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Box 1: mostly Faith Mennonite Church sermons

Box 2-4: files from his service on the board of Kidron-Bethel

Personal papers of Martha Smith Good, a female minister in the Mennonite Church. The collection consists primarily of sermons given throughout her career serving in as Goshen College's campus pastor as well as at Guelph Mennonite Church (Guelph, Ont.), Hillcrest Mennonite Church (New Hamburg, Ont.), Stirling Ave Mennonite Church (Kitchener, Ont.), Warden Woods Mennonite Church (Scarborough, Ont.), Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, OH), and Lombard Mennonite Church (Lombard, IL). Recurring themes in the sermons emphasize church roles in accepting and supporting members who are single, divorced, widowed, and homosexual. Some notes and correspondence related to her work in organizing the Women in Ministry Conferences in 1982 and 2000 are also included.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence concerning "A Crisis Among Mennonites: in Education: in Publication" by George R. Brunk  II (1983), political and social issues, and his work with Goshen College and the Mennonite Board of Congregational Ministries.  Also included in the collection is a diary of his experiences in 2008 as Interim Lead Pastor at First Mennonite Church in Berne, Ind. and sound recordings of a six sermon series preached at College Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.) in 1986.

Personal papers of a Mennonite Church USA pastor and employee of Mennonite Church USA from 2009 through 2014.  Shenk was a member of the denominational communications team with additional duties in interchurch relations and the women in leadership project. Sermons in this collection were delivered at a variety of Mennonite conference events and congregational worship settings.

A book of sermons, handwritten in German, written by Peter Lehman.  Lehman was one of the early bishops of the Croghan-Lowville, New York Amish congregation that immigrated from Alsace.

Handwritten and typed sermon texts and outlines written by a bivocational Mennonite minister in Nebraska.  The sermons are organized by topics, which include:  Bible Study, Christian Life and Church, Communion, Ordinances / Prayer Veil / Non-resistance, Parables, Regeneration / Heaven, Sanctification / Fellowship, the Seven Churches of Revelation, and Sin / Hell.