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Contains selected published essays and unpublished seminary course papers from a Mennonite peace worker and pastor written between 1970 and 2015.

Contains only the typescript of his text "Die Oktoberrevolution in Russland und ihre Auswirkungen: Zur Geschichte der Kommunistischen Partei der Sowjetunion (Bolschweiki)" of 1950. A photocopy is cataloged in the MLA library collection.

Christmas letter written by a missionary family serving in Argentina.

This collection includes a booklet describing the 2023 Central Plains Conference annual meeting and the 2022 and 2023 editions of their newsletter, Scattered Seeds.

Diese Fotosammlung zeigt Bilder aus dem privaten Familienleben und erstreckt sich über Schulen, Gemeinden, Sportwesen und Kolonieswesen hinaus über alle Bereiche, in denen die Familie Martin W. Friesen engagiert war. Die Biographie des Herrn Martin W. Friesen ist nachzulesen im "Lexikon der Mennoniten in Paraguay" 2000. Seiten 164-166. Siehe auch: https://menonitica.org/lex/friesen-martin-w/

This 122 item color slide show depicts the people and landscape of Taiwan and briefly describes Taiwanese politics, history, economics, agriculture, and the Buddhist religion. It is in this context that Mennonite missionaries work. The first Mennonite missionaries came in 1948 and in 1954 the Mennonite Chritian Hospital was built in Hwalien. Church planting has grown from this service. Individuals depicted include Simon Wang, Vincent Chen, Sheldon Sawatzky, Paul Shr, Leona Shr, Helen Willms. -- Note: included is a script and narration on audio cassette tape #2554. There are a few extra photos and after the narration is over another narration starts also about Taiwan but different that this one.

Contains records such as Correspondence, Board Meeting Minutes, Focus Group Information, Quotes, Ambassador Manuals, Dockets, Agendas, Reports, PowerPoint CDs/DVDs, Promotion Materials, and other Documents relating to the development and roll-out of the Corinthian Plan healthcare program.

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor and conference minister and his wife.  These papers are divided into two series:

(1) Cleo A. Mann Papers, 1939-1980

(2) Nellie Miller Mann Papers, 1920-2000

box 1: Welty family info (photocopy)

box 2: phonograph records (Arapaho, Hopi, Cheyenne), photos, General Conference agency and commission minutes, reports, etc., other subject files

box 3-4: box numbers not used? or reboxed with other materials?

box 5: Edgar Heap of Birds art exhibit poster 1987 (map folder)

box 6: correspondence, photos, Cheyenne calendars

box 7: print ephemera, correspondence, Wayne Leman correspondence, Cheyenne linguistics notes, Native American missions notes

box 8: slides, print ephemera, Ojibway language notes, Wayne Leman correspondence, Lame Deer and Busby (Montana) newsletters

box 9-11: files from native work in Canada mostly 1978-1983

box 12: reel tape Melvin Boehr funeral 1979, book, articles, Krehbiel genealogical info

box 13-14: reel audio tapes (many poorly identified), some labeled Cheyenne gospel songs, some dated 1974

box 15: Northern Cheyenne files

box 16-17: Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho files, Indian schools files

box 18: Hopi files

box 19: printed General Conference and Mennonite World Conference reports, listening tours, contacts with churches

box 20: research files for Mennonite Encyclopedia vol. 5 article on Indian missions

box 21: subject files, Neighbors Near and Far unit on Native Americans

box 22: subject files, presentations

box 23: subject files

box 24: translation and linguistics files

box 25: Mennonite Indian Leaders Conference files

box 26: subject files, Hopi Bible School

box 27: map folder

box 28: Lyman Mueller slides 1958-1960 Lame Deer (Montana) mission activities

box 29: Cheyenne music notebook, one unidentified slide

box 30: cassette tapes, some in Cheyenne and Crow

box 31-35: reel tapes, Cheyenne and English

box 36: cassettes

box 37: CDs made from cassettes in box 36

box 38: audio-visual scripts, subject files, articles for The Mennonite special issues

box 39: slides, photos, correspondence, family history, Cheyenne subject files

box 40: cassettes, Cheyenne and other Native American music, various events

box 41: cassette and reel tapes - most copied to CD - various events - some Cheyenne

box 42-43: subject files, publications

box 44: book

box 45: correspondence - Wayne Leman 1978-2006, photos

Personal papers, mostly diaries, of a domestic mission worker of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Leaman, sister of Clara Eby Steiner, served the Mennonite Home Mission (Chicago, Ill.) with her husband, Amos Hershey Leaman, for twenty years.  The diaries are a rich source of information about Leaman's mission service, spiritual life, and personal experiences.  Among other topics, she describes her work as a teacher and mission worker, experiences with Chicago's immigrant community and new converts to Christianity, her engagement and marriage, various illnesses and deaths in the family, Women's Missionary Society and Sewing Circle Meetings, and disagreement among mission staff over a church organ. Her diaries cover the years 1894-1902, 1904-1926, and 1931-1937.

Other materials in her papers include a book of clippings, poetry and prose collected by the Leamans, drawings of Amanda and Amos Leaman, and miscellaneous correspondence and ephemera found in her diaries and other journals.

These records are divided into the following series:

Series 1: Core Congregational Records, 1872-1998 Series 2: Membership Records, Lists and Church Directories, 1892-2021 Series 3: Church Bulletins and Newsletters, 1928-2011 Series 4: Sunday School Records, 1882-1946 Series 5: Women's Activities, Sewing Circles, etc., 1908-1981 Series 6: Societies, Groups, 1913-1995 Series 7: Prairie Street Church History, 1872-1981 Series 8: Miscellaneous Documents and Records, 1902-1974 Series 9: Audio Visual Materials: Photographs and Sound Recordings (reel to reel and cassette), 1901-2000