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Mennonite Church of Normal (Normal, Ill.) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/13-43
  • Collection
  • 1975-2010

A small set of relatively recent records documenting the history of the Mennonite Church of Normal.  Materials include church bulletins, annual congregational meeting minutes and reports, church directories, and six audiotapes of Sunday worship (two from 1983, two from 1988, and 2 from 1993).

This collection also includes some materials from First Mennonite Church (Normal, Illinois) and Bloomington Mennonite Church (Normal, Illinois), which merged to become the Mennonite Church of Normal, Illinois.

Mennonite Church of Normal (Normal, Ill.)

Mennonite Life Stories Oral History Project

  • US MCUSAA HM6/296B
  • Collection
  • 1996-1999

32 cassette tapes containing oral history interviews with 31 individuals or couples: Royal and Evelyn Bauer, Ruth Bauman, Esther Bigler and Leroy Hostetler, Albert and Lois Buckwalter, Joe and Nellie Buzzard, Frank and Anna Byler, John and Bonnie Driver, Minnie Graber, Erma Grove, Ralph and Elizabeth Hernley, Ezra and and Orpha Hershberger, Eunice Histand, Orvin Hooley, Jonathan Hostetler, Ann Kauffman, J. Howard Kauffman, Howard Kaufman, Carl Kreider, Lloyd R. Miller, Mildred Mullet, Glenn Mussleman, Evangeline Neuschwander, Florence Nofziger, Nancy Nussbaum, Clara Raber, Paul Schank, Tilman Smith, Silas J. Smucker, Nelson and Betty Springer, and Alice Yoder. One cassette holds an interview with four Mennonite women - Pauline Yoder Kaufman, Edith Reimer, Gladys Mast, and Hazel Hostetler - about bonnets and prayer coverings, dress codes, women preachers, and MennoHof. Transcripts are not available, but there are brief abstracts of each interview. All interviews were conducted by Floyd L. Rheinheimer.

Researchers should note that the interview with Eunice Histand was recorded on an 8mm video cassette.

Rheinheimer, Floyd L.

Mennonite Medical Association (Harrisonburg, Va.) Records

  • US MCUSAA X/014
  • Collection
  • 1944-2003

The collection of the Mennonite Medical Association includes minutes and reports, convention materials, membership lists and news releases, correspondence, photographs and albums, and audio recordings from 1944 to 2003.

Mennonite Medical Association (Harrisonburg, Va.)

Mennonite Nurses Association Records

  • US MCUSAA VII/020
  • Collection
  • 1943-2011

These records are divided into eight series:

Series 1: Governing Documents, circa 1945-2005

Series 2: Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1945-2010

Series 3: Publications, 1945-2010

Series 4: Financial Records, 1949-2009

Series 5: Correspondence, 1949-2001

Series 6: Membership Records, 1943-2004

Series 7: Local Chapter Records, 1950-1989

Series 8: Miscellaneous Materials, 1945-2011

Mennonite Nurses Association

Mennonite Publishing House (Scottdale, Pa.)  Historical Files

  • US MCUSAA VI/12/001
  • Collection
  • 1948-2003

This series contains materials collected and created in the Mennonite Publishing House's efforts to document its own history.  It consists of two subseries:

(1) General Historical Files, 1948-2003

(2) Historical Monograph Files, 1970-1991

Zook, Ellrose D.

Mennonite Women of Color Oral History Interviews

  • US MCUSAA HM6/304
  • Collection
  • 2001-2003

Begun in January 2001, the Mennonite Women of Color Oral History Project aims to gather and publish faith and life stories of older women of color across the Mennonite Church in North America and worldwide. This collection consists of oral history interviews conducted with Mennonite women from North America, Africa, Asia, Central America, and South America.

Transcripts of the interviews are not available.

Christophel, Linda

Mennonite World Conference Records

  • US MCUSAA X/009
  • Collection
  • 1923-2012

FINDING AID IN PROGRESS

Official records of the Mennonite World Conference, a global association of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ conferences consisting of nearly 1.2 million baptized believers.  These records are divided into series:

(1) Assembly Records

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Mennonite World Conference

Mennonites in the Military Oral History Project

  • US MCUSAA HM6/296A
  • Collection
  • 1996-1999

25 cassette tapes containing interviews with 19 Mennonites who served in the military from World War II to the Vietnam War:  Brian Arbuckle, Dan Bontrager, James Christophel, Chris Culp, Chuck Hoover, Alvin Hostetler, Stan Liechty, Glenn Mast, Kenneth Miller, Paul Pletcher, Don Reber, Allen Schrock, Levi Slabaugh, Wayne Stopher, Larry Vardaman, Floyd J. Yoder, Gordon Yoder, Herb L. Yoder, and Rick Yoder.  Floyd L. Rheinheimer interviewed all of the subjects.  Brief abstracts of the interviews are available, but no transcriptions have been made.  Also included in this collection is a set of articles and pamphlets from the Mennonoite press regarding military service.

Rheinheimer, Floyd L.

Michiana Anabaptist Historians Records

  • US MCUSAA X/053
  • Collection
  • 1999-2018

Meeting minutes, governing documents and newsletters of an association of congregational historians, local historians, and genealogists in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan.  Includes some sound recordings of meetings and programs.

Michiana Anabaptist Historians

Norman P. Weaver Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/885
  • Collection
  • 1931-1980

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor who served in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, primarily at Maple Grove Mennonite Church (Gulliver, Mich.).  Materials are divided into three series:

(1) Miscellaneous Materials, 1931-1980

(2) Sermons and Sermon Notes, circa 1950-1975

(3) Sound Recording Collection, circa 1960-1980

Weaver, Norman P., 1903-1980

Pennsylvania Deitsch Society of Northern Indiana Records

  • US MCUSAA HM1/988
  • Collection
  • 1995-2007

Records of an organization dedicated to preserving the Deitsch (Dietsch, Deutsch, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German) language.  Materials include documents of governance and membership, newsletters, and programs, sound recordings, video recordings, and photographs of the organization's annual meeting and dinner.  The annual meetings include skits, songs, and recitations in the Deitsch language.

Pennsylvania Deitsch Society of Northern Indiana

Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Ind.) Records

  • US MCUSAA III/14/002
  • Collection
  • 1872-2001

These records are divided into the following series:

Series 1: Core Congregational Records, 1872-1998 Series 2: Membership Records, Lists and Church Directories, 1892-2021 Series 3: Church Bulletins and Newsletters, 1928-2011 Series 4: Sunday School Records, 1882-1946 Series 5: Women's Activities, Sewing Circles, etc., 1908-1981 Series 6: Societies, Groups, 1913-1995 Series 7: Prairie Street Church History, 1872-1981 Series 8: Miscellaneous Documents and Records, 1902-1974 Series 9: Audio Visual Materials: Photographs and Sound Recordings (reel to reel and cassette), 1901-2000

Prairie Street Mennonite Church (Elkhart, Indiana)

Rachel S. Fisher Papers

  • US GCA HM1/949
  • Collection
  • 1966-2002

Papers of a Mennonite women who began her career as a secretary in Mennonite organizations and transitioned into ministry in the 1970s and 1980s.  Fisher served on the pastoral team of College Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.) and as an overseer of Waterford Mennonite Church (Goshen, Ind.).  Her papers include correspondence, sermons and presentations, worship materials, photographs, audiotapes of sermons preached at College Mennonite Church, and miscellaneous materials.

Fisher, Rachel S.

Rachel Waltner Goossen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.338
  • Collection
  • 1990-1993

almost entirely materials related to her dissertation--survey forms and taped interviews

a few other miscellaneous items

Goossen, Rachel Waltner, 1960-

Raymond Mark Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/676
  • Collection
  • 1870-1980

This small set of personal papers from a pastor affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church consists primarily of sermons, some of which were delivered at the Mennonite Home Mission in Chicago, Ill., where Yoder served after his ordination in 1939. Other sermons were written for congregational minsitry at the two churches he served: Congerville Mennonite Church (Congerville, Ill.) and Pleasant Oaks Mennonite Church (Middlebury, Ind.) The papers also include information about the history of the Pleasant Oaks congregation in the early 1960s, when it sold its church building. This collection also includes a number of family photographs and a handful of photographs from the Mennonite Home Mission, as well as two audiotapes of Yoder delivering sermons. Photographs mostly date from 1870 through 1930.

Yoder, Raymond Mark, 1914-1983

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