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1) Church By-laws, 2009, 2014 - - (1 file) Box 377
2) Minutes, 2014-2015 - (1 file) Box 377
3) Annual Reports, 2011, 2013-2015, 2019 - (1 file) Box 377
4) Vital Statistics, 2009 - (1 file) Box 377
5) Financial Records - Budget Meetings, 2014-2016, 2019 - (1 file) Box 377

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 photos in this collection are of descendants of Jacob D. Reimer, an early Mennonite Brethren leader and their journey to the Ukraine to visit the areas where Jacob Reimer, and his family once lived. Jacob D. Reimer is the 3rd great-grandfather to Agnes Pauls and her brother Ed Pauls. The location of the village and the Jacob Reimer Tombstone was re discovered in 2006. In 2008 the stone was moved to the Molochansk Mennonite Centre in the former Mennonite village of Halbstadt in the Molotschna colony. In 2009, the stone was shipped to Canada and erected at the Mennonite Village Museum in Steinbach, Manitoba. Wiesenfeld was founded in 1880 and abandoned in 1925. It is 50 km east of Dnepropetrovsk and 15 km west of Pavlograd. ( N48, 30.930; E35, 36.691) For more information see:
Katherine Martens "They came From Wiesenfeld Ukraine to Canada; Family Stories," (Winnipeg: Katherine Martens, 2005).
Katherine Martens "They Sleep in Silence; Far away Their Stone Reminds us of Them Here," (Winnipeg; Katherine Martens, 2013). http://www.mennonitehistorian.ca/38.2.MHJun12.pdf http://www.mennonitehistorian.ca/36.3.MHSep10.pdf

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Newspaper Articles - 2009 - (1 file) Box 289
2) Photographs

This collection contains the raw video tapes from two cameras at the Anchorage 2010 PNMC gathering. The DVD contains the edited final video of portions of the event including Spanish audio provided by a translator.

Program, 24 photographs (JPEG), and five sound recordings (MP3) documenting the 100th anniversary of an Indian hospital founded by Mennonite missionaries.

Personal papers of a Mennonite Church USA pastor and employee of Mennonite Church USA from 2009 through 2014.  Shenk was a member of the denominational communications team with additional duties in interchurch relations and the women in leadership project. Sermons in this collection were delivered at a variety of Mennonite conference events and congregational worship settings.

SERIES 1 AND 2 RESTRICTED UNTIL 2040

This collection is focused on Ruth Krall's research and activism related to sexual abuse in the Mennonite Church. It is divided into 3 series, with the first two making up the majority of the collection.

Series 1) SNAP Menno Working Files
This is composed of working files created by Krall during the course of her work as convener for SNAP-Menno during its formation from 2014 to 2016. Files include email correspondence, memos, and published press releases related to SNAP-Menno's advocacy work. Files also contain periodic personal journal entries recording Krall's reflections on the work of SNAP-Menno and her analysis of intra-group conflicts related to diverging activism strategies.

Series 2) John Howard Yoder Clerical Abuse Research
This series begins following Krall's retirement from Goshen College in 2003 and ends with the publication of her series on clerical abuse called "The Elephant in God's Living Room" in 2013. The series contains volumes I-V of "The Elephant in God's Living Room," as well as correspondence, research materials, personal notes, and journal entries. A significant amount of material was removed from this series, including items from John Howard Yoder's MC USA Archives collection, publications, and books. Items that were removed are noted in the collection.

Series 3) Assorted Writings
This short series contains writings from Ruth Krall not related to SNAP Menno or Clerical Abuse. Included here are Krall's 2009 reflections on a sabbatical, a presentation Krall gave on healing in 2003, and a presentation given by Lauren Friesen that analyzes Krall's contribution to Mennonite peacemaking.

SERIES 1 AND 2 RESTRICTED UNTIL 2040

An autobiography, entitled "As I Remember and Some Things I Have Learned," of a Mennonite woman who grew up in Chester County, Penn. and Lancaster County, Penn. and worked as an occupational therapist in several Mennonite mental hospitals.  Childhood reminiscences comprise about half of her memoirs, which also discuss her education and professional life.  Her autobiography includes reproductions of historical photographs, documents, and her artwork.   Researchers will also find filed with the autobiography two eulogies for Bertha Huber written by Ruth E. Krall.

In 2011, Waterloo North held a 25th anniversary service, a potluck and a dedication of a commemorative stone on the church grounds