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 There are probably many items here that can be transferred elsewhere: correspondence, minutes, the unpublished manuscripts file, etc.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.
Box |
Folder |
Contents |
1 |
1 |
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 |
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12 |
Concerns |
|
13 |
Congo |
|
14 |
Council of Mission Executives |
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15 |
Directories |
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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 |
1 |
26 |
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 |
2 |
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” |
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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
Box |
Folder |
Contents |
1 |
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MCC and Mennonite mission board secretaries correspondence, minutes, reports 1958-1960 (from notebook that belonged to Orlando Waltner) |