I.            General Conference 1859-1969

              A.          Board of Missions

                            11.         Assorted files

                                           a.           1901-1968 (3.15 cu. ft.)

                                           b.           1937-1976 (4 cu. ft.)

                                           c.           1893-1969 (8.6 cu. ft.)

Most of the material in this subseries came from the General Conference vault on 4 Dec 1990. The various correspondence and "numbered letter" files apparently were once organized alphabetically, but seem to be rather jumbled now. They also probably contain quite a bit of duplication. The originals of this correspondence may really belong in the series MLA.I.A.1 under the appropriate date range.

                                           d.           Printed matter (.45 cu. ft.)

These files apparently came out of the MLA vertical file at some time in the past. They need to be sorted out into some logical order. There are probably many items here that can be transferred elsewhere: correspondence, minutes, the unpublished manuscripts file, etc. jdt 10june1994

                                           e.           MCC and Mennonite mission board secretaries correspondence, minutes, reports 1958-1960 (from notebook that belonged to Orlando Waltner) (.15 cu. ft.)

                                           f.            Slides–Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, India, February 1968 (.15 cu. ft.) (transferred 28 February 2006)



These series are miscellaneous groups of records that were apparently found at various times in the General Conference offices and sent to the archives. It is not clear how and why each series fits together.





Total volume: 16.5 cu. ft.



MLA.I.A.11.a Board of Missions - Assorted files 1901-1968


Box       Folder                 Contents


                                            Correspondence


 1             1                        1920-1949

                2                         January-August 1951

                3                         September 1951

                4                         October 1951

                5                         November 1951

                6                         December 1951

                7                         January 1952

                8                         February 1952


 2             9                        March 1952

               10                        April 1952

               11                        May 1952

               12                        June 1952

               13                        July 1952

               14                        August 1952

               15                        September 1952


 3             16                       October 1952

               17                        November 1952

               18                        December 1952

               19                        January 1953

               20                        February 1953

               21                        March 1953

               22                        April 1953

               23                        May 1953


 4             24                       June 1953

               25                        July 1953

               26                        August 1953

               27                        September 1953

               28                        October 1953

               29                        November 1953

               30                        December 1953

               31                        1956-1957


                                           Alphabetical files


 5             32                       Board minutes 1923-1950

               33                        Canada - financial 1938-1950

               34                        Candidate possibilities 1949; Candidate Committee 1964

               35                        Chicago 1939-1946

               36                        Civilian Public Service 1945

               37                        East Harlem Protestant Parish 1950

               38                        Evangelism questionnaire 1940

               39                        General Conference headquarters 1945-1950

               40                        General Conference - problems 1944

 5             41                       Germany 1957-1962

               42                        Germany - Berlin (east zone) 1951-1963

               43                        Germany - Emden (A. Fast) 1952

               44                        Germany - Götzke, Bruno, 1951-1953

               45                        Germany - Mennonite Center (Lichterfelde) 1952-1953

               46                        Germany - Weierhof 1952-1954

               47                        Gulfport, Mississippi

               48                        Lutz, Mrs. Harvey

               49                        Neuenschwander, A. J., 1938-1946


 6             50                       Paint Rock, North Carolina, 1946-1952

               51                        "Puerto Rico - Island of Sunshine and Need" 1944

               52                        Smith Corner (East Freedom, Pennsylvania) 1949

               53                        South America trip 1947

               54                        South American problems 1949

               55                        Survey of Greater Winnipeg 1958

               56                        Switzerland - Basel 1954; Switzerland - Bible school 1954

               57                        Toevs/Plenert correspondence 1938-1951

               58                        Treasurer - monthly reports 1938-1946

               59                        Uruguay 1951-1963

               60                        Uruguay - Evangelical Hospital (Montevideo) 1960

               61                        Uruguay - Gartental 1956

               62                        Uruguay - Jugendheim question (Montevideo) 1956

               63                        Uruguay - South American Bible school and seminary 1954-1960

               64                        Uruguay - Youth Center (Montevideo) 1953


                                           Chronological files


 7             65                       1901-1926 different fields

               66                        1913-1946 financial

               67                        1918-1937 candidates

               68                        1927-1932 China

               69                        1920-1940 Montana

               70                        1930-1949 India

               71                        1942-1954 itineraries

               72                        1948-1956 Mennonite Press

               73                        1948-1963 Bethel College

               74                        1950-1951 miscellaneous

               75                        1951-1957 Missionary Research Library

               76                        1951-1963 Committee on the Ministry

               77                        1952-1953 miscellaneous

                78                       1953-1958 Bethel Hospital

               79                        January-April 1953, mostly home churches

               80                        May-September 1953, mostly home churches


 8             81                       October-December 1953, mostly home churches

               82                        1954 miscellaneous correspondence and reports

               83                        1954 India

               84                        1954 Arizona

               85                        1954 Arizona

 8             86                       1954 Oklahoma

               87                        1954 Montana

               88                        January-February 1954, miscellaneous correspondence

               89                        March-April 1954, miscellaneous correspondence

               90                        May-June 1954, miscellaneous correspondence

               91                        July-September 1954, miscellaneous correspondence

               92                        October-December 1954, miscellaneous correspondence

               93                        1954-1956 Western District; 1955-1956 miscellaneous correspondence


 9             94                       August 1956-1965 miscellaneous correspondence

               95                        Undated miscellaneous material

               96                        Undated miscellaneous material


                                           Alphabetical files


               97                        Photographs - mostly India

               98                        Printed materials

               99                        Printed materials

              100                      Undated field reports

              101                      Undated field correspondence

              102                      Undated and incomplete correspondence


                                           Minutes and reports


10          103                      1901-1949 incomplete

              104                      1954

              105                      1955

              106                      1956-1958

              107                      1959 and undated



MLA.I.A.11.b Board of Missions - Assorted files 1937-1976


Box       Folder                 Contents


                                           Taiwan - Taroko Community Development Program 1971-1973


 1             1                        Administrative files

                2                         Administrative files

                3                         Administrative files

                4                         Correspondence

                5                         Correspondence

                6                         Correspondence


                                           COM Project at Cuauhtémoc 1958-1966


                7                         Mexico administration

                8                         Minutes of annual meetings

                9                         Commissioner reports

               10                        Correspondence on new workers


 2             11                       Correspondence with staff

               12                        Executive Committee conference report

               13                        Workers reports

               14                        Commissioner visit reports


                                           Miscellaneous files 1970-1976


               15                        Anthropology and missions papers

               16                        "Christian Mission to the Chinese" paper 1976

               17                        COMAS (Congo Mennonite Agricultural Service) report 1970

               18                        MCC - Canada

               19                        Mission publication

               20                        Missionary re-entry paper

               21                        Strategy in missions paper

               22                        Theological education in Latin America paper 1976


                                           Publicity files 1937-1970


               23                        Undated

               24                        1937

               25                        1941

               26                        1944

               27                        1946

               28                        1950

               29                        1953

               30                        1955

               31                        1956

               32                        1957

               33                        1959

               34                        1961

               35                        1962

               36                        1963

 2             37                       1964


 3             38                       Missions Today inserts 1964

               39                        1965

               40                        Missions Today inserts 1965

               41                        1966

               42                        Missions Today inserts 1966

               43                        1967

               44                        Missions Today inserts 1967

               45                        1968

               46                        Missions Today inserts 1968

               47                        1969

               48                        Missions Today inserts 1969

               49                        Missions Today inserts 1970

               50                        China

               51                        Colombia

               52                        Congo

               53                        India

               54                        India - UBS Challenge

               55                        Japan

               56                        Latin America

               57                        Southern Africa

               58                        Taiwan


                                           Chicago Mission Center 1952-1958


 4             59                       Correspondence - general

               60                        Correspondence - Mission Board 1952-1956

               61                        Correspondence - Mission Board 1957

               62                        Financial reports

               63                        Floor drawings

               64                        Minutes of the Mission Center Committee 1953-1958

               65                        Orientation course

               66                        Orientation course - expenses

               67                        Orientation course - plans

               68                        Photos

               69                        Guest register

               70                        Ledger sheets


                                           Copies of official Mission Board correspondence 1889-1907

 

 5                                         These copies are handwritten into 27 composition books. This includes correspondence among board members, from the board to missionaries, and from missionaries to the board. This all ought to be calendared sometime and compared to the originals in MLA.I.A.1.


                                           Missions scrapbooks

 

 6                                         Prepared by Mrs. P. A. Penner during the 1950s. Primarily photographs of India, but also clippings for American Indian missions, Taiwan, and Latin America.


                                           Permanent files - country


 7             71                       Bolivia - Godoy, José

               72                        El Discipulo Cristiano

               73                        Paraguay - Asunción bookstore

               74                        India - Delhi Peace Center

               75                        India - Emmanuel Hospital Association

               76                        India - Foreign Exchange Act

               77                        India - Kodaikanal Woodstock Foundation

               78                        India - MELARC (Mennonite Literature and Radio Council)

               79                        India - Property transfer

               80                        India - Scholarship

               81                        India - TELARC (The Economic Life and Relief Committee)

               82                        India - UBS (Union Biblical Seminary)

               83                        India - Vellore Christian Medical College and Hospital

               84                        India - Village reconstruction organization

               85                        India - Woodstock Advisory Committee


 8             86                       Japan - Christian Academy in Japan

               87                        Japan - Japan Council of Evangelical Missions

               88                        Japan - World Friendship Center

               89                        Taiwan - miscellaneous

               90                        Taiwan - China Evangelical Seminary

               91                        Taiwan - Christian Association for Chinese Studies

               92                        Taiwan - Enns Foundation

               93                        Taiwan - FOMCIT (Fellowship of Mennonite Churches in Taiwan) Inc. JPB

               94                        Taiwan - General Conference Mennonite Mission

               95                        Taiwan - Mennonite Christian Hospital

               96                        Taiwan - Mennonite Christian Hospital - building fund


 9             97                       Taiwan - Mennonite Christian Hospital - Peter J. Dyck

               98                        Taiwan - Mennonite Christian Hospital - School of Nursing

               99                        Taiwan - Poverty projects


                                           Permanent files - general


              100                      All Mennonite Medical Equipment Fund

              101                      Health care

              102                      Huntington's disease

              103                      Link Care

              104                      Missionary internship

              105                      National Council of Churches - Division of Overseas Ministries

              106                      National Council of Churches - Southern Asia Committee

              107                      National Information Bureau

              108                      Penner, P. A.

              109                      Quiring, Anna

              110                      Russ Reid Company


10          111                      TAICH (Technical Assistance Information Clearing House)

              112                      United Mission to Nepal


                                           Miscellaneous


10          113                      Inter-Varsity Missionary Convention, Urbana, Illinois, 1964

              114                      Missionary Education Council 1971

              115                      Missionary Education Council 1972



MLA.I.A.11.c Board of Missions - Assorted files 1893-1969

 

Most of the material in this subseries came from the General Conference vault on 4 Dec 1990. The various correspondence and "numbered letter" files apparently were once organized alphabetically, but seem to be rather jumbled now. They also probably contain quite a bit of duplication. The originals of this correspondence may really belong in the series MLA.I.A.1 under the appropriate date range.


Box       Folder                 Contents


 1             1                        Biographies - Colombia

                2                         Biographies - Colombia

                3                         Biographies - India

                4                         Biographies - Japan

                5                         Biographies - Japan

                6                         Biographies - Miscellaneous

                7                         Biographies - Miscellaneous

                8                         Biographies - Miscellaneous

                9                         Biographies - Miscellaneous

               10                        Biographies - Miscellaneous, ca. 1965

               11                        Budget 1926

               12                        Budget 1961

               13                        Canada - Correspondence 1948-1954

               14                        Canada - Correspondence 1954-1955

               15                        Canada - Correspondence 1954-1960

               16                        Check register 1908-1909

               17                        Check register 1922-1925

               18                        Check register 1925-1929

               19                        Check register 1929-1935

               20                        Check register 1933-1934

               21                        Check register 1934-1935

               22                        Check register, March-August 1935

               23                        Check register 1935-1936

               24                        Check register, April-August 1937

               25                        Check register, March-September 1938

               26                        Check register 1939-1940

               27                        Check register 1940-1941

               28                        Check register 1941-1943


 2             29                       Check register 1942-1943

               30                        Check register 1943-1944

               31                        Committee on Latin American Affairs 1959-1966

               32                        Compton, Alan, "Urban Center Evangelism"

               33                        Consultation on Mission Policy and Strategy, August 28-31, 1967

               34                        Consultation on Mission Policy and Strategy, August 28-31, 1967

               35                        Consultation on Mission Policy and Strategy, August 28-31, 1967 - Andrew R. Shelly notebook

               36                        Copybook of letters written by Peter Balzer, mostly Foreign Mission Board but possibly some personal letters also, 1901-1902, Balzer was member of Board of Missions 1896-1904

               37                        Copybook, July-September 1905

               38                        Copybook #32, May-July 1907

 2             39                       Copybook #33, July-October 1907

               40                        Correspondence - Board members 1893

               41                        Correspondence - Board members 1900

               42                        Correspondence - J. S. Krehbiel to Wilhelm J. Ewert 1893

               43                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, 1920s-1940s

               44                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1946-1947

               45                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1946-1947

               46                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1945-1948

               47                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1946-1947

               48                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1946-1948

               49                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1946-1947

               50                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1946-1947


 3             51                       Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1946-1948

               52                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1947-1949

               53                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1947-1948

               54                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               55                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               56                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               57                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               58                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               59                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               60                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               61                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               62                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous, late 1940s

               63                        Correspondence with USA 1947

               64                        Correspondence with USA 1948

               65                        Correspondence with USA 1949

               66                        Correspondence with USA 1950s

               67                        Correspondence with USA 1950s

               68                        Correspondence with USA 1950s

               69                        Correspondence with USA 1950

               70                        Correspondence with USA 1951

               71                        Correspondence and reports 1951

               72                        Correspondence - Miscellaneous 1951-1953


 4             73                       Correspondence, minutes, etc. 1953

               74                        Correspondence with USA 1953

               75                        Correspondence with USA 1953

               76                        Correspondence, etc. 1954

               77                        Correspondence, etc. 1954

               78                        Correspondence, etc. 1954

               79                        Correspondence, etc. 1954

               80                        Correspondence, etc. 1954

               81                        Correspondence with USA 1954

               82                        Correspondence with USA 1954

               83                        Correspondence with USA 1954

               84                        Correspondence with USA 1955

               85                        Correspondence with USA 1955

               86                        Correspondence with USA 1955

 4             87                       Council of Mission Board Secretaries (COMBS) 1963

               88                        COMBS 1964

               89                        COMBS 1965

               90                        COMBS 1965 - Reports and documents

               91                        COMBS 1966

               92                        COMBS 1967

               93                        COMBS 1968

               94                        COMBS 1969

               95                        Council of Boards 1954

               96                        Council of Boards 1954

               97                        Council of Boards 1954

               98                        Council of Boards 1955

               99                        Council of Boards 1956

              100                      Council of Boards 1958

              101                      Council of Boards 1959 - Report of Executive Secretary


 5            102                      Dyck, Sarah - Teaching certificate, Kansas, 1956-1959

              103                      Germany - Correspondence 1948-1956

              104                      Gulfport, Mississippi - Correspondence 1953-1960

              105                      Holy Land - Correspondence 1954-1955

              106                      Jordan 1963-1965

              107                      Korea visit report 1965

              108                      Mexico - Correspondence 1953-1955

              109                      Mexico - Correspondence 1955-1961

              110                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              111                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              112                      Minutes, etc. 1948

              113                      Minutes, etc. 1949

              114                      Minutes, etc. 1950

              115                      Minutes, etc. 1956-1960

              116                      Minutes, etc. 1960-1961

              117                      Minutes, etc. 1958-1961

              118                      Minutes, etc. 1950s-1960s

              119                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              120                      Minutes, etc. 1940s-1950s

              121                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              122                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              123                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              124                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              125                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              126                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              127                      Minutes, etc. 1950s

              128                      Minutes and resolutions - Board of Missions and subcommittees 1950-1953

              129                      Minutes of Board of Missions and Executive Committee 1963-1965

              130                      Minutes of Board of Missions and Executive Committee 1966-1968 - Malcolm Wenger's notebook

              131                      Missionaries' Pension Plan, ca. 1940

              132                      Missionary itineraries - Former missionaries 1960-1967

              133                      Missionary Manual 1953

 

 6            134                      Missionary salary information 1920s-1930s (from a loose-leaf binder, contains some Petter correspondence)

              135                      Missionary salary information 1924-1953

              136                      Charles L. Boynton, ed. The Missions Code. Compiled and Published by Authority of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, for Use by Foreign Mission Boards and Their Correspondents. New York: Foreign Missions Conference of North America, 1915.

              137                      Supplement to the Missions Code. New York: Foreign Missions Conference of North America, 1930.

              138                      Numbered letter register 1946-1950

              139                      Numbered letters 1946 #1-124

              140                      Numbered letters 1946 #125-255

              141                      Numbered letters 1947

              142                      Numbered letters 1947

              143                      Numbered letters 1948 #1-129

              144                      Numbered letters 1948-1949 #130-225

              145                      Numbered letters 1949 #1-91

              146                      Numbered letters 1949 #92-end

              147                      Numbered letters 1950 #1-89

              148                      Numbered letters 1950 #90-184

              149                      Numbered letters 1951 #?-77


 7            150                      Numbered letters 1952 (unsorted)

              151                      Numbered letters 1952 - Miscellaneous (unnumbered)

              152                      Numbered letters 1952 #1-83

              153                      Numbered letters 1952 #84-177

              154                      Numbered letters 1952 #177-299

              155                      Numbered letters 1952 (unsorted)

              156                      Numbered letters 1950-1952 (unsorted)

              157                      Numbered letters 1950-1952 (unsorted)

              158                      Numbered letters 1953 - Miscellaneous (unnumbered)

              159                      Numbered letters 1953 (unsorted)

              160                      Numbered letters 1953 (unsorted)

              161                      Numbered letters 1953 #1-109

              162                      Numbered letters 1953 #110-233

              163                      Numbered letters 1953 #234-345

              164                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              165                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              166                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              167                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              168                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s


 8            169                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              170                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              171                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              172                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              173                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              174                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              175                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

              176                      Numbered letter originals? 1940s-1950s

 8            177                      Orientation School - Background materials, July 17-21, 1965 (transferred from COM August 11, 1989)

              178                      Orientation School - Background materials, July 17-21, 1965, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew R. Shelly notebook

              179                      Paraguay minutes 1956-1960

              180                      Position description sheets 1967-1969

              181                      Printed matter - Miscellaneous 1920s-1930s

              182                      Receipt book, October 1938

              183                      Reports, minutes, etc. 1950s (unsorted)

              184                      Reports, minutes, etc. 1950s (unsorted)

              185                      Reports, minutes, etc. 1950s (unsorted)

              186                      Resolutions - Annual meeting 1946


 9            187                      Resolutions - Annual meeting 1947

              188                      P. H. Richert correspondence 1929

              189                      Seminary class in missions, autumn 1953

              190                      Serve and Bear Witness, annual missionary list 1951-1968

              191                      South America - Correspondence 1953-1954

              192                      South America - Correspondence 1954-1955

              193                      South America - Correspondence 1955

              194                      South America - Correspondence 1956-1958

              195                      South America - Correspondence 1958-1961


10          196                      Voucher record, June 1945-August 1947

              197                      Voucher record, August 1947-February 1948

              198                      Voucher record, February-October 1948

              199                      Voucher record, February 1946-February 1949

              200                      Voucher record, October 1948-May 1949

              201                      Voucher record, May-December 1949

              202                      Voucher record, December 1949-July 1950

              203                      Voucher record, July 1950-February 1951

              204                      Voucher record, February-August 1951



MLA.I.A.11.d Board of Missions printed matter

 

These files apparently came out of the MLA vertical file at some time in the past. They were originally disordered and were sorted out into the categories used here.


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I-W Missionaries’ Monthly Reports

 

2

Agriculture

 

3

Audio-visual material

 

4

Bolivia

 

5

Calendars

 

6

Candidate Committee

 

7

Cheyenne mission

 

8

Church Extension, Special Committee

 

9

Colombia

 

10

Committee on Evangelism

 

11

Committee on the Ministry

 

12

Concerns

 

13

Congo

 

14

Council of Mission Executives

 

15

Directories

 

16

Ecole Belle Vue school report

 

17

Encouragement to Faith

 

18

“Ethical Code for Ministers and Congregations . . .” April 1953

 

19

Faith and Life radio program

 

20

The Fellowship of the Concerned

 

21

Financial/budgetary items

 

22

For a Fact

 

23

Fund-raising letters

 

24

General informational/promotional material

 

25

Globe banks

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Goals

 

27

Hopi mission

 

28

India

 

29

Interboard Newssheet

 

30

Items in Brief

 

31

Japan

 

32

Letters to mission board members

 

33

Letters to missionaries

 

34

Letters to pastors

 

35

Literature on missions

 

36

Maps

 

37

Men’s Brotherhood Meeting, April 2, 1956

 

38

Minister’s certificate (blank)

 

39

Ministers Retreat

 

40

Ministers salary survey

 

41

Minutes - Board of Missions

 

42

Minutes - Board of Missions Executive Committee

 

43

Minutes - Committee on the Ministry

 

44

Minutes - Evangelism Committee

 

45

Miscellaneous forms

 

46

Mission candidate list

 

47

Mission Literature Packet

 

48

Missionary lists

 

49

Missionary manual

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50

Ordination questionnaire

 

51

Organization chart

 

52

Orientation course

 

53

Paraguay

2

54

Pension Committee

 

55

Prayer Requests

 

56

Procedure manual

 

57

Project Opportunities

 

58

Quarterly reports from field

 

59

Reports - Foreign Mission Board

 

60

Sermon outlines

 

61

“A Social Program for the General Conference”

 

62

South America

 

63

Statistical reports

 

64

Study conferences

 

65

Summer Service

 

66

Taiwan

 

67

Triennial sessions

 

68

Women’s Missionary Association



MCA.I.A.11.e MCC and Mennonite mission board secretaries correspondence, minutes, reports 1958-1960


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MCC and Mennonite mission board secretaries correspondence, minutes, reports 1958-1960 (from notebook that belonged to Orlando Waltner)