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Charles and Ruth Shenk Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/205SC
  • Collection
  • 1958-1967

Outgoing form letters to friends and family updating them on the Shenks' mission work in Hokkaido, Japan

Shenk, Charles

Japan Mission Workers Reunion Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA HM1/1006
  • Collection
  • 1999-2018

This collection contains materials from reunions of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ mission workers in Japan, 1999-2012, as well as correspondence regarding an additional reunion and obituaries of members.

Fritz and Ellen Sprunger

Lee H. and Adella Brunk Kanagy Papers 1951-1969

  • US MCUSAA HM1/102
  • Collection
  • 1940-1999

A small set of personal papers from a Mennonite missionary couple who served in Japan.  Materials include correspondence, photographs, and information on the first regional congress on evangelism in Asia and the South Pacific.

Kanagy, Adella Brunk

Maurice E. Troyer Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.438
  • Collection
  • 1986

autobiography manuscript by Troyer.

Troyer, Maurice E., 1903-1997

Rhoda and Ruth Ressler Papers 1889-2008

  • US MCUSAA HM1/151
  • Collection
  • 1889-2008

The papers contain a hodgepodge of information pertaining to Ruth and Rhoda Resslers' various stints in Japan as mission and relief workers. Materials include correspondence, activity reports, the newsletter of the Hokkaido Mennonite Fellowship, miscellaneous materials relating to Mennonite mission work in Japan, and financial records. The Resslers' papers also contain a number of photographs, scrapbooks, and a handful of slides. Researchers should be aware, however, that many of the images are not labeled. The collection holds a several audiocassettes as well: recorded lectures presented by the Resslers in Japan, an oral history interview with Rhoda and Ruth Ressler, and a multi-tape oral history with Rhoda Ressler. Also included is an 1889 statement on dress and prayer coverings, unrelated to Mennonite mission work in Japan.

Ressler, Rhoda, 1910-2008

Verney Unruh Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.294
  • Collection
  • 1950-1990

Box 1-9: correspondence, financial files, minutes, etc. from Taiwan; includes some Mennonite Christian Hospital material
Box 10: periodicals from Mennonite Christian Hospital
Box 11: printed items, reel-to-reel tape with CD copy
Box 12: Asia Mennonite International Reconciliation Work Camp 1980s
Box 13: Asia Mennonite Conference work camp files and slides, print items and slides from Japan and Taiwan
Box 14: slides - mostly India and Taiwan
Box 15: Taiwan slides, family history materials, Japan correspondence and print items
box 16: photos and negatives, many of IRWC 1980s, found with Stan Voth items at MLA Dec. 2013

Unruh, Verney, 1923-2006

Virginia Claassen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.503
  • Collection
  • 1960-2010

box 1: Mennonite World Conference 1962 scrapbook brought in by Esther Wenger 6 Aug 2002; Mennonite World Conference India 1997 scrapbooks brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 2: correspondence, photos, print items, brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 3: photos, correspondence, diplomas, passports, plaques, master's thesis, scrapbook

box 4: framed diploma - University of Kansas master's; photo album of Japan school work

box 5: photo albums, scrapbooks

box 6-8: correspondence

box 9-10: diaries and other notebooks

Claassen, Virginia, 1933-2011

William C. Voth and Matilda Kliewer Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.179
  • Collection
  • 1890-1986

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.

Voth, William C., 1888-1962