World Council of Churches.
Organization
Found in 5 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 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
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Christian leadership. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Ecumenical movement. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missionaries. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Animism. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Journalism, Religious. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Biblical teaching. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions to Hindus. 2
- Missions to Jews. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Organizational change. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Racism. 2
- Women in missionary work. 2
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Atheism. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 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
- Catholic Church -- Italy. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church -- Spain. 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
- Chaplains, Military 1
- Chaplains, Military -- United States. 1
- Charismatic movement. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- China -- History -- 1949- 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- History. 1
- Chinese -- Missions. 1 ∧ less
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