449 Treffer anzeigen

Records of a predecessor organization to the Mennonite Board of Missions, formed in error under the assumption that an organization incorporated in Ohio was required in order to acquire and manage property in Ohio.  This organization, therefore should not be understood as a competing organization to the Mennonite Evangelizing and Benevolent Board and its predecessor organizations. Records include incorporation documents and by-laws, legal documents pertaining to the transfer of property, correspondence, and annuity contracts.

A small set of miscellaneous correspondence from various leaders of the mission agencies of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Primarily incoming correspondence regarding both home and overseas mission work.  Researchers will find materials in this series that document the work of early Mennonite missionaries and mission programs.  Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author.

These materials document the professional life of Lena Graber, a medical missionary who served the (old) Mennonite Church.  Graber worked in India and Nepal from 1944 to 1969 under the auspices of the Mennonite Board of Missions and the United Mission to Nepal.  Graber's incoming and outgoing correspondence with her sister, Esther Graber, is very rich with details about her life abroad and her work, especially the medical cases she encountered.  Also included in this collection are her diary she kept from 1944 to 1948, newspaper clippings, award and honors she received, transcripts of several speeches, and miscellaneous materials.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding both primarily home and voluntary service work and the placement of Mennonite conscientious objectors into service programs of partner agencies. These files also contain some information on overseas voluntary service work.  Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author or subject.

Researchers should note the restrictions on files marked "confidential."  These files generally do not contain confidential information about the individual whose name is on the folder.  Rather, the files contain confidential information about voluntary service and mission workers supervised by the individual whose name is on the folder.

A small set of records from the office of the third secretary of the Mennonite Board of Missions, J. D. Graber, who served in that capacity from 1944 to 1966.  Materials include correspondence with C. L. Graber, correspondence regarding urban missions, miscellaneous reports, and telephone call log books.

A small set of assorted records that predate and extend through Bennett's tenure as secretary of the Mennonite Board of Missions.  Materials include reports, correspondence,and financial records.  Bennett served as secretary from 1959 to 1980.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters, and other records of mission committee formed to address child delinquency and other perceived effects of families broken by poverty, migration, and other social forces.  Researchers should be aware that a more complete set of minutes for this committee may be found in IV-14-03.

Programs, presentations, and minutes from the annual meetings of an umbrella organization for administrators of health care and social service residential facilities affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church.  Also includes a small amount of correspondence, executive committee meeting minutes from 1961 to 1970, and a folder of correspondence with the American Protestant Hospital Association.

This series includes the constitutions of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church / Mennonite Church USA and minutes of annual conferences dating back to the 19th century and including both the minutes of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, the Indiana Amish-Mennonite Conference, and the Indiana-Michigan Amish-Mennonite Conference.  From 1922 to 1947, executive committee minutes are interfiled with the annual conference minutes. In more recent years, reports include the minutes from the previous year's conference.

Also found in this series are materials pertaining to a conference-wide study of divorce and remarriage, minutes and correspondence related to the possibility of an independent Michigan Mennonite conference, and annual conference-related correspondence.

Records of the governing body of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference.  Include executive committee meeting minutes, executive committee and executive secretary / conference pastor correspondence, and various subject and data files dealing with various conference initiatives, programs, workshops, and problematic issues.

Researchers seeking executive committee minutes prior to 1947 should consult series II-05-01, Mennonite Church Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference Governing Documents and Annual Conference Records, which contains exectuive committee minutes from 1922 to 1947.

These records document the work of the committee that offered pastoral support to ministers serving the conference and handled congregational and ministerial difficulties and controversies.  The minutes of the committee will be helpful to researchers seeking specific issues within the congregations of the Indiana-Michigan Conference.  Once the researcher determines the time period in which the issue was handled by the committee, the researcher may then seek more information in the correspondence and data files from that time period.

Other materials of particular interest in the collection include summaries of interviews with retired ministers.  Some interviews are foldered separately from other materials, while other interviews are mixed into the meeting minutes or correspondence and subject files.  Also, among the correspondence and subject files researchers will find the meeting minutes of regional ministers' councils established in 1970.

Correspondence and subject files round out the series.  These include not only committee correspondence and notes about various situations in congregations, but also files from workshops and retreats facilitated.

The Executive Committee consisted of a small subset of leaders in the General Conference, and later the General Assembly, of the (old) Mennonite Church that met several times a year to conduct business.   Although the executive committee of the Mennonite General Conference extends at least as back as the 1910's, these records pick up with exectuive committee correspondence in 1924 and executive committee minutes in 1942.  Other materials in this series include notes from the 1948 World Conference Planning Committee and an undated report of a committee appointed to draft a plan for the coordination of work among several boards and committees of the (old) Mennonite Church.

A small set of correspondence created and collected by Roy Koch, Moderator of the Mennonite General Conference from 1963 to 1965.  Includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence, as well as a small folder of miscellaneous materials.

This collection about an early relief organization of the (old) Mennonite Church is divided into six series:

(1) William A. Derstine Papers, 1912-1927; (2) Financial Records, 1917-1925; (3) Levi Mumaw Papers, 1918-1925; (4) Silas Hertzler Diary (Transcription), 1919-1920; (5) Stanley Kerr Diary, 1920; (6) John Warye Diary, 1919-1920