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An instrumental humanitarian in the Mennonite Church, Alvin J. Miller engaged in relief work in France, Crimea, and Constantinople with the American Friends Service Committee and the Red Cross. He later served in the American Relief Association and also with the American Mennonite Relief in Russia (1921-1926). Miller also assisted with the colonization committees helping to place Russian Mennonite refugees onto Canadian farms and seeling second mortgage Farm Lien Bonds to American Amish and Mennonite buyers to raise money for this venture (1927-1930). His personal collection includes correspondence, documents and reports documenting these experiences.

The American Mennonite Association was formed in 1939 to support the financial, educational, travel, and housing needs of missionaries appointed by the Menonite Board of Missions to serve in India.    The association continued to coordinate and oversee the work of  (old) Mennonite Church missionaries who remained in India after the dissolution of the American Mennonite Mission in 1952.  This series contains the association's constitution, meeting minutes, and administrative correspondence, as well as less formal correspondence and telegrams.

Assorted records pertaining to the mission industrial schools, industrial workshop, orphanage, and primary, middle, and high schools.  Records include correspondence, reports, attendee lists, and miscellaneous materials.

A hodgepodge of letters that includes correspondence regarding missionaries' passport and residency issues, correspondence with Indian college students sponsored by the mission, letters from mission staff in Elkhart, Ind. circulated among the missionaries, and correspondence pertaining to clothing and bedding orders filled by various Mennonite sewing circles.

This series consists primarily of Incoming and outgoing correspondence to and from the office of the secretary, which appears to have replaced the office of the superintendent as the director of the mission's affairs.  Researchers will find in this series correspondence between the secretary and leaders of the Mennonite Board of Missions, Indian government officials, and non-Mennonite mission organizations.  Also present here are the secretary's record book (1905-1915), which contains the earliest executive committee and business meeting minutes as well as a number of subject files.

Secretaries of the American Mennonite Mission include J. N. Kauffman, Aldine Carpenter Brunk, and J. D. Graber (1937-1944).

Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials.  These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.

A small set of documents from the files of former Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) board member Evelyn Shellenberger.  Duplicate documents found in X-18-001 were removed from Shellenberger's files for the convenience of researchers.  Materials include correspondence from and about John Howard Yoder regarding his harassment of women and his continued presence at AMBS.

Documents pertaining to the process by which John Howard Yoder and his employer, then Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), navigated difficult personal and institutional relationships created by Yoder's sexual indiscretions and harrassment of women.  These materials were collected and created by then seminary president Marlin E. Miller.  Materials include documents pertaining to Yoder's ordination and church membership, contracts with AMBS, Yoder's papers on singleness, marriage, and sexuality and AMBS faculty members' responses, materials pertaining to Yoder's covenant group at AMBS, documents about his resignation, and correspondence with various parties during and after Yoder's period of employment at AMBS.

A small set of files pertaining to John Howard Yoder.  Materials include correspondence regarding Yoder's seminar at Eastern Mennonite University in January 1997 and former Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) president Nelson Kraybill's correspondence regarding John Howard Yoder in 1997 and 1998.

The scrapbook was made for Brenneman by members of the Central Mennonite Church, Elida Ohio, in the mid 1960s, when Brenneman was bed ridden due to illness at age 90.  Accompanying the scrapbook are scattered letters to, from, and about Brenneman, as well as an obituary and some newspaper clippings.

This fonds consists of 3 volumes of letters translated into English depicting life in Russia and the Soviet Union 1925-1978. In 1925 Anna Reimer's daughter, Katherina Enns and her husband Wilhelm Enns immigrated to Canada along with Anna's son's family, Johann and Kaethe Reimer. Anna and her other children remained in Russia, hoping also to move later but could not do so. This fonds consists of the letters the family members in Canada received, documenting the situation in the Soviet Union. The letters were translated by Katherina and Wilhelm Enns' children Con Enns and Elizabeth Enns, her husband Edward Enns and daughter Ruth Enns. "Katherina Enns and Johann Reimer left behind in Russia their sisters Anna Epp, Mariechen Reimer, Margareta Enns, Susanna Reimer, Elisabeth Teichroeb, and a brother Dietrich Reimer and their mother Anna (Peters) Riemer."

A small set of personal papers including correspondence to a cousin describing relief work in the Middle East, correspondence to and from Vesta Zook, articles written by Slagel (including the publication of portions of his diary kept during his relief service), obituaries and other clippings, photographs of Arthur Slagel, Don Slagel, and relief work abroad, genealogical information, and a Hesston College choral program.

This collection consists primarily of well labeled photographic prints documenting Arthur Voth's service with the Mennonite Central Committee in post-World War II Europe.  Photos depict Arthur Voth, his coworkers, refugee camps, German and Austrian Mennonite refugees, and the resettlement process from arrival at a refugee camp to departure.

The letters provide descriptions of the Fallingbostel Refugee Camp, a detailed account of the transport of 213 Mennonite refugees from Austria to Germany in 1948, and personal reflections on the resettlement of refugees.

Collection contains primarily correspondence between Arthur W. Nafziger and various WWII servicemen in both the Civilian Public Service and the military. Correspondence discusses a variety of topics such as the weather, work habits of servicemen, religion, attitudes towards Mennonites, and daily life.

Other materials include records of Hopedale Mennonite Church activities, including the establishment of Sunday School programs and the congregational views on WWII servicemen, and photocopies of German-language letters sent in the 1800s. Some notes and lists concerning Arthur W. Nafziger's touring at the Caterpillar factory and other local historical spots are also included.

Personal papers of a Goshen College professor of education and psychology.  Materials include not only his faculty papers, but also materials pertaining to service work with Civilian Public Service and Mennonite Central Committee Europe prior to his academic career.