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A small set of personal papers documenting the ministry and personal life of a pastor of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Materials include an autobiography, scattered diaries of Hartzler as well as his first and second wives, sermon and Bible course notes, and miscellaneous materials.  Also includes photographs of J.S. and Fannie Stutzman Hartzler and photographs and postcards from J.S. Hartzler's trip to India, the Middle East, and Europe in 1910-11.

Papers of a Mennonite women who began her career as a secretary in Mennonite organizations and transitioned into ministry in the 1970s and 1980s.  Fisher served on the pastoral team of College Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.) and as an overseer of Waterford Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.).  Her papers include correspondence, sermons and presentations, worship materials, photographs, audiotapes of sermons preached at College Mennonite Church, and miscellaneous materials.

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Documents, 1923-1980

(2) Photographs, 1900-1970

(3) Sound Recordings, circa 1937-1950

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Correpondence

(2) Notes and Teaching Materials

(3) Miscellaneous

These papers primarily document the life and work of Silas Hertzler, but includes some material pertinent to his wife, Anna Weaver Hertzler.  The papers are divided into seven series:

(1) Diaries, 1904-1974

(2) American Committee for Relief in the Near East Materials, 1919

(3) Correspondence, 1909-1975

(4) Articles and Writing, 1917-1967

(5) Photographs, 1909-1970

(6) Miscellaneous, 1905-1975

(7) Genealogical Research Files, 1813-1988

A hodgepodge of materials pertaining to the family of Jacob Christophel, a Mennonite immigrant to Elkhart County Indiana in 1818 and one of the founders of Yellow Creek Mennonite Church.

This set of records consists primarily of bulletins documenting the order of worship and congregational activities.  Other materials include newsletters (1995-2003), a pictorial directory and history of the congregaion (1980), and information on Richard Yoder's ordination service in 1957.

Papers of a Goshen Academy alumna (1922), long-time member of the Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Ind.), and missionary to Dhamtari, India later in life.  Contains a remarkable run of diaries, nearly unbroken, from 1910 to 1989, in which Smucker provides brief descriptions of her daily activities.  Also includes scrapbooks, postcard albums, her father's autograph book, and miscellaneous materials.

Papers of a friend and associate of John F. Funk who served as assistant editor / editor in chief of the Herald of Truthfrom 1886 to 1904.  Kolb edited a number of other Mennonite periodicals, was active in the Sunday school movement, and served as president of the Mennonite Evangelizing and Benevolent Board.  He married John F. Funk's daughter, Phoebe, in 1893.

Kolb's papers are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, 1866-1923

(2) Miscellaneous, circa 1853 - 1965

A small set of records created by an (old) Mennonite Church and later Mennonite Church USA congregation in Shipshewana, Indiana.   Records consist primarily of bulletins.

The Indiana-Michigan Conference Mission Board not only operated a number of domestic mission stations in Indiana, Michigan, and Kentucky, but also supported the work of missionaries abroad.  In 1970, the mission board was dissolved and replaced by a mission committee.  These records are divided into several series.

A hodgepodge of material created and collected by an Indiana Mennonite farmer and his wife. The bulk of the materials in the collection are clippings of W. W. Oesch's "Ramblings" column from a New Paris (Ind.) newspaper, The Farmer's Exchange (1948-1970). Materials also include a scrapbook with correspondence, journal entries, and clippings by and about Sarah Alice Troyer Young, a mission worker killed in the Boxer Rebellion.  Three photographs of Young and the China Inland Mission may also be found in this collection.  FInally, researchers may find correspondence and congregational records in this collection regarding the doctrinal difficulties of the Indiana-Michigan Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church in the 1920s.

These papers of an (old) Mennonite Church writer and her pastor husband are divided into two series:

(1) Helen Good Brenneman Papers

(2) Virgil J. Brenneman Papers

This series includes the constitutions of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church / Mennonite Church USA and minutes of annual conferences dating back to the 19th century and including both the minutes of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, the Indiana Amish-Mennonite Conference, and the Indiana-Michigan Amish-Mennonite Conference.  From 1922 to 1947, executive committee minutes are interfiled with the annual conference minutes. In more recent years, reports include the minutes from the previous year's conference.

Also found in this series are materials pertaining to a conference-wide study of divorce and remarriage, minutes and correspondence related to the possibility of an independent Michigan Mennonite conference, and annual conference-related correspondence.

A small set of records about a non-profit organization associated with the Indiana Michigan Conference  that provided former prison inmates with housing, employment skills, and community reentry.  Materials include governing documents, board minutes, financial statements, publicity materials, and a number of miscellaneous records.  Researchers should note that these records contain materials about the related Path Foundation (New Carlisle, Ind.) and Abe Peters's prison ministry as well.