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A. Bertram Lewis Letter

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 081

Scope and Contents

This collection contains one letter from A. Bertram Lewis, describing his work as missionary in Kiangsi Province, China, with China Inland Mission, the progress of evangelistic work, involvement of Chinese Christians in evangelism, and a Bible conference.

Dates: Created: 1937

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Academic Advisory Committee Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-001

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Academic Advisory Committee

Dates: Created: 1983-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1983-1985

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Academic Affairs Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-037

Scope and Contents

Miniutes of the Academic Affairs Committee

Dates: Created: 1978-1986; Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1986

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Academic Computer Committee Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-063

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Academic Computer Committee

Dates: Created: 1977-1977; Other: Majority of material found in 1977

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Academic Council Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-039

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general file of the Academic Council

Dates: Created: 1952-1960; Other: Majority of material found in 1952-1960

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Academic Planning Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-038

Scope and Contents

Minutes and Additional Materials of the Academic Planning Committee

Dates: Created: 1943-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1943-1980

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Ad Hoc Committee on Divorce and Remarriage Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-065

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Ad Hoc Committee on Divorce and Remarriage

Dates: Created: 1979-1979; Other: Majority of material found in 1979

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Addison C. Tanner Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 613

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Addison Carl Tanner (1932-2012) a missionary with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in Tanzania and publisher of Christian literature. Tanner describes his mission work, the Tanzanian people, Christianity and animism, political situation in Tanzania, role of tribal chiefs, his conversion and call to mission work, changes in the Tanzanian church, and role of women in the African Inland Church. The time period covered in the interview is 1932 to 1988.Addison...

Dates: Created: 1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Adeline Eliza Collins Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-208

Scope and Contents

The Addie Eliza Collins Papers is composed of biographical information about her principalship at Wheaton College, correspondence with Collins' decendants, college manuscripts and family photographs. The bulk of the collection centers around a dozen hand-written college papers in delicate script and family photographs from 1870-1900 including her mother, children and grandchildren.

Dates: Created: 1861-1972; Other: Majority of material found in 1861-1910; Other: Date acquired: 2008

Found in: Special Collections

Adeline Hendricks Scrapbook

Collection — Box: I

Identifier: SC-134

Scope and Contents The Adeline Hendricks (1915) scrapbook is embossed with the words, "The Girl Graduate, Her Own Book." The covers are leather-lined cardboard, faded, and measure 6 x 9 1/4. The first pages are dedicated to photos of familiar campus scenes and faculty. Six photos feature a boating trip. These images include marginal comments. Tucked within are standard scrap items: literary society invitations and programs, alumni banquet notices, recital and concert programs. A few of the light green pages...

Dates: Created: 1911-1926

Found in: Special Collections

Administrative Council Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-032

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Administrative Council

Dates: Created: 1967-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1969

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Admissions Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-002

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Admissions Committee

Dates: Created: 1944-1979; Other: Majority of material found in 1973-1979

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Adolf Andrew Brown Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-172

Scope and Contents The A.A. Brown ('21) photo album, composed of gray construction paper, features a few words of description beneath each image, identifying persons and places. Interesting photos include an aerial of Blanchard Hall, the former chapel located in Blanchard Hall, the graduating class of 1919, and images of the severe damage inflicted upon the City of Elgin after a tornado hit in 1920. The book's covers are black, measuring 11 1/2 x 7 1/4. Other images show Charles Blanchard, Darien Straw, Elsie...

Dates: Created: 1917-1921; Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1921

Found in: Special Collections

Adoniram Judson Collection

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 058

Scope and Contents

This collection contains letters from Edward Judson, theologian, pastor and son of Adoniram Judson, to G.W. Freeman about building a memorial in New York City to his father, the first American foreign missionary.

Dates: Created: 1887

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Adoniram Judson Papers Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 333

Scope and Contents

Microfilm edition of letters and journals describing Adoniram Judson's work as a translator and Baptist missionary in Burma. Originals microfilmed by the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Church.

Dates: Created: 1815-1849

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Adrian O. Ban Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 462

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Adrian Ban in which he describes his family background, the revival in his Baptist church in Oradea, Romania; his own conversion; attempts by the government to intimidate Christians; influence of Christians such as Joseph Tson, Liviu Olah, and Aurel Tosa; his involvement in music ministry in Romania; the 1989 revolution in Romania; conditions for the church since the revolution; impressions of the church in the United States and Romania; the Romanian Missionary...

Dates: Created: 1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Adrienne Jones Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-135

Scope and Contents

The Adrienne Jones scrapbook is blue, embossed with a large gold "W" on the cover, and measures 16 x 12 1/4. Tucked into the front are loose photos of Charles Blanchard and his wife. The introductory pages are columns for the citing of names, addresses and comments of classmates. Further photos display family, friends and college faculty. Included are social event invitations and notices. Other photos show the Field Museum and scenes from various travels, such as Washington, DC.

Dates: Created: 1922-1922; Other: Majority of material found in 1922-1922

Found in: Special Collections

Africa Inland Mission Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 081

Brief Description Correspondence, reports, personnel files, minutes of meetings, films, videos, audio recordings, and other materials documenting the work of the mission in east Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Zaire, Tanzania, Sudan, the Central African Republic) and other regions of the continent. The bulk of the collection consists of the files of the US branch of the mission, although there are also significant amounts of material from the international office and the Tanzanian field office. Topics covered include...

Dates: Created: 1888-2009

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Agnes Sanford Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-174

Scope and Contents

The Agnes Sanford Collection is a non-manuscript collection of audio recordings related to healing and spiritual gifts.

Dates: Created: 1897-2009; Other: Date acquired: 2005

Found in: Special Collections

Aimee Semple McPherson Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 103

Scope and Contents

Sermon transcripts, sermon notes, audio tape recordings of sermons, films, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, video tape, and evangelistic campaign literature related to Aimee Semple McPherson's ministry as an evangelist, radio speaker, public figure and founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Most of the materials in this collection are available from the BGC Archives only on microfilm.

Dates: Created: 1921-1946

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Alan Redpath Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 238

Scope and Contents

Audio tapes containing sermons by Alan Redpath at various church services. Sermons include: "The Spirit-filled Life," series delivered between November 2 and December 14, 1958, at Moody Memorial Church, Chicago, Illinois, by Dr. Redpath and “Assurance of Salvation” delivered January 29, 1961 at Moody Church. Sermon topics covered include spiritual life, obedience, consecration, cleansing, and assurance of salvation.

Dates: Created: 1958, 1961

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Alan Thornhill Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-100

Scope and Contents Alan Thornhill's Papers highlight the life and work of a British playwright. The collection contains major series of biographical, manuscripts, published, correspondence, media, and secondary materials. The biographical material is primarily obituaries. The manuscript material contains plays, sketches, notebooks, journals, essays, sermons and talks, and wedding and funeral addresses. The largest section of the correspondence is composed of letters Thornhill sent to his mother...

Dates: Created: 1927-1992; Other: Date acquired: 1999

Found in: Special Collections

Alan Travers Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 190

Scope and Contents Oral History interviews with Alan Travers in which he discuess his work with Trans World Radio from 1959 to 1981, and the use of radio in missionary work. Topics discussed include: the history of TWR; technical and administrative details and policy of the organization; it's broadcasting and programming philosophy, finances, effectiveness and TWR's founder, Paul Freed; the locations of its stations throughout the world; how the staff members function in the stations and relate to the...

Dates: Created: 1959-1981

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Albert and Mary Lee Bobby Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 171

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and personal papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby, missionaries in Lisbon and Santiago do Cacem, Portugal, under The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). Collection includes interviews, articles, correspondence, prayer letters, manuscript notes, and other material from the Bobbys about their mission work, including evangelism and radio broadcasting. The correspondence also includes information on various theological issues and American Christian leaders. The oral...

Dates: Created: 1980-1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Albert and Muriel Nichols Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 185

Scope and Contents Correspondence, photos, negatives and miscellaneous documents concerning family events and career decisions relating to the Nicholas’ missionary work in Sierra Leone. The bulk of the letters were sent to family during a two year period while the Nichols were serving as missionaries to Sierra Leone, where Albert was director of Industrial Education at Albert Academy. Topics include life in and methods of education of an urban missionary school in the 1920's, teaching industrial education at...

Dates: Created: 1904-1952

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Alex Sackey-Ansah Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 553

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Alex Atempo Sackey-Ansah in which he describes his family, conversion and spiritual development, education, joining PioneersAfrica, distinctives and programs of the mission, his responsibilities, PioneersAfrica director Solomon Aryeetey, Church of Pentecost, the church in Ghana, missions in Africa, African missionaries, church planting philosophy and process, conflict resolution in Africa, American perceptions of Africa and the African church, establishing a...

Dates: Created: 1998

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Alfred Goodrich Letter

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 071

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a letter from Alfred Goodrich to Martin Hogan including descriptions of Alexander Campbell and 300 conversions resulting from meetings conducted by a Mr. Avery.

Dates: Created: 1840

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Alfred R. Tucker Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 135

Scope and Contents Correspondence, maps, clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and sketches relating the career and ministry of Alfred R. Tucker, Anglican Bishop of Uganda. Topics relate to missions in East Africa, social conditions and changes there, translation of the Bible, the abolition of slavery and a biography of Tucker planned by Mary Carus-Wilson.This collection is distinguished by its intimate picture of African life and the missionary church in this part of Africa at a period when technology...

Dates: Created: 1890-1927

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Alfredo Enrique Gutierrez Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 525

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews in with Alfredo Enrique Gutierrez in which he discusses memories of father’s imprisonment in Cuba; Cuban Christianity; influence of Communism on home life; immigrating to Miami, Florida; Communist propaganda; influence of Christian and Missionary Alliance pastors; church’s aid in adjusting to new life; homesickness for Cuba; learning English; church life at Los Pinos Nuevos; ministering alongside family in church; conversion experience at 14; Toccoa Falls College;...

Dates: Created: 1995

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Alice G. Howard Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-105

Scope and Contents

The Alice G. Howard Collection is composed of memorabilia dating from 1938-1990. The collection contains Red Cross, American Legion, and U.S. Armed Forces pins, patches, medals, and uniform items related to her volunteer service during World War II.

Dates: Created: 1938-1990; Other: Date acquired: 2000

Found in: Special Collections

Allen Lewis Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-060

Scope and Contents The Allen Lewis Collection, measuring over eight feet, highlights the life and work of an American woodblock artist and engraver. The collection contains major series of biographical, correspondence, manuscripts, artwork, media, and secondary materials. The biographical material is mainly that of his professional career, coming from secondary sources, such as a "Who's Who" article. The correspondence is composed of letters sent to Lewis' mother while he was in Paris (1894-1902) and letters...

Dates: Created: 1873-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1894-1947; Other: Date acquired: 1974

Found in: Special Collections

Almond Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 680

Scope and Contents

Diaries and oral history interviews documenting the work of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) workers Louis Almond, his first wife Stella and his second wife Helen in China (1949-1951), Thailand and the United States. Helen’s interview also describes the activities of the United States office of OMF, where she worked for many years.

Dates: 1949-1951, 2015-2016

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Alzina Stone Dale Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-39

Abstract

The Alzina Stone Dale Collection includes materials relating to her work on Dorothy L. Sayers, including the 1993 Sayers Centenary celebration, the Thrones, Dominations book publishing project, the writing of Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers (a Sayers biography), and a diverse range of correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1967-1998; Other: Majority of material found in 1977-1984, 1993; Other: Date acquired: 10/12/2016

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Alzina Stone Dale Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-106

Scope and Contents

The Alzina Stone Dale Papers are composed primarily of correspondence to/from Madeleine L'Engle, as well as, interviews, articles, book reviews, pamphlets, poems, and media material.

Dates: Created: 1981-1999; Other: Date acquired: 2001

Found in: Special Collections

American Association for Jewish Evangelism Brochure

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 105

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a brochure, circa 1950, advertising an AAJM film entitled Three Minutes to Twelve. The movie addresses the place of the Jewish people in New Testament prophecy and the creation of the nation of Israel as part of the fulfillment of that prophecy.

Dates: Created: 1950

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Bible Society Letters and Annual Report

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 099

Scope and Contents

This collection contains nine letters and one annual report from members of the American Bible Society addressed to Rev. J.C. Brigham (Secretary), and Joseph Hyde (General Agent and Assistant Treasurer). Letters contain information on finances, orders, reports on sales of Bibles, notices of obituaries of members, and other information relating to the Society.

Dates: Created: 1833-1853

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Collection

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 070

Scope and Contents

This collection contains engraved certificates for contributions, biography of missionary of Harriet Newell, historical sketch of mission work in Micronesia, Sunday school exercise on Africa (1917), letter from John and Margaret Miller (missionaries in India), Congregational Home Missionary Society 75th anniversary program booklet, and letter regarding 1848 ABCFM meeting in Boston.

Dates: Created: 1848-1917

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 261

Brief Description Microfilm edition of the files of the ABCFM. The originals are at Harvard University. The units that the Archives has are: #1, letters from the offices of the Board to foreign missionaries (including letters to missionaries working with American Indians); #2, letters from missions in Africa; #3, letters from missions in Asia; #4, letters from missions in Central Asia (India, etc.); #5, letters from missions in the Near East; and #6, letters from missions on the American continents and the...

Dates: Created: 1827-1929

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Board of Mission to Jews Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 339

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one thirteen-minute audio tape of a radio program: The Promise of Tomorrow. The broadcast is undated, but it pre-dates Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981. The program is produced by the American Board of Missions to the Jews and directed to friends of Jewish Christians. Narrator is Charles L. Feinberg [?]. A brief news report about Israel and the Middle East is included, with reference to end time events which Christ reported would be signs of His return and the...

Dates: Undated

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Home Missionary Society Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 142

Scope and Contents Collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence; administrative materials; annual reports of the Society, whose stated purpose was the support of young congregations of Christians on the American frontier until such time as the congregation could become self-sufficient. Collection also includes a series of the Society's periodical, THE HOME MISSIONARY (1828-1909). This portion is on microfilm. Also included is a folder of letters, 1846-1854, written by members with reports of...

Dates: 1816-1936; Majority of material found in 1826-1894

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Hymn Writers and Composers Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 138

Scope and Contents Microfilmed contents of a scrapbook containing miscellaneous correspondence, photos, and memorabilia by and about hymn writers and composers. Included are Cliff Barrows, Merrill Dunlop, Lowell Mason, Homer Rodeheaver, Ira Sankey, George Stebbins, and others.Series 1: PhotographsPhotographs include these subjects: George Stebbins, Charles Alexander, Rodney "Gipsy" Smith, William Runyan, Don Hustad, Cliff Barrows, Tedd Smith, George...

Dates: Created: 1878-1975

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Marathi Mission Minute Books

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 094

Scope and Contents

This collection contains two minute books of the American Marathi Mission in India, which utilized missionaries from the United Church Board for World Ministries. The minute boks include records of committee deliberations and finances and were submitted to the Church Board for World Ministries as field reports.

Dates: Created: 1972-1974

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Messianic Fellowship Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 546

Scope and Contents

Collection includes annual reports, audio tape, correspondence, legal documents, log books, minute books, newsletters, photograph, and prayer books documenting the American Messianic Fellowship (formerly the Chicago Hebrew Mission) and the Hebrew Christian Fellowship (Florida) a subsidiary of the AMF.

Dates: Created: 1897-1987

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Piano Concertos Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-040

Scope and Contents

The American Piano Concerti Collection contains dozens of printed and manuscript concertos from the early (1920s) to late (1990s) twentieth-century. The American Piano Concerti Collection helps document the history of and selection from the American form of the piano concerto. The contents of the American Piano Concerti Collection may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/40

Dates: Created: 1922-2017; Other: Date acquired: 1989

Found in: Special Collections

American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-026

Scope and Contents The American Scientific Affiliation Collection, part of the Wheaton College Special Collections, contains a detailed record of the workings and development of this Christian professional organization. The collection includes photographs, brochures, minutes, papers, books, manuscripts, and articles from the origin of the organization in 1941 up to the early 2000s.Pieces of correspondence dating from prior to the foundation of the Affiliation are also included. All material has...

Dates: Created: 1940-2019; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1986; Other: Date acquired: 1986

Found in: Special Collections

American Sunday School Union Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 168

Scope and Contents Correspondence records social and political history, including slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction period. Also documented is outreach to African and Native Americans, missions in Canada, China, France, Germany, Russia, India, and South America. This microfilm edition of the ASSU records, arranged in three series: (l) Correspondence and Reports, 1817-1915; (2) Administrative Records, 1817-1915; and (3) YOUTH'S PENNY GAZETTE, 1843-1860, and Catalogs, 1817-1910. Originals are housed in...

Dates: Created: 1817-1915

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

American Tract Society Handwritten Letters

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 043

Content Description This collection contains a few handwritten letters of the American Tract Society dealing mostly with activities of the Society in New York and Eastern Canada. Most of the correspondence is between the Rochester, Niagara and Toronto Societies; however, there is one interesting note from London. Another unusual item was an enclosure in a handbill announcing the services of one Rev. Bliss, who conducted seminars on "God's Providential Care of our Country..." Correspondents include Robert Sharp,...

Dates: Created: 1854-1858

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Americo Saavedra Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 427

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Americo Saavedra, a Peruvian-born missionary working with HCJB in Ecuador, in which he describes his childhood, family, conversion, Catholicism in Peru and Ecuador, radio station HCJB and its ministry, Quito, Ecuador, his decision to be a missionary, employment with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. Other topics include his education at Moody Bible Institute, Christian education in Ecuador, informal education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, the state of the...

Dates: Created: 1990

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

And God Came In / A Love Observed Archive

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-26 through A-28

Abstract This archive contains the materials related to the book "And God Came In" by Lyle W. Dorsett (New York:MacMillan and Co. 1983.), republished as "A Love Observed" (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers. 1998). Dr. Dorsett donated his materials from the research and writing of the book to the Wade Center in 1990. The book is a biography of Joy Davidman Lewis. Joy was married twice, first to Bill Gresham, an American writer and magazine editor with whom she had two sons (Douglas and David...

Dates: Created: 1915-1994; Other: Majority of material found in 1915-1960

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Andrew and Martha Ruch Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 060

Scope and Contents Collection contains a typed manuscript of letters written by Andrew and Martha Ruch to family and other correspondents during their service in Kenya, chiefly 1922-1925, as pioneer missionaries among the Kikuyu people at the Gathugu mission station, located in the Kikuyu reserve. Topics covered in the correspondence include: experiences in Africa and the African culture, their work in education, evangelism, and medicine, the Kikuyu people and other mission-related topics. Prominent people...

Dates: Created: 1921-1936

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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