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The series consists of photograph prints and negatives received by "The Canadian Mennonite" from various sources for use in its publication. Photographs were taken by staff, or sent in by individuals or families. Some photographs were requisitioned from news agencies. Not all photographs received by the newspaper were printed. However, many were still retained. Photographs in the collection document family celebrations, congregational and conference events, Mennonites at work and at voluntary service and mission efforts, travel, and world affairs. Where possible, the year, issue number and page location of a published photograph is included in the description of each individual photo.

The Great Trek is a feature length documentary film of the Mennonite experience and exodus from Russia 1939-1945. It is about World War II and the Russian Mennonites who were part of a migration of people, not only of many individuals, but of entire populations. The movement began with the resettling of ethnic Germans after the annexation of the Baltic States in 1940 by the Soviet Union. After the outbreak of hostilities between Germany and the USSR, entire ethnic German colonies were uprooted and moved east. When the Soviet armies forced the German retreat beginning in 1943, all ethnic Germans were evacuated from Ukraine by the retreating German forces. Among them were 35,000 people of Mennonite origin and background.

This films consists of two parts – the first covering 1939-1943 and the second 1943-1945. Each part begins and ends with an introduction and closing comments by Mennonite historian, educator and editor Gerhard Ens. In this documentary, Otto Klassen has assembled a collage of documentary and newsreel footage made by German information services of the time and still photographs from the archives of the Federal Republic of Germany in Coblenz, private archives and from the archives of the Mennonite Heritage Centre in Winnipeg to tell a story. The archival film footage gives the film an immediacy that narration and re-enactment cannot. The realism and horror is almost overpowering at times. Producer and director Otto Klassen has released both English and German versions of The Great Trek.

Also included with the moving images is a script, sequence summary and shot list, Correspondence related to archival footage acquired from German archives and reviews and congratulatory correspondence.

This series is comprised of five subseries: 1) Radio - English; 2) Radio - German; 3) Conversion; 4) Decalogue; 5) Stewardship; all taken from the original organization of Neufeld’s files. These subseries hold notes, sermons, and presentations that Neufeld wrote based on specific topics of interest or on requested themes. The files are dated both during and after Neufeld’s official time as a minister at First Mennonite Church.

The series contains the following files:
1) Prayer, 1959,1965, 1974, 1976, 2007, N.D; Personal Prayer,
2) Christian practices, 1979, 1980, N.D.
3) Theology & ethics, 1983
4) Christian Spirituality I, 2007, N.D.
5) Christian Spirituality II, N.D.
6) Spirituality (Mennonite Authors), 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, N.D.
7) Discipleship, The meaning of Jesus' death, N.D.

This series is a collection of theses and dissertations by members of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference on topics related to its history and development.

Series consists of the following files:
1) Constitution - 1978 - (1 file) Box 343
2) Minutes - 1974 - (1 file) Box 343
3) Correspondence - 1974-1980 - (1 file) Box 343
4) Financial reports - 1965-1966 - (1 file) Box 343
5) Legal documents - 1977 - (1 file) Box 343
6) Lists - (1 file) Box 343
7) Clippings - 1977 - (1 file) Box 343
8) Furniture & Appliance Store, Minutes & Reports, 1990-1997 - (1 file) Box 343
9) 35th Anniversary, 2008 - (1 file) Box 343
10) Annual Reports, 2005-2006 - (1 file) Box 343

Photocopied correspondence from Tina Berg, a refugee who emigrated to Germany and later Paraguay in the wake of World War II.