Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Organization
Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:
Accession 2024-014: BGEA materials; 1980-1985
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-014
Dates:
1980-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Amsterdam '86 video tape.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2004-006
Dates:
1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism Records
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
Billy Graham Center (BGC) Administration records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2004-036
Dates:
1995-2000
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham Center (BGC) miscellaneous video tapes.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2016-037
Dates:
2004-2013
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham Center (BGC) Museum guest register, 1980 BGEA Wheaton rally decision slips.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1983-086
Dates:
1979-1981
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham Center (BGC) video tapes.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 1999-010
Dates:
1980-1994
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham Center (BGC) videos, BGEA photograph album, and other materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2000-054
Dates:
1980-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) training materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2021-003
Dates:
1959-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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; Majority of material found within 1943-1999
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham New York Crusade phonograph record.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1987-003
Dates:
1957
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham-related clippings scrapbook.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1991-012
Dates:
1951-1953
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham Seattle Crusade (1950) audio recording.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1991-102
Dates:
1951
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
C. René Padilla Oral History Interviews
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
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
Cliff Barrows Oral History Interview
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 3 - Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 003
Brief Description
Correspondence, proposals, reports, minutes, programs, publications brochures, budgets, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, and video tapes related to the founding, groundbreaking and dedication and continuing work of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College as a research and training center in evangelism, and its ongoing activities. Includes audio and video recordings of Center-sponsored conferences (on themes including evangelism and evangelistic preaching, outreach to various...
Dates:
Created: 1919-2007
Collection 8: Christianity Today International 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, 1954-2007
Collection 78 - 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
Collection 285 - Torrey Maynard Johnson, Sr., Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 285
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
Dates:
Created: 1919 -2001
Collection 446: Jack Wyrtzen Papers
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
David E. Morken sermons transcripts and autobiographical manuscript.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1995-122
Dates:
1951-1993
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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 L. Farah Oral History Interview
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
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
David P. Bruce Oral History Interview
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
Emmanuel Kwizera Oral History Interviews
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
Evangelism conference notebooks; 1988, 1993
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-019
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 676
Scope and Contents
Collection contains digital copies of a small subset of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches archives. Materials are the files of the National Representative relating to Billy Graham and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. They deal almost entirely with criticism of the theology and methods of Graham and the BGEA in general in relation to evangelism, spiritual counseling, and separation from the world and nonFundamentalist churches. Besides correspondence with Graham,...
Dates:
1950-1982, undated
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Grant Wacker's Billy Graham research files (digital)
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-020
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
/
Harold Lindsell Papers
Heart of America Crusade (Kansas City) slides, 1967
Unprocessed Material — Container: 5
Identifier: 2023-008
Dates:
1967-09 - 1967-09
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Herbert J. Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 020
Brief Description
Correspondence, photographs, reports, publications, posters, minutes of meetings, and other documentation of Herbert J. Taylor's long involvement in the leadership of such organizations as Child Evangelism, Youth for Christ, Christian Service Brigade, Pioneer Girls, Young Life, National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, Christian Workers Foundation, and Inter-Varsity as well as his role in the planning and development of Billy Graham's Chicago crusades and of Key '73. Other...
Dates:
Created: Ca. 1916-1979
Hudson T. Armerding miscellaneous files.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1, loose: 2
Identifier: 1981-080
Dates:
1942-1979
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Iner and Emily Basinger papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1990-056
Dates:
1947-1978
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 300
Brief Description
Administrative records of IVCF spanning the time period from its founding in 1940 until 1991; includes materials created prior to the establishment of IVCF. Includes records of the presidents (Woods, Hummel, Troutman, McLeish, Alexander, McLeish), Paul Little, Campus chapters, Regional divisions and directors, Missions department, Urbana Missions Conventions, Nurses Christian Fellowship, Development department, Jim Nyquist, Strategic Planning, Finance, and manuscript material for the 1991...
Dates:
1928-2017
Ivan Fahs evangelistic campaign project records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-014
Dates:
1982-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
J. Palmer Muntz Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 108
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, a book manuscript, a film script, tapes of sermons and speeches, and other items which describe Muntz's early career as director of the Winona Lake Bible Conference, the early development of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the criticism it received, the careers of Billy Sunday and other evangelists. There are also several sermons on Christian prophecy and evangelism to the Jewish people. Topics covered include information on Palmer's career...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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J. Palmer Muntz Papers
Joel Fetzer photographs of Billy Graham's 1981 Baltimore Crusade.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2019-002
Dates:
1981
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John C. Pollack Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 006
Scope and Contents
This collection contains drafts of John Pollock’s 1966 and 2004/2005 biographies of Billy Graham. The 1966 version was originally published as Billy Graham: The Authorized Biography. This book was reprinted in revised and expanded edition in 1969, with the title Crusades: Twenty Years with Billy Graham. It brought the story of Graham’s life up to 1969. Im 1979, Pollock published another biography of Graham entitled ...
Dates:
Created: 1973-2005
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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John C. Pollack Papers
John Gration files on Africa and missions.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1996-002
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John Innes Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 709
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with John Innes, in which he describes his family background; spiritual growth; development of musical talent; education at Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College; and career as an organist and pianist with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) for over 40 years. Topics discussed include the development of the BGEA’s music team; changes in the BGEA structure and leadership; various BGEA figures, including Billy Graham; George Beverly Shea; Cliff Barrows;...
Dates:
2018
John Minder Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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John Minder Papers
John Perkins Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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John Perkins Papers
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 59
- Unprocessed Material 36
- Subject
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 39
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 26
- Conversion -- Christianity. 22
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 18
- Religious institutions. 18
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 17
- Christian leadership. 16
- Evangelicalism. 13
- Fundamentalism. 13
- Fund raising. 12
- Evangelistic invitations. 10
- Missions -- Congresses. 10
- Sermons, American. 10
- Church and social problems. 9
- College students in missionary work. 9
- Ecumenical movement. 9
- Evangelistic sermons. 9
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 9
- Mass media in religion. 9
- Church and social problems -- United States. 8
- Church and state -- United States. 8
- Evangelistic work -- Europe. 8
- Evangelistic work -- Songs and music. 8
- Evangelistic work -- Study and teaching. 8
- Mass media in religion -- United States. 8
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 8
- Organizational change -- United States. 8
- Preaching. 8
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 8
- Women -- Religious life. 8
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 7
- Christian life. 7
- Church work with students -- United States. 7
- Communism. 7
- Discipling (Christianity) 7
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 7
- Evangelistic work -- China. 7
- Evangelistic work -- Great Britain. 7
- Evangelistic work -- New Zealand. 7
- Evangelistic work -- South America. 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Organizational change. 7
- Radio in religion -- United States. 7
- Radio in religion. 7
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 6
- Belief and doubt. 6
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 6
- Christian literature -- Publishing. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 6
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Biblical teaching. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Caribbean Area. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Germany. 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Interdenominational cooperation. 6
- Journalism, Religious. 6
- Liberalism (Religion) -- United States. 6
- Television in religion. 6
- World War, 1939-1945. 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
- City missions -- United States. 5
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 5
- Correspondence. 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
- Pentecostalism. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 5
- Youth -- Religious life. 5
- Annual Reports. 4
- Billy Graham New York Crusade (1957 : New York, N.Y.) 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Church work with students. 4
- Church work with youth -- United States. 4
- Cities and towns -- United States. 4
- Counseling. 4
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Judaism. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 4
- Evangelistic work -- El Salvador. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Europe, Eastern. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Illinois -- Chicago. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Korea. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Poland. 4
- Faith. 4
- Hour of decision (Radio program) 4 ∧ less
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