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This file contains approximately 224 devotional writings including: sermons, children's stories, anniversary meditations, prayers, Sunday School Lessons, and conference meditations.

Contains the sermon notes and diaries of a pastor and bishop in the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference.

The David A. Yoder Papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Diaries and Datebooks, 1920-1976

(2) Correspondence, 1903-1975

(3) Subject Files, 1909-1970

(4) Manuscripts, 1949-1976

(5) Sermon Notes, 1907-1966

(6) Photographs, 1885-1980

(7) Miscellaneous, 1897-1983

These papers document the ministry of Glenn W. Whitaker and are divided into four series:

Series 1: Early Ministry and Service, 1936-1981 Series 2: Photographs, 1936-1951 Series 3: Sermon Ministry, 1950-1972 Series 4: Phonograph Records, 1943-1950

The Clarence J. Ramer papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Organizational Materials

(2) Business and Finance

(3) Family Records

(4) Notes

(5) Correspondence

(6) Miscellaneous Clippings and Photographs

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor who served in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, primarily at Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Gulliver, Mich.).  Materials are divided into three series:

(1) Miscellaneous Materials, 1931-1980

(2) Sermons and Sermon Notes, circa 1950-1975

(3) Sound Recording Collection, circa 1960-1980

This small set of personal papers from a pastor affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church consists primarily of sermons, some of which were delivered at the Mennonite Home Mission in Chicago, Ill., where Yoder served after his ordination in 1939. Other sermons were written for congregational minsitry at the two churches he served: Congerville Mennonite Church (Congerville, Ill.) and Pleasant Oaks Mennonite Church (Middlebury, Ind.) The papers also include information about the history of the Pleasant Oaks congregation in the early 1960s, when it sold its church building. This collection also includes a number of family photographs and a handful of photographs from the Mennonite Home Mission, as well as two audiotapes of Yoder delivering sermons. Photographs mostly date from 1870 through 1930.

This file consists of 15 small black notebooks of sermons written between 1948 and 1965. Many of them also include the dates and locations where the sermon was preached.

Includes files from his institutional involvements such as Institute for Mennonite Studies and Board of Christian Service, family history materials, and files from congregations he served, such as Bethel College Mennonite Church and Zion Mennonite Church (Souderton, Pa.)

A collection of Hutterite sermons and introductory sermons (Vorreden) originating in the 18th and 19th centuries and copied from the 1890s to the 1980s, donated by Paul S. Gross and the Spokane Hutterite colony.  The copies remain in their original German form.  Of particular note is the work of Elias Walter from Standoff Colony, Alberta, whose copies (1898-1917) comprise the second half of this collection.  The collection also includes various Hutterite-related writings and pamphlets, including works by Paul S. Gross and Robert Friedman.

Box 1: sermons

Box 2: sermons, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings

Box 3: 50th anniversary, teaching certificates, church material (Bethany, Butterfield, Neu Hutterthal), civilian bonds, CPS, correspondence, family papers, minister's manual, ordination, clippings, sales (estate, land), school papers

Box 4: school papers, sermons, teaching materials, book

Box 5: Emma and Hilda Linscheid items

Box 6: Theodora Rodekuhr paintings

Box 1: notebook (record of weddings performed, etc.), diplomas, photos, printed matter, books, birthday book (Vergissmeinnicht), correspondence, C. E. Krehbiel diaries, other C. E. Krehbiel items

Box 2: subject files, correspondence

Box 3: index book (to files or articles?), subject files, sermon index, diaries (brought in March 1984 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 4: subject files

Box 5: sermons (brought in 31 Dec 1986 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 6: reel-to-reel tapes, C. E. Witness periodical (from Grace church in Pennsylvania?) (brought in 31 Oct 1994 by Ron Krehbiel)

Box 7: slides, 16mm film

box 8: audio cassette, biographical interview by Jim Juhnke

This file contains a collection of sermon notes in which Braun looks at a wide variety of New Testament scripture passages. It also contains a book entitled "Teile das Wort der Wahrheit recht" in which Braun wrote some notes.

This fonds consists of 493 sermons organized by the following categories: funerals, baptism, Christmas, New Years, Pentecost, Thanksgiving, Missions fests, Advent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension Day, pre-Easter, post Epiphany, wedding and anniversaries, communion, Trinitatis, Ten commandments, Matthew, Acts, Romans, I Corinthians, James, catechism . The sermons cover the cycle of the Christian church calendar and the breadth of community life over a 40 year period from the late 1930s to the 1970s.