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Originally located at the Golden Rule Bookstore and then Rockway Mennonite School in Kitchener, Ontario. Moved to Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ontario, in 1965. Founded as the archives of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario; mandate was subsequently broadened.

The Mennonite Association of Retired Persons (MARP) was founded in 1981 as the Inter-Mennonite Council on Aging.  The organization was launched as a cooperative effort of the General Conference Mennonite Church, Brethren in Christ, Mennonite Brethren, and the Mennonite Church to facilitate fellowship, mutual support, and volunteerism among older adults.

In 1989, the organization was restructured and given the name Mennonite Association of Retired Persons.  From 1989 to 2010, MARP assisted in administering the SOOP program (Service Opportunities for  Older Persons), organized and sponsored the Mennonite Senior Sports Classic (1998-2008), held retreats and provided educational opportunities for older Mennonites.  Directors of MARP included Martha and Elden Graber (1981-1985), Barbara Reber (1985-1999), Helen Lapp (1999-2007) and Jay Roth (2007-2010).

Because of steady declines in membership and the effects of the economic crisis of 2008, the MARP board of directors decide to dissolve MARP as a church agency effective June 30, 2010.  Laurelville Mennonite Church Center assumed responsibility for the Aging with Spirit retreats, while Mennonite Mission Network took over administration of the SOOP program.

Mennonite Automobile Aid (MAA) grew out of a recommendation of the Mennonite Mutual Aid Board of Directors made at the Mennonite General Conference in 1947.  In 1952, C. L. Graber, John L. Yoder, and Simon Gingerich were appointed to a committee to investigate the possibility of mutual aid for auto losses.

MAA was chartered in late 1954 as a Pennsylvania not-for-profit corporation.  The corporation offered only assistance with auto physical damage losses, not liability.  Two other Mennonite-related organizations, Goodville Mutual Casualty Company and Brotherly Aid Liability Plan,  provided liability coverage to most MAA policy holders.

For about 25 years, MAA enjoyed significant growth among Mennonite clients with little marketing.  Interest in investing in computer software in the early 1980s, however, led to a discernment process regarding MAA's relationship to other Mennonite-related providers of property and liability coverage and the extent of MAA's services.  In the late 1980s, MAA embraced a strategy of deliberate growth and professionalized its operations, rate determination formulas, and marketing. 

Legal and tax status difficulties plagued MAA as it attempted to expand its services and membership.  In the 1990s, MAA became one of several mutual aid corporation stockholders in the Mennonite Property / Casualty Group and the Anabaptist and Brethren Agency.  As the uncertain legal and tax status of MAA endangered its future, MAA attempted to work with Mennonite Indemnity, Inc. (MII) to develop an MII-operated auto property / casualty program.  Negotiations with MII ultimately broke down, and in 1998, MAA was dissolved.

• established Menno Home in 1954

• establlished Menno Private Hospital in 1960 (later called Menno Hospital)

• established Pauls Pavilion in 1982 (independent living units)

• established Menno Pavilion in 1992, Menno Terrace West in 1998, Menno Terrace East (2005 and Primrose Gardens in 2010

• all of these are operated under the name "Menno Place" (2012)