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This 140 item color slide show focuses on the people doing voluntary service with MCC in Manitoba. Locations and activities include Native gardening, Sandy Lake Native Reserve, Rossbrook House, Carter Day Care, MCC offices, Bethania personal care home, Marymound, Community Dispute Centre, Langside VS house, Pregnancy Distress, MCI (Mennonite Collegiate Institute), VORP (Victim Offender Reconciliation Program), SALT (Serving and Learning Together). People depicted include Brenda Thiessen, Kanadier Mennonite concerns, Chris Chaltry, Bruce Hildebrand, Gord Warner, Vera Warner, Myra Kornelson, Sol Janzen, Jeanet Sybenga, Melody Chesley, Renee Edge, Melenda Hall, Agnes Huebert, Barry Nolan, Henry Enns, Ruby Boehr, Iris Siemens, Alvin Thiessen, Gerhard Pries, Henry Braun, Harold Berg, Edina Berg, Mary Shantz, Robyn Davidson, Rita Wiebe, Kate Geezer, Lorri Klassen, Glenda Hildebrand, Lorne Chesley, Betty Hoeppner, Diana Werner, Kathy Penner, Nancy Sprague, Sue Madara, Heidi Tucker, Shirley Thiessen, Tom Edge, Wayne Petkau, Wendy Petkau, Elma Bergen, Julie Snyder, Tim Reimer, Laverna Reimer. It appears that the slide are not all in order but tthere is no numbering system on the slides so original order is difficult to determin. Included is a script and audio cassette #2548.

This slide show consists of 79 color slides of MCC's Voluntary Service program in Canada. Included with the slides is a script. The photos depict MCC voluntary service people in various locations working in an office, gardening, woodworking, child care etc. The photos were taken between 1980-1981 and gathered together in this form in 1982. Some of the photos were taken by Robb Nickel and Allan Kroeker. An audio cassette of the script can be found in the audio cassette collection #2320. -- Note: Numbers 4,6,9,11-13,24,27,38, 40-42 are missing.

This slide show consists of 74 color slides of MCC's Voluntary Service program SALT (Serving and Learning Together). The photos depict MCC SALT voluntary service people in various locations often socializing. The photos were taken between 1979-1982 and gathered together in this form in 1982/1983. Two audio cassettes for this presentation can be found in the audio cassette collection #2321 and 2322. -- Note: Numbers 2,10,71 are missing.

This slide show consists of 80 color slides depicting the landscape, MCC volunteers, the people and the gardens people planted in the communities of Pinedock, Bloodvein, Sachigo Lake, Ponask, Muskrat Dam between 1959-1982. Some photos were taken by Menno Wiebe, Laura Loewen and Keith Moyer and put together in this format in 1983 by Menno Wiebe and Kathy Sawatzky. Included is a script and an audio cassette #2323.

This slide show consists of 21 color cartoon slides which talk about the MCC Native gardening program. With the slides is an audio cassette, #2324.

This slide show consists of color slides taken in 1979 depicting young adults in various voluntary service activities. These include serving at Marymound, and at YOU (Youth Orientation Units), founded by Peter Rempel. In the YOU program young adults work in a small lumber mill, make log homes, and take care of farm animals. The script lists 69 slides, however only the first 34 remain. Included with these slides is a script and audio cassette #2326.

Scrapbooks containing snapshots, unit histories, descriptions of work and unit life, and other information about various Voluntary Service (V.S.) units sponsored by the Mennonite Board of Missions.  The scrapbooks appear to have been used in orienting new unit volunteers and in introducing unit work to visitors.

These records consist of unit reports and diaries, volunteer evaluations of their experiences, and miscellaneous materials associated with the (old) Mennonite Church's voluntary service program.  These records complement those in series IV-19-007, Closed Voluntary Service Unit records.  Documents pertaining to the earliest years of various closed units will be found in this series.

Internal communications among service ministry staff members.  These memos include reports about visits to various voluntary service units, proposals for new units in places of need, and general updates to staff members.  Authors of the memos include Edna Beiler, John Eby, Dan Hess, Ray Horst, John Lehman, Don McCammon, Jerry Miller, Dorsa Mishler, Millard Osborn, Kenneth Seitz, Ken Smith, Gene E. Yoder, John Howard Yoder, and Roy Yoder.

Assorted brochures, publications, handbooks, and correspondence pertaining to the (old) Mennonite Church's voluntary service program.

This series consists primarily of staff and board meeting minutes from 1935 through 1981.  Other materials include reports about various service and relief programs, descriptions of visits to voluntary service units, financial reports, and subject files from 1951 through 1970.  Materials in the late 1960s and 1970 address issues of race and ethnicity in the (old) Mennonite Church.

Later minutes of the Service Ministries division are most likely interfiled with the Mennonite Board of Missions Executive Board Minutes (IV-06-007).

A small set of corresponcence regarding a wide variety of issues in the early history of the mission board's service and relief ministries.  The majority of the correspondence is arranged chronologically, but five folders of correspondence are arranged by topic.

The collection of Daniel D. Stoltzfus, a volunteer with Near East Relief, includes letters, transcriptions, and a paper written about his service.