Missionary letters

Classification scheme:

Hist.Mss.6

Title: Missionary and Service Workers letters collection

Scope and content: This series includes printed letters from Mennonite missionaries and service workers to North American congregations. This was a common method for maintaining "ownership" in mission programs in local congregations.

Custodial history: The series is collected by the Mennonite Archives of Ontario

  1. Albert and Lois Buckwalter (Argentina), 1953-1963
  2. Cyril and Ruth Gingerich (Nigeria), 1962-1964
  3. Edna Good, Mabel Cressman (Argentina), 1953-1958
  4. Victor and Viola Dorsch (Somalia), 1961-1964
  5. David and Wilma Shank (Belgium), 1952-1954
  6. Harold and Sandra Shantz (India), 1961-1964
  7. Cecil and Margaret Ashley (Brazil), 1961-1963
  8. Joe and Helen Burkholder (Ethiopia), 1956-1963
  9. Jesse and Naomi Martin (Israel trip), 1953-1954
  10. Elsie Cressman (Tanzania), 1960-1967
  11. Florence Snyder (India), 1964
  12. Robert and Lois Witmer (France), 1961-1963
  13. Elva Snider (Germany), 1954
  14. Mary Groh (Kenya), 1962
  15. Ralph and Genny Buckwalter (Japan), 1954
  16. Mel and Leeta Horst (Quebec), 1961
  17. Elvin and Mary Snyder (Argentina), 1930
  18. Nelson and Ada Litwiller  (Argentina), 1925-1956
    Note:prayer card only, 1953
  19. Susan Allison-Jones and Glyn Jones (Botswana with Mennonite Church Canada Witness), 2003-2009
    Note: Includes 3 photographs, "From our street to yours" newsletter (Oct 2005-Jun 2009). Received from Shantz Mennonite Church in 2019.
  20. Cath Woolner and Peter Woolner (Mennonite Central Committee in Ethiopia)
    Blog entries, 2012--2015

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