A seemingly unpublished memoir of a prominant Japanese Anabaptist, in both Japanese and English translation, solicited by Leonard Gross of the Mennonite Historical Society. Researchers should be aware that the English translation is incomplete. Also included with the autobiography is biographical information about Sakakibara and selected articles by and about him, including a Sakakibara's reflections on the Anabaptist Center of Japan.
Meeting minutes of governing boards of and committees / working groups within the broadcasting office of the Mennonite Board of Missions. Researchers will note that Mennonite Media ceased to have an independent board in 1981, when an administrative consolidation with the Mennonite Board of Missions made Mennonite Media a division of Mennonite Board of Missions Home Ministry. Researchers should consult the Mennonite Board of Missions Executive Board Meeting Minutes for records reporting high-level decision-making regarding Mennonite Media from 1982 forward.
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.
These minutes and reports document the work of the governing body of an (old) Mennonite Church entity that provided financial services and stewardship resources to North American Mennonites. Some correspondence is included in the early reports and minutes. This series includes records of the regular meetings as well as special meetings called for specific purposes.
Researchers should note that the more modern records in this series (circa 1970 and forward) consist of meeting dockets.
A small set of personal papers, primarily correspondence, documenting ministry, congregational life, and conflicts a northern Michigan congregations of the (old) Mennonite Church. Other materials in the collection include correspondence, reports, and programs of the Michigan Mennonite Ministers' Fellowship (1955-1970), minutes of the Indiana-Michigan Conference Area Ministers' Council #2 (Northern Lower Michigan) (1967-1977), and correspondence and interviews concerning a conflict in the Coldsprings Mennonite Church (Mancelona, Mich.) in 1973.
Wickey,who was ordained a pastor at South Colon Mennonite Church in 1956, appears to have served at the Maple River Mennonite Church (Brutus, Mich.) from the early 1960s through the late 1970s.
A small collection of miscellaneous materials created and collected by Jacob S. Moser, who apparently worked as a pharmacist in Orrville, Ohio. Materials include two letters from Bendicht Spichti, a broadside telling of Solomon Herschi's suicide, an accound book, a record of patients treated [?], and notebooks and clippings contining recipes and information about various remedies. Also includes a notebook containing records of garments knitted and sewed for others.
The collection is primarily in German, with some English notes.
Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor and bishop, including correspondence, sermon notes and outlines, reminiscences, pastoral letters, and notebooks. Of particular note are Shank's journal entitled "Our Gospel Tour," which describes a preaching junket he undertook with other Mennonite men in a borrowed car in 1925-1926. Also of interest is Shank's unpublished book manuscript entitled, "Vital Issues of Our Times," Researchers should also note that membership and other records of the Carver Mennonite Church (Carver, Mo.) can be found in this collection.
Assorted materials written by, collected by, or about Eli J. Bontrager (1868-1958), an Amish minister and bishop born near Shipshewana, Indiana. . Materials include several biographical and autobiographical texts, a biography of John J. Mast, a journal kept by Friedrich Herring of Goshen, Indiana, and miscellaneous materials.
scans of baptism records 1829, 1830, 1834, ca. 1867-1875 from microfilm MF CHR 20. The originals of these loose pages are in MLA.V.18, folder 28
http://mla.bethelks.edu/metadata/cong_309.php Also includes 6 items from Markushof congregation scanned from MF CHR 9
A small set of personal papers created by a Mennonite minister in Osborne County, Kansas and Peabody, Kansas. Includes an account book belonging to Samuel Winey, notes on scripture references by topic and short essays and sermons, three diaries, spanning 1884 to 1895, and miscellaneous materials.
