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Robert M. Green Advertising Card
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 060
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a small card advertising a series of revival meetings by evangelist Robert M. Green at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Barnegat, New Jersey.
Dates:
Other: Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert Moffat Collection
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 049
Scope and Contents
Letter, autograph and print. Letter (1871) to Mr. Bergne regarding the slow proceedings of Bergne's committee and Moffat's great expenses while working on his translation of the Old Testament. Print is of Moffat.
Dates:
Created: 1871-1878
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert Savage Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 250
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Robert Carlton Savage (1914-1987) in which he discusses his work as a missionary evangelist in Colombia (1942-1944) and his work in Ecuador for missionary radio station HCJB and Youth for Christ (1944-1969). Topics discussed include: his call to mission work and service in Colombia and Ecuador with the Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), radio station HCJB, Youth for Christ, and various other mission-related topics. The time period covered by the interview is...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert W. Porteous Prayer Letter
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 074
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a prayer letter by Robert Porteous describing accounts of the activities of the church in Yichun, Jianxi Province, including an intensive Bible school and conference for women, prayer meetings for several captured Christian workers, and weekly services, all taking place in the midst of troop movements by government and communist troops, which, although disruptive, did not interfere with church activities. Also included are items about military conflict and...
Dates:
Created: 1928
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert W. Roberts Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 101
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, account books, photographs, and other records mostly concerned with Robert William Roberts' tasks as a worker for the American Sunday School Union from 1907 to 1913.Most of the records in the collection date to Roberts' career as a worker for the American Sunday School Union from 1907-1913. A few items are from his post-1913 career. The bulk of the collection is made up of his account books with one folder each of commissions, correspondence, obituaries,...
Dates:
Created: 1907-1964
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Rodrigo Chavarria Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 423
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Rodrigo Chavarria (1956-2015) in which he discusses his childhood in Costa Rica, his conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; his theological education in Costa Rica and the United States; relations between Protestants and Catholics in Costa Rica; relations between the church and the state; Pentecostalism in Costa Rica; liberation theology; and evangelical institutions in Costa Rica. Other topics include a discussion of Escuela des Estudios Pastorales...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Roger and Mary Howes Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 562
Scope and Contents
Address books, articles, autograph books, birthday book, correspondence, diaries, documents, journals, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, photographs, prayer letters, scrapbooks, sermon notes, songbooks, and testimony which document the Howes' work as China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries in China from 1925 through 1945, and their work at CIM (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship) office in Chicago and Headquarters in Philadelphia before they retired in 1965. Their correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1993
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Roger H. Malstead Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 337
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews and prayer letters, relating to Roger Malstead’s ministry with Operation Mobilization.Audio TapesTwo oral history interviews with Roger Malstead in which he describes his youth, education at Wheaton College, work with Operation Mobilization (OM) in the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Lebanon, the United States, at OM headquarters in England, and with the OM ship DOULOS; Other topics described are the director of OM,...
Dates:
Created: 1961-1993; Majority of material found within 1986-1993
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Roger Walkwitz Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 166
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Roger Walkwitz in which he describes his early life in Wheaton, Illinois, education at Wheaton College, and experiences of 23 years in the Philippines (1958-1980) as a missionary with Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. Other topics discussed include: the influence of Gil Dodds; the 1950 Wheaton College revival; work as a teacher-coach at Bryan College; aspects of cultural, religious and political life in the Philippines, including ranslation, church planting in the...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Rolland and Thelma Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 683
Scope and Contents
Newsletters, prayer letters, fund-raising and promotional material, donor correspondence, pamphlets, blueprints, maps, personal correspondence, programs, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, radio program scripts, and photographs relating to the Rolland and Thelma Smith’s missionary work among the Cree First Nations in Alberta, Canada (1945-1960). The collection also contains camp meeting itineraries, newspaper clippings, financial reports, brochures and directories relating to Sebring...
Dates:
Created: 1942-2000
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Rosanna Formanek Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 404
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Rosanna Formenak in which she discusses her family background; conversion; education at Nyack College and Columbia University in nursing; experiences as a missionary in Gabon with the Christian and Missionary Alliance; youth work, relationship between church and state in Gabon; medical work; and the strengths and weaknesses of the church in Gabon. Other topics discussed include the influence of Word of Life and Youth for Christ on Formenak’s spiritual growth,...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Roy Lundquist Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 002
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection is comprised of charts created by Roy Lundquist that attempted to trace the effect of Billy Graham Crusades on the crime rates of thirteen selected cities. Also contains a few letters, notes, and newspaper clippings relating to Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Wheaton, Illinois local politics, and unidentified architectural drawings.
Dates:
Created: 1925-1974
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Roy W. Gustafson Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruby B. Maynard Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 530
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruby Beatrice (Arnold) Maynard (1912-1998), medical missionary in Tanzania from 1938-1984 with Africa Inland Mission. Topics discussed include Maynard's childhood; conversion; education at Moody Bible Institute; managing the hospital and leprosarium in Tanzania; the development of the African Inland Church in Tanzania; Dr. Nina Maynard's work at the Kolo Ndoto hospital; Ruby Maynard's marriage to station supervisor, William Maynard; challenges of missionary life;...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Russell P. Shedd Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 201
Scope and Contents
Three oral history interviews with Russell Philip Shedd, in which he describes his upbringing by missionary parents in Bolivia; education at Wheaton College, Faith Seminary (PA), and the University of Edinburgh; Billy Graham's evangelistic meetings at Harringay and Edinburgh in 1954/55; evangelism opportunities in Scotland, 1953-55; and work with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Portugal, 1959-62, and Brazil, 1962-82. The time period covered by the interviews is 1929 to...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth E. Hess Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth L. Maxwell Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth M. Long Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 347
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Margaret (Hollander) Long in which she discusses her conversion, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission tohgether with her husband Burt) in Niger and Nigeria from 1950 through 1984. Other topics discussed include raising a family on the mission field, development of an AWANA program for Hausa children, evangelistic activities, impressions of the French colonial system, the independence of Niger, Hamami Diori,...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth M. Mellis Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth M. Thomas Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth Paxson Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 653
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, prayer letters, photograph and pamphlets related to Ruth Paxson’s work as a missionary in China, Europe and the United States and career as an author of pamphlets and books on the Christian life.[Note: In the Scope & Content section, the notation "folder 2-5" means "Box 2, Folder 5"]Series: PhotographsThe following items are located in the ...
Dates:
Created: 1908-1958
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth Sundquist Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 266
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Sundquist in which she describes her education at Moody Bible Institute, decision to become a missionary, work first in Kentucky home missions as a Christian education worker with the Evangelical Free Church and then her missionary career in China and Hong Kong between 1947 and 1982 as an administrator for a Sunday School and orphanage. Other topics discussed include: language school in China, Chinese attitudes toward the Nationalists, Communists, Americans...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth W. Adeney Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 394
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Winifred Temple Adeney (1912-1911) in which she describes her youth; spiritual growth; education at Northwestern Schools; call to missionary work with China Inland Mission; her missionary experience; her husband, David Adeney; her work with with China Inland Mission in rural areas of Henan Province (1934-1941); and her husband's work with university students in Nanking (1946-1948) and Shanghai (1949- 1950). Other topics discussed include the impact of war...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
S. W. Colburn Letter
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 064
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter written by S.W. Colburn to Mrs. Mary Gerish describing the purpose of the Palestine Missionary Society, asking for financial and prayer support.
Dates:
Created: 1821
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sadie Custer Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 470
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sadie Custer (1911-2007) in which she discusses her childhood, conversion, education at Moody Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, arrival in China in 1936, the Chinese language, work in Shensi province, Bible teaching, transition from missionary to Chinese leadership, the Three Self Movement, the Communist revolution in China and its effect on missions, the Sino-Japanese Conflict, work in Malaysia among Chinese, living in an area in Malaysia...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Samuel Boateng Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 669
Scope and Contents
Three oral history interviews with Samuel Boateng in which he describes his family and growing up in an impoverished part of Accra, Ghana; journey to faith as a Christian; personal witness and devotional practices; starting a youth group in his Pentecostal church; education in Ghana, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States; leadership in Ghana Fellowship of Evangelical Students at the University of Cape Coast; church planting ministry, influential mentors including Gottfried and...
Dates:
2013
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Samuel D. Faircloth Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 658
Scope and Contents
Prayer letters and an oral history interviews which document Samuel Douglas Faircloth’s childhood, conversion, education at Wheaton College and elsewhere, and his work as a United States Army chaplain in Italy immediately after World War II, as a church planter in Portugal, and a seminary professor at the Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands.
Dates:
Created: 1949-2011
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Samuel F. Wolgemuth Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 343
Scope and Contents
Administrative correspondence, reports, minutes, memos, newsletters, publications, promotional material, photographs, and slides documenting Samuel F. Wolgemuth's term (1965-1973) as president for Youth for Christ. The correspondence with YFC staff, individuals, and representatives of other Christian organizations, predominates. Materials document contact with major YFC donors, administration of YFC at various executive levels, fund raising, communication, and promotion. Prominent people...
Dates:
Created: 1962-1981
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Samuel K. Mills Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 504
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Samuel Kirk Mills in which he discusses his childhood in Ghana, conversion to Christianity, involvement with Calvary Road, Inc. and the African Christian Mission, memories of Kwame Nkrumah, the use of drama in evangelism in Ghana, views on the strengths and weaknesses of Christianity in his country, Christianity and Islam in Ghana, different Christian traditions in Ghana, Mills' impressions of Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, origins of Africa Christian...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Samuel M. Sayford Evangelistic Meeting Card
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 053
Scope and Contents
Card announcing an evangelistic meeting at the Dudley Street Baptist Church held by Samuel Sayford.
Dates:
Created: 1908
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Samuel M. Shoemaker Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 269
Scope and Contents
Appointment books, audio tapes, magazines, newspaper clippings, articles, a pamphlet, phonograph records, photographs, and programs covering the years of Samuel Moor Shoemaker's career as an Episcopalian preacher, author, radio preacher, and spiritual advisor-counselor. Includes taped sermons from radio program Faith at Work.Materials cover the years of Showmaker's career as a preacher, author, and spiritual advisor-counselor. Tapes are almost entirely recordings from Shoemaker's...
Dates:
Created: 1907-1963
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Samuel Small Letter and Portrait
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 050
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the second page of letter signed by evangelist Samuel White Small and portrait of him.
Dates:
Created: 1910-1930
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sarah A. Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 542
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diary, and articles related to the ministry of Sarah Alice, missionary with China Inland Mission. The materials in the collection document her preparation and her evangelism activities in Shanxi Province, China, where she worked from 1896 until 1900, when she and her husband John were killed during the Boxer Rebellion. Young's papers contain many descriptions of missionary work, the lives and testimonies of individual Christians and Chinese society and culture.
Dates:
Created: 1894-1901
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sarah "Belle" Hawkes Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 039
Scope and Contents
Correspondence etters, reports, and photos relating to the missionary service of Sarah "Belle" Sherwood Hawkes in Persia, now Iran under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Subjects discussed in letters include status of women in Persia, progress of mission work, and Sherwood family affairs.The collection consists of several letters written by Hawkes to her family, 1883-1899; and two reports prepared for the mission board which she served, 1884 and 1899. The...
Dates:
Created: 1881 - 1899
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sarah "Sally" Bell Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 213
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sally Bell, in which she describes her mission work with radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, 1965 to 1976. Other topics discussed include: her conversion during Billy Graham's Toronto crusade in 1955, preparation for and work on the mission field with radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador (in the departments of evangelism, television, and administration), language school in Costa Rica, comparisons between Western and Latin American culture, the role of women in...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Say Yes, Chicago Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 650
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, reports, newspaper clippings, lists, financial records, questionnaires and training videos other materials of the Say Yes Chicago committee, a group of Protestant Christian leaders that incorporated to sponsor Say Yes Chicago, a 1996 city-wide evangelistic effort led by evangelist Luis Palau. These files contain significant information about the planning and organizing of the campaign, with some material on the actual events of the campaign, the results, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1973-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Scopes Trial Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 244
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one reel of microfilm and one file of photographic postcards documenting the legal trial of the State of Tennesse vs John Thomas Scopes in 1925, known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. The microfilm contains texts of indictment, subsequent motion, judge's decision, verdict and request for new trial, and verbatim record of court proceedings. Subjects documented include evolution, church and state, creation, the relationship of the Bible to science, Fundamentalism, and...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Scott J. Harbert Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 447
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Scott Jeffrey Harbert in which he discusses his family, growing up, meeting his father as an adult, influences on his childhood and adolescence, contacts with Shintoism in Japan, problem with marijuana, conversion to Christianity and influence of Richard Foster, college education and participation in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, work as a staff member at the IVCF headquarters, marriage to Barbara Gration, the development of Concerts of Prayer, short-term...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Seminar on Measuring Missions' Effectiveness Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 170
Scope and Contents
Sound recordings of the Seminar on Measuring Missions' Effectiveness, held in July 1982 and sponsored by the Billy Graham Center Archives. This collection consists entirely of two presentations by Donald McGavran of the Fuller School of World Missionon measuring mission effectiveness and church growth, and subsequent discussion in response to the papers. In the morning session, his topic was "Measuring Mission Effectiveness." In the afternoon, the topic was "Church Growth: The Next Step."...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Seminar on the Authority of the Bible Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 032
Scope and Contents
Copies of the papers read at the meeting held in Wenham, MA. Also contains a list of participants, a schedule of events, and copies of the text of the communique and resolutions adopted by the meeting.Most of this collection consists of papers read at the meeting and responses read. The list of titles can be read in the container list, where they are arranged according to the order given. Also in this collection is a schedule of the seminar and copies of the resolutions and...
Dates:
Created: 1966
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
SEND International Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 406
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, promotional materials, prayer letters, incorporation documents, news releases, statistics, newsletters, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, films, organizational charts, financial record, etc., related to the origins, development, and operation of SEND International in Alaska, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, and U.S. based operations. Documentation begins with the pre-incorporation of the organization and its first iteration as the GI GOSPEL HOUR phase...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Seung-Hun Yang Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 448
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Seung-Hun Yang in which he discusses the discipline and devotion of the rural South Korean Presbyterian church he grew up in, the effects of the Korean War on the country, his father's example as a Christian and lay leader, the work of the Navigators abd Campus Crusade for Christ in Korea, Yang's education as a physicist, the introduction of creation science to Korea, his efforts to found a Christian university, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Korean...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sharelle M. Eland Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 547
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sharelle May Eland in which she describes her childhood growing up in Papua New Guinea where her parents were missionaries, her return to Australia and adjustment to life there, affinity for primitive culture, Christian life and spiritual development, desire to become a missionary, education to become a teacher and at Capernwray Bible Colleges in Great Britain and Germany, ministry among Australian young people and aborigines, missions to aborigines and their...
Dates:
Created: 1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sheri R. Simon Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 348
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Sharon "Sheri" Rose Simon in which she describes her childhood, conversion to Christianity, decision to become a missionary, internship in Mexico, and medical work in Haiti.Other topics discussed include: joining the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, raising financial support, common health problems, folk remedies, the relationship between the Haitian would view and health care, voodoo, the 1985-86 revolution in Haiti, relations between Catholics and...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Shirlene Walker Philips Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 365
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Shirlene Walker Phillips in which she discusses her childhood, education, hospital and clinic work, her work with Dolphus Weary and Voice of Calvary Ministries, and racial conditions in Mississippi, especially Mendenhall. The time period covered by the interview is 1956-1987.
Shirlene Phillips was interviewed by Paul A. Ericksen on June 18 and 19, 1987 at the office of Voice of Calvary Ministries, Jackson, MS.
Dates:
Created: 1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Short Terms Abroad Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 179
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, personnel files, bulletins, newspapers, posters, publications, legal documents, photos, mailing lists, minutes of meetings, and other items pertaining to the operation of the organization, Short Terms Abroad, which brought together individuals with particular skills(such as teaching or construction) and an interested in serving as missionaries for a limited time with missions having temporary needs for those skills.
Dates:
Created: 1965-1976
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Shura Facanha Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 571
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Shura Facanha in which she discusses her family; family ministry and involvement at church; the Assemblies of God church in Ecuador; foreign missionaries in Ecuador; Operation Mobilization ships; translation work; growing in Christian life on board the OM Doulos; evangelistic work in Philippines, Papau New Guinea, Australia; attack in the Philippines; working in the former Yugoslavia; beginning home office in Ecuador; deliberating between career and missions;...
Dates:
Created: 2000-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sid Couchey Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 621
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sid Couchey in which he decsribes his conversion to Christianity; his experience as a cartoonist; his participation in the 1957 New York City Crusade, including the preparation; artwork he created for the crusade; counseling; and the aftermath. Ruth Couchey, his wife, also makes brief comments about her experiences during the crusade. The time period covered by the interviews is 1929-1957.Mr. Couchey was interviewed by Bob Shuster on October 11, 2005,...
Dates:
Created: 2005
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Silas F. Fox Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 292
Scope and Contents
Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, clippings, magic lantern slides, photographs, home movies, pamphlets, financial statements relating to Fox's career in the Telugu-speaking area of India as an independent missionary. The collection also contains information on indigenous Indian evangelists.Materials, some in the Telegu language, document daily life, including descriptions of his travels. Home movies contain many scenes of travel, Indian landscape and animals, including scenes...
Dates:
Created: 1949-1973
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
SIM International Records Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: CN 649
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of official documents, publications, and private papers relating to the work of the Sudan Interior Mission in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Benin, Niger, Upper Volta, and Ivory Coast. This collection consist of a copy negative of microfilm of the records of Sudan Interior Mission. The film was given to the BGC Archives by the SIM International Archives to make these resources for the history of the church in Africa more widely available. The documents are solely from Sudan Interior...
Dates:
Created: 1887-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Conversion -- Christianity. 241
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 196
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 175
- Women -- Religious life. 143
- Women missionaries. 136
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 131
- Christian life. 122
- Language in missionary work. 106
- Missionaries -- Training of. 104
- Missions -- China. 100
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 93
- Missions -- Educational work. 93
- Christian leadership. 86
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 81
- Christianity and culture. 79
- Children of missionaries. 78
- Evangelistic work -- China. 76
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 71
- Religious institutions. 71
- World War, 1939-1945. 68
- Missions -- Finance. 63
- Sermons, American. 60
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 59
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 58
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- Evangelicalism. 37
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- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 31
- College students in missionary work. 30
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 30
- Belief and doubt. 29
- Evangelistic work -- Songs and music. 29
- Mass media in religion. 29
- Race relations. 29
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- Social change. 28
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 27
- Racism -- United States. 27
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 26
- Missions -- Philippines. 26
- Presbyterians. 26
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- Baptism. 25
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 168
- Shuster, Robert D. 164
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 118
- Ericksen, Paul. 104
- Moody Bible Institute. 59
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 54
- China Inland Mission. 49
- Africa Inland Mission. 46
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 45
- OMF International. 40
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 39
- Youth for Christ International. 35
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 33
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Billy Graham Scholarship Program. 33
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 28
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 28
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 27
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 27
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 26
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 25
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School. 24
- Bright, Bill. 22
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 22
- National Association of Evangelicals. 22
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 22
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 21
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 21
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 21
- Sudan Interior Mission. 21
- Ford, Leighton. 20
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 20
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 20
- Rodeheaver, Homer A. (Homer Alvan), 1880-1955. 20
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 19
- Jones, Clarence W. 19
- Latin America Mission. 19
- Perkins, John, 1930- 19
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 19
- Africa Inland Church. 18
- Armerding, Hudson T. 18
- Barrows, Cliff. 18
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 18
- Howard, David M. 18
- Assemblies of God. 17
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 17
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 17
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 17
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 17
- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 17
- Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 17
- World Council of Churches. 17
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 16
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 16
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 16
- Colson, Charles W. 15
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 15
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 15
- Padilla, C. René. 15
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 15
- Shea, George Beverly, 1909-2013. 15
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 15
- Elliot, Elisabeth. 14
- Fuller Theological Seminary. 14
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 14
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 14
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 14
- Smith, Oswald J. 14
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 14
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 13
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 13
- Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 13
- Dunlop, Merrill. 13
- Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (2012-) 13
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 13
- Stott, John R. W. 13
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 13
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 13
- World Vision International. 13
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 12
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 12
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 12
- Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 12
- Smith, Gipsy, 1860-1947. 12
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 1868-1957. 12
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 12
- Wright, J. Elwin. 12
- Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 11
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 11
- National Religious Broadcasters (U.S.) 11
- Navigators (Religious organization) 11
- Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 11
- Pierce, Bob, 1914-1978. 11
- Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August) 11
- Smith, Wilbur M. (Wilbur Moorehead), 1894-1976. 11
- Taylor, Herbert John, 1893-1978. 11
- Ten Boom, Corrie. 11
- Trotman, Dawson E. 11
- Troutman, Charles Henry, 1914- 11
- Wilson, T. W., 1918-2001. 11
- Youth for Christ/USA. 11 ∧ less
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