An assortment of materials pertaining to Mennonites in Ohio, including Sunday school conference programs, Sunday school meeting programs and notices, Bible conference programs, and church programs, dating from the turn of the century through the mid 1920s. Also includes a book of Sunday school conference addresses (1907-1921) written by Harvey A. Schnell of Millersburg, Ohio.
Other materials include two essays: "My Childhood and Growing Up" by Emma Yoder Schnell (circa 1970) and "Home on the Prairies" by Elizabeth Yoder Woodiwiss (1963).
A small set of legal documents associated with Andrew J. Yoder's 1947 lawsuit against four Amish Mennonite bishops. Yoder sued the bishops after they imposed an Amish 'mite' or boycott against him. Yoder was awarded $5000 in damages and the court ordered the bishops to withdraw their boycott order.
Documents include the plaintiff's causes of action, a transcript of court proceedings, and the charge to the jury.
Photographic prints and contact sheets depicting Mennonite Board of Missions missionaries, voluntary service workers, and staff. Most images are black and white. Photographs of individual missionaries and voluntary service workers may include both formal portraits and "action shots" in the field.
The operational records of the Evangelism and Missions Committee of the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA. Includes history and integration documents, executive committee minutes, mission's minister reports and correspondence, and related reports and documents.
Mennonite Church USA. Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference. Evangelism and Missions Committee
Early sunday school, and sweing circle records from a Missouri Mennonite congregation affiliated with the (old) Mennonite Church. Also includes a clipping about the congregation's 50th anniversary and the title page of the Bible used by the Sunday school.
Organizational records, minutes, and miscellaneous publications and periodicals from the Brethren in Christ General Conference and Pacific Regional Conference; miscellaneous records of Salem, Oregon, Brethren in Christ churches.
Records of a private Christian school assosciated with the Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church, and later the Mennonite Church USA. Materials are divided into four series:
1) School Board minutes, 2) Faculty Meeting minutes, 3) Financial records and 4) Miscellaneous
The collection contains biographical and personal materials related to Anna Gertrude Penner’s extended career as a deaconess nurse, including a set of diaries spanning over fifty years. Perhaps most unique are papers related to her training as a public health worker and two years of work as a public school nurse in Newton (the first school nurse in Newton?), 1916-21.
The collection includes a small booklet reporting on the work of the Twenty-Sixth Street Mennonite mission in Chicago, an ordination certificate, a certificate of appointment by the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, a membership pledge, and a handwritten note.
The collection consists of questionnaires and other materials related to a project designed to collect information on Mennonites and wealth for the Mennonite Cultural Problems Conference meeting in June of 1953.
