Materials relating to the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission which was held on the Wheaton College campus in 1966 and was jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association. Audio tapes document various sessions of the Congress, including biblical expositions, study papers (on subjects like syncretism, church growth, cooperation, the Catholic Church and social issues), reports on missions on the world's continents, reports on specialized areas of ministry like literature and education, adoption of the Congress's declaration (known as the Wheaton Declaration), and worship services. Topics covered include evangelistic work and missions at the levels of theory and theology, and as practiced throughout the world. Fragmentary Congress records include committee minutes, evaluations, press releases, study papers and drafts of the Wheaton Declaration. Among those who addressed the Congress were Hudson Amerding, Jacques Blocher, Arthur Climenhaga, Theodore Epp, Horace Fenton, Arthur Glasser, Vernon Grounds, Don Hillis, Melvin Hodges, Kenneth Kantzer, Louis King, Gilbert Kirby, Ruben Lores, Vernon Mortenson, Wil Norton, Clyde Taylor, Philip Teng, and John Walvoord.

Perhaps the most important records in this collection are the audio tapes in it of all the major addresses given at the Congress. These addresses include the keynote speech, the biblical expositions, the major study papers, the area briefs, the ministry briefs, and the evening inspirational addresses. In addition, there are tapes of the opening meeting (April 9), the Easter Morning worship service, the international rally (both April 10), and the adoption of the Congress' Declaration, the closing address, and the communion service (all April 16). There are no tape recordings of committee or discussion group meetings. Those tapes that are in the collection often fail to record prayers delivered, announcements made, and hymns sung during meetings. Tape 17 of John Walvoord talking on "Mission--and the Church's Nature" is of very poor technical quality and barely understandable. The other materials in this collection are fragments of the official records of the Congress and of reactions to it. Especially interesting are the booklets containing the full transcripts of the major study papers, the titles of which are: "Mission--and Syncretism," "Mission--and Neo-Universalism," "Mission--and Proselytization," "Mission--and a Hostile World"; some of the minutes of the congress's planning committee; reports, articles, and editorials evaluating the congress including a long report from an observer from the National Council of Churches; and various drafts of the Wheaton Declaration.

Mrs. Merrill C. Tenney's participant folder (folder 1-7) contains many of the items generated by the Congress, including a printed program; an outline for the procedure for adopting the Declaration; information on the arrangements of the meeting; copies of the talks given by Eric Fife, Louis King, Arthur Glasser, and Philip Teng; news sheets; and a list of all the delegates.