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Date(s)
- 1950-2000 (Creation)
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4.75 Cubic Feet
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 23 August 1930, Tiskilwa, Illinois. Father E. J. Bohn.
Married Anita Pannabecker.
Graduated from Bluffton College, 1952. From Mennonite Biblical Seminary/Bethany Biblical Seminary 1955. Master of arts in philosophy of religion from Ohio State, 1957.
Ordained July 1957, Grace Mennonite Church, Pandora, Ohio.
Pastor at Sugarcreek Mennonite Church, Columbus, Ohio, 1955-57?
Pastor at Rainbow Boulevard Mennonite Church, Kansas City, Kansas, 1957-65.
Peace and social concerns secretary, Board of Christian Service, General Conference Mennonite Church, 1965-67?
Pastor at First Mennonite Church, Bluffton, Ohio, 1967-75.
Conference pastor, Central District Conference, 1975-79,
Executive secretary of Commission on Home Ministries, General Conference Mennonite Church, 1979-87?
Pastor Shalom Mennonite Church, Newton, Kansas, 1987-1995.
MCC service in Jamaica, 1995-98.
Name of creator
Biographical history
-Born 20 May 1936, Dolton, South Dakota. Parents Joseph Becker and Esther Unruh.
-Graduated from Freeman Junior College 1956. Graduated from Goshen College 1958.
-Married Ardys Preheim 27 June 1958.
-Missionary in Taiwan 1962-1963.
-Graduated from Mennonite Biblical Seminary 1965.
-Pastor 1965-1969, First Mennonite Church, Clinton, Oklahoma.
-Ordination 19 June 1966, Salem Mennonite Church, Freeman, South Dakota.
-Executive secretary of Commission on Home Ministries, General Conference Mennonite Church, 1969-1979.
-Pastor 1979-1992, Peace Mennonite Church, Richmond, British Columbia.
-Pastor 1992-1994, Bethel Mennonite Church, Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
-Pastor 1995-1999, Calvary Mennonite Church, Canby, Oregon.
-Director of Hesston College Pastoral Ministry Program 1999-
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
donated by him starting 19 September 1994 and continuing so far to 28 February 2012 box 14 donated 17 Sep 2013 box 15-16 donated 19 Jan 2015 box 17-18 donated 21 Jan 2015 box 19 donated 15 June 2015 box 24 donated Dec. 5, 2017 and Feb. 14, 2018
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Box 1: urban church and church planting subject files
box 2: Mennonite Distorter, FCM Informer, church constitutions
box 3: General Conference Peace and Social Concerns Committee 1960s-70s
box 4: city churches, Peace Conference Winona Lake 1950, race and Mennonites 1960-70, Peace and Social Concerns Reference Council, Mennonite homosexuality studies, intentional community, miscellaneous files
box 5: Mennonite connections to radical right, New Call to Peacemaking, Mennonite drama, Dialogue on Faith October 1984, peace evangelism, capital punishment, Shalom church beginning
box 6: catechism workbooks, miscellaneous pamphlets and books, 1837 Mennonite Confession of Faith book
box 7: newspapers and magazines 1968-69, all on race relations
box 8: materialism study conference 1965, peace and service packet, Mennonite Church in the City
box 9: Mennonite Peace Theology Colloquium 1976, John Howard Yoder materials, Peace Tax Fund
box 10: war tax resistance, dramas by Mennonites, Rainbow church history, Central District conference minister file
box 11: Church and Society conference 1961, Mennonite Distorter, CHM Executive Committee July 1975
RESTRICTED, Palmer Becker correspondence, Darrell Fast correspondence, miscellaneous
box 12: actually a map folder-oversize panoramic photos
box 13: subject files
box 14: subject files, minutes of peace tax group, Spanish language church plant (Casa Betania?)
box 15-16: sermons, some subject files
box 17-19: subject files
box 20: peace tax materials, including audio cassettes
box 21: subject files, mostly Newton-area anti-racism efforts
box 22: subject files
box 23: subject files; audio cassettes related to China missions (C. L. Pannabecker?)
box 24: subject file - John Howard Yoder; photos - mostly China-related (C. L. Pannabecker?); Amish slides - commercially produced [brought in by Stan Bohn, 14 Feb 2018]; John Howard Yoder correspondence [from Stan Bohn, 22 Jan 2019]; Newton Area Peace Center - Peace Tax group [from Stan Bohn, 22 Jan 2019]
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Accruals
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unprocessed
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
1 folder in box 11 is labeled as "confidential"
otherwise open for research use
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
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Subject access points
- Church growth -- Mennonites
- City churches -- Mennonites
- Community -- Religious aspects
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites
- Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section Study Conference (1950 : Winona Lake, Ind.)
- Mennonites -- Clergy
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects
- Race relations -- Religious aspects
- War tax resistance -- United States
- Drama
Place access points
Name access points
- Church and Society Study Conference (1961 : Chicago, Ill.) (Subject)
- General Conference Mennonite Church. Central District Conference (Subject)
- General Conference Mennonite Church. Commission on Home Ministries (Subject)
- General Conference Mennonite Church. Peace and Social Concerns Committee (Subject)
- Materialism and Living Standards Conference (1965 : North Newton, Kansas) (Subject)
- Mennonite Peace Theology Colloquium (1st : 1976 : Kansas City, Mo.) (Subject)
- New Call to Peacemaking (Subject)
- Rainbow Mennonite Church (Kansas City, Kan.) (Subject)
- Shalom Mennonite Church (Newton, Kan.) (Subject)
- Yoder, John Howard, 1927-1997 (Subject)
- Dialogue on Faith (1984: Camp Lake, Wis.) (Subject)