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These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Documents, 1923-1980

(2) Photographs, 1900-1970

(3) Sound Recordings, circa 1937-1950

These papers consist primarily of manuscripts of Gustav Enss's writings, most of which are theological in nature.  Other materials include notes, correspondence, and ephemera.  Researchers should note the "Catalog of Gustav H. Enss Papers" in Box 1, Folder 1, which provides some annotations and contextual information.

Records of a Goshen College student and faculty club dedicated to promoting peace scholarship and research, peace education, and peace activism.  Materials include the governing documents, minutes, reports, correspondence, and some subject files containing publications, brochures, and other materials collected by the club.  Researchers will find that both the quantity and quality of documentation of the club's activities decreases over time, with little material available from the mid 1980s through the present.

These records document the college's relationship with the Mennonite Board of Education and the other schools directed by the Mennonite Board of Education:  Hesston College and Eastern Mennonite University.  Materials include correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes and other records documenting collaboration and conflict among Mennonite institutions of higher learning.

Personal papers of Lores E. Steury, consisting largely of gathered information on the Amish Christian Church (including information highlighted in the book The Amish Christian Church: Its History and Legacy by Fredrick J. Schrock). Holdings also include personal information about Steury, including diaries, photographs, newspaper clippings, and drafts of an autobiography.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Amish Christan Church Materials

(2) Geneological Records

(3) Diaries and Recollections

(4) Recorded Interviews

(5) Correspondence and Miscellaneous Materials

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Correpondence

(2) Notes and Teaching Materials

(3) Miscellaneous

Personal papers of Martha Smith Good, a female minister in the Mennonite Church. The collection consists primarily of sermons given throughout her career serving in as Goshen College's campus pastor as well as at Guelph Mennonite Church (Guelph, Ont.), Hillcrest Mennonite Church (New Hamburg, Ont.), Stirling Ave Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ont.), Warden Woods Mennonite Church (Scarborough, Ont.), Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, OH), and Lombard Mennonite Church (Lombard, IL). Recurring themes in the sermons emphasize church roles in accepting and supporting members who are single, divorced, widowed, and homosexual. Some notes and correspondence related to her work in organizing the Women in Ministry Conferences in 1982 and 2000 are also included.

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

The personal papers of a Mennonite artist and poet who resided in Chicago, Scottdale, Pa., Seattle, and Goshen, Ind.

These papers are divided into seven series:

Series 1: Biographical Information, 1936-1998 Series 2: Poetry and Writing, 1958-2007 Series 3: Art and Exhibitions, 1945-2009 Series 4: Correspondence, 1946-2007 Series 5: Vladimir Bubalo Papers, 1934-1990 Series 6: Photographs and Videos, circa 1940s-2000s Series 7: Miscellaneous, 1941-2009

A small set of professional papers associated with Viola Good, the Dean of Women at Goshen College.  Materials document changing attitudes towards the education of women at the college and include annual reports from the Dean of Women from 1942 to 1962.  Because Good was a strong supporter of international students, her papers also contain international student directories and tributes to Good written by international student alumni on the occasion of her retirement in 1977.

Personal papers of Christian L. Graber and Mina Roth Graber, consisting of correspondence, diaries, sermons, scrapbooks, geneological records, and information about Christian L. Graber's time as a conscientious objector during World War I, his stint as a relief worker, and his service to Mennonite Central Committee.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Correspondence

(2) Sermons and Writings

(3) Personal and Family Records

(4) War, Peace, and Relief Work

(5) Business, Legal, and Estate Files

(6) Subject Files and Miscellaneous

(7) Mina Roth Graber Diaries

(8) Photographs, Scrapbooks, and Miscellaneous

Records of the Home and Foreign Relief Commission, an early organization aiming to respond to the famine in India. Records from the organization's founding and operation are included, as is the correspondence of relief worker George Lambert. Photographs that chronicle the process of sending and delivering aid to India can also be found in this collection.

This collection has been arranged into the following series:

(1) Commission Records, 1892-1951

(2) George Lambert Correspondence and Materials, 1896-1897

(3) Photographs, circa 1897

A small collection consisting primarily of sermons, but also including correspondence and miscellaneous materials created by an (old) Mennonite Church minister and bishop iwho lived in Nebraska and Illinois.

A small set of personal papers, primarily correspondence, documenting ministry, congregational life, and conflicts a northern Michigan congregations of the (old) Mennonite Church. Other materials in the collection include correspondence, reports, and programs of the Michigan Mennonite Ministers' Fellowship (1955-1970), minutes of the Indiana-Michigan Conference Area Ministers' Council #2 (Northern Lower Michigan) (1967-1977), and correspondence and interviews concerning a conflict in the Coldsprings Mennonite Church (Mancelona, Mich.) in 1973.

Wickey,who was ordained a pastor at South Colon Mennonite Church in 1956, appears to have served at the Maple River Mennonite Church (Brutus, Mich.) from the early 1960s through the late 1970s.

Personal papers of an (old) Mennontite Church minister, bishop, and church planter, divided into four series:

(1) Correspondence, 1892-1945

(2) Miscellaneous Materials, 1903-1955

(3) Diaries, 1898-1956

(4) Sermon Notes, 1923-1952