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Records of (old) Mennonite Church commission charged with supporting the peace witness in Mennonite congregations.  Records include correspondence, reports, event files, grant applications, reports, and other records dealing with conscription, alternative service, racial and gender discrimination, veterans' ministries, and capital punishment.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence and memos to / from the Executive Secretary of the Mennonite Board of Congregational Ministries.  Executive Secretaries who served during this time period were Howard J. Zehr (1971-1972), Ross T. Bender (1972-1974), Harold E. Bauman (1974-1977), Gordon Zook (1978-1989), and Everett Thomas (1990-1997).  Researchers should note that the records are subdivided into three chronological periods (1971-1979, 1980-1989, and 1990-1997).  Files in the first two chronological periods are organized alphabetically; files in the last period are filed chronologically and contain little incoming correspondence.

~ FINDING AID IN PROGRESS! ~ Correspondence and subject files of the Mennonite Board of Education. Files are arranged alphabetically by topic and reflect the work and concerns of the official education program agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Correspondence and subject files of the Mennonite Board of Education. Files are arranged alphabetically by topic and reflect the work and concerns of the official education program agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Correspondence and subject files of the Mennonite Board of Education. Files are arranged alphabetically by topic and reflect the work and concerns of the official education program agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Correspondence and subject files of the Mennonite Board of Education. Files are arranged alphabetically by topic and reflect the work and concerns of the official education program agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Correspondence and subject files of the Mennonite Board of Education. Files are arranged alphabetically by topic and reflect the work and concerns of the official education program agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Correspondence and subject files of the Mennonite Board of Education. Files are arranged alphabetically by topic and reflect the work and concerns of the official education program agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Correspondence and subject files of the Mennonite Board of Education. Files are arranged alphabetically by topic and reflect the work and concerns of the official education program agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to a administrative body of Mennonite elementary and day school administrators.

These records document a scholarship program for minority students of high academic potentential attending Mennonite high schools (Bethany Christian School, Central Christian School, Eastern Mennonite School, and Iowa Mennonite School).  Materials include correspondence, financial records, minutes of advisory committee meetings, and other administrative records.

Initally, High-Aim was overseen by the Mennonite Board of Missions.  In the mid 1970s, the program was transferred to the Mennonite Board of Education.

Minutes (1948-2014), reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials created by a body of the Mennonite Board of Education composed of administrators at Mennonite high schools.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials of the Nursing Education Council and its predecessor, the Committee on Nursing Education.  The Nursing Education Council was formed in 1949 to review the problems of nursing education, to assist in coordinating the pre-nursing curricula at Mennonite colleges with the denominational nursing education program, and to coordinate the education of nurses with the (old) Mennonite Church's evangelism and service programs.  These record include information about the effort to establish a nursing school in Elkhart, Ind. that would be convenient for Goshen College students.

Records of the office of the president of the education agency of the (old) Mennonite Church.  These records are divided into series by the office holder and contain primarily correspondence and subject files, but also include reports.

Researchers will note that these records are quite incomplete. There are no presidential papers for the following presidents: John Blosser (1902-1917), Sanford Calvin (S. C.) Yoder (1918-1924), H. R. Schertz (1924-1929), D. A. Yoder (1929-1948), and Paul Erb (1963-1965). In some cases, correspondence pertaining to these presidents' leadership of the Mennonite Board of Education may be found in their personal papers.