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Mennonite Media Central Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/003
  • Collection
  • 1952-1983

Incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding media program development in the United States and abroad, relationships with other Mennonite publishers and broadcast outlets, and listener response or "testimonies" regarding the programming. Also includes some Mennonite Media division minutes and reports.

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Mennonite Media Choice Books Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/009
  • Collection
  • 1953-1997

This collection contains the organizational records of Choice Books, formerly Life Line Books. Materials include annual reports, minutes, correspondence, subject files, and various other materials documenting the organization's work in distributing books ("bookrack evangelism").

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Mennonite Media Counseling Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/011
  • Collection
  • 1953-1980

These records were generated by listener response to Mennonite radio programming, particularly the Mennonite Hour (1951-1979) and Heart to Heart (1950-1975). Mennonite Media (then called called Mennonite Broadcasts, Inc.) employed staff to handle listener correspondence.  The Mennonite Hour also had an extensive home Bible study program that generated further correspondence.

In the mid-1990s these files were sampled; only 5% (every twentieth set of correspondence) of the original correspondence was retained.  The other 95% was destroyed. From this sampling, however, researchers can get a sense of the questions asked and responses offered.

Incoming correspondence is filed by listener's last name.  Topic files are are response letters to individual letter writers from the counseling staff.

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Mennonite Media Director's Correspondence and Subject Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/014
  • Collection
  • 1954-1999

Contains the correspondence and subject files of Ken Weaver, the director of Mennonite Media. Project files on various radio spots, videos, and paper tracts and ads are included, as is correspondence with a variety of people and organizations associated with Mennonite Media.

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Mennonite Media General Program Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/010.4
  • Collection
  • 1947-1990

Administrative files pertaining to a variety of print and audio visual evangelistic material produced by Mennonite Media.  Materials include correspondence, reports, and information on fund-raising and production.

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Mennonite Media Mennonite Identity Media Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/010.8
  • Collection
  • 1987-1993

These records document an effort to use mass media to clarify who the Mennonites are and attract non-ethnic Mennonites to the Mennonite faith. Materials include correspondence, reports, research files, results of pilot market studies, and scripts for television spots. Also includes results of of a new member study commissioned by Seattle Mennonite Church.

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Mennonite Media Miscellaneous Project Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/010.14
  • Collection
  • 1965-1997

Files pertaining to the production of a hodgepodge of audiovisual programming for Mennonite audiences and agencies.  Records include correspondence, project proposals, scripts, marketing materials, and reports.

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Mennonite Media Puerto Rico Media Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/008
  • Collection
  • 1947-1979

Subject and correspondence files pertaining to Mennonite Media's work in Puerto Rico prior to the formation of JELAM (Junta Ejecutiva Latinoamericana de Audiciones Menonitas).  Materials include information on radio programs produced for the Puerto Rican audience, correspondence with radio stations  and Mennonite agencies, committee minutes, administrative records, financial reports, publicity materials for various programs, and a photograph album.

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