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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

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-

John and Elizabeth Thiessen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.224
  • Collection
  • 1940-1960

Box 1: diaries, correspondence, photos, sermons, books, clippings

Box 2: books, autobiography

Box 3: scrapbook, pamphlets

Thiessen, John, 1893-1967

J. S. (Jonas Smucker) Hartzler Papers 1910-1950

  • US GCA HM1/003
  • Collection
  • 1858-1950

A small set of personal papers documenting the ministry and personal life of a pastor of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Materials include an autobiography, scattered diaries of Hartzler as well as his first and second wives, sermon and Bible course notes, and miscellaneous materials.  Also includes photographs of J.S. and Fannie Stutzman Hartzler and photographs and postcards from J.S. Hartzler's trip to India, the Middle East, and Europe in 1910-11.

Hartzler, J. S. (Jonas Smucker), 1857-1953

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.

Royal H. and Evelyn Bauer Letters

  • US MCUSAA HM1/093SC
  • Collection
  • 1949-1952

The collection consists of letters written by Mennonite missionaries Royal and Evelyn Bauer from India to family and friends from 1949 to 1952.

Bauer, Royal H., 1923-

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.

Samuel M. and Nellie Zook King Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/1022
  • Collection
  • 1902-1953

These papers document the work of a Mennonite missionary couple who served in India between 1936 and 1953. Samuel served as principal of the Dhamtari Christian Academy while Nellie taught English and home economics and worked with female evangelists.

This collection also contains a variety of administrative records created before 1936, including missionary expense reports, treasurer correspondence, and other miscellaneous correspondence, reports, and financial records.

King, Samuel M., 1900-1997

Jacob Andrews and Lina Z. Ressler Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/117
  • Collection
  • 1888-1948

Personal papers of early Mennonite mission workers in India.  Materials are divided into five series:

Series 1: Correspondence, 1888-1937

Series 2: Diaries and Notebooks, 1892-1935

Series 3: Writings and Educational Records, circa 1897-1930

Series 4: Miscellaneous Materials, circa 1890-1948

Series 5: Photographs, circa 1890-1948

Ressler, Jacob Andrews, 1867-1936

George Jay Lapp Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/143
  • Collection
  • 1897-1951

These papers are organized into four series:

(1) Correspondence, 1907-1951

(2) Articles, Manuscripts, and Sermons, 1926-1951, undated

(3) Miscellaneous, 1898-1950

(4) Photographs, circa 1893 -1950

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-

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

Jacob and Mary Y. Burkhard Papers 1899-1915

  • US MCUSAA HM1/191
  • Collection
  • 1899-1957

A small set of personal papers documenting the work of this Mennonite missionary couple in India at the turn of the century.  The papers consist primarily of Jacob Burkhard's outgoing correspondence, but also include incoming correspondence to Jacob Burkhold, the memoirs and diary of Jacob Burkhard, letters and notes written by Mary Burkhard, scrapbooks of clippings regarding Mennonite missionary work in India, and Mary Burkhard's Bibles.

Burkhard, Jacob, 1873-1906

Jewarbi Ma Letter

  • US MCUSAA HM1/195SC
  • Collection
  • 1918

Testimony letter written by an Indian woman and apparently given to Charles L. Shank, a Mennonite missionary who served in India.  Also includes a translation of the letter published in the Gospel Herald. Ma, a former Muslim, evangelized on behalf of the Mennonites in India as a "Bible woman."

Ma, Jewarbi

Milton Vogt Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM1/223SC
  • Collection
  • 1960

Two update letters from Vogt and his family, who served as Mennonite missionaries in Bihar, India.

Vogt, Milton

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