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These records are divided into the following series:

Series 1: Core Congregational Records, 1872-1998 Series 2: Membership Records, Lists and Church Directories, 1892-2021 Series 3: Church Bulletins and Newsletters, 1928-2011 Series 4: Sunday School Records, 1882-1946 Series 5: Women's Activities, Sewing Circles, etc., 1908-1981 Series 6: Societies, Groups, 1913-1995 Series 7: Prairie Street Church History, 1872-1981 Series 8: Miscellaneous Documents and Records, 1902-1974 Series 9: Audio Visual Materials: Photographs and Sound Recordings (reel to reel and cassette), 1901-2000

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.

This series contains materials collected and created in the Mennonite Publishing House's efforts to document its own history.  It consists of two subseries:

(1) General Historical Files, 1948-2003

(2) Historical Monograph Files, 1970-1991

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

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor who served in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, primarily at Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Gulliver, Mich.).  Materials are divided into three series:

(1) Miscellaneous Materials, 1931-1980

(2) Sermons and Sermon Notes, circa 1950-1975

(3) Sound Recording Collection, circa 1960-1980

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.

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.

These records are divided into six series:

(1) Council Meeting Minutes, 1984-2004

(2) Newsletters, 1989-2003

(3) Financial Records, 1992-2005

(4) Executive Secretary Correspondence and Subject Files, 1971-2005

(5) Administrative Correspondence and Subject Files, 1986-2005

(6) Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, 1984-2002.

32 cassette tapes containing oral history interviews with 31 individuals or couples: Royal and Evelyn Bauer, Ruth Bauman, Esther Bigler and Leroy Hostetler, Albert and Lois Buckwalter, Joe and Nellie Buzzard, Frank and Anna Byler, John and Bonnie Driver, Minnie Graber, Erma Grove, Ralph and Elizabeth Hernley, Ezra and and Orpha Hershberger, Eunice Histand, Orvin Hooley, Jonathan Hostetler, Ann Kauffman, J. Howard Kauffman, Howard Kaufman, Carl Kreider, Lloyd R. Miller, Mildred Mullet, Glenn Mussleman, Evangeline Neuschwander, Florence Nofziger, Nancy Nussbaum, Clara Raber, Paul Schank, Tilman Smith, Silas J. Smucker, Nelson and Betty Springer, and Alice Yoder. One cassette holds an interview with four Mennonite women - Pauline Yoder Kaufman, Edith Reimer, Gladys Mast, and Hazel Hostetler - about bonnets and prayer coverings, dress codes, women preachers, and MennoHof. Transcripts are not available, but there are brief abstracts of each interview. All interviews were conducted by Floyd L. Rheinheimer.

Researchers should note that the interview with Eunice Histand was recorded on an 8mm video cassette.

The personal papers of Ross Thomas Bender (1929-2011), a Mennonite pastor, educator, and Mennonite World Conference President. The papers consist of a variety of sermons and lectures given by Bender, as well as his correspondence, records from his time as leader of Mennonite World Conference, congregational records, and audio recordings.

(1) Sermons and Writings, 1959-1998

(2) Correspondence, 1960-1997

(3) Mennonite World Conference, 1978-1990

(4) Subject Files and Miscellaneous, 1958-1997

(5) Audio Recordings, 1958-1996

Personal papers of A. J. (Abram Jacob)  Metzler, consisting of sermon outlines, correspondence, subject files, and audio recordings. Records of Metzler's travels and work abroad are included, as are his published articles, his files on congregations he pastored, and a biography of him along with family records.

This collection is divided into the following series:

(1) Sermon Outlines, 1927-1983

(2) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1826, 1919-1993

(3) Audio Recordings, 1956-1996

(4) Photographs and Video Recordings, 1882-1991

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.

The personal papers of Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, consisting of creative and academic writings, correspondence, photographs, recordings, and miscellaneous subject files related to her research into Old Order life and her time as a professor at Elizabethtown College. Materials from her family members, particularly her father Ezra Stauffer, are also included.

These papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Essays and Writings, 1942-2003

(2) Correspondence, 1944-2005

(3) Family History and Geneology, 1866-2005

(4) Subject Files and Miscellaneous, 1944-2004

(5) Photographs, 1890-1992

(6) Audiovisual Materials, 1980-2005

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

These papers documeting the life of a Mennonite woman author are divided into three series:

(1) Publishing Files, 1928-1976

(2) Personal and Family Correspondence and Writing, 1912-2006

(3) Miscellaneous, 1926-1990