Collections | Archives of Wheaton College

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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 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 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

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

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

Andrew Wyzenbeek Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 040

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Chicago manufacturer and inventor, Andrew Wyzenbeek, who was very active as a layman in evangelistic work. Among other topics he discusses his early life in Holland, New York City, and Iowa at the turn of the century; his travels in Central and South America; his acquaintance with Billy Sunday, Paul Rader, and Peter Deyneka; the beginnings of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle; and the beginning of Paul Rader's radio ministry. The collection also contains a folder with...

Dates: Created: 1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Angkarin Pimpaeng Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 697

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Angkarin Pimpaeng in which she discusses her childhood in Thailand, life in rural areas and the city, attendance at Chiang Mai University, conversion while a university student, work with Youth with a Mission (YWAM) in that country, attendance at YWAM’s University of the Nations in Hawaii, leading YWAM teams to Bangladesh, returning to Thailand and working with Study Abroad there, the development of her faith over the years, attending a TLC (Assemblies of God)...

Dates: 2016-2017

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-048

Scope and Contents The Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers comprise eleven series: Biography, Published Material, Unpublished Material, Correspondence/Faxes, Conference, Media, Speeches/Lectures, Ministries, Secondary, WRF, and Memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is found in the latter portions of the series with Ministries, Secondary and WRF occupying three-quarters of the collection. These series document the activities of the Deyneka's various internal and external activities. Ministries includes...

Dates: Created: 1951-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1984-2000; Other: Date acquired: 1992

Found in: Special Collections

Anthony Comstock Letter

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 088

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a letter from Anthony Comstock to Rev. H.C. Hovey, in which Comstock describes the burden and revival of ministry with The N.Y. Society for Suppression of Vice and biographical notes for The Cyclopedia of American Biography completed by Comstock in 1915.

Dates: Created: 1912-1915

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Arthur F. Glasser Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 421

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...

Dates: Created: 1989-1998

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Arthur M. Barnett Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 630

Scope and Contents One oral history interview with Arthur Malcom Barnett, in which he describes his parents’ work as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) among the Maasai people in Kenya, the development of Christianity in East Africa; traditional Maasai culture, his experiences aboard the Zamzam in 1941, and different aspects of medical missions. Other topics discussed include different AIM missionaries, including the Stauffachers, Davises, and Collins; the effect of World War II, leprosy treatment...

Dates: 2006

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Arvilla E. Garner Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 666

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, prayer letters, sermon transcripts, and photographs relating to the career of Arvilla E. Garner, personal secretary to H. A. Ironside. Correspondence and photographs in this collection is from Helen Mae Doderlein, a friend of Garner and a missionary with the Christian & Missionary Alliance. Also includes transcripts of sermons by Ironside, preached at The Moody Church of Chicago.

Dates: Created: 1922-1940, undated

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 579

Scope and Contents

Audio and paper copies of speeches, and newspaper coverage of the Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism, which was a regional meeting following up on the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism, sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

Dates: Created: 1968

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Atef Sami Barnaba Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 497

Brief Description

Oral history interviews conducted by Paul Ericksen in which Barnaba talks about the background of his Egyptian Christian family; the Evangelical Christian community in Egypt; work among Christian students in Cairo; relations between Muslims, Evangelical Christians, and Orthodox Coptic Christians; Western missionaries; the ministry of women in the Egyptian church; the government’s attitude toward Christian churches; attitudes of Western churches toward Egyptian churches.

Dates: 1994 January 24 and 31

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 548

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, promotional materials, audio and videotapes, participant lists, schedules, financial records, evaluations, clippings of media coverage, etc., documenting the 1988 event. The records document not only the planning for the Congress and actual proceedings, but also the network of Black Christian leaders working together to address the spiritual and social needs of their churches and communities, and the role of the Black church in evangelism and missions....

Dates: Created: 1986-1989

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

"Auca" Incident Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 599

Scope and Contents

Audio tapes, comic book, film, filmstrips, oversize materials, phonograph records, postage stamps, and video tapes documenting the martyrdom of five American missionaries in Ecuador by the Waorani (Huaorani) Indians in 1956. Documents describe the deaths of the missionary, the response by Protestant evangelical Christians in the United States, and later missionary work with the Indians by Rachel Saint and Elisabeth Elliot.

Dates: Created: 1956-1993, undated

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

B. Sam Hart Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 516

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with B. Sam Hart (1931-2012) in which he discusses his childhood; his parents’ work as missionaries in Jamaica; church life in Jamaica; his early preaching efforts; racial tensions and class divisions in Jamaica and witnessing segregation in churches in the United States; education at Gordon College; comparison of congregations in the United States and Jamaica; reflections on radio preaching ministry; thoughts on being named after Berlyn M. Nottage. The time period...

Dates: Created: 1996

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Baptist General Convention Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 354

Scope and Contents This collection consists of minutes of the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Missionary Convention, May 18, 1814 to May 3, 1847, held in Philadelphia. Minutes include contents of the constitution, lists of financial gifts, committee members, actions concerning missionaries on the field, letters of resignation, and organizational procedures. Also included are minutes of a meeting of Foreign Missions Managers of the Baptist General Convention, September 24, 1845, called to adopt a new...

Dates: Created: 1814-1845

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Baptist Missionary and Education Convention of Oklahoma and Indian Territories Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 359

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the following printed microfilmed documents: minutes of annual meetings of the Baptist General Convention's Indian and Oklahoma Territories, 1896, 1901-1907, including also minutes of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society, 1896, 1900, 1904-1907; minutes include copies of the Constitution, agenda, annual reports of committees, amounts pledges, reports of the Sunday School Committee, names of delegates to the meetings, a report on temperance (1901), report of the...

Dates: Created: 1896-1907

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Baptist Missionary Society Archives Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 223

Brief Description The collection consists of the published microfilm edition of 90 reels of minutes, committee records, correspondence, and missionaries' papers of the British mission agency, organized in 1792. Also included is 1 microfilm reel (Reel A) that contains a guide printed by the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and a comprehensive catalog identifying each letter included in the Missionary Correspondence, and 7 sheets of microfiche that consist of a calendar of missionary...

Dates: Created: 1792-1914

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Baptist Women's Missionary Union Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 340

Scope and Contents Collection contains microfilm of the following: History of Women's Missionary Union (WMU), 1822-1957; Minutes of the Executive Board of the WMU of Mississippi, 1878-1959; Minutes of the WMU of South Carolina, 1882-1975; Minutes of the WMU, Spartan, Auxiliary to Spartan Baptist Association, 1912-1919; Annual reports of WMU, 1956-1962; Minutes of the Executive Board of WMU, Kentucky, Feb. 19, 1962, to November 15, 1965. Originals were filmed by the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist...

Dates: Created: 1822-1975

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Barbara L. Collins Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 508

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Barbara Lynn (Miner) Collins in which she describes her childhood; family's religious background; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development in college and young professional life; acceptance as a missionary by Africa Inland Mission (AIM); arrival on the mission field in Kenya; work among the Rendile and Kikuyu peoples; raising children on the mission field; development of women's program at Africa Inland Church Missionary College; work among women refugees...

Dates: Created: 1995

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Beatrice Sutherland Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 677

Scope and Contents

Materials in this collection include correspondence, newsletters, memoranda, photographs, and a church directory relating to the ministry of Beatrice Sutherland, a missionary to China with the China Inland Mission beginning in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The materials also span her later activities as a Christian worker living in California after her retirement from full-time missionary service in 1976.

Dates: Created: 1938-2006

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Belgian Gospel Mission Letter and Newsletter

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 104

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a letter from Belgian Gospel Mission directors Edith and Ralph Norton and a BGM newsletter. The personal letter describes the continuing effects of World War I on the country, the activities of various missionaries, perceived opposition to the mission from the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the testimonies of new converts.

Dates: Created: 1931

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Benjamin Colman Papers Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 433

Scope and Contents One reel of microfilm containing letters to and from Benjamin Colman, describing his pastoral duties at Brattle Street Church in Boston, his work among Native Americans (with the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent, the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts), his responsibilities as a corporate officer of Harvard College, and his participation in the religious and political life...

Dates: Created: 1696-1747, 1806

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Berea St. John Feiner Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 202

Scope and Contents Correspondence, articles, photographs, and various other materials created or compiled by Berea St. John Feiner. Collection includes items on a wide variety of missionary endeavors over a span of 140 years, notes of explanation with individual items, missionary stories, Feiner's and others' published articles concerning the work Harold L. and Biola Ogilvie in Nigeria and other Sudan Interior Mission personnel, a J. Herbert Kane article on Roland Bingham. Topics covered include missions in...

Dates: Created: 1834-1973

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Bernard L. J. Litchman Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 451

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of diaries, negatives, photographs, and slides created by Bernard "Jack" Litchman about his work with Africa Inland Mission in the former Belgian Congo (now Zaire), mostly among the Balendu people, in and around the Linga mission station, as well as involvement in setting up Sunday Schools, churches, itinerant preaching, and other mission activities as well as working as a health officer for the Belgian government.

Dates: Created: 1917-1971

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Bert and Colleen Elliot Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 684

Scope and Contents Correspondence and photographs of Bert and Colleen Elliot, Plymouth Brethren missionaries to Peru from 1949 to 2012. Correspondence is by and large written by Colleen Elliot to her parents and sister. Topics covered include reflections on cultural and spiritual differences between the United States and Peru, the challenges of missionary life and language divides, interactions with missionaries from different denominations, medical work in rural areas, evangelism, and the spiritual...

Dates: Created: 1943-1994

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Bertil A. Ogren Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 219

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Bertil A. Ogren (1914-2006) in which he describes his recruitment as a lay missionary in the Belgian Congo with the Covenant Church from 1948-56; his work there beginning and running the LECO Press, which served the needs of members of the Congo Protestant Council and relations between Africans and Western missionaries. Other topics discussed include: his family and early life, impressions of George Caprenter, independence of the Congo, Belgian influence on the...

Dates: Created: 1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy and Helen Sunday Papers Microfilm

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...

Dates: Created: 1882-1974

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Blantyre Mission Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 149

Scope and Contents

This collection consists 2 reels of microfilm containing the Blantyre Missions Supplement (Life and work in British Central Africa, and Life and work in Nysasland), monthly, and later quarterly, journal of the Church of Scotland, detailing missions and evangelistic activities at the Blantyre station in Malawi. Microfilm reels are 35mm, positive copies.

Dates: Created: 1888-1919

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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