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The governing documents, biennial and special meeting proceedings, and official statements issued by the governing body of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Included also are accessory materials to the biennial conferences, including programs, session materials, newpaper clippings about various meetings of the general conference, transcriptions of sermons and talks given, and other miscellaneous materials.

Researchers should consult the proceedings for additional statements and resolutions issued by the Mennonite General Conference, as the collection of statements here are not complete.

A small set of records documenting Mennonite Research Foundation Project #5 on Noncombatant Service (i.e. military service in positions not requiring combat participation).  Materials include a collection of tracts on noncombatant service by the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, correspondence and surveys completed by Mennonite men who served in noncombatant positions during World War II, and draft manuscripts of "What of Noncombatant Service" and "What Is War" by Melvin Gingerich.

The collection includes the conference material, correspondence, and papers of the Conference on Mennonite Educational and Cultural Problems.

The collection of the Council of Mennonite and Affiliated Colleges includes minutes, foreign student program materials, college statistics, and a study of trainee and student exchange program.

The Roy C. Bucher Papers are divided into the folowing series:

(1) Biographical Documents

(2) Congregational Materials

(3) Sermons

(4) Audiovisual Materials

(5) Daytimers

Personal papers of B. Frank and Esther Johnson Stoltzfus, who served as missionaries, educators, and administrators at multiple American colleges in Bulgaria, Lebanon, and Turkey from 1924 to 1960. Materials consist of diaries, correspondence, teaching records, writings, and family photographs. Of particular interest are a series of 1947 dispatches written to Floyd H. Black, President of the Sofia American College, which document Stoltzfus’s experiences in and impressions of Bulgaria during the early years of the country’s communist regime.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1)  Diaries and Correspondence, 1918-1997

(2)  Teaching Records and College Publications, 1914-1981

(3)  Sermons, Essays, and Writings, 1919-1953

(4)  Miscellaneous, 1910-1983

Includes packets of organizational information given to members of the board of directors and minutes and dockets (with reports) for board meetings. Some brochures and organizational information is included along with JoinHands grant applications and organizational constitutions.

The Clarence J. Ramer papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Organizational Materials

(2) Business and Finance

(3) Family Records

(4) Notes

(5) Correspondence

(6) Miscellaneous Clippings and Photographs

Processed under a Kansas Humanities Council grant.

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This comprehensive collection of church records includes Leadership Council & Congregational Meeting Minutes and an extensive collection of sermon recordings.

Administrative records of a camp facility established by the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp Association and later administered by the Mennonite Board of Missions. Frontier Boys Village provided a long-term rehabilitation program for adolescent boys completing the requirements of Colorado's juvenile justice system. Records include board meeting minutes, correspondence, financial and development records, policy documents, publicity materials, scrapbooks, and photographs.

A small collection with assorted records from 1902-2021

includes correspondence, photos, family history materials, Civilian Public Service correspondence from her brother Herman

various notes and correspondence, appears to be related to his peace activities