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Jewarbi Ma Letter

  • US MCUSAA HM1/195SC
  • Collection
  • 1918

Testimony letter written by an Indian woman and apparently given to Charles L. Shank, a Mennonite missionary who served in India.  Also includes a translation of the letter published in the Gospel Herald. Ma, a former Muslim, evangelized on behalf of the Mennonites in India as a "Bible woman."

Ma, Jewarbi

Charles L., Crissie (Yoder), and Lydia F. (Shenk) Shank Family Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/638
  • Collection
  • 1907-1995

A set of family papers documenting the lives of Charles L. Shank, his first wife, Crissie Yoder Shank, his second wife, Lydia F. Shenk Shank, the Shank children, Lydia Shank's sister and brother-in-law (Lillie and James Norman Kaufman), and other assorted Shank family members.  Materials include incoming correspondence documenting Mennonite missionary work, photographs, school materials, circle letters circulated among the Shank's children, articles and other writings of Lydia Shank, collected prayers of  international Christian women in the 1950s, a number of sound recordings of funerals and memorial services, and other miscellaneous family materials.

Shank, Charles L., 1886-1969