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Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America.

 Organization

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 044 Papers of Helen M. Tenney

 Collection
Identifier: CN 044
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, scrapbook, drafts, articles, and research notes which reflect Tenney's active participation in a number of evangelical ministries, but particularly her work with the Woman's Union Missionary Society (WUMS), especially the labor she put into writing a history of that organization. The bulk of the collection consists of manuscripts of that history.

Dates: Created: 1882-1980

Collection 218 Records of the Evangelical Missions Information Service

 Collection
Identifier: CN 218
Scope and Contents Correspondence, press releases, minutes, financial statements, reports, and photographs documenting the activities of the Evangelical Mission Information Service (EMIS), the publications arm of both the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Missions Association. Activities documented include the publication of several mission periodicals, including Evangelical Missions Quarterly and Missionary News Service; organization of missionary conferences and...
Dates: Created: 1964-1981

Collection 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long

 Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.

Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.

Dates: Created: 1986

Collection 407 Records of InterAct Ministries

 Collection
Identifier: CN 407
Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, brochures, handbook, video tapes, and historical sketches documenting the ministry of the mission. Topics covered include administration of the mission, the Arctic Bible Institute, infant baptism, the Moravian Church, Arctic Training Center, Victory High School, Multi Media Production, the correspondence school program, Victory Bible Camp, Slavic Gospel Association's transfer of its work in Alaska to AMI, Native Institute of Canada, Native Bible Centre...
Dates: Created: 1947-1989

Collection 414 Papers of Wade T. Coggins

 Collection
Identifier: CN 414
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, papers and speech manuscripts relating to the ministry of Wade T. Coggins, Christian worker with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association.

Dates: Created: 1964-1990

Collection 434 Papers of Jack Frizen

 Collection
Identifier: CN 434
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, articles, brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, directories, financial records, manuals, minutes, publications, reports, and other materials documenting Jack Frizen's life and ministry. Material mainly describes Frizen’s family life, work with G.I. Gospel Hour, director of Far East Gospel Crusade (now SEND International), executive director of Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA), director of Tyndale House Foundation, trustee of the Henry...
Dates: Created: 1929-1995

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 577 Papers of Vergil Gerber

 Collection
Identifier: CN 577
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, manuals, newsletters, reports and other materials relating to the life and ministry of Vergil Gerber, a Conservative Baptist minister and missionary to Central and South America. The collection documents Gerber's work as a teacher, writer, and leader in church growth studies and Evangelical global missions, especially in Latin America.

Dates: Created: 1966-1984

Collection 646 Records of the Evangelical Committee on Latin America (ECLA)

 Collection
Identifier: CN 646
Scope and Contents

Financial records, correspondence, reports, committee memos, minutes, articles and newsletters related to the work of the Evangelical Committee on Latin America especially pertaining to its visits to and consultations with Latin and South American organizations. Also contains many advisory reports given to the Board of ECLA.

Dates: Created: 1966-1976

Committee to Assist Ministry Education Overseas Records.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 091
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, reports, monographs, financial records, mailing lists, questionnaires, and photographs related to the origin and activity of CAMEO, a joint committee of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association and the Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (EFMA, formerly Evangelical Foreign Missions Association). The documents reflect CAMEO’s development from a group that was primarily concerned with mission agency education programs to one assisting in the...
Dates: Created: 1956-1990; Other: Majority of material found within 1964-1975

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

Edwin L. "Jack" Frizen papers.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 2014-026
Dates: 1945-1994

Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (EFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 6
Identifier: 2002-030
Dates: 1994-1997

Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN-165
Brief Description Executive Directors' (Clyde Taylor, Wade Coggins, Paul McKaughan) files of the EFMA. The association of denominational and nondenominational foreign missions boards began as a commission of the National Association of Evangelicals to serve common interests of members in government relations (domestic and foreign); use of communication channels; cooperative purchasing/travel; and relations between each other. The collection is subdivided into thirteen parts: 1. Correspondence and General...
Dates: Created: 1937-1996

Gospel Recordings records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 21
Identifier: 1992-086
Dates: 1937-1989

Harold Cook papers.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1991-119
Dates: 1926-1968

Indenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 12
Identifier: 2014-010
Dates: 1917-2011

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) committees records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 5
Identifier: 2006-018
Dates: 1965-2001

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 9
Identifier: 1989-114
Dates: 1948-1986

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 5
Identifier: 1992-076
Dates: 1917-1991

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 1992-111
Dates: 1964-1991

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 18
Identifier: 1992-142
Dates: 1939-1989

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

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 5
Identifier: 1994-031
Dates: 1960-1991

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

Mission board brochures.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1982-168
Dates: Undated

Small Collection 032 Records of Evangelical Missions Information Service

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 032
Scope and Contents

Report written by Osborne Buchanan of the National Liberty Foundation on the status and future of the 3-year old Evangelical Missions Information Service. Document summarizes EMIS history and makes recommendations for increasing its usefulness with support from National Liberty Foundation, by developing a research center or provide research services for mission agencies.  Report written in response to recommendation of mission executives at Colorado Springs meeting in early 1967.

Dates: Created: 1967

TEAM archives, Fifth accession, Boxes 183-270.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 88, Box: 183-270
Identifier: 2022-017
Dates: 1897-2014

World Evangelical Alliance Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 338
Brief Description

Correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, audio tapes, photographs. Topics documented included the formation of the WEF; 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 of the twenty-eight audiotapes are of addresses presented at the Eighth General Assembly in Singapore in 1986.

Dates: Created: 1926-1992, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1948-1986

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 16
Unprocessed Material 13
 
Subject
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 13
Evangelistic work. 12
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 11
Christian education. 10
Missions -- Congresses. 10
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Missions -- South America. 10
Missionaries -- Training of. 9
Missions -- Africa. 9
Missions -- Educational work. 9
Catholic Church. 7
Church and state. 7
Church growth. 7
Evangelicalism. 7
Indigenous church administration 7
Missions -- Asia. 7
Missions -- Europe. 7
Missions -- Finance. 7
Missions -- North America. 7
Church and social problems. 6
Evangelicalism -- United States. 6
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 6
Missionaries. 6
Missions -- Study and teaching. 6
Missions -- Theory. 6
Missions to Muslims. 6
Radio in missionary work. 6
Religious institutions. 6
College students in missionary work. 5
Fundamentalism. 5
Interdenominational cooperation. 5
International relief. 5
Missions -- Central America. 5
Missions. 5
Pentecostalism. 5
Theology 5
Women missionaries. 5
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
Christian education -- Philosophy. 4
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
Christian literature. 4
Church and state -- United States. 4
Communication. 4
Ecumenical movement. 4
Fund raising. 4
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 4
Journalism, Religious. 4
Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 4
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 4
Missions -- Brazil. 4
Missions -- China. 4
Missions -- Oceania. 4
Missions -- Philippines. 4
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 4
Bible colleges 3
Christian leadership. 3
Christianity and culture. 3
Christianity and other religions. 3
Church development, New. 3
Church schools 3
Church work with women. 3
Communism and Christianity. 3
Conversion. 3
Evangelical missions quarterly. 3
Evangelicalism -- Africa. 3
Evangelicalism -- Asia. 3
Evangelicalism -- North America. 3
Evangelicalism -- South America. 3
Evangelistic work -- Africa. 3
Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 3
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Evangelistic work -- Europe. 3
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 3
Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
Liberation theology. 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions -- Mexico. 3
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 3
Missions -- India. 3
Missions -- Japan. 3
Missions -- Middle East. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Persecution. 3
Seminary extension. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
Women 3
Women -- Religious life. 3
World War, 1939-1945. 3
African Americans -- Missions. 2
African Americans. 2
Anti-communist movements. 2
Baptism. 2
Bible colleges -- United States. 2
Bible. 2
Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 2
Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
Catholic Church -- United States. 2
Children of missionaries. 2
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