[Note: In the Arrangement section, the notation “folder 2-5" means “Box 2, Folder 5"]

Series: Paper Records

Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title

Date Range: 1979-1981, undated

Volume: 2.525 cubic feet, 6 Boxes

Geographic Coverage: United States

Type of Documents: Correspondence, financial records, lists, memos, minutes, notebooks, promotional materials, press releases, and reports

Correspondents: Cliff Barrows, Paul Benjamin, Vonette Bright, Robert E. Coleman, Ted W. Engstrom, Leighton Ford, Harold Lindsell, Jay Kesler, C.B. Hogue, Donald Hoke, Sterling Huston, Luis Palau, Adrian Rogers, C. Peter Wagner, Thomas Zimmerman

Subjects: Evangelist work

Notes: All of the materials in this collection are Hogue’s administrative files of the American Festival of Evangelism as vice chairman of the executive committee and chairman of the program committee. The archivist retained the original folder titles but rearranged the folders since they were received in no apparent order.

Exceptional items: Records of the executive, program, planning, and prayer committees in Folders 1-4 through 1-13 contain agendas, correspondence, financial reports, lists of speakers, handwritten notes, and program schedules. Other materials in these folders include a letter from the Internal Revenue Service certifying that the AFE is a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization (folder 1-4) , information on the 1981 Inaugural Prayer Day and a December 1980 summary report on the AFE by Paul Benjamin (folder 1-6), media releases packets and budget (folder 1-7), names and address of speakers (folder 1-12), and a report by Vonette Bright, dated December 7, 1981 entitled Summary of the Activities of the Executive Prayer Committee of the American Festival of Evangelism (Folder 1-13). Minutes of executive, program and leadership reference committees are in Folder 3-5. There are also minutes of the December 1980 executive and planning committee meetings in folder 4-1.

Letters many with carbon copies attached are located not only in the correspondence folders (1-15, 2-1 to 2-3) but also in the Invitation Responses folders (2-6, 2-7. 3-1 to 3-3), Workshop, Letters/Suggestions for Leaders folder (5-1), music folder (3-7), and the Paul Benjamin folder (1-1). The letters are mostly arranged either alphabetically or chronologically.

Biographical information and some photos (photocopies) on ninety-three speakers and potential workshop leaders are in several folders. See the addenda for a complete list.

The collections also includes a coordinators manual for volunteers to help promote the AFE (folder 1-14), program directory and list of seminary/workshop topics and speakers (folder 4-3), financial reports (folder 2-5), thirty-three page report of the Operation Services Department related to meeting facilities (folder 3-4), agendas for committee meetings, calendar of meetings, and program guidelines (folder 3-6), registration forms, speaker’s packet, delegation packet, and A Strategy for Registering Twenty-Thousand Participants for the American Festival of Evangelism (folder 4-6), names and address of committee members, schedules, and flow charts of various departments (folder 2-4).

Folder 4-5 contains brochures, program guidelines, advertising flyers and brochures, forms, sample packet of AFE historical materials sent to American colleges and seminaries, and a paper by Leighton Ford entitled Why and American Festival of Evangelism? Several editions of the festival newspapers have been place in oversize folder OS 16. The July 27, 1981 issues contains a complete program listing of all the seminars, workshops, and presentations including the name of the speaker and a brief summary of each session.

Information on the reproducible notebook project is in Folder 4-4 while the notebooks are in folders 6-1 to 6-4. The four notebooks contains messages by the speakers grouped by conference themes: festival, evangelizing, discipling, and equipping. There is an index by speaker at the front of each notebook.