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Records of a Mennonite Church organization that addressed issues concerning conscription and perceived patriotism, divided into the following series:

Series 1: World War I Correspondence and Subject Files:  Aaron Loucks and Jonas S. Hartzler, 1918-1919

Series 2: World War I Correspondence and Subject Files: Elias L. Frey, 1917-1922

Series 3: Orie O. Miller Correspondence and Subject Files, 1925-1965

Series 4: Christian L. Graber Correspondence and Subject Files, 1927-1953

Series 5: Harold Stauffer Bender Correspondence and Subject Files, 1935-1962

Series 6: Summer Peace Team Records, 1948-1949

Series 7: Minutes and Reports, 1917-1964

Series 8: World War II Draft Census and Research Files, circa 1940-1948

Series 9: Guy F. Hershberger Correspondence and Subject Files, 1950-1964

Records, consisting primarily of correspondence to and from Levi Mumaw, of a Mennonite denominational organization concerned with ministry to youth and the development of Mennonite youth organizations, such as literary societies.

The collection also contains programs of the committee's Young People's Conference / Young People's Institute, including correspondence about the event,  programs, and registration cards from the 1929 Institute.

Records of an (old) Mennonite Church committee created to address labor and urban issues outside of the labor union movement.  These records include correspondence, reports, minutes, records of the Students in Industry program, and information on church work on the issues of race relations, labor relations, and litigation.

Minutes and reports documenting the work of the educational office of the (old) Mennonite Church, containing information on denominational work on Sunday schools, Bible schools, camps, and youth fellowship.

The Mennonite Church Committee on Peace and Social Concerns was created in 1965 by the merger of the Peace Problems Committee and the Committee on Economic and Social Relations.  This committee addressed issues pertaining to conscientious objection and conscription and promoted the practice of Christian ethics in business, labor, and race relations.  The records include minutes, reports and correspondence and subject files.

These records consist primarily of meeting minutes, official correspondence and reports, news releases and statements, and documentation of the committee's relationship to other bodies of the Mennonite Church.  The transition to the Peace and Justice Network is also somewhat documented, as is the short-lived Peace Evangelism program of the mid-to late 1990s.  Educational and PR materials are also included, as well as entries into the "Visions of Peace" children's artwork opportunity.

Contains the minutes, reports, correspondence, and subject files of the office responsible for promoting Christian stewardship education and programs in Mennonite conferences and congregations.

Completed questionnaires gathering Mennonites' opinions on the possibility of establishing a general hospital under the auspices of the denomination.  Questionnaires are signed by the individuals who filled them out and answered questions such as "Should the Mennonite Church build hospitals?"  and "Is nursing a scriptural sphere of service for Christian women?"

This small set of records consists primarily of drafts of the (old) Mennonite Church's polity statement and correspondence reacting to those drafts.  The correspondence is addressed to John L. Horst, Secretary of the Church Polity Committee.  Also included in these records is one set of minutes from a church polity committee meeting in 1935.

This small set of records includes papers delivered and notes taken at the Elkhart Stewardship Study Conference in 1962.  It also includes scattered meeting minutes and agendas, a manuscript of a handbook for congregational finance committees and treasurers, and a transcript of a filmstrip on stewardship.  Researchers will also find papers from the General Conference Mennonite Church's 1957 Study Conference on Institutional Planning in this series.

This series contains meeting minutes, reports, and the correspondence and subject files of leaders committee leaders.

This series consists primarily of committee meeting minutes.  Other records include Orie O. Miller's correspondence in his capacity as a member of the committee and records pertaining to a subcommittee on the Church-wide will-annuity program.

These records document the process by which the denomination rewrote its confession of faith in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Materials include committee minutes, progress reports and correspondence. Also included are six drafts of the confession and numerous comments on those drafts. Most sets of comments are identified by author.

Official and unofficial records of the denominational committee assigned with the task of restructuring the (old) Mennonite Church in the late 1960s.  Materials include meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports.  The records are divided into three series:

(1) Official Records, 1966-1971

(2) Chairman and Other Correspondence, 1966-1971

(3) Sound Recordings, 1970

Minutes, correspondence, and subject files received from three members of the Mennonite Church's committee responsible for developing relations within the Mennonite Church, among other Mennonite groups, with other denominations, and with interdenominational church organizations.  Also includes the "Principles and Guidelines for Interchurch Relations" issued by the committee in 1971.