World Council of Churches.
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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 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
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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L. Nelson Bell Papers
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:
- Subject
- Church and state. 5
- Ecumenical movement. 5
- Christian leadership. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Communism. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Missions. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Journalism, Religious. 3
- Liberalism (Religion) 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Biblical teaching. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Organizational change. 3
- African Americans. 2
- Anti-communist movements. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church -- United States. 2
- Chinese -- Missions. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Christianity and other religions. 2
- Church and state -- United States. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communication. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Counseling. 2
- Ecumenical movement -- Congresses. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Africa. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Asia. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Catholic Church. 2
- Evangelicalism -- North America. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church. 2
- Evangelicalism -- South America. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Glossolalia. 2
- International relief. 2
- Management. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions to Hindus. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Persecution -- Colombia. 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Theology -- Congresses. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Women in missionary work. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- African Americans -- Missions. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Atheism. 1
- Authors and publishers -- United States. 1
- Authors and publishers. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Businessmen -- Religious life -- United States. 1
- Caste. 1
- Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Catholic Church -- Colombia. 1 ∧ less
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