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Slides and photographs from a prominent Mennonite architect documenting building projects with Mennonite and Anabaptist-related organizations over the course of his career. These organizations include Mennonite institutions of higher education, high schools, retirement communities, congregations, museums, and health organizations. Slides include images of architectural drawings and models, building sites, the construction process, and completed buildings.

Included in this collection are the photographs of the Mennonite Board of Congregational Ministries which document staff, board meetings, a number of youth conventions, and general assemblies.

Records of the African American constituency group of the (old) Mennonite Church. Emerging from the Minority Ministries Council, the African American Mennonite Association began its orginizational life as the Black Council or Black Caucus.  In the early 1980s the name was changed to the African American Mennonite Association (AAMA).  The AAMA strove to support black and racially integrated congregations in the (old) Mennonite Church through annual assemblies and programming, leadership training, educational opportunites, and congregational economic development.

Records are divided into the following series:

(1) Founding and Governing Documents

(2) Assemblies and Events

(3) Dockets and Minutes

(4) Photographs

(5) Educational Program Records

(6) Correspondence and Subject Files

(7) Sound Recordings

Correspondence and subject files maintained by Marian Hostetler, executive secretary of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission from 1987 to 1996.  Materials include information on the business and professional women's interest group, scholarship information, memos sent to executive committee members, scripts of skits, correspondence with conference WMSC leaders, and slide shows produced for Mennonite Church General Assemblies,

These records are divided into the following series:

(1) Executive Council Meeting Minutes

(2) Director's Correspondence and Subject Files

(3) Conference Records

(4) Photographs

(5) Publications

(6) Audiovisual materials

Slides and one large photogographic print depicting Mennonite mission and service worksites in Brazil, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, and Vietnam.  Many of the images are artistic shots and therefore not well-labeled.  However, as Kaufman was a volunteer photographer for Mennonite mission and service organizations, the photos can be identified through comparison to other holdings in the archives.

Records of a bicycle touring ministry sponsored by the Mennonite Board of Missions.  Records are divided into two series:

(1) General Records, 1967-1983

(2) Bike Hike Records, 1970-1982

Correspondence and research files of Esko Loewen about his work on the Deknatel organ at Kauffman Museum, North Newton, Kansas.

Also correspondence, research files, and slides of Robert Kreider relating to the organ.

Administrative records of a camp facility established by the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp Association and later administered by the Mennonite Board of Missions. Frontier Boys Village provided a long-term rehabilitation program for adolescent boys completing the requirements of Colorado's juvenile justice system. Records include board meeting minutes, correspondence, financial and development records, policy documents, publicity materials, scrapbooks, and photographs.

A small set of records documenting building management and the office culture of the Mennonite Board of Missions.  Materials include minutes of the social committee, staff council, and support staff meetings, as well as office manuals and a slide set entitled "Introducing the Mennonite Offices."  These records also contain information regarding properties own and rented by the Mennonite Board of Missions in Elkhart for administrative purposes, including 500 S. Main St. (Greencroft) and 1711 Prairie Street.

A set of personal papers documenting Alan Hochstetler's voluntary service work in Vietnam and Korea under the auspices of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC).  The papers consist primarily of correspondence from Hochstetler to his family in Nappanee, Indiana.  The letters provide a lot of detail about the daily work and activities of Hochstetler and other MCC volunteers.  In his correspondence, Hochstetler also discusses the weather, major political events, and his relationships with his fellow voluntary service workers.

Other materials in this collection include correspondence from MCC and the selective service, slides and photographs taken during his service work, photographs taken during a 1997 trip to Vietnam, clippings, a Vietnam diary, a hand drawn map of the Leprosarium, the Tidings of the Banmethouoat Leprosarium, a service certificate from MCC, and a nine-page manuscript containing personal reflections and recollections of his service work and his return trips to Vietnam.

Personal papers of a missionary and voluntary service worker affiliated with the (Old) Mennonite Church, divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, Newsletters, and Miscellaneous Materials, 1953-2020

(2) Photographs, 1953-1998.

While Hostetler served in a number of different areas, 1960s Algeria is the country most strongly represented in this set of papers.

The collection consists of seven series:

Series 1: Executive Committee / Board of Directors Meeting Minutes, 1953-2001 Series 2: Project Files, 1952-2002 Series 3: Executive Director Files, 1953-1997 Series 4: Publications, 1954-2003 Series 5: Alumni Materials, 1963-2000 Series 6: Photographs, 1960-1995 Series 7: Miscellaneous, 1973, undated

Mennonite furniture slides (transferred 11 August 1994)

student research papers on Newton buildings and sites from Art History I class at Bethel fall 1994 (transferred 13 May 1996)

childhood Sunday School books

box 2: papers related to German "Friends of Bethel College" organization and its fund-raising for remodeling of Memorial Hall

box 3: papers related to Save Outdoor Sculpture campaign to refurbish the Mennonite Settler status in Newton, Kansas

box 4: Rwandan children’s drawings 1994-1995 (brought in by her Mar. 12, 2015)

box 5: miscellaneous later accruals

Thirteen color slides depicting (old) Mennonite Church missionaries stationed in China who were relocated to Hong Kong at the end of the Chinese Civil War.  J. N. Byler, J. D. Graber, Don and Dorothy McCammon, Eugene and Luella Blosser, Franklin Beahn, John and Agnes Wienke, "Grandpa Bartel," Irmtrude von Haugwitz, Thali Anderson, Christine Weaver, and Ruth Beahn.  Also includes an 8 mm film depicting the arrival of Dorothy McCannon, Christine Weaver, and Ruth Beahn in Hong Kong in 1951.