10530 Treffer anzeigen

Clippings pertaining to a conscientious objector and non-registrant in the World War II era.  Regier was affiliated with the Mennonite Church.

An outgoing form letter updating friends and family on the Hallmans' mission work in Argentina.

An autobiographical manuscript describing Friesen's service as a seagoing cowboy in 1946.

Sermons

This collection consists of twelve form letters written to update friends and supporters of the mission work done at the Mennonite House of Friendship in the Bronx, and essays written by John I. Smucker between 1961 and 1980.  Also present are an account book and a visitor log for the Mennonite booth at the World's Fair, 1965.

Two manuscripts:  "Grandma Sarah," about Swartzendruber's grandmother Sarah Yoder Swartzendruber, and "The Lives and Family of Valentine Swartzendruber and Mary Ann Rhodes."

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.