Bible -- Study and teaching.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Assorted missionary materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-141
Dates:
1984-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
"Beautiful Life Celebration '85" conference video tapes.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1989-046
Dates:
1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Christians Supporting Community Organizing
Collection
Identifier: SC-200
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2015
Collection 005 Papers of Vernon W. Patterson
Collection
Identifier: CN 005
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, clippings, reports, financial records, press releases, promotional material, forms, newsletters, and oral history interviews relating to Vernon W. Patterson's (1892-1991) active participation and leadership in evangelistic activities in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The papers focus particularly on his involvement in various evangelical lay organizations and other institutions and the early career of Billy Graham. The interviews were recorded on 3/4/85 and 3/5/85 and...
Dates:
Created: 1900-1985
Collection 085 Papers of William H. Wrighton
Collection
Identifier: CN 085
Scope and Contents
Sermons, clippings, articles, manuscripts, notebooks, personal records, correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to the William Wrighton's career as a pastor, professor, writer. Also in this collection are photographs of Wrighton and his family and friends.
Dates:
Created: 1903-1963
Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
Collection 178 Papers of Donald and Mary McGavran
Collection
Identifier: CN 178
Scope and Contents
The papers of Donald and Mary McGavran include correspondence (personal and business), class lectures, manuscripts of books and articles, newspaper clippings, statistics, maps, reference materials, financial records, documents gathered to study church growth in different parts of the world, photographs, audio tapes, and videos. They document a wide variety of different topics, but are particularly strong for three areas: the McGavrans' family life, their work in India as missionaries, and,...
Dates:
Created: 1906-2000
Collection 181 Papers of Earl W. Schultz, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 181
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newsletters, promotional material, phonograph record, photographs, reports, financial records and other documents related to Earl W. Schultz's ministry with Youth For Christ.Topics covered include evangelistic work with youth, in the eastern U.S. primarily, and Hamstead, Maryland, particularly; also various YFC and other organizations' programs for young people, including rallies, conventions, contests and Bible quizzes, etc. Persons featured include various YFC...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1971
Collection 199 Records of Whosoever Heareth, Inc.
Collection
Identifier: CN 199
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, notebooks, clippings, pamphlets, brochures, and sermon tapes related to the career of lawyer-evangelist Clift Brannon and two of the organizations he set up, Whosoever Heareth, Inc. and the Clift Brannon Evangelistic Association. Includes a copy of the data on the Soul Winner's New Testament, an edited version of the New Testament, with notes to be used for individual and group evangelism. Half the records deal with various aspects of the...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1975
Collection 210 Records of World Bible Study Fellowship
Collection
Identifier: CN 210
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newsletters, minutes of meetings, correspondence course, photos, registers, address lists, and account books, and other materials related to the work of the WBSF, which included publishing and distribution of Bible studies for use around the world in prisons, hospitals, and leper colonies, and for use of missionaries and national Christian workers. [NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 1-1" means box 1, folder 1.]Folder...
Dates:
Created: 1935-1982
Collection 231 Papers of Ian and Helen Anderson
Collection
Identifier: CN 231
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, articles, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, photo albums, songbooks, lecture and sermon notes, maps, audio tapes, etc. related to the Ian and Helen Anderson's mission work with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. The materials document their careers in China until 1951, in Taiwan until 1956, and in the Philippines until 1971, and again in Taiwan until 1974. Materials also reflect their work as regional representatives for OMF following their retirement in 1974....
Dates:
Created: 1928-1995
Collection 243 Records of the Evangelical Theological Society
Collection
Identifier: CN 243
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, financial records, annual and regional meeting brochures, membership records, directories, selected copies of publications, files on associated groups such as the American Scientific Affiliation, abstracts, reprints of papers delivered at meetings, audio tapes, photographs. Materials document origins of the Evangelical Theological Society, specific data on members, publishing activity, and discussion on the issue of inerrancy and authority of...
Dates:
Created: 1949-1982
Collection 249 Papers of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison
Collection
Identifier: CN 249
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, prayer letters, and photographs related to the missionary service of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the Philippines from 1967-1990.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview each with Myron and Elizabeth Harrison. Topics discussed in the interviews include missionary call, appointment and assignments in the Philippines with Overseas Missionary Fellowship, family life, the...
Dates:
Created: 1967-1993
Collection 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
Collection
Identifier: CN 283
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Wood Folkerts. Topics discussed include her childhood as a pastor's daughter; study at Wheaton College; her marriage; training in London; work as a missionary in British Cameroon (now Republic of Cameroon), especially Bible study and literacy programs for women and 3H clubs for girls; the political and social situation in Cameroon; Cameroon independence; medical problems in Cameroon; the work of her husband, Fred, at the Baptist Teacher Training College and...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 291 Papers of Ralph T. Davis
Collection
Identifier: CN 291
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, clippings, hymns, poems, photographs relating to the ministry of Ralph T. Davis, as a missionary and executive leader of African Inland Mission. The materials in this collection consist primarily of notebooks apparently used by Davis for sermon materials or in his administrative capacities for AIM. They include: notes on books of the Old and New Testaments; sermon outlines and notes; church history; notes on geographical areas, countries and peoples; hymns and poems; other...
Dates:
Created: 1935-1962
Collection 296 Oral History Interviews with Stanley Okoro
Collection
Identifier: CN 296
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Stanley Okoro in which he discusses his childhood in Nigeria, education participation as a soldier in the 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war, conversion to Christianity, theological training, youth ministry in Nigeria and Liberia, Christian cults in Nigeria, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Nigerian churches. The time period covered by the interviews is from 1951 to 1985.Stanley Okoro was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 25, 1985 at the Billy...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 309 Records of National Religious Broadcasters
Collection
Identifier: CN 309
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, clippings, recordings and programs of conventions, photographs and other materials of the NRB, which served as a professional association for persons or organizations involved in Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasting.The collection documents the NRB's efforts to provide information on training for its members on a wide range of technical and broadcasting issues and is especially strong on Federal Communication Commission policies...
Dates:
Created: 1922, 1969-1989, 1991
Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little
Collection
Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 324 Records of Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Evangelizacion (CLADE)
Collection
Identifier: CN 324
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, press releases, planning and financial records, and manuscripts of Congress presentations (primarily in Spanish). Files in this collection were those of Clyde Taylor, executive secretary of the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association at the time of the Congress. Items document early planning and securing subsidy funding from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, travel arrangements, and daily reports from the Congress. Texts of Congress messages by...
Dates:
Created: 1951-1975; Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1970
Collection 383 Oral History Interview with Itchaya Sitterley
Collection
Identifier: CN 383
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Itchaya Sitterley in which she describes her family, life in Thailand, education, career in television and radio, conversion, the evangelistic use of folk drama, the Thai church and comparisons between it and the American church, and Buddhism. Other topics discussed include Sitterley's work with the Chrisitan Communicatins Institute; her marriage; main denominations and seminaries in Thailand; and education at Wheaton College; competition among churches in...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 386 Oral History Interview with Charles H. Dawson
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
Collection 388 Oral History Interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco
Collection
Identifier: CN 388
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco in which she discusses her life and ministry in the Philippines, including her childhood, education, and work as a Bible school teacher. Other topics covered include theological education and evangelism in the Philippines; work with "Here's Life Philippines," sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ; the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; Filipino culture; Muslim and Catholic communities in the Philippines; Ebenezer Bible College;...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 391 Papers of Robert C. Schneider
Collection
Identifier: CN 391
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, oversize materials, and a photograph, relating to the ministry of Robert C. Schneider, missionary in Spain and Morocco with Gospel Missionary Union.Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history interviews with Robert C. Schneider in which he describes his childhood, education, evangelistic work, the beginnings of Youth for Christ; attendance at Moody Bible Institute, marriage to Doris Gould, missionary work in Morocco and...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 392 Oral History Interviews with Dorothy J. Mainhood
Collection
Identifier: CN 392
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Dorothy Jane Mainhood in which she describes her childhood, conversion, spiritual growth, education at Wheaton College, call to be a missionary, and work in Thailand for Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Other topics discussed include Mainhood’s medical training, language study in Thailand, Thai people and culture, regional differences in Thailand, the Buddhist and Muslim communities in Thailand, religious syncretism, church-state relations, characteristics of...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 412 Oral History Interview with Gleason L. Archer
Collection
Identifier: CN 412
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Gleason Leonard Archer in which he describes his family background; his conversion; his education at Harvard University and Princeton Theological Seminary; his attendance at Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts; involvement with Robert Schneider and the Fellowship of Faith and other mission work with the Muslim community in Chicago; forming the United Evangelical Arab Mission; Muslim views of Christians; studying the Arabic language; and his time in Beirut,...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Collection 415 Papers of Bonnie Stuckless
Collection
Identifier: CN 415
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, prayer letters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to the ministry of Bonnie G. Stuckless and her husband Donald Stuckless, missionaries in Colombia, Panama, and Spain with the Assemblies of God from 1970 to 1992.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history...
Dates:
Created: 1969-1992
Collection 426 Papers of Paul E. Little
Collection
Identifier: CN 426
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, course notes, lecture notes, manuscripts, articles, photographs, and audio tapes relating to Little's college education at Wheaton College Graduate School, and his work as an evangelist, teacher, writer, and Evangelical leader.Included are Little's seminary lecture notes, and files on his contribution as assistant director of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Switzerland. A substantial portion of the collection consists...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1987; Created: Majority of material found in 1954-1975
Collection 432 Papers of Vernon C. Watford
Collection
Identifier: CN 432
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of an oral history interview with Vernon C. Watford and a video tape titled "Triple C Bible Camp." The video depicts activities at the Triple C Bible Camp, such as Bible study groups, singing, swimming, games, and campfires, with comments about the camp by supporters, workers, attendees, and parents. This camp was founded by the Watford and his wife. The oral history interiew includes information on Watford's family, childhood, conversion, education at Washington...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 464 Oral History Interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn
Collection
Identifier: CN 464
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn in which she describes her family background; her conversion to Christianity; her medical training as a nurse; life at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1940s; China Inland Mission at about the same time; her call to foreign missions; her work at the CIM retirement home in Toronto; descriptions of John and Isobel Kuhn; work among the Lisu people in Thailand and Burma; translation of the Bible into the Lisu language; contacts with a former...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1994
Collection 467 Oral History Interview with Doris Schneider
Collection
Identifier: CN 467
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Doris Gould Schneider (1922-2009) in which she describes her family background; conversion to Christianity; preaching of John R. Rice; education at Moody Bible Institute; marriage; missionary work in Morocco; the role of women in Muslim society; raising children on the mission field; overthrow of the French protectorate; the family's move to Spain; cultural difference between Arabs and Berbers; public health in Morocco; return to the United States in 1982; views...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Collection 470 Oral History Interview with Sadie Custer
Collection
Identifier: CN 470
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sadie Custer (1911-2007) in which she discusses her childhood, conversion, education at Moody Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, arrival in China in 1936, the Chinese language, work in Shensi province, Bible teaching, transition from missionary to Chinese leadership, the Three Self Movement, the Communist revolution in China and its effect on missions, the Sino-Japanese Conflict, work in Malaysia among Chinese, living in an area in Malaysia...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Collection 477 Papers of Stanley R. Kline
Collection
Identifier: CN 477
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stanley R. Kline and extensive photo albums, relating to Kline’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1940 to 1977. Topics covered in interview include: his family background in Philadelphia, conversion, Percy Crawford's influence, evangelism in Philadelphia, rescue mission work, call to missions, his wife Carmel Anthony, his evangelism and educational work in the Congo between 1940 and...
Dates:
Created: 1930-1999
Collection 529 Papers of Donald E. White
Collection
Identifier: CN 529
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one folder containing reports, correspondence, and newsletters. Materials describe White’s family background, conversion, education at Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College, marriage, activities as an Army chaplain's assistant in Germany, and missionary work in Austria for Greater Europe Mission.Donald E. White was interviewed by Robert Shuster on January 29, 1996, at the Archives of the Billy Graham Center. The events described in the interview...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Collection 562 Papers of Roger and Mary Howes
Collection
Identifier: CN 562
Scope and Contents
Address books, articles, autograph books, birthday book, correspondence, diaries, documents, journals, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, photographs, prayer letters, scrapbooks, sermon notes, songbooks, and testimony which document the Howes' work as China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries in China from 1925 through 1945, and their work at CIM (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship) office in Chicago and Headquarters in Philadelphia before they retired in 1965. Their correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1993
Collection 573 Records of Detroit's Afro-American Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 573
Scope and Contents
Minutes, budgets, proposals, pamphlets, reports, video cassettes, and other material showing the origins of Detroit's Afro-American Mission, Inc., and its activities including Bible clubs for children and adults, special ministries to singles, vacation Bible schools and camps, and the Institute for Biblical Research.
Dates:
Created: 1964-1994
Collection 651 Oral History Interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne
Collection
Identifier: CN 651
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne in which she describes her experiences working in community development, education, evangelism, and medical missions among the Quechua people in Bolivia with SIM International for over 20 years, beginning in 1989. Topics discussed include her family background and spiritual development; education at Wheaton College; impressions of various mission agencies; including SIM, Medical Assistance Program (MAP), and the Moravians; challenges of...
Dates:
2009-2010
Collection 678 Oral History Interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox
Collection
Identifier: CN 678
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox (1921-2019), missionary in China from 1947-1951 and Northern Thailand 1953-1973 with China Inland Mission (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Topics discussed include Cox's childhood experiences and early faith in the Church of the Brethren; call to missionary work; education at Columbia Bible College and Wheaton College; teaching Bible in Virginia public schools; attending Missionary Medical Institute and Wycliffe’s Summer Institute of...
Dates:
2014
Collection 681 Oral History Interview with Mertis Byram Heimbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 681
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mertis Byram Heimbach (1921- ) missionary in China, Thailand, Singapore and U.S. with China Inland Mission (CIM) and (as it was later known) Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) from 1946 to 1999. Topics discussed include childhood in Korea; parents’ mission work; Wheaton College and Prairie Bible Institute; marriage to Ernest Heimbach; Hmong (Miao) people; tribal mission work; Communist takeover of China; Communist treatment of Christians; CIM’s exit from China;...
Dates:
2014
Collection 702 Ephemera of E. J. Pace
Collection
Identifier: CN 702
Scope and Contents
Copies of hundreds of E. J. Pace's cartoons, which applied a Protestant Fundamentalist theology to living the Christian life, the nature of God, and moral issues in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The collection consists mainly of lantern slides meant to be used in conjunction with prepared sermons, but there are also tracts and cartoons.Arrangement: The paper records are arranged alphabetically by folder title; the...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1961
Collection 727 Papers of the Vereide Family
Collection
Identifier: CN 727
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Vereide family relating to the work of International Christian Leadership (ICL, later known as the Fellowship Foundation), mainly the efforts of Abraham Vereide and his daughter Alicia Davison. The collection reflects the activities ICL and its associated group International Council for Christian Leadership (ICCL) in fostering prayer groups, leadership seminars, and informal contacts involving government officials, business people, and civic leaders to promote spiritual unity...
Dates:
1945-2014, undated; Majority of material found in 1953-1985
David H. Adeney Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Scope and Contents
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
Elizabeth M. Evans papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 4
Identifier: 1993-085
Dates:
1895-1973
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 12
Identifier: 2021-047
Dates:
1946-2016
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Jane McNally papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2020-006
Dates:
1945-2003
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Oswald Chambers Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-122
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection came from David McCasland, who is the author of Abandoned to God, a biography of Oswald Chambers. Best known as the author of My Utmost for His Highest, the Reverend Oswald Chambers was an evangelist throughout the United Kingdom, America and Japan. In 1915 he traveled to Egypt to work with the YMCA in Zeitoun ministering to soldiers there. It was here that he suffered from an attack of appendicitis that ultimately took his life. It is to his wife Biddy Chambers...
Dates:
Created: 1886-2017; Other: Date acquired: 2002
Radio Bible Class records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 2
Identifier: 1985-144
Dates:
1954-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Youth for Christ Records.
Collection
Identifier: CN 048
Scope and Contents
Minutes, constitution and by-laws, clippings, newsletters, manuals, pamphlets, directories, press releases, audio tapes, videotapes, photographs, posters, club yearbooks, correspondence, etc., about the founding, development and growth, and activities of Youth for Christ in the USA and internationally.Collection documents organizational policies, correspondence of the organization's presidents, conventions and Bible quiz competitions, the operation of Campus Life clubs, Youth...
Dates:
Created: 1944-ongoing; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-ongoing