German Gothic Script to "chicken scratches" because of all the sharp ups and downs in the writing of it. If you'd like a challenge, print out the chart and see if you can translate any of the postcard. Of course, you'll have to remember they're written in German, so it might help to have a German dictionary handy too.

More postcards to be posted shortly...

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19?? - 1945


It's possible that the one below dates from the early 1900s. I can't make out the postmark date and don't have a clue what it says.

The one below has an interesting wartime stamp and post mark.
Still more to come!

Book Meme

Anita at Prairie Dreams has tagged me with a Book meme...

Step one is to take the first book you lay eyes on that fits the rules. Not your favorite book, but the closest at hand:

The rules are as follows...
1. The book must be over 123 pages.
2. Find page 123 in the book.
3. Find the first 5 sentences.
4. Post the next 3 sentences.
5. Tag other people

Book: "Jacob's Journey - Escape from Communist Russia" by Herb H. Neufeld, Ed. D.

"Frank demanded, "Pour hot water in this tub and start scraping the hair off the face and head." I thought of running away, but I knew my brothers could easily catch me, and that would make matters worse. I started to scrape the hair, with tears running down my face while trying constantly to avoid throwing up."

Herb Neufeld lives in California. In 2002 he was in Wichita KS and told his riveting story that he has written about in "Jacob's Journey" at our Spring meeting of the Golden Wheat Chapter, AHSGR.

I'll tag...
1. Alice
2. Zura
3. Peter

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1924 - 1930

More German script that needs translated...

I'm not real sure of the date on this one. I looks to be from Corn OK. but I'm not sure what the numbers all stand for.

Still more postcards to come!

LOVE: A PARAPHRASE of 1 CORINTHIANS 13

The Love chapter has always been one of my favorites and I find this paraphrase of it exceptionally nice.

If I talk a lot about God and the Bible and the Church, but I fail to ask about your needs and then help you, I'm simply making a lot of empty religious noise.

If I graduate from theological seminary and know all the answers to questions you'll never even think of asking, and if I have all the degrees to prove it and if I say I believe in God with all my heart, and soul and strength, and claim to have incredible answers to my prayers to show it, but I fail to take the time to find out where you're at and what makes you laugh and why you cry, I'm nothing.

If I sell an extra car and some of my books to raise money for some poor starving kids somewhere, and if I give my life for God's service and burn out after pouring everything I have into the work, but do it all without ever once thinking about the people, the real hurting people-the moms and dads and sons and daughters and orphans and widows and the lonely and hurting-if I pour my life into the Kingdom but forget to make it relevant to those here on earth, my energy is wasted, and so is my life.

Here is what love is like--genuine love. God's kind of love. It's patient. It can wait. It helps others, even if they never find out who did it. Love doesn't look for greener pastures or dream of how things could be better if I just got rid of all my current commitments. Love doesn't boast. It doesn't try to build itself up to be something it isn't. Love doesn't act in a loose, immoral way. It doesn't seek to take, but it willingly gives. Love doesn't lose its cool. It doesn't turn on and off. Love doesn't think about how bad the other person is, and certainly doesn't think of how it could get back at someone. Love is grieved deeply (as God is) over the evil in this world, but it rejoices over truth.

Love comes and sits with you when you're feeling down and finds out what is wrong. It empathizes with you and believes in you. Love knows you'll come through just as God planned, and love sticks right beside you all the way.

Love doesn't give up, or quit, or diminish or go home. Love keeps on keeping on, even when everything goes wrong and the feelings leave and the other person doesn't seem as special anymore. Love succeeds 100 percent of the time. That, my friend, is what real love is!

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Edit: Information below updated 2/24/08 from email from David Sanford.

Copyright 2003 David Sanford ( *dsanford@sanfordci.com* ). Permission is granted to send this to others, with attribution, but not for commercial purposes.

David serves as president of Sanford Communications, Inc. (www.sanfordci.com).
David and his wife, Renée, are co-authors of the 400 pages of devotional application notes in the "Living Faith Bible" -- http://tinyurl.com/296gax

MCC: A house block for a home

First House Block submitted by Nancy Friesen, Oregon

By Cathryn Clinton

AKRON, Pa. -- Quilt squares depicting houses are being used to raise money to rebuild homes in a cyclone-torn area of Bangladesh.

Throughout 2007, house blocks or quilt squares depicting houses were collected for projects for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) 2008 relief sales. The house blocks are being used to create quilts, wall hangings and other textile projects that will be sold or auctioned at relief sales.

Proceeds from these house block projects will help rebuild homes in an area of Bangladesh that was hit hard by Cyclone Sidr when it made landfall on Nov. 15, claiming more than 3,400 lives and destroying many houses.

To date, over 230 house blocks have been collected in the United States and Canada.

This house block project began after the 2006 "Share Your Heart" effort which collected heart quilt blocks. The project brought in more than $67,928 for MCC, according to Harriet Berg, relief sale coordinator.

Last spring, Phyllis Schmidt, a contributor to the project, was intrigued by the idea of the house blocks and decided to present it to her women's group at the Greensburg Mennonite Church in Greensburg, Kansas.

But she didn't get the chance. On May 4, 2007 a tornado tore through the town. While Schmidt's house in the country was spared, the tornado destroyed the homes of the other women in the group.

Schmidt's granddaughter, 8-year-old Hannah Funk cried when she visited Greensburg and saw the destruction. All the familiar sights including the grain elevator, the church and even the main street stores were gone.

Hannah loves to draw and wanted to help her grandmother, so she drew an imaginary house for Phyllis to use in a quilt block.

A Bangladesh traveling quilt was inspired by Colleen Graber of the Mennonite World Relief Sale in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. During last year's sale, Graber led children in creating house blocks in the children's activity center.

The traveling quilt will go to relief sales to be used as a symbol while information on the Bangladesh house building project is shared during the auctions. Donations are then taken from the floor and will go toward the project.

To learn more about the house block project watch for updates on http://mcc.org/reliefsales/quiltprojects/. For a schedule of 2008 relief sales in the United States and Canada, click on http://mcc.org/reliefsales/.

Cathryn Clinton is a writer for Mennonite Central Committee.


Permission to post this article received from:
Ed Nyce
Media and Education Coordinator
Mennonite Central Committee
phone: (717) 859-1151 #282
email: ebn@mcc.org
website: http://mcc.org/reliefsales/

Sweetheart Dinner

Saturday evening hubby and I ventured out into the cold rain (at least it wasn't ice or snow) to attend the annual Sweetheart Dinner at my parents church, Southwest Presbyterian in Wichita, Kansas. First a little history: Dad was raised Mennonite, but when he got out on his own there were many places that didn't have Mennonite churches. Dad's dad, my grandfather CP Heinrichs told my dad that he didn't care what church he went to as long as he went to church. The first church that I remember was the Presbyterian church in Dodge City, Kansas. We moved to Wichita when I was in the 1st grade and attended Southwest Presbyterian growing up. The church is about 5 or 6 city blocks from my folks home and I often walked home on nice Sunday afternoons.

In my early years at the church only the section from the left of the double doors (above) existed. Dad's company, Evan's Steel Bldg. Co. Inc. built the addition to the right.
Below is inside the sanctuary, the outside pictured above. Prior to the addition, the sanctuary doubled as the multipurpose room. We had folding chairs that everyone helped to fold up after the service so other activities could be held.
The Sweetheart Dinner is held in the addition and the men of the church bring their grills and set them out back (under the awning when it rains) and cook up wonderful, juicy, bacon wrapped steaks. The meal began with a salad and baked potatoes are served with the meat. The meal is finished up with pie and ice cream. This year's entertainment was a young college girl from a neighboring church. I hope to have more information about her to put on my KS Born Talent blog in the near future. The only camera I had with me was the one on my phone, so here's a little diddy I took of her introduction.

The meal was wonderful as always with the only complaint being that they ate too much. And the entertainment was excellent, everyone had a great time. The rain had let up a bit, and fortunately, hadn't gotten any colder.

"Keep up the Good Work" Award

Thank you Anita at Prairie Dreams for the new Award!

I'll try to live up to it. Now I need to give it five others that I feel deserve a pat on the back.

1. Peter
2. Alice
3. Carolyn
4. Momo Fali
5. Bec
   

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These are from 1922 to 1923.