World Council of Churches.
Organization
Found in 6 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
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
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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- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Communism. 4
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Ecumenical movement. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Missions. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Women in missionary work. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 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 work with women. 2
- Communication. 2
- Ecumenical movement -- Congresses. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Africa. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Asia. 2
- Evangelicalism -- North America. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church. 2
- Evangelicalism -- South America. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Rwanda 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- International relief. 2
- Journalism, Religious. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Medical care 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missionaries. 2
- Missions -- Africa, East. 2
- Missions -- Biblical teaching. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions to Hindus. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Organizational change. 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Racism. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Theology -- Congresses. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- African American missionaries. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Atheism. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1 ∧ less
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