Graham, Ruth Bell., 1920-2007
Person
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
A. Jack Dain papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 2004-032
Dates:
1924-2003
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Acc. 2025-028: Letters of L. Nelson and Virginia Bell UNPROCESSED
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2025-028
Dates:
1958-1972
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham Center (BGC) video tapes.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 1999-010
Dates:
1980-1994
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 015
Scope and Contents
Collection contains materials gathered by the archivist relating to Billy Graham's life and early ministry. Includes miscellaneous correspondence to Ray Schulenberg, Richard, Mouw, and Charles Fuller, among others. Also includes a copy of Peace with God annotated by Ruth Bell Graham, which she revised for a second edition in 1984. Of particular interest is a scrapbook kept by Graham during his attendance at Florida Bible Institute and Wheaton College. The Archives only has a...
Dates:
Created: 1934-2014
Billy Graham family Christmas cards.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2005-006
Dates:
1965-2004
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Carl F. H. Henry Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN-628
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, notes, minutes, and manuscripts related to theologian and author Carl Henry, documenting his work with the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies, but which also touch on a few other aspects of his life, including his association with Wheaton College and with the magazine Christianity Today.
Dates:
Created: 1925-1984
Chester Terpstra Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 491
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Chester Terpstra (1917-2007) in which he discusses his years as a student at Wheaton College (1939-1943); his friendship with Billy Graham; and his later ministry in Micronesia and Hawaii. Other topics discussed include the religious culture of Hawaii during World War II and after; the prevalence of pre-millenialism at Wheaton College and among evangelical missionaries; and the 1943 revival at Wheaton College. The time period covered by the interviews is 1939 to...
Dates:
Created: 1993
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 Howard papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 4
Identifier: 2021-001
Dates:
1946-2019
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
David P. Bruce Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 671
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with David P. Bruce, in which he discusses the history of the Montreat office of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) that functioned as the personal secretariat of Billy Graham; the relationship of the office to the rest of the BGEA; Bruce's own background and his work as assistant to Graham; L. Nelson Bell and other BGEA leaders (T. W. Wilson, Stephanie Wills, John Akers, Charlie Riggs, Sterling Huston, and John Corts); effects on the Montreat office of...
Dates:
Created: 2013
Elisabeth Elliot Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN-278
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates:
Created: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010
George Beverly Shea Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 541
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, sheet music, business records, phonograph records, programs, songbooks, and other materials from Shea’s career as a soloist, radio personality, and composer. Most of the material is from the last decades of his life, especially his work with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), but the entire range of his life from the 1930s on is covered. Though representing only a fraction of Shea’s papers, it includes a rich collection of source material that Shea used in his...
Dates:
1931-2010
Helen Grace Madeira Cox Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 678
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox (1921-2019), missionary in China from 1947-1951 and Northern Thailand 1953-1973 with China Inland Mission (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Topics discussed include Cox's childhood experiences and early faith in the Church of the Brethren; call to missionary work; education at Columbia Bible College and Wheaton College; teaching Bible in Virginia public schools; attending Missionary Medical Institute and Wycliffe’s Summer Institute of...
Dates:
2014
Helen R. Jongewaard Oral History Intervie
Collection
Identifier: CN 486
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Ruth Supplee Jongewaard (1922-2005) in which she describes her time as a student at Wheaton College. Among the topics discussed are aquaintance with Billy Graham; the Boethallian Literary Society; memories of professors such as Carl Henry, William Nordin; Russell Mixter, Merrill Tenney, V Raymond Edman, and others; revival of 1943 on Wheaton campus; and the effect of World War II on Wheaton. The time period covered by the inteview is 1920 to 1943....
Dates:
Created: 1993
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen Renich Papers.
Jim Vaus Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 693
Scope and Contents
Newsletters, oral history transcripts, manuscripts, correspondence, slides, photographs, audio recordings, and films relating to Jim Vaus’ youth ministry work in East Harlem, NY and later youth camp ministries in New York and California and internationally with the Missionary Communication Service. The collection also contains material on Jim Vaus’ work as a wiretapper for the Los Angeles mob prior to his conversion to Christianity at the 1949 Los Angeles Billy Graham Crusade, and the 1955...
Dates:
Created: 1950-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Jim Vaus Papers
John Innes Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 709
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with John Innes, in which he describes his family background; spiritual growth; development of musical talent; education at Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College; and career as an organist and pianist with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) for over 40 years. Topics discussed include the development of the BGEA’s music team; changes in the BGEA structure and leadership; various BGEA figures, including Billy Graham; George Beverly Shea; Cliff Barrows;...
Dates:
2018
Ken and Kay Gieser book.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1997-088
Dates:
1984
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Louis and Phil Palermo Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 329
Scope and Contents
Articles, audio tapes, clippings, correspondence, films, phonograph records, photo albums, photographs, video tapes and wire recordings of Louis and Phil Palermo, musical evangelists with Chicago Midnight Brigade and Youth for Christ. The collection highlights the Palermos' musical ministry in the United States and other parts of the world, especially Italy and Vietnam, predominantly from the early-1940s to the 1980s; also includes assorted information about evangelical figures and...
Dates:
Created: 1924-1984
Luis Palau Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 722
Brief Description
Papers of Luis Palau, international Christian evangelist, including crusade-related materials, correspondence, the Luis Palau Association strategic planning documents and reports, and personal diaries. While the paper documents in the collection are subdivided into several subseries, almost all of them relate to Palau's crusades or other events as a Latin American evangelist, most after he established his own evangelistic ministry and association separate from Overseas Crusades in 1978; far...
Dates:
1947-2017
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Luis Palau Papers.
Mertis Byram Heimbach Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 681
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mertis Byram Heimbach (1921- ) missionary in China, Thailand, Singapore and U.S. with China Inland Mission (CIM) and (as it was later known) Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) from 1946 to 1999. Topics discussed include childhood in Korea; parents’ mission work; Wheaton College and Prairie Bible Institute; marriage to Ernest Heimbach; Hmong (Miao) people; tribal mission work; Communist takeover of China; Communist treatment of Christians; CIM’s exit from China;...
Dates:
2014
MSS | 1943 Tower with writing by Ruth Bell Graham {2021-0017}
Unprocessed Material — Container: 1-1
Identifier: 2021-0017
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1943 - 1943
Found in:
Wheaton College Archives
Paul and Catharine Gieser Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
Paul B. Long Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 344
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Brown Long in which he discusses his childhood, attendance at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College (including individuals Hudson, Taylor Armerding, Edward A. Coray, V. Raymond Edman, Billy Graham, Ruth Bell Graham, Clarence Jaarsma, Clarence Simpson, C. Gregg Singer), missionary work in education, evangelism, and church planting in the former Belgian Congo and in Brazil. Other topics include animism, church discipline, Christianity and culture, rearing a...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Paul Rader and Luke Rader materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 8
Identifier: 2001-021
Dates:
1905-1994
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Samuel D. Faircloth Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 658
Scope and Contents
Prayer letters and an oral history interviews which document Samuel Douglas Faircloth’s childhood, conversion, education at Wheaton College and elsewhere, and his work as a United States Army chaplain in Italy immediately after World War II, as a church planter in Portugal, and a seminary professor at the Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands.
Dates:
Created: 1949-2011
Werner Burklin correspondence files.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2014-025
Dates:
1980-2012
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Type
- Collection 18
- Unprocessed Material 9
- Subject
- Conversion -- Christianity. 11
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 7
- Missions -- China. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- World War, 1939-1945. 6
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1940s 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 4
- Evangelistic work -- China. 4
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 4
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- Chinese language. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Songs and music. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Medical care -- China. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Persecution -- China. 3
- Radio in religion. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 3
- Animism -- Thailand. 2
- Billy Graham Greater London Crusade (1966 : England) 2
- China -- Description and travel. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian martyrs -- China. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church and social problems -- United States. 2
- Church and state -- China. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Discipling (Christianity) 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic sermons. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
- Evangelistic work -- England. 2
- Evangelistic work -- France. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Great Britain. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Korea. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Portugal. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Publicity. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Study and teaching. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Vietnam. 2
- Families. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Gospel musicians -- United States. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Journalism, Religious. 2
- Literacy programs. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missions -- Korea. 2
- Missions -- Linguistic work. 2
- Missions -- Singapore. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions -- Thailand. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Opium trade -- Thailand. 2
- Organizational change -- United States. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. 2
- Sermons, American. 2
- Sin -- Sermons. 2
- Songs in the night (Radio program) 2
- Three-self movement -- China. 2
- Tribes -- Thailand. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Revivals -- 1943. 2
- Worship. 2
- All-Scotland Billy Graham Crusade (1955 : Glasgow) 1
- Anglicans. 1
- Animism -- Brazil. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Araucanian Indians. 1
- Authors and publishers. 1
- Authors and readers -- United States. 1
- Back Home Hour (Radio program) 1
- Bass baritone. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Big brother (Motion picture) 1
- Billy Graham African Crusades (1960) 1
- Billy Graham Australia Crusades (1959) 1
- Billy Graham Greater North of England Crusade (1961 : Manchester) 1
- Billy Graham Nigeria Crusade (1960 : Jos) 1
- Billy Graham Rosario Crusade (1962 : Argentina) 1 ∧ less
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