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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

The collection consists of two autobiographical accounts of Velma Yoder Bowman's life beginning in Topeka, Indiana.The accounts describe her early childhood experiences on the farm and her later family life.

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.

A small set of materials about the life and work of Dorothy S. McCammon, a teacher who was active in Mennonite ministry and women's organizations.  Materials include essays and poems about McCammon written at the time of her death, a brief history of the Elkhard County Jail ministry to women, and a copy of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission Bible Study Guide, "From Monologue to Dialogue" (1978), which McCannon coauthored.

These papers, kept by Ethel Yake Metzler, chair of the Women in Ministry Conference Committee, document the planning and execution of the third and fourth Women in Ministry Conferences in the (old) Mennonite Church.  The primary purpose of these conferences was to foster the efforts of women seeking leadership positions in Mennonite Church ministry, boards, and committees.

A small set of records documenting relationships between the Women's Missionary and Service Commission and three other Mennonite women's groups:  Grupos Hispanos Femeniles del la Iglesia Menonita, Central Women's Organization of the Mennonite Church in India, and the Northwest Ohio Mennonite Business and Professional Women's Organization. Records consist primarily of correspondence, event programs, and a scrapbook.

Correspondence and subject files maintained by Marian Hostetler, executive secretary of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission from 1987 to 1996.  Materials include information on the business and professional women's interest group, scholarship information, memos sent to executive committee members, scripts of skits, correspondence with conference WMSC leaders, and slide shows produced for Mennonite Church General Assemblies,

Assorted photographs, most pooly labeled and identified, from the 1960s depicting various meetings, speakers, and worship services of the Women's Missionary and Service Commission.  Researchers may find original photographs used in Women's Missionary and Service Commission publications in these records.  Also among these records are several photographs of Annie Vallotton, illustrator of the Good News Bible, first published in 1966.

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.