A "newsletter" created by John R. Schmidt and his family describing their life and work as medical missionaries with the Paraguayan Leprocy Project at the Kilometer 81 Hospital.
Contains prints, negatives and slides. Includes many portraits of families and individuals in the St. Jacobs area. Also documents community events in various parts of Waterloo Region. Mennonite events, groups, families and individuals are highly represented.
Also includes copies of older photographs not originally created by David L. Hunsberger. He provided a photograph reproduction service.
Folder 1 contains content related to the creation of correspondence courses by both John Stanley Friesen and Delores Friesen for Mennonite Broadcasting, specifically related to their use in Africa. Folder 2 contains assorted documents related to the creation of study guides for MCC, as well as various other research materials for studies on MCC aid and families.
The collection largely chronicles the case of the arrest of Amish bishop Samuel D. Hochstetler for chaining his mentally ill adult daughter, Lucy. The material includes family accounts of the incident, court records, correspondence, news clippings and some materials gathered by Julia Kasdorf for a book project on this topic.
Materials generated by the Indiana-Michigan Women's Missionary and Service Commission. This includes governing documents, minutes, annual reports, event programs, financial records, photographs, recordings, and more. The IN-MI WMSC changed its name to the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Women as a result of the merger of the Old Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church.
Several files on church records and history, church bulletins from 1954 to 2003. Also in this collection is one file on a 2016 visit from Marion Bontrager, representing South Central Conference, to Mount Pisgah Mennonite Church to resolve an internal church conflict.
