Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Missions -- United States.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 070 Ephemera of George Keith & Thomas Thompson
Collection
Identifier: CN 070
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of published memoirs concerning George Keith's and Thomas Thompson's work for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Keith was the Society's first missionary to be sent to North America. Contains experiences in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania; also Increase Mather, Samuel Willard, and conformists, principally Quakers.The reel of microfilm contains the ninety-two-page tome (title page missions) of Keith's...
Dates:
Created: 1702-1756
Collection 087 Papers of Fredrik Franson
Collection
Identifier: CN-087
Scope and Contents
Microfilm 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
Collection 144 Records of the Missionary Society of Connecticut
Collection
Identifier: CN-144
Scope and Contents
Microfilm edition of missionary correspondence, superintendents' correspondence, administrative records, and printed matter generated by the Missionary Society of Connecticut. Mission areas included those with a heavy concentration of New England settlers: Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, New Connecticut (Ohio). There was also an effort toward American Indians. All reels are 35mm.
Dates:
Created: 1759-1948; Other: Majority of material found in 1793-1899
Collection 153 Records of Moravian Missions Among American Indians
Collection
Identifier: CN-153
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 35 reels of microfilm containing over 50,000 pages of diaries, letters, and miscellaneous records documenting the missionary work of the Moravian Missiont to American Indians. Separate indexes cover Indian and missionaries, geographic names, non-Indian nations, and topics. Originals are held in the Moravian Church Archives, Bethlehem, Pa. All microfilm reels are 35mm, positive copies.*****[The following scope and content note is extracted from the...
Dates:
Created: 1735-1900
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 include...
Dates:
Created: 1679-1790
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
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
Collection 179 Records of Short Terms Abroad
Collection
Identifier: CN-179
Scope and Contents
Dossiers and correspondence, photographs, newspapers, general correspondence, minutes, mailing lists, personnel files, research files used and compiled by Short Term Abroad.
Dossiers are for those placed in short-term mission assignments. General files document Short Term Abroad administration, including data that was used by the International Congress on World Evangelization, 1974. Research project LAYMEN ABROAD IN CHRISTIAN MISSION is also included.
Dossiers are for those placed in short-term mission assignments. General files document Short Term Abroad administration, including data that was used by the International Congress on World Evangelization, 1974. Research project LAYMEN ABROAD IN CHRISTIAN MISSION is also included.
Dates:
Created: 1965-1976
Collection 266 Oral History Interview with Ruth Sundquist
Collection
Identifier: CN-266
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Sundquist in which she describes her education at Moody Bible Institute, decision to become a missionary, work first in Kentucky home missions as a Christian education worker with the Evangelical Free Church and then her missionary career in China and Hong Kong between 1947 and 1982 as an administrator for a Sunday School and orphanage. Other topics discussed include: language school in China, Chinese attitudes toward the Nationalists, Communists, Americans in...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1984
Collection 340 Records of the Baptist Women's Missionary Union
Collection
Identifier: CN-340
Scope and Contents
Minutes, annual reports, and histories of the WMU and its auxiliaries in Kentucky, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
Documents mission efforts in the U.S., including among Native and African Americans.
Documents mission efforts in the U.S., including among Native and African Americans.
Dates:
Created: 1822-1975
Collection 350 Papers of John M. Peck
Collection
Identifier: CN-350
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copy of the journal of John Mason Peck, pioneer Baptist missionary, educator, editor, author, and pastor, describing his ministry in Illinois territory during the 1840s until 1857. Contains biographical data on colleagues; subscription lists to periodicals; financial accounts; brief descriptions of events; notes of activities; proposed articles, etc. Original microfilmed by the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Church.
Dates:
Created: 1840-1857
Collection 414 Papers of Wade T. Coggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 414
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, papers and speech manuscripts relating to the ministry of Wade T. Coggins, Christian worker with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association.
Dates:
Created: 1964-1990
Small Collection 039 Papers of Henry Hickok
Collection
Identifier: SCN-039
Scope and Contents
Commission for home mission work issued to Hickok by the Board of Mission of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Document details the length of his service, compensation, conduct and activity expected of him, and plans for giving aid to the Board and for correspondence between presbyteries and the Board.
Dates:
Created: 1832