Collection
236
[July 1, 2021]
Latin
America Mission; 1921-2014
Records;
1903-2007
Boxes
(146 DC; 58.616 cubic feet), Microfilm, Oversize Material, Photographs
Restrictions
Microfilm
may only be used at the Archives and is not available for use by interlibrary
loan.
Microfilm reels 16, 43,
44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49 may not be used by researchers until January 1, 2023
without the written permission of the President of United World Mission.
Requests for permission should be directed to: Rilla Springsted, Executive Assistant
to the President at rillas@go28.org. Please contact the Reading Room staff for
a copy of the permission form.
Brief
Description: Records of the mission, including correspondence, minutes,
reports, memos, financial reports, policy statements, planning documents, promotional
material, photographs, etc. Documents describe the LAM’s origins (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 1970s through the 1990s; and the development of Protestant
churches and institutions in Latin America.
Historical
Background
Founded |
LAM was founded as the Latin America Evangelization Crusade in Costa Rica in 1921 by Rev. Harry and Susan Beamish Strachan, who had been working as missionaries with Regions Beyond Missionary Society in the Argentinean pampas. Latin America Mission became the official name of the mission in 1938. |
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Headquarters location |
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1921-1977 |
LAM's first headquarters was located San Jose, Costa Rica, and later added a field office in Cartagena, Colombia in 1937. Its United States headquarters was located in New Jersey (Ridgefield and then Bogota), and transferred to Coral Gables, Florida in 1977. In 1987, the mission again moved to Miami. The mission also maintained offices in London and Toronto. |
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1977-1987 |
U.S. headquarters in Coral Gables, Florida |
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1987- |
U.S. headquarters in Miami, Florida |
Ministry emphasis |
Latin America Mission (LAM) was an interdenominational mission agency, engaged in church planting, evangelism, camping, child care, Christian education and theological training (in both formal and off-site programs), literature production, medical care, agricultural and community development, and providing services to other organizations. |
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Geographical emphasis |
As of 2007, LAM worked in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, and Venezuela; however, about two thirds of its personnel worked in Costa Rica, Mexico and Columbia. |
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Other significant information |
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The mission expanded its work into Colombia in 1937. Key institutions which emerged in that country included the Association of Evangelical Churches of the Caribbean (the association of LAM churches), the Evangelical Missions Officers Council (EMOC), and CEDEC or Evangelical Confederation of Colombia, which largely replaced EMOC in 1950. EMOC/CEDEC was dedicated to coordinating efforts and minimizing overlap and competition among mission agencies in the Colombia; the group also formed to address in a unified way the persecution of Protestants. While LAM concentrated its efforts in Costa Rica and Colombia, it established work in other Latin American countries, some brief descriptions of which follow. The autonomous Mision Latinoamericana de Mexico (MILAMEX), was founded in 1970 to carry on and expand the ministries of radio, evangelism, camp and publications in Mexico. Juan Isais was appointed as its first director. "Spearhead" was the project name for a program which began as an idea in 1970 to involve Christian university students from the United States in evangelism in Latin America and expose them to mission opportunities. Launched in 1972, "Spearhead" developed at a time when other mission agencies were also implementing short term mission programs for young people. Work started in
Panama in 1954 with the incorporation of the mission and opening of
its bookstore. LAM also operated radio station HOXO jointly with World
Radio Missionary Fellowship. In 1958, the "Panama Confab" was held,
an informal gathering of LAM leaders to develop an overall picture of
ministry in Panama and formulate how LAM could most effectively allocate
its resources and cooperate with other agencies and denominations also
at work there. Administration.
The US Home Council, later called the Board of Trustees, was a "self-perpetuating
body" made up of selected representatives of the Christian public, and
representatives of the executive leadership of the Mission.... The Board
of Trustees ordinarily meets monthly to handle legal and business matters
of the mission, determine financial policy, receive and delegate contributions,
examine and accept missionary candidates and oversee the activities
of the Mission." (Principles and Government of the Latin America Mission,
1965 edition, folder 65-1,2) The Board worked in conjunction with the
General Director and the Inter-Field Conference. The General Director
was the chief executive of the mission and was a member of all official
mission bodies. He was responsible for the over-all direction of LAM's
work and was appointed by the Board of Trustees. The mission was incorporated in a number of countries beside the United States, includingCanada in 1961. Formal divisions of LAM included: Evangelism, Communications, Literature, and StudentEvangelism. The mission was administratively restructured in 1971 with the formation of theComunidad Latinoamericana de Ministerios Evangelicos (translated Community of LatinAmerican Evangelical Ministries, CLAME). CLAME became the umbrella organization, ofwhich various LAM divisions became autonomous members, along with the US branch of themission. In addition to decentralizing the mission, the major consequence of this restructuringwas the redistribution of authority into predominantly Latin American rather than expatriatemissionaries' hands. The United States division of the mission therefore became an equalmember along with the other divisions in CLAME. The organization was governed by an annualassembly of its members, an executive committee and a full-time general secretary (three-yearterms). CLAME's first general secretary was W. Dayton Roberts, who was followed byNicaraguan missionary, Rafael Baltodano Z. and Paul E. Pretiz. Horace Fenton, who had beenLAM's general director at the time it restructured, continued as the director of LAM-USA until1977. At that time, developments in CLAME led to further restructuring of LAM-USA, andClayton L. "Mike" Berg, Jr. became it's president for a three-year term.CLAME was dissolved in 1986, with each of the member divisions becoming autonomous. LAM-USA continued its own operations as well as seconding staff to other former-CLAMEmembers. Publications. The mission produced its bi-monthly magazine Latin America Evangelist,beginning in 1921, to report on LAM's work and developments in Latin America. Public relations. The mission developed a variety of means to develop and maintain interestand support of its work among American evangelicals. Until 1960, the department had operatedunder the name Stewardship Office; beginning in 1960, that was replaced by the Office ofInformation and Public Relations. The mission used various means to make itself more widelyknown, including Latin America Evangelist, films and filmstrips, brochures, books and articles,missions conferences at churches, and an annual conference of its own. It also solicited supportfrom foundations. The division also coordinated dissemination of information within theorganization, illustrated by a number of internal publications including LAMECOS (Home OfficeMonthly Bulletin), The Costa Rica Field Reporter, Entre Nos (Spanish "weekly publication forthe family of Latin America Mission"), Lowdown ("From Down In Lower Florida"), ConfidentialMemo ("To the LAM Family), and Memo From Dit (Fenton). Latin America Reporter was aradio program developed to be aired by evangelical radio stations in order to increase listeners'awareness of Latin America, missionary events (not limited to LAM) there, and of the mission'sactivity. "Operation Outreach" was a tour of LAM fields (Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala,Peru and Venezuela) by supporters. LAM conducted the tours in 1962, 1965, 1967 and 1968; a1970 tour was planned and then canceled. The 50th anniversary tour in 1972 was an extension ofthis series of tours. Association memberships. LAM was a member of both Interdenominational Foreign MissionAssociation (IFMA) and Evangelical Foreign Missions Association (EFMA). LAM withdrewfrom IFMA in 1978, while continuing its membership in EFMA. Evangelism. From the mission's inception, evangelism was its primary emphasis. Prior toWorld War II, Harry Strachan carried out citywide crusades throughout the Spanish-speakingworld, which served to strengthen the underdeveloped Protestant church in predominantlyRoman Catholic countries. Strachan's son, R. Kenneth, revived these campaigns between 1949and 1958, climaxed by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Caribbean Crusade in 1958. Under R. Kenneth Strachan's leadership, LAM initiated a program in 1959 which transferred thefocus of evangelism from presenting a single professional evangelist to country-widecongregation-based lay evangelism called "Evangelism-in-Depth (E/D)," which continued on abroad scale until 1971. E/D programs operated in fourteen Latin American countries; after 1971the program continued in Mexico. The program, usually carried out over the course of a year,included organized prayer, training for the lay Christians, preparation of counselors, follow-up ofnew Christians, widespread publicity, door-to-door visitation, local and regional evangelisticcampaigns, regional and national parades, radio and television programs, and widespread tractand Bible distribution. A key feature of the program was its intent to "mobilize the entireevangelical community." With the development and experience of E/D in Latin America, LAM developed the Office ofWorldwide Evangelism-in-Depth (OWED) in 1967 to promote the program's use throughout theworld and coordinate projects outside of Latin America. With the formation of the Communityof Latin American Evangelical Missions (CLAME) in 1971, LAM's tradition of evangelism wascontinued by CLAME member, International Institute of In-Depth Evangelization (INDEPTH). Theological education. LAM expanded its initial focus on evangelism when in 1923 SusanStrachan began training women leaders in her home in a program called the Women's BibleTraining School. In 1924, ten Nicaraguan male students joined the student body and the schoolwas renamed the Bible Institute of Costa Rica. In 1941, the school was again renamed the LatinAmerican Biblical Seminary or Seminario Biblico Latinoamericano. (Publications of theSeminary include Vinculos, aimed at the Seminary's alumni; ID, produced by the school'sCommittee of Missionary Activity; Discipulo, a short-lived seminary publication; and ECOS, a1- or 2-page newsletter for students consisting largely of announcements.) Beginning in the mid-1970s, following the establishment of CLAME and Seminary's independence, criticism of theschool developed because of allegations that it had conceded ground to liberation theology; manyconservative churches consequently withdrew their financial support. In 1979 LAM withdrew itspublic endorsement of the seminary, although it continued to sponsor some of its missionaries onthe staff.By 1966 the school had grown to include fifty-nine students representing twenty-threeevangelical organizations. The Caribbean Bible Center was developed in Sincelejo, Colombia in1953, to provide additional theological training for lay people, as well as providing a facility forChristian camping and conferences. The Center was founded as a memorial to Dr. Robert C.McQuilkin, founder of Columbia Bible College, who was consulted during the development ofthe Center. A Bible education correspondence course was initially based in LAM'sCommunication Division and transferred to the Center in 1967. An extension education programwas also developed by the Center in 1967. Social concern. LAM from the beginning addressed social needs as part of its ministry. TheClinica Biblica (Bible Hospital) was established in San Jose 1929 and a Costa Rican orphanage,the Hogar Biblico (Bible Home) in 1932 (See the section on Orphanage, Farm and Camp(Hogar Biblico & Roblealto). Clinic Biblica continued under LAM administration until 1968,when operation was transferred to an independent board and staff, Servicios Medicos. Two otherministries developed in Colombia were United Action (1971, a relief-rehabilitation developmentprogram for rural communities) and the Association for Christian Care for Colombian Children(1972). LAM cooperated with the Christian Action Committee in Costa Rica, an ecumenicaleffort in social action. Among the projects of the Committee in which LAM directly participatedwere the Good Will Caravans and the Bible Home at the Roblealto site. The Good WillCaravans was part of the Evangelical Alliance of Costa Rica's Rural Work Committee (Comitede Obra Rural), designed as a mobile project to bring medical care, education and evangelisticoutreach to communities outside government service areas at the invitation of a local church. Education. LAM's emphasis on education was expressed not only through ministerial trainingand theological correspondence courses, but also primary and secondary level education. Asecondary school for girls was opened in 1948, and for boys in 1955 in Cartagena, Colombia;these were merged in 1970 to form the Colegio Latinoamericano. The environment ofpersecution of Protestants, particularly in Colombia, contributed to the motivation for themission to provide a high school education which did not discriminate against the children ofevangelicals. Colegio Monterrey in suburban San Jose was founded in 1956 by Costa RicanChristians in cooperation with LAM and also sponsored by the Association of Bible Churches ofCosta Rica, the Templo Biblico, and the Association of Parents, Teachers and Friends. Kindergarten and primary programs were opened in 1957, followed by a first year secondaryprogram in 1958. The medium of instruction for the school was Spanish. Albert C. Grimm, aLAM missionary, was its principal from 1959 to 1966, when administration of the school wasturned over to national leadership. The mission established the Training Division in 1958, including under its administration theSeminary and Correspondence Course. The emphasis of the unit was on providing for welltrained leadership for the evangelical church in Latin America. In 1965 the Training Divisionwas reformed as the Education Division to provide oversight for all educational work of themission. The Divisions' directors were Wilton Nelson (1958-1966) and Clayton L. Berg, Jr.(1966- ).Church planting. The mission planted its first church in 1929. Its church planting work inCosta Rica led to the founding in 1945 of Asociacion de Iglesias Biblicas Costarricences(Association of Costa Rican Bible Churches), which in 1967 consisted of nineteen churches. Those congregations which developed from LAM's work formed the autonomous association. Most ministries of LAM were conducted in partnership of AIEC. An example of this was ashort-term training program for local pastors which the Association sponsored. Youth ministry. LAM's work among young people was carried out among grammar and highschool boys in Costa Rica and university students. Escuadron de Servicio Christiano (CostaRican equivalent of Christian Service Brigade in the U.S., a church-based club program for boys)was established in 1947, followed by Camp Roblealto in 1948. The division, a part of LAM'sYouth Department, was made independent under a national council in 1955 and fullynationalized in 1958. Joseph Coughlin, former LAM missionary and founder of ChristianService Brigade, was its first director. By 1963, Jorge Alfaro had assumed leadership ofEscuadron. Once autonomous, LAM carried some Escuadron staff on its payroll and the missionnamed two members to the Escuadron National Council. The mission began a process ofevaluation of its relationship to Escuadron in 1963 which continued through 1970. University outreach. Work among university students, modeled on Inter-Varsity ChristianFellowship's ministry in the US, began in the 1940's, with input from Inter-Varsity and later fromInternational Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). Work was initially carried out by theAssociation of Christian Students (AUC) and the local International Fellowship of EvangelicalStudents (ACEE). Prior to 1966, ministry among university students was combined with that ofteenagers and children in LAM's Youth Department, led by Joseph Coughlin. Coughlin served asthe director of the Youth Department until mid-1953, when he was replaced by Lester Burton. In1966, LAM held several consultations to plan the upgrading of its ministry among universitystudents, calling the program MINAMUNDO, the acronym being derived from Ministerio alMundo Estudiantil (Ministry to the Student World). MINAMUNDO, like some other studentministries around the world, included work among high school students. Orphanage, Farm and Camp (Hogar Biblico & Roblealto). Hogar Biblico (LAM'sorphanage, translated Bible Home), was opened in 1932 on a 200-acre piece of propertypurchased in 1930. The mission also started a dairy farm there in 1932, which was intended toboth supply milk to the orphanage and nearby clinic, and to defray the facility's operatingexpenses. The farm later added coffee, sugar cane, and poultry (1964) to its income generatingenterprises. Coffee production was discontinued in 1969. In February 1948, Campamento Roblealto (translated Camp Tall Oak) was opened for a two-week camp in the Costa Rican mountains outside San Jose. Camps were held there for grammarschool, high school and university students, as well as occasional English camps for children ofmissionaries and others. The camp was also the site of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship's (US)summer Overseas Training Camp (OTC) in 1969 and 1970. In 1962, a Provisional Board of Directors was established for the orphanage, whose oversightcovered the orphanage and farm. In 1966, the administration of the camp was formally broughttogether with the orphanage and farm under the title "Roblealto." In 1968, administration of thecamp was moved from the Roblealto division to that of the Minamundo division. Also in 1968,the Provisional Council was replaced by the a more permanent governing body, the AsociacionEvangelica Pro-Bienestar del Nino (translated the Evangelical Association for the Benefit ofChildren). Literature. LAM's literature division, Editorial Caribe, was organized in San Jose in 1949,when the mission took over the Spanish-language publication program and inventory of theAmerican Tract Society. A grant from Moody Press and Moody Literature Mission facilitatedthis process. The work included publishing Bible study resources in Spanish, Sunday schoolmaterials (Luz del Evangelio: Spanish adaptation of the complete Gospel Light Sunday schoolcurriculum begun in 1945) and operating book stores in four countries. The division opened itsfirst bookstore in San Jose in 1949; another was opened in Panama in 1955; a third was openedin the Spanish-speaking area of New York City; and a fourth was opened in 1961 in the CostaRican port of Limon; a subdivision was also established in Mexico, but rather than incorporatingan independent shop, a distribution system through existing bookstores was implemented. Editorial Caribe was an active member of San Jose-based LEAL (Literatura Evangelica paraAmerica Latina, translated Evangelical Literature for Latin America), the cooperativecoordinating agency for the production and distribution of Christian literature in Spanish, whoseintent was "not to publish books itself, but rather to help member organizations by a thoroughprogram of coordination and planning." LEAL began in early 1945 at a preliminary conferencecalled by Evangelical Literature Overseas in 1955; in 1956, it held a constitutional convention inPlacetas, Cuba, to formalize its existence. Reorganization of LEAL was considered at severaltimes, including being merged into Difusiones Inter-Americanas (DIA, translated Inter-AmericanCommunications; DIA means day in Spanish; see following section under radio). Discussionsabout restructuring (including issues of indigenous vs. missionary control and financing) wereintensified in the late-1960's and in 1970. In view of financial viability and ongoing usefulness,LEAL was scaled back and its operations were moved to Argentina in 1970. VERBO (translated "the Word") was a magazine proposed and accepted at LEAL's constitutionalconvention to be a Spanish evangelical monthly. Initially called VIDA (translated "life"), thetitle was altered to avoid problems with LIFE Magazine. Headquarters were established inBuenos Aires, with Alec Clifford, Paul Sheetz and Jose Bongarra serving as administrative stafffor the magazine. Organizational sponsorship for the magazine did not solidify until 1957, whenLAM and Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society (CBFMS) assumed co-sponsorship ofthe magazine. Due to inability to develop popular acceptance and continued fiscal shortages,publication of the magazine was suspended in late-1958. LAM withdrew its sponsorship, whileCBFMS took full control of the magazine, moved its headquarters to Mexico City under VergilGerber's leadership, where it resumed publication in 1962. At the time preparations were beingmade to revive VERBO, inquiries were made by Charles Ward of the Billy Graham EvangelisticAssociation about the feasibility of launching a Spanish version of DECISION Magazine; thatproject was launched and in 1964 but discontinued by the end of the year.Editorial Caribe moved from San Jose in 1969 to Miami, where it became the Latin AmericaMission Publications (LAMP). In 1968, Editorial Caribe requested the evaluation services fromChristian Service Fellowship. The most critical issue addressed was Editorial Caribe's financialindebtedness for the Luz del Evangelio program. The division's relationship with Gospel Lightconsequently changed in the late 1960's. Another consequence of the evaluation was the sellingof the division's printing shop. Radio. The Radio-Literature Division was established in 1956, and was then divided intoseparate divisions in 1958. In 1965 the division was expanded to become the CommunicationsDivision, integrating various non-radio communications into one unit. W. Dayton Roberts wasthe division's first director. Paul Pretiz followed Roberts as the division's director in the mid-1960's. A separate Communications Department was also established on the Colombia field in1964, integrating film, radio, literature and correspondence functions. LAM's central and first involvement in radio broadcasting was in establishing station TIFC (ElFar del Caribe or "Lighthouse of the Caribbean") in San Jose. In 1945 LAM bought facilities onwhich to develop the radio station, which it did in 1948. TIFC was the second Christian stationto broadcast on radio in Latin America (the first being HCJB in Quito, Ecuador). HOXO, acommercial station which aired some religious programming, was purchased by Christianbusinessmen in the Canal Zone in 1949. In 1954, LAM jointly assumed responsibility for theoperation of station HOXO in Panama with the World Radio Missionary Fellowship (HCJB). In1963, LAM transferred its sponsorship to World Missionary Fellowship, giving it fullresponsibility for the station. LAM withdrew its sponsorship because of the realignment of themission's priorities, and an ongoing lack of personnel and finances. In the mid-1950's (1956?),LAM's radio work was made a full division of the mission, later called the CommunicationsDivision. It also assisted in operating stations in Nicaragua (YNOL, 1959, fully supported andoperated by national Christians, the first indigenous-operated radio station in Central America,under leadership of David Solt) and El Salvador (YSHQ, 1963, the second indigenous-operatedradio station, also under leadership of David Solt), and later added television broadcasting to itsuse of media for evangelism and teaching. Federico Picardo was the television station's firstdirector and Arturo Cabezas its first manager. LAM explored various opportunities to entertelevision broadcasting in Latin America, none of these developed into ongoing operations. LAM also contributed staff and production of radio programs and audio-visual materials fordistribution to all Spanish-speaking areas through DIA (Difusiones Inter-Americanas), acooperative evangelical radio, TV and film service. DIA began in 1951 as the Cadena CulturalPanamericana (Panamerican Christian Network), which formed to expand the efforts ofindividual stations by sharing radio programs among the members. CCP had a board of directorsrepresenting five Christian radio stations. The service they offered was recorded music, talks,sermons, dramas, devotional services, children's programs, Christian news, and scripts. CCP wasadministered by Clarence Jones (HCJB), Paul Pretiz (HOXO), W. Dayton Roberts (TIFC) andRobert Remington (Presbyterian USA Board of Foreign Missions). LAM was a foundingmember of CCP. In 1959, 153 representatives of the major Protestant radio and literatureministries in Latin America participated in the Congress on Evangelical Communication in Cali,Colombia. The result of the congress was the formation of DIA. The congress was jointlysponsored by CCP, representing radio and television ministry, and LEAL (Literatura Evangelicapara America Latina) representing literature interests. DIA's headquarters, like CCP's, was inSan Jose. CCP was not immediately closed down but continued to coordinate some activitiesamong eight missionary radio stations in Latin America before being closed down. |
Scope and Content
[Note:
In the Scope & Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box
2, folder 5.]
In 2009, this collection
was reprocessed to include several large accessions of material from LAM. At
that time, the collection was divided in to four series: A. Historical Files,
B. General Administrative Files, C. Affiliations, and D. Programs
The files in boxes
1-74 were the original Collection 236, now called Historical files. Because
of the intricate organization of this collection, when the time came to add
additional material to the collection, these original files were left as they
were, and new, simplified series begun for the new material. Further additions
to the collections will be added to these new series.
The collection contains
documents in Spanish. While they do not predominate in the entire collection,
there are certain series where the Spanish documents outnumber those in English
Series: I. Historical
Files
Subseries: There
are brief descriptions of each of these subseries below
I.A. Field Executive bodies (1941-1971)
I.B. Association of Bible Churches of Costa Rica (AIBC, 1939-1972)
I.C.Editorial Caribe (Literature Division, 1944-1973)
I.D.Escuadron (1946-1970)
I.E.Pre-Minamundo & Minamundo (1946-1972)
I.F.Roblealto (1949-1972)
I.G.Colegio Monterrey (1955-1971)
I.H.Evangelical Alliance of Costa Rica (1944-1972)
I.I.Goodwill Caravans (1962-1973)
I.J.Clinica Biblica (1929-1971)
I.K.Seminario Biblico (1927-1972).
I.L.Colombia (1932-1972)
I.M.Mexico (1962-1973)
I.N.Panama (1952-1971)
I.O.New York [City] Project (1954-1968)
I.P. Communications (1945-1972)
YSHQ, TIFC, DIA; HOXO; LEAL; YNOL; VERBO
I.Q.Public Relations
(1946-1972)
I.R.Evangelism (1944-1972)
Pre-Evangelism-in-Depth Campaigns (1944-1958)
Evangelism-in-Depth (1948-1972)
I.S.Education (1960-1971)
I.T.Early administrative files (1920-1951)
I.U.Personnel & Field Administration (1932-1972)
I.V.New Jersey Office & Field Administration (1921-1973)
I.W.North American Council and Boards (1933-1972)
I.X.Subject File (1927-1982)
I.Y.R. Kenneth Strachan and Family Papers (1949-1975)
I.Z.Individual missionaries: Records & correspondence (1929-1985)
I.AA> Confidenital Files
I.AB. Miscelleaneous Historical Files (1944-2007)
Arrangement: The arrangement of the collection
has remained in the order as it was received from the donor; the actual ordering
of the series largely remains as it was received, but the archivist made some
adjustments. Original file folders were replaced with acid-free folders. Folder
titles have also been retained as they were received on the microfilm targets,
except that inconsistencies have been made to conform with the predominant labeling
by the archivist. Spanish folder headings are retained on the targets; English
translations have been used in the Container List. All targets have been retained
in their folders. For undetermined reasons, the date ranges on the targets for
numerous files do not coincide with their corresponding folder contents; as
the discrepancies frequently extend beyond a year or two, possibly files were
added to or subtracted from files following their being microfilmed. While the
files in each series are arranged alphabetically, exceptions to this do occur;
the files have been retained in the order in which they were received in order
to coincide with the microfilming order. Duplicates were removed from the series
I. Documents were stamped with sequential numbering in preparation for filming;
gaps in the numbering also suggest the weeding of the files prior to their transfer
to the Archives. The files are arranged by subject, and then alphabetically
within that subject, although there are many variations.
Date Range: 1920-1985; most of the documents
are pre1974
Volume: 28.8 cubic feet
Boxes:
1-77
Geographic
coverage: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras,
Mexico, Panama and Peru
Type
of documents: Administrative correspondence, minutes, reports, internal
memos, financial reports, policy statements, planning documents, promotional
material, "Blue Books" (divisional organizational manuals)
Subjects:
the origins, activity (primarily in Colombia and Costa Rica) and administrative
restructuring of Latin America Mission.
Notes:
All of Series I consists of the original accession of files to the Archives
from LAM, as described when the collection was first processed and document
the missions’s history up to about 1973. The other series document the
missions history largely after 1973.
The Archives has
both many original documents and a microfilm copy made of them, although there
are originals not on the film and many documents on the film which were not
sent to the Archives. The records are arranged in the following subseries:
LAM's operation and
ministry were most focused in Costa Rica. The records reflect this in that various
series distinguish between institutions operating in Costa Rica, while the records
for institutions operating in Colombia were consolidated under the Colombia
series. The researcher should be aware that the majority of the documents in
the series I document an organization undergoing structural change, and division
titles may therefore change. The Historical
Background of this guide illuminates some of these changes.
Microfilm.
Latin America Mission began microfilming its records in 1982. During that year,
LAM sorted and filmed those records which comprise the first accession of this
series I (reels 7-26), as well as the records which were filmed and then disposed
of or retained by the donor (reels 1-6). Staff continued to sort, arrange and
weed out records in 1983 and 1984. During 1984 and 1985, the filming of the
second set of materials was carried out, comprising those records sent to the
Archives in 1984 (reels 27-42). The third filming of documents occurred in 1986
(reels 43-49). The forty-nine reels of master negative microfilm which resulted
from this total project were given to the Archives in December 1990. A positive
user copy of the first 28 reels was produced by the Archives in 1991; a positive
copy of the remaining reels was produced in December 1992.
Some file folders were annotated with the sorting or culling date, as well as
filming date, and the position on a specified reel, i.e. Reel 32:7 meaning the
seventh file on Reel 32; in some cases, the actual location of the file on the
reel differs from the number assigned during the filming, i.e., file 32:7 is
noted on the filmed target as 32:9, suggesting that two files which were in
the original order were numbered but not filmed. There is no indication on the
film about these missing files. In some cases, the range of filming frames was
also noted on the file folder. Notes on file folders indicated that the material
in them had been "culled" in 1982 and 1983, suggesting they had been weeded
prior to microfilming. Most of the paper documents were stamped with a number
prior to filming; the gaps in the sequential numbering suggest that not all
documents filmed were transferred to the Archives.
The contents of the records on microfilm replicate the contents of the paper
documents, with the following exceptions: 1) Reels 1-6 consist largely of the
records of the Field Executive Bodies and the Early Administrative Files series.
These records were filmed and then apparently discarded prior to the transfer
of paper records to the Archives. 2) The Colegio Monterrey series, Evangelical
Alliance of Costa Rica series, and Seminario Biblico series are minimal in the
paper records, but significantly more extensive on the microfilm version of
the records.
The researcher should also be aware that the filming order does not always follow
the order in which the files were received. Supplementary files were filmed
together and appear consecutively on the film. However, the files of documents
of supplementary records, however, were integrated into the various series and
therefore do not correspond with the order of the filming.
The quality of some of the first microfilming was somewhat suspect, or the record
was incomplete; therefore some supplementary filming was done in 1985 which
appears on reels 39 through 42. Reels 43 through 49 consist of documents (primarily
from the other series) identified as confidential. These documents were removed
from the other series for separate filming; these confidential documents do
not exist in paper form.
I.A.
Field executive bodies (1941-1971; folders 1-1 through 20; reels 1:1 through
4:7, 40:1 through 40:21, 43:1). The records in this series consist primarily
of meeting minutes of LAM's executive bodies on the mission field: the Inter-Field
Council (IFC); the IFC's executive committee called the Quorum Inter-Field Conference
(Q-IFC), whose full title was the Quorum Resident in Costa Rica of the Executive
Committee of the Inter-Field Conference of the LAM., and was later named the
Inter-Field Council Executive (IFC-X), the Colombia
and Costa Rican Field Councils, and the Colombian and Costa Rican annual
mission meetings. In a hierarchical arrangement, the bodies related to one another
as follows:
IFC
IFC-X
IFC-Costa Rica IFC-Colombia
Annual Meeting -
Costa Rica Annual meeting - Colombia
Many of the documents are from senior leaders of the mission such as Mike Berg, Horace Fenton, Juan Isais, and W. Dayton Roberts (folders 147-2 thru 147-4, 148-2, 148-4, 148-6, 148-8, and 149-3). There is also a manuscript by Kenneth Strachan and Roberts on the founders of the LAM, Harry and Susan Strachan in folder 149-4. (A much shortened version of this appeared in The International Bulletin of Missionary Research in the July 1, 1998 issue.) Other material on LAM history can be found in folders 148-6 and 148-7.
There is a good deal of information in these documents on general missiological trends, both in LAM and in the mission enterprise in general. Discussion and critiques of LAM policies and general principles can be found in folders 147-1, 148-4, 148-5, 149-1 and 149-2. Folder 147-5 contains an interesting exchange of letters between missionary nurse Aimee McQuilkin and Kenneth Strachan on the relationship between evangelism and Christian humanitarianism in medicine and education. The press releases in folder 148-1 give a good idea of the range in type and geography of LAM’s programs at the beginning of the 21st century. Folder 149-3 contains a paper analyzing the impact of short-term missions on the North American sending churches. A paper in folder 148-3 considers the distinctives of missionaries born between 1961 and 1975, the so-called Gen X.
LAM’s best known initiative was probably the Evangelism in Depth program. A manual for energizing the evangelism efforts of laypeople in local congregations can be found in folder 147-11. Addition information on EID can be found in folders 147-3, 147-4, 148-8. LAM’s outreach programs to children, including children with developmental challenges and street children, are described in folder 149-1.
Folders 147-6 and 147-7 contain bound copies of El Vocero 1951-52 and 1955, a newsletter for the “Costa Rican Biblical Churches,” the churches founded by LAM missionaries. These are in Spanish, as are the pastoral and camping manuals in folders 147-8 to 147-10
******
Series II. Administration
Subseries: A. Board of trustees, B. General
Council; C. President’s office; D. Business/Finance; E. Development; F.
Church ministries/Relations; G. Personnel
Arrangement: The files in each subseries
are roughly in alphabetical order by folder title or significant word.
Date Range: 1921-1994
Volume: 12.8 cubic feet
Boxes: 77-108
Subjects: The mission’s evangelistic,
educational, literature and church planting activities; the government of LAM
and restructuring beginning in the 1970s; Protestants evangelism and Evangelicals
in Central and South America
Subseries A: Board of trustees
Arrangement: Roughly by type, then alphabetical
Date Range: 1921-1994
Volume: 4.2 cubic feet
Boxes:
77-87
Type
of documents: Minutes of meetings, reports and appendices attached to
minutes, correspondence with trustees
Notes:
Virtually complete set of minutes and reports of the trustees of the mission
for the first seventy years of its existence, covering all its major activities
and changes. For more recent years (the mid 1970s on) there are the reports
of the president of the mission to the board and the minutes and reports of
the various subcommittees of the board. The files of the individual board members
in boxes 86 -87 are mostly from the very end of the time period covered and
are mostly concerned with individuals joining or leaving the board or their
attendance at particular meetings, although occasionally there is more about
their personal involvement in various aspects of the mission’s work.*****
******
Subseries B: General Council and General Administration
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1951-1989
Volume: 2.2 cubic feet
Boxes:
87-92
Geographic
coverage: United States, Colombia, Costa Rica
Type
of documents: Memos, correspondence, lists
Notes:
The General Council (boxes 87-90) was formed to provide a source of advice for
the leaders of the mission. It contained ministers, leaders of other ministries,
large donors and other supporters of the mission. Often potential trustees first
served on the General Council or may serve on it after resigning from the board.
At their meetings they discussed the matters put before them by the mission’s
general director and other executives; dealing with suggested policies, current
problems and opportunities, long range plans. The files in boxes 90-92 cover
a wide range of policies, plans, problems, criticisms relating to LAM’s
work, some of which were referred to the General Council for their advice. But
mainly these materials show the administrators of the mission dealing with both
long range planning and day-to-day issues.
Exceptional
items: Folder 87-15 contains several memos on the role of the Council
in the mission. Folder 92-18 contains some of the early discussion of the transformation
of the mission into CLAME (in English, the Community of Latin American Evangelical
Ministries) in order to give more representation and autonomy to its Latin American
ministries. (See also folders 91-10 and 92-3)
*****
Subseries D: Business/Finance
Arrangement: Generally alphabetical;
the public relations materials are grouped together in boxes 99-100
Date Range: 1955-1988
Volume: 1.4 cubic foot
Boxes: 97-100
Geographic
coverage: United States, Colombia, Costa Rica
Type
of documents: Budgets, audits, financial statements, minutes, surveys,
comic books
Notes:
Files relating to the financial management of the mission, including budgets
and financial statements; also includes material on public relation activities,
largely within the United States, including the publication of the magazine
Evangelist
Exceptional
Items: Folder 1003 contains books of cartoons intended to explain missions
and Latin American culture to young people.
*****
Subseries
E: Development
Arrangement: Appears to be mainly topical,
although arrangement is not clear
Date Range: 1976-1999
Volume: 1.2 cubic feet
Boxes:
101-103
Geographic
coverage: Colombia, Costa Rica, United States
Type
of documents: Correspondence, receipts, memos, newsletters, reports
Correspondents:
Clayton L. Berg, Hal Cocanower
Subjects:
Fund raising and financial support for the mission
Notes:
Documents about efforts to maintain contact with the missions’ supporters,
expand the base of support, and raise fund for special projects.
*****
Subseries
F: Church ministries/Relations
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1970-1989
Volume: 1 cubic feet
Boxes:
104-106
Geographic
coverage: Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, United States
Type
of documents: Reports, minutes, lecture notes, correspondence
Notes:
Documents in this section are concerned with the missions efforts to raise the
understanding of North American churches, ministries and individuals, including
mission supporters, of the Latin American culture in general and Protestantism
in Latin America and the work of LAM there in particular. There is material
from the various seminars the department held for different groups of ministers,
professors, young people, and church leaders on a variety of related topics
*****
Subseries
G: Personnel
Arrangement: Roughly alphabetical by
keyword
Date Range: 1971-1989
Volume: 1 cubic feet
Boxes:
106-108
Geographic
coverage: Colombia, Costa Rica, United States
Type
of documents: Memos, lists, manuals, reports
Notes:
Materials concern the setting of the personal policies of the mission, the ramifications
and policies relating to the restructuring of the mission in 1971 and again
in 1984, the attempts to facilitate greater communication and understanding
between North and South American members of the staff; information on the work
of individual staff members
*****
Series
III: Affiliations
Arrangement:
Chronologically, then alphabetically, for the most part. Boxes 108-112 covers
the years, roughly, 1966-1979; boxes 112-119 covers the years 1980-1989. Boxes
119-120 contain material on mission and governmental seminars and conferences
and staff publications on topics relevant to Latin America
Date Range: 1955-1989
Volume: 5 cubic feet
Boxes: 108-120
Geographic coverage: united States, Colombia,
Costa Rica
Type of documents: Articles, manuscripts,
histories, minutes, correspondence, curriculum, statistics, newsletters
Subjects: Cooperation between Evangelical
denominations and agencies; LAM’s relationship with its various affiliates,
Protestant Evangelicalism in Latin America, including evangelistic ministries
Notes:
LAM was affiliated with a variety of other North American and Latin American
Christian organizations. These files detail the missions relationship with a
wide range of different organizations and its involvement in evangelistic, educational,
church planting, projects and ministries. The series also documents the mission’s
involvement in organizations and meetings concerned with the support of Christian
ministry in general, such as the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association (EFMA,
later the Evangelical fellowship of Ministry Agencies) and the Interdenominational
Foreign Mission Agencies, and the Overseas Ministry Study Center, among many
others. Boxes 19 and 120 also contain articles and other publications by LAM
executives and missionaries on a wide range of topics.
*****
Series
IV: Programs
Subseries: A. Direct Ministries, B. Entities
of Service
Date Range: 1966-1991
Volume: 10.4 cubic feet
Boxes:
121-146
Notes:
The files in this section document LAM’s own direct ministry programs
and those for which it seconded members of its staff to other Christian organizations,
called entities of service.
Subseries
IV. A. Direct Ministries
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1976-1989
Volume: 1.8 cubic feet
Boxes:
121-125
Geographic
coverage: Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States, Venezuela
Type
of documents: Reports, manuals, memos, correspondence
Subjects:
Evangelism efforts in several North and South American countries,
Notes:
Files deal mainly with planning and evaluating of direct ministries, primarily
Christ in the City (urban evangelistic campaigns), Promesa (outreach to Hispanic
peoples in the United States) and Spearhead (sending of shirt-term missionaries
to Mexico).
Series
IV. B. Entities of Service
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1966-1991
Volume: 8.6 cubic feet
Boxes:
125-146
Geographic
coverage: Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, United States
Type
of documents: Minutes, reports, poetry records, correspondence, financial
reports, membership lists
Notes:
Files primarily about LAM’s relations with the various other Christian
ministries in the Americas with which it worked closely, usually by seconding
staff to these ministries and/or helping to raise funds for them in the United
States. In 1984, many LAM departments or programs became independent organizations
and that transition is covered in some of these files. CLAME was created in
1971 and dissolved in 1984 and boxes 121 through 131 contain information both
on the history of the Community and it co-ordinated different activities and
ministries internally and how it worked with other Christian ministries. Folder 139-13 contains a report written by Paul Pretiz for the 1974 International Congress of World Evangelization titled “In-Depth Evangelistic Movements Around the World.”
*****
Series V: Audio-Visual materialsThe audio tapes are of
oral history interviews done in 1993 of Horace Fenton (T1 & T2) and W. Dayton
Roberts (T3 & T4). Below are the topics covered on each tape.
T1
(93 minutes). First contacts with Kenneth Strachan at Wheaton
College (class of 32); Strachen’s return to his Christian faith; Fenton’s
evaluation of Princeton, King’s, Dallas, Westminister and other seminaries;
education at Princeton Seminary; experiences in the pastorate after graduation;
service as a chaplain during World War II; meeting with Ken Strachan after the
war and joining of the board of Latin American Mission; decision to go full-time
with LAM as field director for Costa Rica at the age of 37 in 1948; early experiences
as field director; serving as the first associate director of the mission and
then becoming general director in 1965; administration of the mission; comments
on Susan Strachan; W. Dayton Roberts; Kenneth Strachan; David Howard; impact
of Kenneth Strachan’s suffering from Hodgkin Disease and early death on
Fenton and the mission; Reuben Lores and his importance to the mission; strengths
and weaknesses of the closeness of the mission’s staff at headquarters
in San Jose, Costa Rica; annual retreat for the staff; examples of conflicts
within the mission; Fenton’s experiences in resolving conflicts between
missionaries; memories of the transition to CLAME and evaluation of the results;
controversy over closing the mission’s health clinic; CLAME as an example
to other missions; the development of Evangelism-in-Depth with Nicaraguan pastors;
E/D seminars in France and Portugal in 1966; serving as liaison to IFMA and
EFMA; memories of teaching in the Latin American Seminary in Cosa Rica.
T2 (8.75 minutes). Continuation of story about students at Latin
American seminary; advice to new missionaries; experiences as a board member
of the mission.
T3
(94 minutes). Birth and childhood as the son of Presbyterian
missionaries in Korea; Dayton’s conversion experience; memories of his
parents’ faith and the Christian literature he was exposed to; attending
Wheaton College (class of 38); Samuel Moffett; memories of classes and classmates;
attitude of students toward missions; evangelistic meetings on campus led by
Robert C. McQuilken; meeting his wife Grace Strachan at Wheaton; hearing Harry
Stam speak; joining Latin America Mission; suspicion of his doctrinal stand;
Emil Brunner (Roberts’ professor at Princeton); beginning to teach at
Latin America Mission; effect of World War II on the mission; going into church
work in Colombia; becoming field director of the Colombia field; revising the
financial procedures of the field; length description of the chronology of his
ministry with LAM; comments on the personalities and abilities of Harry Strachan,
Ed Seale, John McKay; Harry Strachan’s moderated opposition to the ecumenical
movement in Latin America; his use of Latin American evangelists; Harry Strachan’s
archives and the LAM archives; his destruction of his own archives; lack of
interest in administration and Susan’s responsibility in that area; loosening
of the control by the Strachan family in favor of the field council; responsibilities
of Kenneth and Susan Strachan after Harry’s death; Kenneth Strachan’s
contributions to administration; “the 60s was a time of improvisation:”
Kenneth Strachn as an administrator; LAM as a trendsetter in mission work; Kenneth
Strachan as a writer; Dit Fenton as an administrator and a speaker; skills as
a strategic manager; problems in administration; Charles Cook; Mike Berg; Paul
Landrey
T4
(5.5 minutes). Contributions by LAM to the Latin American church
- aggressive evangelism, working toward the unity of the body of Christ; starting
of progressive institutions; areas in which the mission was slow
Exceptional
items: There is a detailed inventory of all the photos in the ten photo
files that start with “LAM: “ in folder 146-9. This inventory was
compiled by the Archives staff from material supplied by the mission.
Provenance
The materials in this collection
were received by the Billy Graham Center from Latin America Mission in 1982,
1987, 1990 , 1993 and 1996.
Accession #: 82-142,
87-36, 90-125
April 30, 1993
Paul A. Ericksen
C. Easley
Accession # 93-112,
96-1, 96-29, 96-53, 96-89
August 8, 2009
Bob Shuster
K. Hamilton
Accessions 14-21, 20-05
July 1, 2021
Bob Shuster
1921-1945 |
Harry Strachan (mission co-founder and first co-director) |
1921-1950 |
Susan Beamish Strachan (mission co-founder, co-director) |
1945-1950 |
R. Kenneth Strachan (son of founders, co-director) |
1951-1965 |
R. Kenneth Strachan (General Director) |
1965-1971 |
Horace L. Fenton, Jr. (General Director) |
1971-1977 |
Horace L. Fenton, Jr. (LAM-USA Director) |
1977-1989 |
Clayton L. Berg (President) |
1990-1995 |
J. Paul Landrey (President) |
1995-1999 |
David M. Howard (President) |
1999-2007 |
David R. Befus (President) |
2007-2009 |
Jack Voelkel (Interim President) |
2009- |
Steven Johnson (President) |
W. Dayton Roberts (1st CLAME General Secretary) |
Rafael Baltodano (Nicaraguan missionary, 2nd CLAME General Secretary) |
Paul E. Pretiz (3rd CLAME General Secretary) |
LOCATION
RECORD
Accession:
96-1
Type
of Material: Audio Tapes
The following items
are located in the AUDIO TAPE file.
Item# - Reel or cassette,
speed, length, number of sides, contents (title of session, participants) according
to the program, date.
# |
R/C |
length |
Sides |
Contents |
Dates |
T1 |
c |
93 |
2 |
Interview of Horace Fenton by John Maus |
October 20, 1993 |
T2 |
c |
8.75 |
1 |
Conclusion of T1 |
October 20, 1993 |
T3 |
c |
94 |
2 |
Interview of W. Dayton Roberts by John Maus |
August 16, 1993 |
T4 |
c |
5.5 |
1 |
Conclusion of T3 |
August 16, 1993 |
LOCATION
RECORD
Accession
#: 90-125
Type
of material: Microfilm
The following items are located
in the Archives Fragile Storage.
Reel 1 - International
Field Council (IFC), Quorum Resident in Costa Rica of the Executive Committee
of the IFC (Q-IFC), Columbia Field Council (CFC), Costa Rican Field Council
(CRFC), Annual Mission Meetings (in Colombia and Costa Rica); 1945-1953. 16mm.
There are no corresponding hard copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 2 - IFC, Q-IFC,
CFC, CRFC, Annual Mission Meetings; 1956-1958. IFC; 1959-1963. 16mm. There are
no corresponding hard copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 3 - Inter-Field
Council Executive (IFC-X), CFC, CRFC, Annual Mission Meetings; 1959-1963. General
Director, IFC-X; 1964-1971. 16mm. There are no corresponding hard copies of
these documents in the collection.
Reel 4 - IFC, CFC,
CRFC, Annual Mission Meetings; 1964-1971. There are no corresponding hard copies
of these documents in the collection.
Reel 5 - Personnel
records & correspondence, Candidate and missionary matters, Publicity, Projects
discontinued, Financial records, Constitution and by-laws; 1921-1948. 16mm,
filming quality poor. There are no corresponding hard copies of these documents
in the collection.
Reel 6 - Colombia,
Costa Rica, Evangelical congresses, Inter-Mission relationships; 1921-1948.
16mm, filming quality poor. There are no corresponding hard copies of these
documents in the collection.
Reel 7 - Association
of Bible Churches of Costa Rica. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these
are filed in boxes 1 and 2.
Reel 8 - Association
of Bible Churches of Costa Rica. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these
are filed in boxes 2 and 3.
Reel 9 - Association
of Bible Churches of Costa Rica. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these
are filed in boxes 3 and 4.
Reel 10 - Editorial
Caribe. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 4 through
7.
Reel 11 - Editorial
Caribe. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 7 through
10.
Reel 12 - Escuadron
(boxes 10 & 11), Pre-Minamundo and Minamundo (boxes 11 & 12), Roblealto
(box 12). 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes noted
above.
Reel 13 - Roblealto
(boxes 12 & 13) , Mexico (box 25), Panama (boxes 25 & 26), New York
(box 26). 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in the boxes
noted above.
Reel 14 - Communications.
16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 26 through 29.
Reel 15 - Communications.
16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 30 through 32.
Reel 16 - Restricted.
Colegio Monterrey, Evangelical Alliance of Costa Rica. 16mm. There are no corresponding
hard copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 17 - Colegio
Monterrey: supplementary documents, Evangelical Alliance of Costa Rica: supplementary
documents, Goodwill Caravans, Clinica Biblica. 16mm. There are no corresponding
hard copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 18 - Colombia.
16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 19 through 22.
Reel 19 - Colombia.
16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 22 through 25.
Reel 20 - Public
Relations. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 32
through 35.
Reel 21 - Public
Relations. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 35
through 37.
Reel 22 - Public Relations.
16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 37 through 41.
Reel 23 - Public
Relations. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 41
through 43.
Reel 24 - Evangelism: Pre-Evangelism-in-Depth
Campaigns (boxes 43 & 44), Evangelism-in-Depth (box 51). 16mm. Corresponding
paper records of these are filed in the boxes noted above.
Reel 25 - Evangelism:
Evangelism-in-Depth. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in
boxes 51 through 53.
Reel 26 - Evangelism: Evangelism-in-Depth.
16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 53 through 55,
57.
Reel 27 - Seminario
Biblico. 16mm. There are no corresponding hard copies of these documents in
the collection.
Reel 28 - Seminario Biblico.
16mm. There are no corresponding hard copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 29 - Seminario
Biblico, Education Division. 16mm. There are no corresponding hard copies of
these documents in the collection.
Reel 30 - Evangelism: Evangelism-in-Depth.
16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 44 through 46,
56.
Reel 31 - Evangelism:
Evangelism-in-Depth. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in
boxes 47 through 49.
Reel 32 - Evangelism: Evangelism-in-Depth.
16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in boxes 49 through 51,
57.
Reel 33 - Personnel
& Field Administration. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed
in boxes 59 through 61.
Reel 34 - Personnel &
Field Administration. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in
boxes 61 through 63.
Reel 35 - Personnel
& Field Administration. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed
in boxes 63 through 66.
Reel 36 - North American
Council & Boards. 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in
boxes 70 through 73.
Reel 37 - North American
Council & Boards (box 73), Evangelism (box 57), New Jersey Office &
Field Administration (boxes 66 through 68). 16mm. Corresponding paper records
of these are filed in the boxes noted above.
Reel 38 - New Jersey
Office & Field Administration (boxes 68 through 70), Subject File (boxes
73 & 74). 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in the boxes
noted above.
Reel 39 - Subject
File (box 74), Evangelism (box 55), Personnel and Field Administration (boxes
59 through 65), New Jersey Office & Field Administration (boxes 67 through
70). (Major portion of reel to end blank.) 16mm. Corresponding paper records
of these are filed in the boxes noted above.
Reel 40 - Supplementary
documents: Field executive bodies (box 1), Association of Bible Churches of
Costa Rica (boxes 1 through 3), Editorial Caribe (boxes 4, 6 through 9), Escuadron
(boxes 10 & 11), Pre-Minamundo and Minamundo (box 11), Roblealto (boxes
12 & 13), Colegio Monterrey (box 14), Goodwill Caravans (boxes 14 &
15), Mexico (box 25), Panama (box 25), New York (box 26), Communications (boxes
26 through 31), Early administrative files (boxes 58 & 59). 16mm. Corresponding
paper records of these are filed in those boxes identified above.
Reel 41 - Supplementary
documents: Clinica Biblica (boxes 15 through 17), Seminario Biblico (boxes 17
& 18), Colombia (boxes 19, 20, 22 through 25), Public Relations (boxes 33,
35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 43), Evangelism: Pre-E/D (boxes 43, 44), E/D (boxes 51 through
55, 57). 16mm. Corresponding paper records of these are filed in those boxes
identified above.
Reel 42 - Supplementary
documents: Seminario Biblico (box 19), Education (box 58). 16mm.
Reel 43 - Restricted. Confidential documents
(culled from files on reels 1-37). 16mm. The following files are recorded only
on microfilm in the order they appear on this list. They do not constitute a
series, but have been integrated into the previous series of which they are
a part. There are no corresponding hard copies of these documents in the collection.
1960's (Reels 2,3,4);
1960-1968 43:1
Personnel & Finances
(Reels 5,6); 1935-1955 43:2
AIBC (Reels 7,8,9); 1958-1970 43:3
Editorial Caribe (Reels 10,11); 1957-1970 43:4
Children & youth (incl. student work, Reels 12,13)
Escuadron (Reel 12); 1950-1967 43:5
Minamundo (Reel 12); 1964-1968 43:6
Roblealto complex (Reel 13)
Bible Home (Reel 13); 1949-1970 43:7
Day Care Centers (Reel 13); 1970 43:7
Farm (Reel 13); 1968-1970 43:8
Communications (Reels 14,15)
Radio (Reel 14); 1953-1971 43:9
Difusiones Interamericanas (Reels 14,15); 1960-1970 43:10
LEAL (Reel 15); 1963-1964 43:11
VERBO (Reel 15); 1957-1959 43:12
Clinica Biblica (Reel 17); 1951-1968 43:13
Colombia (Reels 18,19); 1951-1971 43:14
Public Relations (Reels 20,21,22,23); 1961-1972 43:15
Evangelism:
Pre E/D Campaigns (Reel 24); 1953-1957 43:16
E/D movements by country (Reels 24,25,26); 1960-1968 43:17
Various during E/D (Reel 26); 1963-1970 43:18
Seminario Biblico (incl. Educ. Div., Reels 27,28,29); 1951-1972 43:19
Evangelism:
Various matters (Reels 30,31,32); 1964-1969 43:20
OWED/New
Life For All relationship (Reel 32); 1967-1970 43:21
Criticisms of E/D
and other evangelistic efforts (Reel 32); 1954-1970 43:22
Personnel
& Field Administration (Reels 33,34):
Candidates;
1951-1966 43:23
Field
administration; 1965-1967 43:24
New
missionaries; 1963-1968 43:25
Field
personnel; 1964-1967 43:26
Affiliations
& relationships (reel 35); 1949-1971 43:27
North
American Councils & Boards (Reel 36):
US
Board/Administration corresp. (Reel 36); 1948-1968 43:28
Canadian
Council/Admin. corresp. (Reel 36); 1961-1971 43:29
Evangelism:
Congresses & conferences (Reel 37); 1960-1969 43:30
New
Jersey & Field Administration
Organizational
documents (Reel 37); 1949-1970 43:31
Mission
structure/Administration (Reel 37); 1963-1968 43:32
Reel 44 - Restricted.
Confidential documents (culled from files on reels 38-39). 16mm. The following
files are recorded only on microfilm in the order they appear on this list.
They do not constitute a series, but have been integrated into the previous
series of which they are a part. There are no corresponding hard copies of these
documents in the collection.
New Jersey & Field Administration
Correspondence
(Reel 38); 1950-1970 44:1
Home
Office matters (Reel 38); 1963-1969 44:2
Proposed
projects (Reel 38); 1956-1957 44:3
Subject file: Charismatic
manifestations; Dialogue, Ecumenism, Unity; Roman Catholic/LAM relations; "Separation"
& cooperation; "Compromise" so called - Various; Miscellaneous criticisms
(Reels 38,39); 1952-1971 44:4 [C: 1963-1970; D: ca. 1957-1967; R: 1963-1964;
S: 1952-1970; M: 1959-1971]
History
project (collected in 1980); 1980 44:5
Reel 45 - Restricted.
Confidential papers: R. Kenneth Strachan. 16mm. There are no corresponding hard
copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 46 - Restricted.
Confidential papers: R. Kenneth Strachan, Elizabeth Strachan, and children.
16mm. There are no corresponding hard copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 47 - Restricted.
Confidential personnel records of ex-LAMers (A-G). 16mm. There are no corresponding
hard copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 48 - Restricted.
Confidential personnel records of ex-LAMers (J-T). 16mm. There are no corresponding
hard copies of these documents in the collection.
Reel 49 - Restricted.
Confidential personnel records of ex-LAMers(V-Z), Summer/short term workers/volunteers.
16mm. There are no corresponding hard copies of these documents in the collection.
*****
LOCATION
RECORD
Accession
#: 82-142, 87-36
Type
of material: Oversize Material
The following items are located
in the Oversize Material File.
Pre-
Evangelism-in-Depth Campaigns: Central America (Costa Rica); 1952 (OS 27).
Poster announcing an annual Holy Week evangelistic conference at Templo Biblico
in San Juan. 1952. Spanish; 9" x 12"; printed blue on newsprint. Removed from
folder 43-21.
Pre-
Evangelism-in-Depth Campaigns: Auxiliary ministries (Films); 1949-1954 (OS 27).
Poster promoting the showing of the film Caribbean Crusade, which depicted
LAM-sponsored city-wide evangelistic campaigns. 1954. English; 8.5" x 10.75";
printed red, yellow and blue on white paper. Removed from folder 43-14.
Evangelism-in-Depth
Campaigns: Bolivia; 1965 (OS 27).
1. Poster
promoting a women's congress in Cochabamba, highlighting the speaker and other
features. August 5-8, 1965. Spanish; 10.75" x 16.5"; Spanish; printed black
on white paper. Removed from folder 51-3.
2. Stock
poster promoting a women's meeting, announcing the speaker and features; leaves
blank spaces for local application. 1965. Spanish; 12" x 17.5"; printed red
and blue on newsprint. Removed from folder 51-3.
3. Poster
linking spiritual interest and national improvement: "New men for a new Bolivia;"
leaves a large blank space for local application. Spanish; 10.75" x 16.5"; printed
red, orange and black on white paper. Removed from folder 51-3.
4. Poster
promoting the Evangelism-in-Depth national day of prayer, highlighting featured
guests and program. 1965. Spanish; 15.25" x 20"; printed red and blue on white
paper. Removed from folder 51-3.
5. Poster
promoting a young people's congress in Santa Cruz. Spanish; 10.75" x 16.5";
printed red, yellow and black on white paper. Removed from folder 51-3.
6. Poster
promoting the La Paz meeting of the "National Campaign of Evangelism-in-Depth,"
highlighting speaker, musician, and other features. Spanish; 21" x 26"; printed
red, blue and black on white paper. Removed from folder 51-3.
Evangelism-in-Depth
Campaigns: Costa Rica; 1960 (OS 27). Poster promoting the Evangelism-in-Depth
campaign in Costa Rica: "For a Better Country - Costa Rican Evangelicals United
in Evangelism-in-Depth." Poster outlines in detail the aspects of the campaign.
1960. Spanish; 16.75" x 22"; printed black on light green paper. Removed from
folder 52-3.
Evangelism-in-Depth
Campaigns: Nicaragua; 1958-1960 (OS 27). Poster promoting a "Large United
Crusade of Managua," highlighting speaker, guests and program features. 1960.
Spanish; 15.75" x 22.5"; printed black on light green paper. Removed from folder
54-3.
Evangelism-in-Depth
Campaigns: Zone 1 - North (Mexico); 1965 (OS 27). Poster inviting the
public of Puebla, Mexico, to a series of evangelistic lectures on religion and
philosophy, highlighting speaker, musician and other features. 1965. Spanish;
12.75" x 19.5"; printed red and green on white paper (one quarter is discolored,
presumably due to exposure to sunlight). Removed from folder 47-1.
Evangelism-in-Depth
Campaigns: PERT chart (Tabasco, Mexico); 1966 (OS 27). Blueprint of a
PERT chart, "Study of Tabasco, Mexico: A Sample Presentation of the Application
of PERT Planning to a Specific Mission Project." Prepared at Fuller Theological
Seminary. 1966. English; 36" x 94". Removed from folder 47-15.
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LOCATION
RECORD
Accession:
82-142, 87-36, 96-89
Type
of material: Photographs
The following items are located
in the PHOTO FILE; request by folder
title (in bold) at the beginning of each entry below
Note: a detailed
listing of information on all the folders below whose title starts with “LAM:”
can be found in folder 146-9 in this collection.
CAMP
ROBLEALTO (COSTA RICA). . 4 b&w. Promotional postcards depicting
activities at the camp with young boys. Undated. Removed from folder 12-17
EVANGELISM-IN-DEPTH.
Series of photographs compiled as a book to promote and explain the Evangelism-in-Depth
program. Includes narrative text, dividing the book into sections on preparation,
promotion, prayer, training, visitation, local evangelism, special events, regional
campaigns, parades, national campaign, and follow-up. Images depict orientation
for Christian leaders, training sessions, promotional pieces, radio promotion,
printing, a small group prayer meeting, visitation planning, visitation evangelism,
an evangelistic church meeting, evangelism among children and civic leaders,
street evangelism, mass evangelism rallies, evangelistic parades with signs,
and follow-up instruction. Countries depicted include Bolivia, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The 46-page book, consisting of 32
8"x 10" b&w photos, although originally bound with a spiral spine, was received
without the spine. Ca. 1969. Removed from folder 46-6, which contains material
on the production of the book.
LAM:
BOARD/GENERAL ADMINISTRATION/LAM CANADA. 43 b&w. Includes pictures
of LAM staff and board members. Among the individuals pictured are: Clayton
(Mike) Berg, Hermann Braunlin, Charles Derr, James Engel, Samuel Escobar, Horace
(Dit) Fenton, Peter Haile, Ray Herrick, Gordon Houser, David Howard, Niegel
Kerr, Charles Koch, Victor Landero, J. Paul Landrey, Reuben Llores, J. Murray
Marshall, Scott Nyborg, Paul Pretiz, Grace Strachan Roberts, W. Dayton Roberts,
Jacob Stam, Elizabeth Strachan, Harry Strachan, R. Kenneth Strachan, Susanna
Strachan, William Thompson, Thea Van Halsema. 1930-1982
LAM:
COLUMBIA. 15 b&w. Scenes of LAM activities and missionaries in Columbia,
including an evangelism boat, missions to the Indians, the Colegio Latinoamericano
in Cartagena. Individuals pictured include Ernest Fowler, Gregorio Lander, Victor
Landero, Aimee McQuilken, Jean Spahr. 1940s-1970s.
LAM:
CLAME - 10 b&w. Pictures related to CLAME: Community of Latin American
Evangelical Ministries showing meetings of the representatives of the various
ministries. Rafael
Baltodano, Mike berg, Roberto Calderon, Orlando Costa, Rodolfo Cruz, Ruferse
Escoi, Jones Gonzalez, Murray Marshall, W. Dayton Roberts Charles Troutman,
Dayton Roberts, Jorge Taylor, Nautilio Valverde.
LAM: COSTA RICA. 37 b&w. Scenes of
LAM ministries in Costa Rica. Caravanas de Buena Voluntad (Good Will Caravans),
Sunday Schools, nursing programs, hospitals, schools. William Brown, Marie Cameron,
Estela Cevallos, Joe Coughlin, Victor & Cristina Monterroso, David Howard,
W. Dayton Roberts, Horace Fenton, Kenneth Strachan. 1936-1978.
LAM: EVANGELISM. 38 b&w. Scenes of
LAM’s evangelistic work in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica,
Columbia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Peru, Trinidad, Venezuela, and the United States. Includes pictures of colportage
wagons, the Evangelism-in-Depth campaigns, evangelistic campaigns by Billy Graham
and by Festo Kivengere. Also pictured, among others, are Rogelio Archilla, Michael
Cassidy, Israel Garcia, Juan Isais, Reuben Lores, Alberto Motessi, Sergio Ozeda,
Paul Pretiz, Jorge Sanchez, Harry Strachan. 1917-1988.
LAM: EVENTS/BUILDINGS. 23 b&w. Photos
of LAM buildings in the United States, Columbia, and Costa Rico; meetings and
seminars sponsored by LAM in Latin America and Asia, scenes of earthquake relief
in Mexico and Nicaragua. Among the meetings pictured are: the 1966 World Congress
on Evangelism, 1969 Clade, 1987 COMIBAM, 1989 LAMETEPEC. Individuals pictured
include Franklin Cabezas, Dit Fenton, Ruben Lores , Jose Antonio Morales, W.
Dayton Roberts, Jacob Stam, Jorge Taylor. 1962-1989.
LAM: LITERATURE MINISTRIES, 17 b&w.
Pictures of various LAM literature programs , including: Editorial Caribe, LIBROS
and LEAL (Evangelical Literature for Latin America). Among those pictured are:
Mike Berg, Hal Cocanower, Ruth & Fred Denton, Israel Garcia, Hugh Pain,
Vergil Gerber, Wilton Nelson, W. Dayton Roberts, Ladoit Stevens, Kenneth Strachan,
Leslie Thompson (foreground) with associate, San Jose, C.R. (early 1 960s) Ruth
& Fred Denton. 1956-1972
LAM: RADIO OUTREACH, 11 b&w. Scenes
of the staff and facilities of Christian radio stations in Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
Panama. Scenes of radio stations TIFC, YNOL, HOXO, DIA. Among those pictured
are: Robert Beukema, Franklin Cabezas, Jorge Escalante, William Herzog, Milre
Lisso Paul Pretiz, Robert Remington, W. Dayton Roberts, Robert Savage, David
Solt,
LAM: STUDENT WORLD. 15 b&w. Photos
of various LAM programs and camps aimed at students Columbia, Ecuador, Panama,
, including Minamundo, Spearheaders, and MILAMEX. Among those pictured are:
Jorge Atiencia, Ray Bedwell, Harry Burke, Daniel Castro, Thomas Hanks, Jaun
Isais, Alberto Moke, Joe Pent, Victor Rodriquez, Charles Troutman, Jack Voekel
LAM: THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION. 20 b&w.
Pictures of the faculty, student and activities of Seminario Biblico Latinoamericano
of San Jose, Costa Rica. Among the individuals pictured are: Jose Maria Abreu,
Victorio Araya, Mike Berg, Plutarco Bonilla, Irene & Richard Foulkes, George
Gay, Thomas Hanks, Cliff Holland, Kenneth Hood, Milre Lisso, Reuben Lores, Victor
Monterroso, Wilton Nelson, Rene Padilla, Ruben (Tito) Paredes, Jorge Taylor.
1934-1980s.
MISSIONS--COLOMBIA. 1952-1972. Series of shots documenting a 1952 trip
to the Choco Indians by LAM missionary Ernie Fowler. Photographs are pasted
to pages, accompanied by handwritten descriptions. The images depict transportation
(primarily by canoe and on foot), local scenery, Colombians, and the Choco Indians
and their dwellings. 66 b&w. Removed from folder 23-9, Colombia: Indian
work.