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Collection 432 Papers of Vernon C. Watford
Collection
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 050 Ephemera of Merrill Dunlop
Collection
Identifier: CN 050
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photographs, and a video recordings relating to the ministry of Merrill Dunlop (1905-2002).The oral history interviews with Merrill Dunlop cover his association with evangelist Paul Rader, early religious radio programming in Chicago, the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Youth for Christ, Christian evangelism and Christian music work. Merrill Dunlop was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 21, 1978 and June 1, 1979, at Dunlop's home in Oak Park, Illinois....
Dates:
Created: 1978-1988
Collection 139 Oral History Interview with Frances Rader Longino
Collection
Identifier: CN 139
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Frances Rader Longino (1909-1996) in which she recounts memories of evangelists Billy Sunday, Mel Trotter, Homer Rodeheaver, and her uncle, Paul Rader. Other topics include: city mission work and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Pacific Garden Mission, Winona Lake, and Cedar Lake Conference Grounds. Also included are reminiscences of Rader's reaction to Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, the formation of Scripture Press, Billy Graham's early preaching and crusades, and some...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 556 Oral History Interview with Lloyd C. Blue
Collection
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
Collection
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 395 Oral History Interview with Rafael Maldonado, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 395
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Rafael Maldonado, Jr. in which describes his childhood; conversion; education and training for ministry at Moody Bible Institute and Calvin Theological Seminary; ministry with Chicago’s Hispanic communities; and role as a pastor at Hope Christian Fellowship to the Puerto Rican community in Chicago. Other topics discussed include: completion of the SCUPE program; apprenticeship for Urban Ministry, the Spirit and Truth Fellowship Church under Manuel Ortiz; church's...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 229 Oral History Interview with L. C. Robie
Collection
Identifier: CN 229
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with L.C. Robie in which he describes his experiences during his forty-two years as an Assemblies of God evangelist in California, New York,and Pennsylvania, beginning ca. 1920. Topics discussed include: early ministry experiences in New York state churches, successes and hostilities, importance of prayer, work in Michigan; healing from youthful illness, first conversion of factory worker and spread of faith to others, New Hope revival, visions, power of revival and...
Dates:
Created: 1979
Collection 193 Records of the Washington Street Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 193
Scope and Contents
Sermon notes, minutes, financial records, reports, oral history transcript, clippings, estate descriptions, tracts on various cults and heresies, and photographs documenting the history of the Washington Street Mission in Springfield, Illinois between 1914 and 1982.Records describe tan urban mission and the effectiveness of their programs, administration, and financial activities, and a historical view of its origins in an oral history interview with Mary Brown Miller. Sermon...
Dates:
Created: 1916-1982
Collection 398 Oral History Interview with Wayne L. Gordon
Collection
Identifier: CN 398
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne LeRoy Gordon, pastor of Lawndale Community Church, a nondenominational church in Chicago's predominantly black community, Lawndale. Topics covered include Gordon's youth, the influence of his family on his spiritual growth, his call to work in the black community, his education at Wheaton College, ministry through Lawndale Community Church in Chicago (its structure, various ministries, including health care, education, and recreation), and the African...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 372 Oral History Interview with Judith Adams
Collection
Identifier: CN 372
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Judith Rachelle Whitthingham Adams about her childhood, her work with Genesis One Christian School, The Mendenhall Ministries, and the educational and racial conditions in Mississippi. The time period covered by the interview is circa 1960-1987.
Judith Adams was interviewed by Paul A. Ericksen on June 25 and 26, 1987, at the offices of Mendenhall Ministries in Mendenhall, MS.
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 364 Oral History Interview with Spencer W. Perkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 364
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Spencer W. Perkins (1954-1998) in which he discusses his childhood in California and Mississippi; attending black and white schools; relations with his father, John Perkins; the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the late 60s and early 70s; and the work of Voice of Calvary Ministries in Jackson, MS. The time period covered by the interview is 1954-1987.Spencer Perkins was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on June 18, 1987 at the Voice of Calvary...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 443 Oral History Interviews with William L. Simmer
Collection
Identifier: CN 443
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with William Leonard Simmer (1929-2015) in which he discusses his childhood, years in the United States Air Force, conversion to Christianity, education at Washington Bible College, and the development of Good News Jail and Prison ministry. Other topics discussed include: Carl Henry, Grady Wilson, and the BGEA 1960 Washington, DC, Crusade. The time period covered by the interviews is 1929 to 1991.William Leonard Simmer was interviewed by Robert Shuster on...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Collection 397 Papers of Consuella York
Collection
Identifier: CN 397
Scope and Contents
Clippings, photographs, cards, sermons, handbooks, oral history interviews and other records mainly relating to Consuella York's ministry as a chaplain at the Cook County Jail, but also describing her childhood growing up on the south side of Chicago, her conversion, religious education, and work as a pastor.The materials in this collection consist of miscellaneous items from Rev. York's life, mostly relating to her prison ministry. They include newspaper and magazine clippings,...
Dates:
Created: 1953-1994
Collection 370 Oral History Interview with Melvin R. Anderson
Collection
Identifier: CN 370
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Melvin R. Anderson in which he discusses his work with Voice of Calvary Ministries in Jackson, MS, particularly as director of Peoples Development Incorporated and its housing ministry to rennovate and make homes available to the economically disadvantaged in Jackson. Other topics discussed include Anderson's family background, education, racial integration of the public school system; boycott of white businesses, the influence of John and Vera Mae Perkins on...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 270 Oral History Interview with Ray Schulenburg
Collection
Identifier: CN 270
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Roy Harvey Schulenberg (1909-2003) in which he discusses his conversion and involvement in Christian work, his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, the early days of Youth for Christ, evangelistic preaching, and city missions. Other topics discussed include: Rader’s radio ministry, Moody Memorial Church, evangelical figures who worked with or were influenced by Rader (Lance Latham, Richard Oliver, Howard Ferrin, Oswald Smith, Clarence Jones,...
Dates:
Created: 1984
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 386 Oral History Interview with Charles H. Dawson
Collection
Identifier: CN 386
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Charles H. Dawson (1916-2000) in which he describes his family background; conversion; involvement in street preaching; jail ministry and other work in the Camden area; involvement in the work of the Afro-American Missionary Crusade; and philosophy of Christian work. Other topics discussed include Dawson's training at the New Jersey Bible School; street preaching; Montrose Waite; Dawson's trips to Africa from the 1960s through the 1980s; training African...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 368 Oral History Interview with Vera Mae Perkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 368
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Vera Mae Buckley Perkins in which she discusses her family background, her education, the importance of her Christian faith, marriage to John Perkins, racial conditions in Mississippi and involvement in Civil Rights demonstration, and racial conditions in that state. Other topics discussed include her work as a migrant laborer and participation in Civil Rights protests that resulted in the integration of the school system in Mendenhall, Mississippi. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 419 Oral History Interviews with Crawford W. Loritts, Jr.
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
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 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
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 326 Papers of James Edwin Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 326
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and personal notebook relating to the ministry of James E. Wright with Youth for Christ in India, Mexico, and the United States.Series 1: Audio TapesOral history interviews with James E. Wright in which he describes his youth, conversion and spiritual growth, education at Wheaton College and Multnomah School of the Bible, involvement with Youth For Christ in Portland, Oregon, India and Mexico, counseling and follow-up...
Dates:
Created: 1950-1986
Collection 367 Papers of John Perkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 367
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview, video tapes, and promotional material, relating to the ministry of John Perkins, author, speaker, and founder and President Emeritus of Voice of Calvary Ministries.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with John PerkinsInterview with John Perkins in which he describes his childhood in rural Mississippi, his conversion, the formation of VOCM, its program and significant events and individuals in its...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1995
Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans
Collection
Identifier: CN 279
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8,...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1985
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- Church and social problems. 26
- Evangelistic work. 26
- Conversion. 19
- African Americans. 17
- Christian leadership. 16
- Christian life. 16
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 15
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 15
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 13
- Evangelicalism. 13
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 13
- Racism -- United States. 13
- Racism. 13
- City missions. 12
- Family. 11
- Race relations. 11
- African Americans -- Religious life. 10
- Discrimination. 10
- Discrimination -- United States. 9
- Christian education -- United States. 8
- Christian education. 8
- Church work with youth. 8
- City missions -- United States. 8
- Community development. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Missionaries. 8
- Preaching. 8
- Women 8
- Women -- Religious life. 8
- African Americans -- Segregation. 7
- Alcoholism -- United States 7
- Church development, New. 7
- Church work with youth -- United States. 7
- Cities and towns. 7
- Civil rights movements -- United States. 7
- Mendenhall (Miss.) 7
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Race relations. 6
- Bible colleges 6
- Church and state. 6
- Cities and towns -- United States. 6
- Civil rights movements 6
- Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Mississippi. 6
- Fund raising. 6
- Poverty. 6
- Radio in religion. 6
- African Americans -- Missions. 5
- Belief and doubt. 5
- Chicago (Ill.) 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Church and state -- United States. 5
- Church work with prisoners. 5
- Education 5
- Family -- United States. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Reconciliation -- Christianity. 5
- Reconciliation. 5
- Bible colleges -- United States. 4
- Bible. 4
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 4
- Children -- United States 4
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 4
- Children. 4
- Christian education, Outdoor. 4
- Christianity and politics. 4
- Economic and social conditions 4
- Education -- United States. 4
- Independent churches. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missions -- Congresses. 4
- Organizational change. 4
- Persecution -- United States. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Prisoners 4
- Prisoners -- United States. 4
- Radio in religion -- United States. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Social change. 4
- United States -- Race relations. 4
- Voluntarism. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 3
- Church development, New -- United States. 3
- Church discipline. 3
- Church work with prisoners -- United States. 3
- Church work with the poor 3
- Church work with the poor -- United States. 3
- City missions -- Chicago. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Community development -- Mississippi. 3
- Discrimination -- Christianity. 3
- Evangelistic invitations. 3
- Evangelistic sermons. 3 ∧ less
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- Names
- Perkins, John, 1930- 9
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 7
- Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 5
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 5
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 4
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 4
- Perkins, Vera Mae. 4
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 4
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 3
- Fletcher, Artis. 3
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 3
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 3
- Smith, Oswald J. 3
- Weary, Dolphus., 1946- 3
- Blue, Lloyd C. 2
- Bright, Bill. 2
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Criswell, W. A. (Wallie A.), 1909-2002. 2
- Dunlop, Merrill. 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Evans, Tony, 1949- 2
- Griggins, Suzanne. 2
- Howard, David M. 2
- Institute for Black Family Development. 2
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 2
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 2
- Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 2
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 2
- Latham, Lance B. 2
- McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944. 2
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Oliver, Richard Weber, 1900-1930. 2
- Pannell, William E. 2
- Parker, Matthew, 1945- 2
- Philpot, Ford. 2
- Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August) 2
- Taylor, Herbert John, 1893-1978. 2
- Tucker, Lem. 2
- Washington Bible College (Lanham, Md.) 2
- Adams, Judith. 1
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- African American Missionary Crusade. 1
- Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 1
- Ali, Muhammed, 1942-2016. 1
- American Council of Christian Churches. 1
- American Missionary Fellowship. 1
- American Sunday-School Union. 1
- Anderson, Melvin R., 1955- 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Athletes in Action (Organization) 1
- Ayer, William Ward. 1
- Bailey, E. K. 1
- Barrows, Cliff. 1
- Bayly, Joseph. 1
- Beckwith, Paul, 1905-1975. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Bentley, Ruth Lewis. 1
- Berney, James E., 1937- 1
- Biederwolf, William E. (William Edward), 1867-1939. 1
- Billy Graham Bay Area Crusade (1958 : San Francisco, Calif.) 1
- Billy Graham Centennial Crusade (Winnipeg, Man.) (1967) 1
- Billy Graham Central Carolina Crusade (1973 : Raleigh, NC.) 1
- Billy Graham Florida West Coast Crusade (1979 : Tampa, Fla.) 1
- Billy Graham Greater Boston Crusade (1964) 1
- Billy Graham Greater Chicago Crusade (1962 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Billy Graham Greater Dallas Crusade (1953) 1
- Billy Graham Greater Los Angeles Campaign (1949 : Los Angeles, Cal.) 1
- Billy Graham Greater Toronto Crusade (1955 : Toronto, Ont.) 1
- Billy Graham Maracaibo Crusade (1962 : Maracaibo, Venezuela) 1
- Billy Graham New England Tour (1950) 1
- Billy Graham New York Crusade (1957) 1
- Billy Graham New York Crusade (1969 : New York, N.Y.) 1
- Billy Graham Philadelphia Crusade (1961 : Philadelphia, Penn.) 1
- Billy Graham Southern California Crusade (1963 : Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
- Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove (Asheville, N.C.) 1
- Billy Graham Wheaton Crusade (1959 : Wheaton, Ill.) 1
- Black Evangelistic Enterprise. 1
- Blaine, Harriet Gertrude. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
- Bolten, John, 1920- 1
- Booth, F. Carlton. 1
- Boyd, Barbara, 1924?-2018. 1
- Brown, Robert Thomas. 1
- Bryan College. 1
- Bryant, David, 1945- 1
- Buckley, R. A. 1
- Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
- Calvin Theological Seminary. 1
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. 1
- Center for Black Church Development (Detroit, Mich.) 1
- Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003. 1
- Chicago Baptist Institute. 1
- Chicago Gospel Mission. 1
- Christian Committee of Concern. 1 ∧ less
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