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Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.

 Organization

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 111 Papers of Charles H. Troutman, Jr.

 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

Collection 217 Papers of Elisa Espineli Chinn

 Collection
Identifier: CN 217
Scope and Contents The collection consists of four oral history interviews with Lisa Chinn covering her childhood and family, education, ministry with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines and InterVarsity in the United States, ministries with her husband Leiton in the US among international students (with International Students, Inc., Interaction, and their church), writing projects, and her experience as a woman leader. Also included are her graduate school creative project, "Cross Cultural...
Dates: Created: 1972-2020

Collection 278 - Elisabeth Elliot Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 278
Scope and Contents Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates: Created: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010

Collection 297 Papers of Kenneth L. Shingledecker

 Collection
Identifier: CN 297
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Kenneth L. Shingledecker in which he describes his work with college students in Student Training in Missions, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, planning Urbana '79 student missions convention, missionary work in Kenya for Daystar Communications, and the development of Christian leadership in the church in Kenya. The collection also includes a folder of prayer letters, ranging from 1985-1990.Topics covered in the oral history interview include...
Dates: Created: 1985-1990

Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little

 Collection
Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates: Created: 1985

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 394 Oral History Interview with Ruth W. Adeney

 Collection
Identifier: CN 394
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Winifred Temple Adeney (1912-1911) in which she describes her youth; spiritual growth; education at Northwestern Schools; call to missionary work with China Inland Mission; her missionary experience; her husband, David Adeney; her work with with China Inland Mission in rural areas of Henan Province (1934-1941); and her husband's work with university students in Nanking (1946-1948) and Shanghai (1949- 1950). Other topics discussed include the impact of war...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 416 Oral History Interviews with Benjamin L. Armstrong

 Collection
Identifier: CN 416
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Benjamin Leighton Armstrong in which he describes his family, particularly his father (Benjamin Leighton Armstrong Sr.) and grandfather (Benjamin Franklin Armstrong), his own conversion and spiritual growth, education at Nyack Bible College, New York University, Union Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, religious radio and television, Samuel Shoemaker, Paul Tillich, missions in the Christian and Missionary Alliance church, Voice of Tangiers and Trans World...
Dates: Created: 1989

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 447 Oral History Interview with Scott J. Harbert

 Collection
Identifier: CN 447
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Scott Jeffrey Harbert in which he discusses his family, growing up, meeting his father as an adult, influences on his childhood and adolescence, contacts with Shintoism in Japan, problem with marijuana, conversion to Christianity and influence of Richard Foster, college education and participation in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, work as a staff member at the IVCF headquarters, marriage to Barbara Gration, the development of Concerts of Prayer, short-term...
Dates: Created: 1992

Collection 521 Oral History Interview with Nancy Duarte-Gomez

 Collection
Identifier: CN 521
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Nancy Duarte-Gomez, a Chilean staffworker with Grupo Biblico Universitario de Chile (GBU, InterVarsity sister movement). Duarte describes her childhood and youth, education, religious background, conversion and spiritual development, the church in Chile, training with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), ministry among students, GBU and its connection to International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), the country's political climate and its impact on the church,...
Dates: Created: 1995

Collection 559 Oral History Interviews with Garth G. Gittens

 Collection
Identifier: CN 559
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Garth Gabriel Gittens, ordained pastor in the Open Bible Standard Church in Trinidad. Topics discussed include Gittens' upbringing in Trinidad; education at the Bible Institute of San Fernando; conversion to Christianity; call to ministry; strengths and weaknesses of the Evangelical church in Trinidad; experiences as an evangelist; the need for better training for Trinidadian pastors; the challenges of pastoral ministry; and charismatic renewal in Trinidad. The...
Dates: Created: 1998

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 567 Papers of H. Wilbert Norton

 Collection
Identifier: CN 567
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, photographs, correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, pamphlets, and manuscripts relating to Gustav H.W. Norton's (1915-2017) work as an administrator and professor of theology and missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Wheaton College, as well as his involvement with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Evangelical Literature Overseas, and Mid-American Keswick. The collection documents Norton’s childhood, education, and career as professor of missions...
Dates: Created: 1950-2000

Collection 617 Oral History Interview with Soong-Chan Rah

 Collection
Identifier: CN 617
Scope and Contents One oral history interview with Soong-Chan Rah in which he describes his family background, experiences as an immigrant to the United States in the early 1970s from South Korea, his spiritual development, experiences as a church-planter, and ministry with IVCF. Topics discussed include: parents’ influence; spiritual development; immigration to the United States at the age of six; conversion experience and church background; education at Columbia University; involvement in InterVarsity...
Dates: 2005

Collection 623 Oral History Interviews with Christopher B. Ladish

 Collection
Identifier: CN 623
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Christopher Ladish in which he discusses his childhood, conversion to Christian faith, marriage, joining Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics, his translation and literacy work in the Koromfe language among the Koromba people of Burkina Faso, the characteristics of the Wycliffe organization and staff, and methods of Bible translation. The time period covered by the interviews is 1961 to 2006.Christopher Ladish was interviewed by...
Dates: 2006

Collection 635 Oral History Interviews with Theodore W. Mole

 Collection
Identifier: CN 635
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Mole, a missionary and church planter with CB International and Interact Ministries in the Ukraine and Siberia. Topics covered in the interview include the development of his faith in college, involvement with InterVarsity; work as an engineer with DuPont; study at Denver Theological Seminary; churching planting among Russian immigrants in Denver; teaching missions at Donetsk Christian University in Ukraine; Svet Evanglia, a Ukrainian mission agency; working in...
Dates: 2007-2008

Records of International Fellowship of Evangelical Students Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 640
Brief Description Predominantly correspondence and reports of the international Evangelical organization, most extensively between 1971 and 1998. IFES aims to provide staff leadership and coordinate with national staff of member movements to: witness, train and disciple students on university campuses, where student-led evangelism will have an impact on those institutions, churches, and society. The records document in detail the activities and influence of the global IFES student movement at both country and...
Dates: 1934-2000

Collection 658 Papers of Samuel D. Faircloth

 Collection
Identifier: CN 658
Scope and Contents

Prayer letters and an oral history interviews which document Samuel Douglas Faircloth’s childhood, conversion, education at Wheaton College and elsewhere, and his work as a United States Army chaplain in Italy immediately after World War II, as a church planter in Portugal, and a seminary professor at the Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands.

Dates: Created: 1949-2011

Collection 707 Oral History Interviews with Douglas W. Stewart

 Collection
Identifier: CN 707
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Douglas W. Stewart in which he describes his ministry with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in South and Central America and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship from 1963-1991. Topics discussed include Stewart’s family background, spiritual growth, education at Colombia Bible College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, leadership, roles, and structure of IFES, political, social, and religious context in South and Central America,...
Dates: 2018

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 Howard papers.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 4
Identifier: 2021-001
Dates: 1946-2019

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

G. Franklin Spotts papers.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 2007-029
Dates: 1947-2006

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

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 352
Brief Description Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions. The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented, among them those related to the theoretical, theological, or practical aspects of the missionary enterprise, such as missionary aviation, the education of future missionaries, theological...
Dates: Created: 1934-1983, undated

International Christian Broadcasters Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 086
Brief Description The collection contains correspondence, audiotapes, photographs, financial reports, slides, blueprints, and memos related to the activities of International Christian Broadcasting's (originally the World Conference on Mission Radio) work to promote interest in Christian broadcasting and to support and encourage Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasters, largely engaged in evangelism. Materials include data on the International Communications Congress in Tokyo (1970), Muslim...
Dates: Created: 1937-1978; Other: Majority of material found within 1954-1978

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

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 1998-079
Dates: 1983-1996

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 102
Identifier: 2015-021
Dates: 1941-2015

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 11
Identifier: 2021-048
Dates: 1940s-2012

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 12
Identifier: 2021-047
Dates: 1946-2016

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 4
Identifier: 2001-017
Dates: 1980-1997

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF-USA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 180
Identifier: 2007-068
Dates: 1938-2007

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) Washington '80 Conference audio tapes.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1998-027
Dates: 1980

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship oral history project inventory.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-011
Dates: 2017

J. Christy Wilson, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 518

Jack Burke manuscript on international student ministries.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2021-006
Dates: 2007

Jon Ball's manuscript on the impact of Tom Skinner's Urbana '70 address.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2022-003
Dates: 2016

Lois Ottaway Campus-in-the-Woods correspondence.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1990-024
Dates: 1951-1986

Messages audio reels.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1987-114
Dates: 1970

Miscellaneous materials from the College's Buswell Library.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1, Box: 1
Identifier: 2022-014
Dates: 1980-1990

Ned Hale's Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals (ACMI) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2010-046
Dates: 1974-2010

Paul and Marie Little papers.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 9
Identifier: 2005-013
Dates: 1938-2003

Schloss Mittersill records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 4
Identifier: 2022-041
Dates: 1939-2016

Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 581
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer, in which she describes her childhood in Bulgaria, the Communist culture in that country, her conversion to Christianity, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's work in the country, the beginnings of a an indigenous campus ministry in the country, her attendance at International Fellowship of Evangelical Leaders conferences in Germany, Korea and Bulgaria; impressions of evangelical leaders, such as Samuel Escobar and John Stott; and a...
Dates: 2002

Urbana messages audio files

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2022-039
Dates: 1967-1970

Urbana Student Missions Convention Recordings

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1-14
Identifier: 2023-022
Dates: 1970-1990

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 28
Unprocessed Material 20
 
Subject
College students in missionary work. 17
Evangelistic work. 16
Evangelistic work -- United States. 14
Church work with students. 12
Evangelicalism -- United States. 12
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Evangelicalism. 12
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
Church work with students -- United States. 11
Conversion -- Christianity. 11
College students -- Religious life. 10
College students. 10
Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 10
Missionaries. 9
Missions -- Congresses. 9
Christian leadership. 8
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 8
Missionaries -- Training of. 8
Religious institutions. 8
Women -- Religious life. 7
Christian life. 6
Church and state. 6
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 6
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 6
Missions. 6
Women missionaries. 6
Bible -- Study and teaching. 5
Christianity and culture. 5
Church and social problems. 5
College students -- United States. 5
Discipling (Christianity) 5
Ecumenical movement. 5
Journalism, Religious. 5
Language in missionary work. 5
Missions -- South America. 5
Organizational change. 5
Pentecostalism. 5
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 5
Women 5
World War, 1939-1945. 5
African Americans. 4
Children of missionaries. 4
Church and state -- United States. 4
College students in missionary work -- United States. 4
Communism. 4
Evangelistic work -- Canada. 4
Evangelistic work -- China. 4
Evangelistic work -- Study and teaching. 4
Fund raising. 4
Mass media in missionary work. 4
Missions -- China. 4
Missions -- Study and teaching. 4
Missions to Muslims. 4
Radio in religion. 4
Theology 4
Youth 4
Bible -- Translating. 3
Bible. 3
Businesspeople -- Religious life -- United States. 3
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
China -- History. 3
China -- Social life and customs. 3
Chinese students. 3
Christian education. 3
Church -- Biblical teaching. 3
Church and social problems -- United States. 3
Church work with foreign students. 3
Evangelistic work -- Asia. 3
Evangelistic work -- Australia. 3
Evangelistic work -- Biblical teaching. 3
Evangelistic work -- Europe. 3
Evangelistic work -- Japan. 3
Evangelistic work -- Mexico. 3
Evangelistic work -- North America. 3
Fundamentalism. 3
Glossolalia. 3
Indigenous church administration 3
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
Liberalism (Religion) 3
Liberation theology. 3
Mass media in religion. 3
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
Missions -- Mexico. 3
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 3
Missions -- Bolivia. 3
Missions -- Burkina Faso. 3
Missions -- Caribbean Area. 3
Missions -- Colombia. 3
Missions -- Ecuador. 3
Missions -- Europe. 3
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Missions -- Kenya. 3
Missions -- North America. 3
Missions -- Oceania. 3
Missions -- Peru. 3
Part-time missionaries. 3
Preaching. 3
Students, Foreign. 3
Sunday schools. 3
Theology -- Study and teaching -- United States. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
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