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Mary Elizabeth Yoder Collection of Family Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/727
  • Collection
  • 1884-1919

A collection of photocopied correspondence gathered by Mary Elizabeth Yoder documenting letters received by her grandfather, Manasses Beachy, her grandparents, Samuel and Magdalene Miller, and other members of the Beachy and Yoder families.  The letters indicate geographical dispersion of the family in Maryland, West Virginia, Iowa and Pennsylvania.  Many of the letters are in German script, and most have been transcribed, but not translated.

Yoder, Mary Elizabeth

Mennonite Board of Missions Mission Committee Missionary Applications

  • US MCUSAA IV/06/001.2
  • Collection
  • 1904-1950

Applications received from individuals wishing to serve as missionaries for the Mennonite Church.  Records may include completed application forms, with biographical information, paragraph-long answers to questions posed to candidates for missionary work, correspondence between the mission committee and the applicant, and letters of recommendation.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Mission Committee

Mennonite Board of Missions Student and Young Adult Services Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA IV/09/003
  • Collection
  • 1958-1978

Miscellaneous correspondence to and from various leaders of the Student and Young Adult Services Committee, including Virgil J. Brenneman, Al (Albert) Meyer, Mervin Gingerich, and Paul Erb.  Of special note are Paul Erb's handwritten notes regarding the opinions of various Indiana-Michigan Conference congregations about Goshen College, circa 1965.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Student and Young Adult Services Committee

Mennonite Media Counseling Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/13/011
  • Collection
  • 1953-1980

These records were generated by listener response to Mennonite radio programming, particularly the Mennonite Hour (1951-1979) and Heart to Heart (1950-1975). Mennonite Media (then called called Mennonite Broadcasts, Inc.) employed staff to handle listener correspondence.  The Mennonite Hour also had an extensive home Bible study program that generated further correspondence.

In the mid-1990s these files were sampled; only 5% (every twentieth set of correspondence) of the original correspondence was retained.  The other 95% was destroyed. From this sampling, however, researchers can get a sense of the questions asked and responses offered.

Incoming correspondence is filed by listener's last name.  Topic files are are response letters to individual letter writers from the counseling staff.

Mennonite Media