10530 Treffer anzeigen

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.

Personal papers of early Mennonite mission workers in India.  Materials are divided into five series:

Series 1: Correspondence, 1888-1937

Series 2: Diaries and Notebooks, 1892-1935

Series 3: Writings and Educational Records, circa 1897-1930

Series 4: Miscellaneous Materials, circa 1890-1948

Series 5: Photographs, circa 1890-1948

Box 1: urban church and church planting subject files

box 2: Mennonite Distorter, FCM Informer, church constitutions

box 3: General Conference Peace and Social Concerns Committee 1960s-70s

box 4: city churches, Peace Conference Winona Lake 1950, race and Mennonites 1960-70, Peace and Social Concerns Reference Council, Mennonite homosexuality studies, intentional community, miscellaneous files

box 5: Mennonite connections to radical right, New Call to Peacemaking, Mennonite drama, Dialogue on Faith October 1984, peace evangelism, capital punishment, Shalom church beginning

box 6: catechism workbooks, miscellaneous pamphlets and books, 1837 Mennonite Confession of Faith book

box 7: newspapers and magazines 1968-69, all on race relations

box 8: materialism study conference 1965, peace and service packet, Mennonite Church in the City

box 9: Mennonite Peace Theology Colloquium 1976, John Howard Yoder materials, Peace Tax Fund

box 10: war tax resistance, dramas by Mennonites, Rainbow church history, Central District conference minister file

box 11: Church and Society conference 1961, Mennonite Distorter, CHM Executive Committee July 1975

RESTRICTED, Palmer Becker correspondence, Darrell Fast correspondence, miscellaneous

box 12: actually a map folder-oversize panoramic photos

box 13: subject files

box 14: subject files, minutes of peace tax group, Spanish language church plant (Casa Betania?)

box 15-16: sermons, some subject files

box 17-19: subject files

box 20: peace tax materials, including audio cassettes

box 21: subject files, mostly Newton-area anti-racism efforts

box 22: subject files

box 23: subject files; audio cassettes related to China missions (C. L. Pannabecker?)

box 24: subject file - John Howard Yoder; photos - mostly China-related (C. L. Pannabecker?); Amish slides - commercially produced [brought in by Stan Bohn, 14 Feb 2018]; John Howard Yoder correspondence [from Stan Bohn, 22 Jan 2019]; Newton Area Peace Center - Peace Tax group [from Stan Bohn, 22 Jan 2019]

A collection of Miscellaneous CD's and DVD's including some family history, congregational photographs and events and OMHGS/PNMHS newsletters and programs.

This series includes the constitutions of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference of the (old) Mennonite Church / Mennonite Church USA and minutes of annual conferences dating back to the 19th century and including both the minutes of the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference, the Indiana Amish-Mennonite Conference, and the Indiana-Michigan Amish-Mennonite Conference.  From 1922 to 1947, executive committee minutes are interfiled with the annual conference minutes. In more recent years, reports include the minutes from the previous year's conference.

Also found in this series are materials pertaining to a conference-wide study of divorce and remarriage, minutes and correspondence related to the possibility of an independent Michigan Mennonite conference, and annual conference-related correspondence.

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.