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Edwin and Irene Weaver Records

  • US MCUSAA MCUSAA HM1-696
  • Collection
  • 1910 - 2023

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.

Weaver, Irene

John A. Friesen Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/954
  • Collection
  • 1910-2009

Personal papers of a Mennonite missionary to India, divided into the following series:

(1) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1940-2005

(2) Music, 1928-1999

(3) Art, 1938-2001

(4) Family Papers, 1910-2009

(5) Sermons, 1943-1993

Friesen, John A., 1915-2009

Weyburn W. and Thelma Miller Groff Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/100
  • Collection
  • 1945-2003

These papers are divided into three series:

(1) Sermons and Worship Materials, 1950-1996

(2) Correspondence, 1946-2002

(3) Miscellaneous, 1945-2003

Groff, Weyburn W.

Paul and Esther Kniss Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/990
  • Collection
  • 1945-2002

These papers, documenting the life and work of a Mennonite missionary couple who served in India for 43 years, are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence, 1945-1991

(2) Bihar Mission Records, 1955-1993

Kniss, Paul George, 1925-2019

Blanche Sell Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/183
  • Collection
  • circa 1900-2001

Correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous materials associated with Blanche Sell's 35 years of missionary service in India with the Mennonite Board of Missions.  While outgoing correspondence relating the daily work and spiritual life of Mennonite missionaries in Dhamtari will be of most interest to researchers, this collection also holds substantial incoming correspondence from Sell's mother, Elizabeth Sell, and sister, Doris Shenk.  Most of the photographs are snapshots with fair to excellent captioning.  They include images of Indian spiritual and medical leaders, including P. J. Malagar and Dr. Martin.  Miscellaneous materials include a Mennonite Board of Missions India calendar (1952), texts of missionary messages Sell delivered to various Mennonite congregations in the 1980s, and autograph books.

Sell, Blanche

Florence Nafziger Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/175
  • Collection
  • 1881-1999

These personal papers include autobiographical writing, photographs, slides, and ephemera pertaining to Nafziger's work as a Mennonite medical missionary in India.  They also contain some Nafziger family records, specifically a farm journal created by Christian Nafziger II.

Nafziger, Florence, 1918-

Women's Missionary and Service Commission Partnership Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/20/008
  • Collection
  • 1973-1996

A small set of records documenting relationships between the Women's Missionary and Service Commission and three other Mennonite women's groups:  Grupos Hispanos Femeniles del la Iglesia Menonita, Central Women's Organization of the Mennonite Church in India, and the Northwest Ohio Mennonite Business and Professional Women's Organization. Records consist primarily of correspondence, event programs, and a scrapbook.

Women's Missionary and Service Commission

Charles L., Crissie (Yoder), and Lydia F. (Shenk) Shank Family Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/638
  • Collection
  • 1907-1995

A set of family papers documenting the lives of Charles L. Shank, his first wife, Crissie Yoder Shank, his second wife, Lydia F. Shenk Shank, the Shank children, Lydia Shank's sister and brother-in-law (Lillie and James Norman Kaufman), and other assorted Shank family members.  Materials include incoming correspondence documenting Mennonite missionary work, photographs, school materials, circle letters circulated among the Shank's children, articles and other writings of Lydia Shank, collected prayers of  international Christian women in the 1950s, a number of sound recordings of funerals and memorial services, and other miscellaneous family materials.

Shank, Charles L., 1886-1969

Dora Shantz Gehman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/883
  • Collection
  • 1901-1993

Papers of a female missionary worker (nurse) in India (1931-1939).  Includes diaries, extensive correspondence with family and friends in the United States, and with Indian friends and colleagues she met in the course of her mission work.  Also includes elementary school, Sunday school, and college notes, diplomas, a scrapbook made by Prairie Street Mennonite Church for her time in India, Christmas letters from missionaries and missionary families, and miscellaneous annotated publications and clippings.

Gehman, Dora Shantz, 1897-1993

Elizabeth S. Erb Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/989
  • Collection
  • 1936-1992

These papers consist primarily of Elizabeth "Betty" Erb's outgoing correspondence, describing her life and work as a missionary nurse in India.  Also included among the papers are Erb's journals, a small number of photographs, and miscellaneous materials, including poems, compositions, and essays by Erb.

Erb, Elizabeth S., 1918-1993

Rhea B. Yoder Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/882
  • Collection
  • 1913-1992

This collection contains information about Rhea B. Yoder (1898-1992), a teacher in the Midwest and at Woodstock, Northern India. In the collection there are materials from her schooling, her college speeches, journals from her time in India, and recollections of her upbringing. There is also a photograph album containing pictures from her childhood and time at Goshen. Her speeches at Goshen College provide an example of an individual on the liberal side of the (old) Mennonite church schism that led to the closing of Goshen College in 1923-1924.

Yoder, Rhea B., 1898-1992

Slide Presentation-COM - Finding Home

  • CA MHC 572
  • Collection
  • 1992

This slide show consists of slides, most illustrative in nature, depicting Mennonite church in Columbia. It focuses on MCC worker Ricardo Esquivia. Other portions of the slide show include scenes from Taiwan, Burkina Faso, and India. Issues dealt with include racism, homelessness, and discipleship. -- Note: included is a script and an audio cassette # 2357

Ernest E. and Ruth Blosser Miller Papers

  • US GCA V/04/018-026
  • Collection
  • 1911-1992

Personal papers of a Mennonite missionary and president of Goshen College and his wife.  Papers are divided into the following series:

(1) Biographical and Family Materials, 1911-1992

(2) Correspondence, 1919-1977

(3) Articles, Addresses, and Sermons, circa 1929-1968

(4) Education and Teaching Materials, 1921-1965

(5) Commissioned Trips, 1946-1964

(6) Photographs, circa 1880-1963

(7) Miscellaneous, 1912-1961

Miller, Ernest E.

Jonathan G. and Fyrne A. Yoder Correspondence and Films

  • US MCUSAA HM1/298
  • Collection
  • 1935-1989

Outgoing letters and 8mm films created by a medical missionary couple that served in Dhamtari, India. The letters, written by Jonathan Yoder to his family in the United States, are quite descriptive, providing reflections on his work as a physician, Indian cultural practices, and information about other missionaries serving in the same area. A transcription of the letters by Paton Yoder (1989) is available in the collection. The films are heavily spliced and include brief notes about their subjects. Six of the films were created by Jonathan Yoder's sister, Rhea Yoder, a teacher at Woodstock School. VHS viewing copies for all of the films are available.

Yoder, Jonathan G.

Dwight Platt Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.200
  • Collection
  • 1945-1980

Box 1: scrapbook containing school compositions, articles by him, peace pamphlets and clippings, transcript of court case, letters re the case, other letters and poems by him, photos, clippings re India and marriage

Box 2: Kansas Academy of Science Conservation Committee, Save the Tallgrass Prairie Inc

Box 3-5: course notes and files

Box 6: grade books and sheets; a few photocopies from Kauffman Museum civil rights exhibit Aug. 2010

Box 7: tapes of a summer 1964 biology class (digitized at elecrec/acc914), donated by Janet Klaassen Voth who was a student in the class, 22 May 2018

Platt, Dwight, 1931-

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