Wheaton '83 (1983 : Billy Graham Center, Wheaton, Ill.)
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 046 Records of the Lausanne Movement
Collection 165 Records of Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies
Collection 274 Records of Prison Fellowship Ministries
Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson
Collection 338 Records of the World Evangelical Fellowship
Correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, audio tapes, photographs.
Topics documented included the formation of the WEF; the gradual growth of influence by non-Western associations; the activities of Evangelical Protestants in many different parts of the world; the leadership of J. Elwin Wright, Clyde Taylor, Waldron Scott, and David Howard, among others. Many of the twenty-eight audiotapes are of addresses presented at the Eighth General Assembly in Singapore in 1986.
Collection 352 Records of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA)
Collection 584 Papers of Thomas F. Zimmerman
Collection 598 Records of Wheaton '83 Conference
Correspondence, papers, case studies, minutes, participant evaluations, and other documents relating to the planning, holding and follow-up of Wheaton '83, an international, evangelical conference exploring the nature and mission of the global church. The meeting was sponsored by the World Evangelical Fellowship and other organizations. It consisted of three simultaneous consultations which dealt with the local church, evangelism across frontiers, and Christian response to human need.