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Wheaton College (Ill.)

 Organization

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Christianity Today 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

Christians for Social Action Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 037
Scope and Contents

Collection correspondence, press releases and clippings, lists, minutes, reports, proposals, conference declaration, and financial records, chiefly from workshops sponsored by the Christians for Social Action, 1973-1976 (formerly Evangelicals for Social Action). The records in this collection deal mostly with the origins, agendas, and decisions of the 1973-1976 workshops along with some material which indicate the response to the workshop.

Dates: Created: 1965-1976

Collection 105 Oral History Interview with Paul D. Votaw

 Collection
Identifier: CN 105
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul Dean Votaw (1917-2007) in which he describes his childhood; education at Wheaton College, Dallas Seminary, and Princeton Seminary; and missionary activities in Syria and Lebanon. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1917-1954.Reverend Paul Votaw was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 4, 1980, at the Graham Center offices in Wheaton. The first ten minutes of the interview are barely decipherable due to technical difficulties. The...
Dates: Created: 1980

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 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer

 Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates: Created: 1971-1991

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 401 Oral History Interview with Karl G. Dortzbach

 Collection
Identifier: CN 401
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Karl G. Dortzbach in which he describes his childhood and youth, influence of his family, education at Wheaton College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and missionary experience in Ethiopia (short term with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and in Kenya. Subjects covered include missiology, conversion, raising children on the mission field, marital relationships on the mission field, church life in a Nairobi congregation, proliferation of parachurch groups...
Dates: Created: 1988-1989

Collection 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach

 Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates: Created: 1974-1989

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 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 614 Records of the Trinary Consultation

 Collection
Identifier: CN 614
Scope and Contents

Papers, recordings of meeting sessions, planning materials and other documents from the Trinary Consultation, which examined how Christians in the late twentieth century should present the Christian gospel in large urban settings. The meeting was co-sponsored by Moody Bible Institute, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Wheaton College.

Dates: Created: 1985-1986

Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 021
Scope and Contents Materials relating to the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission which was held on the Wheaton College campus in 1966 and was jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association. Audio tapes document various sessions of the Congress, including biblical expositions, study papers (on subjects like syncretism, church growth, cooperation, the Catholic Church and social issues), reports on missions on the world's...
Dates: Created: 1964-1967

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. Also includes series of maps of Latin American countries identifying nondenominational and denominational mission activity. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented. Persons prominently featured include Jack Frizen, Billy Graham, and...
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

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, ground breaking 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: 1919-2011

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  • Subject: Missions -- Congresses. X

Additional filters:

Subject
Evangelistic work. 15
Evangelicalism. 12
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 11
Church and social problems. 8
Evangelicalism -- United States. 8
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Christian life. 7
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 7
Evangelistic work -- United States. 7
Missionaries -- Training of. 7
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
Missionaries. 7
Religious institutions. 7
Catholic Church. 6
Christianity and culture. 6
Church and state. 6
College students in missionary work. 6
African Americans. 5
Christian education. 5
Church development, New. 5
College students -- United States 5
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 5
College students. 5
Conversion. 5
Ecumenical movement. 5
Missions -- Educational work. 5
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
Missions. 5
Theology 5
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
Children of missionaries. 4
Church and state -- United States. 4
Evangelistic work -- Biblical teaching. 4
Indigenous church administration 4
Journalism, Religious -- United States. 4
Journalism, Religious. 4
Liberalism (Religion) 4
Missions -- Africa. 4
Missions -- Asia. 4
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 4
Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 4
Missions to Muslims. 4
Pentecostalism. 4
Sex role. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
Christian leadership. 3
Christian literature. 3
Church -- Biblical teaching. 3
Church work with students. 3
Church. 3
Corporations, Religious -- Taxation. 3
Education 3
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Fund raising. 3
Fundamentalism. 3
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
Language in missionary work. 3
Lay missionaries. 3
Mass media in religion. 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions -- Europe. 3
Missions -- Oceania. 3
Missions -- South America. 3
Missions -- Study and teaching. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Nairobi (Kenya) 3
Organizational change. 3
Radio in missionary work. 3
Theological seminaries. 3
Theology -- Congresses. 3
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 3
Women missionaries. 3
African American leadership. 2
African Americans -- Missions. 2
African Americans -- Religious life. 2
African Americans -- Social conditions. 2
Apologetics -- Study and teaching. 2
Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
Bible -- Theology. 2
Businessmen -- Religious life -- United States. 2
Children of clergy. 2
Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
Christian education -- United States. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- United States. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
Church and social problems -- United States. 2
Church work with students -- United States. 2
College students in missionary work -- United States. 2
Communication in organizations. 2
Communication. 2
Communism. 2
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
Corporate reorganizations. 2
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