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This slide show consists of slides, most illustrative in nature, depicting Mennonite church in Columbia. It focuses on MCC worker Ricardo Esquivia. Other portions of the slide show include scenes from Taiwan, Burkina Faso, and India. Issues dealt with include racism, homelessness, and discipleship. -- Note: included is a script and an audio cassette # 2357

This slide show was produced by Women in Mission and the Commission on Home Ministries of the General Conference Mennonite Church. The Women in Mission provided funding so that 10 women could travel North America to see the involvements of the General Conference's work through Commission on Home Ministries. The photos for this presentation were provided by these ten women on the trip: Evaleen Bertsche, Earlene Clark, Norma Duerksen, Mary Litwiller, Nettie Neufeld, Holly Olfert, Evelyn Rempel, Shirley Ries, Jan Lisa Wilhelm, Martha Zimmerman. Script was written by Ardie S. Goering. CHM (Commission on Home Ministries) works with the Mennonite churches in North America in overcoming racial and cultural prejudices. It seeks to bring the vision of Christ's ministry to the people of the United States and Canada. CHM works to plant churches in specific cultural groups cross cultural fellowship women in mission Chicago, Washington, Arizona, Toronto, Winnipeg. The photos are illustrative in nature and show people of many different races in daycares, schools, churches, interacting with one another indoors and outdoors. -- Note: with this is a script and a audio cassette #2358.

This slide show consists of 140 color slides of the Commission on Overseas Missions (General Conference Mennonite Church) work around the world. Featured are Jerimiah and Wendy Choi, Tim and Cindy Buhler, Bill Derksen, Loren and Donna Entz, Hermann and Amalia Woelke, Nelson Assis, Mary Jane Assis, Isaak Bergen, Buddy Dyck, Larson, Jonathan, George and Rena Kroeker. Written and produced by Carol Duerksen. Included is a script and an audio cassette #2361.

This slide show consists of 118 color slides of the COM missionaries Russ and Gail Toevs working in the village of Kotoura, Burkina Faso. The slides and audio depict everyday life in the village. Narrated by Matthew Swora. This comes with a script and an audio cassete #2362.

The fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution - British Columbia Conference of the Mennonite Brethren, N.D. - (1 file) Box 434
2) Minutes: Board Meeting, 1948, "Aufzeichnungen der Prediger-Diakonen Konferenz" (Record of the Paster-Deacon Conference), 1950, Canadian Board of Colonization, 1957. - (1 file) Box 434
3) Reports - Mission reports from India (1948), Africa, Japan, Mexico & South America (ca. 1955). - (1 file) Box 434
4) Publications - "LehrerZeitung", 1949 - (1 file) Box 434
5) Photographs

This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.

This collection consists of a photographic and textual history of General Conference Mennonite missions in Colombia from 1945 to about 1957. This history was compiled by Stucky and originally was contained in four notebooks labeled “Historia de Cachipay” and numbered 1 through 4.

Also, a later addition of photocopies of diaries 1945-1965.

Box 1 is mostly correspondence and reports from Taiwan up to about 1970.

Box 2 is similar material, but running to the mid-1970s.

Consists entirely of photocopies made by or for Adolf J. Krehbiel when he was working on his biography of Jacob S. Krehbiel (his father?). It looks like most or all of the copies came from the General Conference Board of Missions files here. A few items have been translated into English, probably by Hilda Ediger Voth, who worked at the MLA at the time.

There is also a copy of The J. S. Krehbiel Story (1982).

Diaries, correspondence, photos, slides, scrapbook, clippings. Most or all relating to Colombia mission work.

Diaries; talks, speeches by her; correspondence 1920s-30s; slides; photo album; village statistics charts from India mission