Papers of Harold Edward Renfrow - Collection 627

[Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent.]

Table of Contents

Title Page and Restrictions

Brief Description of This Collection

Biography

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

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 (Box List)

6 Boxes (DC), Oversize materials, Photographs (2.75 cubic feet)

Restrictions: None

Brief Description. Correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, forms, minutes, memos, budgets, incorporation papers relating to Renfrow's work as executive secretary of the 1974 Cruzada Evangelística Billy Graham Grande-Rio, held in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

Scope and Content

[Note: In the Scope & Content section, the notation “folder 2-5" means “Box 2, Folder 5"]

Arrangement: Alphabetical by title. The titles of all of the folders were supplied by Renfrow, except for the following, which were supplied by the archivist: 1-1, 1-2, 1-6, 2-5, 2-6, 3-3, 4-2, 4-6, 4-7, 5-3, and 5-8
Date Range: 1972-1979
Volume: 2.75 cubic feet
Boxes: 1-6
Geographic coverage: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Type of documents: Correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, forms, minutes, memos, budgets, incorporation papers
Correspondents: Victor Davis, Nilson do Amarl Fanini, Billy Graham, Edgar Hallock, Henry Holley, Louis Knowlton, Victor Nelson, John Pollock, and Efrain Santiago
Subjects: The 1974 Billy Graham Greater Rio Crusade
Notes: Almost all the documents in this collection are in Portugese, except for the following folders, which contain some or mostly English language materials: 1-6, 2-5, 2-6, 4-1, 4-2. The staff was unable to review most of the documents because of language limitations. However, most of the materials appear to be the forms, plans, etc. used to plan, hold, and follow-up a Billy Graham evangelistic campaign. Correspondence can be found in folders 1-6, 2-6 to 2-8, and 5-4, among others. Clippings of articles about the crusade and other evangelistic events in Brazil are in folders 4-6 and 4-6. Organizational charts for crusade committees are in folder 5-8. Folders 1-6 and 2-6 include material about author John Pollock’s visit to Brazil to gather material for his biography of Billy Graham. There is a little information about Renfrow’s attendance of the 1974. Lausanne Congress in folder 2-6 and 4-3. Folder 2-6 also has some information on the Lausanne Committee-sponsored 1977 Segundo Encontro de Líderes Evangélicos Da América-Latina.

Provenance

The materials in this collection were given to the Archives of the Billy Graham Center by Nona Renfrow in May 1996.

Accession: 96-33
November 18, 2007
Bob Shuster
K. Haywood

The following items are in the OVERSIZE FILE. Request by collection number and folder location (in parentheses).

Three multi-color posters for the Greater Rio Crusade (there are three copies of one of the posters) All contain photos of Billy Graham. Text is in Portugese. 1974.

Poster advertising training session for counselors for the crusade, 1974 (2 copies)

Multi-color vinyl banner announcing the crusade, 1974. (4 copies)

Poster announcing the May concerts by Billy Graham Evangelistic Association musical artists Cliff Barrows, George Beverly Shea, and Tedd Smith. 1974 (2 copies)

Map of the city of Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding area, with hand drawn lines showing the districts it had been divided into for the crusade’s counseling and follow-up efforts. 1974.

Accession: 96-33
Type of material: Photographs
The following items are located in the PHOTO FILE; request by folder title (in bold) at the beginning of each entry below.

BGEA: Rio Crusade, Greater, 1974: 2 b&w, 4 color. Pictures of Billy Graham or Cliff Barrows with local leaders of the crusade, Barrows leading singing, Graham preaching, Nilson Fanini and others at the unveiling of a plaque. 1974, n.d.

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