The richest materials among these photographs are the140 color slides depicing Thut's volunteer work in England with German prisoners of war after World War II and his subsequent travel in the Western United States to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. These labeled and well-composed slides include images of Thut's living and working conditions in England, art work made by German POWs, and scenes of CPS work in Montana, South Dakota, and California. Also of note is a slide of Peter and Elfrieda Dyck's wedding gifts.
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Other materials among Thut's photographs include a number of poorly-labeled black and white photographic prints of Goshen College in the early 1920s. Notable scenes include a May Day celebration and the construction of the college gymnasium. Also included is his passport obtained in 1944.
This collection contains the pre-integration planning for the merger of Pacific Coast Conference and Pacific District Conference and the operational records of the resulting Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference.
Mennonite Church USA. Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference
Die Zeitschrift Menno Informiert berichtet seit 1988 über das Geschehen rund um die Kolonie Menno und darüber hinaus über etliche interkoloniale Ereignisse.
Materials generated by the Indiana-Michigan Women's Missionary and Service Commission. This includes governing documents, minutes, annual reports, event programs, financial records, photographs, recordings, and more. The IN-MI WMSC changed its name to the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Women as a result of the merger of the Old Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church.
Edwin and Irene Weaver served the Mennonite Church as long-time missionaries in India, 1935-56, and Nigeria, 1959-67, and Ghana, 1969-71. Most of the records in this personal collection deal with West Africa, although there are some friendship letters to those Edwin and Irene Weaver were with in India. They retired to Hesston, Kansas, in 1989. Box 8 contains memoirs written by Irene Weaver, primarily about her childhood in India, and her time working aboard for Mennonite Board of Missions. Additionally, some of the memoirs deal with her time at Goshen College.
This collection includes the history of the church by Hope Lind and resources, correspondence, minutes and reports related to starting the congregation; membership records including church letters for charter members, directories, organizational reports, photographs and financial reports.
Die Sammlung besteht zum grössten Teil aus Protokollen und anderen Schriftstücken der Predigersitzungen, Bruderberatungen, Gemeindevorstandssitzungen und anderer Komitees, die sich mit den Angelegenheiten der Gemeinde in Menno und darüber hinaus mit kirchlichen Organisationen in Paraguay (M.M.K.f.P, CEMTA, Km 81, ZP30, Christilicher Dienst, u.a.) und der ganzen Welt (SAK, MCC, MWK u.a.) zu denen die Kolonie Menno Bezug hatte, beschäftigten.
This collection includes a booklet describing the 2023 Central Plains Conference annual meeting and the 2022 and 2023 editions of their newsletter, Scattered Seeds.