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These records document the work of the committee that offered pastoral support to ministers serving the conference and handled congregational and ministerial difficulties and controversies.  The minutes of the committee will be helpful to researchers seeking specific issues within the congregations of the Indiana-Michigan Conference.  Once the researcher determines the time period in which the issue was handled by the committee, the researcher may then seek more information in the correspondence and data files from that time period.

Other materials of particular interest in the collection include summaries of interviews with retired ministers.  Some interviews are foldered separately from other materials, while other interviews are mixed into the meeting minutes or correspondence and subject files.  Also, among the correspondence and subject files researchers will find the meeting minutes of regional ministers' councils established in 1970.

Correspondence and subject files round out the series.  These include not only committee correspondence and notes about various situations in congregations, but also files from workshops and retreats facilitated.

The newsletters of Mennonite women contain information about the organization's officers, activities, and interests.  The newsletter was titled "Mennonite Women" from 1997 through 2002, and "Mennonite Women USA" from 2003 through 2005.  In 2002, Mennonite Women USA introduced a monthly email newsletter entitled "News and Notes from Mennonite Women USA, " its last issue appearing in January 2006.  In August 2003, another email newsletter entitled "Postcard and a Prayer" debuted and has continued through the present (2013).

Materials pertaining to various workshops, training opportunities, and meetings sponsored by Mennonite Women USA.  At this time, this series only contains information regarding the PREP (Preparing, Resourcing, Encouraging, Praising) meeting for Mennonite Women USA conference leaders.

The collection includes the minutes and correspondence of the Goshen College Physical Education Department, as well as Mid-Central Conference materials, Women's Athletic Association correspondence, some photographs, and a few films.

The collection includes handwritten Amish-Mennonite sermons from Christian Lehmann, who was a minister of a Mennonite congregation in Saarburg, France. In addition, the collection includes translations of most of these materials into English by John Umble from 1959-1960.

98 case files on microfilm containing the transcripts of courts-martial of 131 conscientious objectors during World War I. The records originate from the National Archives' Record Group 153 (United States. Army, Office of the Judge Advocate General).  The name index to the microfilm in this finding aid is arranged alphabetically, as are the case files on microfilm.  Researchers should note that these case files contain two courts-martial in which multiple conscientious objectors were tried together.

The governing documents, biennial and special meeting proceedings, and official statements issued by the governing body of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Included also are accessory materials to the biennial conferences, including programs, session materials, newpaper clippings about various meetings of the general conference, transcriptions of sermons and talks given, and other miscellaneous materials.

Researchers should consult the proceedings for additional statements and resolutions issued by the Mennonite General Conference, as the collection of statements here are not complete.

A small set of records documenting Mennonite Research Foundation Project #5 on Noncombatant Service (i.e. military service in positions not requiring combat participation).  Materials include a collection of tracts on noncombatant service by the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, correspondence and surveys completed by Mennonite men who served in noncombatant positions during World War II, and draft manuscripts of "What of Noncombatant Service" and "What Is War" by Melvin Gingerich.

The collection includes the conference material, correspondence, and papers of the Conference on Mennonite Educational and Cultural Problems.

The collection of the Council of Mennonite and Affiliated Colleges includes minutes, foreign student program materials, college statistics, and a study of trainee and student exchange program.

The Roy C. Bucher Papers are divided into the folowing series:

(1) Biographical Documents

(2) Congregational Materials

(3) Sermons

(4) Audiovisual Materials

(5) Daytimers

Personal papers of B. Frank and Esther Johnson Stoltzfus, who served as missionaries, educators, and administrators at multiple American colleges in Bulgaria, Lebanon, and Turkey from 1924 to 1960. Materials consist of diaries, correspondence, teaching records, writings, and family photographs. Of particular interest are a series of 1947 dispatches written to Floyd H. Black, President of the Sofia American College, which document Stoltzfus’s experiences in and impressions of Bulgaria during the early years of the country’s communist regime.

The papers are divided into the following series:

(1)  Diaries and Correspondence, 1918-1997

(2)  Teaching Records and College Publications, 1914-1981

(3)  Sermons, Essays, and Writings, 1919-1953

(4)  Miscellaneous, 1910-1983

Includes packets of organizational information given to members of the board of directors and minutes and dockets (with reports) for board meetings. Some brochures and organizational information is included along with JoinHands grant applications and organizational constitutions.

The Clarence J. Ramer papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Organizational Materials

(2) Business and Finance

(3) Family Records

(4) Notes

(5) Correspondence

(6) Miscellaneous Clippings and Photographs