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World Council of Churches.

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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Africa Inland Mission Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 081
Brief Description 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 covered include...
Dates: Created: 1888-2009

Collection 46: Lausanne Movement Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 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

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 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 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 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

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

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

L. Nelson Bell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description 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

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

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Church and state. 7
Evangelicalism. 7
Evangelistic work. 7
Religious institutions. 6
Catholic Church. 5
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Children of missionaries. 5
Christian leadership. 5
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 5
Church and social problems. 5
Communism. 5
Ecumenical movement. 5
Indigenous church administration 5
Missions -- Educational work. 5
Christian education. 4
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 4
Fund raising. 4
Fundamentalism. 4
Liberalism (Religion) 4
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
Missions, Medical. 4
Missions. 4
Pentecostalism. 4
Persecution. 4
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Christian literature. 3
Christianity and culture. 3
Counseling. 3
Evangelicalism -- Africa. 3
Evangelicalism -- Asia. 3
Evangelicalism -- Europe. 3
Evangelicalism -- North America. 3
Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church. 3
Evangelicalism -- South America. 3
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 3
Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
Family. 3
Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
Journalism, Religious. 3
Medical care 3
Missionaries -- Training of. 3
Missionaries -- United States. 3
Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
Missionaries. 3
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 3
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
Missions to Buddhists. 3
Missions to Hindus. 3
Missions to Muslims. 3
Organizational change. 3
Theological seminaries. 3
Theology 3
Theology -- Congresses. 3
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
Women in missionary work. 3
African Americans. 2
Animism. 2
Anti-communist movements. 2
Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Bible. 2
Businessmen -- Religious life -- United States. 2
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
Catholic Church -- United States. 2
Chinese -- Missions. 2
Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Christian education -- Kenya. 2
Christianity and other religions. 2
Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Church and state -- United States. 2
Church work with women. 2
College students in missionary work. 2
Communication. 2
Communism -- China. 2
Ecumenical movement -- Congresses. 2
Evangelicalism -- Australia. 2
Evangelicalism -- Catholic Church. 2
Evangelicalism -- Congresses. 2
Evangelicalism -- Japan. 2
Evangelicalism -- Latin America. 2
Evangelicalism -- Oceania. 2
Evangelicalism -- South Africa. 2
Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
Evangelistic work -- Rwanda 2
Glossolalia. 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
International relief. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Management. 2
Marriage. 2
Mass media in missionary work. 2
Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
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