- US BCMLA 00/MS.306
- Collection
- 1961-1985
Box 1: mostly Faith Mennonite Church sermons
Box 2-4: files from his service on the board of Kidron-Bethel
Esau, John A., 1937-
Box 1: mostly Faith Mennonite Church sermons
Box 2-4: files from his service on the board of Kidron-Bethel
Esau, John A., 1937-
The bulk of the collection consists of sermons Alvin preached at the various congregations he served. While some are typed and some handwritten, almost all are verbatim manuscripts, not outlines or notes. Almost all clearly identify when and where the sermon was preached. He also saved some of his class notes from Hartford and Harvard, but very little from Bluffton and nothing from Messiah.
The collection contains no family or personal materials other than a couple folders of correspondence, mostly related to the Vietnam War. Nothing was found related to his experience growing up Old Order Amish or the family’s transition to Beachy Amish; unless he mentions this during oral history interviews in box 8.
Beachy, Alvin J., 1913-1986
box 1: sermons 1955-1967
box 2: sermons, Bible study notes, photos 1946-1955
Wiebe, Willard W., 1917-1967
Appears to be mostly sermons, mostly post-1945. Some class notes from seminary or Bible school
Matthies, Wilhelm B., 1903-1995
Sermons
Voth, Cornelius H., 1883-1971
Box 1: earliest items donated July 1987; clippings, etc. related to Bethel College history and C. H. Wedel; 1971 file on Bethel College and Western District; James Juhnke interview with D. C. Wedel (transcript) (donated 19 October 2000); autobiography; CPS #8 Marietta, Ohio, reunion materials (donated 27 January 1998); books; 2 8mm films about Marietta CPS by Hubert C. Overmyer and VHS copy of films (donated April 1991)
Box 2: Bethlehem 1983 General Conference session packet; clippings and notes re CPS Marietta (donated 12 August 2003)
Box 3: church directories, clippings, printed matter, sermons
Box 4-6: sermons
Box 7: oral history interview, spring 1971, about Bethel College during the 1930s
Wedel, David C., 1908-2010
box 1: correspondence 1-W work church merger (Hillsboro) catechism - Beatrice and Hillsboro seminary papers Mississippi Delta Ministers Project Report 1965 other Hillsboro files peace subject file church and state subject file clippings sermon notes Kansas Council of Churches retreats and recreation interview notes by Robert Kreider
box 2: card index of sermons sermons and related files
box 3: sermons (numbered)
box 4: sermons and misc. sermon-related files
Koontz, Elbert E., 1916-1978
Box 1: sermons
Box 2: sermons, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings
Box 3: 50th anniversary, teaching certificates, church material (Bethany, Butterfield, Neu Hutterthal), civilian bonds, CPS, correspondence, family papers, minister's manual, ordination, clippings, sales (estate, land), school papers
Box 4: school papers, sermons, teaching materials, book
Box 5: Emma and Hilda Linscheid items
Box 6: Theodora Rodekuhr paintings
Linscheid, Louis H., 1903-1985
Box 1, 2: books
Box 3: pamphlets, correspondence
Box 4, 5: sermons
Box 6: correspondence, Bruderthal yearbooks and constitutions, sermons, Marion Reservoir files
Box 7: framed photos
Box 8<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>correspondence, Edna Funk funeral book Box 9<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>book, date books, audio cassettes Box 10<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>(map folder) diplomas and certificates; Loganbill, Moser genealogy chart; Lorraine Avenue Mennonite Church 50th anniversary poster
Funk, Arnold E., 1900-1987
"His papers include personal certificates of birth, marriage, and death and also military papers of World War I. Included is the correspondence with the Home Mission Board of the General Conference from June 30, 1926 to June 13, 1960, his sermons...
also diaries 1926-1952
Schmidt, Rudolph, 1893-1983
Poetry, stories, other writing by Bartel
Sermons by Alvin Beachy
Bartel, Lawrence A., 1902-1981
Box 1: sermons, subject files, minutes
Box 2-4: sermons
5 boxes of books were listed and disposed of
Wedel, Philip A., 1897-1967
Papers collected by Jeff A. Steely, for a Bethel College history seminary paper in spring 1988. Includes sermons, correspondence, diary (photocopy), and a cassette tape of an interview with Loris Habegger.
Suckau, Cornelius Herman, 1881-1951
correspondence, sermons, subject files
van der Smissen, T. A., 1897-1974
Henry A. Toews and Mary Wiens Toews Papers
box 1: Bible study outlines, correspondence, legal documents, photo album, print ephemera, periodicals, autobiography, music translations, scrapbook of color pencil drawings (by her?), books
box 2: sermons, Bibles in Pende and Luba-Lulua, the "hairy Bible" (Pende New Testament), small artifacts
Toews, Henry A., 1900-1954