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Thirteen color slides depicting (old) Mennonite Church missionaries stationed in China who were relocated to Hong Kong at the end of the Chinese Civil War.  J. N. Byler, J. D. Graber, Don and Dorothy McCammon, Eugene and Luella Blosser, Franklin Beahn, John and Agnes Wienke, "Grandpa Bartel," Irmtrude von Haugwitz, Thali Anderson, Christine Weaver, and Ruth Beahn.  Also includes an 8 mm film depicting the arrival of Dorothy McCannon, Christine Weaver, and Ruth Beahn in Hong Kong in 1951.

The collection includes letters and one Christmas card (with photo) from Don and Dorothy McCammon regarding their mission experiences in China and Japan.

A small set of personal papers created by a service worker and missionary who served with Mennonite Central Committee in China and the General Conference Mennonite Church in Taiwan (Formosa).  Materials include reports and newsletters, correspondence, photographs and photograph albums, and miscellaneous materials.

Papers of a Harold Wik, a Mennonite service worker who volunteered with Civilian Public Service, Mennonite Central Committee and missionary to China and Malaya (West Malaysia), and his son Philip Wik.  Documents include correspondence, photographs, two Wik family histories, and a Wik family anthology.  The family histories and anthologies integrate historical family documents or photocopies thereof into the text.

These papers document  the experiences of Jenifer (Jeni) Hiett Umble and her husband, Art Umble, as Mennonite volunteer teachers in China in the late 1980s.  The Umbles worked under the auspices of the Mennonite Mission Board for the China Cultural Exchange.  They taught at the Sichuan Institute of Technology, located 15 kilometers outside of Chengdu, Sichuan, in the tiny community of Pixian, for almost two years.  Their assignment was cut short because of the political unrest and uncertainty preceding and following the Tiananmen Square massacre.

The papers consist primarily of incoming and outgoing personal correspondence documenting the Umbles' life and work in China. They include the Umbles' perspectives on the Chinese democracy movement.