The John A. Toews fonds consists of sermons and addresses from his preaching and public ministry as an itinerant minister, as pastor of the Fraserview Mennonite Brethren Church and as a participant in many symposiums and seminars. Included are various scholarly papers written during his student days and for his degrees. Many of Toews' records, such as syllabi, examinations, teaching notes, and minutes of various college committees were created as a result of his teaching career at Mennonite Brethren Bible College and at Trinity Western College. Minutes of meetings and correspondence between members of boards are in this fonds as a result of Toews' involvement with the General Conference, the Canadian Conference, and provincial conferences as well as his inter-Mennonite activities in Peace Conferences, Mennonite Central Committee, and Mennonite World Conferences. A handwritten draft of The History of the Mennonite Brethren Church, published in 1973, is in this fonds as well as correspondence regarding other publications. Also included are trip diaries and correspondence relating to Toews' extensive travel and ministry in South America, Europe, and Russia, and from participation in World Conference Presidium in Japan and Indonesia. Toews' fonds contains personal correspondence, notebooks, and research material. Toews' books, True Non-Resistance through Christ (1955), Alternative Service in Canada During World War II (1959), A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church (1975), People of the Way (1981), are found in the J.A. Toews library at CMBS as well as his theses and many essays. The CMBS tape collection holds tapes of Toews' messages classified under NP1. NP2 holds historical lectures presented at the West Coast Anabaptism Conference (1972), a series on Anabaptism (undated), and a series on Anabaptist distinctives presented to a Sunday School class in South Abbotsford M.B. Church (undated). Included are also 2 tapes called "100 Jahre unter der Wolkensaeule" for services at the Vancouver M.B. Church (1974). NP16 is a tape of the funeral service of Toews' mother (1978). NP19 consists of tapes of Bible Conferences in which Toews' participated (1960-1965. Also in NP19 are Toews' messages at the Mennonite Brethren Centennial Celebration in Winnipeg and in Reedley, California in 1960. The photograph collection classified under NP23 consists of a portrait of Toews and a group picture of the participants of the Prediger-Kursus at the M.B. Bible College on 4 March 1955. NP104 contains originals used in Elfrieda Nafziger's biography of Toews, Man of His Word.