Mission Aviation Fellowship.

Collection 136 Records of Mission Aviation Fellowship

Collection

Identifier: CN 136

Scope and Contents Office files of MAF, a mission agency that provided transportation, radio contact and other support to missions working in remote areas, as well as some services to non-mission agencies.Materials, including correspondence, minutes, reports, prayer letters, personnel files, and budgets, that document the administration and activities of MAF, especially the regional offices in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the Development division (extensive individual prayer letters from...

Dates: Created: 1944-2006

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 136 Records of Mission Aviation Fellowship

Collection 277 Ephemera of Jim Elliot

Collection

Identifier: CN 277

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, tapes of sermons and audio letters, journals, notebooks, annotated Bibles, school records, poems, clippings, drawings, and other materials describing Elliot's courtship of his wife Elisabeth, his spiritual preparation for the mission field, early days of his work in Ecuador, and events leading up to his death and those of four other missionaries at the hands of the Waorani (so-called Auca) people. Microfilm edition of materials available for researcher use.

Dates: Created: 1941-1959; Majority of material found within 1947-1956

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 277 Ephemera of Jim Elliot

Collection 352 Records of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA)

Collection

Identifier: CN 352

Scope and Contents Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions.The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Also includes series of maps of Latin American countries identifying nondenominational and denominational mission activity. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented. Persons prominently featured include Jack Frizen, Billy...

Dates: Created: 1934-1983, n.d.

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 352 Records of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA)

Collection 377 Papers of Elias Hatcher

Collection

Identifier: CN 377

Scope and Contents Correspondence, audio tapes, photographs, diaries, and periodicals documenting the career of Elias Hatcher as a pilot for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Mexico from 1949 to 1968, and his time as a mission administrator at the U. S. headquarters of MAF from 1968 until his death in 1971. Diaries document Hatcher's military service and education at Wheaton College; correspondence includes love letters between Hatcher and his future wife, and letters with their six children when they were away...

Dates: Created: 1941-1978; Majority of material found in 1943-1974

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 377 Papers of Elias Hatcher

Collection 390 Papers of Janet Kuhns

Collection

Identifier: CN 390

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and manuscript, relating to the ministry of Janet Kuhns, missionary among the Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia under the auspices of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CM&A).[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "Folder 1-1" means box 1, Folder 1.]Series: Audio TapesThree oral history interviews with Janet Kuhns in which she...

Dates: Created: 1987-1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 390 Papers of Janet Kuhns

Collection 441 Oral History Interviews with Paul F. Robinson

Collection

Identifier: CN 441

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Paul Frederick Robinson (1910-1993) in which he describes his family background; spiritual development; education at Moody Bible Institute; his evangelist father, Frederick Robinson; and his own founding of Moody Bible Institute's mission aviation training program. Other topics discussed include: Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) and Jungle Aviation and Radio Service (JAARS); Robinson's flying experiences in New Guinea, Indonesia, long cross-country flights,...

Dates: Created: 1991

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 441 Oral History Interviews with Paul F. Robinson

Collection 446 Papers of Jack Wyrtzen

Collection

Identifier: CN 446

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, audio tapes and video tapes relating to the ministry of Jack Wyrtzen.Series: Audio TapesTape 1 to Tape 7: Oral history interviews with Jack Wyrtzen in which he describes his parents, childhood, early influences, conversion, relations with other Christian leaders, development of the Word of Life Fellowship, radio and television work and youth work. The time period covered by the...

Dates: Created: 1991

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 446 Papers of Jack Wyrtzen

Collection 488 Papers of John E. Phillips

Collection

Identifier: CN 488

Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, letters, newspaper clipping, a booklet and other materials, relating mainly to John E. Phillips' work as a missionary with the Sudan Interior Mission among the Kambatta people of Ethiopia (1932-1937) and among the Dinka people of Sudan (1938-1949). There is also some information on his involvement in other ministries, such as Ambassadors for Christ and the Allentown Rescue Mission.

Dates: Created: 1926-2003

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 488 Papers of John E. Phillips

Collection 528 Ephemera of Mission Aviation History

Collection

Identifier: CN 528

Scope and Contents Correspondence, prayer letters, audio tapes, clippings, brochures, negatives, photos, and slides collected by former aviator John R. Wells, retired Wheaton College employee, as a result of his interest in the use Christian mission agencies and individual missionaries made of airplanes since their invention. The collection documentation on various denominational and nondenominational organizations and individuals covering the time period 1922 to 1989; represented are such agencies as the...

Dates: Created: 1922-1989

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 528 Ephemera of Mission Aviation History

Collection 599 Ephemera of the "Auca" Incident

Collection

Identifier: CN 599

Scope and Contents

Audio tapes, comic book, film, filmstrips, oversize materials, phonograph records, postage stamps, and video tapes documenting the martyrdom of five American missionaries in Ecuador by the Huaorani Indians in 1956. Documents describe the deaths of the missionary, the response by Protestant evangelical Christians in the United States, and later missionary work with the Indians by Rachel Saint and Elisabeth Elliot.

Dates: Created: 1956-1993, undated

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 599 Ephemera of the "Auca" Incident

Collection 701 Papers of Olive Fleming Liefeld

Collection

Identifier: CN 701

Scope and Contents This collection contains letters, reports, transcripts, photographs, photo albums, and other materials from the papers of Olive Liefeld relating to her first husband, Peter Fleming, their work as missionaries in Ecuador among the Quichua people, his death along with four other missionaries at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in 1956, the continuing development of that story in terms of the impact of the men's deaths on American evangelicalism and the growth of a Christian community among the...

Dates: Created: 1946-2006, undated

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 701 Papers of Olive Fleming Liefeld

Collection 719 Papers of Janet Wismer

Collection

Identifier: CN 719

Scope and Contents

Transcripts of broadcasts, correspondence, newsletters, articles, and memorabilia, relating to Janet Wismer's work as a staff member and producer for Elisabeth Elliot’s Gateway to Joy radio program. The collection also contains some material documenting Wismer's friendship with Elliot.

Dates: 1959-2012; Majority of material found in 1981-2012

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 719 Papers of Janet Wismer

Doris Penny Hatcher Sunday school materials re Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF).

Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2021-007

Dates: 1945-1948

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Elias Hatcher memorial notebook.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 1

Identifier: 2015-009

Dates: 1967-1971

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Global Mapping International records.

Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2017-039

Dates: 1980-2016

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

John Wells' mission aviation materials.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 1

Identifier: 1994-023

Dates: 1953-1993

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Kenneth Fleming Papers.

Collection

Identifier: CN 657

Scope and Contents Collection contains letters, articles, audio recordings, photographs, and other material collected by Kenneth Fleming relating to the death of five American missionaries in Ecuador in 1956, including his brother Peter Fleming, in Ecuador with the Plymouth Brethren mission agency Christian Missions In Many Lands. In particular, the papers document the story of Peter’s involvement in the so-called “Operation Auca” and his death, along with missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Nate Saint and...

Dates: Created: 1946-2011

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Kenneth Fleming Papers.