Evangelistic work -- Songs and music.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:
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
American Hymn Writers and Composers Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 138
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed contents of a scrapbook containing miscellaneous correspondence, photos, and memorabilia by and about hymn writers and composers. Included are Cliff Barrows, Merrill Dunlop, Lowell Mason, Homer Rodeheaver, Ira Sankey, George Stebbins, and others.Series 1: PhotographsPhotographs include these subjects: George Stebbins, Charles Alexander, Rodney "Gipsy" Smith, William Runyan, Don Hustad, Cliff Barrows, Tedd Smith, George...
Dates:
Created: 1878-1975
Betty Weakland song sheet
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2022-053
Dates:
1928
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Graham New York Crusade phonograph record.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1987-003
Dates:
1957
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Sunday Campaign Music and the Old Time Religion Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 041
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one audio recording, mostly of American Gospel music. Side 1 includes songs sung by Billy Sunday co-workers, Virginia Healey Asher and Homer Rodeheaver with the choir from the 1917 Billy Sunday revival campaign in New York City. Side 2 includes Dr. Russell Conwell telling his famous "Acres of Diamonds" story and a song by evangelist Gypsy Smith, among others.Side 1 - BILLY SUNDAY CAMPAIGN MUSIC1. Sail On -- New York Tabernacle Chorus...
Dates:
Created: Undated
Bruce Horner dissertation interviews.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2022-013
Dates:
1968-1971, nd
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Bulgin Revival Meetings hymnbook.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2010-013
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
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
Collection 563 Papers of Robert Coleman
Collection
Identifier: CN 563
Brief Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, oral history interviews, class lecture notes, meeting files and other materials relating to Coleman's ministry as an evangelist, scholar and church leader. Besides Coleman's own life and ministry, the collection contains voluminous material on the theology of evangelism and Christian discipleship, American 20th century Evangelicalism; the growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly in regard to the...
Dates:
1936-2019
Collection 564 Papers of Felix Onwukanjo Erondu
Collection
Identifier: CN 564
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photograph, videos related to the ministry of Reverend Felix Erondu, Nigerian evangelist and founder of Traveling Light Ministries.Series: Oral History InterviewsTwo oral history interviews with Felix Erondu, in which he decribes his family background in Aba, Nigeria; upbringing in the Anglican church; education; training as a teacher; participation in the Biafran civil war; work as a teacher and principal;...
Dates:
Created: 1995, 1999
Collection 602 Oral History Interview with Esther L. Filkin
Collection
Identifier: CN 602
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Esther L. (Wyzenbeek) Filkin (1911-2007) in which she describes childhood memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, especially its efforts in evangelism, its music program and radio ministry; and memories of her father, Andrew Wyzenbeek. Other figures discussed include Clarence Jones, Torrey Johnson, Peter Deyneka, and Ralph and Luke Rader. The time period covered by the interview is 1911 to 1984.Esther L. Filkin was interviewed by Bob...
Dates:
Created: 2004
Collection 604 Oral History Interview with Dan D. Crawford
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
Collection 650 Records of Say Yes, Chicago
Collection
Identifier: CN 650
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, reports, newspaper clippings, lists, financial records, questionnaires and training videos other materials of the Say Yes Chicago committee, a group of Protestant Christian leaders that incorporated to sponsor Say Yes Chicago, a 1996 city-wide evangelistic effort led by evangelist Luis Palau. These files contain significant information about the planning and organizing of the campaign, with some material on the actual events of the campaign, the results, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1973-1997
Collection 659 Papers of Roy W. Gustafson
Collection
Identifier: CN 659
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings, and other documents relating to Gustafson’s education and life’s work as a minister, evangelist, Bible teacher, and staff member of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Particularly well documented are the tours of the Holy Land (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt) he led and lectured to for several decades, his participation in ministries in Africa and Asia, and his active involvement in the worldwide activities of Samaritan’s...
Dates:
Created: 1908-2002
Collection 680 Papers of the Almond Family
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
Donald and Mary McGavran Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 178
Brief Description
Correspondence, lectures, sermons, book manuscripts, surveys, audio tapes, video tapes, microfilm of letters, notes, and other records dealing with the life of the McGavrans, especially their work as missionaries in India with the Disciples of Christ, and Donald's activities as an author and educator, including his role as founding dean of Fuller Seminary's School of World Mission. Much of the collection deals with his role in originating, developing, and applying church growth theory.
Dates:
Created: 1906-2000
Emily and Iner Basinger hymns and poems.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2007-058
Dates:
1942-1998
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evangelistic music phonograph records, songbooks, and engraving.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1994-067
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evangelistic phonograph records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1994-086
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evangelistic phonograph records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1994-030
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evangelistic phonograph records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1994-033
Dates:
1956-1976
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evangelistic songbooks.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2011-010
Dates:
1890-1934
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Everett Mitchell Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 140
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Everett Mitchell (1898-1990) who as a teenager sang invitation songs at Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns. Other topics discussed include: Mitchell's background, music and radio career, musical training, Billy and Helen Sunday, evangelistic work in Chicago, Gipsy Smith, Homer Rodeheaver, other evangelists, career as a war correspondent during the Korean War, religious use of radio, evangelistic rallies and crusade music. The time period covered by the intervew...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1980
Everett Mitchell Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-014
Scope and Contents
The Everett Mitchell Collection contains a variety of material relating to this early radio pioneer and agricultural broadcaster. The collection spans the years from 1910 to 1985 with the bulk of the material falling into the years 1940 to 1960. Mitchell was a well established broadcaster by the 1940s, thus the collection focuses on his "mature" years.The collection contains subject files on a variety of topics, photographs, and non print media including audio and video cassettes...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1960
Found in:
Special Collections
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Everett Mitchell Papers
Fanny Crosby music manuscripts.
Unprocessed Material — 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1998-004
Dates:
1847-1918
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Fanny Crosby Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 035
Scope and Contents
Collection contains thousands of manuscripts of lyrics and music dictated by Fanny Crosby, poetess and hymnwriter. Most of the manuscripts are numbered and dated. This collection is also available on microfilm. The manuscripts in this collection are all of poems composed by Crosby after 1861. Most of these poems are dated and the majority are numbered in sequence. A description of these manuscripts can be found in the foreword of Fanny Crosby Still Speaks. For most of the poems the...
Dates:
Created: 1862-1915
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Fanny Crosby Papers
George Beverly Shea and miscellaneous wire recordings.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2022-004
Dates:
1950-1952
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
George Beverly Shea audio recordings and press releases,
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2021-049
Dates:
1939-2007
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
George Beverly Shea memorabilia.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1, Box: 1
Identifier: 2022-011
Dates:
1944-1979, n.d.
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
George Beverly Shea Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 541
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, sheet music, business records, phonograph records, programs, songbooks, and other materials from Shea’s career as a soloist, radio personality, and composer. Most of the material is from the last decades of his life, especially his work with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), but the entire range of his life from the 1930s on is covered. Though representing only a fraction of Shea’s papers, it includes a rich collection of source material that Shea used in his...
Dates:
1931-2010
Gospel music phonograph records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1986-068
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Gospel music phonograph records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1986-088
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Gospel music recording.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-013
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Gospel Recordings, Inc., Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 036
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the organization's work of providing Christian workers around the world with phonograph records or audio tapes of brief evangelistic programs of music, Scripture and sermons in thousands of different languages and dialects, presented by indigenous speakers of each tongue. Most of the correspondence is between the staff of Gospel Recordings and Christian workers in different countries, such as missionary to Africa Paul White, requesting...
Dates:
Created: 1939-1978
Harry Dixon Loes materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1986-104
Dates:
1919-1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Homer Rodeheaver Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 130
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes, newspaper clippings, phonograph records and photographs relating to the musical career and ministry of Homer Rodeheaver. This collection consists mostly of materials from the Homer A. Rodeheaver Company, a publisher of gospel music. There are several different types of order blanks and promotional materials. One newspaper clipping from 1937 refers to his appearance on a CBS radio affiliate playing his trombone. Other items include two issues of Rodeheaver's Musical News which...
Dates:
Created: 1916-1939
Homer Rodeheaver phonograph records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1987-136
Dates:
1955
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Hymnbook compiled by Gipsy Smith.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2007-044
Dates:
1927
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Iner and Emily Basinger papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1990-056
Dates:
1947-1978
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ira Sankey performances copy audio tape.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1998-036
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
J. Stratton Shufelt Papers
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
Knowles Shaw newspaper clipping.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1982-058
Dates:
1974
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Linda Panci papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2018-013
Dates:
1966-1984
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Linda Panci papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2022-022
Dates:
1979-1981
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Linda Panci papers
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2023-014
Dates:
1982-1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Linda Panci papers
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2023-028
Dates:
2003-2023
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Louis and Phil Palermo Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 329
Scope and Contents
Articles, audio tapes, clippings, correspondence, films, phonograph records, photo albums, photographs, video tapes and wire recordings of Louis and Phil Palermo, musical evangelists with Chicago Midnight Brigade and Youth for Christ. The collection highlights the Palermos' musical ministry in the United States and other parts of the world, especially Italy and Vietnam, predominantly from the early-1940s to the 1980s; also includes assorted information about evangelical figures and...
Dates:
Created: 1924-1984
Louis E. Knowlton Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 247
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Louis E. Knowlton in which he discusses his career in evangelistic work and radio technology in Brazil for the Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. Topics discussed include Knowlton's early life, education, service as an Army chaplain's assistant, decision to go into technological ministry, work at WMBI and in Brazil, efforts as a street evangelist and beginnings of music studio, Brazilian churches, church-state relations, ethnic groups and cults, the use of...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Luke Rader Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 203
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one audio tape of brief radio broadcast messages by Luke Rader, "America's Pioneer Radio Evangelist," including hymns, poems, songs, and scripture readings by Rader accompanied by organ, piano and orchestra. The first side of the tape records short radio messages by Rader with anecdotal stories and pithy comments on their biblical significance. The second side of the tape is almost entirely short segments of musical selections, including hymns presumably sung by...
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Luke Rader Collection