Evangelistic work -- Congresses
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
AD2000 Prayer Track records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 6
Identifier: 2002-033
Dates:
1984-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
AD2000 records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 26
Identifier: 2001-015
Dates:
1993-2000
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Amsterdam '86 video tape.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2004-006
Dates:
1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Assorted religious messages and broadcasts.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1988-012
Dates:
1972-1979
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
C. Peter Wagner papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1990-050
Dates:
1977
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
C. Peter Wagner papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1990-043
Dates:
1982-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Christianity Today 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, 1954-2002
Collection 006 Papers of John C. Pollack
Collection
Identifier: CN 006
Scope and Contents
This collection contains drafts of John Pollock’s 1966 and 2004/2005 biographies of Billy Graham. The 1966 version was originally published as Billy Graham: The Authorized Biography. This book was reprinted in revised and expanded edition in 1969, with the title Crusades: Twenty Years with Billy Graham. It brought the story of Graham’s life up to 1969. Im 1979, Pollock published another biography of Graham entitled ...
Dates:
Created: 1973-2005
Collection 020 Papers of Herbert J. Taylor
Collection
Identifier: CN 020
Brief Description
Correspondence, photographs, reports, publications, posters, minutes of meetings, and other documentation of Herbert J. Taylor's long involvement in the leadership of such organizations as Child Evangelism, Youth for Christ, Christian Service Brigade, Pioneer Girls, Young Life, National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, Christian Workers Foundation, and Inter-Varsity as well as his role in the planning and development of Billy Graham's Chicago crusades and of Key '73. Other...
Dates:
Created: Ca. 1916-1979
Collection 021 Records of the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission
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
Collection 037 Christians for Social Action
Collection
Identifier: CN 037
Scope and Contents
Collection correspondence, press releases and clippings, lists, minutes, reports, proposals, conference declaration, and financial records, chiefly from workshops sponsored by the Christians for Social Action, 1973-1976 (formerly Evangelicals for Social Action). The records in this collection deal mostly with the origins, agendas, and decisions of the 1973-1976 workshops along with some material which indicate the response to the workshop.
Dates:
Created: 1965-1976
Collection 096 Oral History Interview with Wayne G. Bragg
Collection
Identifier: CN 096-096
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne G. Bragg (1931-2009), in which he describes his missionary experiences in Brazil and the Caribbean working with university students, his student days at Wheaton College, and his experience at Wheaton College as a faculty member. Dr. Bragg was interviewed by Mary Ann Buffington at Wheaton College on February 15 and May 9, 1980.
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 111 Papers of Charles H. Troutman, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 111
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuals, and other records documenting Charles Troutman's career in Christian ministry among university students, first with Inter-Varsity in the United States and Australia and then with Latin America Mission. This collection also contains a great deal of information on evangelical Christianity in the United States, Australia and Latin America; Troutman's letters from his service in the Pacific in World War II; and reports and other information relative to...
Dates:
Created: 1924-1992
Collection 172 Records of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly
Collection
Identifier: CN 172
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, news releases, minutes of meetings, and other materials which describe the origins, planning, purpose, and results of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly (PACLA) meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya in December 1976, a gathering for evangelical African church leaders and missionaries in Nairobi, which grew out of of an informal meeting of African leaders at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization held at Lausanne, Switzerland. The bulk of this...
Dates:
Created: 1975-1978
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 192 Papers of Harold Lindsell
Collection
Identifier: CN 192
Scope and Contents
Collection contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, manuscripts, and other materials documenting the career and life of Harold Lindsell as a theologian, author, speaker and editor, dating primarily from his becoming Associate Editor of Christianity Today magazine in 1964. Collection contents contain considerable information on Christianity Today, Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Westmont College, the Simon Greenleaf School of Law, and Lindsell's research on the...
Dates:
1938-1994
Collection 313 Papers of Robert C. Van Kampen
Collection
Identifier: CN 313
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, clippings, etc., related to Van Kampen's responsibilities on the Board of Directors of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as well as various board committees, the boards of BGEA subsidiaries or affiliated institutions (Billy Graham Benevolent Fund, Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Ministry, Inc., Billy Graham Evangelistic Trust, Billy Graham Foundation, Grason Company, World Evangelism and Christian Education Fund,...
Dates:
Created: 1944-1982
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 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
Collection 343 Papers of Samuel F. Wolgemuth
Collection
Identifier: CN 343
Scope and Contents
Administrative correspondence, reports, minutes, memos, newsletters, publications, promotional material, photographs, and slides documenting Samuel F. Wolgemuth's term (1965-1973) as president for Youth for Christ. The correspondence with YFC staff, individuals, and representatives of other Christian organizations, predominates. Materials document contact with major YFC donors, administration of YFC at various executive levels, fund raising, communication, and promotion. Prominent people...
Dates:
Created: 1962-1981
Collection 358 Papers of Charles P. Wagner
Collection
Identifier: CN 358
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, promotional materials, news releases, clippings, article and address manuscripts, photographs and negatives. The materials document Wagner's activities as a member of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and its Executive Committee; as chairperson of its Strategy Working Group; as co-editor of the annual books, UNREACHED PEOPLES '79, '80, and '81; as a missionary educator and theologian in South America; and his appointment to Fuller...
Dates:
Created: 1965-1987
Collection 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla
Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 413 Oral History Interview with Matthew Parker
Collection
Identifier: CN 413
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Matthew Parker in which he describes his childhood, family, education, conversion, study at Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music and work/study at Wheaton College, ministry with Campus Crusade in its sports ministry and with Overseas Crusades sports evangelism ministry (Venture for Victory w/ Bud Schaeffer), the 1984 and 1986 National Summits on Black Church Development, the Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America, the Afro-American community, white...
Dates:
Created: 1989
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
Collection 419 Oral History Interviews with Crawford W. Loritts, Jr.
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
Collection 421 Oral History Interviews with Arthur F. Glasser
Collection
Identifier: CN 421
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1998
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 498 Oral History Interviews with William E. Pannell
Collection
Identifier: CN 498
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with William E. Pannell in which he describes his childhood in Michigan, his family, conversion as a teenager, his growing awareness of racism in America and especially its influence on American Christianity, education at Fort Wayne Bible College, involvement with the Brethren Assemblies, the part preaching has played in his life, the divide between urban and suburban culture and its impact on black and white churches and institutions, his work with Youth for Christ,...
Dates:
Created: 1995-2007
Collection 548 Records of the Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America
Collection
Identifier: CN 548
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, promotional materials, audio and videotapes, participant lists, schedules, financial records, evaluations, clippings of media coverage, etc., documenting the 1988 event. The records document not only the planning for the Congress and actual proceedings, but also the network of Black Christian leaders working together to address the spiritual and social needs of their churches and communities, and the role of the Black church in evangelism and missions....
Dates:
Created: 1986-1989
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 565 Ephemera of J. Elwin Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 565
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photo albums, photographs, films, reports, clippings, minutes, slides and other materials relating to J. Elwin Wright's activities as leader of the New England Fellowship and a founder and leader of the National Association of Evangelicals and the World Evangelical Fellowship.The bulk of the collection documents several overseas trips Wright took for the NAE and WEF between 1945 and 1955.
Dates:
Created: 1897-1986
Collection 577 Papers of Vergil Gerber
Collection
Identifier: CN 577
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, manuals, newsletters, reports and other materials relating to the life and ministry of Vergil Gerber, a Conservative Baptist minister and missionary to Central and South America. The collection documents Gerber's work as a teacher, writer, and leader in church growth studies and Evangelical global missions, especially in Latin America.
Dates:
Created: 1966-1984
Collection 579 Records of the Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism
Collection
Identifier: CN 579
Scope and Contents
Audio and paper copies of speeches, and newspaper coverage of the Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism, which was a regional meeting following up on the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism, sponsored by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Dates:
Created: 1968
Collection 584 Papers of Thomas F. Zimmerman
Collection
Identifier: CN 584
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes, phonograph records, photographs, correspondence, minutes, reports, clippings, speeches, and other materials related toThomas F. Zimmerman's leadership in a number of conservative American Protestant organizations and evangelistic efforts. The bulk of the collection relates to his involvement in the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization both internationally and in the United States, but there is also information on his work with the 1985 American Festival of Evangelism...
Dates:
Created: 1955-1990
Collection 595 Records of Congress '88
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
Collection 597 Papers of Clyde W. Taylor
Collection
Identifier: CN 597
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, lists and other materials mainly relating to a series of Protestant Evangelical international evangelism congresses which Clyde Taylor helped plan and organize between 1966 and 1974. There is also some material about his leadership in the World Evangelical Fellowship.
Dates:
Created: 1950-1980
Collection 614 Records of the Trinary Consultation
Collection
Identifier: CN 614
Scope and Contents
Papers, recordings of meeting sessions, planning materials and other documents from the Trinary Consultation, which examined how Christians in the late twentieth century should present the Christian gospel in large urban settings. The meeting was co-sponsored by Moody Bible Institute, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Wheaton College.
Dates:
Created: 1985-1986
Collection 645 Papers of C.B. Hogue
Collection
Identifier: CN 645
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, financial records, lists, memos, minutes, notebooks, promotional materials, press releases, and reports which document the planning and convening of the 1981 American Festival of Evangelism. The materials are the administrative files of C.B. Hogue, the vice chairman.
Dates:
Created: 1978-1981
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
David M. Howard, Sr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 484
Scope and Contents
Four oral history interviews, paper records, and photographs documenting David Howard's life and work with Latin American Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and World Evangelical Fellowship. Topics covered in the interviews include Howard's childhood, Christian faith, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary and administrator with Latin America Mission; missions director for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization; and...
Dates:
Created: 1968-1993
Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies Records
Collection
Identifier: CN-165
Brief Description
Executive Directors' (Clyde Taylor, Wade Coggins, Paul McKaughan) files of the EFMA. The association of denominational and nondenominational foreign missions boards began as a commission of the National Association of Evangelicals to serve common interests of members in government relations (domestic and foreign); use of communication channels; cooperative purchasing/travel; and relations between each other. The collection is subdivided into thirteen parts: 1. Correspondence and General...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1996
Gospel Tract Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-222
Dates:
Other: -
Found in:
Special Collections
/
Gospel Tract Collection
Hudson T. Armerding miscellaneous files.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1, loose: 2
Identifier: 1981-080
Dates:
1942-1979
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 352
Brief Description
Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions. The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Also includes series of maps of Latin American countries identifying nondenominational and denominational mission activity. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented. Persons prominently featured include Jack Frizen, Billy Graham, and...
Dates:
Created: 1934-1983, undated
International Christian Broadcasters Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 086
Brief Description
The collection contains correspondence, audiotapes, photographs, financial reports, slides, blueprints, and memos related to the activities of International Christian Broadcasting's (originally the World Conference on Mission Radio) work to promote interest in Christian broadcasting and to support and encourage Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasters, largely engaged in evangelism. Materials include data on the International Communications Congress in Tokyo (1970), Muslim...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1978; Other: Majority of material found within 1954-1978
Latin America Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 236
Brief Description
Records of the mission, including correspondence, minutes, reports, memos, financial reports, policy statements, planning documents, promotional material, photographs, etc. Documents describe the origins of LAM (particularly the contribution of the Strachan family); evangelistic, church planting, educational, medical, and literature activities (primarily in Colombia and Costa Rica, but also many other Latin American countries and the United States); the restructuring of the mission in the...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1994
Lausanne Movement Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 046
Brief Description
Correspondence, minutes, memos, reports, manuscripts of speeches, press releases, newsletters, staff manuals, audio and video tapes of sponsored events, photographs of events and personnel, and other administrative materials of the Lausanne Movement, originally called the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. The Committee grew out of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization. Its basic doctrinal statement was the Lausanne Covenant and it had the mission Ato encourage...
Dates:
Created: 1949, 1969-2014
Leighton Ford papers.
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1998-054
Dates:
1952-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
National Convocation on Evangelizing Ethnic America records.
Unprocessed Material — Box 2
Identifier: 1986-005
Dates:
1981-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
OC International Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 222
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, minutes, manuscripts, handbooks, directories, photographs, etc., relating to the mission's work of evangelism, church planting and development of national leadership in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America since its origin in 1950 and official founding in 1951. Documents describe the founding and expansion of the mission, administrations of Dick Hillis (first president from 1951-1976, but also including files dating back to 1933 on his years as a missionary in...
Dates:
Created: 1933-1998