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Betsy Palmer Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-028

Scope and Contents The Palmer Papers is organized into seven series: Correspondence, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Publications, Radio, Scrapbooks, Television and Oversize. The bulk of the collection falls within the Photographs series with this containing several sub-series: Film Negatives, Film Prints, Home & Family Photographs, Miscellaneous Celebrity, Photographs, Movie Stills, Photo Shoot Photographs, Rehearsal Photographs, Television, and Theatre Photographs. The bulk of the photographs...

Dates: Created: 1954-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1954-1985; Other: Date acquired: 1985

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Christian Arts Trust Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-067

Scope and Contents The Christian arts collection provides a great deal of insight into the growth of Christian arts in England. The majority of the information deals with theatre groups funded by the trust. Scripts, puplicity posters, and photographs compose a large percentage of the collection. Biographical information on individuals involved with the trust and financial reports are also included. There are four videotapes, two audio tapes, and one record album made of various theatre presentations. The...

Dates: Created: 1960-2016; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1993; Other: Date acquired: 1994

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Collection 006 Papers of John C. Pollack

Collection

Identifier: CN 006

Scope and Contents This collection contains drafts of John Pollock’s 1966 and 2004/2005 biographies of Billy Graham. The 1966 version was originally published as Billy Graham: The Authorized Biography. This book was reprinted in revised and expanded edition in 1969, with the title Crusades: Twenty Years with Billy Graham. It brought the story of Graham’s life up to 1969. Im 1979, Pollock published another biography of Graham entitled ...

Dates: Created: 1973-2005

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 007 Records of Navigators

Collection

Identifier: CN 007

Scope and Contents Correspondence, memos, reports, forms, manuals, statistical summaries, publicity materials, newspaper clippings relating to the counseling and follow-up systems the Navigators created and supervised for Billy Graham Evangelistic Association meetings between 1950 and 1957. Records document the details of this system for counseling people who came forward at BGEA evangelistic meetings and maintaining contact with them as they began to develop a Christian lifestyle. For some crusades, besides...

Dates: Created: 1947-1974

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 015 Ephemera of Billy Graham

Collection

Identifier: CN 015

Scope and Contents Collection contains materials gathered by the archivist relating to Billy Graham's life and early ministry. Includes miscellaneous correspondence to Ray Schulenberg, Richard, Mouw, and Charles Fuller, among others. Also includes a copy of Peace with God annotated by Ruth Bell Graham, which she revised for a second edition in 1984. Of particular interest is a scrapbook kept by Graham during his attendance at Florida Bible Institute and Wheaton College. The Archives only has a...

Dates: Created: 1934-2014

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 031 Ephemera of John Wesley

Collection

Identifier: CN 031

Scope and Contents Collection contains one handwritten letter by Wesley composed during a London visit in October 1782. There are also a couple of newspaper clippings including a description of Wesley's life at Aldersgate and the text of another letter from the evangelist. A scrapbook of clippings (available to researchers on microfilm) from the centennial commemoration of Wesley's death contains articles, poetry, sermons, and illustrations by and about him. The clippings were out of newspapers from all over...

Dates: Created: 1782; 1889-1902; 1938

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 060 Papers of Andrew and Martha Ruch

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

Collection 068 Papers of Hugh Bourne

Collection

Identifier: CN 068

Scope and Contents

Microfilm copy of a journal kept by Hugh Bourne, British evangelist and revivalist, about his mission trip to Upper Canada on behalf of the Primitive Methodist Church. In 1845, he began a tour of the northeastern U.S.A. circuits, and then sailed from New York for England in March, 1846. Includes material on camp meetings, temperance, and Methodists.

Dates: Created: 1844 - 1848

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 071 Records of the Moravian Congregation, Bristol, England

Collection

Identifier: CN 071

Scope and Contents Congregational diaries, choir house diary, and Committee Meeting books fromt the Moravian Congregation, Bristol England, spanning 1755-1806. Diaries, often with daily entries, describe church activities and lifestyle, and also include obituaries for members, descriptions of relations with other churches, and frequent references to John Wesley and John Cennick. The Committee Meeting books detail financial and legal action taken by the congregation, along with membership statistics. The...

Dates: Created: 1755-1806

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 073 Records of the Moravian Archives, London

Collection

Identifier: CN 073

Scope and Contents This collection contains one 35mm reel of microfiml of an inventory of archival materials from the Moravian Archive, Londong, England, rescued at the time of a German bombing raid in May 1941. Microfilm of a manuscript volume the fly leaf of which bears this inscription: "A list of the contents of the boxes rescued from 32, Teller Lane, most of them removed before, and some salvaged from the strong room after the destruction of the premises in a German bombing raid on London...

Dates: Created: 1947

Found in: 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...

Dates: Created: 1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 081 Records of Africa Inland Mission

Collection

Identifier: CN 081

Scope and Contents 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...

Dates: Created: 1888-2006

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 086 Records of the International Christian Broadcasters

Collection

Identifier: CN 086

Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, audiotapes, photographs, financial reports, slides, blueprints, and memos related to the activities of International Christian Broadcasting's (originally the World Conference on Mission Radio) work to promote interest in Christian broadcasting and to support and encourage Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasters, largely engaged in evangelism.Materials include data on the International Communications Congress in Tokyo (1970),...

Dates: Created: 1937-1978; Other: Majority of material found in 1937-1978

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...

Dates: Created: 1872-1909

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough

Collection

Identifier: CN 089

Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.

Dates: Created: 1979-1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 098 Ephemera of William Booth

Collection

Identifier: CN 098

Scope and Contents An audio tape with excerpts from two of William Booth's sermons, one of which contains a reference to Salvation Army; two autographs of Booth, one dated 1921, one undated; one video tape containing black and white photos and filmed segments of Salvation Army activities, including Booth's funeral. Also includes a brief commentary of Salvation Army history in Depression years in the United States, and activities during World War II. Included on the video tape is a 5 minute sermon by Harry...

Dates: Created: 1921

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 111 Papers of Charles H. Troutman, Jr.

Collection

Identifier: CN 111

Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuals, and other records documenting Charles Troutman's career in Christian ministry among university students, first with Inter-Varsity in the United States and Australia and then with Latin America Mission. This collection also contains a great deal of information on evangelical Christianity in the United States, Australia and Latin America; Troutman's letters from his service in the Pacific in World War II; and reports and other information relative to...

Dates: Created: 1924-1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 146 Records of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Collection

Identifier: CN 146

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the microfilmed archives of the first century of S.P.C.K. endeavor. These papers are arranged in four series: A - Minutes and Reports (reels 1-10); B - Financial Records (reels 11-20); C - Letters and Memorials (reels 21-33); D - Special Subjects (reels 34-41). The minutes, reels 1-7, are indexed at the beginning of each volume. All reels are 35mm, positive copies.

Dates: Created: 1698-1794

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 147 Records of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East

Collection

Identifier: CN 147

Scope and Contents This collection contains 40 reels of microfilm, containing the proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. Includes annual Society meeting records, as published in the annual Proceedings, texts of sermons delivered to the Society, member lists, and reports. Volume 1 contains a history of the Society and its by-laws. Topic covered include evangelistic and missionary work in Africa and 19th century church history in Great Britain.All reels are 35mm, positive...

Dates: Created: 1801-1920

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 148 Records of the Church Missionary Society for Africa: West Indies Mission

Collection

Identifier: CN 148

Scope and Contents

This collection contains Microfilmed copybooks of letters sent to missionaries in the West Indies and loose incoming correspondence from missionaries. Copybooks are indexed at the beginning of volumes. West Indies missions were intended primarily for the proselytization of enslaved peoples in the British colonies. Topics covered include missions and nineteenth-century church and missions history in Great Britain and the Caribbean.

Dates: Created: 1819-1861

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 149 Records of Blantyre Mission

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

Collection 151 Papers of Philip Quaque

Collection

Identifier: CN 151

Scope and Contents Complete microfilmed letters of Philip Quaque, first non-European ordained priest in the Church of England, native African and missionary to the Cape Coast (present day Ghana) for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Microfilm includes letters and other material concerning a wide variety of SPG mission efforts in North America, 1784-91, and Africa, 1817-1855. Letters describe progress in missionary work, relations with political authorities, daily life in colonial...

Dates: Created: 1765-1855

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 154 Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: Lambeth Palace Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 154

Scope and Contents The collection consists of about two thousand five hundred letters and eight volumes of minutes covering the formative years of the Society, 1701-1750. Later papers document the establishment of the American episcopate after the Revolution. The correspondence is primarily with clergy sent to America, but also concerns Eurasia, especially China and India. Correspondence primarily with clergy sent to America, but also concerns work in Eurasia, particularly China and India. Topics covered...

Dates: Created: 1679-1790

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 155 Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

Collection

Identifier: CN 155

Scope and Contents This collections consists of 27 reels of microfilm containing incoming and outgoing letters written by S.P.G. secretaries, including letters and papers from and to missionaries in the American colonies both on the North American continent and in the Caribbean from colony governors and other individuals, from SPG subscribers in England, and from churches on the European continent. Subjects documented include missions and evangelistic work.The collection consists of 27 reels of...

Dates: Created: 1701-1786

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 157 Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: Gold Coast Mission

Collection

Identifier: CN 157

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 12 reels of microfilm containg missionary reports and correspondence from S.P.G. mission stations correspondence of eighteenth century missionaries Thomas Thompson and Philip Quaque, and correspondence of the twentieth century Committee for Women's Work. Microfilmed from originals in possession of the U.S.P.G. in London.

Dates: Created: 1753-1933

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 158 Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: Madagascar Mission

Collection

Identifier: CN 158

Scope and Contents

The microfilm contains selected pages from the bound correspondence and reports series housed in the U.S.P.G. headquarters in London. It includes all missionary correspondence and reports from Madagascar, and some items concerning Mauritius and the Seychelles Islands. Letters refer to mission work, local customs, and politics. All reels are 35mm, positive copies.

Dates: Created: 1866-1900

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 159 Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: South Africa

Collection

Identifier: CN 159

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 52 reels of microfilm containing correspondence and reports concerning Anglican missions in South Africa prior to diocesan organization, and concerning five dioceses: Capetown, 1847-1900; Grahamstown, 1853-1900; Natal (Maritzburg), 1853-1900; St. John's-Kaffraria, 1874-1900; and Zululand, 1866-1900. Reel 52 is a detailed index, and includes a history of S.P.G. South African work. The originals for the microfilm are in the U.S.P.G. headquarters in London.

Dates: Created: 1819-1900

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 160 Records of the Universities Mission to Central Africa

Collection

Identifier: CN 160

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one reel of microfilm containing the printed reports of the UMCA, the first mission society operated by the high church faction of the Anglican Church, and unique among Anglican missions in that primary authority rested not with a home committee, but with a bishop Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin Universities.Originals of the reports are in the USPG office, London.

Dates: Created: 1860-1900

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 161 Records of the Council for World Mission

Collection

Identifier: CN 161

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 17,716 sheets of microfiche containing minutes, reports, candidates' papers, graphics, and correspondence with missionaries in Europe, Russia, the Americas, West Indies, Australia, the South Seas, Africa, China, India, and other areas. Also included are journals of missionaries, correspondence of David Livingstone, and material about a mission to Jewish people in London. The microfiche was filmed from originals in the Library of the School of Oriental and African...

Dates: Created: 1775-1940

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 163 Records of the Methodist Missionary Society

Collection

Identifier: CN 163

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 70 sheets of microfiche containing detailed inventories in typescript for a portion of the Archives of the Methodist Church, Overseas Division (also known as the Methodist Missionary Society) in England. This Archive, housed in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, includes Methodism materials dating from 1769. The records of the Archive consist of three distinct groups: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Women's Work, and...

Dates: Created: 1791-1931

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh

Collection

Identifier: CN 186

Scope and Contents Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...

Dates: Created: 1904-1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 199 Records of Whosoever Heareth, Inc.

Collection

Identifier: CN 199

Scope and Contents Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, notebooks, clippings, pamphlets, brochures, and sermon tapes related to the career of lawyer-evangelist Clift Brannon and two of the organizations he set up, Whosoever Heareth, Inc. and the Clift Brannon Evangelistic Association. Includes a copy of the data on the Soul Winner's New Testament, an edited version of the New Testament, with notes to be used for individual and group evangelism. Half the records deal with various aspects of the...

Dates: Created: 1943-1975

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 201 Oral History Interview with Russell P. Shedd

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

Collection 209 Papers of Eugene R. Bertermann

Collection

Identifier: CN 209

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, manuscripts, photographs, phonograph records, and other materials relating to Eugene R. Bertermann's involvement in religious broadcasting, particularly in regard to his responsibilities as president and one of the board of directors of the National Religious Broadcasters; executive director and board member of Far East Broadcasting Company; and one of the planners of the ecumenical evangelistic effort known as Key '73.Materials particularly...

Dates: Created: 1955-1981

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 210 Records of World Bible Study Fellowship

Collection

Identifier: CN 210

Scope and Contents Correspondence, newsletters, minutes of meetings, correspondence course, photos, registers, address lists, and account books, and other materials related to the work of the WBSF, which included publishing and distribution of Bible studies for use around the world in prisons, hospitals, and leper colonies, and for use of missionaries and national Christian workers. [NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 1-1" means box 1, folder 1.]Folder...

Dates: Created: 1935-1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 215 Records of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission)

Collection

Identifier: CN 215

Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, directories, newsletters, brochures, photographs, book manuscripts, slides, photo albums, and other materials which document the history of the North American branch of the mission.Materials cover the origins of the mission's North American branch; its church planting, evangelistic, medical, educational, and literature work in China until the time of its expulsion in 1951; its reorganization from China Inland Mission into Overseas Missionary Fellowship;...

Dates: Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 1997, n.d.; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-1990

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 218 Records of the Evangelical Missions Information Service

Collection

Identifier: CN 218

Scope and Contents Correspondence, press releases, minutes, financial statements, reports, and photographs documenting the activities of the Evangelical Mission Information Service (EMIS), the publications arm of both the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Missions Association. Activities documented include the publication of several mission periodicals, including Evangelical Missions Quarterly and Missionary News Service; organization of missionary conferences and...

Dates: Created: 1964-1981

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 223 Records of the Baptist Missionary Society

Collection

Identifier: CN 223

Scope and Contents Collection consists of minutes, committee records, correspondence, and missionaries' papers.Society committees whose activities and deliberations are documented include: Finance, Candidate Board, Eastern India and Ceylon, China, and Western. Principle correspondents and figures include William Carey, Adoniram Judson, Isaac Allen, William Holman Bentley, John Chamberlain, Thomas Comber, Andrew Fuller, Joseph Jackson Fuller, George Grenfell, Alfred G. Jones, William Knibb, Joshua...

Dates: Created: 1792-1914

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 224 Papers of J. Stratton Shufelt

Collection

Identifier: CN 224

Scope and Contents

Reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, handbills, photographs, and other ephemera relating to J. Stratton Shufelt's evangelistic activities as a speaker and song leader for Youth for Christ, Jack Shuler, John R. Rice, Harry Ironside and others, and as a performer or teacher at Bible conferences and other events. This collection also contains information on the Wheaton College Revival of 1950.

Dates: Created: 1908-1982; Majority of material found in 1924-1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess

Collection

Identifier: CN 228

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...

Dates: Created: 1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 230 Oral History Interview with John A. Gration

Collection

Identifier: CN 230

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with John Alexander Gration (1926-2012). Topics discussed include: Gration's Christian activities in high school and the U.S. Navy, education at Moody Bible Institute, Gordon College, and Wheaton College; his spiritual growth and call to become a missionary, his marriage, and his first impressions of and missionary experiences with Africa Inland mission in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Christianity and culture, animism, superstition, AIM...

Dates: Created: 1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett

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

Collection 274 Records of Prison Fellowship Ministries

Collection

Identifier: CN 274

Scope and Contents 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...

Dates: Created: 1961, 1975-1989, 1990, n.d.

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 275 Papers of Charles W. Colson

Collection

Identifier: CN 275

Scope and Contents Memos; correspondence; book, article and editorial manuscripts; texts of speeches; legal papers; newspaper clippings; testimony transcripts; magazine articles; audio tapes; and photographs, all documenting many of the major phases of Colson's life, including his work as a political advisor to President Richard Nixon, his involvement in the Watergate scandal, his conversion to Christian faith that caused him to plead guilty to one of the charges against him, his imprisonment, and his life...

Dates: Created: 1960-1990

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans

Collection

Identifier: CN 279

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8,...

Dates: Created: 1984-1985

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 280 Papers of Malla Moe

Collection

Identifier: CN 280

Scope and Contents

Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, clippings, financial records, tracts, photographs, and certificates belonging to Malla Moe, missionary to South Africa, 1892-1953, under Scandinavian Alliance Mission (later TEAM). Correspondence documents evangelistic work among South African tribes in Swaziland and Tongoland and includes descriptions of the Boer War, life in African communities, and church growth.

Dates: Created: 1893-1955

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 281 Papers of John and Florence Stauffacher

Collection

Identifier: CN 281

Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes, clippings, and photographs relating to the Stauffachers' work as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission, chiefly from 1911 to the early 1940s. The materials document their careers from the earliest stages, describing their responsibilities and everyday life, primarily in Kenya and the Belgian Congo, but also in Uganda & Tanzania, their developing relationship by correspondence prior to Mrs. Stauffacher's arrival in Kenya and their subsequent...

Dates: Created: 1902-1973

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson

Collection

Identifier: CN 285

Scope and Contents Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...

Dates: Created: 1919 -2001

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely

Collection

Identifier: CN 290

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...

Dates: Created: 1984

Found in: 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,...

Dates: Created: 1976-1985

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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