Assorted photographs, most pooly labeled and identified, from the 1960s depicting various meetings, speakers, and worship services of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission. Researchers may find original photographs used in Women's Missionary and Service Commission publications in these records. Also among these records are several photographs of Annie Vallotton, illustrator of the Good News Bible, first published in 1966.
A small set of records documenting relationships between the Women's Missionary and Service Commission and three other Mennonite women's groups: Grupos Hispanos Femeniles del la Iglesia Menonita, Central Women's Organization of the Mennonite Church in India, and the Northwest Ohio Mennonite Business and Professional Women's Organization. Records consist primarily of correspondence, event programs, and a scrapbook.
A hodgepodge of records pertaining to the work of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission. Of particular interest are documents pertaining to the relationship between Mennonite Disaster Service and the Women's Missionary and Service Commission and a paper entitled "The Mennonite Women's Missionary Society" (1926).
Correspondence and subject files maintained by Marian Hostetler, executive secretary of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission from 1987 to 1996. Materials include information on the business and professional women's interest group, scholarship information, memos sent to executive committee members, scripts of skits, correspondence with conference WMSC leaders, and slide shows produced for Mennonite Church General Assemblies,
Correspondence and subject files of the lead staff person for the Women's Missionary and Service Commission (WMSC). These files primarily document the tenure of Beulah Kauffman (1966-1978), but also include documentation from other executive secretaries, including Florence Shantz (1956-1958), Doris Snyder (1958-1959), Dorothy McCammon (1960-1966) and Barbara Reber (1979-1986). Researchers will find that materials in these records provide information about both the WMSC's activities and the WMSC's relationships to other Mennonite organizations.
Top-level administrative records of the (old) Mennonite Church's organization that supported mission work and provided programming and resources for women and girls. These records are divided into several series:
This collection includes the correspondence and working files of Mary Bender, the first coordinator of Books Abroad (1961-1974); the correspondence files of Elizabeth Showalter, its next coordinator, (1977-1988); records from the Goshen office (1960-1995); minutes, reports and newsletters; and general correspondence.
Project and reference materials accumulated by Mennonite Church USA staff charged with administering the Women in Leadership Project. Includes documentation of the Women in Leadership audit completed in 2010 and the Women in Leadership Conference All You Need Is Love held in 2014. Researchers should note that papers from that conference are not available in these records. Reference materials include issues of the Church of the Brethren's Womæn's Caucus newsletter, Femailings from 1982 to 1994.
Administrative records pertaining to the youth and young adult magazine of the (old) Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church. Materials include meeting minutes, reports and editor's correspondence files.
Mennonite Publishing House (Scottdale, Pennsylvania)
