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Records documenting congregational life of the (Old) Mennonite Church's urban mission in Chicago, Illinois.  Materials include a membership ledger, records of events and organizations associated with the mission congregation, Sunday school records, financial records, and photographs.

A small set of records pertaining to a defunct Illinois congregation affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church.  Materials include a complete set of congregational reports(1858-1963) and Sunday school reports (1899-1963).  Other materials include a thorough secretary's record book noting important dates in the congregation's history, an undated congregational history, and church bulletins from 1950 to 1953.

Minutes and accompanying documents of the governing board ot the Mennonite Board of Missions Health and Welfare Committee from 1957 to 1981. Also includes minutes of its predecessor committees, the Child Welfare Committee (1951-1957) and the Committee on Hospitals and Homes (1953-1957).

Records of the office of the president of the education agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.  These records are divided into series by the office holder and contain primarily correspondence and subject files, but also include reports.

Researchers will note that these records are quite incomplete. There are no presidential papers for the following presidents: John Blosser (1902-1917), Sanford Calvin (S. C.) Yoder (1918-1924), H. R. Schertz (1924-1929), D. A. Yoder (1929-1948), and Paul Erb (1963-1965). In some cases, correspondence pertaining to these presidents' leadership of the Mennonite Board of Education may be found in their personal papers.

Records of an Mennonite Board of Missions ministry formed in the late 1950s with the goals of creating awareness of the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, encouraging Mennonite students to form Mennonite fellowships at secular universities, helping Mennonite students maintain ties to other Mennonite students, and providing spiritual support to Mennonite undergraduate and graduate students.  Created as the Student Services Committee, the ministry's name was changed in 1978 to the Student and Young Adult Services Committee.

Records include meeting minutes, reports of visits made to Mennonite student fellowships, reports on the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, policies, newsletters, speakers' bureau information, and miscellaneous materials.  Researchs will find information about the Mennonite student housing cooperative in Philadelphia in these records.

Dockets, minutes, correspondence, and miscellaneous records of the board that governs the semi-independent magazine associated with the Mennonite Church USA. Includes an employee policy handbook and photographs of staff members.

The collection contains personal materials from all three creators, including school transcripts and diplomas, school papers, baptismal certificates and other documentation of their early family life. However, the most extensive personal materials are the writings of Helen and Amelia and the correspondence of Amelia and her family.

The other major category of materials in the collection is family history. This includes several generations of correspondence of Amelia’s family, especially of her many relatives in Germany who wrote to Amelia’s mother Elizabeth Ellenberger, her Aunt Selma Ellenberger, and to Amelia herself, covering a period of over a century. The family history materials, in addition to these primary source documents, includes extensive genealogical research materials. Published genealogies, primarily collected by Adam, relate to many branches of his ancestors, especially on his maternal, Becker, side. He and Amelia both compiled numerous family charts and histories.

The personal papers of a long term former Goshen College faculty member who taught in the Home Economics Department. Included are minutes and correspondence of the Home Economics Department, as well as personal diaries, photographs and correspondence.

Chinese language item(s), photos, biographical material, correspondence, school certificates, Red Cross history manuscript, art print

Included in this collection are the correspondence, and minutes of the Mennonite Council on Mass Communications, an organization made up of members from Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches interested in the use of mass communication for the proclamation of the Gospel.

This collection includes a bound report of the first Asia Mennonite Conference and accompanying slides, as well as a report of 1980 conference.

Internal communications among service ministry staff members.  These memos include reports about visits to various voluntary service units, proposals for new units in places of need, and general updates to staff members.  Authors of the memos include Edna Beiler, John Eby, Dan Hess, Ray Horst, John Lehman, Don McCammon, Jerry Miller, Dorsa Mishler, Millard Osborn, Kenneth Seitz, Ken Smith, Gene E. Yoder, John Howard Yoder, and Roy Yoder.

A small set of correspondence, reports, committee minutes, and other materials pertaining to the relationship between the Mennonite Board of Mission's service and relief work and the work of Mennonite Central Committee.

This collection consists of the constitution, some correspondence and minutes of the Mennonite General Conference standing committee Mennonite Church Buildings, Inc.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to a administrative body of Mennonite elementary and day school administrators.