McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990.
Person
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Assorted evangelism video and audio tapes.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2008-059
Dates:
1934-1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
C. Peter Wagner papers.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1996-067
Dates:
1982-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Christianity Today Records.
Collection
Identifier: CN 008
Brief Description
Correspondence, memos, forms, financial reports, minutes of meetings, study papers, clippings and other records of the Evangelical Christian publishing organization. The records describe the founding of the organization to publish the magazine Christianity Today and its creation or acquisition of other publications such as Campus Life, Leadership, Leadership 100, Partnership, and Your Church. Besides material on the editing, publishing and distribution of these periodicals, the files also...
Dates:
Created: Majority of material found within 1930, 1954-2002
Collection 170 Records of the Seminar on Measuring Missions' Effectiveness
Collection
Identifier: CN 170
Scope and Contents
Sound recordings of the Seminar on Measuring Missions' Effectiveness, held in July 1982 and sponsored by the Billy Graham Center Archives. This collection consists entirely of two presentations by Donald McGavran of the Fuller School of World Missionon measuring mission effectiveness and church growth, and subsequent discussion in response to the papers. In the morning session, his topic was "Measuring Mission Effectiveness." In the afternoon, the topic was "Church Growth: The Next Step."...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 260
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 414 Papers of Wade T. Coggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 414
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, papers and speech manuscripts relating to the ministry of Wade T. Coggins, Christian worker with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association.
Dates:
Created: 1964-1990
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 498 Oral History Interviews with William E. Pannell
Collection
Identifier: CN 498
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with William E. Pannell in which he describes his childhood in Michigan, his family, conversion as a teenager, his growing awareness of racism in America and especially its influence on American Christianity, education at Fort Wayne Bible College, involvement with the Brethren Assemblies, the part preaching has played in his life, the divide between urban and suburban culture and its impact on black and white churches and institutions, his work with Youth for Christ,...
Dates:
Created: 1995-2007
Collection 577 Papers of Vergil Gerber
Collection
Identifier: CN 577
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, manuals, newsletters, reports and other materials relating to the life and ministry of Vergil Gerber, a Conservative Baptist minister and missionary to Central and South America. The collection documents Gerber's work as a teacher, writer, and leader in church growth studies and Evangelical global missions, especially in Latin America.
Dates:
Created: 1966-1984
Collection 590 Papers of John R. W. Stott
Collection
Identifier: CN 590
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, reports, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, brochures and other materials relating to John R. W. Stott’s involvement in the 1974 Lausanne Congress and the Lausanne movement that developed out of it. The collection is particularly strong in material relating to the membership of Stott on the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and its executive committee; his contribution to drafting several of the major statements of the movement; his chairmanship of the...
Dates:
Created: 1974-2000
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
Donald and Mary McGavran Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 178
Brief Description
Correspondence, lectures, sermons, book manuscripts, surveys, audio tapes, video tapes, microfilm of letters, notes, and other records dealing with the life of the McGavrans, especially their work as missionaries in India with the Disciples of Christ, and Donald's activities as an author and educator, including his role as founding dean of Fuller Seminary's School of World Mission. Much of the collection deals with his role in originating, developing, and applying church growth theory.
Dates:
Created: 1906-2000
Donald McGavran lectures audio cassettes.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1986-078
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Donald McGavran materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2013-033
Dates:
1859-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ronald J. Sider Papers
Unprocessed Material — Container: Box 1-78
Identifier: 2022-0053
Dates:
1939-2022; Majority of material found in 1959-2022
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Missions -- Congresses. 5
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 5
- Church and state. 4
- Church growth -- Philosophy. 4
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Theory. 4
- Theology 4
- African Americans. 3
- Bible colleges 3
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- College students. 3
- Evangelistic work -- India. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions. 3
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- China -- History -- 1949- 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
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- Hinduism 2
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- Missions to Hindus. 2
- Prayer. 2
- Seminary extension. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Theology -- Congresses. 2
- Three-self movement. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
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