World Council of Churches.
Organization
Found in 9 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 421 Oral History Interviews with Arthur F. Glasser
Collection
Identifier: CN 421
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1998
Collection 483 Oral History Interview with Francis Sunderaraj
Collection
Identifier: CN 483
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Francis Sunderaraj in which he describes committing his life to Christ as a teenager in India; the development of his faith; the institutions and leadership of Evangelical Protestantism in India; Methodist churches in India and Malaysia; Sunderaraj's education at the Union Biblical Seminary in Yeotmal, India, Princeton Seminary, and Wheaton College; the development of the Evangelical Fellowship of India. The time period covered by the interviews is ca....
Dates:
Created: 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
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- Subject: Church and state. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Christian leadership. 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 6
- Church and social problems. 6
- Communism. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Ecumenical movement. 5
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Fundamentalism. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Missions. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian literature. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Liberalism (Religion) 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Journalism, Religious. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Biblical teaching. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Women in missionary work. 3
- Animism. 2
- Anti-communist movements. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible. 2
- Caste. 2
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church -- United States. 2
- Chinese -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and other religions. 2
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- China. 2
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- India. 2
- Church and state -- United States. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students. 2
- Communication. 2
- Counseling. 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 -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Rwanda 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Family. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Hinduism 2
- Hindus 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- International relief. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Medical care -- Africa, East. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Africa, East. 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2 ∧ less
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