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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
Slavic Gospel Association Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 237
Description:
Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association among Slavic peoples, primarily Russians. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; media ministry (radio, film, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union video, literature); and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains...
Dates:
Created: 1922-2002
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 029 Records of the Far Eastern Gospel Crusade
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 029
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a handbook for missionaries and candidates of the Far Eastern Gospel Crusade to orient them to the mission's goals and procedures. Volume contains constitution and by-laws, a statement of principle and practices, bibliographies, and other information on the Philippines and Japan. Also included is a draft of the constitution of the Far Eastern Gospel Crusade.
Dates:
Created: 1964
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 030 Records of the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 030
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an orientation handbook for missionaries and candidates created by the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. The manual describes the Society's background, constitution, doctrinal statement, expectations for missionaries, and personnel policies.
Dates:
Created: 1964
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 041 Records of Hwa Nan College
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 041
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a letter, several articles, and photographs, which contain information about the college or people connected with the college. The letter is dated 1930 and is by missionary Dorothea Keeney. She describes the inauguration of the college's first Chinese president, Lucy C. Wang; the school's commencement; and a wedding of one of the staff. One of the articles is by Lucy Wang and from the July 31 issue of Woman's Missionary Friend. It...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1931
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 070 Ephemera of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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
Small Collection 074 Papers of Robert W. Porteous
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
Stanley Okoro Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 296
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Stanley Okoro in which he discusses his childhood in Nigeria, education participation as a soldier in the 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war, conversion to Christianity, theological training, youth ministry in Nigeria and Liberia, Christian cults in Nigeria, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Nigerian churches. The time period covered by the interviews is from 1951 to 1985.Stanley Okoro was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 25, 1985 at the Billy...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sunday School Curriculum Collection
Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-049
Scope and Contents
This collection serves as a sampling of evangelical Christian Sunday School curriculum throughout many of the decades of the twentieth century, particularly after the Fundamentalist and Evangelical divisions occured within Protestant Christian denominations in the United States.
Dates:
Created: 1880-2015; Other: Majority of material found in 1935-1978
Found in:
Special Collections
Vera Mae Perkins Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 368
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Vera Mae Buckley Perkins in which she discusses her family background, her education, the importance of her Christian faith, marriage to John Perkins, racial conditions in Mississippi and involvement in Civil Rights demonstration, and racial conditions in that state. Other topics discussed include her work as a migrant laborer and participation in Civil Rights protests that resulted in the integration of the school system in Mendenhall, Mississippi. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Vincent L. Crossett Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
W. Robert and Frances Holmes Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 405
Scope and Contents
Collection of letters written primarily by Robert Holmes and his wife, Frances (Frannie) to their families in the United States, while they served as missionaries with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Sri Lanka from 1947 to 1960. A few of the letters are from the children, Bobby and Carol Lou, to their grandparents, and there are a few letters sent to the Holmes family. (The originals were retained by the donor.) The letters date from 1947 to 1960, and were mostly...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1960
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 003
Brief Description
Correspondence, proposals, reports, minutes, programs, publications brochures, budgets, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, and video tapes related to the founding, ground breaking and dedication and continuing work of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College as a research and training center in evangelism, and its ongoing activities. Includes audio and video recordings of Center-sponsored conferences (on themes including evangelism and evangelistic preaching, outreach to various...
Dates:
Created: 1919-2011
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
William J. Barnett Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Woman's Union Missionary Society Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 379
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, legal documents, financial files, scrapbooks, and almost 3,000 photographs that document the activity, personnel, and ministry of the organization founded in 1860 by Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus. The mission was intended as a vehicle for sending single women as missionaries to women in closed societies (and therefore unreachable by male missionaries) in Asia, covering their medical and educational work among orphans and women in Burma, China, India,...
Dates:
Created: 1860-1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
World Evangelical Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 338
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, audio tapes, photographs. Topics documented included the formation of the WEF in 1951 to foster fellowship, cooperation, and communication between evangelical national and regional associations around the world; the gradual growth of influence by non-Western associations; the activities of Evangelical Protestants in many different parts of the world; the leadership of J. Elwin Wright, Clyde Taylor, Waldron Scott, and David Howard, among others. Many...
Dates:
Created: 1926-1992, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1948-1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Youth for Christ Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 048
Brief Description
Minutes, constitution and by-laws, clippings, newsletters, manuals, pamphlets, directories, press releases, audio tapes, videotapes, photographs, posters, club yearbooks, correspondence, etc., about the founding, development and growth, and activities of Youth for Christ in the USA and internationally.Collection documents organizational policies, correspondence of the organization's presidents, conventions and Bible quiz competitions, the operation of Campus Life clubs, Youth...
Dates:
Created: 1944-ongoing; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-ongoing
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Zoe Anne Alford Papers
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...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 103
- Conversion -- Christianity. 96
- Women -- Religious life. 75
- Women missionaries. 75
- Evangelistic work. 71
- Missionaries -- Training of. 69
- Christian life. 64
- Language in missionary work. 64
- Christian education. 63
- Missions -- Educational work. 63
- Christianity and culture. 59
- Children of missionaries. 55
- Missionaries. 51
- Christian leadership. 48
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 44
- Evangelicalism. 42
- Families. 41
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 40
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 40
- Church and state. 39
- Indigenous church administration. 38
- Religious institutions. 37
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 35
- Missions -- Finance. 35
- World War, 1939-1945. 35
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 34
- Christian education -- United States. 34
- Missions -- China. 34
- Church and social problems. 33
- Women 32
- Evangelistic work -- China. 29
- Church development, New. 28
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 28
- Missions, Medical. 27
- Fund raising. 25
- Bible colleges. 24
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 24
- Communism -- China. 24
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 24
- Worship. 24
- Bible. 23
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 23
- Fundamentalism. 23
- Missionaries' spouses. 23
- African Americans. 22
- Culture shock. 22
- Education. 22
- Rural missions. 22
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 21
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 21
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 21
- Organizational change. 21
- Social change. 21
- Missions -- Congresses. 20
- Missions. 20
- Pentecostalism. 20
- Racism. 20
- Sex role. 20
- African Americans -- Religious life. 19
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 19
- Church and social problems -- United States. 19
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 19
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 19
- Theological seminaries. 19
- Bible -- Translating. 18
- College students in missionary work. 18
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 18
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 18
- Presbyterians. 18
- Radio in missionary work. 18
- Tribes. 18
- Christian literature -- Publishing. 17
- Interdenominational cooperation. 17
- Missions -- Africa. 17
- Persecution. 17
- Race relations. 17
- Radio in religion. 17
- Children. 16
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 16
- Intercultural communication. 16
- Marriage. 16
- Missions -- India. 16
- Worship (Christian) 16
- Animism. 15
- Christian education -- China. 15
- Christian education of children. 15
- Christian education, Outdoor. 15
- Communism. 15
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 15
- Medical care 15
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 15
- Missions -- Kenya. 15
- Missions to Muslims. 15
- Preaching. 15
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 15
- Baptism. 14
- Christian education -- Philosophy. 14
- Church discipline. 14
- Church growth. 14
- Church work with youth. 14 ∧ less
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- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 88
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 41
- Moody Bible Institute. 26
- Shuster, Robert D. 25
- China Inland Mission. 22
- Africa Inland Mission. 21
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 21
- OMF International. 18
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 15
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 14
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 14
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 13
- Sudan Interior Mission. 13
- Youth for Christ International. 13
- Ericksen, Paul. 12
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 11
- Perkins, John, 1930- 11
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Billy Graham Scholarship Program. 11
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 11
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 10
- Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (2012-) 9
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 9
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 9
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 9
- World Council of Churches. 9
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 8
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 8
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 8
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 8
- Howard, David M. 8
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 8
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 8
- National Association of Evangelicals. 8
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 8
- Wright, J. Elwin. 8
- Africa Inland Church. 7
- Assemblies of God. 7
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 7
- Catholic Church. 7
- Davis, Ralph T. 7
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 7
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 7
- Latin America Mission. 7
- Padilla, C. René. 7
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 7
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 7
- Straw, Darien A. 7
- Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 7
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 7
- Weary, Dolphus., 1946- 7
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 7
- Armerding, Hudson T. 6
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 6
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 6
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 6
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 6
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 6
- Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 6
- Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 6
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 6
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 6
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 6
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 6
- Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 5
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 5
- Coggins, Wade T. 5
- Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas. 5
- Coray, Edward A. 5
- Elliot, Elisabeth. 5
- Far East Broadcasting Company. 5
- Frizen, E. L. 5
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 5
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 5
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 5
- Kuhn, Isobel. 5
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 5
- Mau Mau. 5
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 5
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 5
- Perkins, Vera Mae. 5
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 5
- Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August) 5
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 5
- Tucker, Lem. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School. 5
- Word of Life (Fellowship : Schroon Lake, N.Y.) 5
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 4
- Christian Medical Society. 4
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 4
- Crossett, Margaret E. 4
- Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 4
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 4
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 4
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 4
- Evangelical Committee on Latin America. 4
- Evangelical Literature Overseas. 4
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 4
- Evans, Robert P., 1918-2011. 4
- Ford, Leighton. 4
- Gospel Missionary Union. 4 ∧ less
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