World Council of Churches.
Organization
Found in 8 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
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
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- Evangelistic work. 7
- Church and state. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Communism. 5
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
- Ecumenical movement. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 4
- Liberalism (Religion) 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Counseling. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Fundamentalism. 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 -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
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- Organizational change. 3
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- Women in missionary work. 3
- African Americans. 2
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- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
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- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
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- Communism -- China. 2
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- Evangelistic work -- Rwanda 2
- Glossolalia. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Management. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Africa, East. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions to Hindus. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Persecution -- Colombia. 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Racism. 2
- Social change. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Worship (Christian) 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
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