Financial reports, account books, and treasurer's correspondence documenting the financial operations of the American Mennonite Mission in Dhamtari, India. Researchers should note that real estate records pertaining to properties purchased and sold by the mission may be found in S. Paul Miller's personal papers (HM1-379).
This small series contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, receipts, and other miscellaneous materials documenting interactions between the American Mennonite Mission in India and other Christian agencies in India. These agencies include: National Christian Council, Mid-India Christian Council, Chhatisgarh Missionary Association, Union Hindi Weekly, N. I. Tract and Book Society, Bible Society, Himalayan School, and the Joint Examening Board. Correspondence pertaining to a joint hymn book committee may also be found in this series.
Minutes of the body charged with the administration of the mission medical facilities, including the hospital, the leprosaureum, and various dispensaries. After 1952, the Medical Committee was renamed the Medical Council.
These records contain the minutes, governing records, correspondence, and other materials documenting the development of the Mennonite Church in India. The Mennonite Church in India began as a conference of Mennonite congregations under the auspices of the American Mennonite Mission. In 1952, when the American Mennonite Mission ceased to exist, the Mennonite Church in India became an independent entity. Of particular interest in these records is the Church Problems and Discipline File, which provides evidence of tensions between indigenous Indian Christians and mission staff regarding authority and power withing the Mennonite Church.
A hodgepodge of letters that includes correspondence regarding missionaries' passport and residency issues, correspondence with Indian college students sponsored by the mission, letters from mission staff in Elkhart, Ind. circulated among the missionaries, and correspondence pertaining to clothing and bedding orders filled by various Mennonite sewing circles.
Assorted records created by the American Mennonite Mission in India, including membership and marriage registers for Indian churches, maps, pamphlets, furniture inventories, hospital records, articles and leaflets, and other miscellaneous materials. This series includes the statement of comity agreed to by the various denominational mission organizations in India, which stated mission workers' commitment to corking cooperatively rather than competitively.
Scattered records documenting the American Mennonite Mission's teacher training program, which seems to have trained Indian teachers and other workers in Christian education.
Consists primarily of miscellaneous pre-1930 photographic prints documenting the Dhamtari mission, its workers, and those served by the mission. Also includes a scrapbook of the Bihar mission created by Esther and Milton Vogt.
Records of the committee charged with educating the public about the work of the American Mennonite Mission in India through print media. Materials include an account book (1924-1929), meeting minutes (1922-1937, undated), and miscellaneous materials, including statistical reports about Mennonites in India and the beginnings of the Mennonite Church in India (1949-1952).
This series consists primarily of Incoming and outgoing correspondence to and from the office of the secretary, which appears to have replaced the office of the superintendent as the director of the mission's affairs. Researchers will find in this series correspondence between the secretary and leaders of the Mennonite Board of Missions, Indian government officials, and non-Mennonite mission organizations. Also present here are the secretary's record book (1905-1915), which contains the earliest executive committee and business meeting minutes as well as a number of subject files.
Secretaries of the American Mennonite Mission include J. N. Kauffman, Aldine Carpenter Brunk, and J. D. Graber (1937-1944).
Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India. Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials. These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.
These records document the work of an organization of missionary women that guided the work of the Indian Bible Women and the sewing circles in India. Meeting minutes comprise the bulk of the records.
The records include minutes, programs and correspondence of the Amish Mennonite Mission Interest Committee, collected by Harvey Graber, as well as drafts of articles, correspondence, letters from readers and issues of Witnessing, the publication of the Mission Interest Committee from 1956 to 1961.
Handwritten histories of Mennonite congregations in southwestern Pennsylvania, presumably used in the book Seventy-fifth Anniversary Observance of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Mennonite Conference, coauthored with John L. Horst. Other materials include scattered research correspondence and notes.