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A small set of personal papers created by a Mennonite composer, arranger, and professor of music at Goshen College.  Materials include a number of original musical compositions and arrangements, an autobiographical sketch, correspondence, conference programs and notes, various writings, and miscellaneous materials.

Box 1: Central District files, Wayland church files, subject files

Box 2: subject files, minutes, correspondence

Box 3: subject files, Mennonite Disaster Service files

Box 4: Mennonite Disaster Service files

Part I is a manuscript entitled “Gott hört uns nicht mehr”.  This appears to be a first-person, historical novel about Mennonites in the “Gulag” in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.  Previously, this item was cataloged in the MLA's library, accession #17547, acquired in 1972.       

Part II is a manuscript entitled “Wenn Gott die Weiche stellt”.  This is another historical novel, about Mennonite refugees from the Soviet Union.  This item was also cataloged in the MLA's library collection, accession #17462, acquired in 1972.       

Part III is a collection of source documents and notes entitled “Material zur Geschichte der Mennoniten in Brasilien”.  Most of the material covers the late 1940s and early 1950s.  As one can see, not all of the material is about Brazil.  These papers were at the Mennonite Church USA Archives–Goshen until 2011; the North Newton archives had photocopies.  The arrangement of the material here corresponds as closely as possible to Quiring's own outline for it.  Folder 22 is a manuscript by Johann Sjouke Postma entitled “Fernheim, Fernes Heim?”.  Folders 26-29 are not part of Quiring's outline.  The MLA has 909 individually numbered pages in this section.       

Part IV is a rough draft entitled “Witmarsum am Krauel”.  This is a more polished draft rather than a collection of documents as in Part III.  These are arranged according to Quiring's outline.  Folder 45 is not part of Quiring's outline and just contains notes, sources, and bibliography.       

Part V is entitled “Material zur Geschichte der Auflösung der Ansiedlung Witmarsum in Santa Catarina”.  This is again a collection of source documents and notes, from the late 1940s and early 1950s.  These items are photographic copies; that is, copies on photographic paper, not xerographic copies.  The present location of the originals [1989] is unknown.  The arrangement is according to Quiring's outline, but Roman numeral XIX from his outline, “Verschiedenes,” is missing. These deteriorating pages have been scanned [2011], in folder archives/ms_139.       

Part VI is a draft entitled “Canadische Mennoniten 1875-1975".  The termination date of 1975 seems somewhat strange since the manuscript was acquired by the MLA in 1972 and was cataloged as part of the MLA's library collection, accession #17461.  The manuscript may have been modified since 1972.  This is once again a draft rather than a collection of documents.  These are original materials, not photocopies.  The message of this rather rough draft is a bitter denunciation of contemporary Canadian Mennonitism for being different from the Mennonitism of Quiring's childhood.  The contents bear only a slight resemblance to Quiring's accompanying outline and may not be in original order.       

Part VII consists of two folders of miscellaneous drafts of articles by Quiring and several of his writings that had earlier been cataloged in the MLA library holdings.

Die Fotos in dieser Sammlung wurden zusammen gestellt, um den langen Wanderweg der Menno Leute zu veranschaulichen. Angefangen in Niederlande/Holland, wo die Geschichte unserer Vorfahren im 16. Jahrhundert begann, über Preussen, Russland und Kanada, sollen die Fotos uns auf den Spuren unserer Väter begleiten.

This collection includes "A Brief History of Warden Mennonite Church, 1956-2007," other historical items; bulletins 1972, 1982-1983, 1993 & 2003-2011; and correspondence 2005-2008.

Form letter providing updates on work performed by Warren and Erma Metzler, Mennonite missionaries to Jamaica.

Transcription created in 1963 of the ministerial records of a bishop who served the Franconia Conference of the Mennonite Church.  Materials include (1) a list of members of the Upper Skippack Mennonite Church (Pennsylvania) at the time of Bean's ordination, (2) names, dates, and locations of baptisms performed, (3) a list of Franconia Conference ordinations, and (4) names, dates,  ages, and texts preached for funerals performed.

Report booklets from the Washington MCC Auctions

These records, created by a Mennonite congregation in Goshen, Ind., are divided into four series:

(1) Bulletins, 1958-2011

(2) Newsletters, 1971-2010

(3) Minutes and Reports, 1964-2001

(4) Miscellaneous Church Records, 1980-2001

Outgoing correspondence and photographs of a Mennonite missionary and his family.  Correspondence consists of "form letters" to keep friends and families informed of their mission work in Kentucky.  The papers also include advertisements and other ephemera from "Wenger's Christian Supply" and "Wenger's Supply," a family business selling vitamins, nutritional supplements, and "the talking Bible."  An essay by Wayne Wenger, entitled "The Wearing or Non-Wearing of the Tie" is also found in these papers.

A small collection of records from a former Indiana-Michigan Conference congregation. These records were donated by former Pastor Vernard Guengerich, and primarily cover the period that he was pastor, 1971-1980.

This collection includes assorted records from 1948-2022, including Elder materials 1983-2005; Council & congregational meeting minutes 1987-1994; Bulletins 1947-2022; cassettes of church sermons 2003-2008 and some earlier recordings on cassette.

Records of a private Christian school assosciated with the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church, and later the Mennonite Church USA.  Materials are divided into four series: 

1) School Board minutes, 2) Faculty Meeting minutes, 3) Financial records and 4) Miscellaneous