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Women's Missionary and Service Commission Publications Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/20/003
  • Collection
  • 1952-1997

Records pertaining to the literary functions of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission, including the production of publications and reading lists and the supplying of free literature to missionaries.  These records are divided into three series:

(1) Publications, 1952-1996 (2) Administrative Records, 1929-1997 (3) Mennonite Women: A Story of God's Faithfulness Research Files, circa 1975-1983

Women's Missionary and Service Commission

Women's Missionary and Service Commission Executive Secretary (Marian Hostetler) Files 1987-1995

  • US MCUSAA IV/20/025
  • Collection
  • 1969-1997

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,

Women's Missionary and Service Commission

Willard Krabill Papers

  • US GCA HM1/609
  • Collection
  • 1944-2000

The collection consists of subject files on medicine, public health, and peace, as well as working files documenting Krabill's service on the Mennonite Board of Missions Health and Welfare Committee.  The subject files contain a number of papers and articles pertaining to AIDS, homosexuality, and alcohol and drug abuse in the context of the Mennonite Church.  Other less well documented subjects in the collecrtion include Krabill's Civilian Public Service work, mission work in Asia, career as a physician and professor at Goshen College, and his spiritual life.  The collection includes more than 30 audiocassette sound recordings of speeches by Krabill and others on medicine, spirituality, Christianity, and other topics.

Krabill, Willard, 1926-2009

Weyburn W. and Thelma Miller Groff Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/100
  • Collection
  • 1945-2003

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Sermons and Worship Materials, 1950-1996

(2) Correspondence, 1946-2002

(3) Miscellaneous, 1945-2003

Groff, Weyburn W.

United Native Ministries Records 1984-2005

  • US MCUSAA I/06/004
  • Collection
  • 1971-2005

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.

United Native Ministries

Timothy R. Falb Collection 1979-1984

  • US MCUSAA HM1/603
  • Collection
  • 1945-1984

A small set of research materials collected by Timothy Falb in the course of conducting three research projects -- one on the post World War II volunteers who shipped livestock overseas, one on Mennonite scholar and educator Edward Yoder, and one on the history of two sister congregations in Ohio, Martins Mennonite Church and Pleasant View Mennonite Church. Also included is an interview with Aldis Gerber, a conscientious objector during WWI. The richest sources of material in this collection are the oral histories. Researchers should note that no transcriptions are available for these oral histories.

The materials are divided into series by subject.

Falb, Timothy R., 1956-

T. K. (Tobias Kreider) and Mae Hertzler Hershey Papers 1917-1952

  • US MCUSAA HM1/114
  • Collection
  • 1887-1976

Personal papers of missionaries of the (old) Mennonite Church who served in Argentina from 1917 to 1948.  Divided into six series:

(1) Diaries, 1918-1956

(2) Correspondence

(3) Articles and Talks

(4) Argentine Mission Records

(5) Deputation Trips

(6) Miscellaneous

Hershey, T. K. (Tobias Kreider), 1879-1956

Simon Gingerich Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/382
  • Collection
  • 1904-1968

This small set of personal papers consists primarily of sermons sermon notes.  Other materials include photographs of Gingerich and his wife, Lena Schlatter Gingerich, reports and ephemera pertaining to his service to the Mennonite Church, an account of the treatment of Mennonites in Iowa during World War I, family correspondence (in German), and audiocassettes of the service commemorating the 60th anniversary of his ordination.

Gingerich, Simon, 1882-1971

Silas L. Weldy Papers 1913-1938

  • US MCUSAA HM1/138
  • Collection
  • 1884-1999

These papers consist primarily of Weldy's notebooks, in which he kept sermon notes, records of meetings he attended, lists of converts, and other information pertaining to his ministry with Holdeman Mennonite Church in Wakarusa, Indiana.

Weldy, Silas L., 1877-1955

Silas and Anna Weaver Hertzler Papers 1904-1975

  • US GCA HM1/197
  • Collection
  • 1813-1988

These papers primarily document the life and work of Silas Hertzler, but includes some material pertinent to his wife, Anna Weaver Hertzler.  The papers are divided into seven series:

(1) Diaries, 1904-1974

(2) American Committee for Relief in the Near East Materials, 1919

(3) Correspondence, 1909-1975

(4) Articles and Writing, 1917-1967

(5) Photographs, 1909-1970

(6) Miscellaneous, 1905-1975

(7) Genealogical Research Files, 1813-1988

Hertzler, Silas, 1888-1975

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

Ross Thomas Bender Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/353
  • Collection
  • 1958-1998

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

Bender, Ross Thomas, 1929-

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

Reflections of Elderly Mennonites Tape Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM6/306
  • Collection
  • 1981-1982

24 cassette tapes containing interviews with 24 elderly Mennonites, most of whom lived in northern Indiana or were prominent in the broader Mennonite community: Abram Hallman, Ruth (Mast) Roth, Irene Witmer, Noah Good, Martha (Eby) Yake, Tilman Smith, Paul Mininger, Mary (Erb) Mininger, Ollie (Shank) Grabill, A.J. Metzler, Lester Hostetler, John Mosemann, Ruth (Histand) Mosemann, Sanford Eash, Orpha (Kauffman) Eash, Elizabeth (Horsch) Bender, Minnie (Swartzendruber) Graber, J.C. Wenger, Howard Yoder, Laura (Weaver) Troyer, Nora (Miller) Kauffman, Nelson Litwiller, Milo Kauffman, and Irene (Lehman) Weaver. Dwight E. Roth, a professor of sociology at Hesston College, interviewed all of the subjects. Transcripts of the interviews are not available. Roth analyzed and reflected upon these interviews in his self-published book, Reflections of Elderly Mennonites [Hesston, Kan.] : [Roth], 1982. Also contains two floppy disks with chapter drafts from this book.

Roth, Dwight E.

Raymond Mark Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/676
  • Collection
  • 1870-1980

This small set of personal papers from a pastor affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church consists primarily of sermons, some of which were delivered at the Mennonite Home Mission in Chicago, Ill., where Yoder served after his ordination in 1939. Other sermons were written for congregational minsitry at the two churches he served: Congerville Mennonite Church (Congerville, Ill.) and Pleasant Oaks Mennonite Church (Middlebury, Ind.) The papers also include information about the history of the Pleasant Oaks congregation in the early 1960s, when it sold its church building. This collection also includes a number of family photographs and a handful of photographs from the Mennonite Home Mission, as well as two audiotapes of Yoder delivering sermons. Photographs mostly date from 1870 through 1930.

Yoder, Raymond Mark, 1914-1983

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