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Ohio Mennonite Women Records

  • US MCUSAA HM1/1007
  • Collection
  • 1998-2017

Organizational records of Ohio Mennonite Women, a regional conference affiliate of Mennonite Women USA. Contains agendas, minutes, reports, promotional materials, and project files.

Ohio Mennonite Women

Joanna Shenk Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/021
  • Collection
  • 2011-2014

Personal papers of a Mennonite Church USA pastor and employee of Mennonite Church USA from 2009 through 2014.  Shenk was a member of the denominational communications team with additional duties in interchurch relations and the women in leadership project. Sermons in this collection were delivered at a variety of Mennonite conference events and congregational worship settings.

Shenk, Joanna

Women in Leadership Project Records 2009-2018

  • US MCUSAA MCUSA/EXL/009
  • Collection
  • 1982-2014

Project and reference materials accumulated by Mennonite Church USA staff charged with administering the Women in Leadership Project.  Includes documentation of the Women in Leadership audit completed in 2010 and the Women in Leadership Conference All You Need Is Love held in 2014.  Researchers should note that papers from that conference are not available in these records.  Reference materials include issues of the Church of the Brethren's Womæn's Caucus newsletter, Femailings from 1982 to 1994.

Mennonite Church USA

Clinton Frame Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/14-11
  • Collection
  • 1877-2014

The records are divided into the following series:

(1) Church Governance, 1892-2003

(2) Church Bulletins, Newsletters, and Directories, 1949-2010

(3) Sunday School, 1877-1950

(4) Women's Organizations, 1907-2005

(5) Miscellaneous, 1905-2006

Clinton Frame Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.)

Mennonite Women USA Event Files

  • US MCUSAA MCUSA/MWO/004
  • Collection
  • 2008-2010

Materials pertaining to various workshops, training opportunities, and meetings sponsored by Mennonite Women USA.  At this time, this series only contains information regarding the PREP (Preparing, Resourcing, Encouraging, Praising) meeting for Mennonite Women USA conference leaders.

Mennonite Women USA

Mennonite Women USA Newsletters

  • US MCUSAA MCUSA/MWO/002
  • Collection
  • 1997-2009

The newsletters of Mennonite women contain information about the organization's officers, activities, and interests.  The newsletter was titled "Mennonite Women" from 1997 through 2002, and "Mennonite Women USA" from 2003 through 2005.  In 2002, Mennonite Women USA introduced a monthly email newsletter entitled "News and Notes from Mennonite Women USA, " its last issue appearing in January 2006.  In August 2003, another email newsletter entitled "Postcard and a Prayer" debuted and has continued through the present (2013).

Mennonite Women USA

Mennonite Women USA Governing Documents and Dockets

  • US MCUSAA MCUSA/MWO/003
  • Collection
  • 1997-2008

Includes packets of organizational information given to members of the board of directors and minutes and dockets (with reports) for board meetings.

Researchers should note that there are no minutes, dockets, or reports available between March 2001 and March 2003.

Mennonite Women USA

Emma Richards Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/970
  • Collection
  • 1958-2007

The Emma Richards papers are divided into two series:  Series 1, Correspondence and Subject Files, and Series 2, Sermons. The first series contains substantial information on Emma Richard's ordination process.

Richards, Emma

Christmas Carol Kauffman Papers 1928-1969

  • US MCUSAA HM1/497
  • Collection
  • 1912-2006

These papers documeting the life of a Mennonite woman author are divided into three series:

(1) Publishing Files, 1928-1976

(2) Personal and Family Correspondence and Writing, 1912-2006

(3) Miscellaneous, 1926-1990

Mennonite Women USA Editorial Files

  • US MCUSAA MCUSA/MWO/001
  • Collection
  • 1998-2006

Materials created by the editor of Mennonite Women USA publications, which include the magazine Timbrel, the Mennonite Women USA website, and various brochures, booklets, and programs.

Mennonite Women USA

Gladys Widmer Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/675
  • Collection
  • 1909-2006

Personal papers of a Mennonite missionary to Puerto Rico and advocate for Hispanic Mennonite Congregations in the United States.  The papers are divided into four series:

(1) Biographical Information and Family Papers, 1909-2006

(2) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1949-2006

(3) Photographs and Plaques, 1915-2004

(4) Puerto Rican Mennonite Records, 1967-2003

Widmer, Gladys, 1915-2006

Beulah Stauffer Hostetler Papers 1900-2005

  • US MCUSAA HM1/950
  • Collection
  • 1866-2005

The personal papers of Beulah Stauffer Hostetler, consisting of creative and academic writings, correspondence, photographs, recordings, and miscellaneous subject files related to her research into Old Order life and her time as a professor at Elizabethtown College. Materials from her family members, particularly her father Ezra Stauffer, are also included.

These papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Essays and Writings, 1942-2003

(2) Correspondence, 1944-2005

(3) Family History and Geneology, 1866-2005

(4) Subject Files and Miscellaneous, 1944-2004

(5) Photographs, 1890-1992

(6) Audiovisual Materials, 1980-2005

Hostetler, Beulah Stauffer, 1926-2005

Indiana Mennonite Women's Missionary Rally Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA X/060
  • Collection
  • 1937-2003

This collection consists of the official records of the Indiana Mennonite Women's Missionary Rally Committee.  Documents include meeting minutes, correspondence, registration lists, rally programs and posters, and financial reports.  The collection also includes sound recordings from the 1979 and 2003 rallies.

Indiana Mennonite Women's Missionary Rally

Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Ind.) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/14/002
  • Collection
  • 1872-2001

These records are divided into the following series:

Series 1: Core Congregational Records, 1872-1998 Series 2: Membership Records, Lists and Church Directories, 1892-2021 Series 3: Church Bulletins and Newsletters, 1928-2011 Series 4: Sunday School Records, 1882-1946 Series 5: Women's Activities, Sewing Circles, etc., 1908-1981 Series 6: Societies, Groups, 1913-1995 Series 7: Prairie Street Church History, 1872-1981 Series 8: Miscellaneous Documents and Records, 1902-1974 Series 9: Audio Visual Materials: Photographs and Sound Recordings (reel to reel and cassette), 1901-2000

Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Indiana)

Florence Nafziger Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/175
  • Collection
  • 1881-1999

These personal papers include autobiographical writing, photographs, slides, and ephemera pertaining to Nafziger's work as a Mennonite medical missionary in India.  They also contain some Nafziger family records, specifically a farm journal created by Christian Nafziger II.

Nafziger, Florence, 1918-

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