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Contains meeting minutes and financial records for the Women's Missionary and Service Auxiliary at Forks from 1924-1978. Also contains record books from the Junior Sewing Circle (1950-1966) and Women's Fellowship minutes (1954-1996).

The records in this series include minutes, reports and some correspondence for three women's groups -- Frauenverein (1953-1980), Missionsverein (1970-1980) and Women's Fellowship (1967-2005).

Series consists of the following files:
1) Constitution - 1970 - (1 file) Box 341
2) Minutes - 1966, 1970-1991 - (4 files) Box 341
3) Correspondence - 1964-1975, 1980-1981 - (4 files) Box 341
4) Reports - 1965, 1972-1985 - (2 files) Box 341 & 1990-1997 (2 files) Box 438
5) Lectures and Sermons "The Place of the Christian Woman" by Dr. David Ewert - 1978 - (1 file) Box 341
6) Publications - 1983-2001 - (13 files) Box 341

This video focuses on an address by Dr. Marlene Epp on the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the post World War II Mennonite immigration to Canada at the Mennonite Heritage Village, Steinbach, Manitoba in the summer of 1998. Based on her research project on fate of women with men largely as a result of the infamous Stalin purges during the years 1937 and 1938 and the conscription into either the German or Soviet Union armies. In the words of one reviewer, Otto Klassen "has skillfully woven into the texture of Ms. Epp's report, footage from his extensive film library depicting women in the Great Trek managing teams of horses and repairing vehicles while at the same time nursing their children, cooking for their families, bedding down the infirm and, most heart breaking of all, burying the dead along the endless trek."

Series consists of the following files:
1) Constitution - 1974, 1976, 1989, 1995-1997 - (1 file) - Box 17
2) History - 1957-1976 - (1 file) - Box 17
3) Minutes - 1941-1998 - (5 files) - Box 17
4) Correspondence - 1942-1998 - (6 files) - Box 17
5) Financial Records - 1952-1991, 1995 - (3 files) - Box 17
6) Reports - 1940-1979, 1989, 1992, 1998, 2000 - (5 files) - Box 17 & 18
7) Lists - 1967-1988, 1994, 2003-2004 - (2 files) - Box 18
8) Retreats - 1969-1997, 2010-2017 - (2 files) - Box 18
9) Clippings - 1970 - (1 file) - Box 18
10) Lectures and Sermons - 1938-1961- (1 file) - Box 18
11) Photographs - 1989 - (1 file) - Box 18
12) Publications - 1968, 1989, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2011, Connections, 2012-2017, Women's Inspirational Day, 2007, 2011-2012, 2014-2017 - (3 files) - Box 18
13) Play - 1930-1939 - (1 file) - Box 18

Microfilm No. 352,353, 354 - Table of Contents
(MHC Project No. 108)

1. Church Registers - alphabetical record of members; date when started unknown.
2. Membership Directories - 1976, 1977, 1979. Pictorial Directories - 1970, 1980
3. Membership Meeting Minutes - November 20, 1955 - February 1, 1982
4. Annual Report Books - 1964-1981
5. Church Council Minutes - December 30, 1960 - December 15, 1980
6. Service Committee Minutes - February 3, 1961 - December 20, 1971
7. Ministerial Minutes - February 1, 1962 - March 16, 1974; April 5, 1976 - December 7, 1981
8. Finance and Administration Minutes - February 6, 1964 - December 7,1981
9. Missions Committee - February 15, 1966 - November 13, 1973; May 7, 1976 - November 30, 1981
10. Education Committee Minutes - February 16, 1966 - November 7, 1973; May 5, 1976 - December 9, 1981
11. Sunday School Teachers Minutes - February 17, 1980 - January 5, 1982
12. Church Growth Minutes - February 17, 1980 - January 5, 1982
13. Newsletters - October, 1980 - March 1982 (Vol. 1, #1 - Vol. 3, #3)
14. Correspondence - Letter February 18, 1970 from Winkler Bergthaler Mennonite Church . Council, Chairman: Rev. P.J. Froese, secretary: Frank Peters.
15. Agenda and Reports for membership meeting, November 18, 1965
16. Histories
    -a. Elias, Ron "History of the Winkler Bergthaler Mennonite Church" research paper, Canadian Mennonite Bible College, 1979. Located in the Vertical File at Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
    -b. Klassen, John P. "Growth Study of the Winkler Bergthaler Church" research paper, Canadian Mennonite Bible College, 1980. Located in the Vertical File at Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives, Winnipeg, MB.
    -c. "Hoffnungsfeld - Winkler," Adventures in Faith, Henry J. Gerbrandt. Altona, Manitoba: D.W. Friesen and Sons Ltd., 1970, pages 123-138.

A set of papers created by one of the leaders of the Mennonite Relief Commission on War Sufferers that consists primarily of correspondence. Other materials include his account of a trip to the Near East, Orie O. Miller's diary of his tri to Mennonite communities of South Russia, and assorted tracts, reports, and brochures about Mennonite aid to people in war-torn areas and Syrian relief efforts.

The material in this series consists of photocopies of records collected or written by Wilhelm Giesbrecht. Some of the correspondence is unclear if it is to Toews or Giesbrecht but one folder has been included in this series.

Outgoing correspondence to family and friends; Wilbur Bender served many years as a dean and administrator at Harvard University.