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Collection 698 Papers of Lois R. Ferm
Collection
Identifier: CN 698
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other documents relating to Lois R. Ferm’s work as a personal assistant to Billy Graham and particularly relating to the Billy Graham Center, Graham’s personal library, and the BGEA Oral History Project.This collection consists of materials documenting Ferm’s work as a personal assistant to Billy Graham and Resource Coordinator of the BGEA. Although there are a few earlier items, almost everything in collection dates from 1970 or later. The...
Dates:
Created: 1967-2000
Collection 049 Oral History Interview with Paul L. Maier
Collection
Identifier: CN 049
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Luther Maier in which he describes the relationship between his father, Walter Arthur Maier, of the radio program The Lutheran Hour and Billy Graham. He also discusses Walter F. Bennett and Company, an advertising firm that worked with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Paul Maier was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 9, 1978.
Dates:
Created: 1978
Collection 671 Oral History Interview with David P. Bruce
Collection
Identifier: CN 671
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with David P. Bruce, in which he discusses the history of the Montreat office of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) that functioned as the personal secretariat of Billy Graham; the relationship of the office to the rest of the BGEA; Bruce's own background and his work as assistant to Graham; L. Nelson Bell and other BGEA leaders (T. W. Wilson, Stephanie Wills, John Akers, Charlie Riggs, Sterling Huston, and John Corts); effects on the Montreat office of...
Dates:
Created: 2013
Collection 463 Oral History Interview with Cliff Barrows
Collection
Identifier: CN 463
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Clifford Burton Barrows (1923-2016), evangelist and long-time song-leader and choir director with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, in which he describes experiences which have influenced his work; the place of music in evangelism; trends in current Christian music; role of music in Billy Graham crusade services. Other topics discussed include: Barrow’s musical training; influence of Oliver Steiner and Homer Rodeheaver; and the commercialization of...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Collection 647 Oral History Interview with Loren D. Cunningham
Collection
Identifier: CN 647
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Loren D. Cunningham, in which he describes his early life, family and influence of his mother and evangelist father, the Assemblies of God church and evangelistic mission, role of prayer in their family, other influences on his spiritual life, accounts of growing in his faith and learning to hear God speaking, call to worldwide mission as a young teenager, education, early mission trips, moving beyond Assemblies of God circles, meeting his wife Darlene, dream to...
Dates:
Created: 2009
Collection 431 Oral History Interviews with T. Michael Flowers
Collection
Identifier: CN 431
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with T. Michael Flowers (1920-2015) in which he describes growing up in the Bahamas, the influence on his life of W. H. Farrington, his conversion, his evangelistic work in the Bahamas, his education in Scotland, a brief description of Billy Graham in Scotland in 1946, and the beginning of his evangelistic work in the United States. The second interview covers Flowers' ministry in Canada, Whitfield and B. M. Nottage, the Plymouth Brethren church and its church...
Dates:
Created: 1990-1995
Collection 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla
Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
David H. Adeney Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description
Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates:
Created: 1911-1994
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 074
Brief Description
Collection consists of a wide variety of materials (correspondence, form letters, audio tapes, films and videotapes, etc.) that document the ministry and history of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in the United States and around the world. Based on earlier collecting protocols, the collection also contains material about Billy Graham personally, such as oral history interviews with his Wheaton College classmates.Originally this collection contained mainly...
Dates:
Created: 1863-1999
Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson Sr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 285
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
Dates:
Created: 1919 -2001
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 300
Brief Description
Administrative records of IVCF spanning the time period from its founding in 1940 until 1991; includes materials created prior to the establishment of IVCF. Includes records of the presidents (Woods, Hummel, Troutman, McLeish, Alexander, McLeish), Paul Little, Campus chapters, Regional divisions and directors, Missions department, Urbana Missions Conventions, Nurses Christian Fellowship, Development department, Jim Nyquist, Strategic Planning, Finance, and manuscript material for the 1991...
Dates:
1928-2017
Collection 446 Papers of Jack Wyrtzen
Collection
Identifier: CN 446
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, audio tapes and video tapes relating to the ministry of Jack Wyrtzen.Series: Audio TapesTape 1 to Tape 7: Oral history interviews with Jack Wyrtzen in which he describes his parents, childhood, early influences, conversion, relations with other Christian leaders, development of the Word of Life Fellowship, radio and television work and youth work. The time period covered by the...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Vernon W. Patterson Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 005
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, clippings, reports, financial records, press releases, promotional material, forms, newsletters, and oral history interviews relating to Vernon W. Patterson's (1892-1991) active participation and leadership in evangelistic activities in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The papers focus particularly on his involvement in various evangelical lay organizations and other institutions and the early career of Billy Graham. The interviews were recorded on 3/4/85 and 3/5/85 and...
Dates:
Created: 1900-1985
Christianity Today Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 008
Brief Description
Correspondence, memos, forms, financial reports, minutes of meetings, study papers, clippings and other records of the Evangelical Christian publishing organization. The records describe the founding of the organization to publish the magazine Christianity Today and its creation or acquisition of other publications such as Campus Life, Leadership, Leadership 100, Partnership, and Your Church. Besides material on the editing, publishing and distribution of these periodicals, the files also...
Dates:
Created: Majority of material found within 1930, 1954-2002
David M. Howard, Sr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 484
Scope and Contents
Four oral history interviews, paper records, and photographs documenting David Howard's life and work with Latin American Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and World Evangelical Fellowship. Topics covered in the interviews include Howard's childhood, Christian faith, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary and administrator with Latin America Mission; missions director for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization; and...
Dates:
Created: 1968-1993
Collection 563 Papers of Robert Coleman
Collection
Identifier: CN 563
Brief Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, oral history interviews, class lecture notes, meeting files and other materials relating to Coleman's ministry as an evangelist, scholar and church leader. Besides Coleman's own life and ministry, the collection contains voluminous material on the theology of evangelism and Christian discipleship, American 20th century Evangelicalism; the growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly in regard to the...
Dates:
1936-2019
Latin America Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 236
Brief Description
Records of the mission, including correspondence, minutes, reports, memos, financial reports, policy statements, planning documents, promotional material, photographs, etc. Documents describe the origins of LAM (particularly the contribution of the Strachan family); evangelistic, church planting, educational, medical, and literature activities (primarily in Colombia and Costa Rica, but also many other Latin American countries and the United States); the restructuring of the mission in the...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1994
Youth for Christ Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 048
Brief Description
Minutes, constitution and by-laws, clippings, newsletters, manuals, pamphlets, directories, press releases, audio tapes, videotapes, photographs, posters, club yearbooks, correspondence, etc., about the founding, development and growth, and activities of Youth for Christ in the USA and internationally.Collection documents organizational policies, correspondence of the organization's presidents, conventions and Bible quiz competitions, the operation of Campus Life clubs, Youth...
Dates:
Created: 1944-ongoing; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-ongoing
Collection 659 Papers of Roy W. Gustafson
Collection
Identifier: CN 659
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings, and other documents relating to Gustafson’s education and life’s work as a minister, evangelist, Bible teacher, and staff member of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Particularly well documented are the tours of the Holy Land (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt) he led and lectured to for several decades, his participation in ministries in Africa and Asia, and his active involvement in the worldwide activities of Samaritan’s...
Dates:
Created: 1908-2002
L. Nelson Bell Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description
Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates:
1923-1973
Found in:
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L. Nelson Bell Papers
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- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 4
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 4
- Howard, David M. 4
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 4
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 4
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 4
- Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 4
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 4
- LeTourneau, R. G. (Robert Gilmour), 1888-1969. 4
- Little, Paul E. 4
- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 4
- Shea, George Beverly, 1909-2013. 4
- Stott, John R. W. 4
- Wilson, Thomas Walter. 4
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 4
- World Council of Churches. 4
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 3
- Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove (Asheville, N.C.) 3
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 3
- Corts, John. 3
- Emery, Allan C. 3
- Ford, Leighton. 3
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 3
- Houghton, Will H., 1887-1947. 3
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 3
- Kesler, Jay. 3
- Maier, Walter A., 1893-1950. 3
- National Association of Evangelicals. 3
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 3
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 3
- Padilla, C. René. 3
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 3
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 3
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 1868-1957. 3
- Troutman, Charles Henry, Jr. 3
- World Vision International. 3
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 3
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 2
- Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 2
- Armerding, Hudson T. 2
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 2
- Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 2
- Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 2
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 2
- Bryant, David, 1945- 2
- Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 2
- Christianity Today International. 2
- Colson, Charles W. 2
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 2
- Cook, Robert A., 1912- 2
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 2
- Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 2
- Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 2
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 2
- Evans, Robert P., 1918-2011. 2
- Fenton, Horace L. 2
- Ferm, Lois. 2
- Ferm, Robert O. (Robert Oscar), 1911-1994. 2
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 2
- Graham, Franklin, 1952- 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- Hansen, Kenneth Norman. 2
- Huston, Sterling W. 2
- Kane, J. Herbert. 2
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 2
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 2
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 2
- Kraakevik, James H., 1928-2007 2
- Latin America Mission. 2
- Lindsell, Harold, 1913-1998. 2
- Lum, Ada. 2
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Mooneyham, W. Stanley (Walter Stanley), 1926- 2
- National Religious Broadcasters (U.S.) 2
- North American Conference for Itinerant Evangelists (1994 : Louisville, Ky.) 2
- Northwestern College (Roseville, Minn.) 2
- Nyquist, James F. 2
- Pannell, William E. 2
- Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 2
- Pierce, Bob, 1914-1978. 2
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 2
- Pollock, John, 1924-2012. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Roberts, W. Dayton. 2
- Samaritan's Purse. (Organization) 2
- Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August) 2
- Seminario Biblico Latinoamericano. 2
- Smith, Oswald J. 2
- Smith, Wilbur M. (Wilbur Moorehead), 1894-1976. 2
- Strachan, R. Kenneth (Robert Kenneth), 1910-1965. 2
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