Records pertaining to a ministry for Mennonite college and university students and young adults in the Philadelphia area. The Philadelphia office seemed to have coordinated work with area Mennonite student fellowships, offered a Mennonite presence to area college campuses, organized workshops, and assisted with tasks for the general Student and Young Adult Services Ministry. Records include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, seminar papers, and a cashbook.
Mennonite Board of Missions. Student and Young Adult Services Committee
Records include minutes, correspondence, subject files, and student census cards of the (old) Mennonite Church committee concerned with the spiritual formation of college and university students, both undergraduate and graduate. The college student census cards are organized by year, conference, and congregation.
Mennonite Board of Missions. Student and Young Adult Services Committee
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.
These records contain subject files produced by or pertaining to this committee from 1970-1990.
Mennonite Board of Missions. Student and Young Adult Services Committee
Sound recordings, filmstrips, and films produced by the Mennonite Board of Missions for evangelization and instruction of both youth and adults. This colleciton is divided into several series:
Black and white photographic prints and negatives of chair persons, vice chair persons, executive committee members, and chief executive officers of the Mennonite Board of Missions. Images include individual portraits, group portraits, and "action shots."
Photographic prints and contact sheets depicting Mennonite Board of Missions missionaries, voluntary service workers, and staff. Most images are black and white. Photographs of individual missionaries and voluntary service workers may include both formal portraits and "action shots" in the field.
The photographs consist of 668 folders of photographs which are arranged alphabetically by the name of countries and states (USA) from 1900 to 1971. The photographs reflecting the work of the Mission Board itself and its departments, are found under the section of "MBM". For example, "MBM Annual Board Meetings, 1949-1958".
Photographic prints and contact sheets depicting Mennonite Board of Missions missionaries, voluntary service workers, and staff. Most images are black and white. Photographs of individual missionaries and voluntary service workers may include both formal portraits and "action shots" in the field.
Photographic prints and contact sheets depicting Mennonite Board of Missions missionaries, voluntary service workers, and staff. Most images are black and white. Photographs of individual missionaries and voluntary service workers may include both formal portraits and "action shots" in the field.
Policy and procedural documents for the personnel division of the Mennonite Board of Missions. Also includes some correspondence, departmental reports, wage and health insurance studies, chapel committee minutes, and other materials pertaining to staff compensation, benefits, and welfare.
Meeting minutes of the committee charged with developing policies and procedures for Mennonite Board of Missions staff, including overseas and home missionaries.
Personnel committee minutes later than 1982 are not availble at the archives.
Annual and other reports created by the broadcasting department of the Mennonite Board of Missions. Researchers will find in these reports overviews of the work of Mennonite Media Ministries and financial reports, Researchers should note, however, that the reports are incomplete: 1958-1959, 1964-1965, 1967, 1969-1970, 1979-1981.
Meeting minutes of governing boards of and committees / working groups within the broadcasting office of the Mennonite Board of Missions. Researchers will note that Mennonite Media ceased to have an independent board in 1981, when an administrative consolidation with the Mennonite Board of Missions made Mennonite Media a division of Mennonite Board of Missions Home Ministry. Researchers should consult the Mennonite Board of Missions Executive Board Meeting Minutes for records reporting high-level decision-making regarding Mennonite Media from 1982 forward.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding media program development in the United States and abroad, relationships with other Mennonite publishers and broadcast outlets, and listener response or "testimonies" regarding the programming. Also includes some Mennonite Media division minutes and reports.
