International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES)
Organization
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
C. René Padilla Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Charles H. Troutman, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 111
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuals, and other records documenting Charles Troutman's career in Christian ministry among university students, first with Inter-Varsity in the United States and Australia and then with Latin America Mission. This collection also contains a great deal of information on evangelical Christianity in the United States, Australia and Latin America; Troutman's letters from his service in the Pacific in World War II; and reports and other information relative to...
Dates:
Created: 1924-1992
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 640
Brief Description
Predominantly correspondence and reports of the international Evangelical organization, most extensively between 1971 and 1998. IFES aims to provide staff leadership and coordinate with national staff of member movements to: witness, train and disciple students on university campuses, where student-led evangelism will have an impact on those institutions, churches, and society. The records document in detail the activities and influence of the global IFES student movement at both country and...
Dates:
1934-2000
David H. Adeney Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description
Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates:
Created: 1911-1994
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
Douglas W. Stewart Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 707
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Douglas W. Stewart in which he describes his ministry with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in South and Central America and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship from 1963-1991. Topics discussed include Stewart’s family background, spiritual growth, education at Colombia Bible College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, leadership, roles, and structure of IFES, political, social, and religious context in South and Central America,...
Dates:
2018
Drazen Glavas Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 554
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Dražen Glavaš in which he describes his childhood in Croatia; the Roman Catholic Church in Croatia; his conversion while at university; various experiences working for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), including a year in Moscow; the war in Croatia in the early 1990s; the development of a ministry among university students in that county; observations on American Christianity compared with Croatia. The events described in the interview...
Dates:
Created: 1998
Duncan Mugisha Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 403
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Duncan Aggrey Mugisha in which he discusses the state of the church in Uganda; life under the rule of Idi Amim, impressions of Bishop Festo Kivengere; the Bolokole movement; relations between Catholics and Protestants in Uganda; relations between Christians and Muslims in Uganda; his conversion and work with the Fellowship of Christian Unions (FOCUS) among college and university students. Other topics discussed include East African revivals of the 1930s; AIDS...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Elisa Espineli Chinn Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 217
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four oral history interviews with Lisa Chinn covering her childhood and family, education, ministry with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines and InterVarsity in the United States, ministries with her husband Leiton in the US among international students (with International Students, Inc., Interaction, and their church), writing projects, and her experience as a woman leader. Also included are her graduate school creative project, "Cross Cultural...
Dates:
Created: 1972-2020
Emmanuel Kwizera Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 725
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews of Kwizera in 2021 by Bob Shuster of the Archives staff. Among the topics Kwizera discussed was his family's background in ministry in Rwanda, the Jesus film, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, his own conversion and the development of his faith, his work with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), the state of Christianity in Rwanda; his work as director of African Enterprise's Rwandan branch and his work as AE's missions director for all of Africa;...
Dates:
2021
Gillian Gathoni Mwaura Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 713
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview by Robert Shuster with Gillian Gathoni Mwaura in which she discussed her family background in Kenya, her conversion in high school, her education at the Co-Operative College of Kenya and Methodist University; work as a student and as a full-time employee with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students-affiliated ministry FOCUS (Fellowsh ip of Christian Unions) in Kenya and Uganda, cross-cultural training and mission work in Norway; helping to form Global Link...
Dates:
2019
Herbert J. Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 020
Brief Description
Correspondence, photographs, reports, publications, posters, minutes of meetings, and other documentation of Herbert J. Taylor's long involvement in the leadership of such organizations as Child Evangelism, Youth for Christ, Christian Service Brigade, Pioneer Girls, Young Life, National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, Christian Workers Foundation, and Inter-Varsity as well as his role in the planning and development of Billy Graham's Chicago crusades and of Key '73. Other...
Dates:
Created: Ca. 1916-1979
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 12
Identifier: 2021-047
Dates:
1946-2016
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 300
Brief Description
Administrative records of IVCF spanning the time period from its founding in 1940 until 1991; includes materials created prior to the establishment of IVCF. Includes records of the presidents (Woods, Hummel, Troutman, McLeish, Alexander, McLeish), Paul Little, Campus chapters, Regional divisions and directors, Missions department, Urbana Missions Conventions, Nurses Christian Fellowship, Development department, Jim Nyquist, Strategic Planning, Finance, and manuscript material for the 1991...
Dates:
1928-2017
Milton Acosta Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 429
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Milton Alfonso Acosta in which he describes his family background, youth, conversion to Christianity, the Roman Catholic Church in Colombia, charismatic movement in the Catholic Church, the state of the Evangelical church in Colombia; involvement in the student movement in Colombia, ministry as a staff worker with Unidad Christiana Universitaria (UCU), and UCU's relationship with local congregations. In a second interview, Acosta continues his description of work...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Nancy Duarte-Gomez Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 521
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Duarte-Gomez, a Chilean staffworker with Grupo Biblico Universitario de Chile (GBU, InterVarsity sister movement). Duarte describes her childhood and youth, education, religious background, conversion and spiritual development, the church in Chile, training with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), ministry among students, GBU and its connection to International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), the country's political climate and its impact on the church,...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Paul A. Contento Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 472
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul A. Contento in which he discusses his childhood, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, going to China in 1928 as a China Inland Mission worker, evangelistic work in Ningxia province (Inner Mongolia) and work among university students in southwest and northwest China, founding of the Inter-Varsity student movements in China, Singapore and Vietnam; Calvin Chao; the Sino-Japanese war; the communist takeover in China; founding of Singapore Bible...
Dates:
Created: 19992
Raymond Okebaram (Osuchukwu) Adonai Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 655
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Adonai. Topics discussed include family background and childhood in Nigeria, his conversion and the development of his Christian faith, graduate education in Poland; ministry among university students through the Christian Student Association of Poland (ChSA) and the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES); African students in Poland; Pentecostalism in Poland; founding of the Victory in Jesus Church in Lodz, Poland; impressions of the Wheaton...
Dates:
2010
Samuel Boateng Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 669
Scope and Contents
Three oral history interviews with Samuel Boateng in which he describes his family and growing up in an impoverished part of Accra, Ghana; journey to faith as a Christian; personal witness and devotional practices; starting a youth group in his Pentecostal church; education in Ghana, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States; leadership in Ghana Fellowship of Evangelical Students at the University of Cape Coast; church planting ministry, influential mentors including Gottfried and...
Dates:
2013
Samuel Escobar Papers
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-023
Dates:
ca. 1958-2023
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Schloss Mittersill records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 4
Identifier: 2022-041
Dates:
1939-2016
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 581
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer, in which she describes her childhood in Bulgaria, the Communist culture in that country, her conversion to Christianity, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's work in the country, the beginnings of a an indigenous campus ministry in the country, her attendance at International Fellowship of Evangelical Leaders conferences in Germany, Korea and Bulgaria; impressions of evangelical leaders, such as Samuel Escobar and John Stott; and a...
Dates:
2002
Wayne G. Bragg Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 096
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne G. Bragg (1931-2009), in which he describes his missionary experiences in Brazil and the Caribbean working with university students, his student days at Wheaton College, and his experience at Wheaton College as a faculty member. Dr. Bragg was interviewed by Mary Ann Buffington at Wheaton College on February 15 and May 9, 1980.
Dates:
Created: 1980
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 21
- Unprocessed Material 3
- Subject
- College students in missionary work. 9
- Conversion -- Christianity. 9
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 9
- College students -- Religious life. 8
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 8
- Church work with students -- United States. 7
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 7
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 7
- Religious institutions. 7
- Christian leadership. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 5
- Christian life. 5
- Discipling (Christianity) 5
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 5
- Liberation theology. 5
- Missions -- Colombia. 5
- Missions -- Congresses. 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 4
- Church work with students. 4
- Part-time missionaries. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1990s 4
- Chinese students. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Colombia -- Religion. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Study and teaching. 3
- Glossolalia. 3
- Jesus (Motion Picture) 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missions -- Bolivia. 3
- Missions -- Brazil. 3
- Missions -- Caribbean Area. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions -- Cuba. 3
- Missions -- Mexico. 3
- Missions -- Peru. 3
- Missions -- Singapore. 3
- Missions -- South America. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Anglicans. 2
- Businesspeople -- Religious life -- United States. 2
- Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- 1949- 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Chinese diaspora. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church work with foreign students. 2
- Church work with students -- Philippines. 2
- Church work with students -- Uganda. 2
- College students -- United States. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Argentina. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Caribbean Area. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Colombia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Japan. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Mexico. 2
- Evangelistic work -- North America. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Rwanda. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Uganda. 2
- Faith movement (Hagin) 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Hispanic Americans -- Religious life. 2
- Holy Spirit. 2
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Missions -- Argentina. 2
- Missions -- Chile. 2
- Missions -- Costa Rica. 2
- Missions -- Croatia. 2
- Missions -- Dominican Republic. 2
- Missions -- Ecuador. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Ghana. 2
- Missions -- Guatemala. 2
- Missions -- Haiti. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Latin America. 2
- Missions -- Nicaragua. 2
- Missions -- Panama. 2
- Missions -- Philippines. 2
- Missions -- Romania. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2 ∧ less
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