Assorted records created by the American Mennonite Mission in India, including membership and marriage registers for Indian churches, maps, pamphlets, furniture inventories, hospital records, articles and leaflets, and other miscellaneous materials. This series includes the statement of comity agreed to by the various denominational mission organizations in India, which stated mission workers' commitment to corking cooperatively rather than competitively.
Committee meeting minutes, primary school reports, scholarship applications, curricula, and other records pertaining to the educational institutions supported by the American Mennonite Mission. These institutions included the Dhamtari Christian Academy and a number of elementary and vocational schools. Minutes of the education committee concern the progress of individual students, scholarship awards and the curriculum..
Minutes of the body charged with the administration of the mission medical facilities, including the hospital, the leprosaureum, and various dispensaries. After 1952, the Medical Committee was renamed the Medical Council.
Records of the committee charged with educating the public about the work of the American Mennonite Mission in India through print media. Materials include an account book (1924-1929), meeting minutes (1922-1937, undated), and miscellaneous materials, including statistical reports about Mennonites in India and the beginnings of the Mennonite Church in India (1949-1952).
This small series contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, receipts, and other miscellaneous materials documenting interactions between the American Mennonite Mission in India and other Christian agencies in India. These agencies include: National Christian Council, Mid-India Christian Council, Chhatisgarh Missionary Association, Union Hindi Weekly, N. I. Tract and Book Society, Bible Society, Himalayan School, and the Joint Examening Board. Correspondence pertaining to a joint hymn book committee may also be found in this series.
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.
Records for the entity within the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities responsible for screening and assigning personnel to staff the various home and foreign missions. These records consist primarily of the various publications issued by the committee and the board (Mission Letter, Mission News Bulletin, Weekly Mission News, ), but aso includes meeting minutes, policies, reports, and other administrative documents. Most missionary applications submitted to the committee may be found in series IV-06-01.2.
Included in this collection are the official minutes of the Mennonite Board of Missions Church Relations Committee, as well as Children's Caring Projects that consist of correspondence, mailings, teaching guides, pamphlets and posters.
Mennonite Board of Missions. Church Relations Committee
Correspondence, completed questionnaires, and reports regarding Project #20, a study of Mennonite evangelism by John A. Hostetler. The questionnaires provide interesting details regarding the reasons why former members of the (old) Mennonite Church, both men and women, decided to leave the church in the 1940s and early 1950s.
Photographic prints and contact sheets depicting Mennonite Board of Missions missionaries, voluntary service workers, and staff. Most images are black and white. Photographs of individual missionaries and voluntary service workers may include both formal portraits and "action shots" in the field.
Subject and correspondence files regarding Mennonite mission work overseas. Content includes communication with and about missionaries and reports and other collected materials from the mission field.
Mennonite Board of Missions. Overseas Ministries Division
Five missionary progress letters to friends and family describing Detweiler's work as a Mennonite missionary in Puebla, Mexico. Of particular interest are her observations about Mexican evangelicals
