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.

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).

Records from the summer service and work camps organized by Mennonite Board of Missions Service Ministries.

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.

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

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.

The collection consists of 20 photographic prints from Millard Osborne's time in voluntary service in Mathis, Texas from 1955 to 1957.

Series consists of the following files:
1) SALT Constitution - 1981 - (1 file) Box 333
2) SALT Minutes - 1980-1989 - (1 file) Box 333
3) SALT Correspondence - 1980-1989 - (2 files) Box 333
4) SALT Financial - 1982-1988 - (1 file) Box 333
5) SALT Reports - 1980-1989 - (3 files) Box 333
6) SALT Lists - 1979-1988 - (3 files) Box 333
7) SALT Voluntary Personnel Records - 1982-1988 - (5 files) Box 333
8) SALT Publications - 1989 - (1 file) Box 333
9) SALT Clippings - 1983-1984 - (1 file) Box 333
10) Shalom House - 1974-1987 - (12 files) - Box 334
11) Voluntary Service Projects (96 files) - Boxes 335-338

This item shows a group of women dressed in white, the Voluntary Service Unit at the Ninette Sanatorium in Manitoba.

Consists entirely of source material for his paper "A Study of Mennonite Service Programs: A Historical and Empirical Study prepared for the Institute of Mennonite Studies, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, Indiana, July 1965."