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Records of a bicycle touring ministry sponsored by the Mennonite Board of Missions.  Records are divided into two series:

(1) General Records, 1967-1983

(2) Bike Hike Records, 1970-1982

These records are divided into six series:

(1) Council Meeting Minutes, 1984-2004

(2) Newsletters, 1989-2003

(3) Financial Records, 1992-2005

(4) Executive Secretary Correspondence and Subject Files, 1971-2005

(5) Administrative Correspondence and Subject Files, 1986-2005

(6) Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, 1984-2002.

Within this collection, researchers can find photographs of Mennonite Publishing House employees and photographs that were used in their publications, including The Gospel Herald. Other photographic subjects include the Mennonite World Conferences and Mennonite General Assemblies.

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.

The collection consists of a scrapbook dated 1866, and two letters dated 1843 and 1876.

Records from the summer service and work camps organized by Mennonite Board of Missions Service Ministries.

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.

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.

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.

Correspondence, questionnaires, and final summary of data for Project 19, a census of Mennonite and Amish men who accepted military service during World War II. The questionnaires record the church status of men who accepted military duty rather than the experiences of these men in the military.

Also inlcuded in these records are the results of a study of midweek prayer, Bible study, Young People's Fellowship, and other meetings at (old) Mennonite congregations.

Records pertaining to Project 24, a survey of World War I Mennonite conscientious objectors. Records include correspondence, lists of conscientious objectors, and questionnaires.

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.

Assorted brochures, publications, handbooks, and correspondence pertaining to the (old) Mennonite Church's voluntary service program.

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.

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.