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Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Benevolent Society - 1953-1998 - (13 files) Box 292
2) Samaritan of Comfort and Cheer - Constitution - (1 file) Box 292
3) Hazelwood Cemetery - History, 1966 - (1 file) Box 292
4) Bethesda - 1945-1962 - (1 file) Box 292
5) Tabor Home - 1964-2001 - (2 files) Box 292
6) Photographs
7) Menno Place

This collection includes church records, annual reports, newsletters and bulletins for the congregation and annual reports for the Mennonite Country Auction which they host.

A five page letter from Ira D.Landis to John C. Wenger containing recommendations for corrections to Menno Simons's Complete Writings, if a reprint were forthcoming.

Edwin and Irene Weaver served the Mennonite Church as long-time missionaries in India, 1935-56, and Nigeria, 1959-67, and Ghana, 1969-71. Most of the records in this personal collection deal with West Africa, although there are some friendship letters to those Edwin and Irene Weaver were with in India. They retired to Hesston, Kansas, in 1989. Box 8 contains memoirs written by Irene Weaver, primarily about her childhood in India, and her time working aboard for Mennonite Board of Missions. Additionally, some of the memoirs deal with her time at Goshen College.

General correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Board of Missions mission stations in North America, including Canada.  Correspondence is organized by state and alphabetically thereunder.

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]