Collection 014 Records of the World Congress on Evangelism
Collection
Identifier: CN-014
Scope and Contents
Biographical sketches, participants' lists, form letters, programs, audio recordings of speeches, and study papers relating to the World Congress on Evangelism held in Berlin on October 26 to November 4, 1966. Besides the English materials, there are study papers in French and German and there are programs, correspondence and speech transcripts in German, French, and Spanish. Thirteen audio tapes contain speeches by various individuals including Billy Graham, Carl Henry, John Stott, Oswald Hoffmann, Haile Selassie I, Richard Halversen, Harold Ockenga, and others.
Dates
- Created: 1966-
Conditions Governing Access
No materials in this collection may be duplicated.
Historical Information
Conference Name: World Congress on Evangelism
Conference Venue: Kongress Halle, Berlin, Germany
Conference Dates: October 26- November 4, 1966 (October 25 was a "Day of Preparation")
Conference Theme: One Race, One Gospel, One Task
Conference Background: Billy Graham, Carl Henry and other American Protestant Evangelicals desired to provide a forum for the growing Evangelical Protestant movement worldwide. The congress was intended as a spiritual successor of the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the meeting, many Evangelicals leaders were in touch with each other for the first time. The meeting was overwhelmingly American planned, led and financed, and was sponsored by Christianity Today magazine, with heavy support from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The reports and papers at the congress helped to illustrate the shift of Christianity's center of gravity from Europe and North America to Africa, Asia and Latin America. The 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland was a successor to this conference.
Conference Purpose: 1)To define and clarify Biblical evangelism for our day 2) To establish beyond any doubt its relevance to the modern world 3) To underline its urgency in the present situation 4) To explore new forms of witness now in use throughout the world and new ways of reaching contemporary man 5) To deal frankly with problems of resistance to the Gospel 6) To challenge the church to renew its own life through an intensified proclamation of the historic faith 7) To show the world in a fresh and dramatic way that God is in truth Lord of all, and that He saves men through His Son.
Attendance Figures: 1,200 invited delegates from most Protestant denominations and Roman Catholic, Jewish and ecumenical observers (700 delegates, 300 observers, 100 newsman)
Conference Figures: Honorary Chairman Dr. Billy Graham
Chairman: Dr. Carl F. H. Henry
Coordinating Director: Dr. W. Stanley Mooneyham
Chairman, Planning Committee: Dr. Clyde W. Taylor
Chairman, Program Committee: Dr. Robert Evans
Chairman, Finance: Robert C. Van Kampen
Treasurer: Dr. George Wilson
Executive Committee: Robert Evans, Carl F. H. Henry, W. Stanley Mooneyham, Walter Smyth, Clyde W. Taylor, Robert Van Kampen, George Wilson
Financial Support: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Christianity Today
Post-Conference Resources: Publication of two volumes, One Race, One Gospel, One Task: Official Reference Volumes: Papers and Reports, edited by Carl F.H. Henry and W. Stanley Mooneyham, 1967
Conference Venue: Kongress Halle, Berlin, Germany
Conference Dates: October 26- November 4, 1966 (October 25 was a "Day of Preparation")
Conference Theme: One Race, One Gospel, One Task
Conference Background: Billy Graham, Carl Henry and other American Protestant Evangelicals desired to provide a forum for the growing Evangelical Protestant movement worldwide. The congress was intended as a spiritual successor of the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the meeting, many Evangelicals leaders were in touch with each other for the first time. The meeting was overwhelmingly American planned, led and financed, and was sponsored by Christianity Today magazine, with heavy support from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The reports and papers at the congress helped to illustrate the shift of Christianity's center of gravity from Europe and North America to Africa, Asia and Latin America. The 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland was a successor to this conference.
Conference Purpose: 1)To define and clarify Biblical evangelism for our day 2) To establish beyond any doubt its relevance to the modern world 3) To underline its urgency in the present situation 4) To explore new forms of witness now in use throughout the world and new ways of reaching contemporary man 5) To deal frankly with problems of resistance to the Gospel 6) To challenge the church to renew its own life through an intensified proclamation of the historic faith 7) To show the world in a fresh and dramatic way that God is in truth Lord of all, and that He saves men through His Son.
Attendance Figures: 1,200 invited delegates from most Protestant denominations and Roman Catholic, Jewish and ecumenical observers (700 delegates, 300 observers, 100 newsman)
Conference Figures: Honorary Chairman Dr. Billy Graham
Chairman: Dr. Carl F. H. Henry
Coordinating Director: Dr. W. Stanley Mooneyham
Chairman, Planning Committee: Dr. Clyde W. Taylor
Chairman, Program Committee: Dr. Robert Evans
Chairman, Finance: Robert C. Van Kampen
Treasurer: Dr. George Wilson
Executive Committee: Robert Evans, Carl F. H. Henry, W. Stanley Mooneyham, Walter Smyth, Clyde W. Taylor, Robert Van Kampen, George Wilson
Financial Support: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Christianity Today
Post-Conference Resources: Publication of two volumes, One Race, One Gospel, One Task: Official Reference Volumes: Papers and Reports, edited by Carl F.H. Henry and W. Stanley Mooneyham, 1967
Extent
1.30 Cubic Feet (2 Boxes (DC), Audio Tapes, Photographs)
Language of Materials
English
Accruals and Additions
The materials in this collection were received from the Atlanta Office of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in August 1976 and January 1999 and from W. Stanley Mooneyham in June 1988.
Accession: 76-14, 99-1
Revised, April 3, 1985
Robert Shuster
J. Nasgowitz
Revised, February 9, 1999
Robert Shuster
Accession: 88-70
Updated, December 7, 2004
Wayne D. Weber
Accession: 76-14, 99-1
Revised, April 3, 1985
Robert Shuster
J. Nasgowitz
Revised, February 9, 1999
Robert Shuster
Accession: 88-70
Updated, December 7, 2004
Wayne D. Weber
- Abdul-Haqq, Abdiyah Akbar,
- Bible
- Bible -- Inspiration.
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Missions
- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Missions -- Congresses.
- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Missions -- Ecuador.
- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation.
- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Missions -- South America.
- Christian martyrs
- Christian martyrs -- Ecuador.
- Christianity Today, Inc.
- Church growth.
- Conversion.
- Cowan, George M.
- Duncan, George B.
- Ecumenical movement.
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956
- Evangelicalism.
- Evangelistic work
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East.
- Evangelistic work -- Africa.
- Evangelistic work -- Asia, Southeastern.
- Evangelistic work -- Asia.
- Evangelistic work -- Australia.
- Evangelistic work -- Biblical teaching.
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses -- Berlin (Germany)
- Evangelistic work -- Europe, Eastern.
- Evangelistic work -- Europe.
- Evangelistic work -- Germany.
- Evangelistic work -- North America.
- Evangelistic work -- Sermons.
- Evangelistic work -- South America.
- Evangelistic work -- United States.
- Fleming, Peter,
- Fundamentalism.
- German language.
- Graham, Billy,
- Great Commission (Bible)
- Great Commission (Bible) -- Sermons.
- Haile Selassie
- Halverson, Richard C.
- Henry, Carl F. H.
- Hoffman, Oswald C. J.
- Holy Spirit.
- Huao Indians.
- Kuhn, Harold Barnes,
- Kunneth, Walter,
- McCully, Theodore Edward,
- Ockenga, Harold John,
- Pache, Rene.
- Persecution.
- Saint, Nathaniel,
- Saint, Rachel.
- Spanish language.
- Stott, John R. W.
- Theology
- Theology -- Congresses.
- Worship (Christian)
- Wycliffe Bible Translators.
- Youderian, Roger,
- Title
- Collection 014 Records of the World Congress on Evangelism
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Repository Details
Part of the Billy Graham Center Archives Repository