Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Organization
Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:
Latin America Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 236
Brief Description
Records of the mission, including correspondence, minutes, reports, memos, financial reports, policy statements, planning documents, promotional material, photographs, etc. Documents describe the origins of LAM (particularly the contribution of the Strachan family); evangelistic, church planting, educational, medical, and literature activities (primarily in Colombia and Costa Rica, but also many other Latin American countries and the United States); the restructuring of the mission in the...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1994
Lausanne Movement Records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 046
Brief Description
Correspondence, minutes, memos, reports, manuscripts of speeches, press releases, newsletters, staff manuals, audio and video tapes of sponsored events, photographs of events and personnel, and other administrative materials of the Lausanne Movement, originally called the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. The Committee grew out of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization. Its basic doctrinal statement was the Lausanne Covenant and it had the mission Ato encourage...
Dates:
Created: 1949, 1969-2014
Leighton Ford Ministries (LFM) records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 28
Identifier: 1995-182
Dates:
1959-1993
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Leighton Ford Ministries (LFM) records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2010-052
Dates:
1969-1984
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Leighton Ford Reachouts and speaking engagements records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2015-020
Dates:
1946-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Leighton Sandys Ford oral history interviews {UNPROCESSED}
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-012
Dates:
2023
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Leighton Sandys Ford oral history interviews {UNPROCESSED}
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2025-036
Dates:
2025 May 20-21
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Lois R. Ferm Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Lois R. Ferm Papers
Loren D. Cunningham Oral History Interview
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
Luis Palau Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 722
Brief Description
Papers of Luis Palau, international Christian evangelist, including crusade-related materials, correspondence, the Luis Palau Association strategic planning documents and reports, and personal diaries. While the paper documents in the collection are subdivided into several subseries, almost all of them relate to Palau's crusades or other events as a Latin American evangelist, most after he established his own evangelistic ministry and association separate from Overseas Crusades in 1978; far...
Dates:
1947-2017
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Luis Palau Papers.
Merv Rosell papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 34
Identifier: 2018-027
Dates:
1923-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Miscellaneous books, programs, brochures.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1987-151
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
MSS | Correspondence between Ruth Bell Graham and Helen Untiet Delano
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2014-0022
Found in:
Special Collections
Navigators Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 007
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, reports, forms, manuals, statistical summaries, publicity materials, newspaper clippings relating to the counseling and follow-up systems the Navigators created and supervised for Billy Graham Evangelistic Association meetings between 1950 and 1957. Records document the details of this system for counseling people who came forward at BGEA evangelistic meetings and maintaining contact with them as they began to develop a Christian lifestyle. For some crusades, besides...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1974
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Navigators Records
Office of the President Records (A. Duane Litfin)
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-02-007
Scope and Contents
Records of the President Duane Litfin include subject files, correspondence, speeches, budget and committee materials.
Dates:
Created: 1955-2019; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-2007
Office of the President Records (Hudson T. Armerding)
Collection
Identifier: RG-02-005
Scope and Contents
Records of the President Hudson T. Armerding include subject files, correspondence, sermons, writings, budget and committee materials.
Dates:
Created: 1927-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1963-1982
Office of the President Records (J. Richard Chase)
Collection
Identifier: RG-02-006
Scope and Contents
The records document the presidency of J. Richard Chase, sixth president of Wheaton College.
Dates:
Created: 1953-2018; Other: Majority of material found in 1982-1992
Office of the President Records (V. Raymond Edman)
Collection
Identifier: RG-02-004
Scope and Contents
Records of the President V. Raymond Edman , include biographical files, subject files, correspondence, financial records, sermons, audio recordings and memorabilia.
Dates:
Created: 1918-2020; Other: Majority of material found in 1931-1966
Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 172
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, news releases, minutes of meetings, and other materials which describe the origins, planning, purpose, and results of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly (PACLA) meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya in December 1976, a gathering for evangelical African church leaders and missionaries in Nairobi, which grew out of of an informal meeting of African leaders at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization held at Lausanne, Switzerland. The bulk of this...
Dates:
Created: 1975-1978
Paul E. Little Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Paul E. Little Papers
Paul L. Maier Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 049
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Luther Maier in which he describes the relationship between his father, Walter Arthur Maier, of the radio program The Lutheran Hour and Billy Graham. He also discusses Walter F. Bennett and Company, an advertising firm that worked with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Paul Maier was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 9, 1978....
Dates:
Created: 1978
Phonograph records of messages, testimonies, and music by evangelists and artists.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2002-012
Dates:
1969-1978
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Evangelizacion (CLADE) Records
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
Prison Fellowship Ministries Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 274
Brief Description
Correspondence, memos, reports, newspaper clippings and other documents describing the founding and development of Prison Fellowship. Among the subjects covered in the files are the part played in the organization by Charles Colson, the realities of prison ministry, the conditions of prisons in the United States, relations between organizations involved in prison ministries, the testimonies of inmates, and the relationship between PFM and its constituents. Persons featured included those...
Dates:
Created: 1961, 1975-1989, 1990, undated
R. Allan Mitchell papers.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2005-039
Dates:
1926-1966
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
"Reachout Stories with Dr. Leighton Ford, 1970-1973" manuscript.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2017-006
Dates:
2013
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert C. Van Kampen Papers
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
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Robert Coleman
Robert Coleman oral history interview.
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2019-013
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Roy Lundquist Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 002
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection is comprised of charts created by Roy Lundquist that attempted to trace the effect of Billy Graham Crusades on the crime rates of thirteen selected cities. Also contains a few letters, notes, and newspaper clippings relating to Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Wheaton, Illinois local politics, and unidentified architectural drawings.
Dates:
Created: 1925-1974
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Roy Lundquist Papers.
Roy W. Gustafson Papers
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
Samuel F. Wolgemuth Papers
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
Senior Vice President of Finance Records (David Johnston)
Collection — Container: xAccession 2011-0166
Identifier: RG-03-004
Scope and Contents
Records of the Senior Vice-President of Finance include subject files, correspondence, budget and committee materials.
Dates:
Created: 1971-2011; Other: Majority of material found in 1972-1990
Slavic Gospel Association Records
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
T. Michael Flowers Oral History Interviews
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
Terry DIrks and Joseph Aldrich Oral History Interviews
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
The Cove (Billy Graham Training Center) video tape.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2004-004
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Torrey Maynard Johnson, Sr., Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN-285
Brief Description
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
Vernon W. Patterson Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 005
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, clippings, reports, financial records, press releases, promotional material, forms, newsletters, and oral history interviews relating to Vernon W. Patterson's (1892-1991) active participation and leadership in evangelistic activities in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The papers focus particularly on his involvement in various evangelical lay organizations and other institutions and the early career of Billy Graham. The interviews were recorded on 3/4/85 and 3/5/85 and...
Dates:
Created: 1900-1985
Victor E. Cory Papers
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 112
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, reports, lists and other materials relating to Cory's participation in the 1962 Greater Chicago Crusade as a member of the Laymen's Committee. The materials also contain information about the naming of Decision Magazine, the opposition of the Independent Fundamental Churches of America (IFCA) to the Chicago crusade, and a critique from Harold Warren to Charlie Riggs of the BGEA's policy of working with Roman Catholic...
Dates:
Created: 1958-1962
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Victor E. Cory Papers
Werner Burklin papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 2012-029
Dates:
1996-2011
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
William E. Pannell Oral History Interviews
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
World Evangelical Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 338
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, audio tapes, photographs. Topics documented included the formation of the WEF in 1951 to foster fellowship, cooperation, and communication between evangelical national and regional associations around the world; the gradual growth of influence by non-Western associations; the activities of Evangelical Protestants in many different parts of the world; the leadership of J. Elwin Wright, Clyde Taylor, Waldron Scott, and David Howard, among others. Many...
Dates:
Created: 1926-1992, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1948-1986
Youth for Christ Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 048
Brief Description
Minutes, constitution and by-laws, clippings, newsletters, manuals, pamphlets, directories, press releases, audio tapes, videotapes, photographs, posters, club yearbooks, correspondence, etc., about the founding, development and growth, and activities of Youth for Christ in the USA and internationally.Collection documents organizational policies, correspondence of the organization's presidents, conventions and Bible quiz competitions, the operation of Campus Life clubs, Youth...
Dates:
Created: 1944-ongoing; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-ongoing
Youth for Christ (YFC) and 1950 Christ for Greater Columbia Crusade.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1991-003
Dates:
1950
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 59
- Unprocessed Material 37
- Subject
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 40
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 26
- Conversion -- Christianity. 22
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 18
- Religious institutions. 18
- Christian leadership. 17
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 17
- 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
- Organizational change -- United States. 9
- Church and social problems -- United States. 8
- Church and state -- United States. 8
- Discipling (Christianity) 8
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 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
- 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
- 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
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Judaism. 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
- 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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