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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

International Fellowship of Evangelical Students Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 640

Brief Description Predominantly correspondence and reports of the international Evangelical organization, most extensively between 1971 and 1998. IFES aims to provide staff leadership and coordinate with national staff of member movements to: witness, train and disciple students on university campuses, where student-led evangelism will have an impact on those institutions, churches, and society. The records document in detail the activities and influence of the global IFES student movement at both country and...

Dates: 1934-2000

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Colleen Townsend Evans Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-039

Scope and Contents The papers of the noted Christian author and churchwoman, Colleen Townsend Evans consist primarily of book manuscripts and published articles. Other materials include awards, biographical materials, photographs, and memorabilia. The collection occupies 16 linear inches. The manuscript series contains not only typescripts of books and articles, but also galley proofs and notes. They are arranged alphabetically by the title. Published articles, dating from 1948 to 1987 are also...

Dates: Created: 1948-1987; Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1987; Other: Date acquired: 1989

Found in: Special Collections

College Committee on Student Publications Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-005

Scope and Contents

Minutes and Evaluation of the Colle ge Committee on Student Publications

Dates: Created: 1959-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1973-1981

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

College Union Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-08-005

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the College Union

Dates: Created: 1990-1993; Other: Majority of material found in 1990-1993

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

CoMission and CoMission II Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 660

Scope and Contents Correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, transcripts, schedules, manuals, policy statements, magazine and newspaper clippings, curricula, audio recordings, videos, photographs, slides and other materials documenting the work of the Commission. This was an alliance of over eighty American Protestant ministries, churches and business (almost all Evangelical) that, in agreement with the Russia government, entered the country on a five year contract to train Russian educators to teach Christian...

Dates: 1989-1998; Majority of material found in 1992-1995

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Commencement and Baccalaureate Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-10-001

Scope and Contents

Commencement and Baccalaureate Addresses, invitations and programs

Dates: Created: 1860-2010; Other: Majority of material found in 1885-2015

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Commencement Planning Committee Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-045

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Commencement Planning Committee

Dates: Created: 1982-1984; Other: Majority of material found in 1982-1984

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Committee on Academic Council Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-033

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Committee on Academic Council

Dates: Created: 1961-1964; Other: Majority of material found in 1961-1964

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Committee on Committees Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-043

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Committee on Committees

Dates: Created: 1951-1951; Other: Majority of material found in 1951

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Committee on Competency and Comprehensives Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-046

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Committee on Competenecy and Comprehensives

Dates: Created: 1969-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1969

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Committee on Governance Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-044

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Committee on Governance

Dates: Created: 1980-1981; Other: Majority of material found in 1980-1981

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Committee to Assist Ministry Education Overseas Records.

Collection

Identifier: CN 091

Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, reports, monographs, financial records, mailing lists, questionnaires, and photographs related to the origin and activity of CAMEO, a joint committee of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association and the Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (EFMA, formerly Evangelical Foreign Missions Association). The documents reflect CAMEO’s development from a group that was primarily concerned with mission agency education programs to one assisting in the...

Dates: Created: 1956-1990; Other: Majority of material found within 1964-1975

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Communication Department Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-019

Scope and Contents

Records of the Communication Department include committee minutes, correspondence, syllabi and course information.

Dates: Created: 1970-2019; Other: Majority of material found in 1982-1996

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Communications Resource Department Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-036

Scope and Contents

History file of the Communications Resource Department

Dates: Created: 1992-1992; Other: Majority of material found in 1992

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Company for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 156

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one reel of microfilm containing a letterbook of the Society, chartered for the purpose of evangelism among New England Indians. Concerns the company's business affairs, education of Indians, Harvard College, and translation of religious texts. Primary correspondents are the company's governors, secretaries or clerks, and treasurers, writing to Commissioners in America, who in turn paid missionaries or dispersed funds as directed. Letters describe Company business...

Dates: Created: 1688-1761

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Conference of the Return of the Lord Brochure

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 108

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a brochure advertising a volume containing addresses given at the 1918 Conference on the Return of the Lord. The brochure gives some background information on the meeting as well as listing the speakers and their topics.

Dates: Created: 1918

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Conference on Faith and History Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 082

Scope and Contents Correspondence, newsletters, minutes of meetings, transcripts of sessions, brochures, clippings, etc., of the Conference on Faith and History formed for evangelical Christian historians. The records in this collection consist mainly of the correspondence on the Secretary-Treasurer, with a few other items such as the CFH's newsletter, some of the minutes of the executive committee, a few mailings and membership lists, brochures, reports, the constitution and by-laws, and a miscellaneous of...

Dates: Created: 1966-1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Congress '88 Audio Tapes

Collection

Identifier: CN 595

Scope and Contents Audio tapes of numerous sessions from Congress '88, touching on a wide variety of topics related to evangelism and missions.Series: Audio tape recordingsArrangement: Tapes were received in vinyl cases each already numbered. The archivist kept the same order and labeled the tape sequentially.Date Range: 1988-1988Volume: 161 cassette tapes (0.91 cubic feet)Type of documents: Recordings of the plenary and workshop sessions of Congress...

Dates: Created: 1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 021

Scope and Contents Materials relating to the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission which was held on the Wheaton College campus in 1966 and was jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association. Audio tapes document various sessions of the Congress, including biblical expositions, study papers (on subjects like syncretism, church growth, cooperation, the Catholic Church and social issues), reports on missions on the world's...

Dates: Created: 1964-1967

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society Orientation Handbook

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

Consuella York Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 397

Scope and Contents Clippings, photographs, cards, sermons, handbooks, oral history interviews and other records mainly relating to Consuella York's ministry as a chaplain at the Cook County Jail, but also describing her childhood growing up on the south side of Chicago, her conversion, religious education, and work as a pastor.The materials in this collection consist of miscellaneous items from Rev. York's life, mostly relating to her prison ministry. They include newspaper and magazine clippings,...

Dates: Created: 1953-1994

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) Collection

Collection — Container: CDs CD0001-CD2322

Identifier: SC-219

Scope and Contents The collection was donated by Mark Allen Powell after the creation of his Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. The collection contains a wide variety of materials related to contemporary Christian music such as LPs, CDs and subject folders. Contemporary Christian music (CCM) is represented by performers and groups performing in a musical style that was influenced by urban folk revival, rock music, or mainstream popular music of the 1960s through the...

Dates: Created: 1948-2015; Other: Majority of material found in 1975-1995; Other: Date acquired: 08/14/2012

Found in: Special Collections

Continuing Adult Education Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-034

Scope and Contents

Minutes, correspondence of the Continuing Adult Education Committee

Dates: Created: 1978-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1982

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Corrie ten Boom Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN-078

Scope and Contents

Papers of Dutch watchmaker, evangelist, author, and Christian aid worker Corrie ten Boom. The collection includes information on her father Casper ten Boom, her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II, her work among refugees after the war, her travels as an evangelist, the work of her two foundations, and the production of the film The Hiding Place. The collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, a film, notebooks, photos, photo albums, and video tapes.

Dates: Created: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1983

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Cotton Mather Collection Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 062

Scope and Contents Microfilm of diaries, sermons, notes, correspondence, and writings of Mather. Originals are in the American Antiquarian Society and in the Massachusetts Historical Society. Also included is the original and a photocopy of a hand-written sermon, 1701, on Ephesians 1:3, titled "Spiritual Blessings." For more information, please see guide.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 1-1" means box 1, folder 1]This collection consists of two folders...

Dates: Created: 1680-1724

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-057

Scope and Contents The CCCU collection at Wheaton College comprises an array of materials concerning the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities in general, with particular focus on the various activities the organization has undertaken over the years to encourage the development of faculty and administrators (primarily through meetings, conferences, etc.) or students (through the Council's various study programs). The collection contains items dating from the mid-70s up to the late 90s, though the...

Dates: Created: 1973-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1983-1999; Other: Date acquired: 1999

Found in: Special Collections

Council for World Mission Records Microfiche

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

Crawford W. Loritts, Jr., Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 419

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Crawford Wheeler Loritts, Jr., in which he discusses his childhood; family; conversion; education at Philadelphia College of Bible; perception of racial conditions as he experienced them; evangelistic ministry; church planting projects with of Black Evangelistic Enterprise in Canton, Mississippi, and with Tony Evans in Dallas Other topics discussed include: American Missionary Fellowship; Tony Evans; Here's Life Black America;...

Dates: Created: 1989-1990

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

C.S. Lewis: Images of His World Archive

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-44 and A-124

Abstract This archive contains research notes, Lewis quotations, corrected typescripts, photographs, and other material related to the writing and publishing of the book C.S. Lewis: Images of His World by Douglas Gilbert and Clyde S. Kilby, published in 1973 by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. At the time of the publishing, Gilbert was an Assistant Professor of Art at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. Kilby was a Professor of English and the Curator of the Lewis...

Dates: Created: 1972-1973

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

C.S. Lewis in America: Noll Research Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-B-35

Abstract

The C.S. Lewis in America: Noll Research Collection contains records of American reviews, etc. concerning C.S. Lewis from 1935 through the mid-1950s (it is less thorough after 1947). These were prepared by Maggie Noll and used by Mark A. Noll in preparing several lectures and publications on the topic of Lewis in America.

Dates: Created: 1935-2013; Created: Majority of material found within 1935-1947

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

C.S. Lewis Testimonies Archive

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-11

Abstract

This archive contains letters and emails responding to three separate surveys done in 1986, 1996, and 2014 regarding the influence of C.S. Lewis.

Dates: Created: 1959-1996, 2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1986-1996, 2014

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Curtis Cole Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 558

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Curitis Cole. Topics covered include: Cole’s family background, the development of his Christian faith, his experiences as a missionary kid in Ivory Coast in the 1970s, descriptions of the Christian community in Ivory Coast and the Ivory Coast Academy; Ivorian worship services; his education at Michigan State University, his business career in Denver and his ministry as a youth pastor there, his and his wife's call to missions, his work in Ecuador as an...

Dates: Created: 1998

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Dan D. Crawford Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 604

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Dan Duvall Crawford in which he discusses his parents, Percy and Ruth (Duvall) Crawford; Percy Crawford’s evangelistic ministry at meetings, through radio and television programming; and the camps his father founded. Other topics discussed include Crawford’s experiences at Pine Brook Camp as a child; Pine Brook Praises and Young People’s Church of the Air; Percy Crawford’s relationship with Billy...

Dates: Created: 2004

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Daniel E. Liberek Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 385

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Daniel Eric Liberek in which he describes growing up in Belgium as the son of a Protestant pastor, his conversion, methods of evangelism in that country, comparison between United States and Belgian evangelicals, his own work as a youth pastor in Belgium, Protestant-Catholic relations, church-state relations, and other faiths in the country. Other topics discussed include Liberek's experiences running a Christian youth camp; and some of the spiritual options in...

Dates: Created: 1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Daniel Holmes Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-103

Scope and Contents

The Daniel Holmes Papers are composed of correspondence from 1860-1861 during his time as a student in the Academic Department at Wheaton College.

Dates: Created: 1860-1861; Other: Date acquired: 2000

Found in: Special Collections

Daniel W. Nelson Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 741

Brief Description Materials collected by Nelson for his doctoral thesis about evangelist B. Fay Mills. This includes his correspondence with possible sources of information, such as Mills’ daughter; copies and transcripts of articles and obituaries by and about Mills as well as some of his sermons. Scope and Contents The material in this collection consists entirely of material gathered by Rev. Daniel W. Nelson in the early 1960s for use in his dissertation...

Dates: 1889-1916, 1961-1964, 1979

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Darien Straw Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-093

Scope and Contents The Straw papers are organized into six series (Biographical, Correspondence, Financial, Manuscripts, Publications, Secondary and Memorabilia). The manuscripts portion of the collection comprise the bulk and relate almost entirely to his teaching career and include notes, grades and addresses. The biographical materials represent the second largest portion of the collection and contains personal and family information, as well as materials relating to the Wheaton College Executive Council,...

Dates: Created: 1900-1942

Found in: Special Collections

David Aaronson Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1.A

Identifier: SC-176

Scope and Contents

The David Aaronson scrapbook contains postcards and photographs detailing a 1947 Chapel Choir tour. A 13-page typewritten, stapled booklet with construction paper covers is loosely included, describing various aspects of his road trip. Stops included Akron, OH, Detroit, MI, South Bend, IN, Paris, TN, and several other cities. Photographs display churches and scenic stops, with a few images showing the Wheaton College campus. The scrapbook is black, measuring 10 X 11 1/2.

Dates: Created: 1947-1948; Other: Majority of material found in 1947-1948

Found in: Special Collections

David Aikman Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-050

Scope and Contents The series contain biographical information, education, correspondence, manuscripts, published material, and background research for writing.Among the strengths of SC-50 are the Manuscripts Series, especially Aikman's news reports as a correspondent with Time magazine. These reports are arranged in three sub-series: article submissions (most from 1978-80), subject files (alphabetical), and news tours information (Far East 1985). The man-of-the-year information on Mikhail...

Dates: Created: 1955-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1962-1994; Other: Date acquired: 1992

Found in: Special Collections

David Coomes Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-36

Abstract

This archive includes a typescript of the book Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life, and is a gift of David Coomes.

Dates: Created: ca. 1992

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

David D. Thomas Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 409

Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...

Dates: Created: 1954-1975

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

David E. Maas Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-214

Scope and Contents The David E. Maas Papers are predominately composed of Maas’s teaching materials and student course materials from 1958 to 2010. Inclusively, the collection dates as far back as 1914. The collection is divided into five series: Teaching Materials, Biographical, Rev. L Aug. Heerboth and Dorothy A. Heerboth Papers, James M. Lower Papers, and General.The majority of papers fall within the series Teaching Materials, which is further subdivided mainly by course subject and arranged...

Dates: Created: 1914-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1958-2010

Found in: Special Collections

David H. Adeney Papers.

Collection

Identifier: CN 393

Brief Description Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...

Dates: Created: 1911-1994

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

David Harley Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 740

Scope and Contents

Oral history interview by Robert Shuster with Harley in which he discusses his faith, work with Ethiopian Jews, his time as principal of the All Nations Christian College in England, the role of women in Christian ministry, servant leadership, the place of women in ministry, his service as director of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship.

Dates: 2005

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

David J. Fuller Family Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-087

Scope and Contents The Fuller family papers is organized into four major series for four Fuller family members, O. Muriel Fuller, David O. Fuller, Sr., David O. Fuller, Jr. and Beverly Fuller Berman. The Muriel Fuller series contains the bulk of the collection and of this portion correspondence, dating from 1923 to 1951, comprise the largest subset of the collection. Margaret Landon is the major correspondent with letters to other notable individuals like Eleanor Roosevelt. Other series...

Dates: Created: 1920-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1923-1951; Other: Date acquired: 1976

Found in: Special Collections

David J. Ranney Meeting Promotional Card

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 067

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a promotional card with photograph announcing a missionary meeting under YMCA auspices in New York City at which David James Ranney related his experiences.

Dates: Created: 1912

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

David Kirwa Tarus Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 641

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with David Kirwa Tarus, a Kenyan pastor and theologian. Tarus describes the ministry of his parents; growing up in Kenya; his conversion; spiritual development; Scott Theological College; the Africa Inland Church in Kenya; Scott’s satellite campus in Eldoret; the general condition of Christianity in Kenya; his impressions of the United States and Wheaton Graduate School; the 2008 election of Barack Obama. The interview covers the time period 1979-2008....

Dates: 2008

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

David L. Farah Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 302

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...

Dates: Created: 1985

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

David Livingstone Letter

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 048

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a single letter written by David Livingstone to John Kirk, outlining some of the conditions of two-year expedition they were planning to Africa. Topics discussed include government funding and expected expenses, anticipated living conditions during the expedition, and Kirk's qualifications for joining the expedition. The letter is dated January 4, 1858 from Hamilton, Scotland.

Dates: Created: 1858

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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