Classification scheme:
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The Old Mennonite Church was composed of district conferences organized by descendants of nineteenth century Swiss-South German Mennonite and Amish immigrants to North America. Participating conferences were: Allegheny, Atlantic Coast, Conservative, Franconia, Franklin, Gulf States, Illinois, Indiana-Michigan, Iowa-Nebraska, Lancaster, Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada, New York State Fellowship, North Central, Northwest, Ohio, Southwest and Virginia.
From 1898 until 1971 most district conferences participated in Mennonite General Conference, an advisory and consultative body of the Mennonite Church.
Following an extensive study process in the 1960s the district conferences re-organized in a Mennonite General Assembly, a structure formally approved at a Constitutional and General Assembly held at Kitchener, Ontario, on 16-19 August 1971. The assembly was made up of congregational delegates proportionately representing participating conferences. It met bienially. The work of the general assembly was carried forward by an executive secretary and board and agency secretaries who, together with regional conference representatives, made up a general board.
In 1999 the Mennonite Church merged with the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Conference of Mennonites in Canada. Out of this union emerged the Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada.
For further reference see Beulah Stauffer Hostetler. "Mennonite Church (MC)."ÌýMennonite Encyclopedia, V:564-67.
I - Mennonite Church (MC) fonds
1.ÌýÌýÌý Printed reports
ÌýÌýÌý 1.ÌýÌýÌý Reports
ÌýÌýÌý 2.ÌýÌýÌý Programs
2.ÌýÌýÌý Administrative Committees
ÌýÌýÌý 1.ÌýÌýÌý Executive Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 1.ÌýÌýÌý Secretary's reports
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 2.ÌýÌýÌý Treasurer's reports
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 3.ÌýÌýÌý Chairperson's reports
ÌýÌýÌý 2.ÌýÌýÌý General Council (prior to 1981)
ÌýÌýÌý 3.ÌýÌýÌý General Board (1981-1999)
ÌýÌýÌý 4.ÌýÌýÌý Council on Faith, Life and Strategy
ÌýÌýÌý 5.ÌýÌýÌý Assembly Arrangements Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 1.ÌýÌýÌý Minutes, correspondence
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 2.ÌýÌýÌý Nominating Committee
ÌýÌýÌý 6.ÌýÌýÌý Coordinating Committee
3.ÌýÌýÌý Standing Committees/Boards
ÌýÌýÌý 1.ÌýÌýÌý Historical Committee of the Mennonite Church
ÌýÌýÌý 2.ÌýÌýÌý Peace Problems Committee of the Mennonite Church
ÌýÌýÌý 2a.Ìý Peace Problems Committee of the Mennonite Church, CanadianÌý Section
ÌýÌýÌý 3.ÌýÌýÌý Mennonite Commission for Christian Education and Young People's Work
ÌýÌýÌý 4.ÌýÌýÌý Mennonite Board of Missions
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 1-16.ÌýÌýÌý Early records
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 17.ÌýÌýÌý Health & Welfare Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 18.ÌýÌýÌý 1-w Council; CPS Council
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 19.ÌýÌýÌý Facilities Study Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 20.ÌýÌýÌý Home Missions Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 21.ÌýÌýÌý Overseas Missions Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 22.ÌýÌýÌý Relief and Service Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 23.ÌýÌýÌý Mennonite Broadcasts
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 24.ÌýÌýÌý Student and Young Adult Services.Ìý±·´Ç³Ù±ð:ÌýStudent Services NewsletterÌýis located in theÌý.
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 25.ÌýÌýÌý Board of Director's/Members' meetings
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 26.ÌýÌýÌý Communication Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 27.ÌýÌýÌý Personnel Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 28.ÌýÌýÌý Legal and Finance Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 29.ÌýÌýÌý Salary Policy Advisory Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 30.ÌýÌýÌý Administration and Resources Divisional Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 31.ÌýÌýÌý Church Relations Committee
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 32.ÌýÌýÌý Annual business meeting minutes
ÌýÌýÌý 5.ÌýÌýÌý Mennonite Board of Education
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 1.ÌýÌýÌý Annual reports
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 2.ÌýÌýÌý Minutes
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 3.ÌýÌýÌý Other reports
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 4.ÌýÌýÌý Sub-committees reporting to Board
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 5.ÌýÌýÌý Correspondence and notesÌý
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 6.ÌýÌýÌýÌý Publication Board
ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý 7.ÌýÌýÌý General Problems Committee
ÌýÌýÌý 8.ÌýÌýÌý Committee on Industrial Relations
ÌýÌýÌý 9.ÌýÌýÌý Worship Committee
ÌýÌýÌý 10.ÌýÌýÌý Board of Congregational Ministries
ÌýÌýÌý 11.ÌýÌýÌý Not used
ÌýÌýÌý 12.ÌýÌýÌý Ministerial Committee
ÌýÌýÌý 13.ÌýÌýÌý Church Welfare Committee
4.ÌýÌýÌý Ad hoc Committees
ÌýÌýÌý 1.ÌýÌýÌý Lay Worker Status
ÌýÌýÌý 2.ÌýÌýÌý Sunday school Convention
ÌýÌýÌý 3.ÌýÌýÌý Study Commission on Church Organization
ÌýÌýÌý 4.ÌýÌýÌý Task Force on Litigation
5.ÌýÌýÌý Mennonite Church Canada/Region 1, 1971-1997
Administrative history: Region I was one of five regions formed with the 1971 Mennonite Church reorganization. It included congregations and conferences in Canada that belonged to the Mennonite Church. The Coordinating/Planning Committee for Region I consisted of representatives from the Northwest Mennonite Conference, Mennonite Conference of Ontario, and Western Ontario Mennonite Conference. It functioned as a channel of communication between Mennonite Church agencies and the Canadian constituency, Canadian governments, and other Christian bodies in Canada. It facilitated Canadian programs authorized by the constituency, and provided for transfer of funds to the Mennonite Church.
In 1988, in response to recommendations from Revenue Canada, Mennonite Church and Mennonite Church Canada formed Mennonite Church International to handle the transfer of Canadian funds to Mennonite Church agencies located in the United States. In 1997, the Conference of Mennonites in Canada, the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church joined Mennonite Church International. Mennonite Church Canada, its purpose now redundant, then ceased to exist. This body is not to be confused with Mennonite Church Canada, formed in 2001.
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ÌýÌýÌý 1.ÌýÌýÌý Minutes, 1971-1990
Note: Includes constitutions and job descriptions for Mennonite Church Canada. Correspondence is interfiled with minutes beginning in 1980.
ÌýÌýÌý 2.ÌýÌýÌý Correspondence, 1971-1979
Note: Also includes a file of undated correspondence, a file on correspondence re the Urban Concerns statement, correspondence from the Mennonite Radio and Television Council, and a Media Ministries manual from 1982.
ÌýÌýÌý 3.ÌýÌýÌý Audiovisual Library
ÌýÌýÌý 4.ÌýÌýÌý Choice Books (See also Inter-Mennonite Conference (Ontario))
ÌýÌýÌý 5.ÌýÌýÌý Inter-Church Committee (Wider Ecumenical Fellowship discussions, 1980-1981)
6. Mennonite Church International, 1988-2000
7. Revenue Canada correspondence, 1987-1988