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A small set of correspondence gathered and inteviews conducted by Hubert R. Pellman in preparation for writing the 25th anniversary book entitled Mennonite Broadcasts: The First 25 Years (1979).  Also includes a copy of the book.

Annual and other reports created by the  broadcasting department of the Mennonite Board of Missions.  Researchers will find in these reports overviews of the work of Mennonite Media Ministries and financial reports, Researchers should note, however, that the reports are incomplete:  1958-1959, 1964-1965, 1967, 1969-1970, 1979-1981.

A small set of personal papers assembled by a bishop, author, editor, and evangelist in the (old) Mennonite Church.  Includes diaries, sermon notes, clippings, photographs, and 59 cloth Bible conference teaching charts.

A small set of family papers consisting primarily of correspondence from Benjamin Byler Stoltzfus (a farmer in West Liberty, Ohio and preacher at the Lima Rescue Mission of the (old) Mennonite Church) and his children B. Frank Stoltzfus (documenting his studies at Goshen College and his Mennonite Central Committee service in Constantinople, Turkey in 1917), Will A. Stoltzfus (including letters from New York Biblical Seminary and Beiruit, Lebanon, where he engaged in education and mission work in 1920-1921), Lena Stoltzfus, and Eli Stoltzfus.  Also includes poetry written by his daughter Rosie Stoltzfus Byler.

A hodgepodge of materials pertaining to the family of Jacob Christophel, a Mennonite immigrant to Elkhart County Indiana in 1818 and one of the founders of Yellow Creek Mennonite Church.

Minutes, financial records, and correspondence of an organization created to aid and assist the migration, resettlement, and rehabilitation of Mennonites displaced after World War II. The organization administered funds to facilitate the migration of Russian, Dutch, and German Mennonites to Paraguay.  These records not only provide an in-depth look at the financial aspects of the miagration, but also contain migration statistics and insight to the practical problems faced by Mennonite refugees seeking to relocate. Post-1950 records document Mennonite resettlement in Uraguay and West Germany as well.

audio tapes and CD copies
"The Nonresistant Christian and Revolution," class for Western District pastors at Bethel College Mennonite Church, Jan. 26-30, 1970
lecture in Seattle, Jan. 20, 1977, part of some kind of  "Peace and Justice" symposium
"Peace in Our Day" lecture series at Friends University, Wichita, Kansas, Mar. 6-9, 1980; also some kind of New Call to Peacemaking meeting?

reproduction of her diary of January-May 1941 when she was living as a child on the Bethel College campus
was made for an art exhibit at Kauffman Museum May-October 2001

This set of collected family documents contains correspondence, financial records, broadsides, property records, tax receipts, sermons, and assorted ephemera pertaining to the Nold and Yoder families of Columbia, Ohio, later of Columbiana and Leetonia, Ohio.  Materials document the following individuals, all of whom held ministerial positions in area Mennonite congregations:

Bishop Jacob Nold (1765-1834)

Deacon Jacob Nold (1798-1864)

Deacon John Ziegler Nold (1823-1913)

Deacon John L. Yoder, son-in-law of John Ziegler Nold (1855 - 1940)

Bishop Paul L. Yoder (1897-1990)

The bulk of the correspondence comprises incoming correspondence to Jacob Nold (1898-1964) and Paul L. Yoder.

Of particular significance in this collection is the copy of a petition drafted by J. M. Brenneman to be sent to President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that pleads for Mennonite exemption from military service in the American Civil War.

Consists of 3 books: an old German Bible in poor condition (Stuttgart: Priviligierte Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1900; Großoktavausgabe; 15. Auflage)

W. Ziethe, Immanuel: Predigten über die Evangelien des Kirchenjahres. (Berlin: Hauptverein für christliche Erbauungsschriften, 1891)

Reichs-Lieder: Deutsches Gemeinschafts-Liederbuch (very poor condition, missing title page)

The collection was accepted with the expectation that more papers would be added later, but that didn't happen.

Transcript of Christophel's court martial proceedings for his refusal to rake and sow grass seed at Camp Zachary Tayler, Ky.  Christophel, a Mennonite conscientious objector, refused to do this work because it "was of a military nature."  He was sentenced to ten years hard labor at Fort Leavenworth.

Also included in this small set of papers are a biographical sketch written by Russell Kraybill (1984) and a collection of memories of Christophel provided by his family, friends, and students.

A small set of correspondence, bonds documenting loans of money, and wills pertaining to Christian Reist and members of his family in and around Lancaster Co., Penn.

Researchers should note that these are not the original letters, but rather photocopies.

Weekly workship service programs / newsletters created by a small (old) Mennonite Church congregation in rural Arkansas.

A small set of records documenting an (old) Mennonite Church congregation founded by a missionary nurse who converted to the Mennonite faith.  Materials include bulletins, scattered meeting minutes, governing documents, and a handwritten history of the congregation.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, and questionnaires pertaining to the work of a committee charged with addressing lifestyle "problems" in the church, such as dress, divorce and remarriage, trade union membership, and the interpretation of "separation from the world."  The goal of the committee appears to have been the development of uniform standards of conduct across the (old) Mennonite Church in accordance with doctrine.