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A small set of records created by an (old) Mennonite Church and later Mennonite Church USA congregation in Shipshewana, Indiana.   Records consist primarily of bulletins.

A small set of records about a non-profit organization associated with the Indiana Michigan Conference  that provided former prison inmates with housing, employment skills, and community reentry.  Materials include governing documents, board minutes, financial statements, publicity materials, and a number of miscellaneous records.  Researchers should note that these records contain materials about the related Path Foundation (New Carlisle, Ind.) and Abe Peters's prison ministry as well.

Records of the governing body of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference.  Include executive committee meeting minutes, executive committee and executive secretary / conference pastor correspondence, and various subject and data files dealing with various conference initiatives, programs, workshops, and problematic issues.

Researchers seeking executive committee minutes prior to 1947 should consult series II-05-01, Mennonite Church Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference Governing Documents and Annual Conference Records, which contains exectuive committee minutes from 1922 to 1947.

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor and conference minister and his wife.  These papers are divided into two series:

(1) Cleo A. Mann Papers, 1939-1980

(2) Nellie Miller Mann Papers, 1920-2000

A hodgepodge of material created and collected by an Indiana Mennonite farmer and his wife. The bulk of the materials in the collection are clippings of W. W. Oesch's "Ramblings" column from a New Paris (Ind.) newspaper, The Farmer's Exchange (1948-1970). Materials also include a scrapbook with correspondence, journal entries, and clippings by and about Sarah Alice Troyer Young, a mission worker killed in the Boxer Rebellion.  Three photographs of Young and the China Inland Mission may also be found in this collection.  FInally, researchers may find correspondence and congregational records in this collection regarding the doctrinal difficulties of the Indiana-Michigan Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church in the 1920s.

A small collection of records from an independent congregation that was affiliated with the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference until 1981.

This collection documents Newcomer's experiences in Civilian Public Service camps as a conscientious objector during World War II. Materials include ration books, camp rosters, photographs, miscellaneous correspondence, and a memoir of his experiences.

The collection also documents Newcomer's interest in the history of Mennonites in northern Indiana, specifically the Yellow Creek Mennonite Church. They include photographs, estate sale bills, and photocopied documents related to Yellow Creek members who were conscientious objectors during World War I.

Includes a 1963 constitution, a 1975 church directory, and bulletins arranged chronologically. Some years also include scattered copies of church council minutes, calendars, and other miscellaneous documents.

The congregation was founded in 1945 as Bon Air Mennonite Church and changed its name to Parkview Mennonite Church in November 1970.

Written narratives summarized from oral history interviews Pratt conducted with 13 Amish and Mennonite men regarding their experiences as conscientious objectors in World War II. These interviews were used in Pratt's dissertation, "A Study in Cultural Persistence: The Amish in LaGrange County, Indiana, 1841 - 1945" (Notre Dame, 1997).

The papers include a photograph of Leonard and Verna Clemens, excerpts from his diary, and two personal memoirs in essay form :  "Mennonites in Michigan in 1900" and "Life in Goshen: The 1920s."

These records consist of bulletins (1984-2008), church council and congregational minutes and supporting documentation (interfiled, 1978-2001), reports (1986-2001) and other miscellaneous records of a Hispanic Mennonite congregation in Goshen, Indiana.

Miscellaneous documents accumulated by Harry Symensma, a Mennonite immigrant from Balk (Friesland, Netherlands) and member of the Mennonite (Dunkard) church in Union Township (presumably Elkhart County), Indiana, and his son, Henry Symensma, of New Paris, Indiana.  Materials include property tax and other reciepts, real estate assessments, a letter from John F. Funk offering condolences to Henry Symensma, and Dutch militia documents.

The collection consists of the marriage license of Jonathan Kurtz and Lizzie L. Byler dated March 18, 1878 in Noble County, Indiana.

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.

The records of this Menonite congregation located in Shipshewana, Ind. include:

(1) Early Records (to 1950) and Church Histories, 1871-1985

(2) Photographs, 1892-1994

(3) Newsletters, 1944, 1997-2011

(4) Bulletins, 1960-2003

(5) Miscellaneous Congregational Records, 1950-2011