The Festival of the People was an event sponsored by Goshen College in cooperation with the Brethren in Christ Church, the Northern Indiana District of the Church of the Brethren, the Central District General Conference Mennonites and the Board of Congregational Ministries of the Mennonite Church, to renew congregations. The collection includes a program, brochure, workshop locations, and workshop leaders.
This series consists primarily of staff and board meeting minutes from 1935 through 1981. Other materials include reports about various service and relief programs, descriptions of visits to voluntary service units, financial reports, and subject files from 1951 through 1970. Materials in the late 1960s and 1970 address issues of race and ethnicity in the (old) Mennonite Church.
Later minutes of the Service Ministries division are most likely interfiled with the Mennonite Board of Missions Executive Board Minutes (IV-06-007).
The administrative records of Grace Children's Home, a home for children operated by the Mennonite Board of Missions to provide for the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of the young people placed into the custody of the home. The collection includes legal documents, minutes, reports, financial records, and correspondence.
Mennonite Board of Missions. Health and Welfare Committee
Personal and professional papers of a Mennonite historian and professor at Goshen College from 1929 to 1972. Smith's papers include personal and professional correspondence, research notes and manuscripts for his books, subject files, class and teaching notes, and various administrative records from Goshen College and College Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.). Also includes a substantial collection of photographs.
The collection includes a letter from Daniel E. Mast to Jacob F. Swartzendruber, and a letter by Jacob F. Swartzendruber to Eli J. Bontrager referencing the Daniel E. Mast letter, as well as translations of those letters. The letters reflect views on Old Order Amish Church schism in Iowa.
The collection consists of early Mennonite documents collected by Mrs. Lester Snyder and their English translations. The documents include various baptismal certificates and letters from Langnau, Switzerland and Stark County, Ohio. Among the names listed in these documents are Christina Schwartz, Christian Schwartz, Ulrich Schwarz, Heinrich Sommer, Anna Barbara Wyss, Menonit Egli, Anna Haghegger, and Johannes Wyss.
This collection contains a single item, a book in which Sam Roth pasted samples of his printing press work, including business cards, church programs, etc.
Papers of a Mennonite women who began her career as a secretary in Mennonite organizations and transitioned into ministry in the 1970s and 1980s. Fisher served on the pastoral team of College Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.) and as an overseer of Waterford Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.). Her papers include correspondence, sermons and presentations, worship materials, photographs, audiotapes of sermons preached at College Mennonite Church, and miscellaneous materials.
Personal papers of an African American Mennonite minister who worked to combat racism in the (old) Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Church USA. Powell served as executive secretary of the Minority Ministries Council from 1969 to 1974. He left the church in 1974 vowing never to return. After ministering in several other denominations, he decided to return to the Mennonite Church as the director of evangelism and church development in the Mennonite Board of Missions.
His personal papers primarily document his involvement with AFRAM (African Afro-Americas Inter-Mennonite Unity Conference), a "Mini-World Conference" that focused on "world-wide Black concerns." Other materials in his papers include documents pertaining to his work as executive secretary of the Minority Ministries Council, his involvement in the Cross Cultural Youth Convention and the Soul and Spirit Interracial Couples Retreat. Researchers will also find correspondence and essays by Powell.
A small collection of poems, sermons and devotional writings,and reminiscences authored by a Mennonite dairy farmer in the Wooster, Ohio area near the end of his life. These papers provide a good example of lay spirituality in themid-century (old) Mennonite Church. Mumaw wrote about a number of topics, including suicide, lending money, and leisure time. His reminiscences include an account of his expoeriences as a conscientious objector in World War I. Information about the Jonas Smucker homestead may also be found in these papers. This collection also includes materials by and about Mumaw's wife, Clara Zook Mumaw. These include a poem, home remedies, miscellaneous writings, and genealogical information about the David S. Zook family.
A small set of personal papers created by a secretary employed by the Mennonite Board of Missions from 1950 to 1978. Materials include scattered correspondence and autobiographical essays, photographs of the Graber siblings, Graber family obituaries, information on Lloyd O. Rupe, and a scrapbook of photographs and correspondence presented to her by missionaries and mission board staff upon her retirement.
This collection includes minutes and reports, pamphlets, correspondence and class records of the Mennonite Board of Missions Ad Hoc Committee Mission Study Course Committee. This committee offered study classes on the topic of mission.
Mennonite Board of Missions. Mission Study Course Committee
