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This fonds contains materials concerning Bethel Mennonite Church, the wider church, their work in education, and personal matters. The Bethel Church materials consist primarily of minutes, reports and correspondence relating to various committees and church activities. From the wider church, there are materials from the Bible Society, the General Conference Mennonite Church, and the Mennonite World Conference. The education materials include teaching notes, aids and resources, administration materials, exams, and minutes from the Winnipeg Science Teachers Association and the Teachers' Science Club. Finally, the collection includes a variety of personal items including receipts, publications on home building and renovation, personal notebooks, artwork from their children, materials from the Credit Union and CFAM, travel resources and records, and correspondence.

This fonds consists of bulletins, annual reports, minutes, directories, constitutions, and registers which pertain to the beginning and development of the Mennonite congregation in North Kildonan, Manitoba. It documents the leaders and participants. The fonds contains membership, baptismal, marriage, and family registers (1929-1979), congregational constitutions (1976-1996), congregational bulletins (1963-1965, 1968-1974, 1976-1979, 1982-1992, 1994-2016, 2018), annual reports (1975-2000), congregational meeting minutes (1976-2000), congregational board meeting minutes (1976-1979), directories (1969-1997, 2015-2016, 2018), and a funeral aid society constitution (1969).

This fonds contains congregational bulletins (1958-1998, 2012-2018), congregational directories (1947-1995); congregational newsletters - Gruess Gott (1940-1974), The Intercom (1976-2003), FMC's Newsletter (2004-2007), The Community Well (2007-2011); young people's newsletter, Das Blatt, (1951-1963), congregational annual reports (1930-1998), congregational meeting minutes (1930-1979), family, membership, baptismal, and marriage register (1929-1975), church council meeting minutes (1929-1978), minister's meeting minutes (1938-1964), congregational constitutions ([193?]-1978), several youth society programmes from the 1950s, choir members list (1975), a 1947 preaching schedule, correspondence with the Conference of Mennonites in Canada, governments, Bible schools, etc., Frauenverein (ladies society) minutes (1963-1980), and other miscellaneous papers. The records pertain to the beginning and development of a Mennonite congregation in the city of Winnipeg and they document who the leaders, members, and participants were.

This fonds contains personal diaries, journals, and travel logs of LaVerna’s. Personal correspondence, letters, keepsakes and hobbies such as her Royal family collection are contained. Research from articles, newspapers, and periodicals on a great range of topics such as women in the church, faith, marriage, and prayer with the drafts, and published articles LaVerna wrote on her researched topics remain. LaVerna kept drafts, notes and letters from editors as well.

This fonds consists of fifteen series:
-1) Jacob Rempel's Church journals covering 1950-1988
-2) Jacob Rempel's manuscript and related files on the history of Sargent Avenue Mennonite Church, 1982
-3) Telephone directories
-4) Young People's files, 1955-1970,
-5) Printed materials, 1967-1987,
-6) Annual Meeting report books, 1972-2015
-7 ) Church newsletter, 1980-1996,
-8) Weekly bulletins, 1957-2001,
-9) Worship service audio recordings, predominantly 1989, and
-10) Membership records, 1949-1987.
-11) Rev. Martin Sawatzky's correspondence and notes 1984-1991,
-12) Birth and death records 1960-1987,
-13) Church seminars and workshops 1986,1987,1990-1992,
-14) Church minutes 1988-1989
-15) Women's groups (1953-2005).

This fonds consists of church bulletins, pastors' correspondence, treasurer's correspondence, Sunday School records, membership records, constitutions, church board and membership meeting minutes and reports, administrative files (such as activities of the Service committee and the Christian Endeavour and youth committee work during the late 1960s, pastoral search committee files, church retreat files, a Vacation Bible School file, and topical files such as war tax, prison, congregation statistics and gift discernment.), financial records (such as building committee records such as the specifications for the construction of the Church at Marvin Place and documents pertaining to its sale and the 1981 building plans), ladies group records and a small photograph collection (depicting various functions of the church such as Sunday School, girl's club, adult Bible Study group, evening worship service and the exterior of the church building.) These files all related to the activities of the congregation, first as a mission outreach project and, secondly, as an established church.

This fonds contains bulletins (1961-2020), annual reports (1962-2020), annual general meeting minutes (2012-2020), Leadership Council meeting minutes (2012-2020), membership lists, registers, and family registers (1957-1982), financial records (1957-1979), directories (1977-2005), pictorial directories (1973-1993), brief histories (1958-1983), calendar of activities (1964-1986), newsletters (1978-2005, 2014), and miscellaneous documents (1963-1993). The records pertain to the founding, development and on going activities of the leaders and participants of this congregation.

This fonds contains correspondence, concert pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles and reviews from Wiebe’s music career, seven audio and visual recordings on CD’s, four music books, and other materials.

There are six series that make up the Westgate Mennonite Collegiate fonds. Series:

1. Building and Facilities. -- 1970-2015.
2. Mennonite Educational Society, Westgate Parents Association, and Committee Minutes. -- [196-?]-2000.
3. Board of Directors Meeting Minutes, Correspondence, and Reports. -- 1957-2012.
4. 25th Anniversary Celebration, Alumni, Publications, and Programs. -- 1965-2016.
5. Canadian Association of Mennonite Schools (CAMS). -- 1990-2014.
6. Staff Meeting Minutes. -- 1966-2015.

This fonds consist of church bulletins, annual reports, newsletters, minutes of church council and congregational meetings, financial records, constitutions, policies, legal records, worship, evangelism & mission activities, records of growth and expansion and photographs.

This fonds consists of registers, directories, bulletins, annual reports, news clippings, congregational programmes, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, constitutions, position papers, and litanies which pertain to the founding and development of the Mennonite congregation in Charleswood. It documents the leaders and participants in the congregation. This fonds consists of registers (1963-1979), directories (1969-1995, 2000-2021), annual reports (1963-1993, 1997, 2003-2021), news clippings (1963), congregational programmes for various events (1965-1992), correspondence (1970-1976), congregational meeting minutes (1963-1989), church council meeting minutes (1962-1989), newsletters (1973-1994), The Grapevine newsletter (2006-2018, 2020-2021), constitutions ([196-?]-1978), position papers ([197-?]-1988), and litanies ([197-]). The records pertain to the founding and development of the congregation in Charleswood and they documents the leaders and participants in the congregation.

This fonds contains membership and family registers (1964-1979), membership lists (1993-2001), brief congregational histories (1964-1989), minutes of congregational meetings and church council meetings (1964-1979), congregational newsletters ([197-?]-1991), bulletins (1975-2000, 2002), annual reports (1971-2000, 2002), directories (1970-2001), position papers and other congregational documents (1974-1991), and a congregational constitution (1991). The records begin with the founding of this congregation and they document its activities and development.

This fonds includes correspondence between William Baerg with colleagues and friends. Many of these correspondences are between Baerg and the Mennonite Brethren Bible College (MMBC), Peabody Institute, and the University of Manitoba. Programs, reviews, articles, and photographs of Winnipeg Singers, Bach Festival, Mennonite Community Orchestra, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Irmgard Baerg’s professional correspondence, recital and concert programs, photos, newspaper reviews and articles published about her. Both series highlight the successful and extensive careers of each individual.

This fonds consist of bulletins, registers, directories, worship schedules, minutes, correspondence, annual reports and other reports, covenants, statistics, brief congregational histories, and newsletters which pertain to the founding and development of the congregation. There are bulletins (1967-2005, 2014-2015, 2017-2018), membership and family registers (1968-1980), directories (1967, 1988?, 1992-1996, 2004, 2011-2017), worship schedules (1976-1991), minutes of various groups including congregational meeting and planning committee meeting (1966-2001, 2004-2005), correspondence (1965-1999), annual reports (1966-1991, 1993, 2000), other reports (1966-1980), covenants and bylaws (1968-1987), statistics (1966-1981), brief congregational histories (1967-1977), some photographs ([1974?]) and newsletters (1974-1981).

The first 49 photos (no. 1-49) consist of student activities from 1972-1974 such as sports, music, studying, student / faculty retreats and special lectures. The remaining 127 photos (no. 50-176) consist of various events and activities from the 1983-1984 academic year. These events include a recognition event honoring two long-time cooks (Annie Janzen and Hertha Penner), musical activities showing choirs, students playing instruments or conducting choirs, and students making other presentations. There are also photos from a public event in the chapel which continued in the cafeteria -- possibly an alumni and graduation event.