10530 Treffer anzeigen

While these records include a handful of typical congregational records (primarily bulletins), the bulk of the collection consists of sound recordings and transcripts associated with the "Peace Stories Oral History Project" of 1990-1994.  The oral history project sought to document the experiences of conscientious objectors in the congregation and resulted in over 20 interviews. Other materials include administrative documents and publications associated with the oral history project.

The papers are divided into a number of series:

(1) Diaries/Yearbooks

(2) Artifacts and Ephemera

(3) Correspondence

(4) Sermon Notes

(5) Research and Class Notes

(6) Manuscripts and Bibliography of J.D.G. Writings

(7) Manuscripts of others

(8) Organizational Data

Records of an Anabaptist-sponsored peacemaking organization founded in the 1980s.  Materials are organized into three series:

(1) Central Administrative Files, 1961-2004

(2) Regional and Subject Files, 1987-2010

(3) Research Files, 1984-2008

Box 1: box of printed material about Taiwan sent from AMBS library, May 27, 1992, seems to originate with Hugh Sprunger
Box 2: Taiwan subject files, correspondence, minutes (sorted by Verney Unruh)
Box 3-5: Taiwan subject files, correspondence, minutes
Box 6: "Hong Kong church" subject files, correspondence
Box 7: "People's Republic of China clippings 1987-1989"
Box 8: "Asian files" subject files, clippings
Box 9: subject files
Box 10: "People's Republic of China files 1992-1995" clippings, subject files
Box 11: "General files"
Box 12: "People's Republic of China clippings 1990-1991"
Box 13: "People's Republic of China church publicaitons/Christian faith"
Box 14: "Books on China and missiology periodicals"
Box 15: "People's Republic of China - church publicaions (Christian faith) - Bridge, CNCR, China Talk, Yi, etc."
Box 16: "Hong Kong general clippings Jan. 1991-Oct. 1994"
Box 17: "General materials" correspondence, sub ject files, printed matter
Box 18: "Hong Kong Mennonite churches/conference COMCIHK"
Box 19: "Hong Kong 1984-1989 plus 1978 item"
Box 20: "Hong Kong general clippings and general interest and historical and maps, etc."
Box 21-22: "Chinese ministry files"
Box 23: printed matter, minutes, mostly Taiwan
Box 24-25: books and pamphlets
Box 26: slides
Box 27-28: Taiwan subject files, correspondence, printed matter, one Japan folder in box 28; partly processed by Verney Unruh

Family register removed from Bible.  Also Peter Albrecht's (Peter Albright's) naturalization declaration from Putnam County, Illinois.

Box 1: correspondence, books

Box 2-3: books

These papers primarily document the life and work of Isaiah W. Royer, but includes some material pertinent to his wife, Christina Neuhauser Rohrer. The papers are divided into three series:

(1) Biographical Information and Correspondence
(2) Sermon Notes and Orrville Mennonite Church
(3) Sunday School and Commission for Christian Education

Letter from the Kaethlers written two months after their arrival in Friesland, Paraguay as medical missionaries.  The letter discusses the birth of their daughter, Wilma, the climate, their housing accommodations, and the 30 bed hospital.

Five incoming letters to Ada Burkhart Ziegler, a nurse who served as a medical missionary at the Mennonite Home for the Aged in Eureka, Illinois and later taught on the faculty of La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing in La Junta, Colorado. ALl correspondence is addressed to Ada Burkhart, as Ziegler did not marry until later in life.

(1) From J. D. Smith, Superintendent of the Mennonite Home for the Aged, indicating the recommendation of Ms. Burkhart by D. H. Bender and informing her that the Mennonite Home for the Aged requested her service, and asking whether she intended to accept the position.

(2) From Allen H. Erb of La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing, commending Ms. Burkhart on her service and reminding her to follow the doctrine of Christ and the training program, including the adherence to modest dress ("be an especial example on the custom or style of short sleeves and low necks").

(3) From "Mary Alice" describing a recent trip to Goshen, Indiana and her imminent departure for India to perform mission service.

(4) From "Mary Alice" regarding her voyage to India.

(5) From Allen H. and Stella Erb offering condolences on the occasion of Burkhart's father's death.

Also includes a 1922 commencement program from La Junta Mennonite School of Nursing.

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Diaries, 1893-1907

(2) Photographs, circa 1890-1910

(3) Correspondence, 1885-1911

(4) Notes and Clippings, 1869-1911

These papers are organized into four series:

(1) Correspondence, 1907-1951

(2) Articles, Manuscripts, and Sermons, 1926-1951, undated

(3) Miscellaneous, 1898-1950

(4) Photographs, circa 1893 -1950

Box 1: papers related to Hopefield-Eden?
Box 2: Western District Tidings issues, telephone line record (Moundridge area?) 1921-1963, more Hopefield-Eden material, Kaufman and Dirks family history, Western District Mennonite Men records
Box 3: Western District Historical Committee, Executive Committee, Council of Representatives 1977-1979
Box 4-6: subject files, writings, correspondence, family history
Box 7: Western District Mennonite Men 1957-1961
Box 8: Western District youth activities 1938-1942
Box 9: same as boxes 4-6, plus master's thesis 1942, and diaries (whose?)
box 10: miscellaneous files, family history materials, education files
box 11: (map folder) family history materials, diplomas

These records are divided into four series:

(1) Director's Correspondence and Subject Files

(2) Board of Directors Records

(3) Publications

(4) Program Files

Records include church council minutes, board of directors' minutes, annual reports, a photo directory, the dedication program, and other miscellaneous documents. Also included are several sound recordings of services in the late 1960s, sermons delivered at the North Leo Mennonite Church by George Brunk II in December 1968, and a performance by the Gospel Messengers quartet in October 1968.

These papers consist primarily of a memoir and photographs of Springer's service with the Friends Unit of the Red Cross from 1919 to 1920.  Also included are photographs and documentation of a car he built while serving in post World War I France, official documents pertaining to his service, family photographs depicting his parents (Valentine and Marie Esch Springer) and brothers, and miscellaneous material.