Folder #1 - Church of the Brethren "Agenda," October 1978 with the articles, Prepare Now for Possible Resumption of the Draft, with instructions for filing a conscientious objector claim.

Folder #2 - Brochure - What Would You Do if Your Loved Ones Were Threatened by Violence? A Study of the Christian Way of Meeting Evil, by E. Paul Weaver, Pastor of the Church of the Brethren in Mexico, Indiana - Keep America Free from Military Regimentation, a Warning to America, by E. Paul Weaver, Chairman Commission on National Legislation, Indiana Council of Churches.

Folder #3 - 1909, program of Joint Sunday School Meeting of Howard, Flora, Upper and Lower Deer Creek School, to be held in Lower Deer Creek Church (William Musselman, John Webster, Ora Spitler, A. G. Crosswhite, W. S. Toney, Peter Houk, Riley Montgomery, Otho Winger, A. W. Eikenberry, Bertha Bechtelheimer, Oscar Sink, Charley Sink, Josie Snoeberger).

Folder #4 - Statistics and trends within the Regions of the Church of the Brethren (circa 1954) - Report of Activities of Women's Work -  Galen Lehman letter to members of the 1953 Standing Committee - Minutes of the South Central District Board (1972) - Planning for District Conference 1969 (Eldon Morehouse).

Folder #5 - Information probably for book on Indiana Church of the Brethren History - History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Counties, Indiana (1884 Goodspeed Bros. and Co.Publishers, Chicago) with stories of White River Union (Old Union Church), New Union Christian Church (Campbellites 1867, J. M. Mathes), Mount Oive Christian Church, Leatherwood Christian Church, Springville Christian Church, Jackson Township Churches, Christian Church at Valeene, Liberty Church - INDIANA CHURCHES (listing with date of conception, location, moves, and indication of which church was active in 1991) - see Biographical/Historical Note.*

Folder #6 - January 1922 - 1927 Statistical Notebook with Report of Indiana Ministers and Pastors available for pastoral work and as evangelists (pages pulled form a notebook by previous and unknown individual) - listing includes locations, and individual congregational membership gains/losses/membership statistics/ministers (sisters licensed, men licensed, year of licensing)/minister losses (letter, deceased, deposed, not relicensed), etc.

Folder #7 - Notes on Daniel Miller and Descendants, from G A B Volume 15, Issue 4, April 1986) - articles, "Genealogy and Church History," Emmert Bittinger - "Brethren Connection to American Communal Groups" - "Divisions In the German Baptist Brethren Church:" Old German Baptist Brethren( the Old Order Movement), The Brethren Church (Progressive Brethren, sometimes First Brethren, with Henry Holsinger chief spokesperson), The Dunkard Brethren (B. F. Kesler chief spokesperson and founder of "The Bible monitor") - Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (number of faculty and students at Ashland Theological Seminary withdrew in 1937 and established the Grace Theological Seminary in Akron, Ohio, which was moved to Winona Lake in 1939)., etc. etc.  

Folder #8 - "The Dunkard Dozen (1929)" who convinced a college to make it possible for them to receive an A.B. degree.

Folder #9a - Materials dated circa 1951 - brochure with the information, "Alternatives for Draft-Age Men," "Registration for Conscientious Objectors," "Selective Service Classifications." - 1951 New Draft Classification List - 1951 materials from the Church of the Brethren General Brotherhood Board regarding Selective Service regulations - Selective Service System Classification Questionnaire - "What is Your Stand" - brochure, "The Scriptural Basis of Pacifism - Materials form the "National Service Board for Religious Objectors (1950) E. Stauffer Curry, Executive Secretary - 1951 letter to Conscientious Objectors and other interested persons from the Brethren Service Staff - related materials.

Folder #9b - The Report of the Committee on National Service to the World Ministries Commission, submitted by John Gibbel, Donald Miller, Wilbur Mullen, 2nd Draft June 1972.*see Biographical/Historical Note.

Folder #10 - Indiana Church of the Brethren history, including topics such as: corrections for the new book made by John Mishler,  "Indiana -- From Wilderness to City,"  reports of annual meetings and love feasts, Annual Conferences, handwritten notes assembling material in preparation for writing, Howard Winger's poem, "Country Church" referencing Cart Creek house, map of the Northern Indiana District, "Biographical Sketch of the Life of Elder George Philip Rothenberger (from Brethren's Almanac,1883), statistics of congregational membership of churches in South/Central Indiana District as of 31 December 1991, George Studebaker's history of the Mississinewa Church, biographies of Elder D. P. Shively, Elder Elias Caylor, the death of James Quinter while leading in prayer at the 1888 Annual Conference in North Manchester.*

*Folder #5 - Congregational Listing probably assembled for the new COB history book  "Planting the Faith in a New Land: the History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana," that includes: Adamsboro, Agape, Akron, Anderson, Andrews, Antioch, Arcadia, Auburn, Auton Chapel mission, Bachelor Run, Baugo, Beacon Heights, Bear Creek, Beaver Creek, Beaver Dam, Beech Grove, Noblesville, Bethany (Solomon's Creek), Bethany (Ladoga), Bethel (from Solomon's Creek), Bethel (3rd house at ladoga 1869), Bethel Center, Bethel (Harrison Co. to Disciples by 1839), Berrien, Black River, Blissville, Bloomfield Mission, Blue Creek, Blue River, Bowman School, Bremen, Brick, Buchanan, Buck Creek, Buffalo, Burnetts Creek, Burnettsville, Bush Creek, Camden, Camp Creek, Cart Creek, Cedar Creek, Cedar Lake, Christian (?), Center, Cicero (now Arcadia), Clear Creek, Columbia City, Columbus, Communion Fellowship, Cool Spring, Courter, Copper Creek, Cottage Grove, Crest Manor, Deer Creek, Delphi, Denmark, Dora (House of Killbuck, later Antioch), Dora (2nd meeting house of Antioch/Andrews), Edna Mills, Eel River, Eight mile, Elkhart (West Goshen), Elhart County, Elkhart City, Elkhart We Care Fellowship (in 1971 book), Elkhart (Southside Fellowship), Elkhart Valley, English Prairie, Fairview, Fall Creek, Fawn River, First Church of the Brethren (Indianapolis, Northview), Flat Rock, Flora, Florence, Ft. Wayne (Agape), Ft. Wayne (Beacon Heights), Fort Wayne (Lincolnshire), The Fountain, Four Mile, Goshen City, Greentown, Guernsey, Harrison County, Hartford City, Hawpatch, Hickory Grove (as Camden from Walnut Level), Highland, Hillisburg (Hillsburg? 1890 from Howard), Howard County (from Backelor Run), Huntington Country (1871 from Clear Creek), Huntington City (1899 from Clear Creek), - and so on and so forth through Waterford, Wawaka, Weaver, Wenger, West Eel River, West Goshen, West Florence, West Lebanon, West Manchester, West Marion, West Sugar Creek House, White (Potato Creek), White Branch, White County (Monticello), Whitehead (later maple Grove, Elkhart Co.), White River, White Water, Whitmer, Wildcat Territory (1832, in Carroll & Tippecanoe Cos. Divided in 1945 to North Fork/Pyrmont & Middle Fork/Rossville), Williamsport (formerly West Lebanon, Warren Co.), Windfall (from Greentown), Winamac (1875 and disorganized before 1886, Pulaski Co.), Winona Lake (early 1860's as Washington with name change in 1919), Wooleytown (house of Mexico, Miami Co.), Yellow Creek (from Elkhart/West Goshen), Yellow River (became Mt. Pleasant, Northern).

*Folder #9b - The Report of the Committee on National Service to the World Ministries Commission - In its 1970 meeting the COB General Board voted that a comprehensive study be made regarding the COB and its relation to the United States Selective Service System. The call for the study came at a time when concepts of zero draft calls, standby draft, volunteer army, were being debated.

The study came at a time when church/state issues and individual rights and freedoms were being challenged and the concept of service as a "voluntary expression free of external coercion" struggled to keep from being diluted.

Folder #10 - Indiana Church of the Brethren history probably gathered for the new history book, "Planting the Faith in a New Land: the History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana" - side-note to the story of James Quinter's death who died while leading prayer at the 1888 Annual Conference in North Manchester, as told to  ( ?  ) by Tim Rieman, who served as an interim pastor in Huntington, PA. .....There were several persons at the conference from Huntingdon, PA where James Quinter had been living.  One of them sent a wire from Indiana to Huntingdon to inform the home folks that 'the body will arrive' by train at a particular time.  But he or she neglected to mention whose body would be arriving, thus creating some consternation among the Huntingdon Brethren.  This might have been an instance of Brethren caution in spending money, since every word in a telegraph message added to the cost.