Collection 595 Records of Congress '88
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes of numerous sessions from Congress '88, touching on a wide variety of topics related to evangelism and missions.
Series: Audio tape recordings
Arrangement: Tapes were received in vinyl cases each already numbered. The archivist kept the same order and labeled the tape sequentially.
Date Range: 1988-1988
Volume: 161 cassette tapes (0.91 cubic feet)
Type of documents: Recordings of the plenary and workshop sessions of Congress 88, That the World May Know.
Subjects: Evangelism and missions.
Notes: There are ten vinyl cases holding sixteen tapes each and one loose tape (T161) in this collection. Additional information on Congress 88 is located in Collection 13, box 76, folder 20. There are no tapes for several sessions.
Dates
- Created: 1988
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.
Historical Information
Conference name: Congress 88
Conference venue: Rosemont Horizon Convention Center, Rosemont, Illinois (near Chicago)
Conference dates: August 4-7, 1988
Conference theme: That the World May Believe
Conference background After two years of discussion by national leaders in Christian evangelism connected with the Washington Roundtable on Evangelism, a special meeting was called on June 20, 1985, in Chicago. Seventy-six church leaders representing thirty-eight Christian communities met and voted to proceed with the initial preparation of Congress 88. On December 11, 1985, at the annual meeting of the Washington Roundtable on Evangelism, the Directors of Evangelism affirmed the June 20th decision and voted in (effective January 1, 1986) a Board of Directors with and Executive Director, to establish an office, and to accept a budget.
Conference purpose:
1. To celebrate Jesus Christ as Savior and Sovereign for American and for the world.
2. To challenge churches to demonstrate God’s love by responding to the needs of society today.
3. To demonstrate American churches’ unity of purpose to reach the 90 million unchurched persons in the USA.
4. To provide inspiration, instruction, and motivation for American churches to gather the harvest for God’s kingdom in the USA.
Attendance figures: 15,000 Christian church leaders
Board of Directors:
President: Grady Allison
Vice President: Marie Van Antwerpen
Secretary: Ernest A. Miller
Treasurer: Alvin Illig
Member-at-large: Weptanomah Carter
Program: Eddie Fox
Executive Director: Paul Benjamin
Extent
161 Audio Tapes
Language of Materials
English
Accruals and Additions
The materials in this collection were given to the Billy Graham Center Archives in 1989.
Accession: 89-39
June 16, 2005
Wayne D. Weber
E. Kuehn
- African Americans -- Missions.
- African Americans -- Religious life.
- African Americans.
- Athletes -- Religious life.
- Bernardin, Joseph Louis, 1928-1996.
- Catholic Church -- United States.
- Catholic Church.
- Christian leadership.
- Christianity and culture.
- Church development, New.
- Church growth -- United States.
- Church growth.
- Church work with children.
- Cities and towns.
- City missions.
- Colson, Charles W.
- Drummond, Lewis A.
- Ecumenical movement -- Congresses.
- Ecumenical movement.
- Evangelistic invitations.
- Evangelistic work -- Biblical teaching.
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy.
- Evangelistic work -- United States.
- Evangelistic work.
- Ford, Leighton.
- Hispanic Americans -- Missions.
- Hispanic Americans.
- House churches.
- Illig, Alvin A.
- Inner cities.
- Laity.
- Mass media in religion.
- Methodists.
- Missions -- Rural work.
- Missions -- Study and teaching.
- Missions to Jews.
- Motion pictures in church work.
- Patterson, Virginia, 1931-
- Prayer.
- Presbyterians.
- Stanton, Jack, 1919-2002.
- Women
- Women -- Religious life.
- Worship.
- Title
- Collection 595 Records of Congress '88
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Roman Script
Repository Details
Part of the Evangelism & Missions Archives Repository