Collections | Archives of Wheaton College

Change Ringing Archive

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-30

Abstract

Change ringing serves as the backdrop for Dorothy L. Sayers's novel The Nine Tailors. This archive contains miscellaneous materials related to the practice of change ringing, among them pamphlets, brochures, and periodicals.

Dates: Created: 1951-2004

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Chapel Committee Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-042

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Chapel Committee

Dates: Created: 1981-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1981-1982

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Chapel of the Air Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 241

Scope and Contents One film of a Chapel of the Air telecast service held January 14, 1962, conducted by Chaplain Carl W. Mc Geehon; order of service includes hymns, prayer, choral music by Chapel choir, musical anthems, and sermon entitled "The Living Word of God" by Chaplain Ralph R. Pace, who later joined the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. This collection consists of one film of a television broadcast on January 14, 1962. The order of service...

Dates: Created: 1962

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles Albert Blanchard Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RG-02-002

Scope and Contents The papers of Charles Albert Blanchard minister, reformer, and second President of Wheaton College consist of both personal papers and administrative archive material. Collected from several sources since 1950, much of the material was given to the College Archives by Dr. Clyde S. Kilby. It was among the Blanchard Family materials given to him by Miss Julia Blanchard (daughter of Charles Blanchard) when Kilby was researching his biography of Jonathan Blanchard. Other material was...

Dates: Created: Majority of material found within 1858-1937; 1858-2012

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Charles Blanchett Booklet

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 061

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a booklet of nine watercolor sketches illustrating a three-verse limerick written in English but lettered in a verticle stylistic Chinese script; was presented to Charles Isaac Blanchett (1875-1933) upon his arrival in Pakhoi, China (near Hong Kong), to work with the Church Missionary Society. The booklet depicts an imaginary world in which Blanchett and his colleague, Bishop Rt. Rev. G.H. Landers (bishop of Hong Kong) are ambushed by cannibals.

Dates: Created: 1908

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles C. Kay Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 561

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Charles Conrad Kay in which he describes his family background, interest in music, conversion at the age of 24, first steps in the Christian faith, his early ministry in Europe on a short-term program with Greater Europe Mission, marriage, education at Moody Bible Institute, ministry at Cook County Jail, joining the Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), raising support, and the Kays’ first term as missionaries in France from 1994 to 1999. The events described in...

Dates: Created: 1998

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles E. Fuller Collection

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.

Dates: Created: 1940-1968

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles E. Wilson Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-169

Scope and Contents

The Charles E. Wilson Papers are composed of correspondence, secondary articles, scrapbook and lecture materials from the early 1990s primarily related to his autobiographical manuscript "Bastogne to Bavaria with the the Fighting Fourth Armored Division 1944-45."

Dates: Created: 1990-2000; Other: Date acquired: 2004

Found in: Special Collections

Charles Fairclough Letter

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 075

Scope and Contents Ths collection contains a ten-page prayer letter from Charles Fairclough, describing a tour of mission stations in Zhejiang Province, the evidence of cultural and social upheaval in the area, an evaluation of the church in China as it emerged from persecution, reflection on the political, social and cultural developments during Fairclough's 30 years of missionary work, an overview of current developments following civil war from 1926-1928, and an evaluation of China's future. Includes 4...

Dates: Created: 1928

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles Finney Papers Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 143

Scope and Contents Microfilm edition of originals in the Oberlin College Library. Includes incoming correspondence, sermon outlines from 1853-75, lecture outlines, and articles. Calendar and index are on reel 1. Also includes two letters relating to Finney, one dated January 6, 1845, written by Lydia to William Westervelt, describing a sermon of Finney's to which many responded. A second letter from Finney, dated January 15, 1873, was written to Brother Pierson discussing the location of Pierson's parents'...

Dates: Created: 1817-1875

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles H. Dawson Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 386

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Charles H. Dawson (1916-2000) in which he describes his family background; conversion; involvement in street preaching; jail ministry and other work in the Camden area; involvement in the work of the Afro-American Missionary Crusade; and philosophy of Christian work. Other topics discussed include Dawson's training at the New Jersey Bible School; street preaching; Montrose Waite; Dawson's trips to Africa from the 1960s through the 1980s; training African...

Dates: Created: 1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles H. Troutman, Jr. Papers

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

Charles Haddon Spurgeon Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-226

Scope and Contents

The contents of the Charles Haddon Spurgeon Collection may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/226

Dates: Other: -

Found in: Special Collections

Charles J. Guth Papers

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

Charles L. Feinberg Message Transcripts

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 109

Scope and Contents

This collection contains typed transcripts of thirty-one messages based on the book of Revelation which were given over the radio by Charles L. Feinberg.

Dates: Created: 1935-1948

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles P. Wagner Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 358

Scope and Contents Correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, promotional materials, news releases, clippings, article and address manuscripts, photographs and negatives. The materials document Wagner's activities as a member of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and its Executive Committee; as chairperson of its Strategy Working Group; as co-editor of the annual books, UNREACHED PEOPLES '79, '80, and '81; as a missionary educator and theologian in South America; and his appointment to Fuller...

Dates: Created: 1965-1987

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles Thomson Prayer Letter

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 079

Scope and Contents

This collection contains one prayer letter from Charles Thomson, describing progress made in evangelistic work in China, excerpts from missionaries' letters appealing for prayer, and an appeal for new missionaries.

Dates: Created: 1929

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Charles W. Colson Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 275

Brief Description Correspondence, memos, 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

Charlotte Evangelistic Campaigns Research Project Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 295

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, questionnaires, audio tapes, sermon transcripts, and other documents gathered by Dr. Ivan Fahs during a research project into twentieth century evangelistic meetings held in Charlotte, NC, by J. Wilbur Chapman, Billy Sunday, Mordecai Ham, Billy Graham, and Leighton Ford, spanning 1915-1983. The materials contained in this collection consist of the data Fahs gathered plus notes and aids, such as lists of events, which he and his students made up. Materials include copies...

Dates: Created: 1915-1983

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Chefoo Schools Association Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 710

Scope and Contents The China Inland Mission (later the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) founded a school for the children of Western missionaries in Chefoo, China called the Chefoo School. During World War II, the mission started similar schools in other parts of China and in India. After 1951, when the mission was forced out of China, the mission had similar schools in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and the Philippines. They were always called Chefoo Schools. The Chefoo Schools Association was a society for...

Dates: Created: 1908-2016

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Chester Terpstra Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 491

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Chester Terpstra (1917-2007) in which he discusses his years as a student at Wheaton College (1939-1943); his friendship with Billy Graham; and his later ministry in Micronesia and Hawaii. Other topics discussed include the religious culture of Hawaii during World War II and after; the prevalence of pre-millenialism at Wheaton College and among evangelical missionaries; and the 1943 revival at Wheaton College. The time period covered by the interviews is 1939 to...

Dates: Created: 1993

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Chicago Gospel Tabernacle Records

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...

Dates: Created: 1952-1979

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Chicago Sunday Evening Club Records

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-047

Scope and Contents Administrative records comprise a large portion of this collection. Minutes from the Board of Trustees meetings extend from 1936 to 1982, and Audits from 1910 to 1991. By-laws, lists of Officers and Trustees, Committee Reports, long-range planning, annual reports, and financial reports, 1987-88, further augment this section. Also present are administrative and personal correspondence from 1904 to 1980, mainly for the years 1960-1980.A small collection of photographs represents...

Dates: Created: 1908-2013; Other: Majority of material found in 1938-1993; Other: Date acquired: 1992

Found in: 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: Special Collections

Christian Broadcasting Network Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 240

Scope and Contents

Two video tapes of the dedication ceremonies of an International Communication Center for CBN, October 6, 1979, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Dedicatory address was delivered by Billy Graham, with guest musical appearances by Andre Crouch, William Harness, the Hampton Institute Choir, and Virginia Philharmonic Orchestra; master of ceremonies was Ephraim Zimbalist, Jr.

Dates: Created: 1979

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Christian Camping International Records

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-055

Scope and Contents The records of Christian Camping International provide a good overview of the administrative workings of the organization in its first forty years. The legal and organizational structure are documented in the first series.Correspondence and reports for CCI’s two earliest executive directors are housed in the collection providing highlights of the organization’s leadership.The International Operations series provides a look into the growth of CCI into an international...

Dates: Created: 1955-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1958-1986; Other: Date acquired: 1993

Found in: Special Collections

Christian Sociological Society Records

Collection

Identifier: SC-036

Scope and Contents

The Christian Sociological Society collection contains brochures outlining the objectives and activities of the organization, and includes the range of newsletters from the fall of 1973 to the spring of 1996. The collection also contains administrative correspondence from 1979-86.

Dates: Created: 1973-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1973-1986; Other: Date acquired: 1987

Found in: Special Collections

Christian Stewardship Council Records

Collection

Identifier: SC-187

Scope and Contents

The Christian Stewardship Council Papers are composed of correspondence from Wesley Willmer from 1986-1987 and documents relative to the 1987 conference "Funding the Christian Challenge." This material covers pre-conference planning, correspondence, acknowledgments, news clippings, and periodicals.

Dates: Created: 1986-1987; Other: Date acquired: 1991

Found in: Special Collections

Christians for Social Action Records

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.

Dates: Created: 1965-1976

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Christians Supporting Community Organizing

Collection

Identifier: SC-200

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2015

Found in: Special Collections

Christopher B. Ladish Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 623

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Christopher Ladish in which he discusses his childhood, conversion to Christian faith, marriage, joining Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics, his translation and literacy work in the Koromfe language among the Koromba people of Burkina Faso, the characteristics of the Wycliffe organization and staff, and methods of Bible translation. The time period covered by the interviews is 1961 to 2006.Christopher Ladish was interviewed by...

Dates: 2006

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Christopher W. Mitchell Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-B-33

Abstract

This archive includes papers from the career of Christopher W. Mitchell, who served as the third director of the Marion E. Wade Center from 1994 to 2013.

Dates: Created: 1939-2013; Other: Date acquired: June 2015

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Christ's Mission Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 276

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, personnel files, manuscripts, pamphlets, audits and other records which document the work of Christ's Mission, which provided support to priests who wished to leave the Roman Catholic Church. The mission also sponsored lectures, conferences and publications on perceived errors in Catholic theology and the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in American society.

Dates: Created: 1894-1984

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Chrysostom Society Records

Collection

Identifier: SC-242

Scope and Contents

The Chrysostom Society is a group of published Christian writers who work to promote the development of quality literature. They gave their records to Buswell Library Special Collections in 2021. Records include documentation of conferences, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, agreements, and minutes.

There are also published books that are part of the collection that are currently uncatalogued. Requests to view them can be made to Special Collections staff.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1986 - 2020

Found in: Special Collections

Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East Records Microfilm

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

Church Missionary Society for Africa: West Indies Mission Records Microfilm

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

Cindy Judge Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 656

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Cynthia L. Judge, a volunteer leader in the Short-Term Missions movement (STM). Topics discussed: Judge’s childhood in Rockford, Illinois; development of her Christian faith; attendance at Moody Bible Institute; Chicago in 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King; work as a staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ in Tennessee and West Virginia; marriage to James Judge; short-term mission trips to Ecuador and Kenya; Africa Inland Mission and Africa...

Dates: 2010

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

C.J. Jones Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 371

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Cornelius Jerome "C.J." Jones about his childhood, work with the civil rights movement, John Perkins and the Voice of Calvary, Dolphus Weary and The Mendenhall Ministries, his philosophy of ministry, the impact of TMM on the community, and racial conditions in Mississippi. The time period covered by the interview is 1944 to 1987.C. J. Jones was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on June 25, 1987, at the Mendenhall Ministries office in Mendenhall,...

Dates: Created: 1987

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Claremont College: China Missionary Oral History Project Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 145

Scope and Contents Microfilm copy of the Claremont College missionary oral history project. Microfilm includes transcripts of interviews with 44 missionaries to Pre-Communist China, representing 15 denominations or sponsoring agencies. Includes biography on each participant and index to each transcript. Subjects covered include the Boxer Rebellion, social problems, church and state, communism, medical and educational missionary activity, social change, etc. Several significant individuals and organizations...

Dates: Created: 1969-1973

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Clarence E. Mason, Jr. Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-152

Dates: Created: 1910-1925; Other: Majority of material found in 1921-1924; Other: Date acquired: 1999

Found in: Special Collections

Clarence W. Jones Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 349

Scope and Contents Collection includes correspondence, reports, sermons, memos, minutes of meetings, clippings, photographs, videotapes, slides, and other materials relating to the career of mission executive Clarence W. Jones. The materials deal mainly with his work at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle and the growth and development of the organization he helped found, the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, and especially its primary broadcasting station, HCJB in Ecuador. There is also an extensive amount of...

Dates: Created: 1915-1986

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Clayton L. Berg, Jr., Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 473

Scope and Contents Oral historyinterviews with Clayton L. Berg, known as "Mike," former missionary, educator and president of Latin America Mission. Topics discussed include Berg's youth, family, conversion, education (including Wheaton Grad School), youth pastorate at Western Springs church, marriage and family, language training at Spanish Language Institute, Hogar Biblico, teaching and administration at the Latin America Biblical Seminary iin Costa Rica, administration of LAM's Education Division, training...

Dates: Created: 1993

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Cliff Barrows Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 463

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Clifford Burton Barrows (1923-2016), evangelist and long-time song-leader and choir director with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, in which he describes experiences which have influenced his work; the place of music in evangelism; trends in current Christian music; role of music in Billy Graham crusade services. Other topics discussed include: Barrow’s musical training; influence of Oliver Steiner and Homer Rodeheaver; and the commercialization of...

Dates: Created: 1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Clyde Kilby Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-090

Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of primary and secondary material. Photocopies of articles, addresses, and reviews accompany a small amount of biographical information and correspondence. The secondary material includes general articles and press releases about Dr. Kilby and his work, as well as quoting him. Reviews of Dr. Kilby's works are also included. The materials measure four inches in length.

Dates: Created: 1953-2013

Found in: Special Collections

Clyde W. Taylor Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 597

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, minutes, lists and other materials mainly relating to a series of Protestant Evangelical international evangelism congresses which Clyde Taylor helped plan and organize between 1966 and 1974. There is also some material about his leadership in the World Evangelical Fellowship.

Dates: Created: 1950-1980

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Col. V.A. Pashkov Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-035

Scope and Contents The Vasili Alexandrovich Pashkov papers are arranged into 5 series (Literary, Correspondence, Written Documents, News Clippings and Secondary) and occupy 187 microfiche.Approximately 75% of the collection is composed of correspondence, in Russian, French, German, and English, from 1874 to 1901. General correspondence to Pashkov is arranged chronologically, while letters from prominent correspondents are filed in separate series. Letters from Pashkov are found in letter books...

Dates: Created: 1874-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1874-1909; Other: Date acquired: 1989

Found in: Special Collections

Coleman Luck, Jr. Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-041

Scope and Contents The Coleman Luck Collection (SC-41) provides a look at the process of free-lance and contracted writing for television and screenplay. Mr. Luck's materials show a project's journey from a simple concept, to an outline, treatment, research, first draft, revisions, final manuscript, and finally to the screen. This collection contains a wide variety of materials including correspondence, periodical clippings, manuscripts and video tapes. The bulk of the material dates from 1984-present. The...

Dates: Created: 1978-2020; Other: Majority of material found in 1984-2002; Other: Date acquired: 1988

Found in: Special Collections

Colin Duriez Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-35a

Abstract

This archive contains a typescript sampling the contents of The C.S. Lewis Handbook (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1990), given by Colin Duriez.

Dates: Created: ca. 1990

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Collection 3 - 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, groundbreaking 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: 1919-2007

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Collection 8: Christianity Today International Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 008

Brief Description Correspondence, memos, forms, financial reports, minutes of meetings, study papers, clippings and other records of the Evangelical Christian publishing organization. The records describe the founding of the organization to publish the magazine Christianity Today and its creation or acquisition of other publications such as Campus Life, Leadership, Leadership 100, Partnership, and Your Church. Besides material on the editing, publishing and distribution of these periodicals, the files also...

Dates: Created: Majority of material found within 1930, 1954-2007

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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