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Sermon notes, 1979-1980; Bulletins, Newsletters, Meeting Minutes, Financial Records, and Directories, 1980-2019

The collection consists of letters written by Eugene and Luella (Gingerich) Blosser from Japan to friends and family back at home from 1949 to 1966.

This collection includes the correspondence and working files of Mary Bender, the first coordinator of Books Abroad (1961-1974); the correspondence files of Elizabeth Showalter, its next coordinator, (1977-1988); records from the Goshen office (1960-1995); minutes, reports and newsletters; and general correspondence.

Assorted materials written by, collected by, or about Eli J. Bontrager (1868-1958), an Amish minister and bishop born near Shipshewana, Indiana.  .  Materials include several biographical and autobiographical texts, a biography of John J. Mast, a journal kept by Friedrich Herring of Goshen, Indiana, and miscellaneous materials.

A copybook created by an Amish minister in Wayne County, Ohio.  Includes a letter to the reader of the copy book,  transcriptions of poetry found in Ermahnungen von Georg Jutzi... (1853), a sermon by Dek Nadel (Mennonite Minister in Amsterdam) based on Ephesians 2:10 and dated 1751, and a hymn.  Also includes Paton Yoder's transcriptions and translations of portions of the copybook.

Of most interest in this small set of personal papers is a citation issued to Britsch and to Mennonite Churches in Ohio and Indiana by the state of Michigan for their service to Michigan residents in the aftermath of the Flint / Genesee County tornado of June 1953.  Other materials in the collection are newspaper clippings about the work of Mennonite Disaster Service in the wake of the Flint tornado, Hurricane Bertha, and other natural disasters.

Six letters in German script from members of the Brubacher family residing in Ontario and Pennsylvania.  Correspondents include Johannes and Susanna Brubacher, Jacob and Maria Brubacher, and Heinrich Brubacher.  ALl of the letters have either been transcribed or translated.  Among the letters are also several photocopied German hymns with translations into English.

The collection consists of an article on J. F. Brunk's work at the Mennonite Sanatorium in La Junta, Colorado. The article was published in Collier's in about 1908 and titled "A Lung-Mender for the Lord: Extracts from the Story of J. F. Brunk, Creator of the New Mennonite Sanitorium."

Records include church council minutes, board of directors' minutes, annual reports, a photo directory, the dedication program, and other miscellaneous documents. Also included are several sound recordings of services in the late 1960s, sermons delivered at the North Leo Mennonite Church by George Brunk II in December 1968, and a performance by the Gospel Messengers quartet in October 1968.