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Photographic prints and contact sheets depicting Mennonite Board of Missions missionaries, voluntary service workers, and staff.  Most images are black and white.  Photographs of individual missionaries and voluntary service workers may include both formal portraits and "action shots" in the field.

Organizational records documenting a Mennonite mission agency's efforts to gather information from and organize reunions for former mission and voluntary service workers.  These records contain not only administrative information regarding the mission board's strategy to engage former missionaries and service workers, but also include summaries of oral history interviews with and somewritten reminiscences of former missionaries and service workers about their experiences.

These records document the meetings of the primary governing board of the Mennonite Board of Missions.  The Board of Directors was instituted in 1971, replacing its predecessor, the Executive Committee.  Some of the minutes of Board of Director subcommittees and service committees, such as the Overseas Committee, Home Missions Committee, Communication Committee, Finance and Legal Committee, Personnel Committee, etc. may be found interfiled with these minutes.

Earlier minutes documenting the meetings of the governing body of the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities are located in Series IV-06-02.

Files pertaining to the financial administation of a grant received in 1990 from the United States Agency for International Development Office of the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad.  The grant was used to build an obstetrical wing for and make other physical plant improvements to the Dhamtari Christian Hospital in Dhamtari, India.

Bound volumes containing news releases and features produced by Mennonite Board of Missions communications staff, arranged chronologically by year.

These records contain miscellaneous materials from the Home Bible Studies and Prison Ministry organized by Mennonite Board of Missions from 1958-2000.

Various reports and minutes from the annual meetings of the Mennonite Board of Missions beginning in 1907. Annual meeting programs, procedural manuals, meeting newsletters ("newssheets"), individual reports, and newspaper clippings are also included.

Reseachers should note that reports from 1996 and 1998 are not included, and that reports themselves do not all contain minutes. Minutes are not available for each year.

Sound recordings, filmstrips, and films produced by the Mennonite Board of Missions for evangelization and instruction of both youth and adults.  This colleciton is divided into several series:

(1) Filmstrips and Slide Sets, 1961-1978

(2) Sound Recordings, 1968-1976

(3) Films, 1959-1978

(4) Slides, 1947-1995

Photographic prints and contact sheets depicting Mennonite Board of Missions missionaries, voluntary service workers, and staff.  Most images are black and white.  Photographs of individual missionaries and voluntary service workers may include both formal portraits and "action shots" in the field.

A small set of minutes documenting quarterly meetings of the top level administrators of the Mennonite Board of Missions during the 1980s.

Meeting minutes of the staff committee charged with monitoring finances and coordinating the work of the various divisions of the Mennonite Board of Missions.

Researchers should note that this series does not contain any minutes for the year 1974.

Black and white photographic prints and negatives of chair persons, vice chair persons, executive committee members, and chief executive officers of the Mennonite Board of Missions. Images include individual portraits, group portraits, and "action shots."

Assorted open reel and cassette tapes containing the following content:

Vesper Quartet in the Union Auditorium, Goshen College, 1956

J. D. Graber, The Biblical Basis of Missions, 1961

Nigeria VS House Dedication, 1963

Elizabeth Elliot, WMSA Sessions, "Learning to Know God" and "What I Learned from the Aucas," 1965

Fall Missions Festival, 1980 (6 cassette tapes)

Fall Missions Festival, 1982 (5 cassette tapes)

This collection consists of minutes of joint meetings of Mennonite Board of Missions with a variety of other committees and groups. Included are the Mennonite Board of Missions Executive Committee, Personnel Committee, Overseas Missions, Board of Directors, Program Committee, Relief Committee, Mission Committee, and the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities.

Adminstrative files documenting the placement of conscientious objectors into alternative service positions.  These records are divided into the following series:

(1) Personnel Files, 1943-1971

(2) Minutes, Reports, and Financial Records, 1952-1969

(3) Draft Census Records, 1963-1965

(4) Correspondence, 1954-1971

(5) I-W Program Files, 1952-1974