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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]

This collection includes the history of the church by Hope Lind and resources, correspondence, minutes and reports related to starting the congregation;  membership records including church letters for charter members, directories, organizational reports, photographs and financial reports.

Fonds consists of the following series:
1) Constitution, 1983 - (1 file) Box 360
2) History, 1956 - (1 file) Box 360
3) Goals and Objectives, 1982, 1985 - (1 file) Box 360
4) Reports & Annual Reports, 1956-1989, 2016-2017 - (7 files) Box 360
5) Correspondence, 1963-1985 - (4 files) Box 360
6) Personnel Opportunities, 1963-1980 - (1 file) Box 360
7) Canadian Mental Health, 1985 - (1 file) Box 360
8) US & Canada Relationship, 1964 - (1 file) Box 360
9) Self Help Studies, 1979 - (1 file) Box 360
10 Monthly Remittance Forms, 1970-1972 - (1 file) Box 360
11) 50th Anniversary Historical Summary, 1920-1970 - (1 file) Box 360
12) Lists, 1943,1964, 1982-1984 - (1 file) Box 360
13) Publications, 1964-1995 - (3 files) Box 359
14) Clippings, 1958-1990 - (1 file) Box 359
15) Canadian Mennonite Relief & Immigration Council, 1964 - (1 file) Box 359
16) Index: 1) Mennonite Central Committee, 1920- Archives Collection, Inventory of Records, 1918-2002 & 2) Russian Relief, Levi Mumaw, Secretary, Correspondence, 1918-1931 - (1 file) Box 360
17) Photographs

1) Annual Reports, 2018 - (1 file) Box 395
11) Ephemera - (1 file) Box 395
12) Other Museums, N.D. - (1 file) Box 395

Comprehensive collection of Krahn's correspondence, research notes, lecture notes, etc. from his student days up to his death.

See also elecrec/acc276 for items on Krahn’s student days at the university of Heidelberg.

This series contains materials collected and created in the Mennonite Publishing House's efforts to document its own history.  It consists of two subseries:

(1) General Historical Files, 1948-2003

(2) Historical Monograph Files, 1970-1991