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Collection 432 Papers of Vernon C. Watford

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Identifier: CN 432
Scope and Contents This collection consists of an oral history interview with Vernon C. Watford and a video tape titled "Triple C Bible Camp." The video depicts activities at the Triple C Bible Camp, such as Bible study groups, singing, swimming, games, and campfires, with comments about the camp by supporters, workers, attendees, and parents. This camp was founded by the Watford and his wife. The oral history interiew includes information on Watford's family, childhood, conversion, education at Washington...
Dates: Created: 1990

Collection 498 Oral History Interviews with William E. Pannell

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Identifier: CN 498
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with William E. Pannell in which he describes his childhood in Michigan, his family, conversion as a teenager, his growing awareness of racism in America and especially its influence on American Christianity, education at Fort Wayne Bible College, involvement with the Brethren Assemblies, the part preaching has played in his life, the divide between urban and suburban culture and its impact on black and white churches and institutions, his work with Youth for Christ,...
Dates: Created: 1995-2007

Collection 556 Oral History Interview with Lloyd C. Blue

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Identifier: CN 556
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Lloyd C. Blue, in which he describes the turmoil in his early history, alcoholism, racial attitudes, military service, conversion, attending Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Los Angeles, E.V. Hill, working with Campus Crusade, impact of Bill Bright’s “Being Filled With the Holy Spirit” sermon, developing church-based program to disciple men, pastoral work, philosophy of evangelism/discipleship, discipling pastors, E.K. Bailey, Church Growth Unlimited to develop...
Dates: Created: 1933-1998

Collection 375 Oral History Interview with Suzanne Griggins

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Identifier: CN 375
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Suzanne Elizabeth Griggins (T3-T4) in which she describes her work as a lawyer at the Mendenhall Ministries Law Office, including examples of cases. Other topics discussed include: Griggins’ conversion and spiritual growth; political, legal, educational, racial and social conditions in rural Mississippi; voter registration; pastor Artis Fletcher; the Ku Klux Klan; and the church's response to injustice. The collection also includes an orientation session (T1-T2)...
Dates: Created: 1987

Collection 371 Oral History Interview with C.J. Jones

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Identifier: CN 371
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Cornelius Jerome "C.J." Jones about his childhood, work with the civil rights movement, John Perkins and the Voice of Calvary, Dolphus Weary and The Mendenhall Ministries, his philosophy of ministry, the impact of TMM on the community, and racial conditions in Mississippi. The time period covered by the interview is 1944 to 1987.C. J. Jones was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on June 25, 1987, at the Mendenhall Ministries office in Mendenhall,...
Dates: Created: 1987

Collection 557 Oral History Interview with Bob Harrison

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Identifier: CN 557
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Bob Harrison (1928-2012) in which he describes his family, grandmother's (Cornelia Jones Robertson) involvement in original Azusa Street church in Los Angeles and association with Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, racial conditions in America and the church, influence of his mother and grandmother, his musical development and experience as a jazz vocalist, conversion, writing When God Was Black; high receptivity of Third World people to...
Dates: Created: 1998

Collection 419 Oral History Interviews with Crawford W. Loritts, Jr.

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Identifier: CN 419
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Crawford Wheeler Loritts, Jr., in which he discusses his childhood; family; conversion; education at Philadelphia College of Bible; perception of racial conditions as he experienced them; evangelistic ministry; church planting projects with of Black Evangelistic Enterprise in Canton, Mississippi, and with Tony Evans in Dallas Other topics discussed include: American Missionary Fellowship; Tony Evans; Here's Life Black America;...
Dates: Created: 1989-1990

Collection 374 Oral History Interviews with Artis Fletcher

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Identifier: CN 374
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Artis Edwards Fletcher in which he discusses his childhood, education, and work as pastor of the Mendenhall Bible Church. Also discussed are John Perkins, Voice of Calvary Ministries, the black church in the United States, and racial conditions in Mississippi. The time period covered by the interviews is 1944-1987.

Artis Fletcher was interviewed in by Paul Ericksen at office at the Mendenhall Bible Church, Mendenhall, MS on June 26, 1987.

Dates: Created: 1987

Collection 413 Oral History Interview with Matthew Parker

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Identifier: CN 413
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Matthew Parker in which he describes his childhood, family, education, conversion, study at Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music and work/study at Wheaton College, ministry with Campus Crusade in its sports ministry and with Overseas Crusades sports evangelism ministry (Venture for Victory w/ Bud Schaeffer), the 1984 and 1986 National Summits on Black Church Development, the Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America, the Afro-American community, white...
Dates: Created: 1989

Collection 492 Papers of William A. Drury

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Identifier: CN 492
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, audio recordings, brochures, photographs, and a video tape relating to the ministry of William A. Drury, evangelist and youth worker with Percy Crawford, Youtharama, and Youth Haven.

Dates: Created: 1962-1996

Christianity Today Records

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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

Collection 515 Papers of Ernest Wilson

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Identifier: CN 515
Scope and Contents This collection contains an oral history interview with Ernest "Ernie" Wilson in which he describes his parents, his childhood in Panama, the evangelistic work of his father, his conversion as a young man, the experience of preaching, and his education at the Philadelphia Bible Institute and the Reformed Episcopal Seminary. Rev. Wilson was interviewed by Bob Shuster on March 22, 1995, at Wilson’s home in Philadelphia. The events described in the interview cover the time period 1911-1995....
Dates: Created: 1947-1995

L. Nelson Bell Papers

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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

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Christian life. 9
Church and social problems. 9
Conversion. 9
Racism -- United States. 9
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Christian leadership. 7
Church and social problems -- United States. 6
Evangelicalism. 6
Family. 6
Alcoholism -- United States 5
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Race relations. 5
Discrimination -- United States. 5
Discrimination. 5
Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 5
African Americans -- Missions. 4
Bible colleges 4
Bible colleges -- United States. 4
Church and state -- United States. 4
Civil rights movements 4
Civil rights movements -- United States. 4
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 4
Preaching. 4
Race relations. 4
African American clergy. 3
African Americans -- Families 3
Belief and doubt. 3
Church and state. 3
Church development, New. 3
Cities and towns. 3
Community development. 3
Independent churches. 3
Sex role. 3
Sunday schools. 3
African American evangelists. 2
African American leadership. 2
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Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
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Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. 2
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African American missionaries. 1
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Names
Bright, Bill. 5
Campus Crusade for Christ. 5
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 4
Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 4
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 3
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Fletcher, Artis. 3
Griggins, Suzanne. 3
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 3
Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 3
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 3
Perkins, John, 1930- 3
Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 3
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 2
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 2
Blue, Lloyd C. 2
Christianity Today International. 2
Fuller Theological Seminary. 2
Hill, E. V. (Edward Victor), 1933- 2
Institute for Black Family Development. 2
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 2
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 2
McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 2
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 2
Parker, Matthew, 1945- 2
Robbins, Paul D., 1936- 2
Roberts, Oral, 1918-2009. 2
Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 2
Weary, Dolphus., 1946- 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) 2
World Vision International. 2
African Enterprise. 1
American Missionary Fellowship. 1
American Scientific Affiliation. 1
American Sunday-School Union. 1
Anderson, Ken, 1917-2006. 1
Armerding, Hudson T. 1
Assemblies of God. 1
Athletes in Action (Organization) 1
Babbage, Stuart Barton. 1
Bailey, E. K. 1
Bennett, Walter F., 1915 1980. 1
Berry, Raymond, 1933- 1
Black Evangelistic Enterprise. 1
Bob Jones University. 1
Bryan College. 1
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Cassidy, Michael, 1936- 1
Cedine Bible Mission. 1
Center for Black Church Development (Detroit, Mich.) 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Christian Committee of Concern. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Church Growth Unlimited. 1
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998. 1
Conwell School of Theology. 1
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 1
Daniel, Jack, ca. 1930- 1
Dayton, Edward R. 1
Destiny, Inc. 1
Douglas, J. D. (James Dixon.) 1
Drury, William A. 1
Ellis, Carl F., 1946- 1
Emery, Allan C. 1
Engstrom, Ted W. (Ted Wilhelm), 1916- 1
Evans, Tony, 1949- 1
Florence, Tom. 1
Fort Wayne Bible College (Ind.) 1
Frizen, E. L. 1
Fuchida, Mitsuo, 1902-1976. 1
Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 1
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. 1
Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music (Mich.) 1
Halverson, Richard C. 1
Hansen, Kenneth Norman. 1
Harrison, Bob. 1
Hendrix, Olan. 1
Here's Life Black America. 1
Hubbard, David Allan. 1
Jarman, W. Maxey. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 1
Jones, Cornelius J. 1
Jordan, Clarence. 1
June, Lee N. 1
Kane, J. Herbert. 1
Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
Kesler, Jay. 1
Kilby, Clyde S. 1
Kuhn, Harold B., 1911-1994. 1
Landreth, Gordon. 1
Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1
Laubach, Frank Charles, 1884-1970. 1
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. 1
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