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Arthur J. Ammann Papers
Collection — Container: xAccession 2015-0044
Identifier: SC-224
Scope and Contents
Dr. Arthur Ammann ’58 was a zoology major at Wheaton. He is a pediatric immunologist who has done extensive research in pediatrics and HIV/AIDS in children and who, in 1982, first described two of the three known means of HIV transmission—mothers to infants and through blood transfusions. He also diagnosed the first children with HIV infection. Dr. Ammann is Founder of Global Strategies, a non‐profit organization dedicated to responding to the health needs of disadvantaged women and child by...
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Created: 1952-2014; Other: Date acquired: 05/20/2015
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Calvin Miller Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-024
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts and papers of popular writer and pastor Calvin Miller are arranged into five series. The material arrived in several accessions beginning in 1990. The largest series is book manuscripts, with other categories of articles, correspondence, artwork, and biographical. Miller periodically adds items to the collection and it can be assumed that the papers have not reached their final arrangement. The largest portion of the Calvin Miller Collection is composed of manuscripts, both...
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Created: 1967-2004; Other: Majority of material found in 1975-1989; Other: Date acquired: 1986
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Special Collections
Christians Supporting Community Organizing
Collection
Identifier: SC-200
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Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2015
Found in:
Special Collections
Collection 033 Records of The Chicago Call
Collection
Identifier: CN 033
Scope and Contents
Collection contains minutes of the planning committee, correspondence, drafts of the Chicago Call conference, reports, and magazine coverage of the meeting. Documents deal with the efforts to draft a document outlining the need for Protestant Evangelicals to recover what the participants saw as the theology and practice of historical Christianity.
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Created: 1974-1978
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 035 Papers of Fanny Crosby
Collection
Identifier: CN 035
Scope and Contents
Collection contains thousands of manuscripts of lyrics and music dictated by Fanny Crosby, poetess and hymnwriter. Most of the manuscripts are numbered and dated. This collection is also available on microfilm. The manuscripts in this collection are all of poems composed by Crosby after 1861. Most of these poems are dated and the majority are numbered in sequence. A description of these manuscripts can be found in the foreword of Fanny Crosby Still Speaks. For most of the poems the...
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Created: 1862-1915
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 037 Christians for Social Action
Collection
Identifier: CN 037
Scope and Contents
Collection correspondence, press releases and clippings, lists, minutes, reports, proposals, conference declaration, and financial records, chiefly from workshops sponsored by the Christians for Social Action, 1973-1976 (formerly Evangelicals for Social Action). The records in this collection deal mostly with the origins, agendas, and decisions of the 1973-1976 workshops along with some material which indicate the response to the workshop.
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Created: 1965-1976
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 047 Papers of Melvin E. Trotter
Collection
Identifier: CN 047
Scope and Contents
Sermons, personal memorabilia, audio tape of Trotter's preaching, negatives, photographs, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, and correspondence related to Trotter's ministry as an evangelist and in rescue mission work. Collection combines Trotter's papers and the City Rescue Mission's records, including invitations to speak, responses to invitations from Trotter to speak at the mission, an abstract of a deed, requests for funds, testimonials to the good work of the mission, reports from...
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Created: 1899-1972
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 057 Papers of Susan Bartel
Collection
Identifier: CN 057
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, negatives, and photographs relating to Susan Bartel's service with the China Mennonite Mission Society for over 20 years in the Shantung Province of China. Topics covered by the interviews include: Bartel's youth, conversion to Christianity, education, marriage to Loyal Bartel, and mission work in China; World War II; Japanese occupation of China; arrest and imprisonment of Loyal; life under the Chinese communists after World War II, Loyal’s imprisonment and Susan’s...
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Created: 1932-1979
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 061 Papers of Billy and Helen Sunday
Collection
Identifier: CN 061
Scope and Contents
Microfilm edition of original documents held in Winona Lake, Indiana, including correspondence, sermons, reports, revival ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing mainly with the career of evangelist Billy Sunday from its beginning to his death and about the work of his wife Helen, who, besides acting as his general manager, was a fundamentalist leader in her own right, especially after his death. Persons featured include numerous fundamentalist figures and institutions; sermon topics cover a wide...
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Created: 1882-1974
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 078 Papers of Corrie ten Boom
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Identifier: CN 078
Scope and Contents
Papers of Dutch watchmaker, evangelist, author, and Christian aid worker Corrie ten Boom. The collection includes information on her father Casper ten Boom, her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II, her work among refugees after the war, her travels as an evangelist, the work of her two foundations, and the production of the film The Hiding Place. The collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, a film, notebooks, photos, photo albums, and video tapes.
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Created: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1983
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 080 Papers of Miriam J. Dunn
Collection
Identifier: CN 080
Scope and Contents
Collection contians a manuscript of I Get Your Message, Father, written by Miriam J. Dunn relating her missionary experiences in China and Southeast Asia with China Inland Mission (CIM) (319 pp.) Topics include her childhood in China, nurses training in England, language school in China, marriage, work with Christian Witness Press in Hong Kong, and missionary work in Malaysia. The manuscript is typed on 319 pages, 8" x 11" size bond paper and...
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Created: 1978
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 085 Papers of William H. Wrighton
Collection
Identifier: CN 085
Scope and Contents
Sermons, clippings, articles, manuscripts, notebooks, personal records, correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to the William Wrighton's career as a pastor, professor, writer. Also in this collection are photographs of Wrighton and his family and friends.
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Created: 1903-1963
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 087 Papers of Fredrik Franson
Collection
Identifier: CN 087
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copy of correspondence, reports, excerpts from sermons and other writings collected by Rev. Edward P. Torjesen on the life and ministry of Fredrik Franson (1852-1908). Materials include articles written about evangelistic work, prophecy conferences, missionary efforts on several continents, and the recruitment of Christian workers. Persons featured include mission founders A.B. Simpson and James Hudson Taylor. Materials include articles in several languages. Documents are arranged...
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Created: 1872-1909
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 095 Ephemera of William B. Riley
Collection
Identifier: CN 095
Scope and Contents
Films, including a home movie, microfilm of scrapbooks, notebooks, clippings, and sermons of William Bell Riley, noted Fundamentalist, Baptist minister, theologian,and founder and president of of Northwestern Bible School in Minnesota.
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Created: 1903-1945
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 096 Oral History Interview with Wayne G. Bragg
Collection
Identifier: CN 096-096
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne G. Bragg (1931-2009), in which he describes his missionary experiences in Brazil and the Caribbean working with university students, his student days at Wheaton College, and his experience at Wheaton College as a faculty member. Dr. Bragg was interviewed by Mary Ann Buffington at Wheaton College on February 15 and May 9, 1980.
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Created: 1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 100 Ephemera of Charles E. Fuller
Collection
Identifier: CN 100
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, sermons, radio logs, form letters to supporters, publicity materials of Charles Fuller's Old Fashioned Revival Hour radio programs, and audio tapes and phonograph records of the program and of gospel music.
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Created: 1940-1968
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 103 Ephemera of Aimee Semple McPherson
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.
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Created: 1921-1946
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 109 Ephemera of Gipsy Smith
Collection
Identifier: CN 109
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, audio tapes and phonograph records of Smith singing hymns, and photographs. Newspaper clippings are about meetings held by Smith in Denver, Colorado (1909) and with Billy Sunday in Boston, Massachusetts (1935); included are extended excerpts from both men's sermons.This collection consists of newspaper clipping of Smith's 1909 evangelistic meetings in Denver (folder 1-16), scrapbook pages (folders 1-1 through 1-13) containing newspaper reports about Smith's...
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Created: 1909-1935
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include: Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
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Created: 1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 117 Ephemera of Stuart Hamblen
Collection
Identifier: CN 117
Scope and Contents
Phonograph record and audio tape of popular songs, hymns and Gospel songs sung by Hamblen, several of which he also wrote. The two songs on the phonograph album, "Golden River" and "Dream Book of Memories," were also written by him. There are twenty-four selections on the audio tape. Songs both written and sung by Hamblen include "It Is No Secret," "His Hands," "This Ole House," and "The Lord is Counting on You."
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Created: Undated
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 118 Ephemera of Mordecai Ham
Collection
Identifier: CN 118
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, oral history interviews, newspaper clippings, microfilm, periodicals, photographs, sermon transcripts and notebooks. It documents in a non-comprehensive way Ham’s preaching style, some of his evangelistic meetings; his campaigns against Roman Catholics, Jews, evolution, and for the prohibition of alcohol and the racial hierarchy in the American South. There is in particular a great deal of material about the 1934 meetings in Charlotte when Billy...
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Created: 1875-1983; Majority of material found within 1915-1934
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 123 Ephemera of William M. Branham
Collection
Identifier: CN 123
Scope and Contents
Photographs, films, video tapes, and over 1,200 audio tapes containing sermons preached by charismatic-healing evangelist William Marrion Branham, including the healing portion of services.This collection contains primarily audio tapes, but also films, photographs, and books relating to William Branham's ministry as a healing evangelist. One of Branham's meetings (Washington, DC, 1953) was recorded on film, providing a visual example of his preaching style and healing work....
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Created: 1947-1967
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 129 Ephemera of Thomas Dewitt Talmage
Collection
Identifier: CN 129
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter to Dr. Mc Kenzie inviting him to the dedication of Thomas Dewitt Talmage's new tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York; a second letter from Talmage refuting the charge that he had visited an actor to increase his speaking abilities; and news articles by Talmage clipped from the LADIES HOME JOURNAL. The clippings were part of a regular series of short articles by Talmage appearing each month in the magazine on topics such as Thanksgiving, women, and the Christian...
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Created: 1891-1894
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 130 Ephemera of Homer Rodeheaver
Collection
Identifier: CN 130
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes, newspaper clippings, phonograph records and photographs relating to the musical career and ministry of Homer Rodeheaver. This collection consists mostly of materials from the Homer A. Rodeheaver Company, a publisher of gospel music. There are several different types of order blanks and promotional materials. One newspaper clipping from 1937 refers to his appearance on a CBS radio affiliate playing his trombone. Other items include two issues of Rodeheaver's Musical News which...
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Created: 1916-1939
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 133 Records of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle
Collection
Identifier: CN 133
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle founded by Paul Rader in 1922. Mateterials include photographs, negatives, correspondence, financial reports, church bulletins, newspaper clippings, and form letters and span 1954-1979. Several folders contain financial records and reports of the congregation. Data may be obtained from accounting records (folders 1-1 to 1-8), bank ledgers and statements (folders 3-34 to 4-19), and receipts from mission organizations (folders...
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Created: 1952-1979
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 137 Papers of Ira E. Hartman
Collection
Identifier: CN 137
Scope and Contents
Sermons and sermon outlines, diaries, poetry, financial ledgers, and other items related to Ira Everett Hartman's evangelistic ministry. Primarily sermons and sermon outlines--over 250 in all--delivered by Hartman in evangelistic services in Iowa, Nebraska, and Colorado. The sermons also contain reflections of contemporary issues and mores. Diaries covering 1939-47 report national and international news; financial ledgers reflect the Great Depression.Sermons and outlines cover a...
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Created: 1901-1958
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 166 Oral History Interview with Roger Walkwitz
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...
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Created: 1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 167 Oral History Interview with Naomi Walkwitz
Collection
Identifier: CN 167
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Naomi Hildebrand Waltwitz recorded while she was on furlough, describing childhood experiences, education & marriage to Roger Walkwitz, their careers as missionaries, tribal peoples of the Philippines under Far East Gospel Crusade between 1958-1980. Topics include Filipino customs, tribal practices of Christian groups, training of singing gospel teams, education in the Christian and national schools, relationship with Roman Catholics & Philippine...
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Created: 1980
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
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Created: 1925-1983
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 181 Papers of Earl W. Schultz, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 181
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newsletters, promotional material, phonograph record, photographs, reports, financial records and other documents related to Earl W. Schultz's ministry with Youth For Christ.Topics covered include evangelistic work with youth, in the eastern U.S. primarily, and Hamstead, Maryland, particularly; also various YFC and other organizations' programs for young people, including rallies, conventions, contests and Bible quizzes, etc. Persons featured include various YFC...
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Created: 1947-1971
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 207 Papers of Mark Larson
Collection
Identifier: CN 207
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview with Mark Richard Larson concerning his experiences as a missionary under Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, 1979-1981. Centers on agricultural mission work in the Kano area of northern Nigeria. Also included in the collection are prayer letters dated from October 1982 to August 1984 and an Sudan Interior Mission Prayer Guide (folder 1-2), and a scrapbook (folder 1-1). The scrapbook was used as a point of reference throughout the interview and should be used by...
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Created: 1981-1984
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 217 Papers of Elisa Espineli Chinn
Collection
Identifier: CN 217
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four oral history interviews with Lisa Chinn covering her childhood and family, education, ministry with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines and InterVarsity in the United States, ministries with her husband Leiton in the US among international students (with International Students, Inc., Interaction, and their church), writing projects, and her experience as a woman leader. Also included are her graduate school creative project, "Cross Cultural...
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Created: 1972-2020
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 221 Ephemera of Campus Crusade for Christ
Collection
Identifier: CN 221
Scope and Contents
Ten phonograph records and one audio tape containing messages by William R. Bright, Billy Graham, Richard C. Halverson, F.J. Huegel, J. Edwin Orr, Eugenia Price, Bernard Ramm, Wilbur Smith, and others used for various aspects of CCC ministry.The ten phonograph records are approximately twenty minutes on each side and consist of talks on selected topics delivered by Bill Bright, members of the CCC Board, and other outstanding individuals, authors, professors, and missionaries. ...
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Created: 1960
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 231 Papers of Ian and Helen Anderson
Collection
Identifier: CN 231
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, articles, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, photo albums, songbooks, lecture and sermon notes, maps, audio tapes, etc. related to the Ian and Helen Anderson's mission work with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. The materials document their careers in China until 1951, in Taiwan until 1956, and in the Philippines until 1971, and again in Taiwan until 1974. Materials also reflect their work as regional representatives for OMF following their retirement in 1974....
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Created: 1928-1995
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 238 Ephemera of Alan Redpath
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.
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Created: 1958, 1961
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 246 Papers of Jessie McDonald
Collection
Identifier: CN 246
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, notes, articles, photographs, and annual reports relating to Jessie McDonald's medical work in China from 1913-1952 with China Inland Mission. The documents include information on evangelistic outreach and the nature of health conditions in China. The materials also describe the political and social upheavals occurring in China during the first half of the 1900s.The correspondence by Dr. Mc Donald is supplemented by some correspondence of her co-workers...
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Created: 1907-1951
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 247 Oral History Interview with Louis E. Knowlton
Collection
Identifier: CN 247
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Louis E. Knowlton in which he discusses his career in evangelistic work and radio technology in Brazil for the Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. Topics discussed include Knowlton's early life, education, service as an Army chaplain's assistant, decision to go into technological ministry, work at WMBI and in Brazil, efforts as a street evangelist and beginnings of music studio, Brazilian churches, church-state relations, ethnic groups and cults, the use of...
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Created: 1982
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 252 Oral History Interviews with Robert and Joan Brain
Collection
Identifier: CN 252
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Robert Wesley Brain and Joan Gordon Brain, in which they discuss their life and faith, particularly their work as missionaries in Zambia with Africa Evangelical Fellowship. The Brains were interviewed separately for this collection. In the Robert Brain interview, he discusses his life on the mission field in Angola as a child and as an adult serving Africa Evangelical Fellowship at Catota Bible Institute until 1975, Manna Bible Institute in Zambia, translating...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 258 Oral History Interview with Bradford E. Steiner
Collection
Identifier: CN 258
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bradford Ezra Steiner (1917-1987), in which he discusses his medical work at Landour Hospital in Landour, Mussoorie, India; diseases; folk medicine; evangelistic outreach to patients in the hospital; conflicts between Christians, Hindus, and Muslims; and carrying medical care into the surrounding villages. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1947 to 1958.Bradford Ezra Steiner was interviewed by Ted Reihmer at Steiner's home in Elmhurst,...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
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Created: 1983
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 264 Records of Pioneer Ministries
Collection
Identifier: CN 264
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, photos, slides, tapes, curriculum materials, manuals, etc., relating to the work of the PM (formerly Pioneer Girls) in North American Churches. Materials document PM's early history, camping program (philosophy and history of Camp Cheriths and reference materials used to operate a camp and train camp staff), communications functions depicting the variety of tools used to communicate news and information to participants in its programs, orientation materials for field...
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Created: 1939-1983
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
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,...
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Created: 1984
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
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Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
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Created: 1985
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 274 Records of Prison Fellowship Ministries
Collection
Identifier: CN 274
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Correspondence, memos, reports, newspaper clippings and other documents describing the founding and development of Prison Fellowship.Among the subjects covered in the files are the part played in the organization by Charles Colson, the realities of prison ministry, the conditions of prisons in the United States, relations between organizations involved in prison ministries, the testimonies of inmates, and the relationship between PFM and its constituents. Persons featured...
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Created: 1961, 1975-1989, 1990, n.d.
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 277 Ephemera of Jim Elliot
Collection
Identifier: CN 277
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Correspondence, tapes of sermons and audio letters, journals, notebooks, annotated Bibles, school records, poems, clippings, drawings, and other materials describing Elliot's courtship of his wife Elisabeth, his spiritual preparation for the mission field, early days of his work in Ecuador, and events leading up to his death and those of four other missionaries at the hands of the Waorani (so-called Auca) people. Microfilm edition of materials available for researcher use.
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Created: 1941-1959; Majority of material found within 1947-1956
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 298
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Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
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Created: 1946-1985
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
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...
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Created: 1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 307 Ephemera of Christian Films and Videos
Collection
Identifier: CN 307
Scope and Contents
Moving image recordings in this collection provide a representative sampling of post-war evangelical Christian film companies, and cover various topics such as dramatizations of stories from the life of Jesus and of the Apostle Paul, Christian lifestyle, church and social issues, communism, drug and alcohol abuse, evangelism, immigration, materialism, mass media in religion, meaning of life, missions, the natural world as a reflection of God, politics, refugees, relationships, rock and roll,...
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Created: 1940-1986
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Collection
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
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Created: 1976-1985
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents
Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
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Created: 1970-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Christian education -- United States. 12
- Church and state -- United States. 12
- Church growth 12
- Church work with youth -- United States. 12
- Community development. 12
- Conversion -- Sermons. 12
- Holy Spirit. 12
- Muslims. 12
- Sunday schools. 12 ∧ less
- Language
- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 45
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 23
- Moody Bible Institute. 18
- Perkins, John, 12
- China Inland Mission. 10
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 10
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 10
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 10
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 9
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship. 9
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 9
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 9
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 8
- Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 8
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 8
- Africa Inland Mission. 7
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 7
- Bright, Bill. 6
- Catholic Church. 6
- Perkins, Vera Mae. 6
- Smith, Oswald J. 6
- Sudan Interior Mission. 6
- The Evangelical Alliance Mission. 6
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 6
- Ackley, B. D. (Bentley DeForrest), 1872-1958. 5
- Assemblies of God. 5
- Cook, Robert A., 1912- 5
- Fletcher, Artis. 5
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 5
- Hammontree, Homer A. 5
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 5
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 5
- McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944. 5
- Weary, Dolphus., 1946- 5
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 5
- Youth for Christ/USA. 5
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 4
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 4
- Dunlop, Merrill. 4
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 4
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 4
- Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 4
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. 4
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 4
- Jesus Christ. 4
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 4
- Jones, Clarence W. 4
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 4
- Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 4
- Philadelphia College of the Bible. 4
- Rodeheaver, Homer A. (Homer Alvan), 1880-1955. 4
- Smith, Gipsy, 1860-1947. 4
- Sports Ambassadors. 4
- Tenney, Merrill C. 4
- Tucker, Lem. 4
- Africa Inland Church. 3
- American Sunday-School Union. 3
- Barrows, Cliff. 3
- Bayly, Joseph. 3
- Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 3
- Chapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur), 1859-1918. 3
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 3
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 3
- Colson, Charles W. 3
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 3
- Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915. 3
- Evangelical Fellowship of India. 3
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 3
- Far East Broadcasting Company. 3
- Ford, Leighton. 3
- Griggins, Suzanne. 3
- Hamblen, Stuart, 1908-1989. 3
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 3
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 3
- Latin America Mission. 3
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 3
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 3
- Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School (Minneapolis, Minn.) 3
- Operation Mobilization. 3
- Overseas Crusades. 3
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 3
- Prison Fellowship. 3
- SIM (Organization) 3
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 3
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 3
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 3
- Wilson, Thomas Walter. 3
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 3
- World Council of Churches. 3
- World Vision International. 3
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 2
- Alexander, Charles M. 2
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 2
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003. 2
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 2
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 2
- Armstrong, Ben (Benjamin L.), 1923-2010. 2
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 2
- Asher, Virginia Healey, 1869-1937. 2 ∧ less
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