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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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African Americans. 2
Catholic Church. 2
Children of missionaries. 2
Church and state. 2
Communism. 2
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Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic work. 2
Glossolalia. 2
Journalism, Religious. 2
Liberalism (Religion) 2
Medical care 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missionaries. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Persecution. 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
Anti-communist movements. 1
Authors and publishers -- United States. 1
Authors and publishers. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Boarding schools -- India. 1
Boarding schools. 1
Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
Buddhism. 1
Caste. 1
Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
Catholic Church -- United States. 1
Catholic Church. -- India. 1
Catholic Church. -- Sri Lanka. 1
Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
Chinese -- Missions. 1
Chinese. 1
Christian leadership. 1
Christian life. 1
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Sri Lanka. 1
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
Christian literature. 1
Christianity today (Periodical) 1
Church and social problems. 1
Church and state -- China. 1
Church and state -- India. 1
Church and state -- Sri Lanka. 1
Church and state -- United States. 1
Church polity and Christian union. 1
Church work with students -- United States. 1
Church work with students. 1
Civil rights movements 1
Civil rights movements -- United States. 1
College students in missionary work. 1
Colombia 1
Colombia -- Religion. 1
Communism -- China. 1
Communism -- India. 1
Communism -- Sri Lanka. 1
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 1
Counseling. 1
Discrimination. 1
Divorce. 1
Education, Higher 1
Education, Higher -- India. 1
Education, Higher -- Sri Lanka. 1
Education, Higher -- United States. 1
Evangelicalism -- Catholic Church. 1
Evangelicalism -- Colombia. 1
Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
Evangelistic work -- China. 1
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 1
Evangelistic work -- Korea. 1
Evangelistic work -- North Carolina. 1
Evangelistic work -- Soviet Union. 1
Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 1
Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
Family -- United States. 1
Fund raising. 1
Fundamentalism. 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Sri Lanka. 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies. 1
Hinduism 1
Hinduism -- Doctrines. 1
Hindus 1
Hindus -- India. 1
Hindus -- Sri Lanka. 1
Holy Spirit. 1
India -- History -- 1947- 1
India -- History. 1
Indigenous church administration 1
Indigenous church administration -- India. 1
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