Missions -- Japan.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
A. J. Elliot letters.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1994-022
Dates:
1924-1925
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Acc. 2024-029: papers of Louise Mary Marqueling, 1927-2004
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2024-029
Dates:
1927-2004
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Records Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: CN 261
Brief Description
Microfilm edition of the files of the ABCFM. The originals are at Harvard University. The units that the Archives has are: #1, letters from the offices of the Board to foreign missionaries (including letters to missionaries working with American Indians); #2, letters from missions in Africa; #3, letters from missions in Asia; #4, letters from missions in Central Asia (India, etc.); #5, letters from missions in the Near East; and #6, letters from missions on the American continents and the...
Dates:
Created: 1827-1929
Collection 330 - Moody Church Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 330
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started in 1864 by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946. Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities in the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents such...
Dates:
Created: 1864-1987
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
David Michell assignment manuscript.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1987-039
Dates:
1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Donald A. Cook Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 259
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Donald Arthur Cook (1923-2014) in which he describes his service with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Japan between 1956-1972. Topics discussed include upbringing, education at Wheaton College, experiences in the United States Air Force, American response to WWII, decision to join China Inland Mission (later OMF), evangelistic methods in Japan, administrative work, language difficulties, administrative duties in OMF headquarters in Hokkaido and in Tokyo,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Elizabeth and Russell Honeywell papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2006-001
Dates:
1940-2005
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Far East Broadcasting, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 059
Scope and Contents
Collection contains materials relating the ministry of Far East Broadcasting, Inc., including reports of Director's Conference, President's correspondence and feasibility studies; literature and publication, broadcast policies, promotional brochures, program schedules, program sponsorship, Russian Micro New Testament, and other miscellaneous items.
Dates:
Created: 1947-1979
Far Eastern Gospel Crusade (FEGC) photographs.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1992-081
Dates:
1947-1950
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Far Eastern Gospel Crusade Orientation Handbook
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 029
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a handbook for missionaries and candidates of the Far Eastern Gospel Crusade to orient them to the mission's goals and procedures. Volume contains constitution and by-laws, a statement of principle and practices, bibliographies, and other information on the Philippines and Japan. Also included is a draft of the constitution of the Far Eastern Gospel Crusade.
Dates:
Created: 1964
Fredrik Franson Papers Microfilm
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
GI Gospel Hour (GIGH) materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1994-065
Dates:
1945-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
GI Gospel Hour (GIGH) materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2002-031
Dates:
1946-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
GI Gospel Hour (GIGH) materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1990-097
Dates:
1945-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
GI Gospel Hour (GIGH) materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1990-108
Dates:
1951-1952
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
GI Gospel Hour (GIGH) materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1990-113
Dates:
1945-1948
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Gladys M. Fleckles Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 122
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Marie Fleckles (1946-2006) in which she describes her short term missionary experience with OMF in Japan. Other topics include her graduate work at Wheaton, undergraduate study at John Brown University, and work in the admissions department of Wheaton Graduate School. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1946-1980.Gladys Fleckles was interviewed by Mr. John Svadbik twice in May 1980. The time period covered by the interviews is...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Gregory M. Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 591
Brief Description
Prayer letters and oral history interview related to the ministry of Gregory and Lori Davis, missionaries and church planters with LIFE ministries (now Asian Access) in Japan.Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history interviews with Gregory Davis in which discusses his family background; spiritual development; children names in Japan; the 1972 Billy Graham Cleveland crusade; his conversion and transformation of his life; choosing LIFE ministries;...
Dates:
Created: 1987-2008
Harold Cook papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1991-109
Dates:
1958-1971
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Helen M. Tenney Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 044
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, scrapbook, drafts, articles, and research notes which reflect Tenney's active participation in a number of evangelical ministries, but particularly her work with the Woman's Union Missionary Society (WUMS), especially the labor she put into writing a history of that organization. The bulk of the collection consists of manuscripts of that history.
Dates:
Created: 1882-1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen M. Tenney Papers
Jack Frizen Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 434
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, articles, brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, directories, financial records, manuals, minutes, publications, reports, and other materials documenting Jack Frizen's life and ministry. Material mainly describes Frizen’s family life, work with G.I. Gospel Hour, director of Far East Gospel Crusade (now SEND International), executive director of Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA), director of Tyndale House Foundation, trustee of the Henry...
Dates:
Created: 1929-1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Jack Frizen Papers
Judson Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 173
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings relating to the ministry of Judson Smith. Letters between Smith and his family describe his trips abroad, among them to Great Britain and Paris in 1882 (which included visits to hear Charles Spurgeon), Turkey and the World Missionary Conference (1888), and Japan and China (1898); reports to ABCFM board members also describe Smith's observations of missionary work; included among Smith's descriptions of China are those of other missions including...
Dates:
Created: 1878-1913
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Judson Smith Papers
L. Nelson Bell Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description
Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates:
1923-1973
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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L. Nelson Bell Papers
Louise H. Pierson Scrapbook
Item
Identifier: CN 720
Scope and Contents
Photographs, mission newsletters, newspaper clippings, letters, drawings, and pressed flowers arranged in a scrapbook mainly documenting the work of several early Woman’s Union Missionary Society (WUMS) workers in China, Japan, and India. Most of the scrapbook appears to be focused on the work of Mrs. Louise Henrietta Pierson in Yokohama, Japan through the American Mission Home (now known as Yokohama Kyoritsu Kritsu Gakuen or Doremus School) from 1871-1899.
Dates:
1871-1902
Materials relating to the South China Boat Mission
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2023-006
Dates:
1909 - 2014
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Newspaper clippings about Japan.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1990-003
Dates:
1951-1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
OMS International, Inc., Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 056
Scope and Contents
News releases, prayer letters, reports and field studies. The documents all related to the work of OMS which had workers in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America in the areas of radio broadcasting and Bible distribution. Key OMS figures featured include founder Charles Cowman, his wife, Lettie Burd Cowman, Wesley Duewel, and E.A. Kilbourne.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content Section, the notation "folder 5-2" means "box 5, folder 2."]The collection consists of annual...
Dates:
Created: 1963 - 1978
Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 215
Brief Description
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; its work...
Dates:
Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 2001, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1886-2001
Papers of Beth Jaderquist Paddon, 1940-1968, 1980-1987, 2012, nd
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-027
Dates:
1940 - 2012
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Paul Rader Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 038
Scope and Contents
Newsletters, sermon manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs, pamphlets, photographs, negatives, brochures, a taped sermon, slides, thesis materials, and more, documenting Paul Rader's life and ministry. The material deals mainly with his radio work and the organizations he founded, including the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. Additional material includes items about Rader gathered for a planned biography, sermons of other preachers who spoke at the Tabernacle, newsletters and magazines published by...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1996
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Paul Rader Collection
Philip R. Foxwell, Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 442
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one folder relating to the ministry of Philip R. Foxwell with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and later World Presbyterian Missions.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Philip R. Foxwell in which he describes his youth, conversion, magician career, education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, preparation and orientation for missionary work in Japan with the...
Dates:
Created: 1990-1991
Roger Engholm GI Gospel Hour (GIGH) home movies.
Unprocessed Material — Loose 3
Identifier: 2007-062
Dates:
1946-1947
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
SEND International Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 406
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, promotional materials, prayer letters, incorporation documents, news releases, statistics, newsletters, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, films, organizational charts, financial record, etc., related to the origins, development, and operation of SEND International in Alaska, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, and U.S. based operations. Documentation begins with the pre-incorporation of the organization and its first iteration as the GI GOSPEL HOUR phase...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1989
Tape T4. S. Douglas Birdsall oral history interview {UNPROCESSED}
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2025-018
Dates:
2025 March 19
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
TEAM archives, fifth accession, Boxes 183-270.
Unprocessed Material — Box 88, Box: 183-270
Identifier: 2022-017
Dates:
1897-2014
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
TEAM archives, fourth accession, boxes 139-182.
Unprocessed Material — Box 44, Box: 139-182
Identifier: 2022-015
Dates:
1893-2009
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
TEAM archives, second accession, boxes 4-72.
Unprocessed Material — Box 69, Box: 4-72
Identifier: 2022-008
Dates:
1893-2006
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
TEAM archives, third accession, boxes 73-138.
Unprocessed Material — Box 66, Box: 73-138
Identifier: 2022-012
Dates:
1895-2015, nd
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
TEAM Ephemera
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2024-035
Dates:
1949-2016
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
TEAM missionaries' photo scrapbook and notebooks.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1990-004
Dates:
1901-1970
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
TEAM Records, 1900-2015
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-005
Dates:
1900-2015
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Woman's Union Missionary Society Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 379
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, legal documents, financial files, scrapbooks, and almost 3,000 photographs that document the activity, personnel, and ministry of the organization founded in 1860 by Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus. The mission was intended as a vehicle for sending single women as missionaries to women in closed societies (and therefore unreachable by male missionaries) in Asia, covering their medical and educational work among orphans and women in Burma, China, India,...
Dates:
Created: 1860-1983