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World Council of Churches.

 Organization

Found in 4 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 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

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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Additional filters:

Subject
Catholic Church. 3
Communism. 3
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Evangelistic work. 3
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Indigenous church administration 3
Medical care 3
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missionaries -- United States. 3
Missionaries. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Christian education -- Kenya. 2
Christian education. 2
Christian leadership. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Christian literature. 2
Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
Church and social problems. 2
Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
Ecumenical movement. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Family. 2
Fund raising. 2
Fundamentalism. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
Journalism, Religious. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Liberalism (Religion) 2
Marriage. 2
Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Africa, East. 2
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
Missions -- Kenya. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Racism. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Women missionaries. 2
Worship (Christian) 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
Africa, East. 1
Africa, East. -- Religion 1
African American missionaries. 1
African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
African Americans. 1
Alcoholism -- United States 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Animism. 1
Anti-communist movements. 1
Authors and publishers -- United States. 1
Authors and publishers. 1
Belgium. 1
Belgium. -- Colonies 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible. 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 -- Missions. 1
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 1
Catholic Church -- United States. 1
Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Catholic Church. -- India. 1
Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Catholic Church. -- Sri Lanka. 1
Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
Chinese -- Missions. 1
Chinese. 1
Christian education -- Africa, East. 1
Christian education -- Tanzania. 1
Christian life. 1
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Africa, East. 1
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Africa. 1
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Sri Lanka. 1
Christianity and culture -- Africa. 1
Christianity and culture. 1
Christianity today (Periodical) 1
Church and state -- China. 1
Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Church and state -- India. 1
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