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Mennonite Board of Missions Global Ministries Division Data Files Part 9

  • US MCUSAA IV/18/013-09
  • Sammlung
  • 1995-2000

Subject and correspondence files regarding Mennonite mission work abroad.  Content includes communication with and about missionaries and reports and other collected materials from the mission field.

Mennonite Board of Missions. Global Ministries Division

M. C. (Martin Clifford) Lehman Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/139
  • Sammlung
  • 1923-1940

A small set of personal papers created by a long-term missionary to India (1906-1930) under the (old) Mennonite Church.  Includes correspondence, scattered mission records, and a manuscript of his dissertation on the writings of Harishchandra.

Lehman, M. C. (Martin Clifford), 1883-1963

Mennonite Board of Missions Photographs

  • US MCUSAA IV/10/007.3
  • Sammlung
  • 1971-1995

Photographic prints and contact sheets depicting Mennonite Board of Missions missionaries, voluntary service workers, and staff.  Most images are black and white.  Photographs of individual missionaries and voluntary service workers may include both formal portraits and "action shots" in the field.

Mennonite Board of Missions

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Superintendent's Correspondence and Ledger Books

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/003
  • Sammlung
  • 1900-1921

Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials.  These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Executive and Managing Committee Meeting Minutes

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/002
  • Sammlung
  • 1911-1950

Meeting minutes documenting the work of the committee charged with managing the finances, property, and human resources of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  It appears that executive committee and the managing committee are two names for the same body.  This series also includes an index to the meeting minutes (1939-1945, 1949-1950) and scattered correspondence and miscellaneous records.

Researchers should note that earlier minutes for the executive committee may be found in the American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Secretary Correspondence and Subject Files (IV-17-004).

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Secretary's Correspondence and Subject Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/004
  • Sammlung
  • 1917-1952

This series consists primarily of Incoming and outgoing correspondence to and from the office of the secretary, which appears to have replaced the office of the superintendent as the director of the mission's affairs.  Researchers will find in this series correspondence between the secretary and leaders of the Mennonite Board of Missions, Indian government officials, and non-Mennonite mission organizations.  Also present here are the secretary's record book (1905-1915), which contains the earliest executive committee and business meeting minutes as well as a number of subject files.

Secretaries of the American Mennonite Mission include J. N. Kauffman, Aldine Carpenter Brunk, and J. D. Graber (1937-1944).

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Education Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/006
  • Sammlung
  • 1915-1964

Committee meeting minutes, primary school reports, scholarship applications, curricula, and other records pertaining to the educational institutions supported by the American Mennonite Mission.  These institutions included the Dhamtari Christian Academy and a number of elementary and vocational schools.  Minutes of the education committee concern the progress of individual students, scholarship awards and the curriculum..

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Normal Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/008
  • Sammlung
  • 1922-1949

Scattered records documenting the American Mennonite Mission's teacher training program, which seems to have trained Indian teachers and other workers in Christian education.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Evangelistic Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/007
  • Sammlung
  • 1907-1952

Committee meeting minutes, evangelism record books, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to American Mennonite Mission's efforts to convert Hindu and Muslim Indians to Christianity.  Meeting minutes generally do not discuss overall mission strategy, but focus on the assignments, performance, and financial compensation of Indian evangelists,  The evangelism record books provide in-depth accounts of preaching and books distributed to various villages.  Researchers should be aware, however, that these record books are in Hindi.  Also of interest in this series are the records pertaining to the Bible Women, who evangelized on behalf of the Mennonite mission.  Mennonite missionaries' evaluations of the Bible Women are in English, while the Bible Women's evangelism records are in Hindi.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Medical Committee Meeting Minutes

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/010
  • Sammlung
  • 1917-1959

Minutes of the body charged with the administration of the mission medical facilities, including the hospital, the leprosaureum, and various dispensaries. After 1952, the Medical Committee was renamed the Medical Council.

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Publicity Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/013
  • Sammlung
  • 1922-1952

Records of the committee charged with educating the public about the work of the American Mennonite Mission in India through print media.  Materials include an account book (1924-1929), meeting minutes (1922-1937, undated), and miscellaneous materials, including statistical reports about Mennonites in India and the beginnings of the Mennonite Church in India (1949-1952).

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)

American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Auditing Committee Minutes and Reports

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/012
  • Sammlung
  • 1917-1951

A small set of records documeting the work of the auditing committee, which monitored the financial operations of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Earliest years of the records include committee minutes; after 1921, only reports were retained.  Researchers should note that reports are not present for all years.

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