World Council of Churches.
Organization
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 081 Records of Africa Inland Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 081
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, minutes of meetings, films, videos, audio recordings, and other materials documenting the work of the mission in east Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Zaire, Tanzania, Sudan, the Central African Republic) and other regions of the continent.The bulk of the collection consists of the files of the US branch of the mission, although there are also significant amounts of material from the international office and the Tanzanian field office. Topics...
Dates:
Created: 1888-2006
Collection 086 Records of the International Christian Broadcasters
Collection
Identifier: CN 086
Scope and Contents
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),...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1978; Other: Majority of material found in 1937-1978
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
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 165 Records of Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies
Collection
Identifier: CN 165
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, maps, posters, etc., related to EFMA Administration and its service to its member missions.Includes documentation of persecution of Protestants in Roman Catholic Colombia, Italy and Spain; efforts to broaden American awareness of conditions; and attempts to apply pressure through the US State Dept. Persons prominently featured include EFMA's Executive Directors Clyde Taylor, Wade Coggins, and Paul McKaughan. ...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1996
Collection 178 Papers of Donald and Mary McGavran
Collection
Identifier: CN 178
Scope and Contents
The papers of Donald and Mary McGavran include correspondence (personal and business), class lectures, manuscripts of books and articles, newspaper clippings, statistics, maps, reference materials, financial records, documents gathered to study church growth in different parts of the world, photographs, audio tapes, and videos. They document a wide variety of different topics, but are particularly strong for three areas: the McGavrans' family life, their work in India as missionaries, and,...
Dates:
Created: 1906-2000
Collection 318 Papers of L. Nelson Bell
Collection
Identifier: CN 318
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates:
1923-1973
Collection 338 Records of the World Evangelical Fellowship
Collection
Identifier: CN 338
Scope and Contents
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, n.d.; Other: Majority of material found in 1948-1986
Collection 405 Papers of W. Robert & Frances Holmes
Collection
Identifier: CN 405
Scope and Contents
Collection of letters written primarily by Robert Holmes and his wife, Frances (Frannie) to their families in the United States, while they served as missionaries with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Sri Lanka from 1947 to 1960. A few of the letters are from the children, Bobby and Carol Lou, to their grandparents, and there are a few letters sent to the Holmes family. (The originals were retained by the donor.) The letters date from 1947 to 1960, and were mostly...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1960
Collection 421 Oral History Interviews with Arthur F. Glasser
Collection
Identifier: CN 421
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1998
Collection 446 Papers of Jack Wyrtzen
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
Collection 483 Oral History Interview with Francis Sunderaraj
Collection
Identifier: CN 483
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Francis Sunderaraj in which he describes committing his life to Christ as a teenager in India; the development of his faith; the institutions and leadership of Evangelical Protestantism in India; Methodist churches in India and Malaysia; Sunderaraj's education at the Union Biblical Seminary in Yeotmal, India, Princeton Seminary, and Wheaton College; the development of the Evangelical Fellowship of India. The time period covered by the interviews is ca....
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 563 Papers of Robert Coleman
Collection
Identifier: CN 563
Scope and Contents
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:
1936-2010
Collection 590 Papers of John R. W. Stott
Collection
Identifier: CN 590
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, reports, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, brochures and other materials relating to John R. W. Stott’s involvement in the 1974 Lausanne Congress and the Lausanne movement that developed out of it. The collection is particularly strong in material relating to the membership of Stott on the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and its executive committee; his contribution to drafting several of the major statements of the movement; his chairmanship of the...
Dates:
Created: 1974-2000
Collection 597 Papers of Clyde W. Taylor
Collection
Identifier: CN 597
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, lists and other materials mainly relating to a series of Protestant Evangelical international evangelism congresses which Clyde Taylor helped plan and organize between 1966 and 1974. There is also some material about his leadership in the World Evangelical Fellowship.
Dates:
Created: 1950-1980
David Detert World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF)/World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) files.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 2007-005
Dates:
1986-2003
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
TEAM archives, second accession, boxes 4-72.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 69, Box: 4-72
Identifier: 2022-008
Dates:
1893-2006
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
World Evangelical Fellowship records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 2008-054
Dates:
1973-1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 16
- Unprocessed Material 3
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 13
- Evangelicalism. 10
- Church and state. 8
- Ecumenical movement. 8
- Missionaries. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Christian leadership. 7
- Church and social problems. 7
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 7
- Missions. 7
- Religious institutions. 7
- Communism. 6
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 5
- Christian literature. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 5
- Fundamentalism. 5
- Liberalism (Religion) 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 5
- Missions -- Congresses. 5
- Pentecostalism. 5
- Conversion. 4
- Evangelicalism -- Africa. 4
- Evangelicalism -- Asia. 4
- Evangelicalism -- Europe. 4
- Evangelicalism -- North America. 4
- Evangelicalism -- South America. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Asia. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History 4
- Evangelistic work -- Europe. 4
- Evangelistic work -- North America. 4
- Evangelistic work -- South America. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Africa. 4
- Missions -- Asia. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Missions -- India. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missions -- South America. 4
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Theology 4
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 4
- Bible. 3
- Catholic Church. -- Protestant churches. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christianity and other religions. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- College students. 3
- Communication. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Counseling. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Australia. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Catholic Church. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Congresses. 3
- Evangelicalism -- India. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Latin America. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Oceania. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 3
- Family. 3
- Glossolalia. 3
- Hinduism 3
- Hindus 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Mass media in missionary work. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Mexico. 3
- Missions -- Africa, East. 3
- Missions -- Biblical teaching. 3
- Missions -- Europe. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- North America. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Persecution -- Colombia. 3
- Radio in missionary work. 3
- Radio in religion. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Wheaton '83 (1983 : Billy Graham Center, Wheaton, Ill.) 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Abortion 2
- Abortion -- Religious aspects. 2
- African Americans. 2
- Anti-communist movements. 2 ∧ less
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