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Michiana Anabaptist Historians Records

  • US MCUSAA X/053
  • Collection
  • 1999-2018

Meeting minutes, governing documents and newsletters of an association of congregational historians, local historians, and genealogists in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan.  Includes some sound recordings of meetings and programs.

Michiana Anabaptist Historians

Clinton Brick Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/14/018
  • Collection
  • 1921-2014

Records created by Clinton Brick Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana. Records from the Church Council are included, as are records from the Sewing Circle, Mennonite Youth Fellowship, and other committees and commissions. Church bulletins and newsletters ("Clinton Brick Caller") are also included.

Clinton Brick Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.)

Roy C. Bucher Papers 1942-2005

  • US MCUSAA HM1/1001
  • Collection
  • 1925-2014

The Roy C. Bucher Papers are divided into the folowing series:

(1) Biographical Documents

(2) Congregational Materials

(3) Sermons

(4) Audiovisual Materials

(5) Daytimers

Roy C. Bucher, 1920-2006

Civilian Public Service Camp No. 58 (Farnhurst, Del.) Collection 1942-1949, 1990-2013

  • US MCUSAA HM1/955
  • Collection
  • 1942-2013

This collection documents the activities of members of the Civilian Public Service (CPS) Camp #58 in Farnhurst, Delaware from 1942 through 1946. Camp reunion files give insight into how the CPS experience affected the lives of those who served. Included are D. Paul Miller's personal scrapbook during his time of service, materials related to the camp's softball team (the Red Comb Arrows), The Crusaders Quartet, and later circle letters and reunion documents.

Miller, David Paul, 1917-2018

Gene Stoltzfus Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/101
  • Collection
  • 1940-2012

Personal papers of a lifelong peace activist from the Mennonite / Anabaptist tradition.  Materials include journals, personal and professional correspondence, reports and articles associated with his work for International Voluntary Services (IVS) and Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), lectures and speeches, photographs, and remembrance books compiled after his death.  These papers also include Synapses: Messages, newsletters of a grass-roots human rights and spirituality organization based in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s.

Stoltzfus, Gene, 1940-2010

Mennonite World Conference Records

  • US MCUSAA X/009
  • Collection
  • 1923-2012

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Official records of the Mennonite World Conference, a global association of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ conferences consisting of nearly 1.2 million baptized believers.  These records are divided into series:

(1) Assembly Records

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Mennonite World Conference

Laurelville Mennonite Church Center (Mt. Pleasant, Pa.) Records

  • US MCUSAA VII/24/004
  • Collection
  • 1930-2012

The records of this Mennonite Church camp are divided into eight series:

Series 1: Early Records, 1930-1954 Series 2: Young People's Institute Records, 1933-1957 Series 3: Administrative and Financial Records, 1943-2006 Series 4: Publicity, circa 1950-2006 Series 5: Program Files, 1957-2012 Series 6: Photographs, 1945-2000 Series 7: Audiovisual Materials, circa 1966-1995 Series 8: Miscellaneous, 1947-1993

Laurelville Mennonite Church Center (Mt. Pleasant, Pa.)

Mennonite Nurses Association Records

  • US MCUSAA VII/020
  • Collection
  • 1943-2011

These records are divided into eight series:

Series 1: Governing Documents, circa 1945-2005

Series 2: Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1945-2010

Series 3: Publications, 1945-2010

Series 4: Financial Records, 1949-2009

Series 5: Correspondence, 1949-2001

Series 6: Membership Records, 1943-2004

Series 7: Local Chapter Records, 1950-1989

Series 8: Miscellaneous Materials, 1945-2011

Mennonite Nurses Association

Mennonite Church of Normal (Normal, Ill.) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/13-43
  • Collection
  • 1975-2010

A small set of relatively recent records documenting the history of the Mennonite Church of Normal.  Materials include church bulletins, annual congregational meeting minutes and reports, church directories, and six audiotapes of Sunday worship (two from 1983, two from 1988, and 2 from 1993).

This collection also includes some materials from First Mennonite Church (Normal, Illinois) and Bloomington Mennonite Church (Normal, Illinois), which merged to become the Mennonite Church of Normal, Illinois.

Mennonite Church of Normal (Normal, Ill.)

Rhoda and Ruth Ressler Papers 1889-2008

  • US MCUSAA HM1/151
  • Collection
  • 1889-2008

The papers contain a hodgepodge of information pertaining to Ruth and Rhoda Resslers' various stints in Japan as mission and relief workers. Materials include correspondence, activity reports, the newsletter of the Hokkaido Mennonite Fellowship, miscellaneous materials relating to Mennonite mission work in Japan, and financial records. The Resslers' papers also contain a number of photographs, scrapbooks, and a handful of slides. Researchers should be aware, however, that many of the images are not labeled. The collection holds a several audiocassettes as well: recorded lectures presented by the Resslers in Japan, an oral history interview with Rhoda and Ruth Ressler, and a multi-tape oral history with Rhoda Ressler. Also included is an 1889 statement on dress and prayer coverings, unrelated to Mennonite mission work in Japan.

Ressler, Rhoda, 1910-2008

Mennonite Camping Association Records

  • US MCUSAA VII/24/002
  • Collection
  • 1946-2008

Records of an association of Mennonite camps and campgrounds.  Divided into the following series:

(1) Governing Documents and Board Minutes, 1946-1996

(2) General Files, 1951-2005

(3) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1951-1989

(4) Camp Statistics, 1963-1982

(5) Conference, Convention, and Regional Meeting Records, 1952-2008

(6) Jess Kauffman Research Files, circa 1952-1988

(7) Audiovideo Materials, 1966-1992

(8) Newsletters, 1957-2008

Mennonite Camping Association

Pennsylvania Deitsch Society of Northern Indiana Records

  • US MCUSAA HM1/988
  • Collection
  • 1995-2007

Records of an organization dedicated to preserving the Deitsch (Dietsch, Deutsch, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German) language.  Materials include documents of governance and membership, newsletters, and programs, sound recordings, video recordings, and photographs of the organization's annual meeting and dinner.  The annual meetings include skits, songs, and recitations in the Deitsch language.

Pennsylvania Deitsch Society of Northern Indiana

Le Roy Bechler African-American Mennonite Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM1/723
  • Collection
  • 1947-2007

This collection is divided into two series:  (1) Research Files, 1950-1982, and (2) James and Rowena Lark Materials, 1949-2007.

Bechler, Le Roy, 1925-2023

Calvary Hour Records

  • US MCUSAA HM1/956
  • Collection
  • 1935-2007

The Calvary Hour Records are divided into six series:

(1) Sermons, 1940-2002

(2) Publications and Publicity, 1935-2007

(3) Administrative Files, 1937-2007

(4) Photographs, Circa 1935-2002

(5) Sound Recordings, 1953-2007

(6) Radio Show "Formats," Circa 1965-2000

Detweiler, Bill, 1929-

Ellis B. and R. Charlotte Hertzler Croyle Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/1027
  • Collection
  • 1948-2006

These papers primarily document the life and work of Ellis B. Croyle, but includes some material pertinent to his wife, R. Charlotte Hertzler Croyle. The papers are divided into five series:

1). Personal and Biographical Materials

2). Pastoral Files

3). Seminary and Continuing Education

4). Data Files

5.) Photographs and Sound Recordings

Croyle, Ellis B., 1930-2006

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