Collection 46: Lausanne Movement Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 046
Brief Description
Correspondence, minutes, memos, reports, manuscripts of speeches, press releases, newsletters, staff manuals, audio and video tapes of sponsored events, photographs of events and personnel, and other administrative materials of the Lausanne Movement, originally called the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. The Committee grew out of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization. Its basic doctrinal statement was the Lausanne Covenant and it had the mission Ato encourage and stimulate the involvement of churches, denominations, ministries, networks and individuals in the cause of world evangelization. It was predominantly an Evangelical Protestant movement and operated through a small staff, a variety of commissions and periodic meetings on a national, regional and global level. Recorded in the documents are the early planning for the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), the creation of the Lausanne Continuation Committee in 1974 that established as the Lausanne Committee (LCWE) in 1976, especially the international meetings, congresses and consultations sponsored by the Committee (such as the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization, the 1989 Lausanne II Congress in Manila, Philippines, and the 2010 Lausanne III Congress held in Cape Town, South Africa) and cooperative projects around the world, such as the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism.
Dates
- Created: 1949, 1969-2014
Creator
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The following parts of this collection are restricted and cannot be accessed without written permission until the date noted:
Folder 37-31 is restricted until February 14, 2033
Folder 168-8 is restricted until December 31, 2055
Folders 169-1, 2, 3 are restricted until December 31, 2055
All folders in boxes 183-197 are restricted until December 31, 2069
Folders 198-1,2 are restricted until December 31, 2069
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Requests for permission to use the above files should be directed to:
Michael Oh, Executive Director/CEO
Lausanne Movement Communications Team
communications@lausanne.org
Forms to be used for requesting permission should be obtained from the Reading Room staff.
Biographical or Historical Information
International evangelical organization; founded in 1974 as the Lausanne Continuation Committee and 1976 as the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE); developed following a series of events: meeting to plan follow-up to 1966 World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin, the International Congress on World Evangelization in 1974, and formation of the interim Lausanne Continuation Committee; functioned as catalyst, information clearing house, network, and motivational source for world evangelization; LCWE functioned from the location of its officers: Chairman Leighton Ford in Charlotte (1974-1992), and Executive Secretary Osei-Mensah in Nairobi and later London (1974-1984), Thomas Wang in Singapore and later Pasadena and Manila (1987-1989), Executive and International Directors, Treasurer Donald Hoke, A.J. Dain, and others; communication tools included WORLD EVANGELIZATION INFORMATION BULLETIN and Lausanne Occasional Papers; included four working groups: Intercession (prayer), Theology, Strategy, and Communications; convened a working consultation in 1980 in Thailand to evaluate progress in world evangelization since ICOWE and develop strategies, with particular emphasis on specific groups of people; particular emphasis placed on cooperation and a strong biblical foundation for worldwide witness; convened second International Congress in Manila in 1989; convened Forum on World Evangelization in 2004 in Pattaya, Thailand; convened Third International Congress in 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Founding
1974 - Initially as the Lausanne Continuation Committee following the International Congress on World Evangelization; in 1976 the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization was established.
Headquarters Location
1981-1984 - An international headquarters was established in London where Gottfried Osei Mensah had relocated from Nairobi. Following his resignation in 1984, the LCWE again functioned from the location of its primary officers without a centralized headquarters.
1987-1989 - International Office in Singapore under the leadership of International Director Thomas Wang. Closed in month 1989 and relocated to Pasadena.
1988 - Coordination Office. Staff directing program development and participant selection in preparation for the Lausanne II Congress operated from Pasadena and Monrovia, California.
1989 - International Office in Pasadena; Congress Office in Manila.
1989/1990 - Coordination Office. Pasadena office and staff resumed this function while the International Office operated under Houston's oversight in Oxford.
1990-1992 - International Office in Oxford, England, under Tom Houston's direction.
Biographical sketches of early principal executive officers
1974-1992 - Leighton Ford, Chairman
Born in Toronto in 1931; received his B.A. from Wheaton College in 1952 and his B.D. in 1955 from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia; married Jean Coffey Graham, Billy Graham's sister in 1953; between 1953 and 1955 Ford served as a supply pastor, student pastor and summer assistant for churches in Texas, Missouri and Georgia; ordained in the Presbyterian Church in the US, 1955; joined the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) as an Associate Evangelist, 1955; his first BGEA duties in this capacity were to assist in Billy Graham's 1955 London Crusade, after which he conducted crusades on his own throughout the world; appointed Vice President for the BGEA in 1958, which he continued until his retirement in 1986.
Appointed the Chairman of the ICOWE Program Committee in 1973 and also served on the Congress Planning Committee. Following the Congress he was a member of the LCC Executive Committee and was elected the Chairman of the LCWE in 1976 at its inception. He was Chairman of the Thailand Consultation and gave the opening address of that meeting. He also worked as the Program Chairman for Amsterdam '83 and Amsterdam '86, the International Conferences for Itinerant Evangelists. Ford resigned from the BGEA in 1986 in order to launch Leighton Ford Ministries, as well as to continue his LCWE duties. Ford also authored books and articles and was a regular speaker on the BGEA's "Hour of Decision" radio program. Ford retired as Chairman in 1992, when he was named Honorary Life Chairman.
1974-1984 - Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Executive Secretary
Born in 1934 in Ghana; received his B.Sc. degree at Birmingham University in England; worked as a sales engineer with Mobil Oil, 1960-1965; served the Pan African Fellowship of Evangelical Students as Traveling Secretary, 1966-1971; pastor of Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya, 1971-1975; elected Chairman of the Executive Committee for the 1976 Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly in Nairobi, 1975.
In 1975, prior to the establishment of LCWE, Osei-Mensah was elected Executive Secretary of the Lausanne Continuation Committee and continued in that post in the LCWE. Osei Mensah presented plenary addresses at both the 1974 ICOWE and 1980 COWE. He transferred to London with the opening of the LCWE international headquarters there and continued as the Executive Secretary until his retirement in 1984.
1974-1984 - A. Jack Dain, Chairman of Lausanne Continuation Committee (1974-1976), LCWE member (1976-1978), LCWE General Coordinator (1982-1984).
Dain was born in England in 1912; studied at the Wolverhampton Grammar School and served as a Lieutenant Commander in the British Royal Navy; worked as a missionary in India; served in London as the Overseas Secretary for the Evangelical Alliance; between 1959 and 1965, acted as the Federal Secretary for the Church Missionary Society of Australia in Sydney; in 1965 he assumed new responsibilities as the Assistant Bishop for the Diocese of Sydney in the Church of England in Australia; was Co Chairman of the 1968 Asia South Pacific Congress on Evangelism held in Singapore.
In 1972 he was appointed Chairman of the ICOWE's Planning Committee and subsequently as the Executive Chairman of ICOWE. Following the Congress he was selected to be the Chairman of the Lausanne Continuation Committee, a post which he filled until the LCWE was established in 1976, although he continued as a member of the Lausanne Committee until his retirement in 1978. At that time he was voted an Honorary Life Member of the Committee. Dain was also involved in the 1980 Thailand Consultation, both as a member of the Participant Selection Committee, and as the Coordinator of the Commission on Cooperation for World Evangelization. In 1982, Dain was given a two year assignment as LCWE's general coordinator, which he carried out in London until 1984, while also fulfilling duties for his church in Sydney, Australia.
In 1984 he returned to Sydney to resume his duties there on a full time basis. Dain also contributed to the BGEA's work in Australia by being the Chairman of the BGEA of Australia, which included being involved in the BGEA's 1968 Sydney Crusade as one of two Vice Chairman on the Executive Committee; eleven years later he served as the Chairman of the 1979 Crusade, also in Sydney. Dain also served as the International Chairman of Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship, and authored books and articles.
Dain died in 2003.
PERSONNEL BY POSITION
Lausanne Continuation Committee
Chairman:
A. J. Dain, 1974-1975
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
Honorary Chairman:
Billy Graham, 1974-
Chairman:
Leighton Ford (designated Honorary Life Chairman in 1992), 1976-1992
John R. Reid, 1992-1994?
Secretary to Chairman:
Leola Linkous
Kathy Roth, 1985-?
Executive Chair:
Fergus Macdonald, 1994-1997?
Paul Cedar, 1998-2004
S. Douglas Birdsall, 2004-
Deputy Chair
Chongnahm Cho
John R. Reid, 1988-?
Vice Chair:
Chongnahm Cho, 2002-?
General Coordinator:
A.J. Dain, 1982-1984
Secretary to General Coordinator:
Leanne Ellem, 1982-1984
Executive Secretary:
Gottfried Osei-Mensah, 1975-1984
Secretary and Administrative Assistant to Executive Secretary:
Patricia Newth, 1976-1981
Jane Rainey Fraser, 1980-1981
Executive Director:
Carl Johansson, 1984-1985
Acting Director for Program Coordination:
Brad Smith, 1985
Acting Executive Director:
Irv Chambers, 1985
Deputy Chairman:
Thomas Wang, 1986
International Director:
Thomas Wang, 1987-1989
Tom Houston, 1989-1992
Interim International Coordinator:
John Siewert, 1999?-2001
Gary Barnes, 2001-?
International Director:
David Claydon, 2002-2004
Tetsunao "Ted" Yamamori, 2004-?
Lindsay Brown, 2008?-
Secretary to International Director:
Sharon Chan, 1987-1989
Associate International Director:
Paul McKaughan, 1987-1989
Deputy Director:
Bill Ditewig, 1989?-?
Secretary to Deputy Director:
Sharon Chan, 1989-?
Minister-at-Large:
Tom Houston, 1992-?
Director of Ministries:
Paul McKaughan, 1987-?
Director of Communications:
Jim Newton, 1987-?
Joseph Sindorf
Senior Associates Program Coordinator:
Brad Smith, 1987-?
Senior Associates:
Peter Brierly (UK)
Phillip Butler (USA)
Robyn Claydon (Australia)
John Cox (UK)
Joni Eareckson-Tada (USA)
Birger Nygaard (Denmark)
Michael O'Rear (USA)
Secretary:
Fergus Macdonald, ca. 1993
Treasurer:
Donald Hoke, 1976-1989
Roger Parrott
Assistant Treasurer:
James Coleman, 1986-?
Deputy Executive Officer:
John Howell, 1977-1980
Executive Assistant:
John Howell
Communications Working Group Chair (later Global Communications Working Group):
Thomas Zimmerman, 1986-1981
Horst Marquardt, 1981-?
Wing-tai Leung
Intercession Working Group Chair:
John R. Reid, 1976-1981
Vonette Bright, 1981-?
Glenda Weldon
Leadership Development Working Group Chair:
Doug Birdsall
Strategy Working Group Chair:
C. Peter Wagner, 1976-1981
Ed Dayton, 1981-?
Bryant Myers, 1993
Paul Eshleman
Theology & Education Working Group Chair (later Theology Working Group):
John Stott, 1976-1981
John R. Reid, 1981-?
Peter Kuzmic
Luder Whitlock
Special Assistant on Communications, Communications Officer:
Bill Jefferson, 1982
Steve Downey, 1986-?
Lausanne Communications Council for World Evangelization Executive Director:
Elmer Wilson, 1993-?
Editor of World Evangelization:
Steve Downey, 1985-1986?
Managing Editor of World Evangelization:
Leslie Tarr
Sharon Chan, 1988
Chairman of Search Committee:
Thomas Zimmerman, 1983
Lausanne Committee US
President:
Thomas Zimmerman, 1986-1990
Director of US Operations:
Roger Parrott, 1986-1989
Rob Martin, 1989-1990
David Hartz, 1990-1991
Elmer Wilson, 1992-?
Lausanne Full and Executive Committee (EC) meetings (chronological)
January 20-23, 1975 - Mexico City
September 1-4, 1975 - London (EC only)
January 12-16, 1976 - Atlanta, Georgia
September 6-10, 1976 - West Berlin
September 5-9, 1977 - Montreal (EC only)
January 14-20, 1978 - Bermuda
September 4-8, 1978 - Springfield, Missouri (Exec Comm only)
November 12-16, 1979 - Atlantic City, New Jersey (EC only)
November 12-16, 1979 - Ventnor, New Jersey
June 14-28, 1980 - Pattaya, Thailand
May 26-29, 1981 - Old Jordans, Bucks, England (EC only)
May 21-26, 1982 - Wheaton, Illinois
January 17-21, 1983 - Arrowhead Springs, California
September 8-15, 1984 - Stuttgart, West Germany
June 3-6, 1985 - Oslo, Norway
July 7-10, 1986 - Amsterdam (during Amsterdam '86)
January 18-24, 1987 - Atlanta and Callaway Gardens, Georgia
January 11-15, 1988 - Mt. Hermon, California
December 12-16, 1988 - Malibu, California (Exec Comm only)
July 10-21, 1989 - Manila, Philippines
January 22-25, 1990 - Arrowhead Springs, California
June 1-7, 1991 - Budapest, Hungary
August 30-September 4, 1992 - Azusa, California
February 7-10, 1994 - Stuttgart, Germany
February 26-March 1, 1996 - Stuttgart, Germany
March 8-13, 1998 - Toronto, Canada
July 4-7, 2002 - Jackson, Mississippi
Lausanne Committee members (some alternates later became regular members and their names therefore appear in both lists)
• Rev. Lucien Accad
• Rev. Pierre Allard
• Rev. Francisco Anabalon
• Bishop Haikon E. Anderson
• Mr. Pedro Arana-Quiroz
• Dr. Saphir Athyal
• Mr. Ramez Atallah
• Mr. Menahem Benhayim
• Dr. Peter Beyerhaus
• Rev. Henri Blocher
• Dr. Dirinda Marini Bodho
• Mr. Wim Bouw
• Mrs. Vonette Bright
• Rev. Clive Calver
• Rev. Brian Carrell
• Mr. Michael Cassidy
• Mr. Ruben Nestor Proietti Cavallero
• Dr. Paul Cedar
• Dr. Chun Chae Ok
• Dr. Kenneth Chafin
• Rev. David Chan
• Dr. Lawrence Chia
• Mr. Jonathan Chiu
• Dr. Chongnahm Cho
• Dr. Philemon Choi
• Mr. Alain Choiquier
• Bishop Sundar Clarke
• Dr. Wade T. Coggins
• Dr. Robert Coleman
• Mr. Charles Colson
• Dr. R. Robert Cunville
• Pastor ma Djongwe Daidanso (other entry has last two names flipped)
• Rev. Rene Daidanso
• Rev. Joshua Daimoi
• Bishop A. Jack Dain (honorary lifetime member)
• Mr. Ed Dayton (ex officio)
• Rev. Antoine Deeb
• Miss Nancy Leigh DeMoss
• Mr. Paul Eshleman
• Dr. Nilson do Amaral Fanini
• Mr. Ajith Fernando
• Rev. Tulio Barros Ferreira
• Dr. Leighton Ford
• Rev. Bruno Frigoli
• Rev. Shin Funaki
• Rev. Andrew Furuyama
• Rev. Gerry Gallimore
• Rev. Mariano di Gangi
• Mrs Emmy Gichinga
• Mr. Juan Gili
• Rt. Rev. David Gitari
• Mr. Hartmut Richard Glaser (ex-officio)
• Rev. Geziel Nunes Gomes
• Dr. Billy Graham
• Rev. Dr. Michael Griffiths
• Rev. Dr. Akira Hatori
• Rev. Jack Hayford
• Dr. Michael Haynes
• Dr. Edward Hill
• Diakon Fritz Hoffmann
• Dr. C. Bill Hogue (ex officio)
• Dr. Donald E. Hoke
• Mr. Armin Hoppler
• Dr. Josip Horak
• Rev. Tom Houston
• Dr. George Hunter III
• Mr. Kweku Hutchful
• Dr. Chow Lien Hwa
• Rev. Juan M. Isais
• Dr. Abdul Istafanous
• Rev. Akira Izuta
• Rt. Rev. Bashir Jiwan
• Rev. James Katarikawe
• Dr. Byang Kato
• Dr. James Kennedy
• Mr. B. U. Khokhar
• Bishop Festo Kivengere
• Mr. A. T. Victor Koh
• Rev. Peter Kuzmic
• Mrs. Oknah Kim Lah
• Mr. Gordon T. Landreth
• Miss Ellie Lau
• Mrs. Oknah Kim Lay
• Dr. Jong Yun Lee
• Rev. Samuel O. Libert
• Dr. Harold Lindsell
• Dr. Branko Lovrec
• Rev. Fergus Macdonald
• Mr. Costas Macris
• Mr. Fred Magbanua
• Mrs. M. Mapalieij-Mantik
• Dr. Chris Marantika
• Dr. Dirinda Marini-Bodho
• Mr. Horst Marquardt
• Mr. Albert Marulanda
• Dr. James Massey
• Rev. John J. Matulessy
• Mr. John McInnes
• Dr. Billy Melvin
• Dr. Jesse Miranda
• Mr. Jose Missena
• Dr. W. Stanley Mooneyham
• Rev. David H. Moore
• Miss Kirsti Mosvold
• Rev. Inoke Nabulivou
• Rev. Makram Naguib
• Dr. Claude Noel
• Mr. Agne Nordlander
• Dr. Emilio Antonio Nunez
• Rev. Petrus Octavianus
• Rev. Sam Odunaike
• Rev. Samuel Olson
• Mr. Warwick Olson
• Dr. Nathaniel Olutimayin
• Rev. Marcelino Ortiz
• The Rev. Gottfried Osei-Mensah
• Rev. Reiji Oyama
• Rev. Luis Palau
• Dr. Cho-Choon Park
• Rev. Seiku Paunonen
• Dr. Pablo E. Perez
• Miss Susan Perlman
• Mr. Michael P. Perrott
• Rev. Ted Raedeke
• Bishop John R. Reid
• Mr. D. John Richard
• Ing Eduardo Ruan
• Mr. Hans-Guenter Sachse
• Rev. Subhas Sangma
• Bishop N. D. A. Samuel
• Rev. Jonathan F. Santos
• Rev. Willi Sartorius
• Dekan Rolf Scheffbuch
• Mr. Peter Schneider
• Rev. Manuel L. Scott
• Rev. Antonio da Silva
• Mr. Gilberto da Silva
• Rev. Eliseu Simeao
• Mr. Simon H. Sircar
• Mr. Victor Smadja
• Rev. Alfredo Smith
• Rev. Brian Stiller
• Rev. John R.W. Stott
• Rev. Dr. Philip Teng
• Mrs. Juliet Thomas
• Mr. John Tooke
• Bishop Erling Utnem
• Dr. C. Peter Wagner
• Rev. Thomas Wang
• Miss Esther Waruiru
• Dr. I. Ben Wati
• Dr. Warren Webster
• Dr. David Wells
• Miss Ursula Wiesemann
• Dr. Ralph Winter
• Rev. Theodore Williams
• Rev. Canon James Wong
• Miss Florence Yeboah
• Pastor Lee Joon Yun
• Dr. Thomas Zimmerman
• Rev. Isaac Zokoue
Lausanne Committee alternates (some alternates later became regular members and their names therefore appear in both lists)
• Mr. Isaac Ababio
• Mr. Fouad Accad
• Dr. Tokunboh Adeyemo
• Dr. Bukovsky Akos
• Miss Claire-lise de Benoit
• Dr. Akos Bukovsky
• Mr. Luis Bush
• Mr. Robinson Cavalcanti
• Rev. Paul Cedar
• Rev. Jonathan Chao
• Right Rev. Luke Chhoa
• Mrs. Nancy Clark
• Rev. David Claydon
• Rev. David Cohen
• Rev. Ian Christopher Coffey
• Rev. Loren Cunningham
• Rev. Philippe Decorvet
• Mr. Petru Dugulescu
• Rev. Fawz Emish
• Mr. Eric Gay
• Mr. Juan Gili
• Rev. Jose Grau
• Dr. Robert Hamblin
• Dr. Stephen Hayner
• Dr. Michael Haynes
• Dr. Cyril Horak
• Rev. Tom Houston
• Rev. Simone Ibrahim
• Rev. R. D. Karthak
• Mr. Jay Kessler
• Dr. F. S. Khair-Ullah
• Dr. MEngi K. Kilandamoko
• Dr. Dennis Kinlaw
• Dr. Erwin J Kolb
• Dr. Theodore Lehmann
• Dr. Ford Madison
• Dr. Isabelo F. Magalit
• Mr. Fred Magbanua
• Mr. Horst Marquardt
• Mrs. Igbal Kundan Massey
• Dr. James Massey
• Dr. Kuntukula Kilandamoko Mengi
• Mr. Caesar B. Molebatsi
• Rev. Mardoqueo Munoz
• Pastor Victor Musa
• Mr. Michael Nazir-Ali
• Mr. Emilio Antonio Nunez
• Rev. Sam Odunaike
• Dr. John Olley
• Mr. Samuel A. Olson
• Rev. Marcelino Ortiz
• Bishop S.K. Parmar
• Rev. Archie B. Parrish
• Mr. John Ray
• Rt. Rev. J.R. Reid
• Dr. Ian Rennie
• Dr. Bong Rin Ro
• Mr. Hans-Gunther Sachse
• Mr. George Samuel
• Rev. Rolf Scheffbuch
• Rev. Eliseu Simeao
• Rev. Alfred Smith
• Rev. Viggo Sogaard
• Rev. David Stewart
• Mr. Valdir Stuernagel
• Rev. Elon Svanell
• Dr. Chong Kwong Tek
• Rev. Carmelo Terranova
• Rev. Tite Tienou
• Dr. Jan Urban
• Mr. Augustin B. Vencer
• Dr. Warren Webster
• Dr. Henryk Wieja
• Dr. Robert H. Wilson
• Dr. Norvald Yri
• Dr. Ravi Zacharias
Working Groups: These groups, each headed by a LCWE Executive Committee member, oversaw and coordinated specific areas of strategy, planning, operation
• Intercession Working Group, chaired by Bishop John Reid of Australia, who was succeeded in 1981 by Vonette Bright.
• Theology and Education Working Group, chaired by John Stott of England, who was succeeded by John Reid in 1981 (the working group was later renamed the Theology Working Group)
• Strategy Working Group, chaired by Peter Wagner of the United States, who was succeeded by Ed Dayton in 1981
• Communications Working Group, chaired by Thomas Zimmerman of the United States, who was succeeded by Horst Marquardt in 1981 (later renamed the Global Communications Working Group)
• Leadership Development Working Group
• Global CEOs Working Group
Selected significant events in organizational history for which there are documents in the collection
1966
• World Congress on Evangelism, Berlin, Germany
• Dates: October 26-November 4
1969
• US Congress on Evangelism, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Dates: September 8-13, 1969
1974
• International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dates: July 16-25
• Attendance: 2,300 leaders from 150 countries
• Purpose: See narrative below
• Honorary Chairman: Billy Graham
• Director: Donald Hoke
• Associate Director: Paul Little
• Executive Chairman: A.J. Dain
• Chairman of Planning Committee: A.J. Dain
• Chairman of Program Committee: Leighton Ford
In November 1971, Billy Graham convened a meeting at which he inquired about the advisability of holding another international congress on world evangelization as a follow up to the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin. The purpose of the meeting was to gather the leaders of evangelical Protestant Christians together for strategic planning, inspiration, and fellowship. A Board of Conveners, made up of 164 Christian leaders who had gathered at Graham's invitation, served as the formal governing authority of the Congress. The Planning Committee consisted of thirty-one members, led Dain. Funding for the Congress came from donations and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). The BGEA also provided support by allowing several of its employees to work full or part time as staff members or consultants. The Congress office was opened in April 1973, with the staff's major tasks including selecting the four thousand participants to invite. The Congress (also called Lausanne Congress) met with the theme, "Let the Earth Hear His Voice." In addition to the major plenary addresses (including the open and closing addresses by Graham), the program consisted of Bible studies, demonstrations of evangelistic methods, small group discussions and reports on various aspects of the theology and strategy of evangelism, reports on the situation of the church in various geographic locations, debates by citizens and workers on the strategies necessary for particular nations, Laustade '74 (the evangelistic meeting for the general public held in the city's stadium), and the signing by a large number of the participants of the Lausanne Covenant, a statement intended to define the necessity, responsibilities, and goals of spreading the Gospel. The Congress office was officially closed in October 1974. For more detailed background information on the Congress, see BGC Archives collection 53, Records of the International Congress on World Evangelization.
1977
• Homogeneous Unit Principle Consultation, Pasadena
• Dates: May 31-June 2
• Attendance: 10 participants, 27 consultants
• Purpose: Addressed the controversial church growth philosophy=s implications on world evangelization; sponsored by the Theology and Education Working Group
• Moderator: John Stott
1978
• Willowbank or Gospel and Culture Consultation, Bermuda
• Dates: January 6-13
• Attendance: 33 theologians, anthropologists, linguists, missionaries and pastors
• Purpose: Examine the interrelation between the gospel and culture and the implications for missions and evangelism and identify tools for more effective communication. Sponsored by the Theology and Education Working Group, co-sponsored by the Strategy Working Group
• Chairman: John Stott
• Coordinator: Peter Savage
1978
• North American Conference on Muslim Evangelization, Glen Eyrie, CO
• Dates: October 15-21
• Attendance: 150
• Purpose: Focus on reaching these unreached Muslim peoples and to explore the wide range of implications of the Gospel in their Islamic cultures.
• Director: Don McCurry
1979
• U.S. Simple Lifestyle Consultation, in Ventnor, NJ
• Dates: Apr. 25 29, 1979
• Attendance: 100-125
• Purpose: Prepare findings for the 1980 international consultation, define criteria for choosing a simple lifestyle and developing the personal Christian life and character needed to adopt the lifestyle
• Director: Ron Sider
1980
• International Simple Lifestyle Consultation, London, 1980
• Dates: March 17-21
• Attendance: 85 evangelical leaders from 27 countries
• Purpose: "Study simple living in relation to evangelism, relief and justice, since all three are mentioned in the Lausanne Covenant's sentences on simple life style"
• Coordinator: Ron Sider
1980
• Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE), Pattaya, Thailand
• Dates: June 16-27
• Attendance: 650 invited participants, 300 observers
• Honorary Chairman: Billy Graham
• Chairman: Leighton Ford
• Director: David Howard
• Program Director: Saphir Athyal
• Director of Communications: Stan Izon
• Director of Operations: John Howell
Following the Lausanne Congress, the LCWE decided to convene a working consultation to evaluate what had happened in world evangelization since the 1974 Lausanne meeting and to develop realistic strategies for the future. LCWE issued a call in 1977 for the Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE) under the theme, "How Shall They Hear?" Gottfried Osei Mensah and John Howell, LCWE's Executive Assistant & COWE Director of Operations, were also involved in the planning and preparations for the meeting from their office in Nairobi. The Consultation site selected in a deliberate effort to identify with the church in the Third World. The size of the meeting was kept intentionally small to facilitate its task as a working and studying consultation. Participants were selected on the basis of their contribution to world evangelization and their influence in their own national and/or church circles, both at the time and in the projected future. Since COWE was intended to be a study consultation, a broad foundation of study groups was built throughout the world before COWE. Their focus of study was directed on specific groups of people to be reached with the Gospel, with an International Coordinator to oversee each of these areas of study. The fruit of the work of the study groups was set down in papers summarizing their findings. The International Coordinator then consolidated the information from these studies and produced a paper summarizing the findings on a worldwide basis. These papers formed the basis for the seventeen Mini Consultations at the Thailand Consultation. Meetings for interest groups were coordinated to allow individuals with specialized ministries to gather; regional groups also met to facilitate united effort within a geographical region. Simultaneous with the Consultation, the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization met to the results of the Consultation included the final papers developed by each of the Mini Consultations and the resulting compendium of them; the recommendation of the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization; audio tapes of the plenary messages; and the ongoing work of the study groups organized prior to the Consultation.
1980
• Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization, Pattaya, Thailand
• Dates: June 16-27 (simultaneous with Consultation in Thailand)
• Purpose: Consider the biblical basis for working together in world evangelization, the theological implications of cooperation, and the strategic and methodological application of this.
• Chairman: Billy Graham
• Coordinator: A.J. Dain
• Secretary: Chua Wee Hian
1981
• American Festival of Evangelism
• Dates: July 27-31
• Attendance: 14,500
• Purpose: Reflect on and train for the evangelization of the United States
• Chairman: Thomas Zimmerman
• Executive Director: Paul Benjamin
1982
• Consultation on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility (CRESR), Grand Rapids
• Dates: June 19-25
• Attendance: 51 ex officio individuals, participants invited on a regional basis, and consultants from various fields of expertise. Co-sponsored by the LCWE and World Evangelical Fellowship
• Purpose: Determine the interrelationship and appropriate balance between proclaiming the gospel and addressing social needs
• Co-Chairman: Gottfried Osei-Mensah
• Co-Chairman: Bong Rin Ro
• Co-Chairman: John Stott
• Coordinator: Dick Van Halsema
1984
• International Prayer Assembly for World Evangelization, Seoul
• Dates: June 6-11
• Attendance: 2,987
• Purpose: Pray, mobilize prayer movements, build international networks, promote the role of prayer in world evangelization
• Chairman: Vonette Bright
• Chair of Finance Committee: William R. Randall
• International Coordinator: Jen A. Jennings
• Program Chair: Thomas Wang
1985
• Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization, Oslo
• Dates: May 28-June 1
• Attendance: 67 participants, observers and staff from 71 nations
• Purpose: Explore issues raised by biblical studies and contemporary experiences of the Holy Spirit in relation to evangelism and church renewal; co-sponsored by the LCWE Theology Working Group and Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship
• Chairman: John R. Reid
• Coordinator: Tormod Engelsviken
1986
• Third Consultation on Jewish Evangelism, Easneye, England
• Dates: August 19-27
• Attendance: approximately 160 from 17 nations
• Purpose: Affirm "the importance and necessity of evangelism directed at Jewish people"
• International Coordinator: C. David Harley
1987
• Singapore '87 (International Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian Leaders)
• Dates: June 1-10
• Attendance: Approximately 300 from 67 nations
• Purpose: "Bring together key younger/emerging leaders from various countries around the world" to provide networking, stimulate evangelism and raise awareness of resources and innovative ideas
• Chairman: Brian C. Stiller
• Program Coordinator: Ramez Atallah
1988
• Leadership '88 (the U.S. Conference for Emerging/Younger Leaders)
• Dates: June 27-July 1
• Attendance: 2,000
• Purpose: "Encourage and equip emerging Christian leaders in the United States to take aggressive leadership to complete the Great Commission in this generation"
• Chairman: Glandion Carney
• Vice Chairman: Mike Aldrich
• Executive Director: Bill Ditewig
1988
• European Leadership Conference on World Evangelization, Stuttgart, Germany
• Dates: September 5-9
1989
• Second International Congress on World Evangelization, Second, Manila, Philippines (also called Lausanne II)
• Dates: July 11-20, 1989
• Attendance: 4,300 in attendance from 173 countries
• Purpose: "Proclaim Christ until He Comes: Calling the Whole Church to Take the Whole Gospel to the Whole World" (congress theme)
• Chairman: Leighton Ford
• Deputy Chairman: Donald Hoke
• Congress Coordinator: Paul McKaughan
• Program Advisory Committee Chairman: Ramez Atallah
• Program Chairman: Paul McKaughan, Saphir Athyal
• Program Director: Ed Dayton
• International Participant Selection Committee Chairman: A.J. Dain
• Media Director: Jim Newton
• Executive Vice President & Operations Director: Ricardo Jumawan
• Site: Initially envisioned to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, the site of the first Congress; later announced to be held in Singapore but then relocated to Manila in mid-1988 due to construction conflicts in Singapore.
1990
• Deutscher Evangelisations-Kongress (German Congress on Evangelization), Stuttgart
• Dates: October 9-12, 1990
1990
• Moscow Congress on Evangelization
• Dates: October 22-26, 1990
• Attendance: 850 Soviet and 150 non-Soviet participants
• Purpose: The inspiration for the event came from Soviet participants at Lausanne II a year earlier who were eager to utilize the opportunities in light of greater freedoms in the USSR
1991
• Consultation on Partnership in World Mission, Wheaton, Illinois
• Dates: May 9-11
• Budapest Global Summit, Hungary
• Dates: September 1-7
1992
• European Leadership Consultation on Evangelization, Bad Boll, Germany
• Dates: March 9-13
1993
• Consultation on Modernity, Uppsala, Sweden
• Dates: June 10-15
1997
• Consultation on Contextualization Revisited, Haslev, Denmark
• Dates: June 17-21
2000
• Consultation on Spiritual Warfare, Nairobi, Kenya
• Dates: August 16-22
2004
• Forum on World Evangelization, Pattaya, Thailand
• Dates: September 29-October 5
• Attendance: Over 1,500 Christian leaders from around the world
• Purpose: Focus on the task of global evangelism as a working consultation with leaders exchanging information and ideas before attending the September gathering.
• Chairman: Roger Parrott
2006
• Lausanne Young Leaders Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Dates: September 24-30
• Attendance: 550 young leaders from 112 countries
• Theme: "Live and Lead Like Jesus"
• Purpose: Examine opportunities and barriers to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and challenge young leaders to make the most of God=s calling on their life
2007
• Biennial Lausanne International Leadership Meeting, Budapest, Hungary
• Dates: June 18-22
2008
• Annual Lausanne International Leadership Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Dates: June 8-13
2009
• Annual Lausanne International Leadership Meeting, Seoul, South Korea
• Dates: June 7-12
2010
• Third International Congress on World Evangelization, Cape Town, South Africa (also called Cape Town 2010)
• Dates: October 16-25
• Attendance: Over 4,000 Christian leaders from 197 countries around the world
• Purpose: "to confront the critical issues of our time - other world faiths, poverty, HIV/AIDS, persecution, among others as they relate to the future of the Church and world evangelization."
2011
• Biennial Lausanne International Leadership Meeting, Boston, United States
• Dates: June 20-24
Publications (alphabetical by title)
Communique
COWE Newsletter - 1979-1980
Daily Communique (1980 COWE) - 1980
Information Bulletin - 1982-1986
Lausanne Communique (newsletter)
Lausanne Occasional Papers (booklets)
Let the Earth Hear His Voice (compendium of Lausanne Congress messages) - 1974
News - 1974-1975
Prayer Bulletins
World Evangelization Information Bulletin - 1975-1985
• 1975-1980 (in folders 28-8 or 40-38)
• 1981-1985 (in folder 120-6)
World Evangelization
• 1985-1994 (in folders 120-6, 7, 8)
• 1995, 1997-1998 (in folder 320-7)
Ministry Emphasis
To serve as an international catalyst, clearing house, information center, and motivational source for evangelization throughout the world, in part as an Evangelical counterpart to the ecumenical WCC by establishing and fostering an international network of Evangelical leaders, as well as periodically sponsoring conferences and consultations.
Other significant information
Contributing to the long term impact of the Lausanne Congress in 1974 were the consultations held in 1973 on how best to continue the Congress's goals after the meeting. From these meetings came the first plans for the Lausanne Continuation Committee (LCC), which was established as the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE) in 1976. The process of selecting members to constitute the LCC began at the Congress, resulting in the selection of forty eight people to plan for future consultations and congresses as needed; this number was later expanded to seventy five. At its inception, Leighton Ford was chosen as LCWE's Chairman and Gottfried Osei Mensah was designated its Executive Secretary.
Extent
217.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement and Description
Chairman
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1969-1994
Volume: 24.5 linear feet
Notes: This series documents the chairman's leadership role of the LCWE from its beginning in 1975, including the major international conferences and consultations sponsored by the Lausanne Committee. The researcher will benefit from a careful survey of the folder titles, either in the boxes themselves or in the detailed portion (for boxes 1 through 9 of this series) of the container list of this guide as they are very precise and suggestive of the folder's contents.
Chairman | Leighton Ford
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1969-1994
Boxes: 1-9, 87-115
Correspondents: Primarily the chairman as the creator or recipient of correspondence, memos, and reports; also LCWE leaders and personnel, and Evangelical church and ministry leaders
Notes: This series documents Leighton Ford's administration and leadership of the Committee from 1975 to 1992, including the major international conferences sponsored by the Lausanne Committee during that period (1974 International Congress on World Evangelization or the Lausanne Congress, the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization, and the 1989 International Congress for World Evangelization or Lausanne II). Ford's records predate the Lausanne Committee due to his involvement in the planning and preparation of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), from which the Committee subsequently emerged. The researcher will benefit from a careful survey of the folder titles, either in the boxes themselves or in the detailed portion (for boxes 1 through 9 of this series) of the container list of this guide as they are very precise and suggestive of the folder's contents.
Chairman | Ford | Administrative records
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1969-1994
Boxes: 2-6, 87-109
Geographic coverage: International and domestic
Type of documents: Primarily correspondence, but also reports, financial records (budgets, audits, official statements), memos, lists, meeting minutes, financial statements, fund-raising proposals and reports, faxed communications, and message manuscripts (both those by Ford and others).
Correspondents: In addition to Ford, Lausanne Committee administrators and members predominate, including Ramez Attalah (folder 2 7), Ray Bakke (folders 87-9,10,11), Kenneth Chafin (folder 2-13), David Howard (folder 4-17), John Howell (folder 4-18), Gottfried Osei Mensah (folders 5-2 and 5-3), John Stott (folder 5-16), Bill Jefferson, Steve Downey, LCWE International Chairman from 1989 to 1992 Tom Houston (especially folders 98-1 through 98-8), Leola Linkous, John Reid, Fergus Macdonald, Irv Chambers, Donald Hoke, J. Berkley Reynolds, Stan Izon, Jack Dain (see especially folders 92-3,4,5,6), Chuck Colson (folder 89-9), Carl Johansson, Jim Newton
Notes: This subseries documents Ford's administration and leadership of the Committee, (excluding Ford's files related to specific Lausanne Committee congresses and consultations, whose records follow in the next subseries). A chronological subseries of correspondence, largely outgoing, ranges from January 1988 (folder 90-6) to August 1989 (or folder 92-2). Researchers should be aware that Ford's oversight of the LCWE was concurrent with other activities under Leighton Ford Ministries, and there is some intermingling of LFM letterhead into this series from that organization, and therefore reflects other topics as well.
Exceptional items: The following descriptions treat Ford's files in topical clusters, although these are not distinct but integrated throughout the series.
The files include record of the annual meetings of the LCWE and its Executive Committee, such as those from the 1977 Bermuda meeting (folders 2-8 through 2-11); 1976 Berlin (folders 3-15 and 3-16); 1977 Montreal (folders 3-17 and 3 18); 1978 Springfield (folders 3 19 and 3 20); 1979 Ventnor (folders 3 21 and 3 22), 1982 Wheaton (folder 93-3), 1985 Atlanta (folder 93-4), 1986 Amsterdam (folder 93-5,6,7), 1987 Atlanta (folder 93-8,9), 1988 Mount Hermon (folder 93-10), 1990 Arrowhead Springs (folder 93-11), 1991 Budapest (folder 93-12), 1992 Azusa (folder 93-15). Executive Committee files are also located in folders 3-23 through 3-26, and folder 112-3. Meetings of the LCWE full committee are found in folders 95-9, 10, 11, 12 and folder 112-5. Files documenting LCWE member lists and status are concentrated in folders 101-17, 18, 19, 21. Also related are nominations of members (folders 102-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The participation of observers at official LCWE meetings are described in folders 103-5, 6. There is also some correspondence for specific LCWE members, including Susan Perlman (folder 103-15), Vinay Samuel (folder 105-13), Thomas Zimmerman (folders 108-14 and 109-11).
A primary programmatic emphasis of the later period of Ford's term as chairman was on Lausanne II (the second international Congress held in Manila in 1989). Although the bulk of these are reflected in the Congresses and Consultations subseries that follows (see folders 111-6 through 115-9), Ford included a few files on the Congress in his administrative subseries as well (folders 98 9 through 98-16). Folders 104-5, 6, 7, 8, 9 reveal the development of the program for the Congress, starting as early as 1984; folder 104-9 covers program planning for other LCWE sponsored events as well. The Congress purpose statement (folder 105-1) was an early and foundational document used to express the LCWE goals for the meeting and shape its development. An early draft of the promotional piece for the Congress called "The Lausanne Story" appears in folder 105-16).
The International Advisory Council (IAC) was established in 1985 to gather "leaders from every area of the world who could serve on a convening council or council of reference as we plan for the next international congress." That congress became the Lausanne II congress. Ford's files for this IAC comprise folders 99-3 through 100-3. An additional portion of IAC files were added in folders 206-9 through 207-13, also see folder 271-20.
Following the 1989 Lausanne II Congress in Manila, regional summits were convened, starting with the 1991 Budapest Summit (folders 87-17,18,19 and 88-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9); included are transcribed interviews with ten men who attended the Summit, most from Eastern Europe, the geographic focus of the Summit, apparently to get perspectives from participants in that region.
Although Ford's interactions reflect global contacts to all parts of the world, they also reflect his leadership and place within the Lausanne movement in the United States (folders 102-7, 8, 103 1, 2, 106-14, 15, 107-1 through 107-18, 108-1 through 108-14) and Canada (folders 88-11, 12, 13).
Although activities in and contributions from all parts of the world are reflected in Ford's files, "Regional Reports" focus on a variety of activities, programs and events in the specific areas of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Oceania (folders 105-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). These range from a report on the 1985 National Congress on Evangelization in Nigeria (folder 105-2), to a trip report in Asia (folder 105-3), to a report on identifying potential LCWE leadership for a region (folder 105-2).
From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the LCWE went through a series of searches to fill the primary leadership and administrative vacancies, including John Reid's appointment as the LCWE Chairman with Ford's resignation in 1992 (see folder 101-6 and especially tribute materials and skit in folder 101-14), the replacement of Gottfried Osei-Mensah with Carl Johansson as the new Executive Director in 1984, and later Thomas Wang as International Director in 1987 and Tom Houston in 1989, and Donald Hoke's replacement as LCWE Treasurer in 1989. Files related to these searches (folders 97-4, 5, 9 and 100-5) and communication with Johansson (folders 100-9, 10, 11, 12), Wang (folders 109-18), and Houston (folders 98-1 through 98-8) are included. Other appointments or resignations are also documented, such as Paul Cedar's as the LCWE-US chairman (folder 88-15), Paul McKaughan as Associate International Director (folder 101-10), Roger Parrott's service as Director of US Operations (folders 103 12, 13), and Rob Martin's 1990 resignation as US Director of the LCWE (folder 101-15).
Further information on the organizational structure, operation and evolution of the LCWE are found throughout Ford's files, including on personnel (folder 103-16) and staff (folder 105-15), position descriptions (folder 103-18), a restructuring proposal by Roger Parrott (folder 105-11), a1984 version organizational chart (folder 103-8), the location of the international office in Singapore while under Thomas Wang's leadership (folder 105-14), the emergence and work of the Transition Planning Committee in 1989 (folder 106-9, 10).
The financial records, including reports, statements, budgets, audits, which document the financial condition and operation of LCWE can be found in folders 3-28 through 3-30, 3-32 through 3-34, 4-1 through 4-6, 93-19, 20, 94-1 through 94-11, and 95-1 through 95-8. Fund raising files are found in folders 95-13, 14, 96-1 through 96-10, 97-1, 2, 103-14, 104-11, and 109-9). Also see proposals to foundations and several large churches (folders 93-2, 101-7, 8, 103-17) and a list of major donors (folder 101-12). Folder 103-11 records the financial participation of various parachurch groups in the 198-9 Lausanne II Congress. Ford's thank-you letters for contributions appear in folder 106-5.
The consultation files include those of the 1978 North American Conference on Muslim Evangelization (folder 5 7), the 1982 Consultation on the Relationship Between Evangelism and Social Responsibility (CRESR) in Grand Rapids (folders 3 7 through 3 14); the 1978 Gospel and Culture Consultation in Willowbank, Bermuda (folders 4-10 through 4-16); the 1977 Homogeneous Unit Principal Consultation in Pasadena (folder 4-19); the 1986 Third International Conference on Jewish Evangelism (folder 100-8); the 1987 First International Researchers Conference, in part addressing the theme of evangelization of Muslims (folder 101-22); 1987 Young Leaders Consultation, Singapore (folder 104-10); 1989 Stuttgart Consultation on Evangelism (folder 106-3); 1988 Consultation on Conversion in Hong Kong (folder 106-6); 1993 Consultation on Faith and Modernity (folder 107-16). A possible consultation in Japan was being considered in 1984-1985 (folder 100-7).
Working Group files consist of those relating to Communications (folders 2-23 through 2-28, 89-11, 12, 13, 103-4), Intercession (folders 4 22 through 4-24, 99-2), Strategy (folders 5-17 through 5-23, 105-16 and 106-1,2), and Theology and Education, later trimmed to Theology (folders 5-24 through 5-26, 106-6,7,8).
Of Ford's files on other organizations, several of interest include those on the Southern Baptists (folder 5-11), the World Council of Churches (folders 5-30, 31, 109-5,6,7, 205-5), and the World Evangelical Fellowship (folders 6 1,2,3 and 109-8). Also available are: Reports of the Chairman (folder 2-14); questionnaires (asking about fellowship, mechanisms and activity for Evangelical evangelism in the respondent's region) returned to the Commission on Cooperation for World Evangelization (folders 2 16, 17); see also folder 89-10 on the Commission; records from the Lausanne Continuation Committee (early form of LCWE, folders 3 2, 3); material on the function of the LCWE (folder 3 31); records on or copies of the Information Bulletin spanning 1974 to1994 (folders 4-20 and 4-21, folder 99-1; also see folders 24-2 through 24-9, 26-2, 28-8 through 28-14, 40-38, 43-13, 50-14, 54-22, 55-1, 2, 70 3, and 120-6, 7, 8) (Later renamed Information Bulletin and in mid-1985 renamed World Evangelization. Although researchers will not find issues between #23 (June 1981) and #32 (September 1983), bound copies of the series are available in the Graham Center Library.); future and long range planning files (folders 4-7, 8, 25, 97-3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9); consideration of LCWE's next chairman after Ford; regional reports (folders 5-5, 6, 7); files on LCWE staff (folders 5 13, 14, 15); files on the World Evangelization Information Service (folders 6-4, 5, 109-1, 2, 3); messages by Ford (folder 87-6, 97-17); LCWE members biographical sketches (folder 87-13); correspondence from David Barrett on the definition of "evangelization" among the Consultation on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility files (folder 3 9); material related to the 1980 Edinburgh '80 World Consultation on Frontier Missions (folder 4 28); 1985 version of the LCWE handbook (folder 97-15, also 214-3); 1988 proposal for a "comprehensive communications program" for LCWE (folder 100-4); files related to the role of the laity in world evangelization (folders 100-13, 101-3, 4); files on Pan-African Leadership Conference Assembly (folder 103-9,10); correspondence about a proposed meeting between the LCWE, World Evangelical Fellowship and International Charismatic Consultation on World Evangelization to meet for dialogue and joint planning (folder 104-1); press coverage on the LCWE (folder 104-3); LCWE publicity packet (folder 104-12); correspondence with the Salvation Army (folder 105-12); correspondence arranging to translate the Lausanne Occasional Papers (folder 106-11); text of Ford's 1986 lectures at Fuller Seminary for publication as A Vision Pursued: The Lausanne Movement, 1974-1986 (folders 108-5, 6 and 16); file gathering documents on the role of women in world evangelization, emphasis at LCWE meetings, and leadership allocated to women (folder 109-4).
Among Ford's files are a record of other domestic and international meetings not sponsored by the Lausanne Committee but related to evangelism, including: Asian Leadership Conference on Evangelism, 1978 (folder 2-2); American Festival of Evangelism, 1981 (folders 2-3, 4, 5, folder 5 18, folder 109-12); Congresso Latinoamericano de Evangelizacion II, 1979 (folder 2-15); Canadian Congress on Evangelism, 1983 (folder 2-29); Consulata Evangelica Latinoamerica, 1983 (folders 1-30 and 2 31); National Convocation on Evangelizing Ethnic America, 1985 (folder 97-18).
Chairman | Ford | Congress and consultations
Arrangement: Chronological by event, alphabetically within each event as follows:
Date Range: 1971-1974
Boxes: 1, 7-9, 109-115
Notes: These files comprise Ford's record of the primary meetings sponsored and convened by the LCWE during his nineteen years of service as the LCWE's chairman.
Chairman | Ford | Congress and consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1971-1974
Boxes: 1
Type of documents: Correspondence, minutes, reports, questionnaires, production script, articles and press clippings, drafts of the Lausanne Covenant, surveys
Correspondents: While Ford corresponded with the numerous members of the Congress's committees, the principal correspondents as documented in these files were A. J. Dain, the Congress Chairman; Donald Hoke, the Congress Director; and Paul Little, the Program Director.
Notes: Ford's ICOWE files reflect his various duties as a member of the Congress Planning Committee, consultant to the Administrative Committee, and Chairman of the Program Committee, and therefore document both the planning and preparation carried out for the Congress from its earliest stages. Ford's files are a rich source of information and the following highlights suggest rather than entirely describe the wealth of available data.
Exceptional items: Materials in folder 1-1 document the origins of the ICOWE, including the agenda and minutes from the 1971 meeting in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, which Billy Graham called to discuss the possibility of holding another international congress on world evangelization. The minutes for a subsequent planning meeting held in 1972 in Vero Beach, Florida, are also located in this folder.
Folder 1-2 includes the minutes from the Planning Committee for the Congress. A compilation of suggested responses to criticisms of the International Congress can be found in folder 1-3; (this folder also includes minutes of the ICOWE Administrative Committee). Folder 1-5 includes numerous reports from various Congress committees, as well as those from Ford, Hoke, and Little. Of particular interest is a report by Donald Hoke on the World Council of Churches' Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. Folders 1-6 through 1-15 consist of the Program Committee files. Documented in these are the Committee's attempt to identify the goals of the Congress (See folder 1-6 for completed questionnaires and folder 1-7 for the resulting "Preliminary Report on the Goals Survey for the International Congress on World Evangelization"); and attempts to communicate through audio visual media the scope of world need for the Gospel (See folder 1-8 for a preliminary draft of a multimedia production script, "Cry 3" and folder 1-15 for the script for another multimedia production, "Let the Earth Hear His Voice," which was used during the opening session of the Congress). Folder 1-15 also includes various other material related to the planning for the opening session of the Congress.
Folder 1-16 consists of various press clippings and articles, as well as selected quotes on the Congress by participants. Folders 1-17 and 1-18 include material dealing exclusively with the Congress Statement, notably the annotated copies of the Statement's first draft, which were reviewed by various individuals and then returned.
Follow up was the term used to refer to the process of maintaining the momentum and impact of the Congress and was an integral part of the pre Congress planning. Folder 1 19 and 20 include: the survey sent out to solicit follow up recommendations; tabulated survey results; report based on the survey results, "A Summary of Follow Up and Post Congress Organization Options;" Ted Ward's proposed strategy for disseminating Congress material; the proposal for the "Reach All" audio cassette study set; correspondence discussing these and other follow up proposals; and minutes of the 1973 Consultation on Post Congress Evangelical Organization.
Also of interest are completed surveys evaluating the Congress (folder 1-22) and letters offering further review of the Congress program.
Chairman | Ford | Congress and consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE), 1980
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1977-1982
Boxes: 7-9
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, manuscripts of messages or articles, reports, postal votes, reports, questionnaires
Correspondents: The principal correspondents in these files other than Ford are David Howard, Director of the Consultation; Saphir Athyal, the Program Director; A. Jack Dain, the Chairman of the Commission on Cooperation for World Evangelization; Gottfried Osei Mensah, the LCWE Executive Secretary, as well as members of the Lausanne Committee and Executive Committee. Notes: Ford's files related to the 1980 meeting in Pattaya, Thailand that thoroughly document the planning of the Consultation, as well as Ford's input to that process. As was noted in the previous descriptive section on LCWE records, a number of folders in Ford's COWE records bear the notation found on folders in his LCWE records, suggesting that they originated in his LCWE materials and were later integrated into his COWE materials. The folder titles in the Container List of this guide include this notation prior to the dating of the folder contents. As with the previous sections, the researcher will benefit from a close survey of the container list of this guide, as this overview only touches on a fraction of the wealth of information available for study.
Exceptional items: The COWE files include a number of major groupings. Among them are files on the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization, fund raising (folders 7-16 through 7-25), nominations and participant selection (folders 8-8 through 8-17 and 8-19 through 8-25), program, and study groups. Among these, the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization files are particularly detailed (folders 7-4 through 7-11), documenting its origins, development, and work. These include copies of three papers (folder 7-4): Warren Webster's "Evangelicals and Unity in Mission," "Evangelicals and Unity in Mission: A Biblical Foundation" by Wesley Dewell, and "Evangelical World Mission and the World Evangelical Fellowship" by WEF's Waldron Scott. folder 7-5 contains a document under a cover letter dated October 17, 1979, entitled "Statement of Organizational Plan and Line of Responsibility and Authority for The Commission on Evangelical Cooperation in World Evangelization." Folder 7-9 includes a history of the Lausanne Committee until 1980, and reports from the following sub commissions are located in folder 7 10: LCWE Evaluation, Relations with Other Bodies, Church and Parachurch, Mission/Church Cooperation, Resources, Personnel and Finance, and Communications. Several of these folders also include the responses and results of a postal vote on nominees to the Committee.
The program section of the records includes material documenting the early planning for the Consultation, including the appointment of David Howard as the Consultation's director. Included in the program section are copies of the plenary papers from the Consultation, some with Ford's annotations (folders 9-7 through 9-9). Another rich source of information are the files from the various study groups, which cover the issues involved in reaching various ethnic, social, or religious groups of people, including nominal Christians, city dwellers, refugees, and Muslims (9-10 through 9-22). The study group files (9-30 and 9-31) further document the work of these groups.
A number of other items, which do not fall into these general groupings, should also be noted. Folder 7-12 relates to the evaluation of the 1980 consultation, specifically as a result of responses to questionnaires, and the report written summarizing those responses by Donald Smith. Folder 7-14 includes remarks made by Sanya Dharmasakti, president of the privy council, who represented the Thai government at the opening ceremony of the consultation. Folders 8-4 and 8-5 document the decision-making process on the location in which to hold the consultation. Folder 8-27 documents the discussion on what degree of openness to the press should be arranged. The reports in folders 9-24 through 9-26 are actually progress reports prior to the meeting and evaluation reports afterward.
Chairman | Ford | Congress and consultations | American Festival on Evangelism 1981
Date Range: 1980-1981
Boxes: 109 (folder 12)
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, financial records and reports, lists, press releases, and other documents from the planning and convening of the national congress on evangelization Correspondents: Ford, Jack Dain, Thomas Zimmerman, Alan Emery, Vonette Bright, Paul Benjamin, Bill Hogue, Hugh Maclellan, Sr.
Chairman | Ford | Congress and consultations | Singapore '87
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1984-1988
Boxes: 110
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, form letters, financial records, mailing and participant lists, program materials, post-consultation evaluation comments
Correspondents: Ford, Brian Stiller (Young Leaders Committee director), Ramez Attalah, and other members of the executive committee
Subjects: Christian leadership, Leadership
Notes: These files consist of Ford's record of planning for this "international gathering for younger leaders [about three hundred] committed to world evangelization"
Chairman | Ford | Congress and consultations | Leadership '88
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1985-1988
Boxes: 111
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, directory, meeting minutes, reports, lists, form letters
Correspondents: Ford, Glandion Carney, Bill Ditewig, Becky Manley Pippert, Brad Smith, Bryant Myers, Ted Engstrom
Subjects: Christian leadership, Leadership
Notes: These files comprise Ford's record of planning for this "networking conference" for young leaders in the United States, held in Washington, DC
Chairman | Ford | Congress and consultations | International Congress of World Evangelization II (or Lausanne II)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1974-1991 (bulk 1983-1989)
Boxes: 111-115
Geographic coverage: international
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, minutes, reports, contingency plans, ballots and tallies for Executive Committee decisions, a vision statement, evaluations
Correspondents: Ford, Donald Hoke, Jack Dain, Ford Madison, Ed Dayton, Bill Jefferson, Brian Stiller, John Reid, Paul McKaughan, Thomas Wang, and other LCWE members and Congress personnel
Notes: Ford files in launching, planning and convening the congress in Manila. Included are letters expressing the sense of need for a second congress. Exceptional items: A report following the congress giving the World Council of Churches' perspective on the event, its emphasis and deliberations (folder 112-2); files on the consideration and selection of various sites for the congresses, starting with a return to Lausanne, agreeing on Singapore and finally selecting Manila (folders 112-7, 8, 9); preliminary drafts of the "Manila Manifesto" that was prepared before the Congress and then adopted at the meeting (folder 112-10); Leighton Ford's opening and closing addresses at the Congress (folders 112-11, 12); participant selection deliberations (folder 113-4) and a notebook (folder 113-2) consisting of participant data (arranged geographically by country represented and alphabetically by participant name; Ford's program-related files (folders 114-7, 8, 9, 10) recording the process as the planners gave shape to the topics to be addressed and selected corresponding speakers; among these are the contents of the program notebook (folder 114-10); a late-1989 report, "Resources for Follow on Planning," tracking planned action as a result of the Congress (folder 115-2); correspondence related to relations with the Filipino Catholic Church and the status of lay and clergy participants in the Congress (folder 115-3); correspondence and minutes of meetings and conference calls of Steering Committee (folders 115-6, 7, 8).
Chairman | John Reid (International Chairman) There are no records currently in this subseries
Chairman | Fergus Macdonald (International Chairman) There are no records currently in this subseries
Chairman | Paul Cedar (Executive Chairman)
Arrangement: Alphabetical (roughly)
Date Range: 1989-2004
Boxes: 318-320
Geographic coverage: International and domestic United States
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos (also in e-mail or fax formats), committee lists, meeting agendas and minutes, 1991 financial statement, LCWE directories (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001), incorporation papers, publications
Correspondents: Cedar, John Siewert, Fergus Macdonald, Luis Bush (AD 2000), Gary Barnes (Interim International Coordinator of LCWE), Paul Eshleman (JESUS film project), Tom Houston, Bryant Myers and Elmer Wilson (World Vision), Leighton Ford, other LCWE leaders and members from various national Lausanne organizations and US leaders, international church and ministry leaders and representatives
Notes: The files reflect Cedar's role as LCWE Executive Chairman (1998-2004), as well as being a part of Lausanne USA. During the period of Cedar's position as LCWE chair, the major regional, topical and global events that took place included the 1998 Consultation on Nominalism in London, the 1999 Sixth International Conference on Jewish Evangelism in New York, the 2000 Consultation on Spiritual Warfare in Nairobi, the 2001 Sixth Chinese Consultation on World Evangelization in Kuala Lumpur, the 2001 Third International Researchers Conference in Thailand, the 2002 Asia Lausanne Conference on Evangelism in Seoul, the 2003 Seventh Conference on Jewish Evangelism in Helsinki, the 2003 Second Brazilian Congress on Evangelism in Belo Horizonte, and the 2004 Forum on World Evangelization in Pattaya, Thailand; correspondence and other documents in the subseries may make reference to these events. The files were arranged by the archivist. The major subcategories are: Correspondence, Lausanne International and Lausanne US. Some of Cedar's outgoing correspondence is written on Mission America letterhead (the US Lausanne Committee, formed in 1975, evolved into Mission America in 1993 and in 1995 becoming the Mission America Coalition); Cedar was already active in the US Lausanne Committee at the time of the 1989 Second International Congress on World Evangelization in Manila - the 1993 reorganization is reflected in these documents, especially folder 319-5, with roots going back to the period after the 1989 international Congress in Manila as shown in folder 319-10. Although Cedar's contacts reflected in the subseries are widespread throughout the world, correspondence and other communication with European LCWE members and contacts seem to be more highly represented than other regions of the world. Another theme reflected throughout the files are the contribution and role of women in the Lausanne movement.
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer
Arrangement: by officer
Date Range: 1949, 1972-1990
Volume: 110.0 linear feet
Notes: This series documents the administration and ongoing operation of the Committee by its chief executive officer, from its beginning in 1975, including the major international conferences and consultations sponsored by the Lausanne Committee.
Chief Executive Officer | Gottfried Osei-Mensah
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1972-1987
Boxes: 10-25, 81, 150-169, 325
Correspondents: Primarily the Executive Secretary as the creator or recipient of correspondence, memos, and reports
Chief Executive Officer | Osei-Mensah | Nairobi
Arrangement: The overall arrangement of Osei Mensah's records was provided by the archivist, as was that of each subdivision.
The arrangement scheme was based on the folder titles used by Osei Mensah, which have remained as they were received. The materials have been subdivided into twelve subseries as follows (the arrangement scheme is noted in parentheses):
Date Range: 1972-1981
Boxes: 10-25, 81, 325
Correspondents: Primarily the Executive Director as the creator or recipient of correspondence, memos, and reports
Notes: These records, like those of Leighton Ford's LCWE records, record the very beginning of the Committee, and also include some materials from the 1974 Congress. Gottfried Osei-Mensah held this position over the whole period covered by the records. They consist of his files of correspondence, minutes, memos, reports, and other administrative materials, all of which extensively document his tenure as LCWE Executive Secretary.
Chief Executive Officer | Osei-Mensah | Administrative
Exceptional items: Folders 10-2 through 10-4 and 10-9 through 10-12 contain the prepared reports of the Chairman, Executive Secretary, and Deputy Executive Officer. These reports were written for the members of the LCWE and/or its Executive Committee, and deal with developments within the LCWE, international developments having a bearing on the activity of the Committee, and progress on the goals of the Committee. Worthy of note is folder 10-2 which contains reports from A. Jack Dain during his one year leadership of the Continuation Committee in 1975. Unexpected yet significant items in these files include the job descriptions of the LCWE chairman (folder 10-2) and Executive Secretary (folder 10-9).
Folders 10 13 and 14 contain biographical background information on LCWE members and alternates.
The "Originals Copied" files referred to in the container list for folders 11-7 through 17 consist of the original documents which were copied for various reports and committee meetings.
Folder 11-18 contains correspondence on two questionnaires, one used to gather biographical information on LCWE members, and a proposal for the second to gather and disseminate information about needs around the world.
Folder 11-1 contains two articles on theological interpretation and orientation entitled "Linguistic Hang Ups in Communicating with Muslims" and "The Birth of Theology." Folders 11-2 through 6 contain articles and papers, largely those presented by Osei Mensah and LCWE Executive Assistant, John Howell. Titles include: "Why PACLA?", "Martyrdom in Uganda," "The Potential of Christianity in Africa," "The Orthodox Church and Evangelicals," "The Gospel and Culture," "The Theology of Persecution," and "That All Nations Might Believe and Obey Jesus Christ."
Chief Executive Officer | Osei-Mensah | 1974 Congress & 1980 LCWE Consultation
Exceptional items: Folders 13-7 through 13-16 are files Osei Mensah inherited from Jack Dain and containing correspondence and completed questionnaires grouped by geographical region. These questionnaires were a part of the follow up program of the Congress in an attempt to monitor and plan the ongoing impact of the Congress.
The materials from the Homogeneous Unit Principle Consultation (folders 13-23 and 13-24) include correspondence and papers presented at the meeting in 1977. Folder 325-13 contains a rough draft of the report of the consultation, apparently in Stott’s handwriting, as well as notes on the conference taken by Timothy Hall, a graduate student who attended. The files on the Gospel and Culture Consultation (folders 13-25 through 13-29) contain these types of documents as well, but also include a record of the proceedings and biographical information on the participants. The principal correspondents in these later files are Peter Savage, John Stott, Donald Hoke, John Howell, and Leighton Ford. The correspondence also includes budget information on the Willowbank meeting.
The COWE files are similar to those found in Leighton Ford's files. Folder 14-4 includes completed questionnaires on existing cooperation in evangelization efforts among evangelicals. Folder 14-5 contains a document on a proposal to change the name of the Lausanne Committee, as well as correspondence discussing the issue. Folder 14-8 includes James Engel's notes on and the tabulated results of the survey conducted to evaluate the Thailand consultation. Folders 14-13 through 14-18 contain the surveys completed by COWE participants, offering a complete picture in raw form of the participants’ feelings about the Consultation. Folder 14-11 and 12 contain a pre COWE questionnaire to solicit input on the then proposed consultation.
Materials in the press file (folders 15-13 and 14) deal with the issue of the press's accessibility to the Consultation, as well as outlining the actual plan implemented at Pattaya.
Correspondents; 1975 1981 (folders 16-1 to 23)
Exceptional items: Folder 16 19 includes a letter from Osei Mensah to Philip Potter, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches regarding the rather negative press evangelicals received following the 1976 Assembly of the WCC.
Chief Executive Officer | Osei-Mensah | LCWE Publications
Exceptional items: Folder 24-4 contains a 1975 memo on the continued circulation of the Lausanne quarterly bulletin and includes the tabulated responses to a questionnaire which was sent out.
Chief Executive Officer | Osei-Mensah | LCWE International Office (London)
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1972-1987
Boxes: 150-169 Notes: The records in this series document the operation of the central LCWE office in London (the files as received were not segregated by staff person), primarily during the period from 1981-1984. (Among the documents are files Osei-Mensah, Dain and Howell brought from the preceding several years, including those from the 1980 Consultation in Thailand, while some later documents have also been interfiled into the series beyond the time when the International Office was in operation.) Although the Lausanne Committee worked primarily from the location of its chief executives, the international headquarters was established in London where Executive Secretary Gottfried Osei Mensah had relocated from Nairobi in 1981 following the 1980 COWE consultation in Thailand. (Following his resignation in 1984, the LCWE again functioned from the location of its primary officers without a centralized headquarters.)
Chief Executive Officer | Osei-Mensah | General
Arrangement: Alphabetical according to folder title following the titling of the International Office staff
Date Range: 1972-1987
Boxes: 150-166, 286 (folder 286-4)
Geographic coverage: International with only a small amount related to Great Britain where the office was located
Type of documents: Primarily correspondence, memos and reports; also questionnaires, lists, manuscripts of messages or articles
Correspondents: Gottfried Osei-Mensah (Executive Secretary), A. Jack Dain (General Coordinator), John Howell (COWE Director of Operations, Executive Assistant, Deputy Executive Officer), Jane Rainey (Administrative Assistant), Leighton Ford, LCWE Executive Committee or Full Committee members, Ed Dayton (chairman of the Strategy Working Group), David Howard (COWE director and later general secretary of the World Evangelical Fellowship), British church and parachurch leaders, and church and parachurch leaders throughout the world Notes: This subseries consists of a record of much routine operation of the office and coordinating the LCWE's activity worldwide (hiring of staff and other personnel matters, fund raising and financial management, communication among LCWE membership and supporters, distribution of LCWE publications like the Lausanne Occasional Papers, World Day of Prayer (folders 166-4, 5, 6, 7, 8), nominations of Committee members (including subdivided by geographical region), relocation of Osei-Mensah from Nairobi to London (see folder 161-3), and the 1984 closing of the office there (see folder 161-6). It also includes a record of substantive deliberations and decisions, many leading up to or flowing from the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE) held in Thailand. Among these prominent bodies or issues were the LCWE's Commission on Cooperation (on which Chua Wee Hian played a prominent role), interaction and cooperation with fraternal organizations like WEF (also see folder 163-10), long range planning (folders 154-9, 10 and 155-1) and vision development (folder 163-9), working groups (Communications Advisory Group in folders 164-1, 2, 3, 4; Intercession Advisory Group in folders 164-5, 6; Strategy Working Group in folders 165-1 to 6 and 166-1; Theology Working Group in folders 166-2, 3), and the meetings in Great Britain and Kenya of the Evangelical /Roman Catholic Dialogue on Mission (ERCDOM) in which John Stott was a participant. One program developed during this period was the Lausanne Associates, who were appointed by vote of Committee members to serve as coordinators for a specific ministry area (large cities, church/parachurch relationships) or reaching a specific people group (Jews, Buddhists, Muslims) as emphasized during the 1980 Consultation in Thailand. Staff-related files are gathered together under Personnel for Leanne Ellem, Jane Fraser, John Howell, Stan Izon, Bill Jefferson, Pat Newth; also see folder 163-4 related to the appointment of Carl Johansson as Executive Director in 1984. Detailed financial information (invoices, a record of paid or collectable orders, publication orders, etc.) were very selectively sampled with the remainder not included in the processed collection and disposed of at the request of the LCWE.
Exceptional items: Folder 150-7 records the development of an audio-visual program on the Lausanne covenant developed by InterVarsity's 2100 division. Folders 150-8, 9, 153-8 and 161-4 consist of documents related to travels by Ray Baake and Don McCurry, working in conjunction with the Strategy Working Group and MARC as follow-up to the 1980 COWE consultation to explore furthering the role and contribution of the Lausanne Committee, specifically in the areas of urban and Muslim evangelization. Included are the two extensive transcripts of interviews with Ray Bakke about his observations and encounters during a tour of Latin America and Asian urban centers following the 1980 COWE; (also see folder 163-7 for more on coordination related to urban evangelization). Also included is a report by Don McCurry on his 1982 survey tour of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Singapore, Philippines to examine "the advance of the gospel among Muslims in Asia" (also see folder 161-4 for more on witness to Muslims). Folder 150-10 relates to a proposed consultation for agencies involved in Bible distribution. For the files related to the Lausanne Associates see folders 153-1 through 154-4.
Chief Executive Officer | Osei-Mensah | COWE
Date Range: 1978-1983
Boxes: 166-169
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, memos, financial reports, questionnaires
Correspondents: Leighton Ford, David Howard, John Howell, Jane Rainey, other COWE personnel, Committee members
Notes: These files are a continuation of those Osei-Mensah and associates kept as part of the COWE process (see also the Osei-Mensah and COWE Wheaton Office subseries). A valuable addition are the participant list files (folders 167-4, 5) and the acceptance forms that include biographical information on the participants (folders 169-1, 2, 3).
Exceptional items: Folder 166-13 includes a signed "Statement of Concerns" presented at COWE and responses to the statement and its emphasis and follow-up after the meeting.
Chief Executive Officer | Carl Johansson (Executive Director)
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1979-1989
Boxes: 133-150
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports
Correspondents: Primarily the Executive Director as the creator or recipient of correspondence, memos, and reports
Notes: The files in this subseries are primarily those of Johansson up to the point of his resignation on September 30, 1985; the subseries also includes the files of Irv Chambers in his temporary capacity of Acting Executive Director (with Leighton Ford assuming greater day to day responsibilities as well) until Thomas Wang was appointed International Director in 1986. The files record the routine operation of the LCWE, ongoing discussions about issues and decisions, the transition to Thomas Wang's appointment as International Director, the announcement to hold the Lausanne II Congress, other international or regional meetings, and collaborations and attempts to strengthen Evangelical commitments and activity throughout the world.
Chief Executive Officer | Johansson | Chronological correspondence
Arrangement: Chronological by month
Date Range: 1981-1986
Boxes: 133-139, 286 (folder 286-7)
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, etc.
Correspondents: Johansson, Leighton Ford, Irv Chambers, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Jack Dain, Ed Dayton, other members of the LCWE Executive and General Committees, and Evangelical leaders throughout the world
Notes: The correspondence files bring together the incoming and outgoing routine office correspondence of the Director; while routine, it nonetheless touches on the important deliberations and decisions of the Director and the Lausanne Committee.
Exceptional items: Included are two folders (Folder 133-1, 2) that identify all the correspondence by number in this subseries.
Chief Executive Officer | Johansson | Executive and Full Committee
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1979-1988
Boxes: 140-143
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, agenda and minutes, reports, lists of Executive and Full Committees, lists of meeting participants, decision ballots
Correspondents: Johansson, Leighton Ford, Irv Chambers, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Jack Dain, Ed Dayton, other members of the LCWE Executive and General Committees, and Evangelical leaders throughout the world
Notes: These files record the activity of both the primary executive bodies of the LCWE and the Executive Director (primarily Johansson but also Osei-Mensah and Irv Chambers) Exceptional items: Folder 140-1 records an early step in the process of shaping the format and emphasis of the Lausanne II Congress; Committee members, alternates and group members were invited to add reflections on the Executive Committee's discussion on the purpose statement, issues and outcomes. Folders 140-2, 3 contain ballots on the decision to hold the second congress in Lausanne and the selection of the next International Director.
Chief Executive Officer | Johansson | Organizations
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1984
Boxes: 143-144
Type of documents: Correspondence, press releases, publications
Correspondents: Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Leighton Ford, Carl Johansson, and other Committee members and representatives of the agencies
Notes: These files document the Executive Director's (primarily Osei-Mensah's) interactions with other organizations, including Africa Christian Fellowship, African Evangelistic Enterprise, Africa Inland Mission, BGEA, Chinese Coordination Centre of World Evangelism, Evangelical Missionary Alliance, Lutheran World Federation, Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Operation Mobilization, Scripture Union, Southern Baptist Convention, United Bible Societies, World Council of Churches, World Evangelical Fellowship, World Vision, Youth for Christ.
Exceptional items: Folder 143-25 includes the text of Osei-Mensah's presentation "Cooperation and World Evangelization" in 1981 at the 2nd Chinese Congress on World Evangelization.
Chief Executive Officer | Johansson | Conferences
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1979-1989
Boxes: 144-150, 286 (folders 286-2, 3, 5, 6)
Type of documents: Correspondence, presentation manuscripts, reports, press releases, meeting program materials, meeting statements, participant lists, evaluations, bibliographies
Correspondents: Osei-Mensah, Johansson, Leighton Ford, Jack Dain, Dave Howard, Ron Sider, Brian Stiller, Paul Cedar, conference coordinators, liaison or staff
Notes: This subseries relates primarily to LCWE conferences and events (either held or in the planning stages), as well as those that Johansson (or Osei-Mensah) attended as a representative of LCWE. Among the meetings represented are the 1979 Simple Lifestyle Consultation, the World Council of Churches, Melbourne 1980 conference, 1981 American Festival of Evangelism, 1982 Consulta Evangelica Latinoamericana (Consultation of Evangelicals of Latin America), 1982 Consultation on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility, Mission '83 (sponsored by the European Missionary Association), Wheaton '83, Amsterdam '83, 1984 International Prayer Assembly, Danvik '84 (sponsored by the Norwegian Lausanne Committee), Houston '85, 1985 Conference on the Laity, 1985 Consultation on the Holy Spirit (also called Oslo '85), Amsterdam '86, 1986 Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism, Danvik '86, 1988 European Leaders Conference on World Evangelization, Singapore '87 (also called Younger Leaders Conference), 1987 COMIBAM (Ibero-American Missions Congress), Mission '87 (in the Netherlands), 1988 Lausanne Pastors Consultation, 1988 Consultation on Conversion (in Hong Kong), 1988 Irish Congress on Evangelism.
Chief Executive Officer | Thomas Wang (International Director)
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1949, 1973-1990 [bulk 1985-1989]
Boxes: 169-202, 205-285
Notes: These records reflect the activity of the Lausanne Committee during the administration of Thomas Wang as International Director, primarily reflecting the planning and holding of the Lausanne II meeting in 1989 in Manila, Philippines.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Office (Singapore)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1977-1989 [bulk 1985-1989]
Boxes: 202-205 Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, lists
Correspondents: Wang, Leighton Ford, Jack Dain, Ed Dayton, John Reid, Jim Newton, Paul McKaughan, Don Hoke, other LCWE executives, Full Committee and Executive Committee members, working group chairpersons, Evangelical leaders throughout the world
Notes: These files record Wang's activity and contacts while located at the LCWE's international office in Singapore (1987-1989), especially preparation for the 1989 Lausanne II Congress, initially announced to occur in Singapore. Included is a chronological subseries for 1987 arranged by month, a file for the European Lausanne Committee (folder 203-15), working group files, information regarding selecting the venue for the 1989 Congress, and then transitioning from the initially agreed-upon Singapore location to Manila (folders 204-9, 10, 11), LCWE relationships with Roman Catholics (especially in light of the Congress being held in predominantly Catholic Philippines (folder 204-20), staff files.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Office (Pasadena)
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1949, 1973-1990
Boxes: 169-285
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Director and Associate Director
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1973-1990
Boxes: 207-223
Notes: These files of International Director Thomas Wang and Associate International Director Paul McKaughan reflect their activity, oversight of LCWE, and preparation for the Lausanne II Congress. McKaughan was located in the LCWE's Pasadena office when it opened in 1987, while Wang worked in Singapore between 1987 and 1989 in anticipation of the Lausanne II Congress being held there; once the Congress venue was switched to Manila, Wang joined the staff at the Pasadena office in early 1989. These files document the activity from the Pasadena office, and although this includes some from Wang when he was in Pasadena, the bulk reflect McKaughan's communication, including that with Wang in Singapore, and activities. The files are arranged as received, subdivided into a number of smaller subseries.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Director and Associate Director | Correspondence
Arrangement: Alphabetical by author
Date Range: 1973-1989
Boxes: 207-213
Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, proposed drafts of documents intended for broader or public distribution
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Ramez Atallah (Egypt), Ray Bakke (Lausanne Urban Associates), Gary Clark (Associate Director of Program), Jack Dain (Lausanne II Participant Selection Chairman), Ed Dayton (Lausanne II Director of Program), Ajith Fernando (Youth for Christ national director in Sri Lanka), Leighton Ford (LCWE Chairman), Bill Hogue (Executive Director of California Southern Baptist Convention), Don Hoke (LCWE Treasurer), Tom Houston (president of World Vision, designated LCWE International Director following Lausanne II Congress), John Howell (Associate Director of Program), Ricardo Jumawan (Executive Vice President and Operations Director of Manila office), Tom McAlpine (Lausanne Associate for Country Research and assisting Program Director Ed Dayton), David Norcross (Wilcox World Travel and Tours), Warwick Olson (Communications Working Group chairman), Gottfried Osei-Mensah (former LCWE Executive Secretary), Roger Parrott (LCWE Secretary, Director of US LCWE Operations), Mary Lance Sisk (possibly Leighton Ford's secretary), Brad Smith (Participant Selection Committee director), John Stott, C. Peter Wagner (professor of church growth)
Notes: The subseries consists of files of correspondence segregated by individual (all of them LCWE Executive or Full Committee members, related to Lausanne activities, planning, events, especially the 1989 Lausanne II Congress in Manila.
Exceptional items: Biographical sketches of LCWE figures are compiled in (but not limited to) folder 207-14.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Director and Associate Director | LCWE
Arrangement: Subsections roughly alphabetical within each
Date Range: 1975-1990
Boxes: 213-218
Geographic coverage: international
Type of documents: Correspondence, lists of Committee members, information and promotional publications, minutes and reports from Executive and Full Committee meetings, constitution and by-laws (1984-1989), biographical questionnaires,
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Ford, Ed Dayton, LCWE executives, international Evangelical leaders
Notes: The files in this subseries reflect the overall activity of the LCWE, largely being coordinated in a programmatic way from its Pasadena office, but also include documents used for background by the LCWE staff. Included are such activities as: the ongoing process of replenishing the Executive and Full Committees with new members; the activity of the International Advisory Council (also see the IAC subseries below); deliberations of the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (folder 215-11); organizations LCWE had dealings with including the US Lausanne Committee (folder 216-3), Catholics (folder 216-4), the Congress on Evangelization of the Caribbean or CONELA (folder 216-5), ISSACHAR Frontier Missions Strategies relating to the Tentmaker Taskforce and Tentmaker Resource Guide (folder 216-8; also see Project Jericho), and World Evangelical Fellowship (later World Evangelical Alliance, folder 216-9); the Senior Associates program (folders 217-1 through 9); staff related materials (box 217); intercession, strategy and theology advisory or working group files (boxes 217 and 218).
Exceptional items: See folder 213-11 for documents that were part of the LCWE's future planning process; folders 214-1 and 213-12 for the promotional publications Let the Earth Hear His Voice (1983) and Toward Century 21 (1985); folder 214-4 for the historical The Lausanne Story; Project First Born about outreach to Muslims (folder 216-11) and Project Jericho (folder 216-12).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Director and Associate Director | Meetings
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1984-1989
Boxes: 219
Geographic coverage: Asia, Europe, Latin America
Type of documents: Correspondence, conference materials, participant lists, promotional material
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Vonette Bright, Fred Magbanua, international Evangelical leaders,
Notes: Files for the 1984 International Prayer Assembly (folder 219-1), the Asia Lausanne Committee in Hong Kong (folder 219-2), the Researchers Conferences in Latin America and Zeist, Netherlands (folder 219-3), the 1987 Asia Leadership Conference on Evangelism or ALCOWE (folders 219-5 to 11), 1988 Singapore Pastors Consultation (folder 219-12), and 1988 European Leadership Conference on World Evangelization or ELCOWE (folder 219-13).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Director and Associate Director | Lausanne II
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1975-1989
Boxes: 219-221
Geographic coverage: Primarily Pasadena (location of the international office) and Manila (Congress venue)
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, lists, time lines, meeting minutes, incorporation articles, job descriptions, press releases
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Leighton Ford, Ricardo Jumawan, Sharon Chan, Ed Dayton, Coreen Bakke, Bill Ditewig, LCWE executives and staff,
Notes: Files maintained by McKaughan and Wang documenting the planning and implementation of plans for the Congress in Manila, including arrangements, operations of the office in Manila, arrangements (for public relations, security, Congress decor and signs, stewards, translators, musicians and artists), program materials (folders 220-13 and 221-1), venue selection, and post-Congress follow-up activities.
Exceptional items: Included is the "Manila Christian Declaration on the Beijing Massacre" (folder 219-19), early planning documents dating back to 1984 (folder 220-1), negotiations with Wilcox World Travel and Tours (folder 220-5), the Manila Manifesto (folder 220-6), the welcome to the participants from Philippine Senator Jovito Salonga (folder 220-7), the program booklet for the Philippine Congress on World Evangelization (folder 220-9), a record of the LCWE discussion and attempts to "leave the Philippines with relationships between the Evangelicals and the Roman Catholics just a little bit more cordial than they may be at present," and a position paper by the Christian Leaders' Alliance of the Philippines (both in folder 221-3), the file on the search for the Operations Director that ended in the appointment of Ricardo Jumawan (folder 221-4), Robyn Claydon's and others' correspondence on the role of women and their selection as participants (folder 221-13).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Director and Associate Director | Communications
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1983-1989
Boxes: 221-223
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, grant proposal, clippings, budgets, staff lists, press releases and newsletters
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Leighton Ford, Joseph Sindorf (Director of Communications), Jim Newton (consultant and Congress Media Director), Steve Downey, Warwick Olson (Chairman of Communications Working Group),
Notes: Files document the planning and implementation of public relations efforts and conveying the goals and vision of LCWE and the Congress. Included are Communications Committee materials (folder 221-17) along with material on developing the Congress logo, Communications Working Group (folder 222-1), a file of sample clippings of media coverage of the event (folder 222-5), correspondence with and among Communications Office staff, the record of the development and production of World Evangelization Information Service publications (folders 223-2,3). Also see the Communications Office subseries below.
Exceptional items: A number of draft versions and the final form of Jim Newton's "A Strategy for Implementing a Comprehensive, International Communications Program" are found in the subseries. Also included are a report from the 1988 meeting of the International Christian Media Commission in Germany (Folder 222-2), "some of the stories of key people in LCWE" (folder 222-3, including Oddvar Sovik, Ajith Fernando, Thomas Wang, Ray Bakke, Sam Odunaike, and David Gitari), a list of media staff (folder 222-6), and a file on CONELA or the Confraternidad Evangelica Latinoamericana (folder 222-7).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | International Director and Associate Director | Finance and fundraising
Arrangement: Alphabetical Date Range: 1982-1989
Boxes: 223
Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Correspondence, and letters accompanying financial gifts and LCWE replies of thanks, reports Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Ford, Donald Hoke (LCWE Treasurer), Roger Parrott, international Evangelical leaders
Notes: The subseries documents the financial operation, fund-raising and reporting of LCWE and the Congress during the period leading up to the 1989 meeting in Manila. Included are grant proposals to selected churches (folder 223-8) and "major donors" (folder 223-9).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1949, 1973-1990
Boxes: 224-229, 238-285
Notes: These files consist of the records of the program development for LCWE events, predominantly the 1989 Lausanne II Congress, for the time period covered while Thomas Wang was LCWE's International Director. Among the significant figures overseeing this function in addition to Wang were Program Chairman Paul McKaughan (later Congress Coordinator) followed by Saphir Athyal; Program Director Ed Dayton (assisted by Tom McAlpine); Associate Director of Program Gary Clark (also the track coordinator), followed by John Howell. Dayton was initially the International Participant Selection Committee Chairman, and so some of his files related to that function also overlapped into this subseries. Dayton was also the Chair of the Strategy Working Group, but during this time period that function was transferred from his base location at World Vision to the Pasadena Office and into LCWE.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Leadership '88
Arrangement: Subdivided further by the conference office into the following (see folder 224-10 for filing list):
Boxes: 224-229
Geographic coverage: United States
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, lists, memos, forms, meeting transcripts, planning documents, newsletters, mailings, promotional material, survey questionnaires and conference evaluations, minutes, purposed statements, staff lists, program material, weekly reports and tax-related documents
Correspondents: Bill Ditewig, Glandion Carney (chairman), Ted Engstrom (Senior Advisory Council chair), Leighton Ford, Becky Pippert (co-chair), Roger Parrott (Director of Operations, LCWE US), Jack Hayford, Paul Cedar, Bryant Meyers, LCWE administrators.
Notes: Files of the administrators of the four-day conference in Washington DC "to encourage and equip emerging Christian leaders in the United States to take aggressive leadership to complete the Great Commission in this generation." In addition to the aspects of the operation documented in the list above are participant selection (folders 227-21, 228-3), promotion (folder 228-1 and others in the Communication files), staffing of the conference office and event, and budget. The conference files were received in very organized order. Folder 224-10 contains the filing list as it was maintained in the Leadership '88 office. Not all files on the list were sent to the Archives, and duplicates were not retained, and documents on financial and operational details were only very selectively retained.
Exceptional items: Several conference organizational charts in folders 224-3 and 226-13, a file on Singapore '87 (folder 224-14), and LCWE members list (folder 225-3), fund-raising guidelines, transcripts of the Senior Advisory Committee's December 1986 meeting (folders 226-1, 2), marketing strategy (folder 227-24).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Lausanne II, 1989
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1949, 1974-1990
Boxes: 238-285
Notes: This subseries documents the planning and coordinated activity to hold the Congress, with primary emphasis on the content covered in the plenary and track sessions and forms the primary record of the Lausanne II Congress in the LCWE records collection. The plenary sessions were the large-group gatherings of all the participants; the track sessions were elective sessions held throughout the Congress on specialized topics such as Unreached Peoples or Tentmakers. Among the significant figures overseeing this function in addition to Wang were Program Chairman Paul McKaughan (later Congress Coordinator) followed by Saphir Athyal; Program Director Ed Dayton (assisted by Tom McAlpine); Associate Director of Program Gary Clark (also the track coordinator), followed by John Howell. Because Dayton was initially the International Participant Selection Committee Chairman, some of his files related to that function appear in this subseries; Dayton was also the Chair of the Strategy Working Group, but during this time period that function was transferred from his base of operations at World Vision to the LCWE's oversight at the Pasadena Office. Overlap among files in the series is likely, but no attempt was made to substantially eliminate duplicates.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Lausanne II, 1989 | General program
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1949, 1974-1990
Boxes: 262-285
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, reports (pre-Congress planning and post Congress), meeting agendas and minutes, flow charts, biographical sketches for platform chairs and artists, lists, financial reports, charts, checklists, organizational chart (folder 265-3), executive plan (folder 265-4), Congress publications, questionnaires, manuscripts, Congress notebook (folder 272-5), press releases, brochures
Correspondents: Primarily Ed Dayton, Gary Clark, also Paul McKaughan, Ric Jumawan, Jim Newton, Leighton Ford, Graham Kerr, other Congress staff, LCWE administrators, Congress steering team,
Notes: General files related to managing all aspects of the Congress, including logistics, facilities, plenary and elective sessions, and allocation of personnel. Among the functions documented are bookstore operation, transportation, computers, Congress declaration, development and production of the Congress notebook (including translation), publications (including the advance reader, compendium, newspaper, newsletter in several languages), currency exchange, communication with and guidance for the Congress's daily chairpersons, facility signs and decorations, equipment and stage setup, exhibits, attempts to gather feedback from participants throughout the Congress, pre-Congress planning focus groups, interpretation and translation, magazine publicity, meals for participants, coordination with the media, national meetings by country, offering, operations, participant selection, plenary session, post-Congress plans, prayer, program (including the Program Committee), speakers (and responders), stewards, tracks (elective), travel, video segments used during plenary sessions, worship, etc. The folder titles throughout the subseries are largely self-explanatory. Some of Dayton's files appear to be primarily related to World Vision with some crossover to the LCWE. Several computer disks consisting of word processing versions of printed documents were not retained in the processed collection.
Exceptional items:
Other post-Congress reports include Dudley Woodberry's on the Reaching Muslims track (folder 270-7).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Lausanne II, 1989 | Plenary sessions
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1984-1989
Boxes: 238-246
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, resource notebooks, form letters, lists, message manuscripts, checklists, response papers, projected program for the entire plenary session, press releases, review comments, formulation of the session content and emphasis, script for video to be shown in conjunction with the plenary message, biographical sketches of speakers Correspondents: Ed Dayton, Saphir Athyal, Gary Clark, Thomas Wang, Leighton Ford, Paul McKaughan, plenary speakers (Lucien Accad, Tokunboh Adeyemo, Martin Alphonse, Panya Baba, Ray Bakke, Brother Andrew, Eva Burrows, Luis Bush, Michael Cassidy, Colin Chapman, Philemon Choi, Robyn Claydon, Joni Eareckson-Tada, Ajith Fernando, Billy Graham, Os Guinness, Edna Lee Gutierrez, Pete Hammond, Jack Hayford, Roberta Hestenes, Tom Houston, Peter Kuzmic, Jong-Yun Lee, Eduardo M. Maling, Caesar Molebatsi, Bill O'Brien, George Otis, J.I. Packer, Luis Palau, Ulrich Parzany, David Penman, Vinay Samuel, John Stott, Carmelo Terranova, Stephen Tong, Thomas Wang, David Wells), LCWE executives
The plenary messages included the following topics:
Notes: For each of the plenary sessions, a series of several or all of the following files are included: Program design, the Speaker, General correspondence, Plenary paper, Responders, and Video script. In addition to files for the plenary messages, several files are included for other events, among them: Citywide rally (folder 244-5), Sunday events (folder 245-2), Torch Run (folders 245-3,4).
Exceptional items: Letter of greeting from Philippines president Corazon Aquino (folder 238 15); video script for "The Flame Is Now in Us" (folder 242-3); a letter to Billy Graham about his participation as a speaker at the Congress (folder 243-12); Rolf Scheffbuch's post Congress reflection on the Lausanne movement (folder 244-6); plenary notebook subdivided into three files (folders 246-1,2,3) with numerous subsections, most by topic, used to coordinate the details of the entire plenary program, including featured speakers for each session and projected time for their portion.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Lausanne II, 1989 | Track sessions (John Howell)
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1978-1989 (bulk 1984-1989)
Boxes: 246-256
Notes: Files, primarily those of Associate Director of Program John Howell, related to the development of the Congress track sessions, including correspondence, notebooks, lists, reports and more.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Lausanne II, 1989 | Track
Arrangement: Numerically by track
Date Range: 1978-1989 (bulk 1984-1989)
Boxes: 246-254
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos (frequently among Congress staff or with track or session leaders), documents developing the ideas and content of the tracks, forms, checklists, session outlines, extensive articles and other material related to the track topic (although not equally extensive), directories of resource people and organizations, resource notebooks, logs of required submissions, questionnaires (sometimes including a small speaker photo) completed by track session leaders (see folders 247-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, although these notebooks are not arranged in numerical track order).
Correspondents: John Howell, Ed Dayton, Gary Clark, Paul McKaughan, track session leaders.
Elective tracks: The elective tracks included the following topics:
The Whole Church:
The Whole Gospel:
The Whole World:
Special Interest Groups:
Within each track are nine sessions on various subjects related to the overall theme.
Notes: This subseries consists primarily of the coordination of logistics for the numerous elective tracks held throughout the Congress. The tracks are not equally represented by the amount of documentation; for example, folders 248-7, 8 and 249-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 contain more extensive correspondence with track leader Robyn Claydon and other contributors to the planning of the Women in Evangelism track, while other tracks are very sparsely documented. AD2000 files relate not only to the AD2000 track at the Congress in Manila, but also to the AD2000 movement and the January 1989 Global Consultation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond (GCOWE 2000) in Singapore (see folder 247-7). Duplicates frequently appeared in the files, but no attempt was made to comprehensively eliminate these.
Exceptional items: Folders 246-4, 5, 6, 7 comprise a resource notebook kept by the staff on all the elective tracks.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Lausanne II, 1989 | Track sessions (John Howell) | General
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1988-1989
Boxes: 254-256
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, checklists, financial reports, notebook contents, form letters, track-related questionnaires, track notebooks with sections for most of the elective track sessions
Correspondents: Howell, Dayton, Communications director Joe Sindorf, Congress Coordinator Paul McKaughan, LCWE Chairman Thomas Wang, office manager Ricardo Jumawan, other Congress staff
Notes: Howell's general files relating to the planning, coordination and operations functions of the Congress, including finances, the Congress notebook and follow-up compendium, and travel.
Exceptional items: Draft version of the Congress notebook (folder 255-1); memo on "assessment of the Roman Catholic-Born Again Situation" in predominantly Catholic Philippines (folder 255-2); personal release and consent form (folder 255-3)
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Lausanne II, 1989 | LCWE-related
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1974-1990
Boxes: 257-262
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, lists, reports, minutes, address lists, resource notebooks, questionnaires, financial information, working group files, staff manual
Correspondents: Ed Dayton, Brad Smith, Paul McKaughan, Leighton Ford, LCWE executives and staff
Notes: Subseries consists of a variety of files with documents related to preparation for the Lausanne II within the broader LCWE structure during the period leading up to Lausanne II, including files on both the American and international Lausanne Committee operations, the American Lausanne Committee (folders 257-2, 3), working group files (Communications in folder 257-13, Strategy in folder 262-3), Executive Committee (folders 258 4,5) and fundraising (folders 258-7, 8), Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (folder 258-14), staff information (folders 261 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15), Senior Associates (folder 261-16)
Exceptional items: Includes AD2000 statement (folder 257-1), Roger Parrott's (Director of US operations) annual report to the US Board and Executive Committee (folder 257-5), notebook on Lausanne Associates (folders 257-6, 7), articles and essay on distinctives and challenges facing LCWE (folder 257-8, 9, 11), including "Greatest Challenge" booklet (folders 257-10), letter regarding the 1988 European Leadership Conference on World Evangelization from ELCOWE Director Viggo Sogaard (folder 258-3), reflections on the future of Lausanne (folder 258-9), index to issues of Lausanne Communique (folder 258-12), minutes and accompanying background documents from meetings of LCWE executive and full committee members spanning 1985 to 1989 (folders 258 15, 259-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 260-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 261-1, 2, 3, 4), the 1988 Lausanne Pastors Consultation Resolution (folder 261-8), registration information for participants in the 1987 Young Leaders Conference (also Singapore '87, folder 261-17), staff bios (folder 261-19), senior staff meeting minutes (folder 262-1), a report on LCWE structure (folder 262-4), and thank you letters to and from Ed Dayton following Lausanne II (folders 262-5,6).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | | Moscow Congress on Evangelization, 1990
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1989-1990
Boxes: 224
Geographic coverage: Then-Soviet Union
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, press releases, LCWE publication in Russian Correspondents: Tom Houston (International Director), Bill Ditewig, Jim Newton, Sharon Chan, Myriam van der Doef, international Evangelical leaders
Notes: Small subseries of files on planning and preparation for the Congress that was convened in Moscow in October 1990. There is very little if any documentation following the event, and the interaction in the subseries is among non-Soviet Evangelicals and LCWE administrators
Exceptional items: Includes a list of non-Soviet participants (folder 224-1) and their registration forms (folder 224-6) and the program and songbooks in Russian and English (folder 224-5).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Participant Selection
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1985-1989
Boxes: 169-202
Geographic coverage: International by specific regions and countries
Notes: This subseries documents the LCWE's planning and implementation to ensure wide Evangelical representation from throughout the world, and contributions by national Evangelical churches to be represented by their leaders. The archivist removed a portion of the subseries that consisted of documents describing either organizational processes or a level of detail not needed for the long-term history of the LCWE, although in some cases leaving a sampling and in others excluding files altogether. Questionnaires were marked confidential and therefore are closed to researcher use until December 31, 2069.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Participant Selection | Correspondence
Arrangement: By geographic region (Africa, East Asia, South Central Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, Western Europe and North America) and then alphabetically by country within each region
Date Range: 1986-1989
Boxes: 169-182, 286 (folder 286-1)
Geographic coverage: International representing most countries of the world
Type of documents: Letters to and from the Lausanne office, lists of potential and approved participants, telegrams
Correspondents: Participant Selection Committee (PSC) Director Brad Smith, Associate Director Carol Kocherhans, Ed Dayton (previous PSC Director), Lausanne Committee executives and members, church and ministry leaders from throughout the world
Notes: The correspondence records the concentrated interaction during the four years leading up to the Lausanne II Congress to ensure diverse representation at the international event.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Participant Selection | Questionnaires
Arrangement: Subdivided into two subseries (reason not specified)
Date Range: 1988-1989
Boxes: 183-198
Geographic coverage: International representing most countries of the world
Type of documents: Almost entirely questionnaires completed by Congress participants prior to attending the Congress in June 1989, although also a little correspondence, checklists, lists
Correspondents: Brad Smith (PSC Director), participants
Notes: The forms are those completed by participants and filed by LCWE staff in preparation for the Congress. Questionnaires were marked confidential and therefore are closed to researcher use until December 31, 2069. The demographic information in these questionnaires provides an international and detailed look at Evangelicals throughout the world, both from developed countries and the developing world with its emerging church. The questionnaires (presumably for all participants but not verified) completed by participants included: name, gender, age, address, country, country of origin and citizenship, education, organization, denominational or church affiliation, languages spoken, nature of occupation, specialized areas of responsibility, other organizations affiliated with, statement of Christian faith and experience, previous major evangelization congresses attended, financial need to attend the congress, publications, and personal references. The questionnaires appear in two further subdivisions: in alphabetical order by personal name (approximately half of the 4,300 that participated in the Congress) consist only those forms, most of them on the form for the congress at the Manila site; a few were completed on the Singapore form. The geographically arranged files for the approximately other half also include questionnaires but also lists, checklists, and some correspondence; most if not all of the questionnaires in this geographically arranged subseries were the Singapore forms. Some random checking suggests that there is little overlap between the two subseries (no copies appear in both), it is not possible to determine the reason for segregating the two from each other. Nonetheless, the demographic information in these questionnaires provides an international and detailed look at Evangelicals throughout the world, both from developed countries and the developing world with its emerging church. Letters or other notes declining the invitation to attend Lausanne II were sampled with most responses discarded.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Participant Selection | Administration
Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title
Date Range: 1989
Boxes: 198-200
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, blank forms
Correspondents: Brad Smith, David Norcross, Bill Ditewig, Paul McKaughan and other LCWE executives
Notes: This small subseries records other activities and logistics of the office, including processing of scholarship requests and subsidies, coordination with Wilcox World Travel and Tours, and post Congress settling of accounts and details.
Exceptional items: The Follow-up file (folder 198-4) includes Brad Smith's report on Congress registration and fee collection, post-Congress reports, and McKaughan's final assessment report.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Participant Selection | Notebooks
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1986-1989
Boxes: 200-202
Notes: The six volumes in the collection served the office as the tracking of process or as a resource. Several others were discarded as unnecessary or duplicating those retained. Most were refoldered out of their plastic binders.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Communications Office
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1979-1989
Boxes: 229-237
Correspondents: Joseph Sindorf, Jim Newton, Carol Kocherhans, Steve Downey, Bill Jefferson,
Notes: Records reflecting strategic and operational planning, coordinating with the Communications Working Group, and using various publications and productions like World Evangelization Information Service to tell the LCWE story and highlight developments and events. Duplicates and documents judged by the archivist to be unnecessary for long-term retention due to being overly detailed in finance or day-to-day operations were removed from the collection.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Communications Office | Communications Officer (Steve Downey)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1987
Boxes: 229-231
Type of documents: Correspondence, articles, memos, AV script, faxes, draft texts for proposed publications, biographical sketches, publications, clippings, prayer calendar
Correspondents: Steve Downey, Bill Jefferson, Leighton Ford, Ed Dayton
Notes: Early records of the LCWE's Communications division, reflecting strategic and operational planning, and helping tell the LCWE story and highlight developments and events through the World Evangelization Information Service and other publications
Exceptional items: Materials from the Chinese Congress on World Evangelization (folder 229 11), the Lausanne Covenant in various languages (folder 229-15), four research reports from Jim Engel's Management Development Associates on a readership survey and survey of LCWE leadership (folders 230-6,7), copies of IDEA or Informations Documents Enquetes Actualites (the French version of World Evangelization Information Service in folder 231-8), 1986 press release about Thomas Wang's appointment as International Director (folder 231-10), 150-200 questionnaires of "younger leaders' names" coordinated during an unidentified LCWE leader's tour of Africa (includes person's name, position in organization, LCWE conferences attended, assessed value of a second congress, suggested venue, suggestions about who to invite, especially younger leaders, in folder 231-11), 1986 press releases announcing Thomas Zimmerman's appointment as president of the US Board of LCWE and Roger Parrott's appointment as Operations Director.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Communications Office | Communications Director (Joseph Sindorf)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1989 [bulk 1988-1989]
Boxes: 231-234
Type of documents: Correspondence, minutes, memos, faxes, clippings, job descriptions, project proposals, press releases, reports
Correspondents: Sindorf, Thomas Wang, Paul McKaughan, Warwick Olson
Notes: Files document contacts with the media, efforts to distribute the Lausanne story, coverage about LCWE or its events by the media, Communication Working Group interaction and contribution, development and copies of LCWE publications, statements of philosophy, Congress planning, the production of the LCWE video, encouraging and managing media presence at Lausanne II, production and copies of the Congress newspaper, production of the Congress program notebook, filling staff positions, contacts with Christian and secular publications, senior staff meetings, and operation of the steering committee.
Exceptional items: Among these are a file on a 1988 World Council of Churches conference (folder 234-18), a video series produced by CBN (folder 234-16), the international Torch Run to promote evangelism and the Lausanne II Congress (folder 234-13), the 1988 report "State of the Communications Program of the Lausanne Committee and Lausanne II in Manila" (folder 234 3), resource files (folders 233-4 through 27) for individuals, staff and otherwise connected in some way to the communications emphasis of LCWE, (including Sig Aske, Mary Jo Beck, Ed Dayton, Leighton Ford, Ricardo Jumawan, Wendy Lew, Mike Little, Horst Marquardt, Ken Moy, Alan Nichols, Warwick Olson, Roger Parrott, John Robb, Rolf Scheffbuch, Les Tarr, Christy Ticlaw, Thomas Wang, Fritz Wenzel, Doug Wilson), sermons by Darrell W. Johnson in Manila (folder 234-5), Leighton Ford's Fuller lectures (folder 232-13), European Congress on World Evangelization or ELCOWE press releases (folder 232 10), Jim Newton's "Proposal for the Comprehensive International Communications Program of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization" (folder 232-8), and the report AResponse to the Communications Working Group re the latest revised Communications Strategy (folder 232-6).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Communications Office | Media Director (Jim Newton)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1988-1989
Boxes: 235
Type of documents: Correspondence, lists, memos, policies, invoices, reports, budgets, faxes
Correspondents: Newton, Joe Sindorf, Paul McKaughan, Alan Nichols
Notes: These document Newton's specific area of oversight in coordinating invitations to, facilities for, and contacts with representatives of the media for the Lausanne II Congress.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Communications Office | Production
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1979-1989 [bulk 1988-1989]
Boxes: 235-237
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, various publications and productions including World Evangelization Information Service, brochures and advertisements, clippings, press releases
Correspondents: Sindorf, Thomas Wang, Sharon Chan, Paul McKaughan
Notes: Documents the production and samples of various LCWE products, including World Evangelization Information Service, brochures, poster, handbook, newsletters, press kit, press releases (in English, French, German, Spanish, and English for the Philippines), and Congress participant folder.
Exceptional items: Files related to the Lausanne Cooperating Periodicals program (folders 237 7, 8, 9), including copies of many of the participating publications like an Evangelical newspaper in Argentina (folder 237-8). The program was intended to disseminate the Lausanne story and influence throughout other publications.
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | LCWE Nominations
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1989
Boxes: 205-206
Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Lists, correspondence, memos, reports, form letters, recommendations of persons to fill openings, completed questionnaires, biographical data of members, ballots.
Correspondents: Wang, Leighton Ford, Jack Dain, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Leola Linkous, Jane Fraser, Kathy Roth.
Notes: These files document the process for maintaining the membership of the LCWE, drawing on Evangelical leadership from throughout the world. The contents record membership on the LCWE Full and Executive Committees from its beginning in 1975 until 1989. These files were initially inherited by or created by Wang at the Charlotte office and later transferred by that office to the Pasadena office. Included is a file of biographical entries maintained by Ed Dayton between 1983 and 1984 (folder 205-9), a notebook of entries compiled in mid-1990 (subdivided between folders 206-6, 7, 8), and a series of membership files by geographic region (folders 205 18, 19, 20 and 206-1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Chief Executive Officer | Wang | LCWE Nominations | International Advisory Council (IAC)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1983-1988
Boxes: 206-207
Geographic coverage: International
ype of documents: Correspondence, memos, form letters, lists, minutes, reports, letters of recommendation to be appointed to the Council
Notes: The International Advisory Council (IAC) was established in 1985 to gather "leaders from every area of the world who could serve on a convening council or council of reference as we plan for the next international congress." That congress became the Lausanne II Congress. The Congress Program Advisory Committee file comprises folder 207-9. Also see Ford's files for this IAC in folders 99-3 through 100-3, where there may be some overlap.
Chief Executive Officer | Tom Houston (International Director)
Arrangement: In the subseries as the Archives received the files
Date Range: 1974, 1980, 1983-1993
Boxes: 286-317
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Notes: These files record Houston's leadership of LCWE while he was the International Director (1989-1992) and the activity and deliberation of the Committee (both Executive and Full Committees) and its Working Groups, and his interaction, a good portion of it sent by fax, with Lausanne Committee members and leaders of Evangelical churches and ministries throughout the world. They also reflect Houston's presence in the United Kingdom from his office in Oxford, and his contacts with Christian leaders throughout the country. The contents of the subdivisions are not exclusive of one another as there is a great deal of overlap between all the folders in the subseries. Some very routine operational files (such as Office Equipment) or documents like checks, invoices and detailed finance records were discarded.
Chief Executive Officer | Houston | LCWE Operations
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1980-1993
Boxes: 286-299
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Notes: These files relate to various LCWE matters, including activities and deliberations of the Executive and Full Committees and Working Groups, planning for the future development and direction of the LCWE, the transition from the international office from Pasadena, California, to Oxford, England, and finances, etc.
Chief Executive Officer | Tom Houston | LCWE Operations | Executive and Full Committees, Committees, Working Groups
Arrangement: Alphabetical (divided by broad categories as:
Date Range: 1980-1993
Boxes: 287-290
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, reports and attachments, minutes, forms and form letters, member lists, nominations (forms, applications for membership, ballots), notebooks on nominations
Correspondents: Houston, Leighton Ford, Executive and Full Committee members (especially Ramez Atallah, Dick Capin, Paul Cedar, Paul Eshleman, Leighton Ford, Jack Hayford, Fergus MacDonald, Bel Magalit, Hilde Margrethe, Ceasar Molebatsi, Bryant Myers, Warwick Olson, John Reid, Rolf Scheffbuch, Juliet Thomas), senior associates, LCWE officers.
Notes: These files record the interaction with, deliberations by, and appointment of Committee members, including planning documents for the periodic meetings of LCWE's Executive and Full Committees (and the documents provided to those participating in the meetings), including 1990 in Arrowhead Springs (California), 1991 in Budapest, 1992 in Azusa (California). Much of the correspondence is exchanged between Houston (or his staff) and other individuals, although some are copies that Houston received. Files for particular members are grouped together as "members"), including Ramez Atallah, Dick Capin, Paul Cedar, Paul Eshleman, Leighton Ford, Jack Hayford, Fergus MacDonald, Bel Magalit, Hilde Margrethe, Ceasar Molebatsi, Bryant Myers, Warwick Olson, John Reid, Rolf Scheffbuch, Juliet Thomas; what isn’t clear is whether these are Executive Committee members (or officers). Several committees are also represented in the documents, including Implementation (to Atake the "vision statement" as it came out of Budapest and convert it into a workable place, particularly for 1991-93), International Advisory Council (served as a convening body or council of reference), Planning (or Follow-on Planning or Transitional Planning (including advising and working with Houston following the 1989 Lausanne II Congress when he began his term as International Director). Files for the Communications, Intercessors, Nominations, Strategy and Theology Working Groups are included, with correspondence and reports on topics ranging from leadership to planning meetings to projects.
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer | Houston | LCWE Operations | General
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1984-1993
Boxes: 286 (folder 9), 290-296
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos (whether as hard-copy letters, faxes (many on now-fading paper), e-mail (called and filed by Easylink, the internal system used by LCWE at the time), reports and attachments, minutes, forms and form letters, press releases, financial reports and other related documents, personal or organizational newsletters, manuscripts.
Correspondents: Houston, Ford, LCWE officers and members, Betty Bradley, Dick Capin, Sharon Chan, Bill Ditewig, Renee Gruen, David Hartz (Director of US Operations, 1990-1991), Jill Lovelace, Roger Parrott, Brad Smith, David Tam, Myriam van der Doef, Thomas Wang, Elmer Wilson, Thomas Zimmerman, existing and potential donors.
Notes: Files that record the operations and activities of the Lausanne Committee, including finance and attempts to raise funds from foundations and other major donors, personnel, projects, interaction between Houston (in Oxford while International Director, 1989-1992) and other LCWE offices (Charlotte where Leighton Ford was based) and Pasadena (where the US operations were based at the time leading up to the second Lausanne Congress in 1989 and for a period afterward). Some of the broad categories represented that consist of a number of folders include Donors and Fundraising, Offices, Papers (manuscripts, meeting statements, reports), Personnel, LCWE Relationships with Other Organizations (including WEF, AD 2000, International Charismatic Congress on World Evangelization). Other folders include Issues, Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (LCJE), Request for Information/Money, and Theological Issues. Also during this time period, the Moscow Congress, Budapest Consultation and Executive and Full Committee meetings were being held, so issues related to these meetings are interwoven throughout this subseries. Since the underlying value of LCWE is world evangelization, a common theme throughout the subseries is future planning for the organization, meetings or consultations, or collaborations at a regional or international level; (see as examples folder 295-7 containing correspondence, reports and proposals on the future vision and direction of the Lausanne Committee, with input from many LCWE leaders and members, and folder 296 3 that records the deliberations and activity of the Follow on Planning Committee, and 295 8 for "A Scenario Forecast for World Evangelization 1990-2000 AD;" and Strategic Framework Study in folder 296-10.
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer | Houston | LCWE Operations | Invitations (to Houston)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1989-1993
Boxes: 297-298
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, memos
Correspondents: Houston, Sharon Chan (Houston's assistant), Leighton Ford, LCWE members, representatives of inviting organizations and churches
Notes: Consists of correspondence and arrangements (during his period as International Director from 1989-1992) related to various speaking engagements, conferences and tours that Houston (intended to make connections, plan conferences and represent the LCWE) was a part of or invited to contribute to, including those that Houston agreed to fill or declined. Most are related to evangelism or mission. Among these are information about the Evangelists' Conference in Swanwick (Derbyshire, UK) in December 1992; the LCWE World Briefing in Colorado Springs in November 1992; the Together in Mission ("a joint meeting of denominational decade of evangelism committees") in London in October 1992; Summer Consultation on Evangelism in Birmingham (UK) in July 1992; the 1992 Keswick Convention; 1992 WEF Missions Commission Consultation (originally to be held in Indonesia); the 1992 Whole Gospel conference in Kassel, Germany; Houston's 1992 tour of Scottish cities speaking on "The Bible for Today;" Houston's 1992 tour of Asia; 1992 Think Tank on Urban Evangelization in the Francophone World; and planning for the 1994 Word, Kingdom and Spirit Conference near London; the 1992 LCWE Executive Committee meeting in Azusa, California; leading sessions in 1991 on Missions Studies at the Overseas Ministries Studies Center; the 1990 ACTEA (Accrediting Council for Theological Education in Africa) All-Africa Conference of Theological Educators in Kenya; a 1990 tour in New Zealand.
Exceptional items: Folder 297-2 includes the "Digest Report of the Long Range Planning Team" which maps out the progress on developing goals and strategies of WEF (renamed World Evangelical Alliance or WEA in 2002) to be presented to the World Evangelical Fellowship General Assembly in 1992 in the Philippines.
Chief Executive Officer | Houston | LCWE Operations | Projects
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1989-1993
Boxes: 298-299
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, project proposals, agenda and minutes Correspondents: Houston, persons with direct involvement in the projects,
Notes: This small subseries documents projects that LCWE supported with funds and other resources. Among these are:
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer | Houston | Congresses, Conferences, Consultations and Other Meetings
Arrangement: Chronologically
Date Range: 1974, 1983-1993
Boxes: 299-310
Notes: These files relate to the Lausanne-related meetings that took place from the beginning and throughout Houston's term as International Director.
Chief Executive Officer | Houston | Congresses, Conferences, Consultations and Other Meetings | Lausanne II (Manila), 1989
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1983-1993
Boxes: 299-305
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, newsletters, press releases, manuscripts of papers at the Manila Congress, and Lausanne-related or other conferences and consultations, financial audit, biographical sketches
Correspondents: Houston, Sharon Chan, Ed Dayton, Leighton Ford, Paul McKaughan, other LCWE figures, ministry representatives
Notes: These files relate to various program details of the 1989 Congress (including the taping and distribution of audio recordings of the Congress plenaries and workshops, biographies of Congress plenary speakers, daily chairmen and artists, musicians and drama groups, the production of videos featured throughout the plenary sessions, etc.), foreign-language versions of some of the Congress papers produced afterward, evaluations by participants and LCWE members and leaders, participant-related matters, and a newsletter for participants.
Also included are Houston's files in this subseries relate to many but not all Congress tracks. While the tracks were a program focus of the Congress in Manila, and some folders have documents from before the Congress, all have their roots in the Congress but extend beyond it with documents on plans or projects underway, consultations being held around a specific track (e.g., the 1990 Conference of Bible Distribution Agencies, the planned-for Consortium of Bible Distribution Agencies 1994 Consultation, Joni and Friends' 1992 European Symposium on the Church and Disability). The documents also reflect the interaction and collaboration across tracks. The tracks reflected in the subseries include:
Among the folders that don't have an immediately apparent connection to a track are: Adopt-a-People, Biblical Counseling, Church Planting, Country Portraits, Disabled (with several documents from Joni Eareckson Tada's ministry Joni and Friends), Eschatology (with a manuscript of Peter Beyerhaus's track presentation, AMission and Eschatology), Garbage Dump, Media in Evangelism, Passport [to the World] Series, Proselytism, Reconciliation, Religious Liberty, Video Bible, Women's Networks, and Young Leaders. (See the description of the Track subseries above for a full list of the tracks at the Manila congress.)
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer | Tom Houston | Congresses, Conferences, Consultations and Other Meetings | Moscow, 1990
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1989-1991
Boxes: 305-307
Geographic coverage: Soviet Union
Type of documents: Conference notebooks containing correspondence, press releases, participant lists, press conference transcript, Moscow Declaration, program briefing paper, conference newspaper, financial and fundraising documents and reports, registration information and forms, reports
Correspondents: Houston, Myriam van der Doef, Leighton Ford, Steve Weber, Bill Ditewig, Sam Hanchett, Kathy Giske, Phil Butler, Jim Moats, Lausanne executives and others involved in planning, Soviet government and church representatives, vendors, participants
Notes: This small subseries consists almost entirely of three planning and documentation notebooks materials from regional 1990 Lausanne Congress in Moscow. Among the notebook subsections are: Arrangements, Preliminary Plans, Congress management, Background and Statistical Info, Consultation on USSR Congresses, Committees, Video, Steering Committee, Correspondence (Bill Ditewig, Sam Hanchett, Kathy Giske, InterDev, Jim Moats, Steve Weber), General Correspondence, Declaration, Finance (Moscow Budget, Weekly Reports), Fundraising - Moscow, Participants (Registration, Correspondence), Exhibitors Participants, Pentecostal Participants, USSR Pentecostals, Partnership Agreements, Prayer, Press, Communications, Press Correspondence, Press Releases, Program (Plenaries, Program Overall, Speakers, Workshops), Travel, Trip Reports.
Chief Executive Officer | Tom Houston | Congresses, Conferences, Consultations and Other Meetings | Budapest Summit, 1991
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1990-1992
Boxes: 307-309
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Notebooks for documents (primarily correspondence, memos, invitation letters, form letters, press releases), financial commitment forms
Correspondents: Houston, Leighton Ford, Renee Gruen, Myriam van der Doef, Bill Ditewig (deputy director), other Lausanne members and staff, individuals involved in or providing services at the meeting, speakers and participants.
Notes: The documents, primarily comprised in notebooks, record the planning for the summit on "Evangelization in Post-Marxist Contexts," including invitations to participants, schedule and content of the summit program, speakers, agenda for the meeting, travel arrangements, accommodations, handouts, budget, language translators, media, prayer coordination, etc. The Budapest Summit was a regional summit on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (which collapsed at the end of 1991). (At the planning meeting in London in July 1990, it was agreed to "Develop each Full Meeting of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization as a Regional Summit of Evangelical Leaders, local and worldwide, to examine the major opportunities and obstacles, internal and external, to the evangelization of the Region and propose strategies to the churches to overcome the obstacles and grasp the opportunities to take the whole Gospel to the whole Region." Budapest was the site of the first of these summits.) The large notebooks of participant registration forms were largely logistical (a great portion of them faded faxes); only a sampling of these were retained.
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer | Tom Houston | Congresses, Conferences, Consultations and Other Meetings | Other Meetings
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1974, 1988-1991
Boxes: 309-310
Type of documents: Correspondence, program materials, press coverage, newsletters, reports, participant lists, statements, background materials
Correspondents: Houston, meeting representatives and planners, Phil Butler and Jim Kraakevik for the 1991 Consultation on Partnership
Notes: This subseries consists of five files on a few evangelization meetings that took place, mostly while Houston was the LCWE International Director, including the participant list from the 1988 European Leadership Conference on World Evangelization (in Bad Boll, Germany), reflections on the 1989 World Council of Churches meeting in San Antonio and comparisons between in and the Congress in Manila, the 1990 German Congress on Evangelization in Stuttgart (all documents in German), and the 1991 Wheaton Consultation on Partnership in World Mission in Wheaton (including participant list, statement of affirmations and commitments, presentation manuscripts, background papers), several of which Houston attended. Also included is correspondence about a proposed Indian Young Leaders Conference and several items from the first Lausanne Congress in 1974 (a German version of a resource booklet produced after the event and a British news magazine covering the Congress).
Chief Executive Officer | Houston | Countries
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1987-1993
Boxes: 310-312
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Newsletters, reports, correspondence, press releases
Correspondents: Houston, Sharon Chan (Houston's assistant), Ed Dayton, LCWE members and contacts, Evangelical agencies and leaders
Notes: These are reference files of materials (not exhaustive) from Evangelical agencies and leaders that Houston and his staff compiled on countries throughout the world. The materials report on the state of evangelism and the church, issues related to the tracks at the 1989 Lausanne congress in Manila, and special projects or needs in the following countries: Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Caribbean, Chile, China, Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly the Soviet Union), Croatia, Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Korea, Latin America, Malaysia, Middle East, Mongolia, New Zealand, North Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zimbabwe.
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer | Houston | Other Organizations
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1994
Boxes: 312-315
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, faxes, reports, proposals, publications, promotional material
Correspondents: Houston, Sharon Chan and Renee Gruen (Houston's assistants), Lucien Accad, Ramez Atallah, Clive Calver, John Corts, A. Jack Dain, Bill Ditewig, Leighton Ford, Billy Graham, Fergus Macdonald, Brad Smith, other LCWE members, and representatives of the agencies, including Thomas Wang and other LCWE leaders, David Barrett, Tokunboh Adeyemo, David Bryant, Blair Carlson, John Cho, Francis Gray, Michael Harper, David Howard, Patrick Johnstone, Gordon Loux, Augustus Marwieh, Jim Montgomery, J.I. Packer, Robert Schuller, Glenn Sheppard, Tom Sine, Francis Sunderaraj, Joni Eareckson Tada, George Verwer, and other ministry leaders
Notes: The files in this subseries reflect Houston's interactions with individuals of organizations that he had a connection with, or who were part of the Lausanne Movement, or were seeking guidance or offering suggestions about world evangelization, or for background purposes, including information on conference the organizations were hosting. These were largely Evangelical groups engaged in some aspect of the evangelistic mission of the Church, and while the specific issues range widely, several common themes are evangelism and missions, nominations to the Lausanne Committee, the second Lausanne congress in Manila.
Included are Houston's interactions with churches, evangelistic organizations (like Bill and Vonette Bright of Campus Crusade), seminaries (Houston's advice to Eddie Gibbs at Fuller Seminary about establishing the new Evangelism Department), James Montgomery of Dawn Ministries, Luis Bush of Partners International (about AD2000, Evangelical associations (such as Tokunboh Adeyemo's funding request for f the Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar), various Bible societies (such as Lance Baillie of the Visual Bible International about the production of a Bible on video), several representatives of the World Council of Churches, and the 1989 meeting of the Society for Frontier Missiology.
Among these agencies were: Accrediting Council for Theological Education in Africa, AD 2000 Movement, African Evangelistic Enterprise, Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), Asian Center for Theological Study (ACTS), American Bible Society and other Bible societies (National Bible Society of Scotland), Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, British Council of Churches, British Evangelical Council, Campus Crusade for Christ, Catholic Bible Federation, Chinese Coordination Center on World Evangelization (CCCOWE), Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Concerts of Prayer, CONELA, Conference for World Mission, DAWN, Ministries, Dayspring International, European Christian Mission (ECM), Evangelical Alliance, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), Evangelical Foreign Missions Association (EFMA), Evangeliums Rundfunk (ERF), Evangelism Today, Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC), Foreign Mission Board [of the Southern Baptist Convention], Institute for East-West Christian Studies, Interdenominational Foreign Missions Association (IFMA), Interdev, International Council of Accrediting Agencies [for Evangelical Theological Education], International Charismatic Conference on World Evangelization (ICCOWE) and its Brighton '91 Conference, International Christian Media Commission (ICMC), International Russian Radio/TV, International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), Interserve, Institute on Religion and Democracy, Issachar, Jews for Jesus, Jesus Film Project, Joni and Friends, MARC Europe, March for Jesus, Mission Forum, Open Doors, Operation Mobilization (OM), Overseas Missions Study Center (OSMC), Oxford Center for Mission Studies, Radio in Church-planting Evangelism, Scripture Union, Servants' Fellowship, South Asian Concern, Strategic Careers Project, Transformation, United Bible Societies, US Center for World Mission, WEC International, William Carey International University, WORLD CHRISTIAN Magazine, World Council of Churches, World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF), national World Vision organizations and World Vision International, World Vision UK, World Vision USA, Youth With a Mission, Youth With a Mission Great Britain. Several files relate to contact with mainline Christian denominations, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Roman Catholics. A number of letters refer to the changes in the Soviet Union and opportunities for ministry following the opening of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Some of the files are more extensive, but most have a relatively small amount of material.
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer | Tom Houston | General Correspondence
Arrangement: Alphabetically (the designation is variously made by the personal or organizational name)
Date Range: 1990-1993
Boxes: 315-317
Geographic coverage: Worldwide, with a larger portion being from UK countries
Type of documents: Correspondence, prayer letters, newsletters or other small publications, press releases, or copies of letters that concern Houston or the Lausanne Committee between two other parties.
Correspondents: Lausanne members, church and ministry or missionary contacts, theological education institutions, and others who contacted Houston or the Lausanne office.
Notes: These letters in these files contain the Oxford office's general correspondence files to and from Houston and consist of ongoing contacts that do not relate directly to Lausanne Committee projects or inquiries or thanks. The overall purposes of the communication appears to be to maintain contact and awareness of both the Lausanne movement and programs and the ministries and programs of other organizations, friends and contacts.
Exceptional items:
Chief Executive Officer | John Siewert (Interim International Coordinator)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1988-2001
Boxes: 320
Type of documents: Corporate documents notebook, conference report and presentation papers, LCWE newsletter
Notes: These files, containing no correspondence, consist of assorted documents sent to the Archives by Siewert that tell part of the LCWE history.
Exceptional items:
LCWE Treasurer (Donald Hoke)
Arrangement: Into four subseries:
Date Range: 1965-1994
Volume: 8.0 linear feet
Boxes: 115-132
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, meeting minutes, reports, financial reports and statements, conference materials, grant proposal for national movements, maps.
Correspondents: Primarily the Treasurer as the creator or recipient of correspondence, memos, and reports. In addition to Hoke, Leighton Ford, Jack Dain, David Howard, and other Lausanne Committee executives and members.
Notes: These files span the period of Hoke's service as LCWE treasurer (1976-1989) and member of the Committee's executive committee. The heart of the series is the administrative operation and planning of the LCWE. (The researcher will find additional Hoke files in Series F1a, which record his leadership of the 1974 Lausanne Congress as its director; no attempt was made to consolidate those with the files in this series or isolate those in this series that might go with those Congress director files.) During this time Hoke was also Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College (1974-1978), and senior pastor at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee (1978- 1989), after which he retired to Ft. Meyers, Florida. Included in the files are records of his participation as a member of the LCWE Executive Committee, financial records in his capacity as Treasurer, files related to the overall operation and financial condition of the Committee. Among Hoke's Treasurer files are a few related to the 1974 Lausanne Congress; they have been retained among his files in this series, but the researcher should also view them in the context of his 1974 Congress director's files. The files in this series came to the Archives as four separate but somewhat overlapping accessions. The archivist has integrated these while retaining the overall order of Hoke's files.
Files related to the meetings, activities and actions of the Executive Committee, Full Committee or any subcommittees will be found in folders 115-12, 116-8, 9, 10, 11, 117-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 119-8.
The search process that resulted in the hiring of Carl Johansson to replace Gottfried Osei-Mensah as executive director is documented in folders 117-7 and 118-11. Other personnel-related information is available in folders 119-11,
Files on LCWE's working or advisory groups can also be found in Hoke's files, including Intercessory Advisory Group (folder 118-9), Strategy Advisory Group (folders 119-14, 15).
Documents related to the LCWE Corporation can be found in folders 116-4, 5, 6, 7 (including constitution, by laws, and standing orders). Registration of LCWE in Illinois and North Carolina is also documented (folders 116-7 and 119-9).
Information on international offices or divisions of LCWE are also included, such as the Australia office (folder 115-13), Canadian corporation (folder 116-1), the international office (folder 118-10), the London office (folder 119-4), Nairobi office (folder 119-7), and the US corporation (folders 120-2, 3, 4, 5).
Hoke's files on the major LCWE-sponsored events comprise a major portion of the Treasurer's series, reflecting the planning, program, participants and financial aspects of the events, including: 1966 World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin (folder 121-1,2), 1968 Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism (folder 121-3), 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization (folders 121-4 through 121-11, 122-1 through 122-6), 1976 Consultation on Theology and Mission (folder 122-7 with manuscripts of conference papers on the charismatic renewal, contextualization, Catholicism, inter-religious dialogue, changing political situations, and church growth, the 1978 North American Conference on Muslim Evangelization (folder 122 8, also with manuscripts of conference papers on gospel and culture, cross-cultural communication, the Muslim convert, dynamic equivalent churches, power encounter, contextualization, Islamic theology, dialogue with Muslims), 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization or COWE (folder 123- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), 1981 American Festival of Evangelism (folders 122-9 and 123-1), the 1983 Congresso Brasileiro de Evangelizacao or Brazilian Congress on Evangelization (folder 123-10), 1984 International Prayer Assembly (folder 123 11), 1984 Congress on the Evangelization of the Caribbean or CONECAR '84 (folder 124 1), 1985 Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and Evangelization (folder 124-2), 1985 First Venezuelan Congress on World Mission (folder 124-3), 1986 Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (folder 124-4), 1986 Amsterdam '86 (folder 124-5), 1987 International Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian Leaders Singapore '87 (folder 124-6,7), Leadership '88 (folder 124-8), ICOWE II or Lausanne II (folders 124-9, 10, 11, 12, 125-1 through 125-9, 126 1 through 126-12, and especially folders 126-6, 7, 8, 9, 12 regarding searching for and agreeing on a site for the second congress), 1989 Global Consultation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond or Singapore '89 (folders 126-13, 14), 1993 Lausanne World Briefing (folder 126-15).
The Treasurer's financial records (folders 127-1 through 129 10) show the fiscal side of the organization in the context of all of the operations of the LCWE. Hoke's files include audits, financial statements, budgets, Finance Committee minutes, correspondence with Crowell Trust, Hoke's Treasurer's reports, balance sheets, "weekly financial reports," fund-raising files, and tax reports.
A final subseries (folders 130-1 through 132-12) of the Treasurer's files relate to LCWE members, both generally and in some cases files for specific individuals, including lists, suggestions for senior associates, biographies, balance sheets, and notebooks with some demographic and contact information. Also included is a series of files corresponding to some of the LCWE members, including Joel Aarsvold (folder 131-1), Ray Bakke (folder 131-2), Jack Dain (folder 131-3), Alan Emery (folder 131-4), Leighton Ford (folders 131-5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 132-1,2), Stan Izon (folder 132-3), James Newton (folder 132-4), Gottfried Osei-Mensah (folder 132-5), Billy Graham [and BGEA] (folder 132-6), Paul McKaughan (folder 132-7), John Reid (folder 132-8), John Richards (folder 132-9), Thomas Wang (folder 132-10), and Thomas Zimmerman (folder 132 11, 12); while these are primarily correspondence files to and from the identified person, the folders may also contain documents that concern finances for a trip or other project, or authorization of a check.
Exceptional items: The "Proposed Plan for Developing a Total, International Communications Program for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization" (folder 116-3); like Ford's files, Hoke's files include discussion or decisions about the future of the Lausanne Committee and movement, including folders 118-1, 119-5,6; the Lausanne Handbook (folder 118-4); Hoke's files that bring together material he considered relevant to the history of the LCWE (folders 118 5,6,7); news or press releases (folder 118-8); Hoke's file on Latin American Evangelical Projects, a non-profit corporation that Hoke was a board member for (folder 118 12); the organization apparently was the receiving agency for funds designated for CONELA or Confraternity of Evangelicals in Latin America; copies of Lausanne Communique (folders 101-1, 119-1, 214-3); 1983 "Overview Report" (folder 119-10); documents that show efforts to stimulate prayer for LCWE and world evangelization (folder 119-12); file related to Herbert J. Taylor, Christian businessman and philanthropist (folder 120-1), at the time of and following Taylor's funeral, at which Hoke contributed to the eulogy; copies (1983-1994) of World Evangelization and World Evangelization Information Bulletin (folder 120-6, 7, 8).
LCWE Executive Assistant (John Howell) and COWE Operations Director
Dates: 1977 1980, undated
Boxes: 58-69 (6.0 linear feet)
Notes: The records in this subseries consist of the files created by John Howell, the LCWE Executive Assistant and subsequently the Director of Operations for the COWE. They were received from COWE's Wheaton office, where Howell worked briefly before the COWE staff moved to Thailand in early 1980. However, these records predominantly reflect Howell's activity while working in Nairobi until late 1979; they do briefly touch on his activity in Wheaton beginning in early 1980, prior to the Consultation. Since the records largely document Howell's work in the LCWE Nairobi office with Osei Mensah, his files are located within this guide in proximity to the records of Osei Mensah. Researchers should nonetheless keep the dual geographic coverage of these files in mind. It will be clear from Howell's files that during his assignment in Nairobi, he closely assisted Osei Mensah; many of the documents in Howell's files were in fact directed to Osei Mensah. The arrangement of the records and the folder titles have remained as they were received.
The documents in these files are largely of a routine nature related to the ongoing preparation for the Thailand Consultation. The researcher will find most of the folder titles sufficiently precise to reflect their contents. The contents of several folders nonetheless bear mentioning.
Exceptional items:
Senior Associates | Birger Nygaard (International and LCWE Denmark)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1993-2002
Volume: 1.5 linear feet
Boxes: 320-324
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, e-mails and faxes, reports, meeting agenda and minutes, press releases, handwritten notes, newsletters, promotional material, an annual report, financial reports, presentation manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and conference schedules, participant lists, reports, and statements.
Correspondents: Nygaard, Tom Houston, Fergus MacDonald, David Claydon, Paul Cedar, Bryant Myers (chair of Administrative Committee), Arne Fjeldstad (of the Lausanne International Communications Center in Oslo), Valdir Steuernagel, John Victor Selle (secretary of the European Lausanne Committee), Ulrich Parzany (chair of the European Lausanne Committee), Scott Moreau, LCWE senior executives.
Background: Senior Associates were appointed by the LCWE Executive Chair on the recommendation of the national committee and the Administrative Committee; they relate to one of the Working Groups.
Notes: Birger's files document the further widening of Lausanne's international leadership and flavor, in his case from a European perspective. This subseries shows Birger's role as a Senior Associate, and his intersection with a number of LCWE bodies and events, especially the Administrative Committee, Lausanne Denmark (of which he was chair and also affiliated with the Danish Missionary Council), the European Lausanne Committee, the Theology Strategy Working Group, the Communications Center, and the 2000 Spiritual Warfare Consultation in Nairobi, but also including the meetings of the full and executive committees, and the 1996 Consultation on Contextualization in Denmark along with other meetings. Among the major themes reflected in the files were the restructuring the LCWE, future planning and visioning, and the more extensive distribution of leadership throughout national Lausanne movements. These files give a layered perspective to the Lausanne Movement, ranging from the international to regional to national spheres.
Exceptional items:
LCWE Congresses and Consultations
Arranged: Chronological by event as follows:
Date Range: 1971-1985
Volume: 63.5 linear feet
Notes: This series consists of records from some of the LCWE's international meetings
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 (commonly known as the Lausanne Congress)
Arrangement: Subdivided into records of:
Date Range: 1971-1980
Notes: The records of the primary Congress administrators.
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 | Congress director (Donald Hoke)
Arrangement: Further subdivided as follows:
Date Range: 1971-1980
Boxes: 26-28
Type of documents: Correspondence, staff manuals, meeting agendas and minutes, reports, newsletters, press releases and papers delivered at the Lausanne Congress in 1974
Notes: The files in this subseries show the varied nature of the responsibilities of the ICOWE Director, Donald Hoke, and his involvement for two major international meetings and on the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE). Hoke served as Director of the International Congress on World Evangelization, was the chairman of the editorial board of the Lausanne Committee's Information Bulletin and was a member of the Participant Selection Committee for the Pattaya meeting in 1980.
The folders are arranged alphabetically according to folder title, except for the ICOWE procedure book folders, which are arranged as they were within in their original binders. This arrangement was provided by the archivist. The procedure books, along with the planning committee minutes, the program committee materials, and the press releases, have been removed from the notebooks in which they were received; they have been removed from these in order to be more easily stored and used.
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 | Congress director | ICOWE
Boxes: 26-27
Date range: 1971-1974
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 | Congress director | LCWE
Boxes: 28
Date range: 1975-1980
Exceptional items: Folders 28-1 through 28-18 are Hoke's files on the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE), the majority of which are related to his responsibility as a member of LCWE's Communications Working Group and its Editorial Board. Folder 28-2 contains correspondence with other members of the Group, including Stan Izon, Luc Verlunden, Horst Marquardt, Leighton Ford, Ralph Winter, and Gottfried Osei Mensah. Folder 28-3 consists of the minutes of a 1977 Editorial Board meeting. Folder 28-4, along with Leighton Ford's correspondence includes that from John Howell, LCWE's Executive Assistant, and an annotated script for the multimedia show, How Shall They Hear? The file appears to have begun in regard to Ford's visit to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1976, where Hoke was Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center at the time. In addition to the minimal documentation related to that trip, the file includes a limited amount of material relating to the 1980 COWE meeting, covering arrangements for travel, study groups and scholarships. A survey of LCWE'S Information Bulletin's readership was proposed in 1976. Discussion of this and a copy of the survey can be found in folder 28-14.
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 | Congress director | COWE
Boxes: 28
Date range: 1977-1980
Exceptional items: In addition to the COWE material in folder 28 4, Hoke's files also include some other material related to Hoke's duties on the Committee evaluating participant nominees for the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization (folders 28-19 through 28-24).
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 | Congress Chairman and Chairman of the Lausanne Continuation Committee (A. Jack Dain); 1971 1978
Arrangement: Further subdivided as follows:
Date Range: 1971-1978
Boxes: 29-35
Type of documents: Correspondence, minutes, presentation manuscripts, questionnaires
Correspondents: While the correspondents in these files are numerous, several stand out, each that played a key role in the planning and administration of the Congress and/or Lausanne Committee. Among these are Billy Graham, Leighton Ford, Paul Little, and others with administrative posts in the ICOWE and LCWE.
Notes: The documents in this subseries consist of the correspondence of the Chairman of the ICOWE and Chairman of the LCC, the Rt. Reverend, A.J. Dain of Australia. Correspondence comprises all of the subseries while serving as Chairman in the two capacities, as well as being a member of the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization (LCWE).
The folders have been arranged alphabetically according to the titles given by Dain. In almost all cases, these titles have been retained, with only minor changes being made by the archivist to provide uniformity. In addition to the specific comments which follow about the contents of these files, several general observations should also be considered. Dain occasionally wrote comments in the margins of documents, thus reflecting his interaction with them. It should also be noted that while Dain's files document the worldwide scope of his duties, they also point out his responsibility and influence as an evangelical leader in Australia and the surrounding region.
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 | Congress Chairman and Chairman of the Lausanne Continuation Committee (Dain) | ICOWE
Boxes: 29-33
Date range: 1971-1978 Exceptional items: Rev. Dain was involved in the earliest planning of the Congress, and his records offer a rich source of information on the various aspects of the preparation being made for the Congress, including deliberations on the goals and focus of the Congress. For example, folder 30-27 contains minutes, beginning with those from the World Evangelization Strategy Consultation in 1971, at which preliminary plans for the Congress were considered. Additional documentation (folders 30-28 and 29-14) of Congress planning includes minutes from subsequent meetings and correspondence on other elements of the planning process. A draft of a planning timetable for the Congress is located in folder 29-22 and folder 33-1 consists of correspondence related to the 1972 questionnaire soliciting input regarding the goals and emphasis of the Congress. The ICOWE Planning Committee was formed to oversee all planning for the Congress. Folders 31 30 through 31 48 include both general committee materials and correspondence with the individual members of the Committee (folders 31-33 through 31-46).
Deliberation on where the Congress was to be held began in 1972. In addition to Lausanne, ICOWE administrators considered Singapore, Rome, Stockholm, London and Amsterdam. Folder 30 23 includes correspondence discussing the pros and cons of these various locations.
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 | Congress director | LCWE
Boxes: 33-35
Date range: 1972-1978
Exceptional items: The majority of these files relate to the period during which Dain was the Chairman of the intermediary Lausanne Continuation Committee, which a year and a half after the ICOWE was formally organized as the LCWE. The LCC was the administrative body which was developed to carry out the "follow up" plans made prior to the Congress.
Congresses and Consultations | International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 | Congress director | Other Evangelism Conferences
Boxes: 35
Date range: 1971-1975
Exceptional items: These files conclude the series of Dain's records related to other evangelism conferences, noted on the Container List. The last file (folder 35-28) contains Donald Hoke's evaluation of the meeting, which is particularly enlightening since the World Council of Churches reflected a much broader theological perspective than that of the Lausanne Congress or Committee.
Congresses and Consultations | Simple Lifestyle Consultations
Arrangement: The records are further subdivided as follows:
Date Range: 1977-1981
Boxes: 36, 286
Type of documents: Primarily correspondence
Correspondents: Sider, Wayne Bragg, Mark Cerbone, Leighton Ford, Don Hoke, David Howard, Stan Izon, Alan Nichols, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, John Stott, Ralph Winter, and participants and other planners for the consultations.
Notes: The documents in this subseries consist largely of correspondence, minutes, and addresses related to the 1979 U.S. Consultation on Simple Lifestyle in Ventnor, New Jersey, and the 1980 International Consultation on Simple Lifestyle in London (co-sponsored with the World Evangelical Fellowship). These records come from the office of the Director of the Consultations, Ron Sider. They also include documents created by Sider's assistant, Mark Cerbone. The arrangement of the files has remained as it was received. The original folder titles have also been retained with only minor modifications. Duplicates were returned to the donor, as were some financial records, such as bank statements and canceled checks. Researchers should also consult the collections listing for audio tapes to review recorded sessions of the U.S. Consultation.
Exceptional items:
Combined Consultations files (folders 36-1, 2):
International Consultation files (folders 36-3 through 36-34):
U.S. Consultation files (folder 36-35 through 36-50):
John Stott file (folder 286-8):
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office)
Arrangement: The records of the Wheaton office are further subdivided as follows:
Date Range: 1971-1981
Boxes: 37-57, 70-79, 82
Notes: This subseries of records consists of the files from the Wheaton office of the COWE, held in Pattaya, Thailand in 1980. These files thoroughly document the various planning phases of the Consultation, beginning at its inception at Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization (LCWE) Executive Committee meetings and extending to the evaluation reports written following its conclusion.
The arrangement of the files has remained as it was when the records were received. Folder titles have also been retained. Only in the case of unfoldered material has the archivist provided folder titles. The arrangement within each folder is generally chronological although this scheme is not rigidly followed. Duplicates have been removed and returned to the donor. In the case of the Program Director's files, several boxes of material were unfiled when received. These were incorporated into the existing files when evident. The remainder were filed in folders with newly created titles.
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard)
Arrangement: These records are further subdivided as follows:
Date Range: 1976-1981
Boxes: 37-43, 56
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, meeting agendas, brochures and promotional material, handwritten notes, and other planning documents
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Correspondence
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 37
Exceptional items: Among these files are those labeled "General" along with a letter of the alphabet, i.e., "General A B", and as well as those with more specific titles, interfiled alphabetically with the general folders. The filing in the general files tends to be by the name of the correspondent or the organization he represents. The general A Z files touch on a wide variety of subjects, of which travel subsidies, participant selection, the inability of individuals to participate in the consultation, and press coverage of COWE, are a representative few. The researcher should be aware that correspondence from an individual may appear in several different files, i.e. correspondence with Gerald Anderson in both folder 37-1 (General: A B) and folder 37 26 (OMSC: Anderson, Gerald). Among the more significant items in these folders are the following:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Participants
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 37-39
Exceptional items: Because participants were invited based on recommendations rather than accepted by application to the Consultation, COWE utilized a selection process to deal with all the names suggested. These files detail the process of selection of those to be invited to participate in the Consultation, ranging from correspondence from LCWE representatives making recommendations of participants to lists of those from the world's geographical regions. These files include subsections arranged by geographical regions, denominations, and special categories such as "women".
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Working Groups
Date range: 1976-1980
Boxes: 39
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Consultations
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 39
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Financial
Date Range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 39-40
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Office/Staff
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 40, 56
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Operations
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 40-41
Exceptional items: The Operations files contain a wide variety of materials documenting the process of setting up and conducting the Consultation, including hiring stewards (intended principally as messengers); providing hospitality "make people feel at home, keep your eyes open for their needs and do what you can to soothe ruffled feathers when necessary"); arranging a program for lay observers not participating in the Mini-Consultations; developing the thematic decor such as signs, name badges, program cover and layout, and banners; coordinating music (selection of song leaders, theme song along with a proposed hymn); and printing papers, reports press releases, newspapers, etc. in Thailand. This section abounds in details and the researcher will best consult the Container List to identify a specific area of interest. A number of folders contains items of particular interest, highlighted as follows:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | COWE General
Date range: 1976-1981
Boxes: 41
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | LCWE/COWE Executives Correspondence
Date range: 1976-1980
Boxes: 41
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Regional Committees
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 41
Exceptional items: This section documents efforts within countries to coordinate local Lausanne committees.
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Program
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 42
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Commission on Evangelical Cooperation
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 42
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Procedures
Date range: 1977-1978
Boxes: 42
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | Post-COWE
Date range: 1978-1980
Boxes: 42
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Director (Howard) | LCWE
Date range: 1975-1980
Boxes: 42-43
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Saphir Athyal)
Arrangement: The files are subdivided into a number of subsections as listed below, principally reflecting Athyal's coordination of the Consultation study groups and main sessions.
Date Range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 44-50, 57
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, position papers, speech manuscripts, meeting minutes and agendas
Correspondents: Primarily the Program Director, but including LCWE and COWE executives, members of the Program Committee, working group and study group representatives
Notes: These files represent the work of COWE's Program Director, Saphir Athyal, and his assistant, Carol Ann Webster Paul. Many of the folder titles are often sufficiently indicative of the material to be found in them, and therefore not all of them are described further. However, the following descriptions highlight items from them.
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | LCWE Study Groups
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 44-45
Exceptional items: The study group files consist of correspondence related to the various topics being discussed in anticipation of their consideration at the Consultation. The study group administrative structure consisted of an international coordinator, regional conveners and local groups meeting throughout the world. At the Consultation, the work of the study groups was considered in the working sessions called Mini-Consultations. The correspondence in these files ranges from the selection of international coordinators and conveners to narrowing the focus of topics to be considered by the study groups. The correspondence in folders 44-1 through 44-20 is predominantly with the international coordinator for the designated topic as listed below:
The files also contain items of a background or strategy nature, a few of which are highlighted below:
"Catalysts" was the term selected to describe the role for designated individuals in areas of the world who were responsible for stimulating involvement in COWE study groups. Specific information on this effort is contained in folder 44 54 and 45 1. The latter file also includes John Howell's address to Christian leaders in Malawi to encourage participation in study groups. -"Consultants" were designated to serve the Mini-Consultations as specialists. Folder 44-56 includes a list of all of the consultants invited to the Consultation and a copy of Phillip Butler's "Communication, Evangelization and the Scripture." Related to the consultant’s role was that of "devil's advocates". They were to serve as communication advisors at the Mini-Consultations and encourage each Mini-Consultation "to do more than simply discuss the theory of reaching the unreached..." but to..."think practically how the theories developed will be applied from the point of view of communication clarity and understanding." Folder 44-57 documents the development of this position and the selection of those who filled it. Donald Smith's paper, "Using Communications in the Kingdom of God" was used to outline to the advocates the nature of their task.
Until February 1979, the study group format for the Consultation had been considering topics for study, such as "The Christian Social Responsibility in Relation to Evangelism". This approach was changed, however, to emphasize the need to reach people groups. A number of topics which had been planned for the Consultation therefore were eliminated or merged into the new program. Folders 45 30 through 45 36 outline these topics and the reasons for their exclusion. Several papers related to the specified topics are included in the files, such as Sam Kamaleson's "The Use of Dialogue in Evangelism". These files further document plans to hold Mini-Consultations on several of the eliminated topics at later dates.
A number of other items also are worthy of mention:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | Program Committee
Date range: 1978-1980
Boxes: 45
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | LCWE Working Groups
Date range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 45
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | Pre-COWE Planning
Date range: 1978-1980
Boxes: 45-46
Exceptional items: These files contain a variety of program related materials. The researcher should consult the Container List of this guide for a survey of the topics covered. However, several items not self evident there are highlighted as follows:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | COWE Program
Date range: 1978-1980
Boxes: 46-47
Exceptional items: This subsection deals largely with the plans for the plenary sessions and Bible expositions of the Consultation. The contents range from preliminary discussion of the overall framework of the sessions and what topics to address (folder 46-17) to copies of some of the papers for the expositions (folders 46-18,19). Included among the exposition papers are:
Leighton Ford's welcoming remarks to the Thai government representative is also included. The texts of additional papers stored separately because copied on legal sized paper are located in folder 47-22; in some cases, overlap is due to variant editions of a paper. Included among these are:
Reactions to, reflections on and recommendations for various papers were received by the COWE office. These are located in folder 46-27.
A separate section is devoted to the plenary sessions, following the general format as that for the expositions. These include general suggestions and an orientation document sent to those preparing papers for these sessions (folder 46-29) and the arrangements with the individuals involved. The researcher should note the Container List for the subjects of each of these addresses. The files contain some although not exhaustive data on the interaction on the topics being proposed.
Sub-Plenary sessions were planned to provide time for people to discuss the first drafts of reports which were prepared in the Mini-Consultations on reaching the various people groups under consideration. Documentation on these is available in folder 46-36.
Folder 46-41 contains a variety of miscellaneous items. Among them are a typed draft of Billy Graham's taped comments to the assembly, the welcoming address from a representative of the Thai church, Leighton Ford's opening comments, the agendas for each day's morning sessions, correspondence on suggestions for main session topics, and a letter from Paul Little to Leighton Ford with his reflections on the program planning for the Lausanne Congress, written at the time of the ICOWE. Folder 46-45 contains an overview of the Consultation schedule, of interest due the presence of various drafts rather than only the final one.
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | Commission on Evangelical Cooperation
Date range: 1978-1980
Boxes: 46
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | COWE Mini-Consultation
Date range: 1979-1980
Boxes: 46
Exceptional items: The Mini-Consultations were the working sessions at COWE which were to interact with the data received from the study groups. Of these files, folders 46-64 through 46-68 contain the richest source of material, consisting of the composite position papers drafted by the international coordinators. These papers were to be the basis for the Mini-Consultations' work. The titles of these papers largely correspond with the titles of the study groups/ Mini-Consultations and the researcher can find all of these represented. Unless otherwise noted, the papers listed below are found in folder 46-64.
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | Convener's Reports
Date range: 1980
Boxes: 47
Exceptional items: The position papers noted in the previous section were compilations prepared by the international coordinators of reports submitted by the conveners of the study groups throughout the world. Folders 47-1 through 47-18 contain these reports for each of the various study groups. These files are particularly rich in cultural information and reflection on the obstacles to and strategy for evangelizing the various people groups under study, offering an almost dizzying array of studies on specific groups in specific countries. The following list outlines the reports available. Folder 47 -20 also contains a number of reports which were intended for distribution at the Consultation.
Reaching Buddhists (folder 47-1): "A Point of Conduct (sic) Between Japan Buddhism and Christianity"
Reaching Chinese (folder 47-2,3):
Reaching Hindus (folder 47-4) includes two reports from India: "Reaching Hindu Women" and "How to Reach the Bengali Hindus With the Gospel and What Are the Barriers That Stand in Their Way to Come to Christ". Folder 47-20 also contains reports from Madras, Calcutta, Madurai, and England, "A Study Paper on the Hindus in Nepal: The Hindu Newars and the Gospel", "Reaching Hindus of Karnataka", and "Cultural Barriers in Hindu Society for Openness to the Gospel".
Reaching Jews (folder 47-5):
Reaching Marxists (folder 47-6):
Reaching Muslims (folder 4-7):
The Reaching Traditional Religionists in Africa (folder 47-8) contains reports from Malawi, the Republic of Central Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Reaching Traditional Religionists: Asia and Oceania (folders 47-9,10):
Reaching Traditional Religionists in Latin America and the Caribbean (folder 47-11):
Reaching City Dwellers - Large City (folder 47-12) includes reports from the following cities: Asuncion, Paraguay (Spanish); Bangui, Zaire (French); Bogata, Colombia (Spanish); Cordoba, Argentina; Frankfurt, West Germany; Quito, Ecuador (Spanish); Montevideo, Argentina; Port of Spain, Trinidad; Campo Grande, Brazil; Rosario, Argentina; and Sydney, Australia.
The Reaching Nominal Christians Among Orthodox (folder 47-13) contains reports from India, Greece, and Egypt.
Reaching Nominal Christians Among Protestants (folder 47-14):
Reaching Nominal Christians Among Roman Catholics (folders 47-15 through 19):
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | Participant Selection
Date range: 1980
Boxes: 48, 57
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | Other COWE Groups
Date range: 1979-1980
Boxes: 49
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | Other Conferences
Date range: 1978-1980
Boxes: 49
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Program Director (Athyal) | General: COWE Office, LCWE-Related, Athyal
Date range: 1976-1980
Boxes: 50
Exceptional items: This final subsection of Athyal's files is comprised of general administrative materials. Among the folders are Athyal's resume and a COWE organizational chart (folder 50-2); handwritten minutes from the Asian Committee on World Evangelization meeting at COWE (folder 50-3); and the script to an audio visual production, "Doors of Opportunity: 2,000 years of Evangelization" (folder 50-7).
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Newsletter Editor (Cindy Secrest) and Assistant to the Director of Communications
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1977-1980
Boxes: 51-55
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, drafts of production scripts, biographical sketches, lists of COWE personnel, manuscripts of proposed articles, drafts and final copy of COWE program book, publication production and reference files, issues of publications, press releases
Correspondents: Stan Izon and other COWE staff, authors of articles
Notes: These files were created by Cindy Secrest, COWE's Assistant to the Director of Communications, Stan Izon. Her duties ranged from editing various documents to working on Information Bulletin and COWE Newsletter to coordinating other aspects of communication with Izon. (A job description for her position details the scope of her duties and can be reviewed in folder 56-7.) In many cases, the folder titles on the Container List are sufficiently specific and the researcher should therefore note these. As Secrest's duties extended beyond the Communications Department of the Consultation office, a number of the files relate to other areas of the Consultation, while at the same time illustrating the intersection of the Communications Department and other office functions.
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Bookkeeper (Cindy Wilson)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1972-1980
Boxes: 70-77
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, ledger sheets, billing forms, etc., documenting the financial record keeping of the
COWE office.
Notes: The records in this subsection are the files of the COWE bookkeeper, Cindy Wilson. The majority of these relate to the financial arrangements of the Consultation participants, ranging from travel and accommodation details to subsidies. Much of the information in these files is uniform and routine. They do, however, identify alphabetically who the participants were and what proportion of their expenses they were able to pay, and also include correspondence with and in some cases biographical data on participants.
Exceptional items: Among these files are a number of items worthy of note:
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Travel Coordinator
Date Range: 1980
Boxes: 82
Type of documents: Ledger books
Notes: The records in this subsection consist of two ledger books maintained by Robert Gray of Travel Designers, the travel agency which coordinated travel arrangements on behalf of the COWE office for participants in the Thailand Consultation in 1980. The books predominantly contain financial data for travel arrangements. However, they also list all those traveling to the meeting, subdividing them by country. The records are arranged alphabetically within the ledger by country name.
Congresses and Consultations | Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office) | COWE Printing Department
Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title
Date Range: 1980
Boxes: 78-79
Type of documents: Duplicated documents for the consultation, such as newspapers, forms, announcements, news releases, various drafts of manuscripts, and form correspondence.
Notes: As the material was received unarranged, the archivist provided the arrangement and the folder titles. With the exception of folder 78-12, all the printing was done in Thailand at the Consultation, following the move of the Wheaton office to Pattaya. Many of the documents include the cover sheet used to order the duplication of the document. The researcher will find most of the folder titles sufficiently precise to indicate their contents. Items in several of the folders nonetheless bear mentioning:
Congresses and Consultations | 1984 International Prayer Assembly
Date Range: 1984
Boxes: 132 (1 folder)
Type of documents: Program book from assembly
Notes: Program book features daily schedules and speaker profiles, with text in both English and Korean.
Congresses and Consultations | 1985 Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization (Oslo, Norway)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1982-1985
Boxes: 85-86
Correspondents: Tormod Engelsviken (consultation coordinator), LCWE executive administrators and members, and other consulted as advisors in the planning process; these together also represent various regions of the world.
Notes: This small subseries consists primarily of correspondence related to planning for the consultation in Oslo, and manuscripts of all the papers presented (folders 86-20,21), including David Wells' five-chapter manuscript and others on various aspects of the theme of the consultation. While some folders are general by their heading and contain correspondence from a variety of sources, other folders are designated to a specific person, often the same as those appearing in the more general files. The correspondence ranges from invitations to consideration of issues to be addressed. These appear to be the files of Engelsviken, since most correspondence is addressed to him, and most outgoing copies are from him. Also note audio recordings in the Location Record: Audio Tapes T184 through T199.
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Singapore '87 (International Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian Leaders, 1987)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1983-1988
Boxes: 324-325
Geographic coverage: Singapore, worldwide
Type of documents: Memos and very small amount of correspondence, meeting agenda and minutes, press releases, newsletters (Countdown and Singapore 87 Update), outlines of workshop presentations, appeal for financial support, the event schedule, original version of the conference photo directory, planning notebook, post-conference reflections on the conference, donor lists, stewards applications, job descriptions, organizational chart, lists of participants and others attending, forms and form letters (and other duplicated documents), and other planning documents.
Correspondents: Stiller, other conference committee members, participants
Notes: The files in this subseries are those of the chairman of the 1987 conference, Brian Stiller.
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | 1989 Lausanne II Congress (see series Chief Executive Officer | Wang | Program Office | Lausanne II, 1989)
Congresses and Consultations | 2007 Bi-Annual Lausanne International Leadership Meeting, Budapest
Date Range: 2007
Boxes: 325
Type of documents: Spiral-bound program notebook (small size)
Notes: Program notebook includes schedule for the five-day meeting, short bios on the presenters, and additional resource material. Also included is a letter of greeting to all the participants from Billy Graham, and a greeting card with Leighton Ford's painting of a pastoral scene and prayer titled "A Prayer for Renewal in the Spirit of Lausanne."
Congresses and Consultations | Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism – North American Branch
Date Range: 1983-2011
Boxes: 326-334
Type of documents: Conference papers, correspondence, memos, reports, photocopies of stories in various media about Messianic Judaism, press releases
Notes: LCJE was not one meeting, but a continuing series of them, held regionally and internationally. This subseries consists of papers delivered at the annual conference of the North American branch of the LCJE on the following topics: Messianic Judaism in America and other countries and evangelistic outreach to Jewish people; correspondence of the arrangements and registration for these conferences, annual reports on how stories related to Messianic Judaism was covered in various media (newspapers, magazines, television, websites, etc.), and information on conferences of the international LCJE. Among the prominent correspondents and authors of papers are Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Arthur Glasser, Louis Goldberg, Kai Kjaer-Hansen, Fred Klett, Susan Perlman, Rich Robinson, Moishe Rosen, Michael Rydelnik, and Tuvya Zartsky. Other topics for which there is significant discussion are the Holocaust, American Judaism, the Torah and rabbinic tradition, attitudes of various denominations such as the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod toward Jewish evangelism, theological aspects of Jewish evangelism, reports on the activities of organizations involved in Jewish evangelism. After 1999, the folders contain few conference papers.
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010)
Date Range: 1989, 2000, 2006-2010
Boxes: 335-380
Type of documents: Documents in paper and digital formats, DVDs, conference papers, correspondence, memos, reports, budgets, photocopies of stories in various media, press releases, and written transcripts of Congress sessions. Some of them are in digital format in the Archives’ digital section.
In addition to the DVDs and audio and video files listed in this guide, the Archives also holds in accession 10-77 two hard drives (formatted for Apple products), which contain a mass of largely undifferentiated audio and video files from the Congress. Besides many unplayable files, there are also audio files that appear to be soundtracks for video that the Archives does not hold. Any researcher wishing to see these materials should have an Apple laptop or contact the Archives ahead of time to make arrangements for an Apple laptop to be available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Notes: This subseries contains the records for the planning of the third worldwide Congress of the Lausanne Movement, held in Cape Town, South Africa from October 17 to 24, 2010. It consists mainly of the files of the office that was planning the Congress, headed by Congress director Blair Carlson, including the files of committees of Christian workers around the world that were handling all the direct parts of planning the program, selecting participants, etc., the minutes and other records of the various planning meetings held over two years, and the liaison with the larger Lausanne movement. Also included are audio and video of some of the actual sessions of the Congress, and a small amount of material on the follow-up and response.
The Congress Handbook, prepared for the participants with the program, biographies of speakers, list of sessions, and other elements of the Congress. This is a good introduction to a study of the Congress. Copies in a variety of languages can be found in folders 375-6 to 375-9.
Listed below are several elements of the Congress referred to throughout the documents:
Each day of the Congress (except Thursday, October 21 which was a day off) had a different theme or challenge, which was the subject of the plenary sessions, the smaller multiplex sessions, the table groups and the dialogue sessions. The themes were:
Each day had three plenary sessions in the morning, afternoon, and evening:
Multiplexes – Ninety-minute sessions in the afternoon at which two or three specialized presentations were made on the topic of the day. Also see folders 358-12,13.
Dialogue Sessions – Ninety-minute sessions in the afternoon at which participants discussed aspects of the issue of the day.
GAFCON – (not a Lausanne III subgroup) Global Anglican Future Conference.
Global Link – Congress sessions made available by internet to dozens of seminaries, theological colleges, and Bible colleges around the world. See folders 347-14, 372-9 and 374-13.
GELF - Global Executive Leadership Forum. Program and conference held during the Congress for major donors and executives.
Table Groups – Assigned groups of six participants that met at the start of the day for Bible study and later to discuss issues facing the church and methods of evangelism. See folder 377-1.
CTICC - A frequently used acronym for Cape Town International Convention Center.
Organization charts for the Congress office and the various committees doing the planning can be found in folders 335-1, 338-9, 339-21, 341-12, 342-7, 345-1, 346-3, 348-3, 348-13, 350-1, 350-11, 351-4, 352-1, 352-13, 355-1, 356-8, 371-13, 373-14.
The various staff and committees also prepared manuals, which were not so much guides to how to do something as to what was done. Some of these can be found in folders 342-8, 343-11, 347-18, 354-9, 356-8, 365-25, 367-25, 370-12, 377-4.
Several sets of committee files, meeting files of the people planning the Congress, organization charts, and other materials are in the Archives digital files, under Documents/Collections/CN046/Central Desktop Downloads.
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Conference Director’s files
Boxes: 335-339
Notes: These files consist of conference director Blair Carlson’s overall supervision and coordination of the planning and execution of the Congress. It includes his correspondence, emails, records of phone calls with the senior Lausanne leadership, the various Congress committees, the Congress staff, and interested government, business and religious leaders. Also in this subseries are his notes and reports on the various trips he took to confer with Congress participants in different parts of the world and his attendance at other conferences, and his interaction with South African religious leaders.
Exceptional items in this subseries:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Committees
Boxes: 339-366, 379, 380
Notes: Most of the materials in the Committee subseries are from the files of the Congress office. There are a few committee files sent to the Congress office or to the BGC Archives directly, such as those in boxes 379 and 380.
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Administration (director Scott Rebney)
Boxes: 339-342, 379
Notes: Concerned with the basic organizational infrastructure of the Congress. Particularly concerned with budget, legal personnel, and translation matters, although not exclusively.
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Arrangements (chair Graham Power)
Boxes: 342-343
Notes: Committee concerned with venue, seating, equipment, interpretation, Congress, Africa shop, catering, power, sound, lighting, parking, etc.
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Arts (coordinator Tanya Jarvis)
Boxes: 343-344
Notes: Material about the planning for the visual and performing arts and film festival at the Congress as well as the questions about logo and the Congress’s appearance. See also box 357, folders 335-5 and 379-15, and DVD13.
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Communications (Steve Woodworth, Internal and Digital – Naomi Frizzell, External – Julia Cameron)
Boxes: 345-347, 379
Notes: Responsible for coordination of communication within the Congress’ working groups and externally with all secular and religious media, especially print. There are several digital communication files containing news releases, web pages, and planning documents in in the Archives digital files, under Documents\Collections\CN046\Communications Committee
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Finance (Chief Financial Officer Tiny Jones)
Boxes: 348
Notes: Committee mostly concerned with the legal entity set up for the Congress and the Congress’ cash supply.
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Fund-Raising (chair Eran Wickramaratne, Ralph Veerman and Jimmy Lee for GELF)
Boxes: 348-349
Notes: Materials on the planning for fund raising efforts, including the Global Executive Leadership Forum (GELF), which was a special program and conference held during the Congress for major donors and executives
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | GlobalLink (chair Victor Nakah)
Boxes: 350, 380
Notes: Memos and reports on the planning for a web network of seminaries, churches, missions, theological intuitions, Bible schools, colleges and individuals who participated through the Internet in Cape Town 2010
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Government, Business, Academia (GBA) (leader Andrea McAleean)
Boxes: 350, 379, 380
Notes: This was a think tank of various types of civic leaders to discuss emerging trends, opportunities, barriers, partnerships. Folders 379-18 to 380-6 contain correspondence with each of the leaders who made up the think tank and folder 380-7 contains a summary of their session and feedback from individuals.
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Information Technology (chair Joseph Vijayam)
Boxes: 350-351
Notes: This committee was mainly concerned with the different ways the meetings and the results of the Congress could be supported and transmitted: international technical support, a website, online courses, videos, participant selection systems, registrations systems, the Global Link.
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Intercessory (chair Sarah Plummer)
Boxes: 351, 379
Notes: Committee concerned with arranging for global prayer for the Congress and prayer requests in different regions and languages to be prayed for, both during preparation of the Congress and the Congress itself, as well as the staffing of a 24 hour prayer room during the Congress.
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Mission Africa (chair Michael Cassidy)
Boxes: 352
Notes: Mission Africa was an effort allied with Lausanne III but sperate from it to partner African and nonAfrican evangelists and evangelistic organizations to hold evangelistic meetings in every part of sub-Saharan Africa before the Congress. There were 890 such meetings, with an attendance of 488,394 and 58,245 inquirers. See also folders 368-8 and 374-17.
Exception items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Participant Selection (chair Hwa Yung)
Boxes: 352-355, 380
Notes: This committee was charged with overseeing the process by which thirteen LCWE Deputy Directors, based on region, along with more than 150 country selection committees and other representative groups put together the list of participants to be invited.
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Participant Services (chair Esme Bowers)
Boxes: 355-356
Notes: This committee was concerned with registration, accommodations,, all materials related to foreign travelers, transportation, participant care, mission activities on the Congress’ day off, and local tours, scholarships to the Congress, and off-site security.
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Programme (chair Ramez Atallah, co-chair Mark Marlowe)
Boxes: 356-366, 380
Notes: The committee was responsible for supervising the planning of all the sessions of the Congress – the Bible studies (plenary 1, morning), core issues challenging the church (plenary 2, afternoon), and spotlight on the situation of the church in different regions of the world (plenary 3, evening), as well as the opening and closing sessions and the arts program of the Congress – film festival, videos, visual arts, music.
Besides the files of the Congress director, boxes 364 (from folder 364-6 on) through box 366 contain materials received from other participants in the programme committee. Folder 364-6 contains the notebook of Lon Allison, one of those helping to plan the Plenary II sessions. Folder 364-7 contains evaluations of the Congress by students from Wheaton College, Illinois, USA who served as volunteer stewards. And the rest of 364 and all of 365 and 366 consist of the files of Lon Allison, who headed the group planning the Plenary 3 sessions.
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Congress Planning meetings
Boxes: 366-371
Notes: This subseries contains notes, memos, participant list, and other documents from a number of LCWE meetings, most in whole or in part for the purpose of planning the 2010 Congress. This includes the 2006 Younger Leaders Conference in Malaysia (folder 366-14, see also folder 372-18), the 2007 Biennial meeting of the Lausanne Committee in Budapest (folders 366-15 to 367-15 ) the Congress 2010 Team meeting in Cape Town October 2007 (367-16 to 367-24), the Lausanne Committee annual leadership meeting in Buenos Aires June 2008 (folders 367-25 to 368-9) the Congress Team meeting in Cape Town October 2008 (368-10 to 368-16) LCWE Biennial meeting Seoul 2009 (368-17 to 370-1) Cape Town Congress Team meeting October 2009 (Folders 370-2 to 370-11) Cape Town Team and LCWE meeting May 2010 (folder 370-12 to 371-2) and the 2011 Biennial LCWE meeting in Boston (folders 371-3 to 371-6) Each meeting generated agendas, reports, status updates. Although there are files from general Lausanne meetings, most of the material in the files relates to the planning of the 2010 Congress. Box 371 also has several general files on the Congress’ management team’s activities, correspondence and plans.
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Lausanne Committee Files
Boxes: 371-373
Notes: These files document the interactions between the Congress director and the various Congress staff and committees with the governing Lausanne Committee authority, particularly with the executive chair Douglas Birdsall
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Congress Final Reports
Boxes: 373-374
Notes: These reports were prepared after the Congress by the various planning committees and staff to describe their work, issues they struggled with, and the results in terms of the actual activities of the Congress.
Exceptional items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Samples
Boxes: 374-377
Notes: This subseries consists of all the samples of all the documents, programs, notebooks and other ephemera that were created for the Congress and the planning meetings before the Congress. This includes some of the manuals that were made for the various committees and for other LCWE meetings. It also includes advance copies of the papers delivered at the conference and the papers published in Christianity Today as part of the Global Conversation project.
Exceptional Items:
Congresses and Consultations | Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010) | Transcripts of Congress Sessions
Boxes: 377-379
Notes: This subseries includes transcripts and /or outlines or agendas for all the sessions of the Congress: opening and closing ceremonies, plenary, multiplexes, dialogue sessions, regional meetings. In a few cases (such as folder 377-16) the folder contains an outline of a session, rather than a transcript. These are the folders for the days of the Congress: October 17 (Folders 377-5 to 377-8), October 18 (folders 377-9 to 377-16), October 19 (folders 377-17 to 378-6), October 20 (folders 378-7 to 378-14), October 22 (Folders 378-15 to 378-22), October 23 (folders 378-23 to 379-5), and October 24 (folders 379-6 to 379-13).
Miscellaneous Records
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1980-1984
Boxes: 80-81, 84
Notes: The concluding series of the collection's files consists of several small groups of material given to the Archives by various individuals who have been involved in LCWE or its meetings.
Miscellaneous Records | LCWE Search Committee Chairman
Date range: 1983-1984
Boxes: 80
Exceptional items: The documents in folder 80-1 reflect the work of LCWE Search Committee (principally the Committee's Chairman, Thomas Zimmerman) in their attempt to fill the position of Executive Secretary, following Gottfried Osei Mensah's resignation in 1983. Included are reports to the LCWE Executive Committee, a position description, and Zimmerman's correspondence with other members of the Search Committee, members of the LCWE administration, and potential nominees. The documents enumerate the suggested nominees and evaluations of their suitability for the post. The arrangements of the documents is alphabetical by correspondent.
Miscellaneous Records | American Festival of Evangelism, 1981
Date range: 1980-1982
Boxes: 80
Exceptional items:
Miscellaneous Records | ICOWE Planning Committee
Date range: 1971-173
Boxes: 81
Exceptional items:
Miscellaneous Records | ICOWE Biographical Information Book
Date range: 1974
Boxes: 84
Exceptional items: The book consists of biographical data on the significant Congress officials and program participants.
Audio Recordings (see collection listing descriptions of individual tapes)
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1979-1988
Notes: Recordings from selected LCWE-sponsored meetings, including:
Also among the recordings are those of International Advisory Council meetings, Leadership '88 planning, LCWE general and executive committee meetings, and from the 1988 Stuttgart European Leadership Conference on World Evangelism (ELCOWE).
Moving Image Materials (see collections listing for descriptions of individual films and videos)
Subseries: Films, Video tapes
Date Range: 1974-1989
Notes: Recordings, primarily from selected LCWE-sponsored meetings, including Singapore '87, Leadership '88, and Lausanne II.
Still Images (see collections listing for description of Photo Albums, Photographs and Slides)
Subseries: Photo Albums, Photographs, Slides
Date Range: Approximately mid-1970s-1989
Notes: Features shots of LCWE staff, speakers at sponsored events and meetings, and the slides from the "Let the Earth Hear His Voice" slide presentation.
Exceptional items:
Arrangement Note
The materials in this collection consist predominantly of administrative correspondence, but also include minutes, reports, questionnaires, memos, financial reports and related documents, production files for publications, address manuscripts, statistical reports, press releases, procedure books, conference daily publications, promotional material, audio tapes, photographs and slides, all related to the planning and activity of the various offices responsible for the administration of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE), the 1974 Lausanne Congress (ICOWE), the Thailand Consultation (COWE), and other LCWE sponsored consultations. The records are organized into the following series:
The overall arrangement of the materials in this collection was provided by the archivist. The arrangement of each subseries was kept as it was received from the records creator when an order was discernable. Therefore, because various individuals and offices created and arranged the records, the arrangement of each subseries varies. In some cases, the arrangement follows a generally alphabetical scheme; in others the arrangement is predominantly chronological. In several instances, small accessions followed previous larger ones; these materials were then filed according to the scheme of the subseries to which they were being added. Refoldering of materials by the archivist was intermittent. In cases where the folders were in good condition, the original folders were retained. Those in poor condition were replaced while retaining the original folder title. Completely unfoldered material was foldered and the archivist created the folder title. Only in cases where there was no title did the archivist create one. Duplicate material was removed from the collection and returned to the donor.
Some materials were removed from their original order due to their size. When this was done, a notice to this effect was placed where the document would have appeared, also indicating where the document(s) can be found. These items are also listed on the Separation Record for Oversize Materials in this guide. If entire folders of materials were removed for reasons of size, the folder title on the container list of this guide nonetheless remains in the order in which it would have appeared.
Note on Plenary or workshop presentations:These presentations, whether in text or recorded form, are spread throughout the collection, but in some cases are hidden underneath the volume of the collection or the extensiveness of description. Brought together here are a few of the highlights and sources for these:
Provenance
The materials in this collection were received by the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives from a variety of Lausanne Movement sources, 1978-2007.
Accessions: 78-22, 78-26, 78-27, 78-28, 80-85, 80-99, 80-128, 80-132, 80-142, 80-151, 80-160, 80-174, 81-11, 81-12, 81-18, 81-40, 81-43, 81-54, 81-58, 81-82, 81-100, 81-127, 81-141, 82-37, 83-91, 84-90, 84-97, 85-2, 91-16
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Background Information
Chronology of LCWE-Related Meetings Documented in the Collection
The following list outlines those congresses on evangelism leading up to the Lausanne Congress or those sponsored fully or in part by the Lausanne Committee and its Working Groups. Numerous other meetings are documented in the files in this collection as well; the researcher should consult the Container List and/or the Cross Reference List of this guide for these.
Glossary of Terms
The following is an abbreviated list of more commonly used terms and acronyms used in the materials in this collection.
- A.D. 2000 Movement.
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh.
- Africa Evangelistic Enterprise.
- Allison, Lon (Lon J.), 1952-2019.
- American Festival of Evangelism (1981)
- Animism.
- Aquino, Corazon Cojuangco.
- Armerding, Hudson T.
- Asia Leadership Conference on Evangelism (1987)
- Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism (1968 : Singapore)
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar.
- Atallah, Ramez.
- Atheism.
- Athyal, Saphir P.
- Bakke, Raymond J., 1938-
- Bediako, Kwame.
- Billy Graham Center.
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
- Birdsall, Doug.
- Bright, Vonette Z.
- Bryant, David, 1945-
- Businessmen -- Religious life -- United States.
- Cape Town Commitment.
- Carlson, Blair.
- Cassidy, Michael, 1936-
- Cedar, Paul A., 1938-
- Christian leadership.
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution.
- Christianity and culture.
- Church and social problems.
- Church and state.
- Church work with children.
- Church work with refugees.
- City missions.
- Communism.
- Confraternidad Evangelica Latinoamericana.
- Consultation on World Evangelization.
- Consultation on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility (1982 : Reformed Bible College, Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization (1985: Oslo, Norway)
- Dain, Arthur John, 1912-
- Dayton, Edward R.
- Dayton, Edward R.
- Discipling (Christianity)
- Ecumenical movement -- Congresses.
- Escobar, Samuel E., 1934-
- Ethnicity -- Religious aspects.
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Catholic Church.
- Evangelicalism.
- Evangelistic work -- Albania.
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy.
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy.
- Evangelistic work -- Rwanda
- Evangelistic work -- Togo
- Evangelistic work -- Wales.
- Evangelistic work.
- Evans, Robert P., 1918-2011.
- Fernando, Ajith.
- Ford, Leighton.
- Freedom of religion.
- Gatu, John G., 1925-
- Global Anglican Future Conference (2nd : 2013 : Nairobi, Kenya)
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
- Hoke, Donald E.
- Houston, Tom (1928-)
- Howard, David M.
- Human trafficking -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Humanism.
- Indigenous church administration
- International Congress on World Evangelization (2nd : 1989 : Manila, Philippines)
- International Congress on World Evangelization (3rd : 2010 : Cape Town, South Africa)
- International Congress on World Evangelization.
- International Congress on World Evangelization. Lausanne covenant.
- International Prayer Assembly for World Evangelization (1984 : Seoul, Korea)
- International Simple Lifestyle Consultation (1980 : London, England)
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
- Johannson, Carl I.
- Journalism, Religious.
- Judaism -- Relations -- Evangelicalism
- Kato, Byang H.
- Kuzmic, Peter.
- Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism.
- Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering (2006 : Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia)
- Leadership '88.
- Little, Paul E.
- Magalit, Isabelo F.
- Mass media in religion.
- McKaughan, Paul.
- Missions -- Biblical teaching.
- Missions -- Congresses.
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation.
- Missions to Buddhists.
- Missions to Hindus.
- Missions to Jews.
- Missions to Muslims.
- Missions.
- Moscow (Russia)
- Multiculturalism -- Christianity.
- Nuñez C., Emilio Antonio.
- Organizational change.
- Orthodox Eastern Church -- Relations -- Christianity.
- Osei-Mensah, Gottfried.
- Padilla, C. René.
- Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly (1976 : Nairobi, Kenya)
- Pentecostalism.
- Prayer.
- Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Religion, Primitive
- Religious institutions.
- Salonga, Jovito R.
- Sider, Ronald J.
- Stiller, Brian.
- Stott, John R. W.
- Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Søgaard, Viggo.
- Ten Boom, Corrie.
- Theology -- Congresses.
- Wang, Thomas.
- Wheaton '83
- Women in missionary work.
- World Council of Churches.
- World Evangelical Alliance.
- World Evangelical Fellowship.
- World Missionary Conference.
Creator
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. (Organization)
- Title
- Collection 046 Records of the Lausanne Movement
- Author
- Paul Ericksen
- 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