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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 Home Ministries Division Minutes

  • US MCUSAA IV/16/001
  • Collection
  • 1964-1988

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.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Evangelism and Church Development.

Mennonite Board of Missions Mennonite Graduate Fellowship Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/09/002
  • Collection
  • 1955-1978

Records documenting the meetings of a group of Mennonite graduate students that gathered to present papers and exchange ideas.  Materials include correspondence, reports, and copies of papers presented at the conferences.  From 1958 to 1967, the Mennonite Graduate Fellowship met every year.  The last two meetings were held in 1972 and 1978.

Mennonite Graduate Fellowship

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 Service Ministries Administrative Memos

  • US MCUSAA IV/19/015
  • Collection
  • 1958-1969

Internal communications among service ministry staff members.  These memos include reports about visits to various voluntary service units, proposals for new units in places of need, and general updates to staff members.  Authors of the memos include Edna Beiler, John Eby, Dan Hess, Ray Horst, John Lehman, Don McCammon, Jerry Miller, Dorsa Mishler, Millard Osborn, Kenneth Seitz, Ken Smith, Gene E. Yoder, John Howard Yoder, and Roy Yoder.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Service Ministries

Mennonite Board of Missions Service Ministries Closed Voluntary Service Unit Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/19/007
  • Collection
  • 1947-1996

Files associated with various Mennonite voluntary service sites no longer in operation.  Materials vary according to unit, but researchers may find in this series activity reports, financial reports, correspondence, personnel lists, and other official records.  This series also includes some photographs of Voluntary Service units and work.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Service Ministries

Mennonite Board of Missions Service Ministries Voluntary Service Early Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/19/006
  • Collection
  • 1944-1961

These records consist of unit reports and diaries, volunteer evaluations of their experiences, and miscellaneous materials associated with the (old) Mennonite Church's voluntary service program.  These records complement those in series IV-19-007, Closed Voluntary Service Unit records.  Documents pertaining to the earliest years of various closed units will be found in this series.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Service Ministries

Mennonite Board of Missions Service Ministries Voluntary Service Unit Scrapbooks

  • US MCUSAA IV/19/005
  • Collection
  • 1966-1973

Scrapbooks containing snapshots, unit histories, descriptions of work and unit life, and other information about various Voluntary Service (V.S.) units sponsored by the Mennonite Board of Missions.  The scrapbooks appear to have been used in orienting new unit volunteers and in introducing unit work to visitors.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Service Ministries

Mennonite Board of Missions Student and Young Adult Services Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/09/001
  • Collection
  • 1955-1981

Records of an Mennonite Board of Missions ministry formed in the late 1950s with the goals of creating awareness of the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, encouraging Mennonite students to form Mennonite fellowships at secular universities, helping Mennonite students maintain ties to other Mennonite students, and providing spiritual support to Mennonite undergraduate and graduate students.  Created as the Student Services Committee, the ministry's name was changed in 1978 to the Student and Young Adult Services Committee.

Records include meeting minutes, reports of visits made to Mennonite student fellowships, reports on the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, policies, newsletters, speakers' bureau information, and miscellaneous materials.  Researchs will find information about the Mennonite student housing cooperative in Philadelphia in these records.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Student and Young Adult Services 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 Board of Missions Student and Young Adult Services Records 1970-1990

  • US MCUSAA IV/09/010
  • Collection
  • 1970-1990

Records of an Mennonite Board of Missions ministry formed in the late 1950s with the goals of creating awareness of the number of Mennonite students attending non-Mennonite colleges and universities, encouraging Mennonite students to form Mennonite fellowships at secular universities, helping Mennonite students maintain ties to other Mennonite students, and providing spiritual support to Mennonite undergraduate and graduate students.  Created as the Student Services Committee, the ministry's name was changed in 1978 to the Student and Young Adult Services Committee.

These records contain subject files produced by or pertaining to this committee from 1970-1990.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Student and Young Adult Services Committee

Mennonite Board of Missions Student and Young Adult Services Student Census Questionnaires and Reports

  • US MCUSAA IV/09/004
  • Collection
  • 1962-1965

Includes questionnaires returned by (old) Mennonite Church pastors regarding college, university, and graduate students in their congregations during the 1962-1963 academic year.  Also includes the student survey reports from the (old) Mennonite Church, the General Conference Mennonite Church, and the Mennonite Brethren for the 1964-1965 academic year.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Student and Young Adult Services Committee

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