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Reports, minutes, correspondence, and subject files pertaining to the Peace Council. The Peace Council first gathered as the International Mennonite Peace Committee (IMPC) in 1979 in Nicaragua and Colombia. The council serves to encourage the exchange of informaiton and resouces in peace and justice activities worldwide. These reocrds also contain documentation of a predecessor organization, the Provisional Peace Team (1972-1978).

This series documents ecumenical and interfaith activites of the Mennonite World Conference. Researchers will find materials pertaining to the Lutheran - Mennonite reconciliation process as well as documents recording dialogue with Baptists, Catholics, Jews, and the Reformed Church. Researchers will also find materials pertaining to delegations to the USSR (Soviet Union) in this series. Documents pertaining to ecumenical relations prior to 1982 may be found in the records of the presidium in Series 1: Assembly Records.

The Faith & Life Council was created in 1993 to determine how Mennonite World Conference churches understand and describe Anabaptist-Mennonite faith and practice, to enable member churches to receive and give council Anabaptist-Mennonite identity and action, and to develop relationships interchurch relationships of mutual accountability. Records in this series include minutes and reports, correspondence, and a small reference library of congregational and denominational Mennonite confession statements. Also included in this series are the records documenting the creation of the shared convictions in 2006, including questionnaires returned by Mennonite World Conference members.

Contains records documenting the administrative work of the committee, including consultations, reports, and correspondence.

Diary entries contained within 36 separate books from 1917 to 1984.

One of the larger series in J.D.'s papers, the sermon notes consist primarily of handwritten but fairly detailed outlines of sermons. In rare cases, a fully written, typed sermon is present. The sermon notes were organized both topically and chronologically when received, and that organization was retained.

Includes constitutions, church council meeting minutes, church secretary's records, financial records, and membership records.

Includes the records of the Aldebaran Literary Society. Early Sunday school records are in German.

This series documents Mumaw's career as an educator. It includes course syllabi, lesson plans, assignements, and course evaluations for courses taught at Eastern Mennonite University, Goshen College, and Oregon State University. These materials include documentation of Mumaw's home economics seminar and maternal and child nutrition seminar in Jamaica, most notably follow-up evaluations with alumni of the maternal and child nutrition seminars and cassette tapes of lectures delivered during the 1976 seminar. Researchers should note the presence of a syllabus and other materials relating to a popular Goshen College course that Mumaw did not teach -- Family Life 300: Human Sexuality, taught by Dr. Willard Kraybill (Fall 1985).