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Table of Contents

Brief Description of This Collection

Title Page and Restrictions

Historical Background of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association

An Essay on the Contents of the Collection (Scope and Content)

Other Information Which Will Be Helpful to the User of This Guide

Lists of Oversize Materials and Photographs in This Collection (Location Records)
    Oversize Materials
    Photographs
List of the Contents of Boxes of Paper Records in This Collection (Container List)



Brief Description.
Correspondence, financial and statistical reports, form letters, minutes, promotional material, maps, photographs, etc., documenting IFMA's operation, its coordination of policy among its members and services to them. The files on IFMA's members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Among the topics covered are those related to the theoretical, theological, or practical aspects of the missionary enterprise, such as missionary aviation, the education of future missionaries, theological standards, missionary conferences, organizational mergers, and budget planning. Information is also available on the various countries in which IFMA members operate. There are restrictions on the use of this collection.


Collection 352 [July 23, 2012]
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA); 1917-2011
Records; 1934-1983, n.d.
76 Boxes (DC; 27.5 cubic feet), Oversize Materials, Photographs

Restrictions

None.


Historical Background

The Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) originated in a meeting of mission agency leaders in March 1917. The meeting occurred as the flowers of the Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy were ready to bloom, and theologically conservative mission agencies no longer felt compatible with or able to work within the growing ecumenical movement. The meeting was called by Paul Graef, a Christian businessman and board member of the South Africa General Mission; also participating in the meeting were representatives of Africa Inland Mission, Central American Mission, and China Inland Mission. The mission representatives met to discuss how they could encourage greater missions awareness among American conservative Christians, provide fellowship among fundamentalist agencies, and facilitate inter-mission cooperation among themselves. In a follow-up meeting in September 1917, missions leaders met to consider establishing an informal organization of interdenominational foreign mission societies. Representatives of China Inland Mission, Inland South America Missionary Union, South Africa General Mission, Sudan Interior Mission and Woman's Union Missionary Society participated in the meeting where articles of agreement were drafted and provisionally adopted for ratification by individual missions. The ratification process proceeded during the following year, and annual meetings commenced from 1918 onward.

At its founding, the Association's purpose was to gather mission executives for an annual conference featuring an agenda of business, reports, prayer, preaching, and fellowship. As an association, the IFMA had no administrative authority over its members, but was instead to provide: a forum for exploration of issues; a means for similar organizations to meet together for encouragement, fellowship and cooperation; and an endorsement on members' behalf to the fundamentalist public as agencies worthy of support. The other aspect of the Association's service to the Christian public was in being an information center on missionary societies and activities around the world, and helping congregations establish their own missionary programs. As the Association developed, it also helped member missions establish effective and responsible administrative practices and provided a liaison in certain governmental matters.

IFMA's administrators were drawn from the leadership of its members. The president, other officers and board members rotated on a regular basis. In 1921 the membership created the position of Executive Secretary and authorized the establishment of an headquarters office to serve as a network center for the Association's members. Only in 1956 did IFMA appoint its first full-time General Secretary (John O. Percy). Faced with Percy's resignation, IFMA appointed Edwin Leonard "Jack" Frizen as its Executive Secretary. Frizen continued to hold the post, later renamed Executive Director, in 1988. Overlapping this time period was Cora Goble's service as secretary from 1951 until 1973. For a more detailed list of IFMA's officers and administrators, please refer to the Biographical Sketches and Addendum A in this guide.

Having been born in the environment which produced the Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy, it was no surprise that the issues of separation and cooperation were constant points of reference is IFMA discussions. While the interaction focused on various specific issues, the Association addressed this general topic in its deliberations on the identifying qualifications for membership, association with and/or merger into the EFMA, evaluating the doctrinal positions of members and applicants, a proposed relationship between the EFMA, IFMA and the International Council of Christian Churches (ICCC), the value of organizational independence, and IFMA's relationship with the Independent Fundamental Churches of America (IFCA).

In particular, the emergence of the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association (EFMA) in 1945 promoted discussion of cooperation among evangelical mission agencies. The EFMA was in many ways an IFMA counterpart, servicing evangelical denominational missions. IFMA decided in 1946 not to accept an EFMA decision to merge with it. While similar in most doctrinal areas and evangelical commitment, IFMA's reservations were over the areas of maintaining its distinctiveness and the Pentecostalism which was included in the EFMA. Despite the decision not to accept the EFMA invitation, both associations developed a increasingly more cooperative working relationship, beginning in the 1960's. For example, the EFMA and IFMA merged several of their committees and began holding their annual meetings concurrently in the same location in order to facilitate discussion on topics and projects of mutual interest. While the question of cooperation vs. separation did not disappear from the IFMA thinking, its focus was directed toward achieving the work of evangelism rather than maintaining proper separation.

From its founding in 1917, the IFMA saw growth in its membership in each subsequent decade. Having been organized by seven missions, the Association saw its greatest period of membership growth in the 1940's and 50's, when it added ten new missions (1940's) and twenty-one more (1950's). The membership grew to consist of thirty-eight members in 1983, with eight associate members. Eight missions which had formerly been full IFMA members had by that time merged into other IFMA missions.

Membership. IFMA developed standards which members were required to adhere to. These standards were primarily focused on doctrinal convictions, but also included agreement about missionary principles, practices, and fund-raising. In 1941, the Association expanded the requirements for membership to include that they send out a minimum of ten missionaries. The function of the standards was to avoid the theological liberalism which the Association was shunning and provide a unified base from which to confer and cooperate. Other grounds for rejection for membership were denominational affiliation, failure to conform to financial and administrative standards, lack of a functioning North American council, too few missionaries, not being a sending agency, or lack of involvement in cross-cultural work.

Headquarters location. In 1921 the IFMA membership authorized the establishment of a headquarters office. At the beginning of 1950, however, the office continued to be housed within facilities provided by the missions of the Association's elected officers and operated by a part-time Executive Secretary. In 1950 the office was located in Africa Inland Mission's headquarters in Brooklyn, NY. Later that year it opened its own office in Manhattan. IFMA purchased its first office building in New York City in 1956. In 1960 the IFMA relocated its headquarters in Ridgefield, NJ. Thirteen years later (1973) it moved its headquarters from New Jersey to Wheaton, IL, in part to facilitate proximity with other evangelical agencies. After temporarily renting a facility while waiting for the completion of its permanent headquarters, it moved into its permanent Wheaton facility in 1976.

Annual meetings. The Association held its annual business meetings, usually in October, to enable it to elect its officers, vote on resolutions, and address topics of concern, such as qualifications of missionaries, quality of missionaries, deputation, IFMA's assistance to a pastor, IFMA as channel for students and volunteers, or training students for mission service.

Literature. Throughout its history, IFMA published or provided access to literature which broadened awareness of missions, including pamphlets, books and newsletters. In 1930 the Association produced the booklet, Faith Missions. In the 1940's IFMA utilized Good News Publishing Company and Harrington Press to print its pamphlets. The Association initiated the IFMA Prayer Bulletin (1950) and later the bi-monthly IFMA News. Other pieces IFMA provided were IFMA Opportunities on personnel needs; IFMA Update: Government & Business with its information on tax and government matters, business and financial management; and IFMA Notes which consisted of miscellaneous information. Between 1959 and 1962, IFMA also published its Missions Annual, which contained articles and a compilation of statistics on members' activity worldwide. In terms of books, IFMA was involved in the publication of two books: Faith Mighty Faith on the history of "faith missions," written by J. Herbert Kane and published by IFMA in 1956; Kane later revised Robert Hall Glover's The Progress of World-Wide Missions in 1960.

Committees. As IFMA was an association of active organizations, it accomplished much of its work through the committee structure which became a prominent characteristic of IFMA during the 1940's. The minimal dues required for membership provided a further impetus the development of the committee structure: committee members rather than a full-time staff had to accomplish the work of the Association. The following list alphabetically outlines the committees which have functioned within IFMA (noting dates of origin when known).

Conferences. IFMA coordinated a variety of conferences, both to address needs of its membership and the general Christian public. Among these were Bible and missionary conferences, which were targeted more at the laity; these were first held in 1924 and continued through the 1940's. These were replaced with meetings more for the member agencies themselves. A series of conferences was began in 1957, addressing various issues of administration. Subsequent meetings were held in 1967, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979. Subjects addressed in these meetings included: office management, salaries, pertinent legislation, tax matters, financial systems and planning, and computer applications. Out of these conferences grew two manuals to further assist members in their organizational administration: Mission Administration Manual, and Accounting and Financial Reporting Guide for Missionary Organizations. In 1960 the Association held the Congress on World Missions (Chicago), aiming to influence pastors and leaders of Christian educational institutions. Follow-up plans from the Congress included a conference to be held in Hamilton, Ontario in 1964, although those plans did not materialize. However, plans for the IFMA/ EFMA Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission were carried in 1966. Another series of workshops were held between 1968 and 1970 to foster understanding of the merger process and appropriate merger procedures. IFMA sponsored other meetings, but these were done jointly with EFMA, and are therefore covered in the following section.

Cooperation with EFMA. Although their distinctives prevented a merger, similarities in goals, theology, and mission principles and practice, led to increased cooperation between the IFMA and EFMA, principally in joint committees and jointly sponsored conferences.

In 1959 the two associations undertook their first committee merger by joining their committees on Latin America to form the Evangelical Committee on Latin America (ECLA); they followed with their Africa committees in 1962. The following year (1963) the two Associations jointly established the Missionary Journal Committee, which evolved into the Evangelical Missions Information Service, the publisher of Evangelical Missions Quarterly. The Higher Education Committee joined with its EFMA counter part to form the Committee to Assist Ministry Education Overseas (CAMEO). Other joint IFMA/EFMA committees were: the Committee on Bible Society Concerns, Evangelical Asia Committee, Personnel Committee, and the Mission Review Task Force.

Jointly sponsored meetings took the forms of seminars, workshops, conferences and congresses. The first of these was a 1963 study conference at Winona Lake, Indiana. The following are other meetings which the two associations sponsored together: the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission (1966, Wheaton); a 2nd study conference (1968, Winona Lake); GL'71, "Missions in Tension" (1971, Green Lake, WI, sponsored by the IFMA/EFMA Evangelical Missions Information Service); study conferences which included the Association of Evangelical Professors of Missions (1973, 1976 and 1978, all in Overland Park, KS); and a medical consultation to address issues for mission administrators and medical personnel (1977, Farmington, MI).

A series of workshops for personnel staff began with IFMA meetings between 1967 and 1970. In 1971 the EFMA committee on personnel merged with that of the IFMA, and together they continued the these annual workshops. The meetings focused on personnel issues ranging from recruitment, candidate orientation, staff evaluation, continuing education, a missionary's first term, personnel record keeping, etc.

The two associations cooperated in several other ventures. In 1955, the Summer Institute of Missions developed from an EFMA initiative which later gained the cooperation of IFMA and the Educational Commission of the NAE. Held at Wheaton College during the summer term, the purpose of the institute was to educate students, missionaries and missions executives through courses on missions. The program was continuing in 1988.

Another achievement was their joint establishment of the Africa Evangelical Office in Nairobi in 1962. By 1965, the leadership had set a goal to appoint an African leader of the office at its 1966 meeting. In addition to achieving that goal, the conference participants united to form the Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM).

Thirdly, the Mission Review Task Force, begun in 1979, sought to provide the members of the associations with a tool for self-evaluation.

For an extended treatment of IFMA's history, please see Edwin Frizen's dissertation, An Historical Study of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association in Relation to Evangelical Unity and Cooperation, 1981.

In 2007, IFMA was renamed CrossGlobal Link, and in 2011 merged with The Mission Exchange (formerly EFMA).

Biographical Sketches

The following were some of IFMA's administrative leadership during the period covered by the documents in this collection. The correspondence of these individuals may predominate for the years of their duties. The organizational names in parentheses indicate the missions they represent. Also see Addendum A for a chronological list of administrators.


[NOTE: In the Scope & Content section, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]

Scope and Content

This collection consists mainly of administrative correspondence and documents relating to the operation of IFMA, coordination of policy between among Association members, the administration of its members, and interaction with other organizations. Also included are form letters to IFMA members, and financial statements and statistical reports from them. Other forms of documentation in the collection include minutes, reports, memos, financial records and promotional material. Researchers should note that the collection's earliest records are from 1934, leaving a 17-year gap between IFMA's formation in 1917 and its first preserved records.

Notes on Arrangement. The collection is broadly arranged as follows:

  1. Member Missions Files (folders 1-1 to 43-7); 1934-1981
    A. Correspondence (folders 1-1 to 37-1, chronological, alphabetical); 1934-1981
    B. Financial Statements (folders 37-2 to 40-6, alphabetical); 1953-1975
    C. Statistical Reports (folders 40-7 to 43-7, chronological); 1950-1969, 1975-1981
  2. General Files (folders 44-1 to 51-7, alphabetical); 1946-1983, n.d.
  3. Other Organizations Files (folders 52-1 to 72-16, alphabetical); 1951-1983, n.d.
  4. Reference Files (folders 73-1 to 4, OS 26, alphabetical); 1959-1960
  5. Miscellaneous Files (sampled, selected; folders 73-5 to 75-10, chronological, alphabetical); 1971-1976

    The arrangement of the records has remained as it was received, although files which were not integrated into the overall arrangement were interfiled. The folder titles have also remained as they were received, being modified only for uniformity and consequent ease of access.

    IA. Member Missions: Correspondence (folders 1-1 to 43-7)

    The Member Missions Correspondence subseries is made up of general components: mixed correspondence (folders 1-1 to 5-30; correspondence (folders 5-4 to 37-1); and form letters, Information Bulletins, and minutes (interspersed between folders 5-4 and 37-1. The more specific types of documents in the subseries include correspondence, minutes, form letters, financial statements, statistical reports, invoices, receipts, etc., documenting the following service functions of the Association:

    1. Gathering nondenominational mission agencies to achieve common goals and facilitate mutual support;
    2. Promoting mission interest and action throughout the evangelical community, particularly through general missionary literature;
    3. Developing high standards of business and missionary practice;
    4. Presenting member missions as worthy of support and protecting them "from being associated in the mind of the Christian public with other so-called Faith Missions which are not dependable and commendable."
    5. Forwarding financial support from donors to designated individuals;
    6. Serving as advocates on behalf of members (one example of this would be its endorsement of members' missionaries before the U.S. State Department as they sought passports and visas for their personnel).

    The primary component of this subseries is IFMA's administrative correspondence with its members. The following topics covered in the correspondence highlight the role IFMA played, both with its members and the general Christian community:

    1. IFMA's role as a mission sending agency;
    2. Arrangements for conferences and meetings;
    3. Inquiries about and applications for membership in IFMA;
    4. Financial obligations of IFMA members to the Association;
    5. Reference requests to knowledgeable parties about applicants for membership;
    6. IFMA literature;
    7. Mission meetings at college campuses, Bible schools and churches;
    8. Voting on IFMA issues, i.e., membership applications, constitutional modifications;
    9. Missions conference speakers;
    10. General questions about missionary activity, statistics, personnel, trends, etc.;
    11. Reviews of charges against members;
    12. Contributions to the IFMA;
    13. Nature of IFMA and its services;
    14. Members' tax exempt status;
    15. Reliability and spiritual soundness of member missions;
    16. Purchasing equipment/goods for missionaries for use on the field or furlough;
    17. Obtaining equipment for the IFMA office;
    18. IFMA's relationship with EFMA;
    19. Printing IFMA literature;
    20. Social security status of missionaries;
    21. Missiological and theological trends in various regions around the world;

    As the early administrators of IFMA were executives of member missions, these leaders' correspondence is not only bulkier but often provides insight into their own mission's activity and philosophy of ministry. The files of a number of the founding or earliest members also tend to be more extensive, reflecting their more extensive use of IFMA services (therefore more receipts for literature, prayer letters, etc.) and interaction with and/or influence on IFMA policy-making. The researcher should therefore consult the Addendum of this guide which list IFMA's executives to note their corresponding organizational affiliation and the list of organizations and their year of membership in IFMA. Finally, throughout the subseries, the correspondence is predominated by that of the individuals charged with the president's and secretary's posts. Researchers should consult the Addenda of this guide for a full list of IFMA's administrators and board members in order to determine the time period in which an individual's correspondence is most likely to appear. The nature of this correspondence is often routine but illustrates both the IFMA's responsibilities to its members as well as the ongoing developments as they relate to IFMA of the member missions.

    Researchers should be prepared to encounter one frustration: letters will refer to attached documents, when in many cases they are no longer filed with the cover letter referring to them.

    A comment in a memo attached to an 11/19/59 letter (folder 14-2, contained in stapled packet of correspondence covered by a 1/20/60 letter) from Arthur Glasser to J.O. Percy highlights an broad characteristic of the records which may frustrate the researcher: the records, rather than documenting overseas work by member missions, deal much more with issues related to their United States-based administration. "...the purpose of IFMA appears to be largely to stimulate fellowship between the missions and missionaries of its membership and to share information on matters pertaining to the home end of the work. The field with its many problems, etc. is not part of the central interest of IFMA...The thrust of IFMA is in the direction of the home end of things, not the field." The response to this from IFMA was "We feel, therefore, that our basic activity is not on the field, but rather in the homeland where we seek to arouse the Christian public to the opportunities of the hour, and where we seek to cement the fellowship of our fundamental societies and to do all we can to further missions in the homeland."

    The folders forming the earliest portion of this subseries are arranged alphabetically by letter, rather than by name of member mission, as is the case for the majority of the subseries. In some cases, documents were filed by name of individual, in others by name of organization, i.e. a letter from Walter C. Allen on behalf of the Soldiers and Gospel Mission might be located in the "A" file (folder 1-1) or the "S" file (folder 4-13). For this reason the researcher may need to review a number of files to construct a full series of correspondence on a topic. In most cases, the documents are arranged with the earliest document at the back of the file, the latest at the front. Researchers should note that the 1934-1943 component of the subseries lacks the "T" through "Z" files, while the 1943-1945 portion does not begin until the "G" file.

    Although this earliest portion is included under the "Member Missions" subseries, it contains a wider spectrum of material, some of it unrelated to member missions, such as that from individuals. The materials fall into two general categories: correspondence with member missions and orders for literature (both by members and individuals and churches); in some files, the later predominates, and these files may therefore appear to document only the most routine matters for the time period. However, this routine invoicing information about literature orders, provides a glimpse into IFMA's role as a source of information about missionary work, not only to mission agencies but to individuals considering a missionary career; churches considering supporting a missionary with a particular agency; and Christian schools seeking to encourage missions involvement. These files also illustrate IFMA achieving its own goal to promote missions interest among the general Christian public. Through these records the researcher can get a glimpse of the extensive public IFMA was serving through its modest literature program.

    However, as the following examples illustrate, this mixed portion of the files also contains material revealing the administrative developments in IFMA and its members.

    Folder Description
    1-3 Disagreement between the North East India General Mission (NEIGM), an IFMA member, and a dismissed worker. IFMA acted as an intermediary due to the possibility of having to review the case of one of its members. Charges against the worker included failure to comply with the theological beliefs of the mission; among the charges against NEIGM were misrepresentation of facts, lying, and withholding financial assistance. Further information about controversy regarding NEIGM arises in folders 1-6 and 12. Folder 5-9 contains documentation on a similar conflict in the Ceylon and India General Mission.
    1-14 Correspondence about the pending review of allegations against Sudan Interior Mission for using "high pressure salesman" techniques in fund-raising.
    1-23 Sudan Interior Mission's response to New Tribes Mission's inquiry about launching into work in Africa, asking, "Must the unnecessary loss in South America be repeated in Africa by persisting to put forth inexperienced men into places where they could otherwise profit by the experience of those already in new areas?"
    2-7

    Discussion and votes regarding the membership applications of Gospel Missionary Union, Russian Gospel Association, Unevangelized Tribes Mission, World Missionary Radio Fellowship, Congo Gospel Mission, Bible House of Los Angeles, South China Boat Mission and the West Indies Mission. See folder 2-8 for similar or related material.
    Discussion of the financial practices and theological viewpoint of the Missionary Digest.
    2-7 Correspondence with IFMA's initial printer of missionary literature, Good News Publishing Company. Folders 2-9 and 10 contain correspondence and receipts from Harrington Press, the publishing company which became IFMA's printer in 1944. A copy of an advertisement for IFMA literature is included in folder 1-15.
    2-8 Copy of early edition of Faith Missions, IFMA's promotional brochure.
    West Indies Mission's 1945 annual report along with additional information and correspondence about the mission, relating to its application to join IFMA. The file also contains data on Russian Gospel Association's application to join IFMA.
    3-1 Belgian Gospel Mission's 1944 annual report.
    3-2 Letter from J. Christy Wilson of Student Foreign Mission Fellowship outlining questions North American students were asking about missions in 1946.
    Letter from Jim Elliot ordering literature for Wheaton College's Foreign Missions Fellowship.
    3-2 Letter from Oswald Smith on the need to channel young people volunteering to serve as missionaries into IFMA missions.
    3-6 Materials on a proposed program which arranged for furloughing missionaries to teach courses in missions history and biography on a rotating basis at cooperating schools, one after another. The file includes the proposal letter sent to potential participant schools and to mission boards which would feed their missionaries into the program. Materials are limited to the pre-implementation phase. Folder 5-4 also contains additional information on the "Rotary Method" of teaching.
    4-2 Letter containing the text of the resolution at the 1946 IFMA annual meeting at which the IFMA declined the EFMA's offer to become affiliated with it.
    4-6 Report from IVCF's General Secretary, C. Stacey Woods, on its first student missionary convention in 1946.
    4-15 File is predominated by the correspondence of Frank Torrey, pastor of Calvary Independent Church in Lancaster, PA. Torrey was an influential leader in IFMA at that time.

    The major portion of the Member Mission Correspondence commences with folder 5-4, each file documenting exchanges with a single member mission. Unlike the previous portion, the correspondence in these files is limited to that with representatives of IFMA's membership. The general types of items located in these files are annual reports, special reports, press releases, completed questionnaires with general organizational information, and correspondence documenting the application process. However, the contents of these files is similar to that of the previous portion in that they contain documents discussing policy; invoices for literature, supplies or equipment to be sent to the mission field or used at the administrative headquarters; notices for overdue membership dues. Although the time coverage of each file spans two calendar years, they are actually limited to a one-year period from September through the following August.

    Even though IFMA members united by common theological beliefs and agreed-upon standards, the Association was nonetheless a gathering of independent agencies with varying philosophies and methodologies. Understandably, therefore, various issues were debated throughout the membership. For example, in 1946 there was discussion of the EFMA's offer to affiliate with it, touching on the specific issues of the denominational and sometimes Pentecostal character of EFMA's membership, as well as the more general issue of cooperation among evangelicals and fundamentalists. The relationship with EFMA continued to be a topic of debate into the 1960's, when the two associations formed a joint committee, the Evangelical Committee on Latin America (ECLA). Aside from the relationship with EFMA, the whole topic of cooperation in general was a source of ongoing discussion. Attitudes to fund-raising was another topic discussed with, in 1942 in regard to Sudan Interior Mission's alleged deviation from the "faith principle" of fund-raising practices (folder 1-14) and in the early 1950's over the issue of the "faith promise" form of soliciting financial support. The use of the term "faith missions" was also a topic of debate.

    Other issues dealt with were conferences, coordinating resources, IFMA representatives involvement in lobbying the U.S. Congress, implications of changes in the tax laws on charitable giving, and the review of applications for membership, etc. Some files contain the letters of acceptance when a mission initially becomes joined the Association, along with a statement of responsibilities and rights. Various files document the intricacies of church state relationships in the issue of tax laws, and agencies' relationships with foreign governments. As might be expected, the files also document issues which were of importance within the life of a particular organization.

    Up to the 1968-1969 portion of the subseries, minutes from committee and executive council meetings are filed in the form letter folders for each time period. Beginning with the 1968-1969 portion, they are filed in member mission folders.

    The scope of the material available is vast and exceeds the possibility of detailed description. The examples which follow therefore underscore the wealth of material by illustration. Researchers should note that issues referred to in one folder may or may not be covered in the correspondence of other members during the particular time covered.

    Folder Description
    5-4 Correspondence on the development of an IFMA certificate to be used by member's missionaries when applying for a passport or visa; sample certificate used by Africa Inland Mission; discussion of appointing a full-time executive secretary; 5/21/47 letter suggesting a high level of worldliness and tepidness of missionary spirit of many participants in the 1946 Toronto Student Missionary Convention.
    5-14 Manuscript, A Basis for the Consideration of Practical Missionary Aviation.
    5-21 Material on some pending legislation in the U.S. Senate which affected IFMA members.
    5-25 Correspondence documenting the strained relationship between Sudan Interior Mission and the IFMA.
    6-6 4/24/57 letter regarding New Tribes Mission and feelings about their unconventional methods. A report in folder 63-4 outlines the comments from various other mission agencies about NTM, with a summary of the various feelings included.
    8-4 Correspondence between J.O. Percy, IFMA'S executive secretary and Wycliffe Director W. Cameron Townsend on Billy Graham's open platform policy during crusades, as well as the perceived trend of some IFMA member missions toward cooperating with non-evangelical organizations.
    10-1 1958 survey of home office administrative salaries of IFMA and EFMA missions.
    10-11 Draft of a letter to be sent to member missions making material available which addressed the problem of communism.
    11-2 Correspondence addressing the problem of establishing appropriate medical insurance for missionaries.
    11-9 Correspondence regarding the members' policies for educating the children of their missionaries.
    13-9 Report from AIM Director, Ralph T. Davis on the Belgian Congo's 1960 revolution and the mission's status there.
    13-17 Comparative Study of Support Plans of Some (24) IFMA Missions, detailing fiscal components by the following categories: allowance, housing, medical, retirement, furlough, administration and promotion, field service expense, and children. (Attached to a 12/23/59 letter.)
    Correspondence evaluating shortcomings in the IFMA structure and recommending greater cooperation with EFMA and its members.
    15-9 Letter evaluating the unconventional methods of International Students Inc.
    17-7 Minutes of an informal meeting at which Edwin Frizen was interviewed for the post of Executive Secretary of IFMA.
    17-28 News release announcing the change of South Africa General Mission, Inc. organizational name to Africa Evangelical Fellowship, along with the rationale for the name change.
    19-2 Letter requesting special funding for a project in Iran.
    19-5 Handwritten minutes (5/19/64) of the IFMA Committee on Latin America.
    24-5 Minutes of IFMA's Program Committee, 4/16/69.
    25-7 Documents on the 1969 incorporation of American office of the Sudan United Mission (SUM) into The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM).
    26-2 Relationship of IFMA Missions to National Churches in the Emerging Countries; c.1970. Also included is a 6/26/70 document, Resolutions Agreed to by the Africa Inland Mission, Kenya Field Council at It's Meeting 26th June 1970 For Presentation to the African Inland Church.
    26-3 Relationships in IFMA Missions with Non-Evangelical Churches or Tension points Which Arise in Latin America With the Catholic Church and Particular Problems Which We Face in Latin America With the Emerging Pentecostal Churches.
    27-4 IFMA Missions and Church Planting in Areas Where Old Churches Are Established.
    27-17 News release on the agreed upon cooperation in "joint ventures" between Overseas Missionary Fellowship and Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship, as well as a copy of the resolutions agreed upon.
    29-9 Criteria for Selection of Campus Ministry Men Representing Missions (promotion).
    34-15 Report prepared by the Communications Research Division of the Wheaton Graduate School, examining and evaluating the demographic profile of Latin America Mission's constituency, its awareness of LAM and the Community of Latin American Evangelical Ministries in particular.

    Sprinkled throughout the members correspondence subseries are files containing form letters, minutes, and information bulletins. All of these were duplicated items for general circulation among IFMA members. The form letters were duplicated letters sent to members from the IFMA office regarding matters of business, annual meetings, and the applications of organizations to join IFMA; interfiled among these are press releases. The minutes were those of the Association's Executive Committee, Trustees, Board, and committees and in some cases contained financial statements of IFMA and the lists of the membership of all the Association's committees. Some correspondence relating to the meetings documented in the minutes is also intermingled in the files. Information bulletins were notices of services available to members' and their missionaries about equipment, postal rates, housing, speaking engagements, automobiles, travel fares, and other resources. A full set of these bulletins is located in folder 13-8. In 1963 these bulletins were retitled and modified as IFMA Notes, containing a wider variety of pertinent information (tax laws, technical information on equipment, foreign laws affecting missionaries, etc.), as well as news items of general interest to the membership ("Books of Interest" and "Books Critical to Missions"). Together these files provide thorough coverage of administrative developments in IFMA and the decision process carried out by its members. Periodic reference is made to the relationship between IFMA and EFMA, and the minutes, form letters, etc. document the transition of the relationship between the two associations. Commencing with the 1968 form letter files, minutes from various committee meetings are no longer filed there, although the files do contain some meeting agendas. The minutes are found instead sprinkled throughout the member mission correspondence. Minutes for meetings are again included in the form letter files beginning with the 1976 file (folder 36-7) and continue through the 1980 file (folder 36-11).

    Several files from the concluding portion of the Member Mission Correspondence contain information of particular interest.

    Folder Description
    10-8 Letter advertising the services of an architect and his family who were interested in serving as missionaries with an IFMA mission.
    10-9 Two reports for consideration by IFMA members about two of its members. Charges had been made against Wycliffe Bible Translators by Bob Jones about its relationship to Catholics and government contracts; European Evangelistic Crusade was troubled by administrative upheaval regarding leadership of the mission.
    20-1 News release on the growing cooperation between IFMA and EFMA and a full agenda of a joint associations executives' retreat. This file also includes the press release announcing Jack Frizen's appointment as IFMA's new executive secretary, replacing J.O. Percy.
    20-2 Minutes of the Evangelical Committee on Latin America, a joint committee between the IFMA and EFMA.
    22-17 Suggested Instructions for Missionaries in the Filing of U.S. Income Tax Returns for 1963.
    23-1 Prospectus for the first issue of Evangelical Missions Quarterly, under a cover letter (5/1/64) soliciting subscriptions from member missions. This, along with other projects, reflected a growing cooperation between the IFMA and EFMA.
    Amended IFMA constitution, including its purpose statement, statement of faith, requirements for full and associate membership, and procedure for accepting new members. Attached to this document is a 1964 report, Information About the Religious Situation in Cuba.
    Report on Theological Education Associations, under a 6/10/64 cover letter.
    23-3 Minutes of CAMEO (Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas) meetings.
    23-5 Minutes of Committee on Congress on the Church's World-wide Mission. 23-6 contains subsequent minutes from this committee, including a budget proposal and full schedule.
    23-6 Minutes from the Committee on Amalgamations, which was reviewing a proposal to develop guidelines for advising members contemplating a merger with another mission. The resulting questionnaire to be completed by member missions is attached to a 6/17/65 letter in folder 23-7.
    36-6 1975 survey results of member missions with available summer mission programs.
    1974-75 Student Foreign Missions Fellowship directory.
    36-7 EFMA documents, Recommendations Regarding Evacuation Plans and Recommendation Regarding Kidnapping.
    Revised 1975 IFMA Constitution and Bylaws.
    Statement on IFMA's policy for members' relationships with other organizations and its relationship with EFMA.
    36-8 Background report from the IFMA Business Administration Committee and IFMA Accounting Task Force, Standards of Accounting and Financial Reporting for Missionary Organization. A revised edition of this document is located in folder 36-10.
    36-9 Sample mailing sent out under a cover letter 6/23/78 regarding questions about the social security status of missionaries in light of tax code revisions. Members were encouraged to not only communicate to appropriate congressmen but encourage their constituencies to do the same.
    36-10 The IFMA in the 1980's.
    36-11 A Review of the Indonesia Visa Situation: EFMA-IFMA Briefing, May 20-21, 1980.
    Mission Self Evaluation, outlining a self study for members. A completed report, IFMA Standards, roughly following the proposed format accompanies it.

    IB. Member Missions: Financial Statements (folders 37-2 to 40-6); 1953-1975

    The folders in this subseries contain in various formats the financial reports sent to the IFMA office by its member missions. These reports range from abbreviated one-page summaries to more extensive accountants' audits; in most cases these consistently note receipts and disbursements. A full list of the member missions whose financial reports are available is found in the Container List of this guide. The researcher should be alert to the fact that the time coverage of these reports is scattered.

    In some cases, such as the Evangelical Union of South America, reports have been included for both the Canadian and United States divisions of the mission. Some of these files also contain duplicated statements of philosophy of fund-raising and use of income. Researchers should also note that these files occasionally contain annual reports which include a financial report but also include reports on the work of the mission.

    One item bears mentioning as it would otherwise remain hidden: the file on Far Eastern Gospel Crusade (folder 38-1) also contains an audit on Missionary Internship, an agency providing pre-field orientation in cross-cultural training, which was started by FEGC.

    Additional financial statements can be found among the statistical reports for the years 1952 through 1956 in the subseries which follows (Member Missions: Statistics).

    IC. Member Missions: Statistical Reports (folders 40-7 to 43-7); 1950-1969, 1975-1981

    The folders in this subseries contain the forms annually completed by IFMA members, detailing personnel figures and in some cases areas of ministry. While the forms evolved over the time period documented, they consistently record:

    1. countries in which the missions was active;
    2. total number of missionaries according to country of service;
    3. nationality of the personnel (North American/non-North American);
    4. personnel on the mission field and those on furlough, the permanent home staff, and newly accepted candidates;
    5. total annual receipts.

    The data on these forms is limited to numbers and does not include the names of individual workers. Later reports also record the following for personnel: career vs. short term classification, sex and marital status. There is a five year break in this subseries, with the statistical reports from 1970 through 1974 files missing.

    For the reporting years 1957 and 1958, member missions completed an additional form, detailing station activity, identifying such items as print shops, hospitals, leper settlements, Bible schools or seminaries and national workers, radio ministry and magazines. All but the first file (1950) in the series contain summary documents totaling the data from the individual reports, with a cross tabulation listing each of the missions working in a particular country. In all but the first several files, this summary is in the form of a duplicated statistical report. Many of the earlier files (1952 through 1956) also include financial statements for IFMA's members (described in the previous section).

    For several of the years, other documents appear in the statistics files which researchers should be aware of.

    Folder Description
    41-2 Recommendations of the Resolutions Committee, and report on the Summer Institute of Missions.
    41-3 Report of IFMA Literature & Publicity Committee, receipts and disbursements summary, the General Secretary's report, and a report of Congress on World Missions Committee.
    42-3 The apparent manuscript for IFMA News, a quarterly periodical which included notes from various missions grouped by geographical region, the statistical report, and the directory of members.

    The following list identifies the folder numbers for each of the member missions, which are arranged alphabetically.

    Mission name & Folder #'s

    II. General Files (folders 44-1 to 51-7, 76-1, alphabetical); 1946-1983, n.d.

    The files in boxes 44 through 51 document various IFMA projects and associations. They relate to such diverse topics as: conferences hosted by or in which IFMA participated; coordination of medical services for missionaries of member missions; financial reports; and publications. The files are arranged in alphabetical order by folder title, and the titles are sufficiently specific indicate their contents to the researcher. However, some items bear more extended highlighting or explanation.

    Folder Description
    44-1 File of various correspondence on mission work in the Congo (Zaire). These materials document the western missionaries' adjustment to the elevated role of national Christians, particularly in the Congo Protestant Council (CPC), following independence and the civil war in the 1960's. Included in this is discussion of: evangelical representation in the CPC and difficulties evangelical missions were experiencing with it; a CPC sponsored evangelistic campaign (initially overseen by a missionary with a Congolese pastor serving as the evangelist whose support was covered by IFMA & EFMA members); relationships between the national church and foreign missionaries; the CPC's control of missionaries through their authorization of visas; and the confiscation of Christian & Missionary Alliance (C&MA) properties. Much of the correspondence is with EFMA assistant executive secretary, Wade Coggins and C & MA missionary Willys Braun.
    44-2, 76-1 The Africa Evangelical Office emerged from a jointly sponsored conference in

    Kenya in 1966. The file documents a 1969 conference with the texts of papers on issues relevant to the African church. One issue debated during the preparation for the conference was the imbalance of participation between national and missionary leadership.

    44-3 Manuscript and program guide for Bamboo Curtain, "a missionary drama in five acts." The play, written by Herbert Kane, deals with events the Kanes and China Inland Mission were involved in 1948 in Fowyang, Anhwei, when the communists overran the area the Kanes were in.
    44-6 Map of Africa (Ca. 1955) from Leopold Walford Shipping Ltd., showing points to which the shipper would deliver passengers and freight, as well as showing transportation lines into the interior.
    44-7 Responses to survey of members on their awareness of background to atrocities being committed against Indians in Brazil.
    44-9, 45-1 Calvary Independent Church was a strong supporter of IFMA. These files document both the church's financial support of the Association, and the church's missions conferences, which occasionally utilized IFMA representatives.
    46-1,2 Material documenting the preparation of the EMIS Study Conference, "Missions in Creative Tension."
    46-3 "Hamilton Congress" refers to the Congress on World Missions to be held in Hamilton, Ontario. Also includes a letter which gives a sample of concern about fundamentalism and the influence of liberal theology and neo-evangelicalism.
    47-6,7 Documents on the preparation of a book by Herbert Kane outlining the history of faith missions, including a galley proof of the book, Faith, Mighty Faith.
    48-2 Documents regarding the search process for IFMA Executive Secretary, which ended with appointment of Edwin Frizen.
    48-4 Transcripts of addresses presented at the 1960 Islam Conference. Also see folders 48-5 and 6.
    49-1 Concerns the evangelistic ministry of Rev. C.P. Klaassen, who was seeking to establish an itinerary in Latin America.
    49-5,6,7,8 Outlines a proposal to establish a medical clinic to service missionaries in New York City.
    49-16, 50-1 Missions Annual was IFMA's annual report to supporters, including reports from member missions and compiled statistics. These files appear to be the production files for two volumes of this report.
    50-2,3 Vernon Mortenson was a mission executive with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), as well as serving as IFMA's president.
    50-4,5 Describes consideration of plan to promote IFMA through a booth at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.
    50-7,8 Questionnaires completed by students in 1961, distributed "to discover the reason why so few students in Christian training institutes indicate an interest in foreign mission service..."
    51-5,6 Relates to Trinity Evangelical Theological School's missions education program, and specifically the Consultation on the Theology of Missions and Evangelism. The file includes papers from the consultation.

    III. Other Organizations Files (folders 52-1 to 72-16, 76-2 to 4, alphabetical); 1951-1983, n.d.

    The files in this subseries document the communication IFMA had with numerous other Christian parachurch agencies which were not IFMA members, including those it was instrumental in establishing, such as the Association of Church Missions Committees (ACMC) and those applying to join IFMA. Many of these files contain not only correspondence between the IFMA and the respective office but promotional literature and financial reports as well. Several of these, like the Navigators file (folder 63-3) contain statistical reports like those filled out by IFMA member missions on the geographical distribution of its staff. While the files may not contain extensive series of correspondence, they usually do include background information on the particular organization, such as Your Questions Answered Concerning Operation Mobilization or The Financial Policy of 'Send the Light' and 'Operation Mobilization' (folder 63-6). They also may include a copies of a statement of faith, operational procedures, prayer letters, news releases, financial reports, etc. The issues dealt with in these interchanges are as varied as are the organizations. However, there is a great deal of intersection between the topics discussed in the files and they also break out into several general subject areas: application for membership, financial accountability and fund raising (folder 58-3 and 4).

    This material does not tend to be in-depth administrative correspondence. Far more of it is the routine communication provided by organizations to keep other institutions aware of their current status. The following highlight a few items which might not be evident from the folder titles. These are examples, although not representative, of the wealth of data available in this subseries.

    Folder Description
    53-3 There is substantial material on the Association of Church Missions Committees, of which Frizen was a member of its Executive Committee, including minutes from the organizational meeting at which ACMC was born. ACMC emerged from the National Institute of Church Committee Chairmen (NICCC). These and subsequent files document ACMC's growth, transfer of its headquarters to Wheaton, Illinois, its conferences, and its broadening services to local congregations. folder 53-4 contains the results from a survey asking the question, "How do you evaluate the effectiveness of the missionary and mission organization you support?" Similar surveys were taken whose results appear in this series of files.
    54-4 Transcript of a 1981 consultation intended to form the base from which to develop tools to assist local congregations in choosing the missionaries they will support. This aspect of assisting local congregations was ACMC's most substantial task. folder 55-1 contains the results of a call for mission agencies to submit various personnel evaluation tools they use. Included in the file is the published Evaluation. Folder 55-2 contains similar material. The files include not only the raw data which was gathered, but also the discussion on the format and text of the published report.
    58-1 Document discussing joint planning by evangelical and non-evangelical Christians of a world convocation.
    58-5 to 59-3 These files are of particular interest because of the parallel role the IFMA and EFMA have played. In view of early discussion and avoidance of some form of merger, these files document the growing cooperation between the IFMA and EFMA. Several of these files contain detailed statistical reports of the work carried out by EFMA member missions.
    59-4 The Evangelical Missionary Alliance is a British voluntary association similar to the IFMA or EFMA, comprised of mission societies, Bible colleges and individuals.
    60-3 InterLink is "a self-sustaining, not-for-profit association of Christian business and professional people" (lay persons) aiming to "determine what can be done to develop independent, profitable Christian business and Christian leadership in the marketplaces of the developing areas of the world."
    61-1,2 Link-Care Foundation is an organization which provides psychological pre-mission field training and care for prospective missionaries and rehabilitation for non-hospitalized returnees whose experience on the field made their return impossible.
    62-1 Missionary Information Bureau was a Brazilian agency created to serve evangelical mission agencies and their staff by disseminating information pertinent to them in Brazil.
    64-6 to 65-1 Extensive files which track Short Terms Abroad, for which Frizen was a board member, ranging from its creation in 1965 to its dissolution in 1977, accompanied by the transfer of its work into Inter-Cristo.
    65-2 Seminar Seventy was a conference aimed at leaders working with young people.
    65-3 to 65-6 Summer Institute of International Studies was a program developed by an ad hoc committee of missions administrators and professors in response to Urbana '73 to further educate university level students about the requirements of being missionaries. Similar to Short Terms Abroad files, they cover the Summer Institute's history from beginning to end.
    66-3 Documents related to the charges and countercharges between Underground Evangelism and a Christianity Today writer, as well as conflict between UE and several other organizations carrying out evangelistic ministry in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
    70-2 Ethnic profiles on people from Ethiopia and Afghanistan, written to provide background to those providing sponsorship and care to refugees from these countries.
    70-5ff The Worldwide Christian Education Ministries had its beginning as the World Evangelical Fellowship's Department of Christian Education. In 1967, the department discontinued its relationship with WEF due to financial considerations. The files available here consist of records, both while a part of WEF and on its own. In both cases, it was led by Clate Risley.

    IV. Reference Files (folders 73-1 to 4, OS 26, alphabetical); 1959-1960

    This subseries consists of a series of booklets produced by the Assemblies of God Foreign Missions Department. Each booklet includes general background information on the country as well as an overview, in both statistical and narrative form, of the AOG's mission work in the country. The booklets are arranged alphabetically by the following titles:

    Argentina Greece Nyasaland (Malawi)
    Bel. Congo (Zaire) Guatemala Pakistan (Pakistan & Bangladesh)
    Bolivia Haiti Paraguay
    Brazil Honduras Peru
    Brit. Guiana (Guyana) Hong Kong Philippines
    Brit. Honduras (Belize) India Samoa
    Burma Indonesia Senegal
    Chile Italy Sierra Leone
    Colombia Jamaica South Africa
    Costa Rica Japan Spain
    Cuba Korea Spanish literature
    Dominican Republic Liberia Tankanyika (Tanzania)
    El Salvador Malaya (Malaysia)/Singapore Togo/Dahomey (Togo/ Benin)
    Fiji Mexico Upper Volta
    Formosa (Taiwan) New Hope Leprosy Mission * Venezuela
    Germany Nicaragua
    Ghana Nigeria

    * New Hope Leprosy Mission is located in Liberia.

    IFMA's reference files also include a series of maps of South American, Central American and Caribbean countries. These maps note in extensive detail various sites of ministry in numerous countries. Each map includes: provincial boundaries and populations; urban populations; a list of missions active in the country; and identification of organized churches, unorganized churches and other ministries. The researcher should consult the Container List of this guide for a complete list of those countries covered in this survey.

    V. Miscellaneous Correspondence Files (folders 73-5 to 75-10, chronological, alphabetical); 1971-1976

    This concluding subseries consists of assorted correspondence, related to inquiries IFMA received for information, literature, subscription information for IFMA News, inquiries about employment openings overseas, IFMA orders of literature or publications for its resource library, inquiries about member and non-member missions, etc. This material is similar to the interspersed contents of the folders in the initial portion of subseries IA. Divided into three sections (1971-1972, 1972-1973, and 1973-1976), a representative sample has been retained in the collection, with its majority being discarded at the request of the donor. The IFMA Executive Director also identified a few significant documents not retrieved in the sample, which are gathered in folder 75-10. In the midst of the documentation of IFMA's routine administrative process, a few highlights stand out:

    Folder Description
    73-6 Brochure on Philadelphia 72 Evangelism Convention, coordinated by Afro-American Christians.
    73-7 Proposal, A Concept for the Development of Lay Leadership and Local Resources for the Evangelical Church Worldwide.
    73-8 Letter to David Howard of IVCF (under cover letter, 3/1/72) regarding missions' failure to utilize trained psychologists and possible oversight of other developing areas of study.
    75-5 Recommendations from Nurses Christian Fellowship on communicating legislation requiring continuing education for nurses to those working as missionaries.
    75-10 Correspondence dealing with the possibilities for divorced persons being accepted by mission agencies (5/12 and 5/20/75).


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    Provenance

    The materials in this collection were received by the Center from the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association in February and August 1984.

    Accession 84-32, 84-106
    May 25, 1988
    Paul A. Ericksen
    K. Elwell
    J. Nasgowtiz
    J. Watson

    December 11, 1989, revised
    Paul A. Ericksen


    IFMA EXECUTIVES

    The following chronologically lists some of those individuals who held top IFMA administrative posts during the time period covered by the records in this collection.

    1943 Arthur J. Bowen, President (South Africa General Mission)
    George H. Dowkontt, Secretary/Treasurer (American European Fellowship, Bolivian Indian Mission)
    1944 Ralph T. Davis, President (Africa Inland Mission)
    Joseph S. McCullough, Secretary/Treasurer (Bolivian Indian Mission)
    1945 Ralph T. Davis, President (Africa Inland Mission)
    ?, Secretary
    1946 Ralph T. Davis, President (Africa Inland Mission)
    August B. Holm, Secretary/Treasurer
    1947 Frank C. Torrey, President (Soldiers & Gospel Mission of South America)
    Harmon S. Nixon, Secretary/Treasurer
    1948 ?, President
    August B. Holm, Secretary
    1949 E.J. Pudney, President (Unevangelized Fields Mission)
    August B. Holm, Secretary/Treasurer
    1950 ?, President
    J.O. Percy, Secretary/Treasurer (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1951 ?, President
    J.O. Percy, Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1952 ?, President
    J.O. Percy, Secretary/Treasurer (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1953 ?, President
    J.O. Percy, Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1954 ?, President
    J.O. Percy, Secretary, Administrative Vice-President (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1955 ?, President
    J.O. Percy, Administrative Vice-President
    1956 Herbert M. Griffin, President (China Inland Mission)
    J.O. Percy, Administrative Vice President, General Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    J. Hubert Cook, Secretary (Evangelical Union of South America)
    1957 Ralph T. Davis, President (Africa Inland Mission)
    J.O. Percy, General Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1958 ?, President
    J.O. "Jack" Percy, General Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1959 Ralph T. Davis, President
    J.O. "Jack" Percy, General Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1960 J. Hubert Cook, President
    J.O. "Jack" Percy, General Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1961 J. Hubert Cook, President
    J.O. "Jack" Percy, General Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1962 J. Hubert Cook, President
    J.O. "Jack" Percy, General Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    1963 Vernon Mortenson, President (The Evangelical Alliance Mission, TEAM)
    J.O. Percy, General Secretary (Sudan Interior Mission)
    Jack Frizen, Executive Secretary (Far Easter Gospel Crusade)
    1964 Vernon Mortenson, President
    Jack Frizen, Executive Secretary
    1965 ?, President
    Jack Frizen, Executive Secretary
    1966 ?, President
    Jack Frizen, Executive Secretary
    1967 ?, President
    Jack Frizen, Executive Secretary
    1968 Raymond J. Davis, President (Sudan Interior Mission)
    Jack Frizen, Executive Secretary
    1969-1983 ?, Presidents
    Jack Frizen, Executive Secretary


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    IFMA MEMBER MISSIONS

    The following list outlines the members of IFMA alphabetically, noting when the mission was founded, when it entered the Association, when it merged into another mission or incorporated other members into itself, and, if applicable, when it left IFMA. Those organizations noted as joining IFMA in 1917 are its founding missions. An "*" indicates associate rather than full membership. Organizational titles are in their most current form.

    Mission Founded Joined
    Africa Evangelical Fellowship 1889 1917
    Africa Inland Mission 1895 1917
    American-European Fellowship 1922 ---
    Andes Evangelical Mission 1907 1919
    Arctic Missions 1951 1958
    Belgian Gospel Mission, merged into Greater Europe Mission, 1972 1918 1951
    Berean Mission 1934 1953
    Bible & Medical Missionary Fellowship, incorporated United Fellowship for Christian Service, formerly Women's Union Missionary Society, 1975 1852 1969
    Bible Christian Union 1922 1957
    Bible Club Movement 1936 1960
    Bible House of Los Angeles --- ---
    Bolivian Indian Mission (See Andes Evangelical Mission)
    Central Alaskan Missions, merged into Far Eastern Gospel Crusade, 1971 1939 1962
    Central American Mission 1890 1917
    Central Japan Pioneer Mission --- ---
    Ceylon and India General Mission --- ---
    China Inland Mission (See Overseas Missionary Fellowship)
    Christian Nationals Evangelism Commission * 1942 1976
    Egypt General Mission, merged into UFM International, 1964 1897 1953
    European Evangelistic Crusade --- ---
    Evangelical Literature Overseas * 1953 1963
    Evangelical Union of South America, merged into Gospel Missionary Union, 1975 1911 1951
    Far East Broadcasting Company 1945 1961
    Far Eastern Gospel Crusade (See SEND Intl.)
    Global Gospel Broadcasts --- ---
    Global Outreach 1943 1971
    Gospel Furthering Fellowship --- ---
    Gospel Missionary Union, incorporated Evangelical Union of South America, 1975 1892 1945
    Gospel Mission of South America 1923 ---
    Gospel Recordings * 1938 1951
    Greater Europe Mission, incorporated Belgian Gospel Mission, 1972 1949 1954
    Home of Onesiphorus 1916 1960
    India Mission --- ---
    Inter-Cristo * 1967 1977
    International Christian Fellowship 1892 1923
    International Missions, incorporated Iran Interior Mission, 1955; incorporated Oriental Boat Mission, 1966 1930 1945
    Iran Interior Mission, merged into International Missions, 1955 1923 1951
    Japan Evangelical Mission 1949 1956
    Japan Evangelistic Band 1903 ---
    Language Institute for Evangelism * 1965 1977
    Latin America Mission 1921 ---
    Latin America Mission (Canada) 1921 1929
    Liebenzell Mission 1941 1971
    Mexican Indian Mission, merged into UFM International, 1971 1930 1948
    Mission Aviation Fellowship 1944 1952
    Missionary Services --- ---
    Mission to Orphans, merged into Worldteam, 1962 1945 1960
    North Africa Mission 1881 1952
    North America Indian Mission 1949 1973
    Northern Canada Evangelical Mission 1947 1970
    Oriental Boat Mission, merged into International Missions, 1966 1909 1958
    Orinoco River Mission, merged into TEAM, 1980 1920 1932
    Overseas Christian Servicemen's Center 1954 1970
    Overseas Missionary Fellowship 1865 1917
    Pocket Testament League 1893 1956
    Portable Recording Ministries * 1967 1978
    Ramabai Mukti Mission * 1889 1955
    Regions Beyond Missionary Union 1878 1952
    Russian Gospel Association (See Slavic Gospel Assn.)
    Scandinavian Alliance Mission (See TEAM)
    SEND International, incorporated Central Alaskan Mission, 1971 1947 1951
    Slavic Gospel Association 1934 1945
    Soldiers and Gospel Mission of S.A. --- ---
    South Africa General Mission (See Africa Evang. Fel.)
    South America Indian Mission --- ---
    South America Mission 1914 1917
    South American Crusades * 1959 1976
    Sudan Interior Mission 1892 1917
    Sudan United Mission, merged into TEAM, 1969 1904 1943
    The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), incorporated Sudan United Mission, 1969; incorporated Orinoco River Mission, 1980 1890 1945
    Trans World Radio 1951 1959
    Unevangelized Fields Mission, incorporated Egypt General Mission, 1964; incorporated Mexican Indian Mission, 1971 1931 1943
    United Faith Mission --- ---
    United Fellowship for Christian Service, formerly Women's Union Missionary Society, merged into BMMF, 1975 1860 1917
    United World Mission 1946 1978
    Voice of Tangier --- ---
    West Indies Mission (See Worldteam)
    Woman's Union Missionary Society, renamed United Fellowship for Christian Service in 1971; merged into BMMF, 1975 1860 1917
    World Missions to Children (See World Missions Fel.)
    World Missions Fellowship 1949 1968
    World Radio Missionary Fellowship 1931 1957
    Worldteam, incorporated Missions to Orphans, 1962 1928 1945
    Worldwide European Fellowship --- ---
    Wycliffe Bible Translators 1934 1949

    LOCATION RECORD
    Accession 84-32
    Type of Material: Oversized Materials
    The following items are located in the OS FILE; request by Folder Titles at the beginning of each entry below:

    MAPS (OS 26). 31 maps of the Latin American countries listed below, identifying: the mission agencies working in the country (denominational and nondenominational); organized and unorganized churches as well as other types of work; and the country population and provincial populations. Dimension: 36' x 28'. 1960. Countries depicted include:

    Argentina (north/south) Haiti
    Bahamas Honduras
    Belize Jamaica
    Bolivia Leeward Islands
    Brazil (east/west) Mexico (north/south)
    Br. Honduras (Belize) Netherlands Antilles
    Chile Nicaragua
    Colombia Panama
    Costa Rica Paraguay
    Cuba Peru
    Dominican Republic Puerto Rico
    Ecuador Uruguay
    El Salvador Venezuela
    Guadaloupe Virgin Islands, US
    Guatemala Windward Islands
    Guianas

    AFRICA EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP (OS 26). Undated map of southern Africa, depicting rural and urban church and fellowship "centres" in: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), South West Africa (Namibia), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Swaziland, and Zambia. Dimensions: 21" x 28". From folder 28-14.

    EVANGELICAL UNION OF SOUTH AMERICA (OS 26). Undated map, providing statistics on population, country size, evangelical community and EUSA missionaries for Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Patagonia. Map was intended for graphic design rather than geographical detail. Dimensions: 10" x 15". From folder 21-2.


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    LOCATION RECORD
    Accession 84-32
    Type of Material: Photographs
    The following items are located in the PHOTO FILE; request by Folder Titles at the beginning of each entry below:

    TRANS WORLD RADIO. Shots of TWR's Monte Carlo Trans World Radio station and the transmitter under construction for use at that station. 2 b&w. N.d.

    WORLD RELIEF COMMISSION. Photo sheets sent with reports, illustrating disaster relief and community development work being accomplished by WRC staff and funds in 1976 and 1977, often in conjunction with other mission agencies; each sheet consists of from two to eight shots, and includes some description of the individual shots or project. Depicted are: a WRC/Free Methodist Church hospital project in Zaire; a WRC/Unevangelized Fields Mission food distribution project following an earthquake in Irian Jaya; conditions following an earthquake in Guatamala City, and a WRC/MAF project to survey needs and provide emergency transportation following the Guatamala City earthquake; village water pump projects in Liberia and Bangladesh; post-flood conditions in Johnstown, Pennsylvania; a emergency child feeding program following an earthquake in Turkey, including a news clipping and letter from the US Ambassador to Turkey; reconstruction of a Haitian village; WRC/Free Will Baptist well digging and irrigation project in India. 1976-1977. Also includes one shot of members of WRC's board, Executive Advisory Council and staff, including Everett Graffam, Phil Lersch, Paul Toms, Billy Melvin, Clyde Taylor, and others who are unidentified, ca. 1977. 16 b&w.


    CONTAINER LIST
    Box Folder Item
    I. Member Missions Files (folders 1-1 to 43-7); 1934-1981
    A. Correspondence (folders 1-1 to 37-1); 1934-1981
    1 1 A; 1936, 1940, n.d.
    1 2 B; 1934-1943
    1 3 C; 1934-1943
    1 4 D; 1941-1943
    1 5 E-F; 1934-1943, n.d.
    1 6 G; 1934-1941
    1 7 H; 1934-1943, n.d.
    1 8 I-J; 1934-1941
    1 9 K; 1943
    1 10 L; 1938-1943
    1 11 M; 1934-1942
    1 12 N-O; 1935-1943, n.d.
    1 13 R; 1941
    1 14 S; 1934-1942
    1 15 G; 1943-1945
    1 16 H; 1943-1945
    1 17 I; 1944-1945
    1 18 J; 1944-1945
    1 19 K; 1944-1945
    1 20 L; 1943-1945
    1 21 Mc; 1944-1945
    1 22 M; 1943-1945
    1 23 N; 1943-1945
    1 24 O; 1943-1945
    1 25 P; 1943-1945
    1 26 R; 1944-1945
    2 1 S; 1943-1945
    2 2 T; 1943-1945
    2 3 U; 1944-1945
    2 4 V; 1943-1945
    2 5 W; 1943-1945
    2 6 X,Y,Z; 1943-1945
    Constitution, Meetings, Membership, Etc.
    2 7 1944-1945
    2 8 1943-1953
    Harrington Press
    2 9 1944-1947
    2 10 1947-1950
    Letters from non-IFMA organizations
    3 1 1943-1946
    3 2 1945-1951
    Literature requests
    3 3 1944
    3 4 1945-1946
    3 5 1945-1952
    3 6 Rotary System of Teaching Missions (Ferrin, Howard); 1942-1944
    3 7 A; 1946-1947
    3 8 B; 1946-1947
    3 9 C; 1946-1947
    4 1 D; 1946-1947
    4 2 E; 1946-1947
    4 3 F; 1946-1947
    4 4 G; 1946-1947
    4 5 H; 1946-1947
    4 6 I-J; 1946-1947
    4 7 K; 1946-1947
    4 8 L; 1946-1947
    4 9 M; 1946-1947
    4 10 N-O; 1946-1947
    4 11 P-Q; 1946-1947
    4 12 R; 1946-1947
    4 13 S; 1946
    4 14 S; 1947
    4 15 T; 1946-1947
    5 1 U-V; 1946-1947
    5 2 W; 1946-1947
    5 3 Y-Z; 1946-1947
    5 4 Africa Inland Mission; 1944-1952
    5 5 American-European Fellowship for Christian Oneness and Evangelization; 1945-1950
    5 6 Bible House of Los Angeles; 1945-1949
    5 7 Bolivian Indian Mission, Inc.; 1944-1950
    5 8 Central American Mission; 1944-1950
    5 9 Ceylon and India General Mission; 1944-1950
    5 10 China Inland Mission; 1945-1951
    5 11 Evangelical Union of South America; 1943-1949
    5 12 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1951-1952
    5 13 Gospel Missionary Union; 1944-1951
    5 14 India Mission; 1945-1951
    5 15 Iran Interior Mission; 1951
    5 16 Latin America Mission, Inc.; 1945-1951
    5 17 Mexican Indian Mission; 1944-1952
    5 18 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1947-1950
    5 19 Orinoco River Mission; 1944-1951
    5 20 Russian Gospel Association, Inc.; 1945-1950
    5 21 Scandinavian Alliance Mission of N.A.; 1943-1951
    5 22 Soldiers and Gospel Mission of S.A.; 1942-1950
    5 23 South Africa General Mission; 1943-1950
    5 24 South America Indian Mission, Inc.; 1947-1950
    5 25 Sudan Interior Mission, Inc.; 1942-1950
    6 1 Sudan United Mission; 1946-1950
    6 2 Unevangelized Fields Mission, Inc.; 1945-1952
    6 3 West Indies Mission; 1945-1950
    6 4 Woman's Union Missionary Society of America; 1944-1951
    6 5 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc.; 1949-1951
    6 6 Africa Inland Mission; 1956-1957
    6 7 American-European Fellowship; 1956-1957
    6 8 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1956-1957
    6 9 Berean Mission Inc.; 1956-1957
    6 10 Bolivian Indian Mission; 1956-1957
    6 11 Central American Mission; 1956-1957
    6 12 Central Japan Pioneer Mission; 1956-1957
    6 13 Ceylon and India General Mission; 1956-1957
    6 14 China Inland Mission; 1956-1957
    6 15 Egypt General Mission; 1956-1957
    6 16 European Evangelistic Crusade; 1956-1957
    6 17 Evangelical Union of South America; 1956-1957
    6 18 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1956-1957
    6 19 Gospel Missionary Union; 1956-1957
    7 1 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1956-1957
    7 2 Greater Europe Mission; 1956-1957
    7 3 International Missions Inc.; 1956-1957
    7 4 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1956-1957
    7 5 Japan Evangelistic Band; 1956-1957
    7 6 Latin America Mission; 1956-1957
    7 7 Mexican Indian Mission; 1956-1957
    7 8 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1956-1957
    7 9 North Africa Mission; 1956-1957
    7 10 Orinoco River Mission; 1956-1957
    7 11 Pocket Testament League; 1956-1957
    7 12 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1955-1957
    7 13 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1956-1957
    7 14 Slavic Gospel Association; 1956-1957
    7 15 Soldiers and Gospel Mission; 1956-1957
    7 16 South Africa General Mission; 1956-1957
    7 17 South America Indian Mission; 1956-1957
    7 18 Sudan Interior Mission; 1956-1957
    7 19 Sudan United Mission; 1956-1957
    7 20 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1956-1957
    8 1 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1956-1957
    8 2 West Indies Mission; 1956-1957
    8 3 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1956-1957
    8 4 Wycliffe Bible Translators; 1956-1957
    8 5 Africa Inland Mission; 1957-1958
    8 6 American European Fellowship; 1958
    8 7 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1957-1958
    8 8 Berean Mission; 1957-1958
    8 9 Bible Christian Union; 1958
    8 10 Bolivian Indian Mission; 1957- 1958
    8 11 Central American Mission; 1957-1958
    8 12 Central Japan Pioneer Mission; 1957-1958
    8 13 Ceylon and India General Mission; 1957-1958
    8 14 China Inland Mission; 1957-1958
    8 15 Egypt General Mission; 1957-1958
    8 16 European Evangelistic Crusade; 1957-1958
    8 17 Evangelical Union of South America; 1957-1958
    9 1 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1957-1958
    9 2 Gospel Missionary Union; 1957-1958
    9 3 Gospel Recordings; 1957-1958
    9 4 Greater Europe Mission; 1957-1958
    9 5 International Missions; 1957-1958
    9 6 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1957-1958
    9 7 Japan Evangelistic Band; 1957-1958
    9 8 Latin America Mission; 1957-1958
    9 9 Mexican Indian Mission; 1957-1958
    9 10 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1957-1958
    9 11 North Africa Mission; 1957-1958
    9 12 Oriental Boat Mission; 1958
    9 13 Orinoco River Mission; 1957-1958
    9 14 Pocket Testament League; 1957-1958
    9 15 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1957-1958
    9 16 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1957-1958
    9 17 Slavic Gospel Association; 1957
    9 18 Soldiers & Gospel Missions of South America; 1957-1958
    9 19 South Africa General Mission; 1957-1958
    9 20 South American Indian Mission; 1957-1958
    9 21 Sudan Interior Mission; 1957-1958
    9 22 Sudan United Mission; 1957-1958
    The Evangelical Alliance Mission
    10 1 1957-1958
    10 2 1958
    10 3 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1957-1958
    10 4 West Indies Mission; 1957-1958
    10 5 Woman's Union Missionary Society of America; 1957-1958
    10 6 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1957-1958
    10 7 Wycliffe Bible Translators; 1957-1958
    Form Letters
    10 8 1957-1958
    10 9 1957-1959
    Africa Inland Mission
    10 10 1958-1959
    10 11 1958-1959
    11 1 American European Fellowship; 1959
    11 2 Arctic Missions; 1958-1959
    11 3 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1958-1959
    11 4 Berean Mission Inc.; 1958-1959
    11 5 Bible Christian Union; 1958-1959
    11 6 Bolivian Indian Mission; 1958-1959
    11 7 Central American Mission; 1958-1959
    11 8 Ceylon and India General Mission; 1958-1959
    11 9 China Inland Mission; 1958-1959
    11 10 Egypt General Mission; 1958-1960
    11 11 European Evangelistic Crusade; 1958-1959
    11 12 Evangelical Union of South America; 1958-1959
    11 13 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1958-1960
    11 14 Gospel Missionary Union; 1958-1959
    11 15 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1958-1959
    11 16 Greater Europe Mission; 1958-1959
    12 1 International Missions Inc.; 1958-1959
    12 2 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1958-1959
    12 3 Japan Evangelistic Band;1958-1959
    12 4 Latin America Mission; 1958-1959
    12 5 Mexican Indian Mission Inc.; 1958-1959
    12 6 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1958-1959
    12 7 North Africa Mission; 1958-1959
    12 8 Oriental Boat Mission; 1958-1959
    12 9 Orinoco River Mission; 1958-1959
    12 10 Pocket Testament League; 1958-1959
    12 11 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1958-1959
    12 12 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1958-1959
    12 13 Slavic Gospel Association Inc.; 1958-1959
    12 14 Soldiers and Gospel Mission; 1958-1959
    12 15 South Africa General Mission; 1958-1959
    12 16 South America Indian Mission; 1958-1959
    12 17 Sudan Interior Mission; 1958-1959
    12 18 Sudan United Mission; 1958-1959
    13 1 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1958-1959
    13 2 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1958-1959
    13 3 Voice of Tangier; 1959
    13 4 West Indies Mission; 1958-1959
    13 5 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1958-1959
    13 6 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1958-1959
    13 7 Wycliffe Bible Translators; 1958-1959
    13 8 Information Bulletins to Member Missions; 1958-1963
    Africa Inland Mission
    13 9 1959-1960
    13 10 1960
    13 11 American-European Fellowship; 1959
    13 12 Arctic Missions Inc.; 1959-1960
    13 13 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1959-1960
    13 14 Berean Mission Inc.; 1959-1960
    13 15 Bible Christian Union; 1959-1960
    13 16 Bolivian Indian Mission; 1959-1960
    13 17 Central American Mission; 1959-1960
    13 18 Central Japan Pioneer Mission; 1960
    14 1 Ceylon and India General Mission; 1959-1960
    14 2 China Inland Mission; 1959-1960
    14 3 Egypt General Mission; 1959-1960
    14 4 Evangelical Union of South America; 1959-1960
    14 5 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1959-1960
    14 6 Gospel Missionary Union; 1959-1960
    14 7 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1959-1960
    14 8 Greater Europe Mission; 1959-1960
    14 9 Home of Onesiphorus; 1960
    14 10 International Missions Inc.; 1959-1960
    14 11 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1959-1960
    14 12 Japan Evangelistic Band; 1959-1960
    14 13 Latin America Mission; 1959-1960
    14 14 Mexican Indian Mission; 1959-1960
    14 15 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1959-1960
    14 16 Mission to Orphans; 1960
    14 17 North Africa Mission; 1959-1960
    14 18 Oriental Boat Mission; 1959-1960
    14 19 Orinoco River Mission; 1959-1960
    15 1 Pocket Testament League; 1959-1961
    15 2 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1959-1960
    15 3 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1959-1960
    15 4 Slavic Gospel Association; 1959-1960
    15 5 Soldiers and Gospel Mission of South America; 1959-1960
    15 6 South Africa General Mission; 1959-1960
    15 7 South America Indian Mission; 1959-1960
    Sudan Interior Mission
    15 9 1959-1960
    15 8 1960
    15 10 Sudan United Mission; 1959-1960
    15 11 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1959-1960
    15 12 Trans World Radio; 1959-1960
    15 13 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1959-1960
    15 14 West Indies Mission; 1959-1960
    16 1 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1959-1960
    16 2 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1959-1960
    16 3 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1960
    16 4 Wycliffe Bible Translators; 1959-1960
    16 5 Africa Inland Mission; 1962-1963
    16 6 Arctic Missions Inc.; 1962-1963
    16 7 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1962-1963
    16 8 Berean Mission Inc.; 1962-1963
    16 9 Bible Christian Union; 1962-1963
    16 10 Bible Club Movement; 1963
    16 11 Bolivian Indian Mission; 1962-1963
    16 12 Central Alaskan Mission Inc.; 1962-1963
    16 13 Central American Mission; 1962-1963
    16 14 Ceylon and India General Mission; 1962-1963
    16 15 China Inland Mission; 1962-1963
    16 16 Egypt General Mission; 1962-1963, n.d.
    16 17 Evangelical Union of South America; 1962-1963
    16 18 Far East Broadcasting Co.; 1962-1963
    16 19 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1962-1963
    16 20 Global Gospel Broadcasts; 1961-1963
    16 21 Gospel Furthering Fellowship; 1963
    16 22 Gospel Missionary Union; 1962-1963
    16 23 Gospel Mission of South America; 1962-1963
    17 1 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1963
    17 2 Greater Europe Mission; 1962-1963
    17 3 Home of Onesiphorus; 1962-1963
    17 4 International Missions Inc.; 1962-1963
    17 5 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1962-1963
    17 6 Japan Evangelistic Band; 1962-1963
    17 7 Latin America Mission; 1962-1963
    17 8 Mexican Indian Mission Inc.; 1962-1963
    17 9 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1962-1963
    17 10 North Africa Mission; 1961-1963
    17 11 Oriental Boat Mission; 1962-1963
    17 12 Orinoco River Mission; 1962-1963
    17 13 Pocket Testament League; 1962-1963
    17 14 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1962-1963
    17 15 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1962-1963
    17 16 Slavic Gospel Association Inc.; 1962-19673
    17 17 South Africa General Mission; 1962-1963
    17 18 South America Indian Mission; 1962-1963
    17 19 Sudan Interior Mission; 1962-1963
    17 20 Sudan United Mission; 1962-1963
    17 21 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1962-1963
    17 22 Trans World Radio; 1962-1963
    17 23 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1962-1963
    17 24 West Indies Mission; 1962-1963
    17 25 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1962-1963
    17 26 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1962-1963
    17 27 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1962-1963
    17 28 Africa Evangelical Fellowship; 1963-1964
    18 1 Africa Inland Mission; 1963-1964
    18 2 Arctic Missions Inc.; 1963-1964
    18 3 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1963-1964
    18 4 Berean Mission Inc.; 1963-1964
    18 5 Bible Christian Union; 1963-1964
    18 6 Bible Club Movement; 1963-1964
    18 7 Bolivian Indian Mission; 1963-1964
    18 8 Central Alaskan Missions Inc.; 1963-1964
    18 9 Central American Mission; 1963-1964
    18 10 Ceylon and India General Mission; 1963-1964
    18 11 China Inland Mission, O.M.F.; 1963-1964
    18 12 Egypt General Mission; 1963-1964
    18 13 Evangelical Literature Overseas; 1963-1964
    18 14 Evangelical Union of South America; 1963-1964
    18 15 Far East Broadcasting Co.; 1963-1964
    18 16 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1963-1964
    18 17 Global Gospel Broadcasts; 1963-1964
    18 18 Gospel Furthering Fellowship; 1963-1964
    18 19 Gospel Missionary Union; 1963-1964
    18 20 Gospel Mission of South America; 1963-1964
    18 21 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1963-1964
    18 22 Greater Europe Mission; 1963-1964
    19 1 Home of Onesiphorus; 1963-1964
    19 2 International Missions Inc.; 1963-1964
    19 3 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1963-1964
    19 4 Japan Evangelistic Band; 1963-1964
    19 5 Latin America Mission; 1963-1964
    19 6 Mexican Indian Mission; 1963-1964
    19 7 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1963-1964
    19 8 North Africa Mission; 1963-1964
    19 9 Oriental Boat Mission; 1963-1964
    19 10 Orinoco River Mission; 1963-1964
    19 11 Pocket Testament League; 1963-1964
    19 12 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1963-1964
    19 13 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1963-1964
    19 14 Slavic Gospel Association; 1963-1964
    19 15 South America Indian Mission; 1963-1964
    19 16 Sudan Interior Mission; 1963-1964
    19 17 Sudan United Mission; 1963-1964
    19 18 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1963-1964
    19 19 Trans World Radio; 1963-1964
    19 20 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1963-1964
    19 21 United Faith Mission; 1963-1964
    19 22 West Indies Mission; 1963-1964
    19 23 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1963-1964
    19 24 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1963-1964
    19 25 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1963-1964
    Information Letters
    20 1 July-Oct, 1963; 1963
    20 2 Oct-Nov, 1963; 1963
    20 3 Dec 1963-Jan 1964; 1963-1964
    20 4 Africa Evangelical Fellowship; 1964-1965
    Africa Inland Mission
    20 5 1964-1965
    20 6 1965
    20 7 Arctic Missions Inc.; 1964-1965
    20 8 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1964-1965
    20 9 Berean Mission Inc.; 1964-1965
    20 10 Bible Christian Union; 1964-1965
    20 11 Bible Club Movement; 1964-1965
    20 12 Bolivian Indian Mission; 1964-1965
    20 13 Central Alaskan Missions Inc.; 1964-1965
    20 14 Central American Mission; 1964-1965
    20 15 Ceylon and India General Mission; 1964-1965
    21 1 Evangelical Literature Overseas; 1964-1965
    21 2 Evangelical Union of South America; 1964-1965
    21 3 Far East Broadcasting Co.; 1964-1965
    21 4 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1964-1965
    21 5 Global Gospel Broadcasts; 1964-1965
    21 6 Gospel Furthering Fellowship; 1964-1965
    21 7 Gospel Missionary Union; 1964-1965
    21 8 Gospel Mission of South America; 1964-1965
    21 9 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1964-1965
    21 10 Greater Europe Mission; 1964-1965
    21 11 Home of Onesiphorus; 1964-1966
    21 12 International Missions Inc.; 1964-1965
    21 13 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1964-1965
    21 14 Japan Evangelistic Band; 1964-1965
    21 15 Latin America Mission; 1964-1965
    21 16 Mexican Indian Mission; 1964-1965
    21 17 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1964-1965
    21 18 North Africa Mission; 1964-1965
    21 19 Oriental Boat Mission; 1964-1965
    21 20 Orinoco River Mission; 1964-1965
    22 1 Overseas Missionary Fellowship; 1964-1965
    22 2 Pocket Testament League; 1964-1965
    22 3 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1964-1965
    22 4 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1964-1965
    22 5 Slavic Gospel Association; 1964-1965
    22 6 South America Indian Mission; 1964-1965
    22 7 Sudan Interior Mission; 1964-1965
    22 8 Sudan United Mission; 1964-1965
    22 9 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1964-1966
    22 10 Trans World Radio; 1964-1965
    22 11 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1964-1966
    22 12 United Faith Mission; 1964-1965
    22 13 West Indies Mission; 1964-1965
    22 14 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1964-1965
    22 15 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1964-1965
    22 16 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1964-1965
    Information Letters
    22 17 Feb-April, 1964; 1964
    23 1 May-June, 1964; 1964
    23 2 July 1964; 1964
    23 3 August 1964; 1964
    Form Letters
    23 4 July-Dec, 1964; 1964
    23 5 Oct 1964-Feb 1965; 1964-1965
    23 6 March-May, 1965; 1965
    23 7 June-Aug, 1965; 1965
    23 8 Africa Evangelical Fellowship; 1968-1969
    23 9 Africa Inland Mission; 1968-1969
    23 10 Andes Evangelical Fellowship; 1968-1969
    23 11 Arctic Missions Inc.; 1968-1969
    23 12 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1968-1969
    23 13 Berean Mission Inc.; 1968-1969
    23 14 Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship; 1968-1969
    23 15 Bible Christian Union; 1968-1969
    23 16 Bible Club Movement; 1968-1969
    23 17 Central Alaskan Missions Inc.; 1968-1969
    24 1 Central American Mission; 1968-1969
    24 2 Evangelical Literature Overseas; 1968-1969
    24 3 Evangelical Union of South America; 1968-1969
    24 4 Far East Broadcasting Co.; 1967-1969
    24 5 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1968-1969
    24 6 Gospel Furthering Fellowship; 1968-1969
    24 7 Gospel Missionary Union; 1968-1969
    24 8 Gospel Mission of South America; 1968-1969
    24 9 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1968-1969
    24 10 Greater Europe Mission; 1968-1969
    24 11 Home of Onesiphorus; 1968-1969
    24 12 International Christian Fellowship; 1968-1969
    24 13 International Missions Inc.; 1968-1969
    24 14 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1968-1969
    24 15 Latin America Mission; 1968-1969
    24 16 Mexican Indian Mission; 1968-1969
    24 17 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1968-1969
    24 18 Missionary Services Inc.; 1968-1969
    24 19 North Africa Mission; 1968-1969
    24 20 Orinoco River Mission; 1968-1969
    24 21 Overseas Missionary Fellowship; 1968-1969
    24 22 Pocket Testament League; 1968-1969
    25 1 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1968-1969
    25 2 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1968-1969
    25 3 Slavic Gospel Association; 1968-1969
    25 4 South America Indian Mission; 1968-1969
    25 5 Sudan Interior Mission; 1967-1969
    25 6 Sudan United Mission; 1968-1969
    25 7 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1968-1969
    25 8 Trans World Radio; 1968-1969
    25 9 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1967-1969
    25 10 West Indies Mission; 1968-1969
    25 11 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1968-1969
    25 12 World Missions to Children; 1968-1969
    25 13 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1968-1969
    25 14 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1968-1969
    Form Letters
    25 15 June-July, 1968; 1968
    25 16 Aug-Nov, 1968; 1968
    25 17 Nov 1968-Feb 1969; 1968-1969
    25 18 March-June, 1969; 1969
    25 19 July-Sept, 1969; 1969
    25 20 Oct 1969-Jan 1970; 1969-1970
    26 1 Africa Evangelical Fellowship; 1970-1971
    26 2 Africa Inland Mission; 1970-1971
    26 3 Andes Evangelical Mission; 1970-1971
    26 4 Arctic Mission Inc.; 1970-1971
    26 5 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1970-1971
    26 6 Berean Mission Inc.; 1970-1971
    26 7 Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship; 1970-1971
    26 8 Bible Christian Union; 1970-1971
    26 9 Bible Club Movement; 1970-1971
    26 10 Central Alaskan Missions Inc.; 1970-1971
    26 11 Central American Mission; 1970-1971
    26 12 Evangelical Literature Overseas; 1970-1971
    26 13 Evangelical Union of South America; 1970-1971
    26 14 Far East Broadcasting Company; 1970-1971
    26 15 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1970-1971
    26 16 Gospel Furthering Fellowship; 1970-1971
    27 1 Gospel Missionary Union; 1970-1971
    27 2 Gospel Mission of South America; 1970-1971
    27 3 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1970-1971
    27 4 Greater Europe Mission; 1970-1971
    27 5 Home of Onesiphorus; 1970-1971
    27 6 International Christian Fellowship; 1970-1971
    27 7 International Missions Inc.; 1970-1971
    27 8 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1970-1971
    27 9 Latin America Mission Inc.; 1970-1971
    27 10 Mexican Indian Mission; 1970-1971
    27 11 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1970-1971
    27 12 Missionary Services Inc.; 1970-1971
    27 13 North Africa Mission; 1970-1971
    27 14 Northern Canada Evangelical Mission; 1970-1971
    27 15 Orinoco River Mission Inc.; 1970-1971
    27 16 Overseas Christian Servicemen's Center; 1970-1971
    27 17 Overseas Missionary Fellowship; 1970-1971
    27 18 Pocket Testament League; 1970-1971
    27 19 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1970-1971
    27 20 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1970-1971
    28 1 Slavic Gospel Association; 1970-1971
    28 2 South America Mission; 1970-1971
    28 3 Sudan Interior Mission; 1970-1971
    28 4 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1970-1971
    28 5 Trans World Radio; 1970-1971
    28 6 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1970-1971
    28 7 West Indies Mission; 1970-1971
    28 8 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1970-1971
    28 9 World Missions to Children; 1970-1971
    28 10 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1970-1971
    28 11 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1970-1971
    Form Letters
    28 12 Feb-April, 1970; 1970
    28 13 April-June, 1970; 1970
    28 14 Africa Evangelical Fellowship; 1971-1972
    28 15 Africa Inland Mission; 1971-1972
    28 16 Andes Evangelical Mission; 1971-1972
    28 17 Arctic Mission Inc.; 1971-1972
    28 18 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1971-1972
    29 1 Berean Mission Inc.; 1971-1972
    29 2 Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship; 1971-1972
    29 3 Bible Christian Union; 1971-1972
    29 4 Bible Club Movement; 1971-1972
    29 5 Central American Mission; 1971-1972
    29 6 Evangelical Literature Overseas; 1971-1972
    29 7 Evangelical Union of South America; 1971-1972
    29 8 Far East Broadcasting Co.; 1971-1972
    29 9 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1971-1972
    29 10 Global Outreach Inc.; 1971-1972
    29 11 Gospel Furthering Fellowship; 1971-1972
    29 12 Gospel Missionary Union; 1971-1972
    29 13 Gospel Mission of South America; 1971-1972
    29 14 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1971-1972
    29 15 Greater Europe Mission; 1971-1972
    29 16 Home of Onesiphorus; 1971-1972
    29 17 International Christian Fellowship; 1971-1972
    29 18 International Missions Inc.; 1971-1972
    29 19 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1971-1972
    29 20 Latin America Mission; 1971-1972
    29 21 Liebenzell Mission of U.S.A. Inc; 1971-1972
    30 1 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1971-1972
    30 2 Missionary Services Inc.; 1971-1972
    30 3 North Africa Mission; 1971-1972
    30 4 Northern Canada Evangelical Mission; 1971-1972
    30 5 Orinoco River Mission; 1971-1972
    30 6 Overseas Christian Servicemen's Centers; 1971-1972
    30 7 Overseas Missionary Fellowship; 1971-1972
    30 8 Pocket Testament League; 1971-1972
    30 9 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1971-1972
    30 10 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1971-1972
    30 11 Slavic Gospel Association; 1971-1972
    30 12 South America Mission; 1971-1972
    30 13 Sudan Interior Mission; 1971-1972
    30 14 The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM); 1971-1972
    30 15 Trans World Radio; 1971-1972
    30 16 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1971-1972
    30 17 United Fellowship for Christian Service; 1971-1972
    30 18 West Indies Mission; 1971-1972
    30 19 World Missions to Children; 1971-1972
    30 20 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1971-1972
    30 21 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1971-1972
    30 22 Form Letters; 1971
    30 23 Africa Evangelical Fellowship; 1972-1973
    31 1 Africa Inland Mission; 1972-1973
    31 2 Andes Evangelical Mission; 1972-1973
    31 3 Arctic Missions Inc.; 1972-1973
    31 4 Berean Mission Inc.; 1972-1973
    31 5 Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship; 1972-1973
    31 6 Bible Christian Union; 1972-1973
    31 7 Bible Club Movement; 1972-1973
    31 8 Central American Mission; 1972-1973
    31 9 Evangelical Literature Overseas; 1972-1973
    31 10 Evangelical Union of South America; 1972-1973
    31 11 Far East Broadcasting Company; 1972-1973
    31 12 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1972-1973
    31 13 Global Outreach Inc.; 1972-1973
    31 14 Gospel Furthering Fellowship; 1972-1973
    31 15 Gospel Missionary Union; 1972-1973
    31 16 Gospel Mission of South America; 1972-1973
    31 17 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1972-1973
    31 18 Greater Europe Mission; 1972-1973
    31 19 Home of Onesiphorus; 1972-1973
    31 20 International Christian Fellowship; 1972-1973
    31 21 International Missions Inc.; 1972-1973
    31 22 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1972-1973
    31 23 Latin America Mission; 1972-1973
    31 24 Liebenzell Mission of U.S.A.; 1972-1973
    32 1 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1972-1973
    32 2 Missionary Services Inc.; 1972-1973
    32 3 North Africa Mission; 1972-1973
    32 4 North America Indian Mission; 1972-1973
    32 5 Northern Canada Evangelical Mission; 1972-1973
    32 6 Orinoco River Mission; 1972-1973
    32 7 Overseas Christian Servicemen's Centers; 1972-1973
    32 8 Overseas Missionary Fellowship; 1972-1973
    32 9 Pocket Testament League; 1972-1973
    32 10 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1972-1973
    32 11 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1972-1973
    32 12 Slavic Gospel Association; 1972-1973
    32 13 South America Mission; 1972-1973
    32 14 Sudan Interior Mission; 1972-1973
    32 15 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1972-1973
    32 16 Trans World Radio; 1972-1973
    32 17 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1972-1973
    32 18 United Fellowship for Christian Service; 1972-1973
    32 19 West Indies Mission; 1972-1973
    32 20 World Missions to Children; 1972-1973
    32 21 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1972-1973
    32 22 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1972-1973
    Form Letters
    33 1 1972
    33 2 1972
    33 3 1972-1973
    33 4 1973
    33 5 Africa Evangelical Fellowship; 1973-1976
    33 6 Africa Inland Mission; 1973-1976
    33 7 Andes Evangelical Mission; 1973-1976
    33 8 Arctic Missions Inc.; 1973-1976
    33 9 Berean Mission Inc.; 1973-1976
    33 10 Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship; 1973-1976
    33 11 Bible Christian Union; 1973-1976
    33 12 Bible Club Movement; 1973-1976
    33 13 Central American Mission; 1973-1976
    34 1 Evangelical Literature Overseas; 1973-1976
    34 2 Evangelical Union of South America; 1973-1976
    34 3 Far East Broadcasting Company; 1973-1976
    34 4 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1973-1976
    34 5 Global Outreach Inc.; 1973-1976
    34 6 Gospel Furthering Fellowship; 1974-1975
    34 7 Gospel Missionary Union; 1973-1976
    34 8 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1973-1976
    34 9 Greater Europe Mission; 1973-1976
    34 10 Home of Onesiphorus; 1973-1976
    34 11 International Christian Fellowship; 1973-1975
    34 12 International Missions Inc.; 1973-1976
    34 13 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1973-1976
    Latin America Mission Inc.
    34 14 1974-1975
    34 15 1974-1975
    34 16 Liebenzell Mission of U.S.A. Inc.; 1973-1976
    35 1 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1973-1976
    35 2 Missionary Services Inc.; 1973-1976
    35 3 North Africa Mission; 1973-1976
    35 4 North America Indian Mission Inc.; 1973-1976
    35 5 Northern Canada Evangelical Mission; 1973-1976
    35 6 Orinoco River Mission; 1973-1976
    35 7 Overseas Christian Servicemen's Centers; 1973-1976
    35 8 Overseas Missionary Fellowship; 1973-1976
    35 9 Pocket Testament League; 1973-1976
    35 10 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1973-1976
    35 11 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1973-1976
    35 12 Slavic Gospel Association; 1973-1976
    35 13 South America Mission; 1973-1976
    35 14 Sudan Interior Mission; 1973-1976
    35 15 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1973-1976
    35 16 Trans World Radio; 1973-1976
    36 1 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1973-1976
    36 2 United Fellowship for Christian Service; 1973-1976
    36 3 West Indies Mission; 1973-1976
    36 4 World Missions to Children; 1974-1975
    36 5 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1973-1976
    Form Letters
    36 6 June 1974-December 1975; 1974-1975
    36 7 January-June; 1976
    36 8 July 1976 - December 1977; 1976-1977
    36 9 1978
    36 10 1979
    36 11 1980
    37 1 Current Mailings; 1981
    IB. Member Missions: Financial Statements (folders 37-2 to 40-6); 1953-1975
    37 2 Africa Evangelical Fellowship, Inc.; 1953,1954,1964,1970-1975
    37 3 Africa Inland Mission; 1964
    37 4 Andes Evangelical Mission, Inc.; 1975
    37 5 Arctic Missions Inc.; 1964-1966
    37 6 Belgian Gospel Mission; 1963-1964
    37 7 Berean Mission Inc.; 1964-1965
    37 8 Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship; 1971
    37 9 Bible Christian Union; 1955-1960,1964,1965,1969,1971,1973,1975
    37 10 Bible Club Movement; 1964
    37 11 Bolivian Indian Mission; 1954,1958,1961,1963,1964
    37 12 Central American Mission; 1963,1964,1966,1971,1975,1976
    37 13 Ceylon and India Mission; 1963-1964
    37 14 Christian Nationals Evangelism Commission; 1975
    37 15 Egypt General Mission; 1964
    37 16 European Evangelistic Crusade; 1955,1960,1969,1970
    37 17 Evangelical Literature Overseas; 1964-1966,1971,1975
    37 18 Evangelical Union of South America; 1964-1965
    37 19 Far East Broadcasting Company; 1964
    38 1 Far Eastern Gospel Crusade; 1962,1964,1965,1967,1972
    38 2 Global Gospel Broadcasts; 1964
    38 3 Global Outreach Inc.; 1971-1975
    38 4 Gospel Furthering Fellowship: Financial Statements; 1964-1966
    38 5 Gospel Missionary Union; 1955-1957,1959,1964,1969,1973,1975
    38 6 Gospel Mission of South America; 1964-1966,1968
    38 7 Gospel Recordings Inc.; 1958,1963,1964,1966,1970,1973,1974
    38 8 Greater Europe Mission; 1954-1958,1964,1968,1973
    38 9 Home of Onesiphorus; 1957-1967,1971-1975
    38 10 Inter-Cristo; 1972,1975
    38 11 International Christian Fellowship; 1970,1971
    38 12 International Missions Inc.; 1954,1959,1960,1964,1971,1975
    38 13 Japan Evangelical Mission; 1958-1960,1963,1964,1970,1971,1973-1975
    38 14 Language Institute for Evangelism; 1974,1975
    38 15 Latin America Mission; 1958-1960,1962,1964,1966,1971,1973-1975
    39 1 Mexican Indian Mission; 1964
    39 2 Mission Aviation Fellowship; 1964,1968
    39 3 Missionary Services, Inc.; 1969,1970,1972,1973
    39 4 North Africa Mission; 1964-1965
    39 5 North America Indian Mission, Inc.; 1973-1975
    39 6 Northern Canada Evangelical Mission; 1971, 1978
    39 7 Oriental Boat Mission; 1964
    39 8 Orinoco River Mission; 1955,1960-1966,1971,1973,1975
    39 9 Overseas Missionary Fellowship; 1964,1971,1973,1975
    39 10 Pocket Testament League; 1953,1964,1970,1971,1973-1975
    39 11 Ramabai Mukti Mission; 1963,1964,1967,1968,1970,1971,1973-1975
    39 12 Regions Beyond Missionary Union; 1964,1966,1969,1970,1973
    39 13 Slavic Gospel Association; 1955-1957,1964-1966,1971,1973,1975
    39 14 South America Indian Mission; 1953-1955,1958,1961,1962,1964
    39 15 South America Mission; 1971,1974,1975
    39 16 South American Crusades; 1973-1975
    39 17 Sudan Interior Mission; 1963,1964,1969
    39 18 Sudan United Mission; 1964-1965
    39 19 The Evangelical Alliance Mission; 1964,1967,1968,1971,1973
    39 20 Trans World Radio; 1963-1965
    40 1 Unevangelized Fields Mission; 1954-1956,1958-1960,1963,1964,1967,1971, 1973,1975
    40 2 West Indies Mission; 1956,1965,1972,1974,1975
    40 3 Woman's Union Missionary Society; 1963,1964,1967,1970,1971
    40 4 World Missions to Children; 1964,1966,1973,1975
    40 5 World Radio Missionary Fellowship; 1958-1960,1964,1971,1973-1975
    40 6 Worldwide European Fellowship; 1964,1966
    IC. Member Missions: Statistical Reports; (folders 40-7 to 43-7); 1950-1979, 1975-1981
    Statistical Reports
    40 7 1950
    40 8 1951
    40 9 1952
    40 10 1953
    40 11 1954
    40 12 1955
    40 13 1956
    41 1 1957
    41 2 1958
    41 3 1959
    41 4 1960
    41 5 1961
    41 6 1962
    41 7 1963
    41 8 1964
    41 9 1965
    41 10 1966
    42 1 1967
    42 2 1968
    42 3 1969
    42 4 1975
    42 5 1976
    42 6 1977
    43 1 1978
    43 2 1979
    43 3 1979
    43 4 1980
    43 5 1980
    43 6 1981
    43 7 1981
    II. General Files (folders 44-1 to 51-7, 76-1); 1946-1983, n.d.
    44 1 Africa-Congo; 1964-1969
    Africa Evangelical Office
    44 2 1968-1969
    76 1 Conference - Morning messages; 1969
    44 3 The Bamboo Curtain (drama script); n.d.
    44 4 Bible Conferences; 1963-1966
    44 5 Bible Schools; 1955-1978
    44 6 Ocean Bills of Lading; 1952-1956
    44 7 Brazil Letters - Indians; 1968
    44 8 Calvary Prayer Day; 1953-1954
    Calvary Independent Church, Lancaster, PA
    44 9 1957-1959
    45 1 1960-1965
    45 2 Chester Crest Home; 1953
    45 3 Chinese & Mission Cooperation For Future Evangelization of China; 1973
    45 4 Church Growth Seminars; 1970-1973
    45 5 Conference at Winona - Summer 1954; 1952-1953
    Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission
    45 6 1962-1965
    45 7 1965-1966
    45 8 Continuing Education; 1977
    45 9 Day of Prayer: 1/1/53; 1952-1953
    45 10 Evangelism & Church Growth Workshops; 1974-1975
    45 11 Explo '72; 1971-1972
    45 12 Dr. Frame - Medical Invoices; 1963-1964
    45 13 Medical Services - Dr Frame; 1954
    45 14 General; 1959-1960
    Green Lake '71 - EMIS Study Conference
    46 1 1970-1971
    46 2 1970-1971
    46 3 Hamilton Congress; 1961
    International Congress of World Evangelization
    46 4 1966-1972; 1966-1974
    46 5 1973-1974; 1966-1974
    46 6 Re: Fellowship with IFCA Churches; 1953
    46 7 1974 Annual Meeting: Participants; 1974
    47 1 '74 Annual Meeting Registration; 1974
    IFMA
    Auditor's Reports
    47 2 1947-1955: 1947-1964
    47 3 1955-1964: 1947-1964
    47 4 1965-1973: 1965-1983
    47 5 1974-1983: 1965-1983
    Book, History of Faith Missions
    47 6 1953-1955
    47 7 1955-1957
    48 1 Doctrinal Statement Revision Voted, IFMA Annual Meeting; 1969
    48 2 Executive Secretary; 1962-1963
    48 3 Film; 1952-1956
    First Islam Conference
    48 4 1960-1961
    48 5 n.d.
    48 6 n.d.
    48 7 Enlarged Program & Personnel; 1946-1956
    48 8 Receipts & Vouchers; 1943-1944, n.d.
    49 1 Rev. C.P. Klaassen; 1955
    49 2 Literature Committee (to cooperate with ELO); 1953-1955
    49 3 C.J. Lucas; 1970-1974
    49 4 Management Research Group; 1969-1970
    Proposed Medical Center
    49 5 1951-1953
    49 6 1951-1953
    49 7 1951-1953
    49 8 1951-1953
    49 9 Mission Text Books; 1954
    49 10 Missionary Conferences; 1960-1966
    49 11 Missionary Information Exchange Bulletin; 1970-1974
    Missionary Research Library
    49 12 1955-1961
    49 13 Request; 1953
    49 14 Occasional Bulletin; 1968-1975
    49 15 Missionary Rest Home Project; 1951-1952
    Missions Annual
    49 16 1958-1962
    50 1 1963-1964
    Rev. Vernon Mortenson
    50 2 1962-1963
    50 3 1964-1965
    New York World's Fair
    50 4 1961
    50 5 Booth at; 1960-1961
    50 6 Staten Island Property: John N. Camp; 1959
    Student Questionnaire
    50 7 n.d.
    50 8 n.d.
    Travel
    51 1 1971: 1971-1975
    51 2 1972-1975: 1971-1975
    51 3 Service; 1970
    51 4 Service; 1971
    Trinity and Trinity Consultation
    51 5 1975-1982
    51 6 1976
    51 7 G. Christian Weiss; 1952-1953
    III. Other Organizations Files (folders 52-1 to 72-16, 76-2,3,4); 1951-1983, n.d.
    52 1 ACROSS: Africa Committee for the Rehabilitation of Southern Sudan; 1972-1977
    52 2 Action International Ministries (Philippines); 1974-1982
    52 3 African Enterprise; 1968-1982
    52 4 Agape Movement (Campus Crusade for Christ); 1977-1981
    52 5 Ambassadors for Christ Inc. (to Chinese); 1965-1981
    52 6 American Missionary Fellowship (formerly American Sunday School Union); 1961-1975
    52 7 Asia Christian Communications Fellowship; 1977
    53 1 Asia Missions Association; 1978
    53 2 Asian Theological Seminary: Manila, Philippines; 1978-1981
    Association of Church Missions Committees (ACMC)
    53 3 1974-1975
    53 4 1974-1976
    53 5 1975
    53 6 1976-1977
    53 7 1977-1978
    54 1 1977-1979
    54 2 1978-1981
    54 3 1978-1981
    54 4 1979
    54 5 1980
    54 6 1980
    54 7 1982-1983
    54 8 2nd National Conference; 1976
    55 1 Evaluation Task Force; 1975-1980
    55 2 Missionary Evaluation; 1976-1978
    55 3 Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Organizations; 1978-1982
    55 4 Association of North American Missions (National Home Missions Fellowship); 1954-1981
    55 5 Bible Translation on Tape; 1973-1980
    55 6 Biblical Literature Fellowship; 1959-1972
    55 7 Borneo Evangelical Mission; 1954-1980
    55 8 Brazil Gospel Fellowship Mission; 1954-1982
    55 9 Brazil Gospel Mission Inc.; 1967
    56 1 Campus Crusade for Christ; 1971-1983
    56 2 Cedar Lake Missionary Homes N.J. (furlough housing); 1952-1972
    56 3 Ceylon & India General Mission - Special; 1955-1961
    56 4 Child Evangelism Fellowship International Inc.; 1955-1979
    56 5 China Graduate School of Theology - Hong Kong; 1972-1978
    56 6 Chinese Christian Mission; 1964-1979
    56 7 Chinese for Christ; 1971-1973
    56 8 Christian and Missionary Alliance; 1959-1983
    57 1 Christian Communications Council; 1969-1979
    Christian Medical Society
    57 2 1964-1983
    57 3 1967-1970
    57 4 Christian Missions Recruiting Service; 1965-1969
    57 5 Christian Service Corps; 1964-1982
    57 6 Comite Latino Americano Al Servicio de la Evangelizacion (CLASE) - Peru; 1961-1966
    57 7 Congo Inland Mission; n.d.
    58 1 Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society; 1959-1982
    58 2 Daystar Communications, Inc.; 1970-1981
    Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability (ECFA)
    58 3 1977-1979
    58 4 1979-1981
    76 2 Evangelical Fellowship of India; 1964-1982
    Evangelical Foreign Missions Association (EFMA)
    58 5 1957-1961
    58 6 1962-1964
    58 7 1964
    59 1 1960-1980
    59 2 1968-1970
    59 3 1976-1977
    59 4 Evangelical Missionary Alliance - England; 1960-1980
    59 5 Evangelical Teacher Training Association; 1962-1982
    59 6 FARMS (Foundation for Agricultural and Religious Ministry through Stewardship); 1964-1982
    FAST (Association for the Final Advance of Scripture Translation)
    59 7 1971-1974
    76 3 1972
    60 1 Fellowship of Faith for the Muslims; 1952-1982
    60 2 Furlough Housing, Missionary Retreat Fellowship Inc.; 1969-1976
    60 3 Interlink; 1973-1974
    60 4 International Students; 1953-1983
    Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Special)
    60 5 1951-1979
    60 6 1980-1983
    60 7 Lausanne Committee For World Evangelization: Consultation on World Evangelization; 1976-1980
    Link-Care Foundation
    61 1 1970-1979: 1970-1982
    61 2 1980-1982: 1970-1982
    61 3 Literacy and Evangelism, Inc.; 1971-1983
    61 4 Louis Neibauer Co. Inc. (visual communications); 1971
    Medical Assistance Programs Inc.
    61 5 1965-1968
    61 6 1969-1972
    61 7 1973-1979
    Missionary Information Bureau
    62 1 1964-1972
    76 4 1972-1983
    Missionary Internships
    62 2 1953-1976
    62 3 1976-1977: 1976-1981
    62 4 1978-1981: 1976-1981
    Missions Advanced Research & Communications Center (MARC)
    62 5 1967-1971
    62 6 1972-1976
    63 1 Moody Institute of Science; 1963-1977
    63 2 National Institute for Missionary Committee Chairmen; 1974
    63 3 Navigators; 1959-1974
    63 4 New Tribes Mission; n.d.
    63 5 International Bible Society (formerly New York Bible Society); 1966-1980
    Operation Mobilization
    63 6 1964-1981: 1964-1983
    63 7 1982-1983: 1964-1983
    Organization of Continuing Education for American Nurses, The (OCEANS)
    63 8 1975-1979: 1975-1982
    63 9 1980-1982: 1975-1982
    63 10 Overseas Ministries Study Centers; 1963-1983
    64 1 Practical Missionary Training (PMT): Constitutions and Bylaws; 1954-1960
    64 2 Prison Mission Association Inc.; 1956-1975
    64 3 Red Sea Mission Team; 1958-1964
    64 4 Rural Gospel and Medical Missions of India (B.B. Bhagwat); 1955-1961
    64 5 Scripture Press Ministries; 1973-1980
    Short Terms Abroad
    64 6 1965-1968
    64 7 1968-1969
    64 8 1969-1970
    64 9 1970-1971
    64 10 1971-1974
    65 1 1974-1977
    65 2 Seminary Seventy; 1969-1972
    Summer Institute of International Studies
    65 3 1974
    65 4 1974-1976
    65 5 1975-1977
    65 6 1976-1980
    Summer Institute of Missions
    65 7 1958
    65 8 1961-1963
    US Center for World Missions (William Carey International University)
    66 1 1977-1981
    66 2 1978-1981
    66 3 R Underground Evangelism; 1965-1978
    66 4 United Missions to Nepal; 1975-1983
    66 5 Wheaton '83: I Will Build My Church; 1982-1983
    Graham Center - Wheaton College
    66 6 1974-1980
    67 1 1981
    67 2 Center for the Study of World Missions (Pre Graham Center Studies); 1969-1973
    67 3 World Consultation on Frontier Missions; 1975-1981
    World Evangelical Fellowship
    67 4 1965-1974
    67 5 1974-1979
    67 6 1975-1979
    68 1 1979-1983
    World Relief Commission
    68 2 1973-1975
    68 3 1974-1975
    68 4 1974-1975
    68 5 1975
    68 6 1976
    69 1 1976-1977
    69 2 1977
    69 3 1978-1979
    Board minutes & agenda
    69 4 1980
    70 1 1982
    70 2 World Relief Commission Ethnic Profiles; 1982
    World Vision Inc.
    70 3 1955-1977
    70 4 1978-1983
    Worldwide Christian Education Ministries (WCEM)
    (WEF-Department of Christian Education [DCE])
    70 5 1964-1967
    70 6 Advisory Committee; 1965-1966
    70 7 Board; 1965
    70 8 Deposit Records; 1966-1967
    Financial Reports
    70 9 Monthly; 1965-1966
    71 1 1965-1968
    71 2 General Journal; 1965
    71 3 1967-1971
    71 4 1967-1974
    71 5 1968-1976
    71 6 1975
    71 7 Auditors Report; 1972-1973
    71 8 Annual Report For Secretary of State of Illinois; 1972-1975
    71 9 Board Meeting, Los Angeles April 8 - 11, 1975; 1975
    71 10 Corporate records; 1967-1975
    72 1 Dissolution and Audit; 1975
    Financial Reports
    72 2 Annual; 1967-1969
    72 3 Annual & monthly; 1969-1974
    72 4 1975
    72 5 Incorporation papers; 1972-1975
    72 6 Internal Revenue Tax Exemption; 1969-1975
    72 7 Lease 5500 W. Division St, Chicago; 1972-1975
    Ledger
    72 8 1967-1970
    72 9 1971-1973
    72 10 Minutes; 1967-1975
    72 11 Extra Copies of Minutes (Travel File); 1967-1975
    Quarterly Income Tax Forms 941
    72 12 1968
    72 13 1969
    72 14 1970
    72 15 1971
    72 16 1972
    IV. Reference Files (folders 73-1 to 4, OS 26); 1959-1960
    Booklets
    73 1 A - E; c. 1959
    73 2 F - I; c. 1959
    73 3 J - P; c. 1959
    73 4 S - Z; c. 1959
    Maps
    OS 26 N. Argentina; 1960
    OS 26 S. Argentina; 1960
    OS 26 Bahama Islands; 1960
    OS 26 Bolivia; 1960
    OS 26 E. Brazil; 1960
    OS 26 W. Brazil; 1960
    OS 26 British Honduras; 1960
    OS 26 Chile; 1960
    OS 26 Colombia; 1960
    OS 26 Costa Rica; 1960
    OS 26 Cuba; 1960
    OS 26 Dominican Republic; 1960
    OS 26 Ecuador; 1960
    OS 26 El Salvador; 1960
    OS 26 Guatemala; 1960
    OS 26 Guianas; 1960
    OS 26 Haiti; 1960
    OS 26 Honduras; 1960
    OS 26 Jamaica; 1960
    OS 26 Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands U.S., Guadeloupe; 1960
    OS 26 N. Mexico; 1960
    OS 26 S. Mexico; 1960
    OS 26 Netherlands Antilles (Arula, Curaco, Bonaire, Trinidad, Tobago); 1960
    OS 26 Nicaragua; 1960
    OS 26 Panama; 1960
    OS 26 Paraguay; 1960
    OS 26 Peru; 1960
    OS 26 Puerto Rico; 1960
    OS 26 Uruguay; 1960
    OS 26 Venezuela; 1961
    OS 26 Windward Islands (Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Barbados); 1960
    V. Miscellaneous Files (folders 73-5 to 75-3); 1971-1976
    73 5 "A" Miscellaneous; 1971-1972
    73 6 "D" Miscellaneous; 1971-1972
    73 7 "H" Miscellaneous; 1971-1972
    73 8 "I" Miscellaneous; 1971-1972
    74 1 "N" Miscellaneous; 1971-1972
    74 2 "T" Miscellaneous; 1971-1972
    74 3 "B" Miscellaneous; 1972-1973
    74 4 "G" Miscellaneous; 1972-1973
    74 5 "M" Miscellaneous; 1972-1973
    74 6 "W" Miscellaneous; 1972-1973
    75 1 "C" Miscellaneous; 1973
    75 2 "C" Miscellaneous; 1973
    75 3 "C" Miscellaneous; 1974
    75 4 "C" Miscellaneous; 1975-1976
    75 5 "I" Miscellaneous; 1973-1976
    75 6 "J" Miscellaneous; 1973-1976
    75 7 "O" Miscellaneous; 1973-1976
    75 8 "U" Miscellaneous; 1973-1976
    75 9 "Y" Miscellaneous; 1973-1976
    75 10 Selected miscellaneous; 1971-1976
    76 1 Africa Evangelical Office: Conference - Morning messages; 1969
    76 2 Evangelical Fellowship of India; 1964-1982
    76 3 Association for the Final Advance of Scripture Translation (FAST); 1972
    76 4 Missionary Information Service; 1972-1983



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