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This slide show was produced by Women in Mission and the Commission on Home Ministries of the General Conference Mennonite Church. The Women in Mission provided funding so that 10 women could travel North America to see the involvements of the General Conference's work through Commission on Home Ministries. The photos for this presentation were provided by these ten women on the trip: Evaleen Bertsche, Earlene Clark, Norma Duerksen, Mary Litwiller, Nettie Neufeld, Holly Olfert, Evelyn Rempel, Shirley Ries, Jan Lisa Wilhelm, Martha Zimmerman. Script was written by Ardie S. Goering. CHM (Commission on Home Ministries) works with the Mennonite churches in North America in overcoming racial and cultural prejudices. It seeks to bring the vision of Christ's ministry to the people of the United States and Canada. CHM works to plant churches in specific cultural groups cross cultural fellowship women in mission Chicago, Washington, Arizona, Toronto, Winnipeg. The photos are illustrative in nature and show people of many different races in daycares, schools, churches, interacting with one another indoors and outdoors. -- Note: with this is a script and a audio cassette #2358.

This collection consists of 30 series:
-1) Education, 1967-1992
-2) Paraguay Materials, 1982-1987
-3) Minutes, 1980-1990
-4) Four World's Development Project, 1984-1987
-5) Project North, 1979-1993
-6) Native Language Studies, 1960-1993
-7) Plays Written by Menno Wiebe, 1984.
-8) Book Reviews, 1980s-1990s
-9) Manomin Wild Rice Materials, 1980s
-10) Government Related Materials, 1971-1994
-11) Environmental Impact Statements, 1985-1997
-12) Various Reports Related to Aboriginal Issues, 1971-1997
-13) Land and Treaty Regulations Materials, 1973-1995
-14) Reports About Aboriginal Issues Written by Mennonites, 1973-1993
-15) General MCC Materials, 1982-1988
-16) Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1986-1995
-17) Nechi Institute on Alcohol and Drug Education, 1983-1984
-18) Brochures, various dates
-19) Aboriginal Tribal Materials, 1975-1996
-20) Scattered Issues of Periodicals and Newspapers, 1970-1997
-21) Photographs, 1980-1993
-22) Audio Cassettes, [19-].
-23) Slide Presentations, [19-].
-24) Slides, various dates.
-25) Filmstrips, [19-].
-26) Video, 1986
-27) Films, [19-]- 1979
-28) Flags, [19-].
-29) Maps, 1876, 1929, 1958-1983
-30) Posters, [19-],1989-1994

This fonds contains minutes, reports, correspondence and project files of the board, executive and committees of the Society. An annual report book provides an overview of the activities and projects undertaken to meet the Society's objectives. The records of the board, executive and committees provide more details on the activities and projects. The activities include celebration events, seminars and workshops, research, publication and marketing. This fonds consists of the following types of records:
A) Administrative and Legal Records

• Board and Executive records (constitutions, annual reports, minutes, financial records)

B) Records of the committees and projects
-Fine Arts / Cultural Committee
-Genealogy and Family History Committee
-Research, Scholarship and Publication Committee
-Local History and Historic Sites Committee
-Historic Sites and Monuments Committee
-Membership and Publicity Committee
-Mennonite Book Club (Mennonite Books)
-Finance Committee
-Oral History Committee
-Conscientious Objectors Monument Committee
-125th Anniversary Committee
-Jewish, Mennonite, Ukrainian Conference Committee
-Arnold Dyck Publication project
-Mennonite Artist: Insider as Outsider
-Museo Y Centro Cultural Menonita, A.C
-Manitoba Mennonite Centennial Celebrations

C) Involvement with other organisations
-Involvement with other organizations such as Mennonite World Conference, Institute of Mennonite Studies, Mennonite Historical Society of Canada, Mennonite Encyclopedia, Pembina Hills Historical Society, Neubergthal Heritage Foundation, Canadian Human Rights Museum

D) Photographs
-MMHS Photograph collection

E) Books
-Books published by MMHS

This fonds consists of four series:
-1) Epp Diaries, 1837-1843, 1851-1986
-2) Epp Materials, 1788-1811, 1846, 1878-1955
-3) David G. Epp Family Farm Ledgers, 1927-1986
-4) Epp Family Photograph Collection, [1920's?]

This fonds consists of diaries created by Cleo Heinrichs, photographs she inherited, and a Heinrichs family history book she wrote. The materials document the life and times of a single woman living in southern Manitoba after the Second World War and into the 1970s.

This fonds consists of educational materials created and used by Abram P. Bueckert as well as a large scale composite photograph that includes Bueckert when he served in one of the Mennonite alternative service forestry camp.

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

Photos from the past (Aus der Vergangenheit)
Refugee photos (Auf der Flucht)
Photos in transit in Germany (Unser Aufenthalt in Deutschland)

The materials in this fonds consists of materials related to the life of Jacob Hoemsen and to the Heidebrecht family. The Homsen materials included letters to and from family members in Russia after WWI, documents, diary, and photos related to Hoemsen's experiences during various wars including the Russo-Japanese war of 1905, and a book of memoirs edited by his daughter Margaret Silver. This fonds is unique as gives details of the various conflicts of the early 20th Century in Russia and how a Mennonite moved from doing alternative service to serving the Russian and German war efforts and actively participating in the Mennonite Selbstschutz (self defense unit).

The Heidebrecht family materials consists of a manuscript by Margaret Silver that, with the help of old letters, reconstructs the life of the Heidebecht family as it struggled to survive in Russia under Stalin and the Soviet governments. Also included are photos and documents to his wife Maria Heidebrecht's experience as a student in Russia. This material is helpful in understanding the experiences of the Mennonites after World War one, the collectivization of the farms, Stalin's purges, labour camps, famine, deportation and exile, great trek to Germany, repatriation to the U.S.S.R., and life in Russia up to the modern era.

This fonds consists of a journal written by Heinrich Heinrichs which covers 1918-1922 including his escape from his time with the Selbstschutz, his time with the Russian White Army, fleeing to Constantinople and finally immigration and his early months in the United States. The first 11 pages of the journal are written in the Russian language and appear to be prose. Pages 12 to 49 are written in German gothic script which has was translated by Heinrich Heinrichs’ nephew Arthur Toews. Between pages 13 and 14, two leaves (4 pages) have been cut out. The family speculates “probably because they were too bad.” Seven photocopied photographs are also included showing the young Heinrichs family and the burial plot of Heinrichs in Detroit.