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Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

 Organization

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

Accession 2024-014: BGEA materials; 1980-1985

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-014
Dates: 1980-1985

Amsterdam '86 video tape.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2004-006
Dates: 1986

Billy Graham Center (BGC) Administration records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2004-036
Dates: 1995-2000

Billy Graham Center (BGC) miscellaneous video tapes.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2016-037
Dates: 2004-2013

Billy Graham Center (BGC) Museum guest register, 1980 BGEA Wheaton rally decision slips.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1983-086
Dates: 1979-1981

Billy Graham Center (BGC) video tapes.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 1999-010
Dates: 1980-1994

Billy Graham Center (BGC) videos, BGEA photograph album, and other materials.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2000-054
Dates: 1980-1997

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) training materials.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2021-003
Dates: 1959-2001

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 074
Brief Description Collection consists of a wide variety of materials (correspondence, form letters, audio tapes, films and videotapes, etc.) that document the ministry and history of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in the United States and around the world. Based on earlier collecting protocols, the collection also contains material about Billy Graham personally, such as oral history interviews with his Wheaton College classmates.Originally this collection contained mainly...
Dates: Created: 1863-1999

Billy Graham Greater Albuquerque Crusade Records

 File
Identifier: CN 198
Scope and Contents Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, and Executive Committee minutes of the corporation formed to organize and administer a series of evangelistic meetings held by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Minutes outline procedures involved, including construction of a tabernacle for Crusade use. [NOTE: The notation "folder 1-1" means box 1, folder 1.]This collection consists of four folders containing records related to the...
Dates: 1951-1953

Billy Graham Metro Manila Crusade booklets.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2015-024
Dates: 1977

Billy Graham New York Crusade phonograph record.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1987-003
Dates: 1957

Billy Graham-related clippings scrapbook.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1991-012
Dates: 1951-1953

Billy Graham Seattle Crusade (1950) audio recording.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1991-102
Dates: 1951

Billy Graham Wheaton Crusade Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 028
Scope and Contents This collection consists of audio recordings and several hundred follow-up cards used by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) to track the progress being made by inquirers who had come forward during Graham's Wheaton, Illinois, meetings (September 27-October 4, 1959). Each form, with the inquirer's name typed in, was given to the local minister for whose church the inquirer had expressed a preference. The minister returned the form, indicating whether the inquirer was attending...
Dates: Created: 1959

Charles H. Troutman, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 111
Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuals, and other records documenting Charles Troutman's career in Christian ministry among university students, first with Inter-Varsity in the United States and Australia and then with Latin America Mission. This collection also contains a great deal of information on evangelical Christianity in the United States, Australia and Latin America; Troutman's letters from his service in the Pacific in World War II; and reports and other information relative to...
Dates: Created: 1924-1992

Christianity Today. Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 008
Brief Description Correspondence, memos, forms, financial reports, minutes of meetings, study papers, clippings and other records of the Evangelical Christian publishing organization. The records describe the founding of the organization to publish the magazine Christianity Today and its creation or acquisition of other publications such as Campus Life, Leadership, Leadership 100, Partnership, and Your Church. Besides material on the editing, publishing and distribution of these periodicals, the files also...
Dates: Created: Majority of material found within 1930, 1954-2002

Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association

 Collection
Identifier: CN 237
Description: Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association among Slavic peoples, primarily Russians. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; media ministry (radio, film, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union video, literature); and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains...
Dates: Created: 1922-2002

Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah

 Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 313 Papers of Robert C. Van Kampen

 Collection
Identifier: CN 313
Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, clippings, etc., related to Van Kampen's responsibilities on the Board of Directors of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as well as various board committees, the boards of BGEA subsidiaries or affiliated institutions (Billy Graham Benevolent Fund, Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Ministry, Inc., Billy Graham Evangelistic Trust, Billy Graham Foundation, Grason Company, World Evangelism and Christian Education Fund,...
Dates: Created: 1944-1982

Collection 324 Records of Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Evangelizacion (CLADE)

 Collection
Identifier: CN 324
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, press releases, planning and financial records, and manuscripts of Congress presentations (primarily in Spanish). Files in this collection were those of Clyde Taylor, executive secretary of the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association at the time of the Congress. Items document early planning and securing subsidy funding from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, travel arrangements, and daily reports from the Congress. Texts of Congress messages by...
Dates: Created: 1951-1975; Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1970

Collection 343 Papers of Samuel F. Wolgemuth

 Collection
Identifier: CN 343
Scope and Contents Administrative correspondence, reports, minutes, memos, newsletters, publications, promotional material, photographs, and slides documenting Samuel F. Wolgemuth's term (1965-1973) as president for Youth for Christ. The correspondence with YFC staff, individuals, and representatives of other Christian organizations, predominates. Materials document contact with major YFC donors, administration of YFC at various executive levels, fund raising, communication, and promotion. Prominent people...
Dates: Created: 1962-1981

Collection 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla

 Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates: Created: 1987

Collection 367 Papers of John Perkins

 Collection
Identifier: CN 367
Scope and Contents Oral history interview, video tapes, and promotional material, relating to the ministry of John Perkins, author, speaker, and founder and President Emeritus of Voice of Calvary Ministries.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with John PerkinsInterview with John Perkins in which he describes his childhood in rural Mississippi, his conversion, the formation of VOCM, its program and significant events and individuals in its...
Dates: Created: 1983-1995

Collection 426 Papers of Paul E. Little

 Collection
Identifier: CN 426
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, course notes, lecture notes, manuscripts, articles, photographs, and audio tapes relating to Little's college education at Wheaton College Graduate School, and his work as an evangelist, teacher, writer, and Evangelical leader.Included are Little's seminary lecture notes, and files on his contribution as assistant director of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Switzerland. A substantial portion of the collection consists...
Dates: Created: 1946-1987; Created: Majority of material found in 1954-1975

Collection 431 Oral History Interviews with T. Michael Flowers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 431
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with T. Michael Flowers (1920-2015) in which he describes growing up in the Bahamas, the influence on his life of W. H. Farrington, his conversion, his evangelistic work in the Bahamas, his education in Scotland, a brief description of Billy Graham in Scotland in 1946, and the beginning of his evangelistic work in the United States. The second interview covers Flowers' ministry in Canada, Whitfield and B. M. Nottage, the Plymouth Brethren church and its church...
Dates: Created: 1990-1995

Collection 446 Papers of Jack Wyrtzen

 Collection
Identifier: CN 446
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, audio tapes and video tapes relating to the ministry of Jack Wyrtzen.Series: Audio TapesTape 1 to Tape 7: Oral history interviews with Jack Wyrtzen in which he describes his parents, childhood, early influences, conversion, relations with other Christian leaders, development of the Word of Life Fellowship, radio and television work and youth work. The time period covered by the...
Dates: Created: 1991

Collection 463 Oral History Interview with Cliff Barrows

 Collection
Identifier: CN 463
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Clifford Burton Barrows (1923-2016), evangelist and long-time song-leader and choir director with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, in which he describes experiences which have influenced his work; the place of music in evangelism; trends in current Christian music; role of music in Billy Graham crusade services. Other topics discussed include: Barrow’s musical training; influence of Oliver Steiner and Homer Rodeheaver; and the commercialization of...
Dates: Created: 1992

Collection 498 Oral History Interviews with William E. Pannell

 Collection
Identifier: CN 498
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with William E. Pannell in which he describes his childhood in Michigan, his family, conversion as a teenager, his growing awareness of racism in America and especially its influence on American Christianity, education at Fort Wayne Bible College, involvement with the Brethren Assemblies, the part preaching has played in his life, the divide between urban and suburban culture and its impact on black and white churches and institutions, his work with Youth for Christ,...
Dates: Created: 1995-2007

Collection 519 Oral History Interviews with International Renewal Ministries

 Collection
Identifier: CN 519
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Joseph C. Aldrich and Terry Dirks, leaders of International Renewal Ministries, in which they describe their personal backgrounds and the origins, purpose, and impact of the prayer summits for pastors sponsored by IRM. They also both talked about the revival on the campus of Multnomah Bible School that occurred on April 14, 1995. The time period covered by the interviews is 1940 to 1995.Terry Dirks and Joseph Aldrich were interviewed by Bob Shuster on...
Dates: Created: 1995

Collection 526 Oral History Interview with José Pablo Sánchez-Nuñez

 Collection
Identifier: CN 526-526
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jose Pablo Sánchez-Nuñez, in which he describes his family, childhood in Spain, Protestant Evangelicalism in a predominantly Catholic country, his conversion and spiritual development, training for ministry, work with Decisión, theological education by extension in Spain, American missionaries and their impact in Spain, attempts to unify Spanish Protestants, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Global Mission (of which he was the director in Madrid), his...
Dates: Created: 1995

Collection 563 Papers of Robert Coleman

 Collection
Identifier: CN 563
Brief Description Correspondence, manuscripts, oral history interviews, class lecture notes, meeting files and other materials relating to Coleman's ministry as an evangelist, scholar and church leader. Besides Coleman's own life and ministry, the collection contains voluminous material on the theology of evangelism and Christian discipleship, American 20th century Evangelicalism; the growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly in regard to the...
Dates: 1936-2019

Collection 579 Records of the Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism

 Collection
Identifier: CN 579
Scope and Contents

Audio and paper copies of speeches, and newspaper coverage of the Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism, which was a regional meeting following up on the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism, sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

Dates: Created: 1968

Collection 647 Oral History Interview with Loren D. Cunningham

 Collection
Identifier: CN 647
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Loren D. Cunningham, in which he describes his early life, family and influence of his mother and evangelist father, the Assemblies of God church and evangelistic mission, role of prayer in their family, other influences on his spiritual life, accounts of growing in his faith and learning to hear God speaking, call to worldwide mission as a young teenager, education, early mission trips, moving beyond Assemblies of God circles, meeting his wife Darlene, dream to...
Dates: Created: 2009

Collection 659 Papers of Roy W. Gustafson

 Collection
Identifier: CN 659
Scope and Contents Scrapbooks, correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings, and other documents relating to Gustafson’s education and life’s work as a minister, evangelist, Bible teacher, and staff member of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Particularly well documented are the tours of the Holy Land (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt) he led and lectured to for several decades, his participation in ministries in Africa and Asia, and his active involvement in the worldwide activities of Samaritan’s...
Dates: Created: 1908-2002

Collection 671 Oral History Interview with David P. Bruce

 Collection
Identifier: CN 671
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with David P. Bruce, in which he discusses the history of the Montreat office of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) that functioned as the personal secretariat of Billy Graham; the relationship of the office to the rest of the BGEA; Bruce's own background and his work as assistant to Graham; L. Nelson Bell and other BGEA leaders (T. W. Wilson, Stephanie Wills, John Akers, Charlie Riggs, Sterling Huston, and John Corts); effects on the Montreat office of...
Dates: Created: 2013

Collection 675 Papers of John Minder

 Collection
Identifier: CN 675
Scope and Contents Letters, reports, clippings, handbills, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets selected from the papers of Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor John Minder related to his mentorship of Billy Graham while Graham was a student at Florida Bible Institute (FBI) and their continuing friendship. To a lesser extent, the papers also document Minder’s mentorship of other students and evangelists, such as Roy Gustafson and Jimmie Johnson, as well as his leadership at FBI, the Tampa Gospel Tabernacle,...
Dates: Created: 1927-1992

Collection 698 Papers of Lois R. Ferm

 Collection
Identifier: CN 698
Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other documents relating to Lois R. Ferm’s work as a personal assistant to Billy Graham and particularly relating to the Billy Graham Center, Graham’s personal library, and the BGEA Oral History Project.This collection consists of materials documenting Ferm’s work as a personal assistant to Billy Graham and Resource Coordinator of the BGEA. Although there are a few earlier items, almost everything in collection dates from 1970 or later. The...
Dates: Created: 1967-2000

Collection 725 - Oral History Interviews with Emmanuel Kwizera

 Collection
Identifier: CN 725
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews of Kwizera in 2021 by Bob Shuster of the Archives staff. Among the topics Kwizera discussed was his family's background in ministry in Rwanda, the Jesus film, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, his own conversion and the development of his faith, his work with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), the state of Christianity in Rwanda; his work as director of African Enterprise's Rwandan branch and his work as AE's missions director for all of Africa;...
Dates: 2021

Corrie ten Boom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 078
Scope and Contents

Papers of Dutch watchmaker, evangelist, author, and Christian aid worker Corrie ten Boom. The collection includes information on her father Casper ten Boom, her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II, her work among refugees after the war, her travels as an evangelist, the work of her two foundations, and the production of the film The Hiding Place. The collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, a film, notebooks, photos, photo albums, and video tapes.

Dates: Created: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1983

David E. Morken sermons transcripts and autobiographical manuscript.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1995-122
Dates: 1951-1993

David H. Adeney Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates: Created: 1911-1994

David M. Howard, Sr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 484
Scope and Contents Four oral history interviews, paper records, and photographs documenting David Howard's life and work with Latin American Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and World Evangelical Fellowship. Topics covered in the interviews include Howard's childhood, Christian faith, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary and administrator with Latin America Mission; missions director for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization; and...
Dates: Created: 1968-1993

Evangelism conference notebooks; 1988, 1993

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-019

George Beverly Shea Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 541
Scope and Contents Correspondence, sheet music, business records, phonograph records, programs, songbooks, and other materials from Shea’s career as a soloist, radio personality, and composer. Most of the material is from the last decades of his life, especially his work with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), but the entire range of his life from the 1930s on is covered. Though representing only a fraction of Shea’s papers, it includes a rich collection of source material that Shea used in his...
Dates: 1931-2010

Grant Wacker Research Materials

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2023-013

Grant Wacker's Billy Graham research files (digital)

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-020

Greater Chicago Crusade Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 079
Scope and Contents The collection contains one hundred completed questionnaires from a survey created by Aubrey Leon Morris and administered between August and December 1963 to parcipants at the 1962 Greater Chicago Crusade. The survey was used as part of Morris's PhD research, resulting in his doctoral dissertation, "A Study of Psychological Factors in the Evangelistic Preaching of Billy Graham." His degree was awarded by Southern Baptist Seminary in 1966.The survey was designed for those who...
Dates: Created: 1963

Harold Lindsell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 192
Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, manuscripts, and other materials documenting the career and life of Harold Lindsell as a theologian, author, speaker and editor, dating primarily from his becoming Associate Editor of Christianity Today magazine in 1964. Collection contents contain considerable information on Christianity Today, Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Westmont College, the Simon Greenleaf School of Law, and Lindsell's research on the...
Dates: 1938-1994

Heart of America Crusade (Kansas City) slides, 1967

 Unprocessed Material — Container: 5
Identifier: 2023-008
Dates: 1967-09 - 1967-09

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 57
Unprocessed Material 36
 
Subject
Evangelistic work -- United States. 39
Evangelistic work. 28
Evangelicalism -- United States. 26
Evangelicalism. 26
Conversion -- Christianity. 22
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Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 20
Religious institutions. 18
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 17
Christian leadership. 16
Fundamentalism. 13
Church and social problems. 12
Fund raising. 12
Mass media in religion. 12
Missions -- Congresses. 12
College students in missionary work. 10
Evangelistic invitations. 10
Organizational change. 10
Sermons, American. 10
African Americans. 9
Bible. 9
Church work with students. 9
Communism. 9
Ecumenical movement. 9
Evangelistic sermons. 9
Evangelistic work -- Australia. 9
Interdenominational cooperation. 9
Journalism, Religious. 9
Missions. 9
Radio in religion. 9
Christian literature -- Publishing. 8
Church and social problems -- United States. 8
Church and state -- United States. 8
Church and state. 8
Evangelistic work -- Europe. 8
Evangelistic work -- Study and teaching. 8
Mass media in religion -- United States. 8
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 8
Preaching. 8
Theology 8
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 8
Women -- Religious life. 8
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 7
Christian life. 7
Christianity and culture. 7
Church work with students -- United States. 7
Discipling (Christianity) 7
Evangelistic work -- Canada. 7
Evangelistic work -- China. 7
Evangelistic work -- Great Britain. 7
Evangelistic work -- New Zealand. 7
Evangelistic work -- Songs and music. 7
Evangelistic work -- South America. 7
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
Missionaries. 7
Organizational change -- United States. 7
Radio in religion -- United States. 7
Television in religion. 7
African Americans -- Social conditions. 6
Belief and doubt. 6
Bible -- Study and teaching. 6
Catholic Church. 6
Evangelistic work -- Africa. 6
Evangelistic work -- Biblical teaching. 6
Evangelistic work -- Caribbean Area. 6
Evangelistic work -- Germany. 6
Families. 6
Liberalism (Religion) 6
Liberalism (Religion) -- United States. 6
Pentecostalism. 6
World War, 1939-1945. 6
Youth -- Religious life. 6
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. 5
African Americans -- Religious life. 5
Authors and publishers -- United States. 5
Businesspeople -- Religious life -- United States. 5
Christian education -- United States. 5
Church development, New. 5
Church work with youth. 5
City missions -- United States. 5
Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 5
Correspondence. 5
Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church. 5
Evangelistic work -- Argentina. 5
Evangelistic work -- Asia. 5
Evangelistic work -- Central America. 5
Evangelistic work -- North America. 5
Evangelistic work -- Publicity. 5
Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 5
Financial records. 5
Glossolalia. 5
Hispanic Americans -- Religious life. 5
Journalism, Religious -- United States. 5
Missionaries -- Training of. 5
Prayer. 5
Racism. 5
Sex role. 5
Women 5
Annual Reports. 4
Chicago (Ill.) 4
Christian education. 4
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