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Meeting minutes of the division of the Mennonite Board of Missions responsible for church planting, urban ministries, and evangelizing in the United States.  Some reports are interfiled with the minutes.

Correspondence and subject files of the division of the Mennonite Board of Missions responsible for church planting and mission work in the United States and Canada.

Correspondence and subject files of the division of the Mennonite Board of Missions responsible for church planting and mission work in the United States and Canada.  Includes information about African American, Native American, and Latino / a ministries.

Correspondence and subject files of the division of the Mennonite Board of Missions responsible for church planting and mission work in the United States and Canada.  Includes information about African American, Native American, and Latino / a ministries.

Correspondence and subject files of the division of the Mennonite Board of Missions responsible for church planting and mission work in the United States and Canada.  Includes information about African American, Native American, and Latino / a ministries.

Correspondence and subject files of the division of the Mennonite Board of Missions responsible for church planting and mission work in the United States and Canada.  Includes information about African American, Native American, and Latino / a ministries.

These records primarily document contact between the Mennonite Board of Missions of the (old) Mennonite Church and regional Mennonite conferences and other geographically-defined Mennonite congregational organizations.  Materials include not only correspondence, but also reports, consultation minutes, information about domestic church planting efforts, and documentation generated by the conferences.  Most conference minutes and reports were discarded, as these documents can be found in the records of the conferences.  However, minutes and reports from smaller non-conference Mennonite organizations may be found in this series. 

Researchers should note that these materials extend into the institutional life of Mennonite Mission Network, the mission agency of Mennonite Church USA.  Functions of the Evangelism and Church Development division of the former mission board were transferred to the United States Ministry division and fell under church relations.

The core records of the American Mennonite Mission, India are divided into three series:

(1) Annual Reports, 1902-1929

(2) Business Meeting Minutes, 1910-1952

(3) Constitution and By-Laws, 1908-1909, 1920

Researchers should note that the only minutes included in these records are the business meeting minutes.  Other meeting minutes may be found elsewhere in the records of the American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India), IV-17.

Meeting minutes documenting the work of the committee charged with managing the finances, property, and human resources of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  It appears that executive committee and the managing committee are two names for the same body.  This series also includes an index to the meeting minutes (1939-1945, 1949-1950) and scattered correspondence and miscellaneous records.

Researchers should note that earlier minutes for the executive committee may be found in the American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Secretary Correspondence and Subject Files (IV-17-004).

Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials.  These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.

This series consists primarily of Incoming and outgoing correspondence to and from the office of the secretary, which appears to have replaced the office of the superintendent as the director of the mission's affairs.  Researchers will find in this series correspondence between the secretary and leaders of the Mennonite Board of Missions, Indian government officials, and non-Mennonite mission organizations.  Also present here are the secretary's record book (1905-1915), which contains the earliest executive committee and business meeting minutes as well as a number of subject files.

Secretaries of the American Mennonite Mission include J. N. Kauffman, Aldine Carpenter Brunk, and J. D. Graber (1937-1944).

Financial reports, account books, and treasurer's correspondence documenting the financial operations of the American Mennonite Mission in Dhamtari, India.  Researchers should note that real estate records pertaining to properties purchased and sold by the mission may be found in S. Paul Miller's personal papers (HM1-379).

Committee meeting minutes, primary school reports, scholarship applications, curricula, and other records pertaining to the educational institutions supported by the American Mennonite Mission.  These institutions included the Dhamtari Christian Academy and a number of elementary and vocational schools.  Minutes of the education committee concern the progress of individual students, scholarship awards and the curriculum..

Committee meeting minutes, evangelism record books, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to American Mennonite Mission's efforts to convert Hindu and Muslim Indians to Christianity.  Meeting minutes generally do not discuss overall mission strategy, but focus on the assignments, performance, and financial compensation of Indian evangelists,  The evangelism record books provide in-depth accounts of preaching and books distributed to various villages.  Researchers should be aware, however, that these record books are in Hindi.  Also of interest in this series are the records pertaining to the Bible Women, who evangelized on behalf of the Mennonite mission.  Mennonite missionaries' evaluations of the Bible Women are in English, while the Bible Women's evangelism records are in Hindi.

Scattered records documenting the American Mennonite Mission's teacher training program, which seems to have trained Indian teachers and other workers in Christian education.