In the same year, 1911, the General Conference Mennonite Church began taking steps to create an intentionally preserved historical record.
At an assembly in Bluffton, Ohio, Silas M. Grubb lamented to other delegates, "What a sad commentary it is upon the historical sense of our people when the only records available are those upon the tomb-stones.
In response to a continued decline in financial support for the archives and a need for more storage space, in 2016 Mennonite Church USA decided to transfer collections to its administrative headquarters in nearby Elkhart and completed the move in March 2017.
[9] On February 1, 2011, an archivist happened across two large caliber shells, a grenade and a small aerial bomb in the Mennonite Church USA Archives.
[10] Other artifacts among George Springer's papers, including trench art created by German prisoners of war, were donated to the Mennonite Historical Library and the Museum of the Soldier in Portland, Indiana.