[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. |
D. 1984 International
Prayer Assembly
E. 1985 Consultation on
the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization (Oslo, Norway)
F. Singapore '87 (Intl
Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian Leaders)
G. Lausanne II Congress, Manila,
1989 (see Series II.C.2.b.2)
H. 2007 Bi-Annual Lausanne International
Leadership Meeting, Budapest
I. Lausanne Consultation on Jewish
Evangelism
J. Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization
(Cape Town, 2010)
Collection 46 [May 21, 2021]
Lausanne Movement; 1974
Records; 1949, 1969 2014
380 boxes (333 DC, 45 RC, 2 ODC); Audio Tapes, Digital files, DVDs, Film,
Negatives, Oversize Material, Photo Album, Photographs, Slides, Video Tapes
(196.2 cubic feet)
Restrictions: The following parts of this collection are restricted and cannot be used without written permission until the date noted:
Box-Folder # |
Date Restriction Removed |
37-31 |
February 14, 2033 |
168-8 |
December 31, 2055 |
169-1,2,3 |
December 31, 2055 |
all contents of boxes 183-197 |
December 31, 2069 |
198-1,2 | December 31, 2069 |
Requests
for permission to use the above files should be directed to (does not apply
to the Billy Graham files listed below):
Forms to be used for requesting permission should be obtained from the Reading
Room staff.
Founded |
|
1974 |
Initially as the Lausanne Continuation Committee following the International Congress on World Evangelization; in 1976 the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization was established. |
Headquarters location |
|
1981-1984 |
An international headquarters was established in London where Gottfried Osei-Mensah had relocated from Nairobi. Following his resignation in 1984, the LCWE again functioned from the location of its primary officers without a centralized headquarters. |
1987-1989 |
International Office in Singapore under the leadership of International Director Thomas Wang. Closed in month 1989 and relocated to Pasadena. |
1988 |
Coordination Office. Staff directing program development and participant selection in preparation for the Lausanne II Congress operated from Pasadena and Monrovia, California. |
1989 |
International Office in Pasadena; Congress Office in Manila |
1989 or 1990- |
Coordination Office. Pasadena office and staff resumed this function while the International Office operated under Houston’s oversight in Oxford |
1990-1992 |
International Office in Oxford, England, under Tom Houston’s direction |
Biographical sketches of early principal executive officers |
|
1974-1992 |
Born in Toronto in 1931; received his B.A. from Wheaton College in 1952 and his B.D. in 1955 from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia; married Jean Coffey Graham, Billy Graham's sister in 1953; between 1953 and 1955 Ford served as a supply pastor, student pastor and summer assistant for churches in Texas, Missouri and Georgia; ordained in the Presbyterian Church in the US, 1955; joined the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) as an Associate Evangelist, 1955; his first BGEA duties in this capacity were to assist in Billy Graham’s 1955 London Crusade, after which he conducted crusades on his own throughout the world; appointed Vice President for the BGEA in 1958, which he continued until his retirement in 1986. Appointed the Chairman of the ICOWE Program Committee in 1973 and also served on the Congress Planning Committee. Following the Congress he was a member of the LCC Executive Committee, and was elected the Chairman of the LCWE in 1976 at its inception. He was Chairman of the Thailand Consultation and gave the opening address of that meeting. He also worked as the Program Chairman for Amsterdam '83 and Amsterdam '86, the International Conferences for Itinerant Evangelists. Ford resigned from the BGEA in 1986 in order to launch Leighton Ford Ministries, as well as to continue his LCWE duties. Ford also authored books and articles, and was a regular speaker on the BGEA's "Hour of Decision" radio program. Ford retired as Chairman in 1992, when he was named Honorary Life Chairman. |
Personnel by Position |
|||
Position |
Name |
Dates |
|
Lausanne Continuation Committee |
|||
|
Chairman |
A. J. Dain |
1974-1975 |
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization |
|||
|
Honorary Chairman |
Billy Graham |
1974-? |
|
Chairman |
Leighton Ford (designated Honorary Life Chairman in 1992) |
1976-1992 |
|
Secretary to Chairman (Leighton Ford) |
Leola Linkous |
|
|
|
Kathy Roth |
1985-? |
|
|
John R. Reid |
1992-1994? |
|
Executive Chair |
Fergus Macdonald |
1994-1997? |
|
|
Paul Cedar |
1998-2004 |
|
|
S. Douglas Birdsall |
2004- |
|
Deputy Chair |
Chongnahm Cho |
|
|
|
John R. Reid |
1988-? |
|
Vice Chair |
Chongnahm Cho |
2002-? |
|
General Coordinator |
A.J. Dain |
1982-1984 |
|
Secretary to General Coordinator |
Leanne Ellem |
1982-1984 |
|
Executive Secretary |
Gottfried Osei-Mensah |
1975-1984 |
|
Secretary and Administrative Assistant to Executive Secretary |
Patrica Newth |
1976-1981 |
|
|
Jane Rainey Fraser |
1980-1981 |
|
Executive Director |
Carl Johansson |
1984-1985 |
|
Acting Director for Program Coordination |
Brad Smith |
1985 |
|
Acting Executive Director |
Irv Chambers |
1985 |
|
Deputy Chairman |
Thomas Wang |
1986 |
|
International Director |
Thomas Wang |
1987-1989 |
|
|
Tom Houston |
1989-1992 |
Interim International Coordinator | John Siewert | 1999-2001 | |
Gary Barnes | 2001-? | ||
|
|
David Claydon |
2002-2004 |
|
|
Tetsunao “Ted” Yamamori |
2004- |
Lindsay Brown | 2008-? | ||
|
Secretary to International Director (Thomas Wang) |
Sharon Chan |
1987-1989 |
|
Associate International Director |
Paul McKaughan |
1987-1989 |
|
Deputy Director |
Bill Ditewig |
1989?-? |
|
Secretary to Deputy Director |
Sharon Chan |
1989-? |
|
Minister-at-Large |
Tom Houston |
1992-? |
|
Director of Ministries |
Paul McKaughan |
1987-? |
|
Director of Communications |
Jim Newton |
1987-? |
|
|
Joseph Sindorf |
|
|
Senior Associates Program Coordinator |
Brad Smith |
1987-? |
|
Secretary |
Fergus Macdonald |
ca. 1993 |
|
Treasurer |
Donald Hoke |
1976-1989 |
|
|
Roger Parrott |
|
|
Assistant Treasurer |
James Coleman |
1986-? |
|
Deputy Executive Officer |
John Howell |
1977-1980 |
|
Executive Assistant |
John Howell |
|
|
Communications Working Group Chair (later Global Communications Working Group) |
Thomas Zimmerman |
1986-1981 |
|
|
Horst Marquardt |
1981-? |
|
|
Wing-tai Leung |
|
|
Intercession Working Group chair |
John R. Reid |
1976-1981 |
|
|
Vonette Bright |
1981-? |
|
|
Glenda Weldon |
|
|
Leadership Development Working Group chair |
Doug Birdsall |
|
|
Strategy Working Group chair |
C. Peter Wagner |
1976-1981 |
|
|
Ed Dayton |
1981-? |
|
|
Bryant Myers |
1993 |
|
|
Paul Eshleman |
|
|
Theology & Education Working Group chair (later Theology Working Group |
John Stott |
1976-1981 |
|
|
John R. Reid |
1981-? |
|
|
Peter Kuzmic |
|
|
|
Luder Whitlock |
|
|
Special Assistant on Communications, Communications Officer |
Bill Jefferson |
1982 |
|
|
Steve Downey |
1986-? |
|
Lausanne Communications Council for World Evangelization executive director |
Elmer Wilson |
1993-? |
|
Editor of World Evangelization |
Steve Downey |
1985-1986? |
|
Managing editor of World Evangelization |
Leslie Tarr |
|
|
|
Sharon Chan |
1988 |
|
Chairman of Search Committee |
Thomas Zimmerman |
1983 |
Lausanne Committee US |
|||
|
President |
Thomas Zimmerman |
1986-1990 |
|
Director of US Operations |
Roger Parrott |
1986-1989 |
|
|
Rob Martin |
1989-1990 |
|
|
David Hartz |
1990-1991 |
Lausanne Full and Executive Committee (EC) meetings (chronological) |
||
|
Mexico City |
January 20-23, 1975 |
|
London (EC only) |
September 1-4, 1975 |
|
Atlanta, Georgia |
January 12-16, 1976 |
|
West Berlin |
September 6-10, 1976 |
|
Montreal (EC only) |
September 5-9, 1977 |
|
Bermuda |
January 14-20, 1978 |
|
Springfield, Missouri (Exec Comm only) |
September 4-8, 1978 |
|
Atlantic City, New Jersey (EC only) |
November 12-16, 1979 |
|
Ventnor, New Jersey |
November 12-16, 1979 |
|
Pattaya, Thailand |
June 14-28, 1980 |
|
Old Jordans, Bucks, England (EC only) |
May 26-29, 1981 |
|
Wheaton, Illinois |
May 21-26, 1982 |
|
Arrowhead Springs, California |
January 17-21, 1983 |
|
Stuttgart, West Germany |
September 8-15, 1984 |
|
Oslo, Norway |
June 3-6, 1985 |
|
Amsterdam (during Amsterdam ‘86) |
July 7-10, 1986 |
|
Atlanta and Callaway Gardens, Georgia |
January 18-24, 1987 |
|
Mt. Hermon, California |
January 11-15, 1988 |
|
Malibu, California (Exec Comm only) |
December 12-16, 1988 |
|
Manila |
July 10-21, 1989 |
|
Arrowhead Springs, California |
January 22-25, 1990 |
|
Budapest, Hungary |
June 1-7, 1991 |
|
Azusa, California |
August 30-September 4, 1992 |
|
Stuttgart, Germany |
February 7-10, 1994 |
|
Stuttgart, Germany |
February 26-March 1, 1996 |
|
Toronto, Canada |
March 8-13, 1998 |
|
Jackson, Mississippi |
July 4-7, 2002 |
Lausanne Committee members (some alternates later became regular members and their names therefore appear in both lists) |
||
|
Rev. Lucien Accad
|
Mr.
Jonathan Chiu |
Dr.
Leighton Ford |
Mr.
Costas Macris |
|
Rev.
Manuel L. Scott |
Rev.
Thomas Wang |
Lausanne Committee alternates (some alternates later became regular members and their names therefore appear in both lists) |
||
|
Mr.
Isaac Ababio |
Rev.
Simone Ibrahim |
|
Rt.
Rev. J.R. Reid |
Rev.
Elon Svanell |
Working Groups: These groups, each headed by a LCWE Executive Committee member, oversaw and coordinated specific areas of strategy, planning, operation |
|
|
Intercession Working Group, chaired by Bishop John Reid of Australia, who was succeeded in 1981 by Vonette Bright. |
|
Theology and Education Working Group, chaired by John Stott of England, who was succeeded by John Reid in 1981 (the working group was later renamed the Theology Working Group) |
|
Strategy Working Group, chaired by Peter Wagner of the United States, who was succeeded by Ed Dayton in 1981 |
|
Communications Working Group, chaired by Thomas Zimmerman of the United States, who was succeeded by Horst Marquardt in 1981 (later renamed the Global Communications Working Group) |
|
Leadership Development Working Group |
|
Global CEOs Working Group |
Selected significant events in organizational history for which there are documents in the collection (see a more extensive list the LCWE Web page at http://www.lausanne.org) |
|
1974 |
International Congress
on World Evangelization (ICOWE), Lausanne, Switzerland In November 1971, Billy Graham convened a meeting at which he inquired about the advisability of holding another international congress on world evangelization as a follow-up to the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin. The purpose of the meeting was to gather the leaders of evangelical Protestant Christians together for strategic planning, inspiration, and fellowship. A Board of Conveners, made up of 164 Christian leaders who had gathered at Graham's invitation, served as the formal governing authority of the Congress. The Planning Committee consisted of thirty-one members, led Dain. Funding for the Congress came from donations and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). The BGEA also provided support by allowing several of its employees to work full- or part-time as staff members or consultants. The Congress office was opened in April 1973, with the staff’s major tasks including selecting the four thousand participants to invite. The Congress (also called Lausanne Congress) met with the theme, "Let The Earth Hear His Voice." In addition to the major plenary addresses (including the open and closing addresses by Graham), the program consisted of Bible studies, demonstrations of evangelistic methods, small group discussions and reports on various aspects of the theology and strategy of evangelism, reports on the situation of the church in various geographic locations, debates by citizens and workers on the strategies necessary for particular nations, Laustade '74 (the evangelistic meeting for the general public held in the city's stadium), and the signing by a large number of the participants of the Lausanne Covenant, a statement intended to define the necessity, responsibilities, and goals of spreading the Gospel. The Congress office was officially closed in October 1974. For more detailed background information on the Congress, see BGC Archives collection 53, Records of the International Congress on World Evangelization. |
1977 |
Homogeneous Unit
Principle Consultation, Pasadena |
1978 |
Willowbank or Gospel
and Culture Consultation, Bermuda |
1978 |
North American
Conference on Muslim Evangelization, Glen Eyrie, CO |
1979 |
U.S. Simple Lifestyle
Consultation, in Ventnor, NJ |
1980 |
International Simple
Lifestyle Consultation, London, 1980 |
1980 |
Consultation on
World Evangelization (COWE), Pattaya, Thailand Following the Lausanne Congress, the LCWE decided to convene a working consultation to evaluate what had happened in world evangelization since the 1974 Lausanne meeting and to develop realistic strategies for the future. LCWE issued a call in 1977 for the Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE) under the theme, "How Shall They Hear?" Gottfried Osei-Mensah and John Howell, LCWE's Executive Assistant & COWE Director of Operations, were also involved in the planning and preparations for the meeting from their office in Nairobi. The Consultation site selected in a deliberate effort to identify with the church in the Third World. The size of the meeting was kept intentionally small to facilitate its task as a working and studying consultation. Participants were selected on the basis of their contribution to world evangelization and their influence in their own national and/or church circles, both at the time and in the projected future. Since COWE was intended to be a study consultation, a broad foundation of study groups was built throughout the world before COWE. Their focus of study was directed on specific groups of people to be reached with the Gospel, with an International Coordinator oversee each of these areas of study. The fruit of the work of the study groups was set down in papers summarizing their findings. The International Coordinator then consolidated the information from these studies and produced a paper summarizing the findings on a worldwide basis. These papers formed the basis for the seventeen Mini-Consultations at the Thailand Consultation. Meetings for interest groups were coordinated to allow individuals with specialized ministries to gather; regional groups also met to facilitate united effort within a geographical region. Simultaneous with the Consultation, the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization met to The results of the Consultation included the final papers developed by each of the Mini-Consultations and the resulting compendium of them; the recommendation of the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization; audio tapes of the plenary messages; and the ongoing work of the study groups organized prior to the Consultation. |
1980 |
Commission on Cooperation
in World Evangelization, Pattaya, Thailand |
1981 |
American Festival
of Evangelism |
1982 |
Consultation on
the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility (CRESR),
Grand Rapids |
1984 |
International Prayer
Assembly for World Evangelization, Seoul |
1985 |
Consultation on
the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization, Oslo |
1986 |
Third Consultation
on Jewish Evangelism, Easneye, England |
1987 |
Singapore '87 (International
Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian Leaders) |
1988 |
Leadership '88
(the U.S. Conference for Emerging/Younger Leaders) |
1988 |
European
Leadership Conference on World Evangelization, Stuttgart, Germany |
1989 |
International Congress
on World Evangelization, Second, Manila, Philippines (also called
Lausanne II) |
1990 |
Moscow Congress
on Evangelization |
1991 |
Consultation
on Partnership in World Mission, Wheaton, Illinois |
1991 |
Budapest
Global Summit, Hungary |
1992 |
European
Leadership Consultation on Evangelization, Bad Boll, Germany |
1993 |
Consultation
on Modernity, Uppsala, Sweden |
1997 |
Consultation
on Contextualization Revisited, Haslev, Denmark |
2000 |
Consultation
on Spiritual Warfare, Nairobi, Kenya |
2004 |
Forum on World
Evangelization, Pattaya, Thailand |
2006 |
Lausanne Young
Leaders Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
2007 |
Bi-Annual
Lausanne International Leadership Meeting, Budapest, Hungary |
2008 |
Annual Lausanne International
Leadership Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina Dates: June 8-13 |
2009 | Annual Lausanne International
Leadership Meeting, Seoul, South Korea Dates: June 7-12 |
2010 | Third
International Congress on World Evangelization, Cape Town, South Africa
(also called Cape Town 2010) Dates: October 16-25 Attendance: Over 4,000 Christian leaders from 197 countries around the world Purpose: “to confront the critical issues of our time – other world faiths, poverty, HIV/AIDS, persecution, among others - as they relate to the future of the Church and world evangelization.” |
2011 |
Biennial Lausanne International
Leadership Meeting, Boston, United States |
Publications (alphabetical by title) |
|
|
Communique |
1979-1980 |
COWE Newsletter |
1980 |
Daily Communique (1980 COWE) |
|
Information Bulletin |
1982-1986 |
Lausanne Communique (newsletter) |
|
Lausanne Occasional Papers (booklets) |
1974 |
Let the Earth Hear His Voice (compendium of Lausanne Congress messages) |
1974-1975 |
News |
|
Prayer Bulletins |
1975-1985 |
World
Evangelization Information Bulletin |
1985- |
World
Evangelization |
Ministry emphasis |
|
|
To serve as an international catalyst, clearing house, information center, and motivational source for evangelization throughout the world, in part as an Evangelical counterpart to the ecumenical WCC by establishing and fostering an international network of Evangelical leaders, as well as periodically sponsoring conferences and consultations. |
Geographical emphasis |
|
|
Global |
Other significant information |
|
|
Contributing to the long-term impact of the Lausanne Congress in 1974 were the consultations held in 1973 on how best to continue the Congress's goals after the meeting. From these meetings came the first plans for the Lausanne Continuation Committee (LCC), which was established as the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE) in 1976. The process of selecting members to constitute the LCC began at the Congress, resulting in the selection of forty-eight people to plan for future consultations and congresses as needed; this number was later expanded to seventy-five. At its inception, Leighton Ford was chosen as LCWE's Chairman and Gottfried Osei-Mensah was designated its Executive Secretary. |
Outline of Collection Arrangement. See Table of Contents at top of web page.
The overall arrangement of the materials in this collection was provided by the archivist. The arrangement of each subseries was kept as it was received from the records creator when an order was discernable. Therefore, because various individuals and offices created and arranged the records, the arrangement of each subseries varies. In some cases, the arrangement follows a generally alphabetical scheme; in others the arrangement is predominantly chronological. In several instances, small accessions followed previous larger ones; these materials were then filed according to the scheme of the subseries to which they were being added. Refoldering of materials by the archivist was intermittent. In cases where the folders were in good condition, the original folders were retained. Those in poor condition were replaced while retaining the original folder title. Completely unfoldered material was foldered and the archivist created the folder title. Only in cases where there was no title did the archivist create one. Duplicate material was removed from the collection and returned to the donor.
Some materials were removed from their original order due to their size. When this was done, a notice to this effect was placed where the document would have appeared, also indicating where the document(s) can be found. These items are also listed on the Separation Record for Oversize Materials in this guide. If entire folders of materials were removed for reasons of size, the folder title on the container list of this guide nonetheless remains in the order in which it would have appeared.
The descriptions for the various subseries follow in the order in which they appear in the Table of Contents and the Container List.
Note on Plenary or workshop presentations: These presentations, whether in text or recorded form, are spread throughout the collection, but in some cases are hidden underneath the volume of the collection or the extensiveness of description. Brought together here are a few of the highlights and sources for these:
International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974. There are no audio or video recordings of these in this collection. Researchers should consult BGC Archives Collection 53, Records of the ICOWE, for written transcripts and audio recordings of many Congress messages.
North American Conference on Muslim Evangelization, 1978 (folder 122-8)
US Consultation on the Simple Lifestyle (folder 36-42, audio tapes T1-T4
Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE), 1980 (folders 45-16, 46-52,53,54, audio tapes T5-T16, T19-T41
International Prayer Assembly, 1984 (audio tapes T42-T183)
Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and Evangelization, 1985 (folders 86-20,21, audio tapes T184-T199)
Communications Consultation, 1986 (audio tapes T200-T207)
Singapore ‘87 (audio tapes T249-T261, video tapes V11-V39)
Leadership ‘88 (video tapes V40-V70)
Series I: LCWE Chairman
Subseries:
A. Leighton Ford
(Chairman)
B. John Reid (International
Chairman, no records)
C. Fergus Macdonald
(International Chairman, no records)
D. Paul Cedar
(Executive Chairman)
E. Doug Birdsall
(Executive Chairman, no records)
Date Range:
1969-1994
Notes:
This series documents the chairman’s leadership role of the LCWE from
its beginning in 1975, including the major international conferences and consultations
sponsored by the Lausanne Committee. The researcher will benefit from a careful
survey of the folder titles, either in the boxes themselves or in the detailed
portion (for boxes 1 through 9 of this series) of the container list of this
guide as they are very precise and suggestive of the folder’s contents.
Subseries I.A: Leighton
Ford
Arrangement:
1. Administrative
records (alphabetical)
2. Congress
and consultations records (alphabetical)
Date Range:
1969-1994
Volume:
20.8 cubic feet
Boxes:
1-9, 87-115
Correspondents:
Primarily the chairman as the creator or recipient of correspondence, memos,
and reports; also LCWE leaders and personnel, and Evangelical church and ministry
leaders
Notes:
This series documents Leighton Ford's administration and leadership of the
Committee from 1975 to 1992, including the major international conferences
sponsored by the Lausanne Committee during that period (1974 International
Congress on World Evangelization or the Lausanne Congress, the 1980 Consultation
on World Evangelization, and the 1989 International Congress for World Evangelization
or Lausanne II). Ford's records predate the Lausanne Committee due to his
involvement in the planning and preparation of the 1974 International Congress
on World Evangelization (ICOWE), from which the Committee subsequently emerged.
The researcher will benefit from a careful survey of the folder titles, either
in the boxes themselves or in the detailed portion (for boxes 1 through 9
of this series) of the container list of this guide as they are very precise
and suggestive of the folder’s contents.
Subseries I.A.1:
Administrative records
Arrangement:
a. 1975-1984
(boxes 2-6, alphabetical)
b. 1969-1994
(boxes 87-109, alphabetical)
Date Range:
1969-1994
Volume:
13.9 cubic feet
Boxes:
2-6, 87-109
Geographic coverage:
International and domestic
Type of documents:
Primarily correspondence, but also reports, financial records (budgets, audits,
official statements), memos, lists, meeting minutes, financial statements,
fund-raising proposals and reports, faxed communications, and message manuscripts
(both those by Ford and others).
Correspondents:
In addition to Ford, Lausanne Committee administrators and members predominate,
including Ramez Attalah (folder 2-7), Ray Bakke (folders 87-9,10,11), Kenneth
Chafin (folder 2-13), David Howard (folder 4-17), John Howell (folder 4-18),
Gottfried Osei-Mensah (folders 5-2 and 5-3), John Stott (folder
5-16), Bill Jefferson, Steve Downey, LCWE International Chairman from
1989 to 1992 Tom Houston (especially folders 98-1 through 98-8), Leola Linkous,
John Reid, Fergus Macdonald, Irv Chambers, Donald Hoke, J. Berkley Reynolds,
Stan Izon, Jack Dain (see especially folders 92-3,4,5,6), Chuck Colson (folder
89-9), Carl Johansson, Jim Newton
Notes:
This subseries documents Ford's administration and leadership of the Committee,
(excluding Ford’s files related to specific Lausanne Committee congresses
and consultations, whose records follow in the next subseries). A chronological
subseries of correspondence, largely outgoing, ranges from January 1988 (folder
90-6) to August 1989 (or folder 92-2). Researchers should be aware that Ford’s
oversight of the LCWE was concurrent with other activities under Leighton
Ford Ministries, and there is some intermingling of LFM letterhead into this
series from that organization, and therefore reflects other topics as well.
Exceptional items: The following descriptions treat Ford’s files in topical clusters, although these are not distinct but integrated throughout the series.
The files include record of the annual meetings of the LCWE and its Executive Committee, such as those from the 1977 Bermuda meeting (folders 2-8 through 2-11); 1976 Berlin (folders 3-15 and 3-16); 1977 Montreal (folders 3-17 and 3-18); 1978 Springfield (folders 3-19 and 3-20); 1979 Ventnor (folders 3-21 and 3-22), 1982 Wheaton (folder 93-3), 1985 Atlanta (folder 93-4), 1986 Amsterdam (folder 93-5,6,7), 1987 Atlanta (folder 93-8,9), 1988 Mount Hermon (folder 93-10), 1990 Arrowhead Springs (folder 93-11), 1991 Budapest (folder 93-12), 1992 Azusa (folder 93-15). Executive Committee files are also located in folders 3-23 through 3-26, and folder 112-3. Meetings of the LCWE full committee are found in folders 95-9,10,11,12 and folder 112-5. Files documenting LCWE member lists and status are concentrated in folders 101-17,18,19,21. Also related are nominations of members (folders 102-1,2,3,4,5,6). The participation of observers at official LCWE meetings are described in folders 103-5,6. There is also some correspondence for specific LCWE members, including Susan Perlman (folder 103-15), Vinay Samuel (folder 105-13), Thomas Zimmerman (folders 108-14 and 109-11).
A primary programmatic emphasis of the later period of Ford’s term as chairman was on Lausanne II (the second international Congress held in Manila in 1989). Although the bulk of these are reflected in the Congresses & Consultations subseries that follows (see folders 111-6 through 115-9), Ford included a few files on the Congress in his administrative subseries as well (folders 98-9 through 98-16). Folders 104-5,6,7,8,9 reveal the development of the program for the Congress, starting as early as 1984; folder 104-9 covers program planning for other LCWE-sponsored events as well. The Congress purpose statement (folder 105-1) was an early and foundational document used to express the LCWE goals for the meeting and shape its development. An early draft of the promotional piece for the Congress called “The Lausanne Story” appears in folder 105-16).
The International Advisory Council (IAC) was established in 1985 to gather “leaders from every area of the world who could serve on a convening council or council of reference as we plan for the next international congress.” That congress became the Lausanne II congress. Ford’s files for this IAC comprise folders 99-3 through 100-3. An additional portion of IAC files were added in folders 206-9 through 207-13, also see folder 271-20.
Following the 1989 Lausanne II Congress in Manila, regional summits were convened, starting with the 1991 Budapest Summit (folders 87-17,18,19 and 88-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9); included are transcribed interviews with ten men who attended the Summit, most from Eastern Europe, the geographic focus of the Summit, apparently to get perspectives from participants in that region.
Although Ford’s interactions reflect global contacts to all parts of the world, they also reflect his leadership and place within the Lausanne movement in the United States (folders 102-7,8, 103-1,2, 106-14,15, 107-1 through 107-18, 108-1 through 108-14) and Canada (folders 88-11,12,13).
Although activities in and contributions from all parts of the world are reflected in Ford’s files, “Regional Reports” focus on a variety of activities, programs and events in the specific areas of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Oceania (folders 105-2,3,4,5,6,7,8). These range from a report on the 1985 National Congress on Evangelization in Nigeria (folder 105-2), to a trip report in Asia (folder 105-3), to a report on identifying potential LCWE leadership for a region (folder 105-2).
From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the LCWE went through a series of searches to fill the primary leadership and administrative vacancies, including John Reid’s appointment as the LCWE Chairman with Ford’s resignation in 1992 (see folder101-6 and especially tribute materials and skit in folder 101-14), the replacement of Gottfried Osei-Mensah with Carl Johansson as the new Executive Director in 1984, and later Thomas Wang as International Director in 1987 and Tom Houston in 1989, and Donald Hoke’s replacement as LCWE Treasurer in 1989. Files related to these searches (folders 97-4,5,9 and 100-5) and communication with Johansson (folders 100-9,10,11,12), Wang (folders 109-18), and Houston (folders 98-1 through 98-8) are included. Other appointments or resignations are also documented, such as Paul Cedar’s as the LCWE-US chairman (folder 88-15), Paul McKaughan as Associate International Director (folder 101-10), Roger Parrott’s service as Director of US Operations (folders 103-12,13), and Rob Martin’s 1990 resignation as US Director of the LCWE (folder 101-15).
Further information on the organizational structure, operation and evolution of the LCWE are found throughout Ford’s files, including on personnel (folder 103-16) and staff (folder 105-15), position descriptions (folder 103-18), a restructuring proposal by Roger Parrott (folder 105-11), a1984 version organizational chart (folder 103-8), the location of the international office in Singapore while under Thomas Wang’s leadership (folder 105-14), the emergence and work of the Transitional Planning Committee in 1989 (folder 106-9,10).
The financial records, including reports, statements, budgets, audits, which document the financial condition and operation of LCWE can be found in folders 3-28 through 3-30, 3-32 through 3-34, 4-1 through 4-6, 93-19,20, 94-1 through 94-11, and 95-1 through 95-8. Fund-raising files are found in folders 95-13,14, 96-1 through 96-10, 97-1,2, 103-14, 104-11, and 109-9). Also see proposals to foundations and several large churches (folders 93-2, 101-7,8, 103-17) and a list of major donors (folder 101-12). Folder 103-11 records the financial participation of various parachurch groups in the 198 9 Lausanne II Congress. Ford’s thank-you letters for contributions appear in folder 106-5.
The consultation files include those of the 1978 North American Conference on Muslim Evangelization (folder 5-7), the 1982 Consultation on the Relationship Between Evangelism and Social Responsibility (CRESR) in Grand Rapids (folders 3-7 through 3-14); the 1978 Gospel and Culture Consultation in Willowbank, Bermuda (folders 4-10 through 4-16); the 1977 Homogeneous Unit Principal Consultation in Pasadena (folder 4-19); the 1986 Third International Conference on Jewish Evangelism (folder 100-8); the 1987 First International Researchers Conference, in part addressing the theme of evangelization of Muslims (folder 101-22); 1987 Young Leaders Consultation, Singapore (folder 104-10); 1989 Stuttgart Consultation on Evangelism (folder 106-3); 1988 Consultation on Conversion in Hong Kong (folder 106-6); 1993 Consultation on Faith and Modernity (folder 107-16). A possible consultation in Japan was being considered in 1984-1985 (folder 100-7).
Working Group files consist of those relating to Communications (folders 2-23 through 2-28, 89-11,12,13, 103-4), Intercession (folders 4-22 through 4-24, 99-2), Strategy (folders 5-17 through 5-23, 105-16 and 106-1,2), and Theology and Education, later trimmed to Theology (folders 5-24 through 5-26, 106-6,7,8).
Of Ford's files on other organizations, several of interest include those on the Southern Baptists (folder 5-11), the World Council of Churches (folders 5-30,31, 109-5,6,7, 205-5), and the World Evangelical Fellowship (folders 6-1,2,3 and 109-8).
Also available are: Reports of the Chairman (folder 2-14); questionnaires (asking about fellowship, mechanisms and activity for Evangelical evangelism in the respondent’s region) returned to the Commission on Cooperation for World Evangelization (folders 2-16,17); see also folder 89-10 on the Commission; records from the Lausanne Continuation Committee (early form of LCWE, folders 3-2,3); material on the function of the LCWE (folder 3-31); records on or copies of the Information Bulletin spanning 1974 to 1994 (folders 4-20 and 4-21, folder 99-1; also see folders 24-2 through 24-9, 26-2, 28-8 through 28-14, 40-38, 43-13, 50-14, 54-22, 55-1,2, 70-3, and 120-6,7,8) (Later renamed World Evangelization: Information Bulletin and in mid-1985 renamed World Evangelization. Although researchers will not find issues between #23 (June 1981) and #32 (September 1983), bound copies of the series are available in the Graham Center Library.); future & long range planning files (folders 4-7,8,25, 97-3,4,5,6,7,8,9); consideration of LCWE’s next chairman after Ford; regional reports (folders 5-5,6,7); files on LCWE staff (folders 5-13,14,15); files on the World Evangelization Information Service (folders 6-4,5, 109-1,2,3); messages by Ford (folder 87-6, 97-17); LCWE members biographical sketches (folder 87-13); correspondence from David Barrett on the definition of “evangelization” among the Consultation on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility files (folder 3-9); material related to the 1980 Edinburgh '80 World Consultation on Frontier Missions (folder 4-28); 1985 version of the LCWE handbook (folder 97-15, also 214-3); 1988 proposal for a “comprehensive communications program” for LCWE (folder 100-4); files related to the role of the laity in world evangelization (folders 100-13, 101-3,4); files on Pan-African Leadership Conference Assembly (folder 103-9,10); correspondence about a proposed meeting between the LCWE, World Evangelical Fellowship and International Charismatic Consultation on World Evangelization to meet for dialogue and joint planning (folder 104-1); press coverage on the LCWE (folder 104-3); LCWE publicity packet (folder 104-12); correspondence with the Salvation Army (folder 105-12); correspondence arranging to translate the Lausanne Occasional Papers (folder 106-11); text of Ford’s 1986 lectures at Fuller Seminary for publication as A Vision Pursued: The Lausanne Movement, 1974-1986 (folders 108-5,6 and 16); file gathering documents on the role of women in world evangelization, emphasis at LCWE meetings, and leadership allocated to women (folder 109-4).
Among Ford’s files are a record of other domestic and international meetings not sponsored by the Lausanne Committee but related to evangelism, including: Asian Leadership Conference on Evangelism, 1978 (folder 2-2); American Festival of Evangelism, 1981 (folders 2-3,4,5, folder 5-18, folder 109-12); Congresso Latinoamericano de Evangelizacion II, 1979 (folder 2-15); Canadian Congress on Evangelism, 1983 (folder 2-29); Consulata Evangelica Latinoamerica, 1983 (folders 1-30 and 2-31); National Convocation on Evangelizing Ethnic America, 1985 (folder 97-18).
Subseries I.A.2: Congress
and consultations
Arrangement:
Chronological by event, alphabetically within each event as follows:
a. International
Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974
b. Consultation
on World Evangelization (COWE), 1980
c. American
Festival of Evangelism, 1981
d. Singapore
‘87, 1987
e. Leadership
‘88, 1988
f. Lausanne
II Congress, 1989
Date Range: 1971-1974
Volume: 6.9
cubic feet
Boxes: 1,
7-9, 109-115
Notes:
These files comprise Ford’s record of the primary meetings sponsored
and convened by the LCWE during his nineteen years of service as the LCWE’s
chairman.
Subseries I.A.2.a: International
Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974
Arrangement:
Alphabetical
Date Range: 1971-1974
Volume: 1.1
cubic feet
Boxes: 1
Type of documents:
Correspondence, minutes, reports, questionnaires, production script,
articles and press clippings, drafts of the Lausanne Covenant, surveys
Correspondents:
While Ford corresponded with the numerous members of the Congress's
committees, the principal correspondents as documented in these files were
A. J. Dain, the Congress Chairman; Donald Hoke, the Congress Director; and
Paul Little, the Program Director.
Notes: Ford's
ICOWE files reflect his various duties as a member of the Congress Planning
Committee, consultant to the Administrative Committee, and Chairman of the
Program Committee, and therefore document both the planning and preparation
carried out for the Congress from its earliest stages.
Ford’s files are a rich source of information and the following
highlights suggest rather than entirely describe the wealth of available data.
Exceptional items:
Materials in folder 1-1 document the origins of the ICOWE, including
the agenda and minutes from the 1971 meeting in White Sulphur Springs, West
Virginia, which Billy Graham called to discuss the possibility of holding
another international congress on world evangelization. The minutes for a
subsequent planning meeting held in 1972 in Vero Beach, Florida, are also
located in this folder.
Folder 1-2 includes the minutes from the Planning Committee for the Congress. A compilation of suggested responses to criticisms of the International Congress can be found in folder 1-3; (this folder also includes minutes of the ICOWE Administrative Committee). Folder 1-5 includes numerous reports from various Congress committees, as well as those from Ford, Hoke, and Little. Of particular interest is a report by Donald Hoke on the World Council of Churches' Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.
Folders 1-6 through 1-15 consist of the Program Committee files. Documented in these are the Committee's attempt to identify the goals of the Congress (See folder 1-6 for completed questionnaires and folder 1-7 for the resulting "Preliminary Report on the Goals Survey for the International Congress on World Evangelization"); and attempts to communicate through audio-visual media the scope of world need for the Gospel (See folder 1-8 for a preliminary draft of a multimedia production script, "Cry 3" and folder 1-15 for the script for another multimedia production, "Let the Earth Hear His Voice," which was used during the opening session of the Congress). Folder 1-15 also includes various other material related to the planning for the opening session of the Congress.
Folder 1-16 consists of various press clippings and articles, as well as selected quotes on the Congress by participants. Folders 1-17 and 1-18 include material dealing exclusively with the Congress Statement, notably the annotated copies of the Statement's first draft, which were reviewed by various individuals and then returned.
Follow-up was the term used to refer to the process of maintaining the momentum and impact of the Congress, and was an integral part of the pre-Congress planning. Folder 1-19 and 20 include: the survey sent out to solicit follow-up recommendations; tabulated survey results; report based on the survey results, "A Summary of Follow-Up and Post-Congress Organization Options;" Ted Ward's proposed strategy for disseminating Congress material; the proposal for the "Reach All" audio cassette study set; correspondence discussing these and other follow-up proposals; and minutes of the 1973 Consultation on Post-Congress Evangelical Organization.
Also of interest are completed surveys evaluating the Congress (folder 1-22) and letters offering further review of the Congress program.
Subseries I.A.2.b: Consultation
on World Evangelization (COWE), 1980
Arrangement:
Alphabetical
Date Range: 1977-1982
Volume: 3.3
cubic feet
Boxes: 7-9
Type of documents:
Correspondence and memos, manuscripts of messages or articles, reports,
postal votes, reports, questionnaires
Correspondents:
The principal correspondents in these files other than Ford are David
Howard, Director of the Consultation; Saphir Athyal, the Program Director;
A. Jack Dain, the Chairman of the Commission on Cooperation for World Evangelization;
Gottfried Osei-Mensah, the LCWE Executive Secretary, as well as members of
the Lausanne Committee and Executive Committee.
Notes: Ford's
files related to the 1980 meeting in Pattaya, Thailand, that thoroughly document
the planning of the Consultation, as well as Ford's input to that process.
As was noted in the previous descriptive section on LCWE records, a
number of folders in Ford's COWE records bear the notation found on folders
in his LCWE records, suggesting that they originated in his LCWE materials
and were later integrated into his COWE materials. The folder titles in the
Container List of this guide include this notation prior to the dating of
the folder contents. As with the previous
sections, the researcher will benefit from a close survey of the container
list of this guide, as this overview only touches on a fraction of the wealth
of information available for study.
Exceptional items:
The COWE files include a number of major groupings. Among them are
files on: the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization, fund raising
(folders 7-16 through 7-25), nominations and participant selection (folders
8-8 through 8-17 and 8-19 through 8-25), program, and study groups. Among
these, the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization files are particularly
detailed (folders 7-4 through 7-11), documenting its origins, development,
and work. These include copies of three papers (folder 7-4): Warren Webster's
"Evangelicals and Unity In Mission," "Evangelicals and Unity In Mission: A
Biblical Foundation" by Wesley Dewell, and "Evangelical World Mission and
the World Evangelical Fellowship" by WEF's Waldron Scott. folder 7-5 contains
a document under a cover letter dated October 17, 1979, entitled "Statement
of Organizational Plan and Line of Responsibility and Authority For The Commission
on Evangelical Cooperation in World Evangelization." Folder 7-9 includes a
history of the Lausanne Committee until 1980, and reports from the following
subcommissions are located in folder 7-10: LCWE Evaluation, Relations with
Other Bodies, Church and Parachurch, Mission/Church Cooperation, Resources,
Personnel and Finance, and Communications. Several of these folders also include
the responses and results of a postal vote on nominees to the Committee.
The program section of the records includes material documenting the early planning for the Consultation, including the appointment of David Howard as the Consultation's director. Included in the program section are copies of the plenary papers from the Consultation, some with Ford's annotations (folders 9-7 through 9-9). Another rich source of information are the files from the various study groups, which cover the issues involved in reaching various ethnic, social, or religious groups of people, including nominal Christians, city dwellers, refugees, and Muslims (9-10 through 9-22). The study group files (9-30 and 9-31) further document the work of these groups.
A number of other items, which do not fall into these general groupings, should also be noted. Folder 7-12 relates to the evaluation of the 1980 consultation, specifically as a result of responses to questionnaires, and the report written summarizing those responses by Donald Smith. Folder 7-14 includes remarks made by Sanya Dharmasakti, president of the privy council, who represented the Thai government at the opening ceremony of the consultation. Folders 8-4 and 8-5 document the decision-making process on the location in which to hold the consultation. Folder 8-27 documents the discussion on what degree of openness to the press should be arranged. The reports in folders 9-24 through 9-26 are actually progress reports prior to the meeting and evaluation reports afterward.
Subseries I.A.2.c: American
Festival on Evangelism 1981
Date Range: 1980-1981
Volume: .1
cubic feet
Boxes: 109
(folder 12)
Type of documents:
Correspondence, memos, financial records and reports, lists, press releases,
and other documents from the planning and convening of the national congress
on evangelization
Correspondents:
Ford, Jack Dain, Thomas Zimmerman, Alan Emery, Vonette Bright, Paul Benjamin,
Bill Hogue, Hugh Maclellan, Sr.
Subseries I.A.2.d: Singapore
‘87
Arrangement:
Alphabetical
Date Range:
1984-1988
Volume: .4
cubic feet
Boxes: 110
Type of documents:
Correspondence and memos, form letters, financial records, mailing and participant
lists, program materials, post-consultation evaluation comments
Correspondents:
Ford, Brian Stiller (Young Leaders Committee director), Ramez Attalah, and
other members of the executive committee
Subjects: Christian
leadership, Leadership
Notes: These
files consist of Ford’s record of planning for this “international
gathering for younger leaders [about three hundred] committed to world evangelization”
Subseries I.A.2.e: Leadership
‘88
Arrangement:
Alphabetical
Date Range: 1985-1988
Volume: .3
cubic feet
Boxes: 111
Type of documents:
Correspondence and memos, directory, meeting minutes, reports, lists, form
letters
Correspondents:
Ford, Glandion Carney, Bill Ditewig, Becky Manley Pippert, Brad Smith, Bryant
Myers, Ted Engstrom
Subjects:
Christian leadership, Leadership
Notes:
These files comprise Ford’s record of planning for this “networking
conference” for young leaders in the United States, held in Washington,
DC
Subseries I.A.2.f:
International Congress of World Evangelization II (or Lausanne II)
Arrangement:
Alphabetical
Date Range:
1974-1991 (bulk 1983-1989)
Volume:
1.7 cubic feet
Boxes:
111-115
Geographic coverage:
international
Type of documents:
Correspondence and memos, minutes, reports, contingency plans, ballots and
tallies for Executive Committee decisions, a vision statement, evaluations
Correspondents:
Ford, Donald Hoke, Jack Dain, Ford Madison, Ed Dayton, Bill Jefferson, Brian
Stiller, John Reid, Paul McKaughan, Thomas Wang, and other LCWE members and
Congress personnel
Notes: Ford
files in launching, planning and convening the congress in Manila. Included
are letters expressing the sense of need for a second congress.
Exceptional items:
A report following the congress giving the World Council of Churches’
perspective on the event, its emphasis and deliberations (folder 112-2); files
on the consideration and selection of various sites for the congresses, starting
with a return to Lausanne, agreeing on Singapore and finally selecting Manila
(folders 112-7,8,9); preliminary drafts of the “Manila Manifesto”
that was prepared before the Congress and then adopted at the meeting (folder
112-10); Leighton Ford’s opening and closing addresses at the Congress
(folders 112-11,12); participant selection deliberations (folder 113-4) and
a notebook (folder 113-2) consisting of participant data (arranged geographically
by country represented and alphabetically by participant name; Ford’s
program-related files (folders 114-7,8,9,10) recording the process as the
planners gave shape to the topics to be addressed and selected corresponding
speakers; among these are the contents of the program notebook (folder 114-10);
a late-1989 report, “Resources for Follow-on Planning,” tracking
planned action as a result of the Congress (folder 115-2); correspondence
related to relations with the Filipino Catholic Church and the status of lay
and clergy participants in the Congress (folder 115-3); correspondence and
minutes of meetings and conference calls of Steering Committee (folders 115-6,7,8).
Subseries I.B: John Reid (International
Chairman)
Notes:
There are no records currently in this subseries
Subseries I.C: Fergus Macdonald (International
Chairman)
Notes:
There are no records currently in this subseries
Subseries
I.D.: Paul Cedar (Executive Chairman)
Arrangement:
Alphabetical (roughly)
Date
Range: 1989-2004
Volume:
.9 cubic feet
Boxes:
318-320
Geographic
coverage: International and domestic United States
Type
of documents: Correspondence and memos (also in e-mail or fax formats),
committee lists, meeting agendas and minutes, 1991 financial statement, LCWE
directories (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001), incorporation papers, publications
Correspondents:
Cedar, John Siewert, Fergus Macdonald, Luis Bush (AD 2000), Gary Barnes (Interim
International Coordinator of LCWE), Paul Eshleman (JESUS film project), Tom
Houston, Bryant Myers and Elmer Wilson (World Vision), Leighton Ford, other
LCWE leaders and members from various national Lausanne organizations and
US leaders, international church and ministry leaders and representatives
Notes:
The files are reflect Cedar’s role as LCWE Executive Chairman (1998-2004),
as well as being a part of Lausanne USA. During the period of Cedar’s
position as LCWE chair, the major regional, topical and global events that
took place included the 1998 Consultation on Nominalism in London, the 1999
Sixth International Conference on Jewish Evangelism in New York, the 2000
Consultation on Spiritual Warfare in Nairobi, the 2001 Sixth Chinese Consultation
on World Evangelization in Kuala Lumpur, the 2001 Third International Researchers
Conference in Thailand, the 2002 Asia Lausanne Conference on Evangelism in
Seoul, the 2003 Seventh Conference on Jewish Evangelism in Helsinki, the 2003
Second Brazilian Congress on Evangelism in Belo Horizonte, and the 2004 Forum
on World Evangelization in Pattaya, Thailand; correspondence and other documents
in the subseries may make reference to these events. The files were arranged
by the archivist. The major subcategories are: Correspondence, Lausanne International
and Lausanne US. Some of Cedar’s outgoing correspondence is written
on Mission America letterhead (the US Lausanne Committee, formed in 1975,
evolved into Mission America in 1993 and in 1995 becoming the Mission America
Coalition); Cedar was already active in the US Lausanne Committee at the time
of the 1989 Second International Congress on World Evangelization in Manila
– the 1993 reorganization is reflected in these documents, especially
folder 319-5, with roots going back to the period after the 1989 international
Congress in Manila as shown in folder 319-10. Although Cedar’s contacts
reflected in the subseries are widespread throughout the world, correspondence
and other communication with European LCWE members and contacts seem to be
more highly represented than other regions of the world. Another theme reflected
throughout the files are the contribution and role of women in the Lausanne
movement.
Exceptional
items:
• Folder
318-4 includes a letter of June 8, 2000 from John Stott to Cedar expressing
his delight at being appointed and Honorary Life Member of the Lausanne Committee.
• Folder
318-6 includes the US Lausanne Committee’s endorsement policy.
• Folder
318-7 includes Cedar’s version of the “US Lausanne Committee’s
ministry projections for the 1990s.”
Subseries I.E.: Doug Birdsall (Executive
Chairman)
Notes:
There are no records currently in this subseries
Series II: LCWE
Chief Executive Officer
Subseries:
A. Gottfried Osei-Mensah
(Executive Secretary)
B. Carl Johansson
(Executive Director)
C. Thomas Wang
(International Director)
D. Tom Houston
(International Director, no records)
E. David Claydon
(International Director)
Date Range:
1949, 1972-1990
Notes:
This series documents the administration and ongoing operation of the Committee
by its chief executive officer, from its beginning in 1975, including the
major international conferences and consultations sponsored by the Lausanne
Committee.
Subseries II.A:
Gottfried Osei-Mensah
Arrangement:
1. Nairobi
(further divided into twelve subseries)
2. International
Office (London, further divided into two subseries)
Date Range:
1972-1987
Volume:
24.6 cubic feet
Boxes:
10-25, 81, 150-169
Correspondents:
Primarily the Executive Secretary as the creator or recipient of correspondence,
memos, and reports
Subseries II.A.1: Nairobi
Arrangement:
The overall arrangement of Osei-Mensah's records was provided by the
archivist, as was that of each subdivision. The arrangement scheme was based
on the folder titles used by Osei-Mensah, which have remained as they were
received. The materials have been subdivided into twelve subseries as follows
(the arrangement scheme is noted in parentheses):
a. Administrative
(alphabetical)
b. Conference
(chronological), folders 12-1 to 13-6; 1975-1980. These files cover different
events outside those of the Lausanne Committee which Osei-Mensah either attended
or addressed. The documents in these files vary, including correspondence,
reports, papers, program guides, newsletters, etc.
c. Congress
& LCWE Consultation (chronological by event/alphabetical), folders 13-7
to 15-24; 1974-1980. These files consist of materials from the 1974 Lausanne
meeting, LCWE consultations, and the 1980 COWE.
d. Correspondents
(alphabetical), folders 16-1 to 23; 1975-1981. Correspondents: A. Jack Dain,
Leighton Ford, John Howell, Stan Izon, and Gottfried Osei-Mensah.
e. Finance,
folder 17-1 to 22, 83-1; 1975-1981. These files document both the financial
affairs of the Lausanne Committee as a whole and the Nairobi office, including
budget reports, ledger books, balance sheets and related correspondence.
f. Geographical
(alphabetical by region), folders 18-1 to 20-19; 1973-1981. These files are
subdivided into two major sections: the country files and regional coordination
files. The regional coordination files relate to the LCWE regional subcommittees,
and include reports and correspondence from them.
g. LCWE
Meetings (chronological), folders 21-1 to 6; 1972-1978. These files and LCWE
Executive Committee Meeting files (See "8.") somewhat overlap, since their
meetings were held concurrently. In addition, the reports made to the Executive
Committee were later distributed to the general membership. These files provide
a very detailed account of the preparation for the meetings, the issues deliberated
upon at the meetings, as well as the direction taken as a result of them.
h. LCWE
Executive Committee Meeting (chronological), folder 21-7 to 22-4; 1975-1979.
i. LCWE
Retired Members (alphabetical), folders 22-5 to 36; 1975-1980. These files
contain both administrative information on the retirement and replacement
of LCWE members, along with correspondence with retired members, in some cases
documenting the retirement process and the issues involved in filling a vacancy.
j. Organization
(alphabetical), folders 22-37 to 23-35; 1975-1981. The contents of these files
vary greatly, consisting of correspondence or newsletters or periodicals or
some combination of these.
k. LCWE
Publications (alphabetical), folders 24-1 to 21; 1975- 1981. These files relate
to the printed materials prepared by the Committee, ranging from brochures
to the Information Bulletin to press releases. In some cases, these
include the actual publications; in others, the correspondence or other administrative
records related to a particular publication. These files document the public
face of the LCWE and additionally serve to record in summary form the activities
of the Committee.
l. Working
Groups (alphabetical), folders 25-1 to 13; 1975-1979. These files document
the ongoing work of the four Working Groups of the LCWE: Communications, Intercession,
Strategy, and Theology and Education.
Date Range:
1972-1981
Volume:
17 cubic feet
Boxes:
10-25, 81
Correspondents:
Primarily the Executive Director as the creator or recipient of correspondence,
memos, and reports
Notes:
These records, like those of Leighton Ford's LCWE records, record the very
beginning of the Committee, and also include some materials from the 1974
Congress. Gottfried Osei-Mensah held this position over the whole period covered
by the records. They consist of his files of correspondence, minutes, memos,
reports, and other administrative materials, all of which extensively document
his tenure as LCWE Executive Secretary.
Subseries II.A.1.a:
Administrative
Exceptional items:
Folders 10-2 through 10-4 and 10-9 through 10-12 contain the prepared reports
of the Chairman, Executive Secretary, and Deputy Executive Officer. These
reports were written for the members of the LCWE and/or its Executive Committee,
and deal with developments within the LCWE, international developments having
a bearing on the activity of the Committee, and progress on the goals of the
Committee. Worthy of note is folder 10-2 which contains reports from A. Jack
Dain during his one-year leadership of the Continuation Committee in 1975.
Unexpected yet significant items in these files include the job descriptions
of the LCWE chairman (folder 10-2) and Executive Secretary (folder 10-9).
Folders 10-13 and 14 contain biographical background information on LCWE members and alternates.
The "Originals Copied" files referred to in the container list for folders 11-7 through 17 consist of the original documents which were copied for various reports and committee meetings.
Folder 11-18 contains correspondence on two questionnaires, one used to gather biographical information on LCWE members, and a proposal for the second to gather and disseminate information about needs around the world.
Folder 11-1 contains two articles on theological interpretation and orientation entitled "Linguistic Hang-Ups in Communicating with Muslims" and "The Birth of Theology." Folders 11-2 through 6 contain articles and papers, largely those presented by Osei-Mensah and LCWE Executive Assistant, John Howell. Titles include: "Why PACLA?", "Martyrdom in Uganda," "The Potential of Christianity in Africa," "The Orthodox Church and Evangelicals," "The Gospel and Culture," "The Theology of Persecution," and "That All Nations Might Believe and Obey Jesus Christ."
Subseries II.A.1.c:
Congress & LCWE Consultation; 1974-1980 (folders 13-7 to 15-24).
Exceptional items:
Folders 13-7 through 13-16 are files Osei-Mensah inherited from Jack Dain,
and containing correspondence and completed questionnaires grouped by geographical
region. These questionnaires were a part of the follow-up program of the Congress
in an attempt to monitor and plan the ongoing impact of the Congress.
The materials from the Homogeneous Unit Principle Consultation (folders 13-23 and 13-24) include correspondence and papers presented at the meeting in 1977. The files on the Gospel and Culture Consultation (folders 13-25 through 13-29) contain these types of documents as well, but also include a record of the proceedings and biographical information on the participants. The principal correspondents in these later files are Peter Savage, John Stott, Donald Hoke, John Howell, and Leighton Ford. The correspondence also includes budget information on the Willowbank meeting.
The COWE files are similar to those found in Leighton Ford's files. Folder 14-4 includes completed questionnaires on existing cooperation in evangelization efforts among evangelicals. Folder 14-5 contains a document on a proposal to change the name of the Lausanne Committee, as well as correspondence discussing the issue. Folder 14-8 includes James Engel's notes on and the tabulated results of the survey conducted to evaluate the Thailand consultation. Folders 14-13 through 14-18 contain the surveys completed by COWE participants, offering a complete picture in raw form of the participants feelings about the Consultation. Folder 14-11 and 12 contain a pre-COWE questionnaire to solicit input on the then-proposed consultation.
Materials in the press file (folders 15-13 and 14) deal with the issue of the press's accessibility to the Consultation, as well as outlining the actual plan implemented at Pattaya.
Subseries II.A.1.d:
Correspondents; 1975-1981 (folders 16-1 to 23).
Exceptional items:
Folder 16-19 includes a letter from Osei-Mensah to Philip Potter, General
Secretary of the World Council of Churches regarding the rather negative press
evangelicals received following the 1976 Assembly of the WCC.
Subseries II.A.1.k:
LCWE Publications; 1975-1981 (folders 24-1 to 21).
Exceptional items:
Folder 24-4 contains a 1975 memo on the continued circulation of the Lausanne
quarterly bulletin, and includes the tabulated responses to a questionnaire
which was sent out.
Subseries II.A.2:
LCWE International Office (London)
Subseries:
a. General
b. COWE
Date Range:
1972-1987
Volume:
7.6 cubic feet
Boxes:
150-169
Notes: The
records in this series document the operation of the central LCWE office in
London (the files as received were not segregated by staff person), primarily
during the period from 1981-1984. (Among the documents are files Osei-Mensah,
Dain and Howell brought from the preceding several years, including those
from the 1980 Consultation in Thailand, while some later documents have also
been interfiled into the series beyond the time when the International Office
was in operation.) Although the Lausanne Committee worked primarily from the
location of its chief executives, the international headquarters was established
in London where Executive Secretary Gottfried Osei-Mensah had relocated from
Nairobi in 1981 following the 1980 COWE consultation in Thailand. (Following
his resignation in 1984, the LCWE again functioned from the location of its
primary officers without a centralized headquarters.)
Subseries II.A.2.a:
General
Arrangement:
Alphabetical according to folder title following the titling of the International
Office staff
Date Range:
1972-1987
Volume:
6.4 cubic feet
Boxes:
150-166, 286 (folder 286-4)
Geographic coverage:
International with only a small amount related to Great Britain where the
office was located
Type of documents:
Primarily correspondence, memos and reports; also questionnaires, lists, manuscripts
of messages or articles
Correspondents:
Gottfried Osei-Mensah (Executive Secretary), A. Jack Dain (General Coordinator),
John Howell (COWE Director of Operations, Executive Assistant, Deputy Executive
Officer), Jane Rainey (Administrative Assistant), Leighton Ford, LCWE Executive
Committee or Full Committee members, Ed Dayton (chairman of the Strategy Working
Group), David Howard (COWE director and later general secretary of the World
Evangelical Fellowship), British church and parachurch leaders, and church
and parachurch leaders throughout the world
Notes:
This subseries consists of a record of much routine operation of the office
and coordinating the LCWE’s activity worldwide (hiring of staff and
other personnel matters, fund raising and financial management, communication
among LCWE membership and supporters, distribution of LCWE publications like
the Lausanne Occasional Papers, World Day of Prayer (folders 166-4,5,6,7,8),
nominations of Committee members (including subdivided by geographical region),
relocation of Osei-Mensah from Nairobi to London (see folder 161-3), and the
1984 closing of the office there (see folder 161-6). It also includes a record
of substantive deliberations and decisions, many leading up to or flowing
from the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE) held in Thailand.
Among these prominent bodies or issues were the LCWE’s Commission on
Cooperation (on which Chua Wee Hian played a prominent role), interaction
and cooperation with fraternal organizations like WEF (also see folder 163-10),
long-range planning (folders 154-9,10 and 155-1) and vision development (folder
163-9), working groups (Communications Advisory Group in folders 164-1,2,3,4;
Intercession Advisory Group in folders 164-5,6; Strategy Working Group in
folders 165-1 to 6 and 166-1; Theology Working Group in folders 166-2,3),
and the meetings in Great Britain and Kenya of the Evangelical /Roman Catholic
Dialogue on Mission (ERCDOM) in which John Stott was a participant. One program
developed during this period was the Lausanne Associates, who were appointed
by vote of Committee members to serve as coordinators for a specific ministry
area (large cities, church/parachurch relationships) or reaching a specific
people group (Jews, Buddhists, Muslims) as emphasized during the 1980 Consultation
in Thailand. Staff-related files are gathered together under Personnel for
Leanne Ellem, Jane Fraser, John Howell, Stan Izon, Bill Jefferson, Pat Newth;
also see folder 163-4 related to the appointment of Carl Johansson as Executive
Director in 1984. Detailed financial information (invoices, a record of paid
or collectable orders, publication orders, etc.) were very selectively sampled
with the remainder not included in the processed collection and disposed of
at the request of the LCWE.
Exceptional items:
Folder 150-7 records the development of an audio-visual program on the Lausanne
covenant developed by InterVarsity’s 2100 division. Folders 150-8,9,
153-8 and 161-4 consist of documents related to travels by Ray Baake and Don
McCurry, working in conjunction with the Strategy Working Group and MARC as
follow-up to the 1980 COWE consultation to explore furthering the role and
contribution of the Lausanne Committee, specifically in the areas of urban
and Muslim evangelization. Included are the two extensive transcripts of interviews
with Ray Bakke about his observations and encounters during a tour of Latin
America and Asian urban centers following the 1980 COWE; (also see folder
163-7 for more on coordination related to urban evangelization). Also included
is a report by Don McCurry on his 1982 survey tour of Thailand, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Australia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Singapore, Philippines
to examine “the advance of the gospel among Muslims in Asia” (also
see folder 161-4 for more on witness to Muslims). Folder 150-10 relates to
a proposed consultation for agencies involved in Bible distribution. For the
files related to the Lausanne Associates see folders 153-1 through 154-4.
Subseries II.A.2.b:
COWE
Date Range:
1978-1983
Volume:
1.2 cubic feet
Boxes:
166-169
Type of documents:
Correspondence, reports, memos, financial reports, questionnaires
Correspondents:
Leighton Ford, David Howard, John Howell, Jane Rainey, other COWE personnel,
Committee members
Notes: These
files are a continuation of those Osei-Mensah and associates kept as part
of the COWE process (see also subseries II.A and VI.C). A valuable addition
are the participant list files (folders 167-4,5) and the acceptance forms
that include biographical information on the participants (folders 169-1,2,3)
Exceptional items:
Folder 166-13 includes a signed“Statement of Concerns” presented
at COWE and responses to the statement and its emphasis and follow-up after
the meeting
Subseries II.B:
Carl Johansson (Executive Director)
Arrangement:
1. Chronological
correspondence
2. Executive
& Full Committee
3. Organizations
4. Conferences
Date Range: 1979-1989
Volume: 7.0
cubic feet
Boxes:
133-150
Type of documents:
Correspondence, memos, reports
Correspondents:
Primarily the Executive Director as the creator or recipient of correspondence,
memos, and reports
Notes:
The files in this subseries are primarily those of Johansson up to the point
of his resignation on September 30, 1985; the subseries also includes the
files of Irv Chambers in his temporary capacity of Acting Executive Director
(with Leighton Ford assuming greater day-to-day responsibilities as well)
until Thomas Wang was appointed International Director in 1986. The files
record the routine operation of the LCWE, ongoing discussions about issues
and decisions, the transition to Thomas Wang’s appointment as International
Director, the announcement to hold the Lausanne II Congress, other international
or regional meetings, and collaborations and attempts to strengthen Evangelical
commitments and activity throughout the world.
Subseries II.B.1: Chronological
correspondence
Arrangement:
Chronological by month
Date Range: 1981-1986
Volume: 2.8
cubic feet
Boxes: 133-139,
286 (folder 286-7)
Type of documents:
Correspondence, memos, reports, etc.
Correspondents:
Johansson, Leighton Ford, Irv Chambers, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Jack
Dain, Ed Dayton, other members of the LCWE Executive and General Committees,
and Evangelical leaders throughout the world
Notes: The
correspondence files bring together the incoming and outgoing routine office
correspondence of the Director; while routine, it nonetheless touches on the
important deliberations and decisions of the Director and the Lausanne Committee.
Exceptional items:
Included are two folders (Folder 133-1,2) that identify all the correspondence
by number in this subseries.
Subseries II.B.2:
Executive and Full Committee
Arrangement:
Chronological
Date Range: 1979-1988
Volume: 1.5
Boxes: 140-143
Type of documents:
Correspondence, memos, agenda and minutes, reports, lists of Executive
and Full Committees, lists of meeting participants, decision ballots
Correspondents:
Johansson, Leighton Ford, Irv Chambers, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Jack
Dain, Ed Dayton, other members of the LCWE Executive and General Committees,
and Evangelical leaders throughout the world
Notes: These
files record the activity of both the primary executive bodies of the LCWE
and the Executive Director (primarily Johansson but also Osei-Mensah and Irv
Chambers)
Exceptional
items: Folder 140-1 records an early step in the process of shaping
the format and emphasis of the Lausanne II Congress; Committee members, alternates
and group members were invited to add reflections on the Executive Committee’s
discussion on the purpose statement, issues and outcomes. Folders 140-2,3
contain ballots on the decision to hold the second congress in Lausanne and
the selection of the next International Director.
Subseries II.B.3:
Organizations
Arrangement:
Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1984
Volume: .3
cubic feet
Boxes: 143-144
Type of documents:
Correspondence, press releases, publications
Correspondents:
Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Leighton Ford, Carl Johansson, and other Committee
members and representatives of the agencies
Notes: These
files document the Executive Director’s (primarily Osei-Mensah’s)
interactions with other organizations, including Africa Christian Fellowship,
African Evangelistic Enterprise, Africa Inland Mission, BGEA, Chinese Coordination
Centre of World Evangelism, Evangelical Missionary Alliance, Lutheran World
Federation, Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Operation Mobilization,
Scripture Union, Southern Baptist Convention, United Bible Societies, World
Council of Churches, World Evangelical Fellowship, World Vision, Youth for
Christ
Exceptional items:
Folder 143-25 includes the text of Osei-Mensah’s presentation
“Cooperation and World Evangelization” in 1981 at the 2nd
Chinese Congress on World Evangelization
Subseries II.B.4:
Conferences
Arrangement:
Chronological
Date Range: 1979-1989
Volume: 2.6
cubic feet
Boxes: 144-150,
286 (folders 286-2,3,5,6)
Type of documents:
Correspondence, presentation manuscripts, reports, press releases,
meeting program materials, meeting statements, participant lists, evaluations,
bibliographies
Correspondents:
Osei-Mensah, Johansson, Leighton Ford, Jack Dain, Dave Howard, Ron
Sider, Brian Stiller, Paul Cedar, conference coordinators, liaison or staff
Notes: This
subseries relates primarily to LCWE conferences and events (either held or
in the planning stages), as well as those that Johansson (or Osei-Mensah)
attended as a representative of LCWE. Among the meetings represented are the
1979 Simple Lifestyle Consultation, the World Council of Churches’ Melbourne
1980 conference, 1981 American Festival of Evangelism, 1982 Consulta Evangelica
Latinoamericana (Consultation of Evangelicals of Latin America), 1982 Consultation
on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility, Mission
‘83 (sponsored by the European Missionary Association), Wheaton ‘83,
Amsterdam ‘83, 1984 International Prayer Assembly, Danvik ‘84
(sponsored by the Norwegian Lausanne Committee), Houston ‘85, 1985 Conference
on the Laity, 1985 Consultation on the Holy Spirit (also called Olso ‘85),
Amsterdam ‘86, 1986 Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism, Danvik
‘86, 1988 European Leaders Conference on World Evangelization, Singapore
‘87 (also called Younger Leaders Conference), 1987 COMIBAM (Ibero-American
Missions Congress), Mission ‘87 (in the Netherlands), 1988 Lausanne
Pastors Consultation, 1988 Consultation on Conversion (in Hong Kong), 1988
Irish Congress on Evangelism
Subseries II.C: Thomas
Wang (International Director)
Arrangement:
1. International Office (Singapore)
2. International Office (Pasadena)
Subseries II.C.1: International Office (Singapore)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1977-1989 [bulk 1985-1989]
Volume: 1.1 cubic feet
Boxes: 202-205
Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, lists
Correspondents: Wang, Leighton Ford, Jack Dain, Ed Dayton, John Reid, Jim Newton, Paul
McKaughan, Don Hoke, other LCWE executives, Full Committee and Executive Committee
members, working group chairpersons, Evangelical leaders throughout the world
Notes: These files record Wang’s activity and contacts while located at the LCWE’s
international office in Singapore (1987-1989), especially preparation for the 1989 Lausanne II
Congress, initially announced to occur in Singapore. Included is a chronological subseries for
1987 arranged by month, a file for the European Lausanne Committee (folder 203-15), working
group files, information regarding selecting the venue for the 1989 Congress, and then
transitioning from the initially agreed-upon Singapore location to Manila (folders 204-9,10,11),
LCWE relationships with Roman Catholics (especially in light of the Congress being held in
predominantly Catholic Philippines (folder 204-20), staff files.
Subseries II.C.2: International Office (Pasadena)
Arrangement:
a. International Director & Associate Director
b. Program Office
c. Participant Selection
d. Communications Office
e. LCWE Nominations
f. International Advisory Council (IAC)
Date Range: 1949, 1973-1990
Volume: 45.4 cubic feet
Boxes: 169-285
Subseries II.C.2.a: International Director & Associate Director
Arrangement:
1. Correspondence
2. LCWE
3. Meetings
4. Lausanne II
5. Communications
6. Finance and fundraising
Date Range: 1973-1990
Volume: 6.5 cubic feet
Boxes: 207-223
Notes: These files of International Director Thomas Wang and Associate International Director
Paul McKaughan reflect their activity, oversight of LCWE, and preparation for the Lausanne II
Congress. McKaughan was located in the LCWE’s Pasadena office when it opened in 1987,
while Wang worked in Singapore between 1987 and 1989 in anticipation of the Lausanne II
Congress being held there; once the Congress venue was switched to Manila, Wang joined the
staff at the Pasadena office in early 1989. These files document the activity from the Pasadena
office, and although this includes some from Wang when he was in Pasadena, the bulk reflect
McKaughan’s communication, including that with Wang in Singapore, and activities. The files
are arranged as received, subdivided into a number of smaller subseries.
Subseries II.C.2.a.1: Correspondence
Arrangement: Alphabetical by author
Date Range: 1973-1989
Volume: 2.3 cubic feet
Boxes: 207-213
Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, proposed drafts of documents intended
for broader or public distribution
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Ramez Atallah (Egypt), Ray Bakke (Lausanne Urban
Associates), Gary Clark (Associate Director of Program), Jack Dain (Lausanne II Participant
Selection Chairman), Ed Dayton (Lausanne II Director of Program), Ajith Fernando (Youth for
Christ national director in Sri Lanka), Leighton Ford (LCWE Chairman), Bill Hogue (Executive
Director of California Southern Baptist Convention), Don Hoke (LCWE Treasurer), Tom
Houston (president of World Vision, designated LCWE International Director following
Lausanne II Congress), John Howell (Associate Director of Program), Ricardo Jumawan
(Executive Vice President & Operations Director of Manila office), Tom McAlpine (Lausanne
Associate for Country Research and assisting Program Director Ed Dayton), David Norcross
(Wilcox World Travel and Tours), Warwick Olson (Communications Working Group chairman),
Gottfried Osei-Mensah (former LCWE Executive Secretary), Roger Parrott (LCWE Secretary,
Director of US LCWE Operations), Mary Lance Sisk (possibly Leighton Ford’s secretary), Brad
Smith (Participant Selection Committee director), John Stott, C. Peter Wagner (professor of
church growth)
Notes: The subseries consists of files of correspondence segregated by individual (all of them
LCWE Executive or Full Committee members, related to Lausanne activities, planning, events,
especially the 1989 Lausanne II Congress in Manila.
Exceptional items: Biographical sketches of LCWE figures are compiled in (but not limited to)
folder 207-14.
Subseries II.C.2.a.2: LCWE
Arrangement: Subsections roughly alphabetical within each
Date Range: 1975-1990
Volume: 2.2 cubic feet
Boxes: 213-218
Geographic coverage: international
Type of documents: Correspondence, lists of Committee members, information and
promotional publications, minutes and reports from Executive and Full Committee meetings,
constitution and by-laws (1984-1989), biographical questionnaires,
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Ford, Ed Dayton, LCWE executives, international
Evangelical leaders
Notes: The files in this subseries reflect the overall activity of the LCWE, largely being
coordinated in a programmatic way from it’s Pasadena office, but also include documents used
for background by the LCWE staff. Included are such activities as: the ongoing process of
replenishing the Executive and Full Committees with new members; the activity of the
International Advisory Council (also see subseries II.C.2.f below); deliberations of the Lausanne
Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (folder 215-11); organizations LCWE had dealings with
including the US Lausanne Committee (folder 216-3), Catholics (folder 216-4), the Congress on
Evangelization of the Caribbean or CONELA (folder 216-5), ISSACHAR Frontier Missions
Strategies relating to the Tentmaker Taskforce and Tentmaker Resource Guide (folder 216-8;
also see Project Jericho), and World Evangelical Fellowship (later World Evangelical Alliance,
folder 216-9); the Senior Associates program (folders 217-1 through 9); staff related materials
(box 217); intercession, strategy and theology advisory or working group files (boxes 217 and
218)
Exceptional items: See folder 213-11 for documents that were part of the LCWE’s future
planning process; folders 214-1 and 213-12 for the promotional publications Let the Earth Hear
His Voice (1983) and Toward Century 21 (1985); folder 214-4 for the historical The Lausanne
Story; Project First Born about outreach to Muslims (folder 216-11) and Project Jericho (folder
216-12)
Subseries II.C.2.a.3: Meetings
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1984-1989
Volume: .3 cubic feet
Boxes: 219
Geographic coverage: Asia, Europe, Latin America
Type of documents: Correspondence, conference materials, participant lists, promotional
material
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Vonette Bright, Fred Magbanua, international Evangelical
leaders,
Notes: Files for the 1984 International Prayer Assembly (folder 219-1), the Asia Lausanne
Committee in Hong Kong (folder 219-2), the Researchers Conferences in Latin America and
Zeist, Netherlands (folder 219-3), the 1987 Asia Leadership Conference on Evangelism or
ALCOWE (folders 219-5 to 11), 1988 Singapore Pastors Consultation (folder 219-12), and 1988
European Leadership Conference on World Evangelization or ELCOWE (folder 219-13)
Subseries II.C.2.a.4: Lausanne II
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1975-1989
Volume: .8 cubic feet
Boxes: 219-221
Geographic coverage: Primarily Pasadena (location of the international office) and Manila
(Congress venue)
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, lists, time lines, meeting minutes,
incorporation articles, job descriptions, press releases
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Leighton Ford, Ricardo Jumawan, Sharon Chan, Ed
Dayton, Coreen Bakke, Bill Ditewig, LCWE executives and staff,
Notes: Files maintained by McKaughan and Wang documenting the planning and
implementation of plans for the Congress in Manila, including arrangements, operations of the
office in Manila, arrangements (for public relations, security, Congress decor and signs, stewards,
translators, musicians and artists), program materials (folders 220-13 and 221-1), venue
selection, and post-Congress follow-up activities
Exceptional items: Included is the “Manila Christian Declaration on the Beijing Massacre”
(folder 219-19), early planning documents dating back to 1984 (folder 220-1), negotiations with
Wilcox World Travel & Tours (folder 220-5), the Manila Manifesto (folder 220-6), the welcome
to the participants from Philippine Senator Jovito Salonga (folder 220-7), the program booklet
for the Philippine Congress on World Evangelization (folder 220-9), a record of the LCWE
discussion and attempts to “leave the Philippines with relationships between the Evangelicals
and the Roman Catholics just a little bit more cordial than they may be at present,” and a position
paper by the Christian Leaders’ Alliance of the Philippines (both in folder 221-3), the file on the
search for the Operations Director that ended in the appointment of Ricardo Jumawan (folder
221-4), Robyn Claydon’s and others’ correspondence on the role of women and their selection as
participants (folder 221-13).
Subseries II.C.2.a.5: Communications
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1983-1989
Volume: .7 cubic feet
Boxes: 221-223
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, grant proposal, clippings, budgets, staff lists,
press releases and newsletters
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Leighton Ford, Joseph Sindorf (Director of
Communications), Jim Newton (consultant and Congress Media Director), Steve Downey,
Warwick Olson (Chairman of Communications Working Group),
Notes: Files document the planning and implementation of public relations efforts and
conveying the goals and vision of LCWE and the Congress. Included are Communications
Committee materials (folder 221-17) along with material on developing the Congress logo,
Communications Working Group (folder 222-1), a file of sample clippings of media coverage of
the event (folder 222-5), correspondence with and among Communications Office staff, the
record of the development and production of World Evangelization Information Service
publications (folders 223-2,3). Also see the Communications subseries (II.C.2.d) below.
Exceptional items: A number of draft versions and the final form of Jim Newton’s “A Strategy
for Implementing a Comprehensive, International Communications Program” are found in the
subseries. Also included are a report from the 1988 meeting of the International Christian Media
Commission in Germany (Folder 222-2), “some of the stories of key people in LCWE” (folder
222-3, including Oddvar Sovik, Ajith Fernando, Thomas Wang, Ray Bakke, Sam Odunaike, and
David Gitari), a list of media staff (folder 222-6), and a file on CONELA or the Confraternidad
Evangelica Latinoamericana (folder 222-7).
Subseries II.C.2.a.6: Finance and fund-raising
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1982-1989
Volume: .2 cubic feet
Boxes: 223
Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Correspondence, and letters accompanying financial gifts and LCWE
replies of thanks, reports
Correspondents: Wang, McKaughan, Ford, Donald Hoke (LCWE Treasurer), Roger Parrott,
international Evangelical leaders
Notes: The subseries documents the financial operation, fund-raising and reporting of LCWE
and the Congress during the period leading up to the 1989 meeting in Manila. Included are grant
proposals to selected churches (folder 223-8) and “major donors” (folder 223-9).
Exceptional items:
Subseries II.C.2.b: Program Office
Arrangement:
1. Leadership ‘88
2. Lausanne II, 1989
3. Moscow Congress on Evangelization, 1990
Date Range: 1949, 1973-1990
Volume: 21.2 cubic feet
Boxes: 224-229, 238-285
Notes: These files consist of the records of the program development for LCWE events,
predominantly the 1989 Lausanne II Congress, for the time period covered while Thomas Wang
was LCWE’s International Director. Among the significant figures overseeing this function in
addition to Wang were Program Chairman Paul McKaughan (later Congress Coordinator)
followed by Saphir Athyal; Program Director Ed Dayton (assisted by Tom McAlpine); Associate
Director of Program Gary Clark (also the track coordinator), followed by John Howell. Dayton
was initially the International Participant Selection Committee Chairman, and so some of his
files related to that function also overlapped into this subseries. Dayton was also the Chair of the
Strategy Working Group, but during this time period that function was transferred from his base
location at World Vision to the Pasadena Office and into LCWE.
Subseries II.C.2.b.1: Leadership ‘88
Arrangement: Subdivided further by the conference office into the following (see folder 224-10
for filing list):
LCWE
LCWE North America
Senior Advisory Council
Pastors Advisory Council
Leadership Council
Executive Committee
Program Committee
Prayer Committee
Ethnic Leadership Development
Communications
Finance
Office operations
Date Range: 1973-1988
Volume: 1.8 cubic feet
Boxes: 224-229
Geographic coverage: United States
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, lists, memos, forms, meeting transcripts,
planning documents, newsletters, mailings, promotional material, survey questionnaires and
conference evaluations, minutes, purposed statements, staff lists, program material, weekly
reports and tax-related documents
Correspondents: Bill Ditewig, Glandion Carney (chairman), Ted Engstrom (Senior Advisory
Council chair), Leighton Ford, Becky Pippert (co-chair), Roger Parrott (Director of Operations,
LCWE US), Jack Hayford, Paul Cedar, Bryant Meyers, LCWE administrators.
Notes: Files of the administrators of the four-day conference in Washington DC “to encourage
and equip emerging Christian leaders in the United States to take aggressive leadership to
complete the Great Commission in this generation.” In addition to the aspects of the operation
documented in the list above are participant selection (folders 227-21, 228-3), promotion (folder
228-1 and others in the Communication files), staffing of the conference office and event, and
budget. The conference files were received in very organized order. Folder 224-10 contains the
filing list as it was maintained in the Leadership ‘88 office. Not all files on the list were sent to
the Archives, and duplicates were not retained, and documents on financial and operational
details were only very selectively retained.
Exceptional items: Several conference organizational charts in folders 224-3 and 226-13, a file
on Singapore ‘87 (folder 224-14), and LCWE members list (folder 225-3), fund-raising
guidelines, transcripts of the Senior Advisory Committee’s December 1986 meeting (folders
226-1,2), marketing strategy (folder 227-24)
Subseries II.C.2.b.2: Lausanne II, 1989
Arrangement:
A. General program
B. Plenary sessions
C. Track sessions
D. LCWE-related
Date Range: 1949, 1974-1990
Volume: 19.1 cubic feet
Boxes: 238-285
Notes: This subseries documents the planning and coordinated activity to hold the Congress,
with primary emphasis on the content covered in the plenary and track sessions, and forms the
primary record of the Lausanne II Congress in the LCWE records collection. The plenary
sessions were the large-group gatherings of all the participants; the track sessions were elective
sessions held throughout the Congress on specialized topics such as Unreached Peoples or
Tentmakers. Among the significant figures overseeing this function in addition to Wang were
Program Chairman Paul McKaughan (later Congress Coordinator) followed by Saphir Athyal;
Program Director Ed Dayton (assisted by Tom McAlpine); Associate Director of Program Gary
Clark (also the track coordinator), followed by John Howell. Because Dayton was initially the
International Participant Selection Committee Chairman, some of his files related to that function
appear in this subseries; Dayton was also the Chair of the Strategy Working Group, but during
this time period that function was transferred from his base of operations at World Vision to the
LCWE’s oversight at the Pasadena Office. Overlap among files in the series is likely, but no
attempt was made to substantially eliminate duplicates.
Subseries II.C.2.b.2.A: General program
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1949, 1974-1990
Volume: 9.3 cubic feet
Boxes: 262-285
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, reports (pre-Congress planning and
post-Congress), meeting agendas and minutes, flow charts, biographical sketches for platform
chairs and artists, lists, financial reports, charts, checklists, organizational chart (folder 265-3),
executive plan (folder 265-4), Congress publications, questionnaires, manuscripts, Congress
notebook (folder 272-5), press releases, brochures
Correspondents: Primarily Ed Dayton, Gary Clark, also Paul McKaughan, Ric Jumawan, Jim
Newton, Leighton Ford, Graham Kerr, other Congress staff, LCWE administrators, Congress
steering team,
Notes: General files related to managing all aspects of the Congress, including logistics,
facilities, plenary and elective sessions, and allocation of personnel. Among the functions
documented are bookstore operation, transportation, computers, Congress declaration,
development and production of the Congress notebook (including translation), publications
(including the advance reader, compendium, newspaper, newsletter in several languages),
currency exchange, communication with and guidance for the Congress’s daily chairpersons,
facility signs and decorations, equipment and stage setup, exhibits, attempts to gather feedback
from participants throughout the Congress, pre-Congress planning focus groups, interpretation
and translation, magazine publicity, meals for participants, coordination with the media, national
meetings by country, offering, operations, participant selection, plenary session, post-Congress
plans, prayer, program (including the Program Committee), speakers (and responders), stewards,
tracks (elective), travel, video segments used during plenary sessions, worship, etc. The folder
titles throughout the subseries are largely self-explanatory. Some of Dayton’s files appear to be
primarily related to World Vision with some crossover to the LCWE. Several computer disks
consisting of word processing versions of printed documents were not retained in the processed
collection.
Exceptional items:
Congress planning: Among these are specific files or documents related to: overall design for
the Congress and organizational chart (folder 265-3), executive plan (folder 265-4 and 272-24),
next steps after the Congress (folder 267-2), thematic integration over the 10-day period (folder
266-14), coordinating with other agencies like AD2000 and Beyond (folder 263-5) and learning
from the experience of other major events (see the program reports from Amsterdam ‘83 (folders
263-6,7) and ‘86 (report and questionnaire results in folders 263-8,9). Folders 262-10 and 263-1
contain the contents of a Program Committee notebook, including correspondence, memos,
reports, meeting agendas and minutes, biographical sketches, the 1985 LCWE handbook, a draft
document “Successful Rebirth of Lausanne Movement” and a 1986 flow chart of the participant
selection process leading up the 1989 Congress. Folder 268-8 consists of suggestions made prior
to the Congress at a meeting in East Berlin of Eastern European Evangelical leaders. Folders
268-16,17 contains several hundred brief responses to gather contact information for developing
a working network from the Holy Spirit and Evangelism track. Folder 270-20 contains
documents related to the International Advisory Council (served as a convening body or council
of reference). Files specifically dedicated to program development include folder 276-1 and
contents of a notebook labeled program development (folders 276-2,3,4,5,6); the contents of
another of Dayton’s notebooks comprises folders 277-1,2,3,4). Program reports are found in
folder 277-6. Program themes (comprising especially folders 278-2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) referred to
the plenary themes (biblical/theological, contextual, methodological) to be addressed throughout
the Congress, including feedback in developing the thematic framework and issues addressed
before the entire Congress. Also included are files for the program advisory group (folder
275-6), program meeting minutes (folder 275-7), program chairman Saphir Athyal (folder
275-10), program design (folders 275-11,12), and the program development document in various
versions over 1988 and 1989 (folder 275-16). Brad Smith’s 1986 report to the Program Advisory
Committee “A Summary of Input Received About the Lausanne ‘89 Program Plans” is found in
folder 278-19.
Plenary and track sessions: Among files related to the plenary portion of the Congress program are files corresponding to each session of the Congress, including the agenda for the session, background material on special guests, manuscripts for presentations, and scripts for the video segments shown in conjunction with the plenary messages (folders 273-18 through 274-20); among these in folder 273-20 is Philippine president Corazon Aquino’s written welcome and senator Jovito Salonga’s welcoming message to the Congress audience (also see folder 279-6). Files for both plenary speakers (folders 279-10, 280-1 through 282-1) and responders (folders 279-2,3,4) to the major presentations are included in the program files; among these are manuscripts for the plenaries in folder 281-4,5,6,7 and 282-1, arranged alphabetically by name of the speaker. Track-related files comprise folders 282-4 through 284-7 and 284-19.
Congress logistics: Folder 269-5 contains lists of all the key people with responsibilities at the Congress; look for a personnel list for many key program-related posts in folder 277-7. Folders 269-10 through 19 consist of drafts, final and foreign language versions (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish) of the Manila Manifesto, drafted and presented by John Stott, and then reviewed and revised before approval as a declaration emerging from the Congress. Lausanne II Newsletter files (including issues in English and some in foreign languages) are in folders 271-1 through 13. Folder 273-14 includes the “Participant Selection Guide” that outlines the selection process. Promotional brochures in circulation at the time of the Lausanne II Congress are found in folder 278-13. Folder 285-5 consists of information compiled by the Statistics Task Force on world trends and demographics, to be especially used by plenary speakers and in video segments.
Follow-up reports: Post-Congress reflections, including those by Ray Bakke and Ralph Winter, are found in folder 278-15. Folders 262-7,8,9 (also see folder 270-8) consist of reports from throughout the world (arranged alphabetically by country name in the notebooks), providing some form of reflections and recommendations on the Lausanne II Congress by the country’s delegates. The reports span the range of being very brief to very extensive, so some reports also included other information, such as a list of developments between the first (1974) and second (1989) Lausanne Congresses, efforts to attempt until 2000, recommendations to the Lausanne Committee, lists of Christian agencies in the country and their participation in evangelism, country profiles, and more. (Sheets with country names are inserted throughout, for almost all of which there was no report received, but representing far more countries than those for which there is a report.) The countries for which there are follow-up reports are:
Angola |
Fiji |
Lesotho |
Rwanda |
Other: Folder 272-4 contains Ed Dayton’s triennial review in his role as World Vision’s Vice President-At-Large. A single folder contains information on a Philippine Congress on Evangelism held simultaneously with Lausanne II (folder 273-15). Files related to Catholic issue appear in various parts of the Lausanne II files, including this subseries in folder 279-5 (also see folders 204-20, 216-4, 221-3, 255-2). Several files related to the participation, contribution and emphasis on the place of women in evangelization is covered in folders 284-16,17,18. Included in folder 285-3 is a report from LCWE’s David Claydon on the World Council of Churches’ Conference on Mission and Evangelism, held in San Antonio earlier in 1989.
Subseries II.C.2.b.2.B: Plenary sessions
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1984-1989
Volume: 3.4 cubic feet
Boxes: 238-246
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, resource notebooks, form letters, lists, message
manuscripts, checklists, response papers, projected program for the entire plenary session, press
releases, review comments, formulation of the session content and emphasis, script for video to
be shown in conjunction with the plenary message, biographical sketches of speakers
Correspondents: Ed Dayton, Saphir Athyal, Gary Clark, Thomas Wang, Leighton Ford, Paul
McKaughan, plenary speakers (Lucien Accad, Tokunboh Adeyemo, Martin Alphonse, Panya
Baba, Ray Bakke, Brother Andrew, Eva Burrows, Luis Bush, Michael Cassidy, Colin Chapman,
Philemon Choi, Robyn Claydon, Joni Eareckson-Tada, Ajith Fernando, Billy Graham, Os
Guinness, Edna Lee Gutierrez, Pete Hammond, Jack Hayford, Roberta Hestenes, Tom Houston,
Peter Kuzmic, Jong-Yun Lee, Eduardo M. Maling, Caesar Molebatsi, Bill O’Brien, George Otis,
J.I. Packer, Luis Palau, Ulrich Parzany, David Penman, Vinay Samuel, John Stott, Carmelo
Terranova, Stephen Tong, Thomas Wang, David Wells), LCWE executives
Plenary session topics: The plenary messages included the following topics:
AD2000 (Wang) |
Living the Christ Life (Terranova, Hestenes) |
Notes: For each of the plenary sessions, a series of several or all of the following files are
included: Program design, the Speaker, General correspondence, Plenary paper, Responders, and
Video script. In addition to files for the plenary messages, several files are included for other
events, among them: Citywide rally (folder 244-5), Sunday events (folder 245-2), Torch Run
(folders 245-3,4).
Exceptional items: Letter of greeting from Philippines president Corazon Aquino (folder
238-15); video script for “The Flame Is Now in Us” (folder 242-3); a letter to Billy Graham
about his participation as a speaker at the Congress (folder 243-12); Rolf Scheffbuch’s
post-Congress reflection on the Lausanne movement (folder 244-6); plenary notebook subdivided
into three files (folders 246-1,2,3) with numerous subsections, most by topic, used to coordinate
the details of the entire plenary program, including featured speakers for each session and
projected time for their portion.
Subseries II.C.2.b.2.C: Track sessions (John Howell)
Arrangement:
i
. Track
ii
. General
Date Range: 1978-1989 (bulk 1984-1989)
Volume: 4.2 cubic feet
Boxes: 246-256
Notes: Files, primarily those of Associate Director of Program John Howell, related to the
development of the Congress track sessions, including correspondence, notebooks, lists, reports
and more.
Subseries II.C.2.b.2.C.i: Track
Arrangement: Numerically by track
Date Range: 1978-1989 (bulk 1984-1989)
Volume: 3.3 cubic feet
Boxes: 246-254
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos (frequently among Congress staff or with track
or session leaders), documents developing the ideas and content of the tracks, forms, checklists,
session outlines, extensive articles and other material related to the track topic (although not
equally extensive), directories of resource people and organizations, resource notebooks, logs of
required submissions, questionnaires (sometimes including a small speaker photo) completed by
track session leaders (see folders 247-1,2,3,4,5, although these notebooks are not arranged in
numerical track order).
Correspondents: John Howell, Ed Dayton, Gary Clark, Paul McKaughan, track session leaders.
Elective tracks: The elective tracks included the following topics:
The Whole Church
110 AD 2000
120 Research and Evangelism
130 Cross-cultural Missions
140 Two-Thirds World Missions
150 Mandate of the Laity
160 Tentmakers
170 Women in Evangelism
180 Communication and Media
190 Youth Leaders
410 Countrywide Evangelism
420 Discipling New Believers
430 Bible Distribution &
Translation
440 Cooperative Networks
450 Models of Evangelism
460 Information Sharing
470 Health & Healing
480 Evangelizing College & University
Students
The Whole Gospel
210 Prayer
220 Theology and Evangelization
230 Holy Spirit in Evangelization
240 The Local Church
250 Social Concern and
Evangelization
510 Gospel and Culture
520 Modernization
530 Spiritual Warfare
540 Simple Lifestyle
550 Future Trends
The Whole World
310 Unreached Peoples
320 Urban Evangelism
330 Reaching Muslims
340 The Church in Challenging
Environments – Restricted
Access Nations
350 The Poor
610 Reaching the Chinese People
620 Reaching Buddhists
630 Reaching Hindus
640 Jewish Evangelism
650 Nominalism Today
660 Unreached Cities
670 Reaching Children
680 Reaching Families
690 Reaching Migrants (Seafarers and
Workers)
Special Interest Groups
710 Plenary Follow-up
Workshops
720 Plenary Follow-up
Workshops (continued)
810 Athletes/Sports
820 World Overview Workshop
830 Theological Educators
840 Commission on World Mission &
Evangelism
850 Prison Ministry
860 “Jesus Film”
Within each track are nine sessions on various subjects related to the overall theme.
Notes: This subseries consists primarily of the coordination of logistics for the numerous elective
tracks held throughout the Congress. The tracks are not equally represented by the amount of
documentation; for example, folders 248-7,8 and 249-1,2,3,4,5,6,7 contain more extensive
correspondence with track leader Robyn Claydon and other contributors to the planning of the
Women in Evangelism track, while other tracks are very sparsely documented. AD2000 files
relate not only to the AD2000 track at the Congress in Manila, but also to the AD2000 movement
and the January 1989 Global Consultation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond
(GCOWE 2000) in Singapore (see folder 247-7). Duplicates frequently appeared in the files, but
no attempt was made to comprehensively eliminate these.
Exceptional items: Folders 246-4,5,6,7 comprise a resource notebook kept by the staff on all the
elective tracks.
Subseries II.C.2.b.2.C.ii: General
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1988-1989
Volume: .9 cubic feet
Boxes: 254-256
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, checklists, financial reports, notebook
contents, form letters, track-related questionnaires, track notebooks with sections for most of the
elective track sessions
Correspondents: Howell, Dayton, Communications director Joe Sindorf, Congress Coordinator
Paul McKaughan, LCWE Chairman Thomas Wang, office manager Ricardo Jumawan, other
Congress staff
Notes: Howell’s general files relating to the planning, coordination and operations functions of
the Congress, including finances, the Congress notebook and follow-up compendium, and travel.
Exceptional items: Draft version of the Congress notebook (folder 255-1); memo on
“assessment of the Roman Catholic-Born Again Situation” in predominantly Catholic Philippines
(folder 255-2); personal release and consent form (folder 255-3)
Subseries II.C.2.b.2.D: LCWE-related
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1974-1990
Volume: 2.2 cubic feet
Boxes: 257-262
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, lists, reports, minutes, address lists, resource
notebooks, questionnaires, financial information, working group files, staff manual
Correspondents: Ed Dayton, Brad Smith, Paul McKaughan, Leighton Ford, LCWE executives
and staff
Notes: Subseries consists of a variety of files with documents related to preparation for the
Lausanne II within the broader LCWE structure during the period leading up to Lausanne II,
including files on both the American and international Lausanne Committee operations, the
American Lausanne Committee (folders 257-2,3), working group files (Communications in
folder 257-13, Strategy in folder 262-3), Executive Committee (folders 258-4,5) and fundraising
(folders 258-7,8), Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (folder 258-14), staff
information (folders 261-10,11,12,13,14,15), Senior Associates (folder 261-16)
Exceptional items: Includes AD2000 statement (folder 257-1), Roger Parrott’s (Director of US
operations) annual report to the US Board and Executive Committee (folder 257-5), notebook on
Lausanne Associates (folders 257-6,7), articles and essay on distinctives and challenges facing
LCWE (folder 257-8,9,11), including“Greatest Challenge” booklet (folders 257-10), letter
regarding the 1988 European Leadership Conference on World Evangelization from ELCOWE
Director Viggo Sogaard (folder 258-3), reflections on the future of Lausanne (folder 258-9),
index to issues of Lausanne Communique (folder 258-12), minutes and accompanying
background documents from meetings of LCWE executive and full committee members
spanning 1985 to 1989 (folders 258-15, 259-1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 260-1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 261-1,2,3,4), the
1988 Lausanne Pastors Consultation Resolution (folder 261-8), registration information for
participants in the 1987 Young Leaders Conference (also Singapore ‘87, folder 261-17), staff
bios (folder 261-19), senior staff meeting minutes (folder 262-1), a report on LCWE structure
(folder 262-4), and thank you letters to and from Ed Dayton following Lausanne II (folders
262-5,6)
Subseries II.C.2.b.3: Moscow Congress on Evangelization, 1990
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1989-1990
Volume: .3 cubic feet
Boxes: 224
Geographic coverage: Then-Soviet Union
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, press releases, LCWE publication in Russian
Correspondents: Tom Houston (International Director), Bill Ditewig, Jim Newton, Sharon
Chan, Myriam van der Doef, international Evangelical leaders
Notes: Small subseries of files on planning and preparation for the Congress that was convened
in Moscow in October 1990. There is very little if any documentation following the event, and
the interaction in the subseries is among non-Soviet Evangelicals and LCWE administrators
Exceptional items: Includes a list of non-Soviet participants (folder 224-1) and their registration
forms (folder 224-6) and the program and songbooks in Russian and English (folder 224-5)
Subseries II.C.2.c: Participant Selection
Arrangement:
1. Correspondence (arranged further by geographic region)
2. Questionnaires (alphabetical and geographical)
3. Administration
4. Notebooks
Date Range: 1985-1989
Volume: 13.4 cubic feet
Boxes: 169-202
Geographic coverage: International by specific regions and countries
Notes: This subseries documents the LCWE’s planning and implementation to ensure wide
Evangelical representation from throughout the world, and contributions by national Evangelical
churches to be represented by their leaders. The archivist removed a portion of the subseries that
consisted of documents describing either organizational processes or a level of detail not needed
for the long-term history of the LCWE, although in some cases leaving a sampling and in others
excluding files altogether. Questionnaires were marked confidential and therefore are closed to
researcher use until December 31, 2069.
Subseries II.C.2.c.1: Correspondence
Arrangement: By geographic region (Africa, East Asia, South Central Asia, the Caribbean,
Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, Western Europe and North America)
and then alphabetically by country within each region
Date Range: 1986-1989
Volume: 5.4 cubic feet
Boxes: 169-182, 286 (folder 286-1)
Geographic coverage: International representing most countries of the world
Type of documents: Letters to and from the Lausanne office, lists of potential and approved
participants, telegrams
Correspondents: Participant Selection Committee (PSC) Director Brad Smith, Associate
Director Carol Kocherhans, Ed Dayton (previous PSC Director), Lausanne Committee executives
and members, church and ministry leaders from throughout the world
Notes: The correspondence records the concentrated interaction during the four years leading up
to the Lausanne II Congress to ensure diverse representation at the international event.
Subseries II.C.2.c.2: Questionnaires
Arrangement: Subdivided into two subseries (reason not specified)
a. Alphabetical by personal name
b. By geographic region (Africa, East Asia, South Central Asia, the Caribbean,
Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, Western Europe and
North America) and then alphabetically by country within each region
Date Range: 1988-1989
Volume: 6.1 cubic feet
Boxes: 183-198
Geographic coverage: International representing most countries of the world
Type of documents: Almost entirely questionnaires completed by Congress participants prior to
attending the Congress in June 1989, although also a little correspondence, checklists, lists
Correspondents: Brad Smith (PSC Director), participants
Notes: The forms are those completed by participants and filed by LCWE staff in preparation
for the Congress. Questionnaires were marked confidential and therefore are closed to
researcher use until December 31, 2069. The demographic information in these questionnaires
provides an international and detailed look at Evangelicals throughout the world, both from
developed countries and the developing world with its emerging church. The questionnaires
(presumably for all participants but not verified) completed by participants included: name,
gender, age, address, country, country of origin and citizenship, education, organization,
denominational or church affiliation, languages spoken, nature of occupation, specialized areas
of responsibility, other organizations affiliated with, statement of Christian faith and experience,
previous major evangelization congresses attended, financial need to attend the congress,
publications, and personal references. The questionnaires appear in two further subdivisions: in
alphabetical order by personal name (approximately half of the 4,300 that participated in the
Congress) consist only those forms, most of them on the form for the congress at the Manila site;
a few were completed on the Singapore form. The geographically arranged files for the
approximately other half also include questionnaires but also lists, checklists, and some
correspondence; most if not all of the questionnaires in this geographically arranged subseries
were the Singapore forms. Some random checking suggests that there is little overlap between
the two subseries (no copies appear in both), it is not possible to determine the reason for
segregating the two from each other. Nonetheless, the demographic information in these
questionnaires provides an international and detailed look at Evangelicals throughout the world,
both from developed countries and the developing world with its emerging church. Letters or
other notes declining the invitation to attend Lausanne II were sampled with most responses
discarded.
Subseries II.C.2.c.3: Administrative
Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title
Date Range: 1989
Volume: .9 cubic feet
Boxes: 198-200
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, blank forms
Correspondents: Brad Smith, David Norcross, Bill Ditewig, Paul McKaughan and other LCWE
executives
Notes: This small subseries records other activities and logistics of the office, including
processing of scholarship requests and subsidies, coordination with Wilcox World Travel &
Tours, and post-Congress settling of accounts and details.
Exceptional items: The Follow-up file (folder 198-4) includes Brad Smith’s report on Congress
registration and fee collection, post-Congress reports, and McKaughan’s final assessment report
Subseries II.C.2.c.4: Notebooks
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1986-1989
Volume: .9 cubic feet
Boxes: 200-202
Notes: The six volumes in the collection served the office as the tracking of process or as a
resource. Several others were discarded as unnecessary or duplicating those retained. Most were
refoldered out of their plastic binders.
Subseries II.C.2.d: Communications Office
Arrangement:
1. Communications Officer (Steve Downey)
2. Communications Director (Joseph Sindorf)
3. Media Director (Jim Newton)
4. Production
Date Range: 1979-1989
Volume: 3.5 cubic feet
Boxes: 229-237
Correspondents: Joseph Sindorf, Jim Newton, Carol Kocherhans, Steve Downey, Bill Jefferson,
Notes: Records reflecting strategic and operational planning, coordinating with the
Communications Working Group, and using various publications and productions like World
Evangelization Information Service to tell the LCWE story and highlight developments and
events. Duplicates and documents judged by the archivist to be unnecessary for long-term
retention due to being overly detailed in finance or day-to-day operations were removed from the
collection.
Subseries II.C.2.d.1: Communications Officer (Steve Downey)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1987
Volume: 1.1 cubic feet
Boxes: 229-231
Type of documents: Correspondence, articles, memos, AV script, faxes, draft texts for proposed
publications, biographical sketches, publications, clippings, prayer calendar
Correspondents: Steve Downey, Bill Jefferson, Leighton Ford, Ed Dayton
Notes: Early records of the LCWE’s Communications division, reflecting strategic and
operational planning, and helping tell the LCWE story and highlight developments and events
through the World Evangelization Information Service and other publications
Exceptional items: Materials from the Chinese Congress on World Evangelization (folder
229-11), the Lausanne Covenant in various languages (folder 229-14, including Korean, Indonesian, German, French, Chinese, English, Pidgin, Spanish along with a list of other known languages the Covenant was translated into), four research reports from
Jim Engel’s Management Development Associates on a readership survey and survey of LCWE
leadership (folders 230-6,7), copies of IDEA or Informations Documents Enquetes Actualites (the
French version of World Evangelization Information Service in folder 231-8), 1986 press release
about Thomas Wang’s appointment as International Director (folder 231-10), 150-200
questionnaires of “younger leaders’ names” coordinated during an unidentified LCWE leader’s
tour of Africa (includes person’s name, position in organization, LCWE conferences attended,
assessed value of a second congress, suggested venue, suggestions about who to invite, especially
younger leaders, in folder 231-11), 1986 press releases announcing Thomas Zimmerman’s
appointment as president of the US Board of LCWE and Roger Parrott’s appointment as
Operations Director.
Subseries II.C.2.d.2: Communications Director (Joseph Sindorf)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1989 [bulk 1988-1989]
Volume: 1.2 cubic feet
Boxes: 231-234
Type of documents: Correspondence, minutes, memos, faxes, clippings, job descriptions,
project proposals, press releases, reports
Correspondents: Sindorf, Thomas Wang, Paul McKaughan, Warwick Olson
Notes: Files document contacts with the media, efforts to distribute the Lausanne story, coverage
about LCWE or its events by the media, Communication Working Group interaction and
contribution, development and copies of LCWE publications, statements of philosophy,
Congress planning, the production of the LCWE video, encouraging and managing media
presence at Lausanne II, production and copies of the Congress newspaper, production of the
Congress program notebook, filling staff positions, contacts with Christian and secular
publications, senior staff meetings, and operation of the steering committee.
Exceptional items: Among these are a file on a 1988 World Council of Churches conference
(folder 234-18), a video series produced by CBN (folder 234-16), the international Torch Run to
promote evangelism and the Lausanne II Congress (folder 234-13), the 1988 report “State of the
Communications Program of the Lausanne Committee and Lausanne II in Manila” (folder
234-3), resource files (folders 233-4 through 27) for individuals, staff and otherwise connected in
some way to the communications emphasis of LCWE, (including Sig Aske, Mary Jo Beck, Ed
Dayton, Leighton Ford, Ricardo Jumawan, Wendy Lew, Mike Little, Horst Marquardt, Ken Moy,
Alan Nichols, Warwick Olson, Roger Parrott, John Robb, Rolf Scheffbuch, Les Tarr, Christy
Ticlaw, Thomas Wang, Fritz Wenzel, Doug Wilson), sermons by Darrell W. Johnson in Manila
(folder 234-5), Leighton Ford’s Fuller lectures (folder 232-13), European Congress on World
Evangelization or ELCOWE press releases (folder 232-10), Jim Newton’s “Proposal for the
Comprehensive International Communications Program of the Lausanne Committee for World
Evangelization” (folder 232-8), and the report “Response to the Communications Working
Group re the latest revised Communications Strategy (folder 232-6).
Subseries II.C.2.d.3: Media Director (Jim Newton)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1988-1989
Volume: .2 cubic feet
Boxes: 235
Type of documents: Correspondence, lists, memos, policies, invoices, reports, budgets, faxes
Correspondents: Newton, Joe Sindorf, Paul McKaughan, Alan Nichols
Notes: These document Newton’s specific area of oversight in coordinating invitations to,
facilities for, and contacts with representatives of the media for the Lausanne II Congress.
Subseries II.C.2.d.4: Production
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1979-1989 [bulk 1988-1989]
Volume: 1.0 cubic feet
Boxes: 235-237
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, various publications and productions including
World Evangelization Information Service, brochures and advertisements, clippings, press
releases
Correspondents: Sindorf, Thomas Wang, Sharon Chan, Paul McKaughan
Notes: Documents the production and samples of various LCWE products, including World
Evangelization Information Service, brochures, poster, handbook, newsletters, press kit, press
releases (in English, French, German, Spanish, and English for the Philippines), and Congress
participant folder
Exceptional items: Files related to the Lausanne Cooperating Periodicals program (folders
237-7,8,9), including copies of many of the participating publications like a Evangelical
newspaper in Argentina (folder 237-8). The program was intended to disseminate the Lausanne
story and influence through out other publications.
Subseries II.C.2.e: LCWE Nominations
Arrangement:
Date Range: 1980-1989
Volume: .4 cubic feet
Boxes: 205-206
Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Lists, correspondence, memos, reports, form letters, recommendations of
persons to fill openings, completed questionnaires, biographical data of members, ballots
Correspondents: Wang, Leighton Ford, Jack Dain, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Leola Linkous, Jane
Fraser, Kathy Roth
Notes: These files document the process for maintaining the membership of the LCWE, drawing
on Evangelical leadership from throughout the world. The contents record membership on the
LCWE Full and Executive Committees from its beginning in 1975 until 1989. These files were
initially inherited by or created by Wang at the Charlotte office and later transferred by that office
to the Pasadena office. Included is a file of biographical entries maintained by Ed Dayton
between 1983 and 1984 (folder 205-9), a notebook of entries compiled in mid-1990 (subdivided
between folders 206-6,7,8), and a series of membership files by geographic region (folders
205-18,19,20 and 206-1,2,3,4,5).
Subseries II.C.2.f: International Advisory Council (IAC)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1983-1988
Volume: .5 cubic feet
Boxes: 206-207
Geographic coverage: International
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, form letters, lists, minutes, reports, letters of
recommendation to be appointed to the Council
Correspondents: Leighton Ford, Carl Johansson, Jack Dain
Notes: The International Advisory Council (IAC) was established in 1985 to gather “leaders
from every area of the world who could serve on a convening council or council of reference as
we plan for the next international congress.” That congress became the Lausanne II Congress.
The Congress Program Advisory Committee file comprises folder 207-9. Also see Ford’s files
for this IAC in folders 99-3 through 100-3, where there may be some overlap.
Subseries II.D.: Tom Houston (International Director)
Arrangement: In the subseries as the Archives received the files
Date Range: 1974, 1980, 1983-1993
Volume: 12.5 cubic feet
Boxes: 286-317
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Notes: These files record Houston’s leadership of LCWE while he was the International
Director (1989-1992) and the activity and deliberation of the Committee (both Executive and
Full Committees) and its Working Groups, and his interaction, a good portion of it sent by fax,
with Lausanne Committee members and leaders of Evangelical churches and ministries
throughout the world. They also reflect Houston’s presence in the United Kingdom from his
office in Oxford, and his contacts with Christian leaders throughout the country. The contents of
the subdivisions are not exclusive of one another as there is a great deal of overlap between all
the folders in the subseries. Some very routine operational files (such as Office Equipment) or
documents like checks, invoices and detailed finance records were discarded.
Subseries II.D.1: LCWE Operations
Arrangement: a) Executive Committee, Full Committee, Committees, Working Groups, b)
General, c) Invites (to Houston), d) Projects
Date Range: 1980-1993
Volume: 5.1 cubic feet
Boxes: 286-299
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Notes: These files relate to various LCWE matters, including activities and deliberations of the
Executive and Full Committees and Working Groups, planning for the future development and
direction of the LCWE, the transition from the international office from Pasadena, California, to
Oxford, England, and finances, etc.
Subseries II.D.1.a:LCWE: Executive & Full Committees, Committees, Working Groups
Arrangement: Alphabetical (divided by broad categories as: Executive & Full Committees,
Committees, Nominations, Working Groups
Date Range: 1980-1993
Volume: 1.5 cubic feet
Boxes: 287-290
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, reports and attachments, minutes, forms and
form letters, member lists, nominations (forms, applications for membership, ballots), notebooks
on nominations
Correspondents: Houston, Leighton Ford, Executive and Full Committee members (especially
Ramez Atallah, Dick Capin, Paul Cedar, Paul Eshleman, Leighton Ford, Jack Hayford, Fergus
MacDonald, Bel Magalit, Hilde Margrethe, Ceasar Molebatsi, Bryant Myers, Warwick Olson,
John Reid, Rolf Scheffbuch, Juliet Thomas), senior associates, LCWE officers
Notes: These files record the interaction with, deliberations by, and appointment of Committee
members, including planning documents for the periodic meetings of LCWE’s Executive and
Full Committees (and the documents provided to those participating in the meetings), including
1990 in Arrowhead Springs (California), 1991 in Budapest, 1992 in Azusa (California). Much of
the correspondence is exchanged between Houston (or his staff) and other individuals, although
some are copies that Houston received. Files for particular members are grouped together as
“members”), including Ramez Atallah, Dick Capin, Paul Cedar, Paul Eshleman, Leighton Ford,
Jack Hayford, Fergus MacDonald, Bel Magalit, Hilde Margrethe, Ceasar Molebatsi, Bryant
Myers, Warwick Olson, John Reid, Rolf Scheffbuch, Juliet Thomas; what isn’t clear is whether
these are Executive Committee members (or officers). Several committees are also represented
in the documents, including Implementation (to “take the ‘vision statement’ as it came out of
Budapest and convert it into a workable place, particularly for 1991-‘93”), International Advisory
Council (served as a convening body or council of reference), Planning (or Follow-on Planning
or Transitional Planning (including advising and working with Houston following the 1989
Lausanne II Congress when he began his term as International Director). Files for the
Communications, Intercessors, Nominations, Strategy and Theology Working Groups are
included, with correspondence and reports on topics ranging from leadership to planning
meetings to projects.
Exceptional items:
• Parts 2 (Full Committee and Alternates) and 3 (International Advisory Council and
Working Groups) of a Full Personnel Data Report are found in folders 288-2,3, including
contact information and fields for particular sorting in the database, such as occupation,
LCWE membership class, and target group interests. There is no reference to Part 1, but
it might have covered the Executive Committee and other bodies).
• Various lists of Executive and Full Committee members, along with other committees
and working groups appear in several folders, such as folder 289-3
Subseries II.D.1.b: LCWE: General
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1984-1993
Volume: 2.6 cubic feet
Boxes: 286 (folder 9), 290-296
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos (whether as hard-copy letters, faxes (many on
now-fading paper), e-mail (called and filed by Easylink, the internal system used by LCWE at the
time), reports and attachments, minutes, forms and form letters, press releases, financial reports
and other related documents, personal or organizational newsletters, manuscripts
Correspondents: Houston, Ford, LCWE officers and members, Betty Bradley, Dick Capin,
Sharon Chan, Bill Ditewig, Renee Gruen, David Hartz (Director of US Operations, 1990-1991),
Jill Lovelace, Roger Parrott, Brad Smith, David Tam, Myriam van der Doef, Thomas Wang,
Elmer Wilson, Thomas Zimmerman, existing and potential donors
Notes: Files that record the operations and activities of the Lausanne Committee, including
finance and attempts to raise funds from foundations and other major donors, personnel, projects,
interaction between Houston (in Oxford while International Director, 1989-1992) and other
LCWE offices (Charlotte where Leighton Ford was based) and Pasadena (where the US
operations were based at the time leading up to the second Lausanne Congress in 1989 and for a
period afterward). Some of the broad categories represented that consist of a number of folders
include Donors and Fundraising, Offices, Papers (manuscripts, meeting statements, reports),
Personnel, LCWE Relationships with Other Organizations (including WEF, AD 2000,
International Charismatic Congress on World Evangelization). Other folders include Issues,
Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (LCJE), Request for Information/Money, and
Theological Issues. Also during this time period, the Moscow Congress, Budapest Consultation
and Executive and Full Committee meetings were being held, so issues related to these meetings
are interwoven throughout this subseries. Since the underlying value of LCWE is world
evangelization, a common theme throughout the subseries is future planning for the organization,
meetings or consultations, or collaborations at a regional or international level; (see as examples
folder 295-7 containing correspondence, reports and proposals on the future vision and direction
of the Lausanne Committee, with input from many LCWE leaders and members, and folder
296-3 that records the deliberations and activity of the Follow-on Planning Committee, and
295-8 for “A Scenario Forecast for World Evangelization 1990-2000AD;” and Strategic
Framework Study in folder 296-10.
Exceptional items:
• Documents in folder 290-8 related to the process leading up the appointment of Bishop
John R. Reid to succeed Leighton Ford as the LCWE chairman in 1992
• 1984 and 1989 versions of the LCWE constitution and by-laws (folder 290-10
• Folders 291-1,2,3,4,5,6 and 292-1,2,3,5,6 are related to donors, foundations and
fundraising. These files are related to domestic and international donors and foundations,
including appeal and receipting letters, a case statement (detailed written rationale) for
funding the 1989 congress in Manila. While the greatest number of donors represented
are from the United Kingdom and United States, the files also reveal the international
breadth of donations. Houston, Leighton Ford and Roger Parrott are the key
correspondents. Specific files are included for the Maclellan Foundation, Stewardship
Foundation and World Vision. In addition to identifying some donors to the Lausanne
programs and events, the documents, largely correspondence show LCWE’s fundraising
message and strategy.
• Correspondence with LCWE Chairman Leighton Ford (folder 292-5)
• Affirmative statement by J.I. Packer on the Lausanne Movement (folder 292-7)
• Houston’s reports “...by Critical Performance Areas” in folder 292-8
• Folder 294-6 includes correspondence about the process that led to locating the LCWE”
international office in Oxford, England
• Folder 295-4 includes an assortment of documents, ranging from “”Trends, Issues and
Obstacles to Evangelization in the Soviet Union” to “The Lausanne Short Story” to a
commitment statement from the 1992 European Leadership Consultation on
Evangelization. Also see folder 295-5... for three “Building Bridges in a Divided World”
documents
• The case statement referred to in folder 295-6 is a rationale for supporting LCWE that
will prompt major funding.
• Folder 295-13 reflects the search to appoint a US Director of Development to establish a
financial basis for the ongoing work of LCWE
• Folder 296-9 consists of a variety of documents including narratives and charts outlining
the structure and process of LCWE
Subseries II.D.1.c: Invitations (to Houston)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1989-1993
Volume: .7 cubic feet
Boxes: 297-298
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, memos
Correspondents: Houston, Sharon Chan (Houston’s assistant), Leighton Ford, LCWE
members, representatives of inviting organizations and churches
Notes: Consists of correspondence and arrangements (during his period as International Director
from 1989-1992) related to various speaking engagements, conferences and tours that Houston
(intended to make connections, plan conferences and represent the LCWE) was a part of or
invited to contribute to, including those that Houston agreed to fill or declined. Most are related
to evangelism or mission. Among these are information about the Evangelists’ Conference in
Swanwick (Derbyshire, UK) in December 1992; the LCWE World Briefing in Colorado Springs
in November 1992; the Together in Mission (“a joint meeting of denominational decade of
evangelism committees”) in London in October 1992; Summer Consultation on Evangelism in
Birmingham (UK) in July 1992; the 1992 Keswick Convention; 1992 WEF Missions
Commission Consultation (originally to be held in Indonesia); the 1992 Whole Gospel
conference in Kassel, Germany; Houston’s 1992 tour of Scottish cities speaking on “The Bible
for Today”; Houston’s 1992 tour of Asia; 1992 Think Tank on Urban Evangelization in the
Francophone World; and planning for the 1994 Word, Kingdom and Spirit Conference near
London; the 1992 LCWE Executive Committee meeting in Azusa, California; leading sessions in
1991 on Missions Studies at the Overseas Ministries Studies Center; the 1990 ACTEA
(Accrediting Council for Theological Education in Africa) All-Africa Conference of Theological
Educators in Kenya; a 1990 tour in New Zealand.
Exceptional items: Folder 297-2 includes the “Digest Report of the Long-Range Planning
Team” which maps out the progress on developing goals and strategies of WEF (renamed World
Evangelical Alliance or WEA in 2002) to be presented to the World Evangelical Fellowship
General Assembly in 1992 in the Philippines.
Subseries II.D.1.d: Projects
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1989-1993
Volume: .3 cubic feet
Boxes: 298-299
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, project proposals, agenda and minutes
Correspondents: Houston, persons with direct involvement in the projects
Notes: This small subseries documents projects that LCWE supported with funds and other
resources. Among these are:
• The Bookstore Project
• The William Carey Bicentennial
• Country Christian Handbooks
• Middle East / North Africa desk
• Networking: Lausanne Style
• CIS Partnership Project (Commonwealth of Independent States)
• World Briefing Report (Colorado Springs, 1992)
Exceptional items:
• Folder 298-8 contains letters in response to Houston’s appeal for two Christian
bookstores in various countries that would stock and sell books reviewed in LCWE’s World Evangelization magazine.
• Included in folders 298-9 and 299-1 are the project proposal that Houston developed,
information about Christopher Smith who carried out the research, and the interaction and
activity of the North American Bicentennial Committee. The occasion of the project was
the celebration of the 200th anniversary (1992-1993) of William Carey’s writing of his Enquiry Into the Obligation of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of
Heathens... and arrival in South Asia, which have been viewed as the birth of modern
missions.
• Folder 299-5 includes information about the Lausanne project to develop thirty to fifty
handbooks on “the strength of the churches and parachurch organizations, the social
impact of the gospel and the peoples still unreached with the Good News of Jesus
Christ.” Included are the proposal, grant applications, and two folders on the Ghana and
Guatemala handbooks. (Copies of the handbooks are not included.)
• Folder299-8 refers to efforts to establish a Lausanne Middle East desk to provide
information to the Lausanne community and serve as a contact to Middle Eastern
countries.
• A similar idea was considered (folders 299-2,3). The documents in the folder span from
the time when the Soviet Union still existed, to its dissolution and the formatin fo
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Mark Elliott of the Institute for East/West
Studies was one of the key contributors in the deliberations.
Subseries II.D.2: Congresses, Conferences, Consultations and Other Meetings
Arrangement: Chronologically
a. Lausanne II Congress (Manila), 1989
b. Moscow Lausanne Congress, 1990
c. Budapest Summit, 1991
d. Other meetings
Date Range: 1974, 1983-1993
Volume: 4.3 cubic feet
Boxes: 299-310
Notes: These files relate to the Lausanne-related meetings that took place from the beginning
and throughout Houston’s term as International Director.
Subseries II.D.6.a: Lausanne II (Manila), 1989
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1983-1993
Volume: 2.4 cubic feet
Boxes: 299-305
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, newsletters, press releases, manuscripts
of papers at the Manila Congress, and Lausanne-related or other conferences and consultations,
financial audit, biographical sketches
Correspondents: Houston, Sharon Chan, Ed Dayton, Leighton Ford, Paul McKaughan, other
LCWE figures, ministry representatives
Notes: These files relate to various program details of the 1989 Congress (including the taping
and distribution of audio recordings of the Congress plenaries and workshops, biographies of
Congress plenary speakers, daily chairmen and artists, musicians and drama groups, the
production of videos featured throughout the plenary sessions, etc.), foreign-language versions of
some of the Congress papers produced afterward, evaluations by participants and LCWE
members and leaders, participant-related matters, and a newsletter for participants.
Also included are Houston’s files in this subseries relate to many but not all Congress tracks. While the tracks were a program focus of the Congress in Manila, and some folders have documents from before the Congress, all have their roots in the Congress but extend beyond it with documents on plans or projects underway, consultations being held around a specific track (e.g., the 1990 Conference of Bible Distribution Agencies, the planned-for Consortium of Bible Distribution Agencies 1994 Consultation, Joni and Friends’ 1992 European Symposium on the Church and Disability). The documents also reflect the interaction and collaboration across tracks. The tracks reflected in the subseries include...
Bible Translation (track #430) Buddhism (track #620) Child Evangelism (track #670) Cross-cultural (#130) Health & Healing (track #470) Hinduism (track #630) Holy Spirit (track #230) Jewish (track #640) Laity (track #150) |
Media in Evangelism (track # 180) Muslim (track #330) Research and Evangelism (track #120) Spiritual Warfare (track #530) |
Among the folders that don’t have an immediately apparent connection to a track are: Adopt-a-People, Biblical Counseling, Church Planting, Country Portraits, Disabled (with several documents from Joni Eareckson Tada’s ministry Joni and Friends), Eschatology (with a manuscript of Peter Beyerhaus’s track presentation, “Mission and Eschatology), Garbage Dump, Media in Evangelism, Passport [to the World] Series, Proselytism, Reconciliation, Religious Liberty, Video Bible, Women’s Networks, and Young Leaders. (See the description of Subseries II.C.2.b.2.C.i above for a full list of the tracks at the Manila congress.)
Exceptional items:
• Folder 299-13 includes the financial audit for Lausanne II in Manila, Inc.
• Folder 299-17 includes a letter from Monsignor Kevin McDonald, a Catholic priest on
the Vatican advisory council (Pontificium Consilium ad Christianorum Unitatem
Fovendam or loosely translated “Pontifical Council on Promoting Christian Unity”),
along with his report on the Lausanne II Congress. Two members, including McDonald,
were nominated by the Council as guests. The files in the three folders include many
examples of religious press coverage before, during and after the Congress, almost
entirely largely from Evangelical sources but also from other religious perspectives. Also
among these are impressions of the Congress from a few of those who attended. Folder
302-5 includes Don Hoke’s letter to the editors of Christianity Today, criticizing their
coverage of the Congress.
• Folders 301-5,6 consist of correspondence and other forms of evaluating the Congress,
some from the national perspective of the participants of a particular country.
• The 302-4 folder addresses several issues between Lausanne and the charismatic
movement, Assemblies of God and Roman Catholics in the Philippines.
• Among the materials in folders 302-9 and 303-1 are reports to Houston from
leaders/coordinators from the various tracks featured during the 1989 Lausanne II
Congress in Manila; these range from reflection papers, reports on the Congress from the
viewpoint of the track emphasis, developments in the track area, brief summaries of
activities, planned events, requests from Houston. Most of the tracks are represented in
these two folders.
• Folder 303-2 includes the work of the Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse to motivate church
congregations to invest their prayer and finances in efforts to establish a church among an
unreached people. Also included is information about the 1990 Adopt-a-People
Consultation in London.
• Folder 303-5 includes the manuscript of Lamin Sanneh’s “Gospel and Culture:
Theological Reflections on Mission and Scriptural Translation.”
• Folder 303-6 includes a handwritten, three-chapter manuscript about the Lausanne
Movement’s attitude toward interfaith dialogue and comparing it with that of the World
Council of Churches. The paper is not signed, but may be written by Stephen F. Skuce
(based on internal evidence).
• The 303-8 file includes two booklets, “International Ministry the John Guest Team” and
“John Guest Evangelistic Team: International Ministry Three Year Plan for Planting
Home Churches in the Soviet Union.”
• Folder 303-13 has documents referring to garbage dumps (and the community of poor
people that live around and depend on them) in Mexico City and Cairo.
• The 303-17 folder contains the four-part conference booklet from the 4th International
Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism in 1991 in Holland, including manuscripts
of the main and workshop messages, reports, financial statement, participant list and
regional reports. Also included are several issues of the ongoing Consultation’s Bulletin
• The Passport to the World series folder 304-3 includes two samples of the booklets for
Thailand and Mongolian People’s Republic, along with an outline that describes the
scope, audience and content of the series.
• The Proselytism file (folder 304-4) consists of World Council of Churches materials on
the topic.
• Ray Bakke’s correspondence in folder 305-1, (the thickest in the subseries) related largely
to urban evangelism and ministry, includes two proposals: “The Francophone World (part
1)” and “Signs of Hope in the Middle East,” both with the subtitle “Models of Christian
Presence, Witness and Service,” that were presented by Bakke and others. Another
sizeable file is the Women’s Networks file (folder 305-3) comprised largely of
correspondence with Robyn Claydon.
Subseries II.D.2.b: Moscow, 1990
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1989-1991
Volume: .8 cubic feet
Boxes: 305-307
Geographic coverage: Soviet Union
Type of documents: Conference notebooks containing correspondence, press releases,
participant lists, press conference transcript, Moscow Declaration, program briefing paper,
conference newspaper, financial and fundraising documents and reports, registration information
and forms, reports
Correspondents: Houston, Myriam van der Doef, Leighton Ford, Steve Weber, Bill Ditewig,
Sam Hanchett, Kathy Giske, Phill Butler, Jim Moats, Lausanne executives and others involved in
planning, Soviet government and church representatives, vendors, participants
Notes: This small subseries consists almost entirely of three planning and documentation
notebooks materials from regional 1990 Lausanne Congress in Moscow. Among the notebook
subsections are: Arrangements, Preliminary Plans, Congress management, Background &
Statistical Info, Consultation on USSR Congresses, Committees, Video, Steering Committee,
Correspondence (Bill Ditewig, Sam Hanchett, Kathy Giske, InterDev, Jim Moats, Steve Weber),
General Correspondence, Declaration, Finance (Moscow Budget, Weekly Reports), Fundraising
– Moscow, Participants (Registration, Correspondence), Exhibitors Participants, Pentecostal
Participants, USSR Pentecostals, Partnership Agreements, Prayer, Press, Communications, Press
Correspondence, Press Releases, Program (Plenaries, Program Overall, Speakers, Workshops),
Travel, Trip Reports
Subseries II.D.2.c: Budapest Summit, 1991
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1990-1992
Volume: .8 cubic feet
Boxes: 307-309
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Notebooks for documents (primarily correspondence, memos, invitation
letters, form letters, press releases), financial commitment forms,
Correspondents: Houston, Leighton Ford, Renee Gruen, Myriam van der Doef, Bill Ditewig
(deputy director), other Lausanne members and staff, individuals involved in or providing
services at the meeting, speakers and participants
Notes: The documents, primarily comprised in notebooks, record the planning for the summit on
“Evangelization in Post-Marxist Contexts,” including invitations to participants, schedule and
content of the summit program, speakers, agenda for the meeting, travel arrangements,
accommodations, handouts, budget, language translators, media, prayer coordination, etc. The
Budapest Summit was a regional summit on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (which
collapsed at the end of 1991). (At the planning meeting in London in July 1990, it was agreed to
“Develop each Full Meeting of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization as a Regional
Summit of Evangelical Leaders, local and worldwide, to examine the major opportunities and
obstacles, internal and external, to the evangelization of the Region and propose strategies to the
churches to over come the obstacles and grasp the opportunities to take the whole Gospel to the
whole Region.” Budapest was the site of the first of these summits.) The large notebooks of
participant registration forms were largely logistical (a great portion of them faded faxes); only a
sampling of these were retained.
Exceptional items:
• Folders 308-3,4,5,6 and 309-1,2,3 consist of the many planning documents, dividied by
sections, ranging from Logistics to Participants (including the participant list) to
Speakers. Since documents from or by each of the office staff listed as correspondents
above appear in each of the notebooks, it is unclear what distinguishes them from one
another or whether the three general notebooks of planning documents correspond to
different staff members or were a series that were jointly added to.
• Folder 307-5 consists of Houston’s handwritten notes in planning for and from during the
summit, reports submitted to him from regional representatives or groups
• Folders 307-8 consists of an eight-part binder with key findings from the summit,
arranged in numbered sections that cover: Program Notes, Summit Statement, The
Lausanne Short Story, Scenario Status of World Evangelization 1991-2000 AD, Strategic
Framework Study Interim Report, The Lausanne Movement: An Arrow Into the Future,
and Five-Year Strategic Plan
• The “responses” referred to in folder 308-1 are financial commitments at a countrywide
level
• Folder 308-2 contains transcripts, prepared by Houston’s staff, of what appear to be
comments during a presentation, group discussion, press conference, or interviews during
the summit (the speaker being transcribed is identified but not usually the context).
Among the speakers (most from Eastern Europe), some more than once are: Viju
Abaham, Petur Dugulescu, Caio Fabio, Tom Houston, Peter Kuzmic, Michael Little, Art
Moore, Nikolai Nedelchev, Warwick Olson, Sali Rahmani, Johannes Reimer, Steve
Weber, and Henryk Wieja. Also included is a “Suggested Plan for Evangelization of the
Vietnamese People in Post-Marxists Situations” by Son Xuan Nguyen, and others by
Jorge Atienza, Ramez Attalah, Olga Avetisova, Ray Bakke, Vasili Boechko, Andrei
Bondarenko, Leighton Ford, Rudi Giron Kweko Hutchfull, Hilde Kjellsted, Ingemar
Kurg, Isabelo Magalit, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Hector Pardo, Susan Perlman, Johannes
Reimer, Hans Gunther Sachse, Vinay Samuel, Rolf Scheffbuch, Alexander Semchenko,
Glenn Sheppard, Vasile Suciu, Julia Thomas, Paul Toaspern, and Jannis Vanags.
Subseries II.D.2.d: Other Meetings
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1974, 1988-1991
Volume: .3 cubic feet
Boxes: 309-310
Geographic coverage:
Type of documents: Correspondence, program materials, press coverage, newsletters, reports,
participant lists, statements, background materials
Correspondents: Houston, meeting representatives and planners, Phill Butler and Jim Kraakevik
for the 1991 Consultation on Partnership
Notes: This subseries consists of five files on a few evangelization meetings that took place,
mostly while Houston was the LCWE International Director, including the participant list from
the 1988 European Leadership Conference on World Evangelization (in Bad Boll, Germany),
reflections on the 1989 World Council of Churches meeting in San Antonio and comparisons
between in and the Congress in Manila, the 1990 German Congress on Evangelization in
Stuttgart (all documents in German), and the 1991 Wheaton Consultation on Partnership in
World Mission in Wheaton (including participant list, statement of affirmations and
commitments, presentation manuscripts, background papers), several of which Houston attended.
Also included is correspondence about a proposed Indian Young Leaders Conference and several
items from the first Lausanne Congress in 1974 (a German version of a resource booklet
produced after the event and a British news magazine covering the Congress).
Subseries II.D.3: Countries
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1987-1993
Volume: .8 cubic feet
Boxes: 310-312
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Newsletters, reports, correspondence, press releases
Correspondents: Houston, Sharon Chan (Houston’s assistant), Ed Dayton, LCWE members
and contacts, Evangelical agencies and leaders
Notes: These are reference files of materials (not exhaustive) from Evangelical agencies and
leaders that Houston and his staff compiled on countries throughout the world. The materials
report on the state of evangelism and the church, issues related to the tracks at the 1989 Lausanne
congress in Manila, and special projects or needs in the following countries: Albania,
Bangladesh, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Caribbean, Chile, China,
Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly the Soviet Union), Croatia, Cyprus, Eastern
Europe, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Korea, Latin
America, Malaysia, Middle East, Mongolia, New Zealand, North Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan,
Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zimbabwe.
Exceptional items:
• Folder 310-12 includes the 1990 edition of Handbook for Christian Travelers to the
U.S.S.R.
• Folders 310-15 and 311-1,2 includes the Houston’s proposal “LCWE / Eastern Europe
and the USSR: A Three-Pronged Initiative.”
• Folder 311-5 includes the compiled results of two surveys, “Upper East Regional
Church/Evangelism Survey” and National Church Survey.
• Folder 311-8 contains the booklet Facing 1997: What Hong Kong Pastors Are Saying : A
Survey Report and Ray Bakke’s report on his 1991 trip to China and Hong Kong.
• The India file (folder 311-9) contains the research report “Where Are the Poor and the
Lost Among the States of India?”
• Folder 311-14 consists mainly of responses (from Lebanon, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Bahrain, Turkey, United States, United Kingdom) to the Signs of Hope newsletter
report on the 1992 consultation in Cyprus (coordinated by the Evangelicals for Middle
East Understanding.
• The Mongolia file (folder 311-15) consists mostly of different interaction with John
Gibbens of Sharing Christ Internationally.
• Folder 311-16 contains “Dawn Strategy New Zealand: Reaching Our Nation by the Year
2000AD : 1990 Church Survey Preliminary Findings.”
• Folder 312-6 contains “Evangelizing Sri Lanka: Issues Facing the Church Today.”
• Folder 312-11 contains What is going on in Zaire? By Bishop Bokeleale of the Church of
Christ of Zaire.
Subseries II.D.4: Other Organizations
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1980-1994
Volume: 1.4 cubic feet
Boxes: 312-315
Geographic coverage: Worldwide
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, faxes, reports, proposals, publications,
promotional material
Correspondents: Houston, Sharon Chan and Renee Gruen (Houston’s assistants), Lucien
Accad, Ramez Atallah, Clive Calver,John Corts, A. Jack Dain, Bill Ditewig, Leighton Ford, Billy
Graham, Fergus Macdonald, Brad Smith, other LCWE members, and representatives of the
agencies, including Thomas Wang and other LCWE leaders, David Barrett, Tokunboh Adeyemo,
David Bryant, Blair Carlson, John Cho, Francis Gray, Michael Harper, David Howard, Patrick
Johnstone, Gordon Loux, Augustus Marwieh, Jim Montgomery, J.I. Packer, Robert Schuller,
Glenn Sheppard, Tom Sine, Francis Sunderaraj, Joni Eeareckson Tada, George Verwer, and
other ministry leaders
Notes: The files in this subseries reflect Houston’s interactions with individuals of organizations
that he had a connection with, or who were part of the Lausanne Movement, or were seeking
guidance or offering suggestions about world evangelization, or for background purposes,
including information on conference the organizations were hosting. These were largely
Evangelical groups engaged in some aspect of the evangelistic mission of the Church, and while
the specific issues range widely, several common themes are evangelism and missions,
nominations to the Lausanne Committee, the second Lausanne congress in Manila.
Included are Houston’s interactions with churches, evangelistic organizations (like Bill and Vonette Bright of Campus Crusade), seminaries (Houston’s advice to Eddie Gibbs at Fuller Seminary about establishing the new Evangelism Department), James Montgomery of Dawn Ministries, Luis Bush of Partners International (about AD2000, Evangelical associations (such as Tokunboh Adeyemo’s funding request for f the Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar), various Bible societies (such as Lance Baillie of the Visual Bible International about the production of a Bible on video), several representatives of the World Council of Churches, and the 1989 meeting of the Society for Frontier Missiology.
Among these agencies were: Accrediting Council for Theological Education in Africa, AD 2000
Movement, African Evangelistic Enterprise, Association of Evangelicals of Africa and
Madagascar (AEAM), Asian Center for Theological Study (ACTS), American Bible Society and
other Bible societies (National Bible Society of Scotland), Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association, British Council of Churches, British Evangelical Council, Campus Crusade for
Christ, Catholic Bible Federation, Chinese Coordination Center on World Evangelization
(CCCOWE), Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Concerts of Prayer, CONELA, Conference
for World Mission, DAWN, Ministries, Dayspring International, European Christian Mission
(ECM), Evangelical Alliance, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Evangelical Fellowship of
India (EFI), Evangelical Foreign Missions Association (EFMA), Evangeliums Rundfunk (ERF), Evangelism Today, Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC), Foreign Mission Board [of the
Southern Baptist Convention], Institute for East-West Christian Studies, Interdenominational
Foreign Missions Association (IFMA), Interdev, International Council of Accrediting Agencies
[for Evangelical Theological Education], International Charismatic Conference on World
Evangelization (ICCOWE) and its Brighton ‘91 Conference, International Christian Media
Commission (ICMC), International Russian Radio/TV, International Fellowship of Evangelical
Students (IFES), Interserve, Institute on Religion and Democracy, Issachar, Jews for Jesus, Jesus
Film Project, Joni and Friends, MARC Europe, March for Jesus, Mission Forum, Open Doors,
Operation Mobilisation (OM), Overseas Missions Study Center (OSMC), Oxford Center for
Mission Studies, Radio in Church-planting Evangelism, Scripture Union, Servants’ Fellowship,
South Asian Concern, Strategic Careers Project, Transformation, United Bible Societies, US
Center for World Mission, WEC International, William Carey International University, WORLD
CHRISTIAN Magazine, World Council of Churches, World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF),
national World Vision organizations and World Vision International, World Vision UK, World
Vision USA, Youth With a Mission, Youth With a Mission Great Britain. Several files relate to
contact with mainline Christian denominations, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Roman
Catholics. A number of letters refer to the changes in the Soviet Union and opportunities for
ministry following the opening of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the end of communism in
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Some of the files are more extensive, but most have a
relatively small amount of material.
Exceptional items:
• The Correspondence with Billy Graham & BGEA (folders 312-21,22) includes Houston’s
letters to Graham, a research report in preparation for Graham’s Mission 89 in the U.K.,
Mission Scotland statistics, and Blair Carlson’s lengthy memo to John Corts with his
observations about planning Graham’s future international work.
• Folder 313-9 includes INTERDEV’s organization’s “Soviet Language Groups Ministry
Resources Study (Book 1 in its Ministry Resource Information) and Phill Butler’s
“Networks and Reaching the Unreached: A Look at the Operational Implications of
Cooperation”
• Folder 314-2 includes MARC Europe’s 1992 version of its business plan
• Lucien Accad in his 11/24/89 letter to Houston (folder 314-10) describes the political
situation in Lebanon.
• Folder 315-3 consists of documents primarily related to the relationship between LCWE
and World Evangelical Fellowship
• Folders 315-5,6,7,8,9 relate to World Vision record Houston’s role in WV and the
interaction between the two organizations and WV’s contribution to the LCWE; included
are minutes that reflect Houston’s having been president of World Vision International,
and therefore also a member of the British board.
Subseries II.D.5: General Correspondence
Arrangement: Alphabetically (the designation is variously made by the personal or
organizational name)
Date Range: 1990-1993
Volume: .9 cubic feet
Boxes: 315-317
Geographic coverage: Worldwide, with a larger portion being from UK countries
Type of documents: Correspondence, prayer letters, newsletters or other small publications,
press releases, or copies of letters that concern Houston or the Lausanne Committee between two
other parties.
Correspondents: Lausanne members, church and ministry or missionary contacts, theological
education institutions, and others who contacted Houston or the Lausanne office.
Notes: These letters in these files contain the Oxford office’s general correspondence files to
and from Houston, and consist of ongoing contacts that don’t relate directly to Lausanne
Committee projects or inquiries or thanks. The overall purposes of the communication appears
to be to maintain contact and awareness of both the Lausanne movement and programs and the
ministries and programs of other organizations, friends and contacts.
Exceptional items:
• Folder 315-12 includes Houston’s letter to Alexei II, Partriarch of Moscow and All
Russia after their meeting during the Moscow Lausanne Congress in 1991.
• Folder 315-12 includes a letter from Doug Birdsall on his appointment in 1991 as
president of Life Ministries (Birdsall became LCWE’s executive chairman in 2004)
Subseries II.E: John Siewert (Interim International Coordinator)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1988-2001
Volume: .2 cubic feet
Boxes: 320
Type of documents: Corporate documents notebook, conference report and presentation papers,
LCWE newsletter
Notes: These files, containing no correspondence, consist of assorted documents sent to the
Archives by Siewert that tell part of the LCWE history
Exceptional items:
• The corporate records notebook in folder 320-7 includes sections for Articles of
Incorporation, Constitution & By-laws, Board Minutes, Notices/Permits/Applications,
Agreements/Contracts, Reprint Permissions, and Other
• Folder 320-8 consists of the “report and written papers” from the 1988 European
Leadership Conference on World Evangelization in Stuttgart
• The papers on nominality given at the 1998 International Lausanne Consultation on
Nominalism in London are compiled in the bound booklet found in folder 320-9
• Folder 320-10 consists of five issues of the Lausanne Committee for World
Evangelization Newsletter.
Series III: LCWE Treasurer
Subseries:
A. Donald Hoke
B. Roger Parrott (no records)
Date Range: 1965-1994
Notes: This series documents the financial oversight, planning and operation of the Committee.
Subseries III.A: Donald Hoke
Arrangement: Into four further subseries:
1. General
2. Congresses & consultations
3. Finance
4. Members
Date Range: 1965-1994
Volume: 6.8 cubic feet
Boxes: 115-132
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, meeting minutes, reports, financial reports
and statements, conference materials, grant proposal for national movements, maps
Correspondents: Primarily the Treasurer as the creator or recipient of correspondence, memos,
and reports. In addition to Hoke, Leighton Ford, Jack Dain, David Howard, and other Lausanne
Committee executives and members.
Notes: These files span the period of Hoke’s service as LCWE treasurer (1976-1989) and
member of the Committee’s executive committee. The heart of the series is the administrative
operation and planning of the LCWE. (The researcher will find additional Hoke files in Series
F1a, which record his leadership of the 1974 Lausanne Congress as its director; no attempt was
made to consolidate those with the files in this series, or isolate those in this series that might go
with those Congress director files.) During this time Hoke was also Director of the Billy Graham
Center at Wheaton College (1974-1978), and senior pastor at Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church
in Knoxville, Tennessee (1978- 1989), after which he retired to Ft. Meyers, Florida. Included in
the files are records of his participation as a member of the LCWE Executive Committee,
financial records in his capacity as Treasurer, files related to the overall operation and financial
condition of the Committee. Among Hoke’s Treasurer files are a few related to the 1974
Lausanne Congress; they have been retained among his files in this series, but the researcher
should also view them in the context of his 1974 Congress director’s files. The files in this series
came to the Archives as four separate but somewhat overlapping accessions. The archivist has
integrated these while retaining the overall order of Hoke’s files.
Files related to the meetings, activities and actions of the Executive Committee, Full Committee or any subcommittees will be found in folders 115-12, 116-8,9,10,11, 117-1,2,3,4,5,6, 119-8.
The search process that resulted in the hiring of Carl Johansson to replace Gottfried Osei-Mensah as executive director is documented in folders 117-7 and 118-11. Other personnel-related information is available in folders 119-11,
Files on LCWE’s working or advisory groups can also be found in Hoke’s files, including Intercessory Advisory Group (folder 118-9), Strategy Advisory Group (folders 119-14,15).
Documents related to the LCWE corporation can be found in folders 116-4,5,6,7 (including constitution, by-laws, and standing orders). Registration of LCWE in Illinois and North Carolina is also documented (folders 116-7 and 119-9).
Information on international offices or divisions of LCWE are also included, such as the Australia office (folder 115-13), Canadian corporation (folder 116-1), the international office (folder 118-10), the London office (folder 119-4), Nairobi office (folder 119-7), and the US corporation (folders 120-2,3,4,5).
Hoke’s files on the major LCWE-sponsored events comprise a major portion of the Treasurer’s series, reflecting the planning, program, participants and financial aspects of the events, including: 1966 World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin (folder 121-1,2), 1968 Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism (folder 121-3), 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization (folders 121-4 through 121-11, 122-1 through 122-6), 1976 Consultation on Theology and Mission (folder 122-7 with manuscripts of conference papers on the charismatic renewal, contextualization, Catholicism, inter-religious dialogue, changing political situations, and church growth, the 1978 North American Conference on Muslim Evangelization (folder 122-8, also with manuscripts of conference papers on gospel and culture, cross-cultural communication, the Muslim convert, dynamic equivalent churches, power encounter, contextualization, Islamic theology, dialogue with Muslims), 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization or COWE (folder 123- 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), 1981 American Festival of Evangelism (folders 122-9 and 123-1), the 1983 Congresso Brasileiro de Evangelizacao or Brazilian Congress on Evangelization (folder 123-10), 1984 International Prayer Assembly (folder 123-11), 1984 Congress on the Evangelization of the Caribbean or CONECAR ‘84 (folder 124-1), 1985 Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and Evangelization (folder 124-2), 1985 First Venezuelan Congress on World Mission (folder 124-3), 1986 Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (folder 124-4), 1986 Amsterdam ‘86 (folder 124-5), 1987 International Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian Leaders Singapore ‘87 (folder 124-6,7), Leadership ‘88 (folder 124-8), ICOWE II or Lausanne II (folders 124-9,10,11,12, 125-1 through 125-9, 126-1 through 126-12, and especially folders 126-6,7,8,9,12 regarding searching for and agreeing on a site for the second congress), 1989 Global Consultation on World Evangelization by AD 2000 and Beyond or Singapore ‘89 (folders 126-13, 14), 1993 Lausanne World Briefing (folder 126-15).
The Treasurer’s financial records (folders 127-1 through 129-10) show the fiscal side of the organization in the context of all of the operations of the LCWE. Hoke’s files include audits, financial statements, budgets, Finance Committee minutes, correspondence with Crowell Trust, Hoke’s Treasurer’s reports, balance sheets, “weekly financial reports,” fund-raising files, and tax reports.
A final subseries (folders 130-1 through 132-12) of the Treasurer’s files relate to LCWE members, both generally and in some cases files for specific individuals, including lists, suggestions for senior associates, biographies, balance sheets, and notebooks with some demographic and contact information. Also included is a series of files corresponding to some of the LCWE members, including Joel Aarsvold (folder 131-1), Ray Bakke (folder 131-2), Jack Dain (folder 131-3), Alan Emery (folder 131-4), Leighton Ford (folders 131-5,6,7,8,9, 132-1,2), Stan Izon (folder 132-3), James Newton (folder 132-4), Gottfried Osei-Mensah (folder 132-5), Billy Graham [and BGEA] (folder 132-6), Paul McKaughan (folder 132-7), John Reid (folder 132-8), John Richards (folder 132-9), Thomas Wang (folder 132-10), and Thomas Zimmerman (folder 132-11,12); while these are primarily correspondence files to and from the identified person, the folders may also contain documents that concern finances for a trip or other project, or authorization of a check.
Exceptional items: The “Proposed Plan for Developing a Total, International Communications Program for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (folder 116-3); like Ford’s files, Hoke’s files include discussion or decisions about the future of the Lausanne Committee and movement, including folders 118-1, 119-5,6; the Lausanne Handbook (folder 118-4); Hoke’s files that bring together material he considered relevant to the history of the LCWE (folders 118-5,6,7); news or press releases (folder 118-8); Hoke’s file on Latin American Evangelical Projects, a non-profit corporation that Hoke was a board member for (folder 118-12); the organization apparently was the receiving agency for funds designated for CONELA or Confraternity of Evangelicals in Latin America; copies of Lausanne Communique (folders 101-1, 119-1, 214-3); 1983 “Overview Report” (folder 119-10); documents that show efforts to stimulate prayer for LCWE and world evangelization (folder 119-12); file related to Herbert J. Taylor, Christian businessman and philanthropist (folder 120-1), at the time of and following Taylor’s funeral, at which Hoke contributed to the eulogy; copies (1983-1994) of World Evangelization and World Evangelization Information Bulletin (folder 120-6,7,8).
Series IV: LCWE Executive Assistant (John Howell) and COWE Operations Director; 1977-1980, n.d. Folders 58-1 to 69-11 (4 cubic feet)
The records in this subseries consist of the files created by John Howell, the LCWE Executive Assistant and subsequently the Director of Operations for the COWE. They were received from COWE's Wheaton office, where Howell worked briefly before the COWE staff moved to Thailand in early 1980. However, these records predominantly reflect Howell's activity while working in Nairobi until late-1979; they do briefly touch on his activity in Wheaton beginning in early 1980, prior to the Consultation. Since the records largely document Howell's work in the LCWE Nairobi office with Osei-Mensah, his files are located within this guide in proximity to the records of Osei-Mensah. Researchers should nonetheless keep the dual geographic coverage of these files in mind. It will be clear from Howell's files that during his assignment in Nairobi, he closely assisted Osei-Mensah; many of the documents in Howell's files were in fact directed to Osei-Mensah. The arrangement of the records and the folder titles have remained as they were received.
The documents in these files are largely of a routine nature related to the ongoing preparation for the Thailand Consultation. The researcher will find most of the folder titles sufficiently precise to reflect their contents. The contents of several folders nonetheless bear mentioning.
Folder 58-6: Proposals for two consultations: Consultation on the Place of World Evangelization in Theological Education and the Consultation on the Teaching of Mission and Evangelism. Related to the latter are minutes from a preliminary planning meeting.
Folder 58-8: Document reviewing the Lausanne Committee's activities through mid-1980 and projections for LCWE's future role.
Folder 59-7: Collection of reports from the Lausanne Congress. Included among these are a report on the ICOWE program; recommendations for future congresses; Paul Little's personal recommendations as well as his report as ICOWE Program Director; finance reports; and the Continuation Committee report. Also included is an extensive volume documenting Christian activity in Thailand, the 1978 Thailand Christian Directory.
Folder 59-8: This file is heavily though not exclusively concerned with participant selection, which Howell was very involved in.
Series V: Senior Associates
Subseries: Birger Nygaard (International & LCWE Denmark)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1993-2002
Volume: 1.5 cubic feet
Boxes: 320-324
Type of documents: Correspondence and memos, e-mails and faxes, reports, meeting agenda
and minutes, press releases, handwritten notes, newsletters, promotional material, an annual
report, financial reports, presentation manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and conference
schedules, participant lists, reports, and statements
Correspondents: Nygaard, Tom Houston, Fergus MacDonald, David Claydon, Paul Cedar,
Bryant Myers (chair of Administrative Committee), Arne Fjeldstad (of the Lausanne
International Communications Center in Oslo), Valdir Steuernagel, John Victor Selle (secretary
of the European Lausanne Committee), Ulrich Parzany (chair of the European Lausanne
Committee), Scott Moreau, LCWE senior executives
Background: Senior Associates were appointed by the LCWE Executive Chair on the
recommendation of the national committee and the Administrative Committee; they relate to one
of the Working Groups.
Notes: Birger’s files document the further widening of Lausanne’s international leadership and
flavor, in his case from a European perspective. This subseries shows Birger’s role as a Senior
Associate, and his intersection with a number of LCWE bodies and events, especially the
Administrative Committee, Lausanne Denmark (of which he was chair and also affiliated with
the Danish Missionary Council), the European Lausanne Committee, the Theology Strategy
Working Group, the Communications Center, and the 2000 Spiritual Warfare Consultation in
Nairobi, but also including the meetings of the full and executive committees, and the 1996
Consultation on Contextualization in Denmark along with other meetings. Among the major
themes reflected in the files were the restructuring the LCWE, future planning and visioning, and
the more extensive distribution of leadership throughout national Lausanne movements. These
files give a layered perspective to the Lausanne Movement, ranging from the international to
regional to national spheres.
Exceptional items:
• A sizable portion of the subseries relates to Nygaard’s contact with and reporting to the LCWE Administrative Committee (see folders 320-9 through 321-3. Among the
issues addressed in the Administrative Committee notebook (folder 320-9) was the
LCWE relationship with World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF). Also see folder 320-9
for several issues of the Intercession Working Group’s The IWG Prayer Letter, a
promotional booklet on the 1996 Fifth Chinese Congress on World Evangelization in
Hong Kong and the 1994-1996 report from Lausanne Denmark. Folder 321-1 includes a
one-page overview of the Guidelines for the Lausanne Senior Associates. Also among
the documents in folder 321-1 are a one-page brief from 1994 on Lausanne Denmark, an
organizational chart that details the 1994 structure with working groups and twenty-eight
national or thematic committees, a participant list at the 1993 Nordic/Baltic Lausanne
meeting in Uppsala, Sweden (at the time of or the same as the Consultation on
Modernity). Nygaard played a key organizing role in preparing a discussion paper along
with Tom Houston, Bryant Myers and Valdir Steuernagel for the 1996 Future Directions
for Lausanne conference in Stuttgart, especially reflected in folder 321-2; he also was
instrumental in coordinating the agenda for the 1998 meeting for the Full and Executive
Committees in Toronto (see folder 321-3). Sprinkled throughout the files, such as folder
321-2 are copies of The Lausanne Letter, a newsletter. The 1994 LCWE annual report is
among the documents in folder 321-2. Folder 321-3 consists primarily of the notebooks
for LCWE members attending the 1996 biennial meeting of the International Lausanne
Committee in Stuttgart and 1998 meeting in Toronto
• Another major portion (see folders 321-4 through 322-2) relates to the activity of the European Lausanne Committee and Nygaard’s role in that regional group. Included in
folder 321-4 are material from the international consultation on “Good News to the
World at Expo 2000," the 1995 European Round Table in Vienna and its initiative “Hope
for Europe,” both of which were sponsored by the European Lausanne Committee and
the European Evangelical Alliance. Folder 322-1 includes documents related to the 2002
biannual international meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, which focused on planning for the
2004 Forum for World Evangelization that was held in Pattaya, Thailand; among the
documents is a preparation survey sent to all members and the Danish Lausanne
Committee’s response.
• Folder 322-3 documents the 1993 Consultation on Modernity in Uppsala, Sweden,
almost entirely in manuscripts of presentations, like those of Os Guinness on “Mission
Modernity: Seven Checkpoints on Mission in the Modern World,” “The Rise of Post-Modernity” by P Sampson, Leslie Newbegin’s “Truth and Authority in
Modernity,”Harold Netland’s “Truth, Authority and Modernity: Shopping for Truth in a
Supermarket of Worldviews,” David Wells’ “Modernity and Theology: The Doctrine of
God,” Charles Van Engen’s “Modernity and the Church: Reconceptualizing the
Community of Saints in the Light of Postmodern Critique,” Elaine Storkey’s “Modernity
and Anthropology,” Stephen Williams’ “Modernity and Morality,” Tormod
Engelsviken’s “Modernity and Eschatology,” James Houston’s “Modernity and
Spirituality,” Craig Gay’s “An Iron Cage: The Rationalization of Modern Economic
Life,” Knud Jorgensen’s “Modernity – Information Technology and Christian Faith,”
John Seel’s “Evangelicals and Modernity: American Evangelicalism as a Global Case
Study,” Vinay Samuel’s “Modernity, Mission and Non-Western Societies,” and Lars
Johansson’s “The New Age Synthesis – Modern, Pre-Modern and Post-Modern
Motives.” Also included is the consultation press release, “McDonaldization of the
Church.”
• Folder 322-4 similarly documents the 1997 Consultation on Contextualization
Revisited in Haslev, Denmark, including both planning and reporting documents, along
with manuscripts of papers, such as Patrick Sookhdeo’s “Contextualization: Some
Issues,” Saphir Athyal’s “The Old Testament Contextualizations,” Ernst Baasland’s “The
Contextualized Witness of the Apostles,” Charles Kraft’s “A Critical History of Gospel
Contextualization,” Morris Stuart’s “Issues of Ethnicity and Race As They Relate to
Gospel Contextualization,” Josiah Fearon’s “The Ethics of Contextualization,” and
Graham Cray’s “Communication Methods and the Contextualisation of the Gospel.”
• The largest portion of Nygaard’s files relate to the 2000 Consultation on Spiritual
Warfare in Nairobi, spanning from folders 323-1 through 324-2 (seven folders
altogether). Because Nygaard was the coordinator for the consultation, these files reflect
not only the content of the meetings but much more of the detailed planning. Among the
source articles (possibly used to shape the content and direction of the consultation or
select presenters) included are Paul Hiebert’s “Spiritual Warfare and Worldview,”
Charles Hoole’s “Territorial Spirits: An Indian Perspective,” Mike Wakely’s “Territorial
Spirits?” T.P. Abraham’s “Spiritual Warfare and Church Growth,” “Missiological
Sycretism: The New Animistic Paradigm” by Robert Priest, Thomas Campbell and
Bradford Mullen, and Tokunboh Adeyemo’s “Our Weapons of Warfare.” Manuscripts of
consultation papers (all in folder 324-2) include Tormod Engelsviken’s “Historical
Overview,” Oscar Skarsaune’s “Possession and Exorcism in the Literature of the Ancient
Church and the New Testament,” John Thomas’s “Spiritual Conflict in Biblical
Perspective,” Hwa Yung’s “Some Issues in a Systematic Theology That Takes Seriously
the Demonic,” David Burnett’s “Spiritual Conflict and Folk Religion,” Knud Jorgensen’s
“The Socio-Political Context: Powers and Principalities,”Jerry Mungadze’s “Spiritual
Conflict in Light of Psychology and Medicine,” Margaret Jacobs’ “Spiritual Conflict in
the Ministry of the Church,” Charles Kraft’s “Contemporary Trends in the Treatment of
Spiritual Conflict in the Mission of the Church,” Marguerite Kraft’s “Spiritual Conflict
and the Mission of the Church: Contextualization,” Scott Moreau’s “Gaining Perspective
on Territorial Spirits” and “North American Case Study: An Overview of Spiritual
Warfare Literature,” Neuza Itioka’s “A Brazilian Perspective: Case Studies From Brazil,”
Ole Skjerbaek Madsen’s “Spiritual Conflict Among Western Seekers,” Amsalu Tadesse
Geleta’s “Case Study: Demonization and the Practice of Exorcism in Ethiopian
Churches,” Yusufu Turaki’s “Africa Traditional Religious System as Basis of
Understanding Christian Spiritual Warfare,” and Jonathan Chao’s “Freed from Qigong
through Faith in Christ: A Chinese Case Study.” Also among the documents are the one-page “An Attempt to Define Key Terms in Spiritual Warfare,” an unattributed manuscript
“Worship, Praise and Prayer” that critiques the cultural trends that have infected
Christian worship and practice, the full-text manuscript of Deliver Us From Evil
Consultation: Spiritual Conflict in Today’s Mission (#29 in the Lausanne Occasional
Papers series), Scott Moreau’s “A Quick Survey of Spiritual Warfar Literature,” Charles
Kraft’s “Contextualization and Spiritual Power,” Some of the documents appear to be in
Danish or other Nordic language.
Series VI: LCWE Congresses and Consultations
Subseries: Chronological by event as follows:
A. 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne, Switzerland)
B. 1979-1980 Simple Lifestyle Consultations
C. 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization (Pattaya, Thailand)
D. 1984 International Prayer Assembly (Seoul, Korea)
E. 1985 Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization
(Oslo, Norway)
F. 1989 Lausanne II Congress (Manila, Philippines, no records)
Date Range: 1971-1985
Notes: This series consists of records from some of the LCWE’s international
meetingsSubseries
Subseries VI.A: International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), 1974 (commonly
known as the Lausanne Congress)
Arrangement: Subdivided into records of:
1. Congress director
2. Congress chairman
Date Range: 1971-1980
Notes: The records of the primary Congress administrators.
Subseries VI.A.1: Congress director (Donald Hoke)
Arrangement: Further subdivided as follows:
a. ICOWE
b. LCWE
c. COWE
Date Range: 1971-1980
Volume: 3.0 cubic feet
Boxes: 26-28
Type of documents: Correspondence, staff manuals, meeting agendas and minutes, reports,
newsletters, press releases and papers delivered at the Lausanne Congress in 1974
Notes: The files in this subseries show the varied nature of the responsibilities of the ICOWE
Director, Donald Hoke, and his involvement for two major international meetings and on the
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE). Hoke served as Director of the
International Congress on World Evangelization, was the chairman of the editorial board of the
Lausanne Committee's Information Bulletin, and was a member of the Participant Selection
Committee for the Pattaya meeting in 1980.
The folders are arranged alphabetically according to folder title, except for the ICOWE procedure book folders, which are arranged as they were within in their original binders. This arrangement was provided by the archivist. The procedure books, along with the planning committee minutes, the program committee materials, and the press releases, have been removed from the notebooks in which they were received; they have been removed from these in order to be be more easily stored and used.
Subseries VI.A.1.a: ICOWE (folders 26-1 through 27-30); 1971-1974.
Exceptional items: The early history of the Congress can be traced in Hoke's correspondence
with Harvey Thomas (through folder 26-9), a BGEA staff member who had been in Europe
working on the 1971 European Congress on evangelism held in Amsterdam. Thomas made
suggestions about program budget, timetable, and arrangements for the upcoming Congress
based on his own experience. Another source on the early planning for the Congress, the
meeting itself, and its results are the files of English press releases from 1972 through 1974
(folders 26-28 through 26-48). The releases provide a great deal of information about both
speakers and participants. Folders 26-22 through 26-27 consist of feature articles on the purpose
of the Congress, including those by prominent sponsors such as Myron Augsburger, A. Jack
Dain, Billy Graham, Gordon Landreth, and Leon Morris. Also included among the feature
articles are interviews with Dain, Hoke, Leighton Ford, David Tam, and Paul Little. Folders
26-21 and 26-49 through 26-52 contain press releases in Dutch, French, German and Spanish.
Many other files detail the work that went into preparing for the Congress. The minutes of the Planning Committee in folder 27-11, dating back to 1971, were divided by item and reconstructed, apparently by Hoke, according to topic. Thus for each subject, such as accomodations, closing session, documentary film, follow-up sessions, locations, etc., the decisions of the Committee were gruped together; these broader categories were then arranged in alphabetical order. The program notebook in folder 27-22 contains various records of the Program Committee, including lists of possible speakers, tentative program arrangements, plenary study papers in four languages with a form attached for suggestions and criticisms (the papers were sent out to participants before the Congress to study), letters to speakers, forms for recommending speakers, and tentative lists of discussion group topics. Also in this notebook are summaries of the discussions held during the Congress by national and regional strategy groups on the best way to evangelize their particular areas and some correspondence with A. Jack Dain, the Congress's Chairman. Folder 27-20 also contains minutes, memos, letters, and proposals as to what should be included on the Congress program. Folder 27-21 contains the printed program and information book, including the full agenda of sessions, lists of committee members, session leaders, and other information related to the Congress program.
Two procedure books have been divided between Folders 27-1 through 27-19, with the materials left in the order in which they were filed in the books. These document the work of the Congress staff. (The books were patterned after the model of the procedure books prepared for every Billy Graham Evangelistic Association crusade.) These included most of the duplicated materials created before, during, and after the Congress. The section on staff forms in folder 27-1 contains some interesting records, including memos sent to staff members giving prayer requests, staff appointments, etc. Also included is a "Preliminary Timetable of Preparations," which outlines schedules for committee meetings, printing of forms, hiring of staff, issuing of press releases, participant selection and invitation, program preparation, prayer, and the hiring and preparation of interpreters. Some material was apparently removed from the books as the sections labeled "Pastors' Conference" and "Book Stall" were empty. The other topics covered by these volumes can be found in the container list of this guide.
The correspondence files (folders 26-5 through 26-11) also describe the preparation by the staff for the Congress. The correspondence with Warwick Olson, the Director of Communications (folder 26-8), is accompanied by form letters and reports to various committees on preparations Olson was making. Also in this file is an agenda and the background material for a 1973 planning consultation and a follow-up report on the meeting; included with this is a list of topics to be considered at the congress. Hoke's correspondence with BGEA staff member Harry Williams (folder 26-10) is concerned with the selection of participants for the Congress from countries throughout the world. A letter in the miscellaneous correspondence file (folder 26-7) describes Hoke's association with Billy Graham from the time period between the 1940's and the Congress. English, French, German, and Spanish editions of the series of five copies of Information Bulletin can be found in folder 26-2. These were distributed between January and June, 1974, and include articles on preparations for the Congress.
Hoke's report to the Administrative Committee (folder 27-23), probably prepared in December 1973, gives the committee data on the current status of preparations up to that date concerning invitations, finances, a pastor's conference, gospel rally, and staff personnel. In folder 27-24 is a report from prayer chairwoman Mildred Dienert on her efforts to set up prayer groups for the Congress around the world.
Before the Congress was convened, preparations were begun for the continuation of its work. The files related to the work of the Continuation Committee (26-3 and 26-4) contain correspondence with Leighton Ford, Billy Graham, Paul Little, Clyde Taylor, and others about what kind of ongoing work there should be, how it should relate to the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) and whether a new world evangelical organization should be established, and who should comprise the membership of the Continuation Committee. Also in these folders are notes, minutes, and reports from meetings.
There is little information about finances in these files, except for the entries in the Planning Committee's minutes and the folder containing invoices for gifts received for the Congress (26-13).
The remaining ICOWE-related folders contain documents from the Congress itself. Among these are the papers prepared by two specialized study groups for consideration at the Congress: Specialized Evangelistic Strategy Groups and Theology of Evangelization Study Groups. Each of the groups within these two larger bodies studied a particular topic, such as "Guilt, Conversion and Modern Psychology," or "Christian Higher Education and World Evangelism." Partial sets of these papers, touching on topics ranging from missions and evangelism among ethnic, regional, and religious groups to hermeneutics and contextualization can be found in folders 27-26, 27-27 and 27-29. Folder 26-20 contains papers read to the entire Congress; these are arranged alphabetically according to the author's name, except for the papers by George Peters and Ralph Winter, which also have clipped to them the comments of the respondents to their papers. (A full list of speakers and the topics they addressed can be found in the addendum of this guide.) Summaries of each day's events can be found in the press releases for the various days of the Congress.
As a follow-up to the Congress, a documentary film, Let the Earth Hear His Voice, was produced. Review comments on this film are contained in folder 26-12.
Hoke's correspondence on closing the Congress office (folder 26-6) documents the final housekeeping duties which hade to be taken care of in Lausanne.
One interesting item in this subseries is the 1969 doctoral dissertation by Arthur Johnston on the International Missionary Council (folder 27-28). This was apparently used by the Congress staff as reference material. Along with this document is a copy of a booklet about the history and records of the 1910 World Missionary Conference. Also of interest are the manuals in folder 26-17 from the Christ the Only Way Movement in the Philippines; these were also apparently used for reference. They outline a strategy for evangelistic outreach and church growth which was implemented in 1971 and 1972.
Subseries VI.A.1.b: LCWE (folders 28-1 through 18); 1975-1980.
Exceptional items: Folders 28-1 through 28-18 are Hoke's files on the Lausanne Committee for
World Evangelization (LCWE), the majority of which are related to his responsibility as a
member of LCWE's Communications Working Group and it's Editorial Board. Folder 28-2
contains correspondence with other members of the Group, including Stan Izon, Luc Verlunden,
Horst Marquardt, Leighton Ford, Ralph Winter, and Gottfried Osei-Mensah. Folder 28-3
consists of the minutes of a 1977 Editorial Board meeting. Folder 28-4, along with Leighton
Ford's correspondence includes that from John Howell, LCWE's Executive Assistant, and an
annotated script for the multimedia show, How Shall They Hear? The file appears to have begun
in regard to Ford's visit to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1976, where Hoke was Executive Director of the
Billy Graham Center at the time. In addition to the minimal documentation related to that trip,
the file includes a limited amount of material relating to the 1980 COWE meeting, covering
arrangements for travel, study groups and scholarships. A survey of LCWE'S Information
Bulletin's readership was proposed in 1976. Discussion of this and a copy of the survey can be
found in folder 28-14.
Subseries VI.A.1.c: COWE (folders 28-19 through 24); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: In addition to the COWE material in folder 28-4, Hoke's files also include
some other material related to Hoke's duties on the Committee evaluating participant nominees
for the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization (folders 28-19 through 28-24).
Subseries VI.A.2: Congress Chairman and Chairman of the Lausanne Continuation Committee
(A. Jack Dain); 1971-1978
Arrangement: Further subdivided as follows:
a. ICOWE
b. LCWE
c. Other Evangelism Conferences
Date Range: 1971-1978
Volume: 7.0 cubic feet
Boxes: 29-35
Type of documents: Correspondence, minutes, presentation manuscripts, questionnaires
Correspondents: While the correspondents in these files are numerous, several stand out, each
that played a key role in the planning and administration of the Congress and/or Lausanne
Committee. Among these are Billy Graham, Leighton Ford, Paul Little, and others with
administrative posts in the ICOWE and LCWE.
Notes: The documents in this subseries consist of the correspondence of the Chairman of the
ICOWE and Chairman of the LCC, the Rt. Reverend, A.J. Dain of Australia. Correspondence
comprises all of the subseries while serving as Chairman in the two capacities, as well as being a
member of the Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization (LCWE).
The folders have been arranged alphabetically according to the titles given by Dain. In almost all cases, these titles have been retained, with only minor changes being made by the archivist to provide uniformity. In addition to the specific comments which follow about the contents of these files, several general observations should also be considered. Dain occasionally wrote comments in the margins of documents, thus reflecting his interaction with them. It should also be noted that while Dain's files document the worldwide scope of his duties, they also point out his responsibility and influence as an evangelical leader in Australia and the surrounding region.
Subseries VI.A.2.a: ICOWE (folders 29-1 through 33-10); 1971-1978.
Exceptional items: Rev. Dain was involved in the earliest planning of the Congress, and his
records offer a rich source of information on the various aspects of the preparation being made
for the Congress, including deliberations on the goals and focus of the Congress. For example,
folder 30-27 contains minutes, beginning with those from the World Evangelization Strategy
Consultation in 1971, at which preliminary plans for the Congress were considered. Additional
documentation (folders 30-28 and 29-14) of Congress planning includes minutes from
subsequent meetings and correspondence on other elements of the planning process. A draft of a
planning timetable for the Congress is located in folder 29-22 and folder 33-1 consists of
correspondence related to the 1972 questionnaire soliciting input regarding the goals and
emphasis of the Congress. The ICOWE Planning Committee was formed to oversee all planning
for the Congress. Folders 31-30 through 31-48 include both general committee materials and
correspondence with the individual members of the Committee (folders 31-33 through 31-46).
Deliberation on where the Congress was to be held began in 1972. In addition to Lausanne, ICOWE administrators considered Singapore, Rome, Stockholm, London and Amsterdam. Folder 30-23 includes correspondence discussing the pro's and con's of these various locations.
Folders 29-25 through 29-38 contain Dain's files on the Convening Committee of the Congress, which was established to formally endorse and call for the Congress to be held, as well as to define the goals of the Congress. Folder 29-23 contains a copy of the minutes from the Consultative Congress, held early in 1972, at which it was agreed to establish the Convening Committee. Folders 29-25 and 26 contain several samples of Billy Graham's letter of invitation to individuals to join the Convening Committee. John Stott's correspondence in folder 29-35 includes a letter to Billy Graham in which he comments on the purpose and size of the Congress. Stott's other correspondence is similarly frank and thoughtful in its consideration of the planning for the Congress. Harold Lindsell, then the editor of Christianity Today, also makes recommendations on the emphasis of the Congress in a 1973 letter (folder 30-10).
Dain divided materials on the Congress program between files on "Program" and "Program Committee" (folders 32-9 through 32-24). Included in the "Program" files are correspondence, particularly from Leighton Ford (folder 32-9 & 10), relating to the preparation of a questionnaire to solicit input on post-Congress organization (folder 32-11), Dain's address to the Congress, and pre-printed copies of the Congress study papers (folder 32-14). The Committee files consist of correspondence, reports, minutes, etc., and provide a valuable source of information on the implementation of the Congress philosophy and continuing deliberations on it.
Research played a key role in the Congress planning and a key resource for the Congress planners was the Missions Advanced Research and Communications Center (MARC). Folders 30-24 through 30-26 contain files on MARC, documenting some of its contribution. Among the materials are a paper Ed Dayton prepared for the Congress (folder 30-24), a report by MARC for the Planning Committee (folder 30-24), correspondence from Dayton on Congress planning (Dayton was a member of the Program Sub-Committee), and information on a projected questionnaire to solicit suggested goals for the Congress (folder 30-26). Folder 30-26 also contains the "Feasibility Study on Television News Syndication for ICOWE" prepared by VISNEWS.
Attendance at the Congress was possible in one of several categories. Participants were those invited to the Congress, whose expenses were covered by the Congress, and who were given voting privileges in the Congress's deliberations. The participants files are broken into two sections: the general files (folders 31-22 through 31-29) and the files for Australia (folders 29-4 through 29-13; 31-6 through 31-17 and 31-25 contain similar documentation for New Guinea, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Observers were those who had not been invited as participants to the Congress but wanted to attend nonetheless. They did so at their own expense and without voting rights. Dain's general files on observers are located in folders 31-18 through 31-21. The geographically specific files on observers are among the sections noted earlier.
Co-Chairmen were appointed to lead each of the morning plenary sessions of the Congress. A brief file on the arrangements for filling these posts is located in folder 30-21.
An integral part of the preliminary planning was working to maximize the Congress's impact after its conclusion. Follow-up of the Congress was defined as "how to extend the influence of the Congress and how to disseminate its findings." The follow-up program which was implemented consisted largely of publication of printed materials and establishing regional networks. Folder 30-18 contains correspondence and implementation of follow-up proposals. Further record of the program is covered in folder 35-8 of Dain's LCWE files. Localized follow-up for Sydney is documented in folder 35-21.
Press coverage of the Congress was extensive, and a number of files (folders 32-1 through 32-8) document aspects of this. Included are manuscripts of articles on the Congress, an interview with Dain, a Billy Graham article challenging the World Council of Churches (WCC), the essay "A Response to Lausanne" by the WCC, newspaper and magazine clippings, periodical features, and press releases. In addition to actual coverage, these files include some record of early planning of press coverage of the Congress. For one evaluation of the press coverage, consult folder 30-5, Samuel Escobar's correspondence, in which he and Dain discuss an article in Christianty Today by Peter Wagner.
Also among Dain's administrative files are the monthly reports of ICOWE's Director, Donald Hoke (folder 30-1). These range from early 1973 until just prior to the Congress. While not all months are represented, these files provide a comprehensive source of information on the status of preparations for the Congress.
Folders 30-3 through 30-14 consist of Dain's files on the Congress's Executive Committee, specifically the correspondence of the various members of the Committee. The post-Congress correspondence of a number of the members of the Executive Committee includes discussion of the focus and membership of the Continuation Committee.
Worthy of specific mention is folder 30-5 containing correspondence with Samuel Escobar, in which Escobar and Dain discuss controversial issues from the Congress and the make-up of the yet-to-be-formed Continuation Committee.
Folder 29-40 includes documents covering a variety of issues, lumped by Dain under the title "Criticisms". Among these are a document of suggested responses to criticisms of the Congress, Dain's replies to specific criticisms of the Congress, its arrangements, goals, etc., and hindsight critiques of the Congress.
Several other related congresses/conferences were also being planned during the period of planning for the ICOWE. The Theology Conference (folder 32-22) was to be a gathering of theologians and missiologists. Noteworthy among the items in this file are letters to Dain from Carl Henry and Harold Ockenga. The Youth Congress which is proposed in a document in folder 32-23 was a suggested meeting to be held concurrently with the ICOWE.
Dain had several files labeled "Miscellaneous." In addition to some printed materials from the Congress, these files (folders 31-1 through 31-4) contain an article, "Men in Action: A Plan for Total Evangelism Through the Church" (folder 31-1), and a booklet from England, Some Ideas to Help You Work Out Your Parish Response to...Lausanne '74 (folder 31-4).
Subseries VI.A.2.b: LCWE (folders 33-11 through 35-24); 1972-1978.
Exceptional items: The majority of these files relate to the period during which Dain was the
Chairman of the intermediary Lausanne Continuation Committee, which a year and a half after
the ICOWE was formally organized as the LCWE. The LCC was the administrative body which
was developed to carry out the "follow-up" plans made prior to the Congress.
Folder 33-11 contains minutes and accompanying reports from the 1973 Lausanne meeting of the Congress's Administrative Committee. Folder 33-12 & 13 contains similar material for the 1974 meeting, including a document written by Donald Hoke, "Post Congress, Long-range, Follow-up Possibilities, Including Consideration of a New, Evangelical World Organization," which was part of the focus of the meeting. Folder 35-17 is limited exclusively to documents on the development of this new organization. Included is a compilation of comments by various evangelical leaders on the possiblity and potential of such an organization, including those by John Stott and Clyde Taylor in separate documents. Stott includes in his comments an evaluation of the World Evangelical Fellowship and the role he sees it playing in the future. The file also includes minutes from a consultation held prior to ICOWE considering this question; evaluations of evangelical cooperation in Australia, Britain, Europe and Norway; a copy of Arthur Johnston's "An Evaluation of Edinburgh 1910"; and a paper on the WEF.
Folder 33-13 consists largely of Planning Committee materials from a post-Congress meeting. That meeting included the election of the Continuation Committee members as well as an outline of the work of the Committee. Reports from the meeting, such as the "Summary of National Strategy Reports" and "Recommendations for Future Congresses or Lessons Learned From Lausanne" are also available. Folders 33-18 through 34-33 comprise Dain's Continuation Committee files. The ballots referred to in the Container List folder title for folder 33-18 concern a vote on the the date of an upcoming Committee meeting. Folder 33-19 concerns the date of a 1976 meeting.
Dain's reports as Chairman of the Continuation Committee from 1974 and 1975 are located in folder 33-21. During his term as Chairman, he kept a file of correspondence for each member of the Committee which can be found in folders 33-24 through 34-13). The Liaison Committee was formed as an extension of the Continuation Committee in order for all geographical regions of the world and denominations to be fully represented. The members were to act as Committee alternates who would receive all documentation sent to full members of the Committee. The files for various countries and members are located in folders 34-14 through 34-33. Further information on the Liaison Group is located in folder 35-12. The Consultative Committee was established to be a corresponding network spread throughout various geographical regions, serving as a contact for the Continuation Committee. Documents on the composition of this committee are located in folder 33-17.
The LCWE's Executive Committee files consist principally of meeting agenda, minutes, and reports (folders 35-1 through 35-6). Folder 35-3 contains a document entitled, "Views From the Underground in Oz #1" by Peter Wagner, a fanciful while not so veiled evaluation of the diversified emphases of the Lausanne Congress, particularly on issues other than evangelism.
A helpful background file on LCWE personnel is located in folder 33-14, consisting of one-page biographical data sheets on each member. Folder 33-20 contains an updated version of the biographies.
Folder 35-10, cryptically titled "La Trobe University, Melbourne" contains information on the Conference on World Evangelism and Missions at the university, sponsored by the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students and the Australian Evangelical Alliance. Gottfried Osei-Mensah was an invited speaker and the documents include correspondence concerning arrangements for his involvement.
Subseries VI.A.2.c: Other Evangelism Conferences (folder 35-25 through 35-28); 1971-1975.
Exceptional items: These files conclude the series of Dain's records related to other evangelism
conferences, noted on the Container List. The last file (folder 35-28) contains Donald Hoke's
evaluation of the meeting, which is particularly enlightening since the World Council of
Churches reflected a much broader theological perspective than that of the Lausanne Congress or
Committee.
Subseries VI.B: Simple Lifestyle Consultations
Arrangement: The records are further subdivided as follows:
1. Combined Consultations (folders 36-1,2)
2. International Consultation (folders 36-3 through 36-34)
3. U.S. Consultation (folder 36-35 through 36-50)
4. John Stott file (folder 286-8)
Date Range: 1977-1981
Volume: 1.1 cubic feet
Boxes: 36, 286
Type of documents: Primarily correspondence
Correspondents: Sider, Wayne Bragg, Mark Cerbone, Leighton Ford, Don Hoke, David
Howard, Stan Izon, Alan Nichols, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, John Stott, Ralph Winter, and
participants and other planners for the consultations.
Notes: The documents in this subseries consist largely of correspondence, minutes, and
addresses related to the 1979 U.S. Consultation on Simple Lifestyle in Ventnor, New Jersey, and
the 1980 International Consultation on Simple Lifestyle in London (co-sponsored with the World
Evangelical Fellowship).. These records come from
the office of the Director of the Consultations, Ron Sider. They also include documents created
by Sider's assistant, Mark Cerbone. The arrangement of the files has remained as it was received.
The original folder titles have also been retained with only minor modifications. Duplicates were
returned to the donor, as were some financial records, such as bank statements and canceled
checks. Researchers should also consult the Location Records for audio tapes to review recorded
sessions of the U.S. Consultation.
Exceptional items:
• Combined Consultations files (folders 36-1,2): Included is a ledger book for both
meetings (folder 36-1) and news and publicity on the two meetings (folder 36-2). As
might be expected, the latter file contains magazine articles, newspaper clippings, news
releases, and correspondence.
• International Consultation files (folders 36-3 through 36-34): The international
meeting originated as a co-sponsored project between
the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship's Unit on Ethics and Society
and the Lausanne Committee's Committee on Theology and Education. Correspondence
documenting early planning for the meeting can be found in folders 36-3 and 4. Also
documented are both considerations of the emphasis of the meeting and program details. John
Stott, a principal correspondent throughout these files as chairman of the LCWE Committee on
Theology and Education, was very much a part of these early plans and post-Consultation
evaluation as evidenced in a letter from Sider to Stott (folder 36-3) reporting on the outcome of
the 1979 U.S. Consultation. Items in other files also document the planning process: Sider's
handwritten notes (folder 36-16), and the Planning Committee files (folders 36-22 and 23).
The Consultation planners encouraged people throughout the world to form small groups to consider the relationship of a simple lifestyle to evangelism and justice. The work of these groups was to be integrated into that of the Consultation. Material suggesting how these groups could be formed is located in folder 36-12. The material in folder 36-13 concerns the work to gather names of individuals who could be instrumental in forming study groups. The Simple Lifestyle Newsletter also includes information on these groups (folder 36-15).
While plans were being made for the International Consultation, small regional conferences were also being organized. Folder 36-17 contains correspondence with planners of these meetings in Australia, Germany, India, Ireland, and the United States, including information on the format for these and the topics to be covered.
The Drafting Committee was responsible for preparing a statement of commitment to be adopted by the Consultation. Folder 36-5 contains correspondence on the formation of this committee. Folder 36-30 contains material on the developent of the Statement, with drafts and correspondence with members of the Drafting Committee. The initial draft, written by Linda Doll, is included. The Statement of Commitment adopted by the Consultation became the basis for the Lausanne Occasional Paper, referred to in folder 36-9.
Folder 36-34 contains material on work to involve Graham Kerr, staff member with Youth With a Mission in Hawaii, and a number of others from YWAM in the follow-up work of the Consultation, principally assisting in the dissemination of the Statement of Commitment.
One component of the Consultation program was testimonies by individuals and groups attempting to live simply. The descriptions of group endeavors were referred to as "models." Correspondence with numerous individuals regarding their possible participation is located in folder 36-14. This correspondence includes partial descriptions of individual pilgrimages, such as that of Ralph Winter.
The other major component of the meeting schedule was the presentation of papers. Copies of these are not included, with the exception of Vinay Samuel and Chris Sugden's paper, "A Just and Responsible Lifestyle," (folder 36-28).
As with other LCWE-related meetings, attendance at the Simple Lifestyle Consultation was limited to those invited to participate. Correspondence soliciting suggestions, lists of those invited and correspondence with them are contained in folders 36-19 through 36-21.
One of the products of the Consultation was the Lausanne Occasional Paper, An Evangelical Commitment to Simple Lifestyle, written by Alan Nichols. The early work on this for publication is covered in folders 36-8 and 9 and includes correspondence with critiques and suggested revisions. The varying viewpoints represented illustrate the complex nature of the issues covered. The file includes not only the final draft but an annotated edition from John Stott. The principle correspondents in this file were Sider, Stott, Nichols, and Leighton Ford.
The supplementary materials file (folder 36-32) consists of a few items which were provided for distribution at the Consultation, such as "The Christian Dimension: A Report on Religious Commitment and Motivation For Welfare Work," and "Dimension of Justice: Some Biblical Data and Its Application To Justice Issues in Australia," both prepared by Alan Nichols. Also included is "Milestones to a Simple Lifestyle" by Roberta Winter.
Folder 36-27 consists of materials discussing the Simple Lifestyle Consultation's relationship to the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization, at which there was to be one study group devoted to discussion of simple lifestyle. Among these are correspondence and phone conversation notes on the philosophical and programatic emphases of the study group. Folder 36-16 also has material on the relationship between the two consultations. There is also discussion here, as in other files, on the name of the Simple Lifestyle Consultation in relationship to the issues of justice and evangelism. Correspondence in the file includes that from Stott, representing the LCWE, and Director of the Pattaya Consultation, David Howard.
There is minimal information on the financial considerations of the Consultation. Folders 36-6 and 7 contain the most concentrated form of this, particularly the Consultation budget among the correspondence in folder 36-7.
Related to the concerns of the meeting, but not labeled as official items for it, are two Bible studies in folder 36-31: a twelve-part study guide titled "Poverty, Hunger and Justice" and an untitled three-part study written by Horace Fenton Jr.
• U.S. Consultation files (folder 36-35 through 36-50): As with the International Consultation, the correspondence file (folder 36-36) documents the early planning for the U.S. meeting. The primary correspondents include John Stott and Wayne Bragg. Planning Committee documents (folder 36-46) are also available for the U.S. meeting, consisting of correspondence, and in folder 36-47, the Committee's minutes. These outline the preparation for the Consultation as well as the decisions which the Committee made. Other items relating to the planning of the Consultation include finalized program for the meeting (folder 36-48), and the apparent text for the Consultation's promotional brochure (folder 36-35).
Folder 36-50 consists almost entirely of correspondence with Gerald Anderson, the Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in Ventnor. The information in this file deals with the arrangements for the Consultation.
The U.S. Consultation program, like the International's, consisted of both formal papers and testimonies and models. Folder 36-49 contains correspondence with potential and finalized speakers. "Guidelines for Presentation" (folder 36-40) is directed to those presenting models. Correspondence with some of those presenting models can be found in folder 36-41.
The manuscripts given which are available (folder 36-42) include both those formally presented and those given as models. These range from "Old Testament Perspectives on a Simple Lifestyle," by Frank Gaebelein, George Monsma's "The Socio-Economic-Political Order and Our Lifestyles," "The Social Responsibility of the Church," by Samuel Escobar, to models such as Sojourners Fellowship in Washington, DC, Patchwork Central in Evansville, Indiana, and Jubilee Fellowship in Philadelphia. The file also includes the texts of individual testimonies. Audio recordings of papers, panel discussions, and models are also available; see the Separation Record in this guide for a description of these.
A Findings Committee, chaired by Arthur De Moss, was formed to consolidate input from the various sessions of the Consultation. Members were expected to attend various meetings and compile their findings for presentation at the conclusion of the Consultation. The file (folder 36-39) includes correspondence with members of the Committee and some of the handwritten notes taken during the sessions.
A number of files from the U.S. meeting parallel those from the International Consultation, such as Participants (folders 36-44 and 45), finances (folder 36-38), and Sider's notes (folder 36-43).
A valuable source of information on the U.S. Consultation can be found in evaluations (folder 36-37) by its participants and planners. These include completed forms.
• John Stott file (folder 286-8): This folder given to the Archives by John Stott, consists largely of copies Stott received related to the international consultation, including between from Ron Sider about the Lausanne Occasional Paper, “An Evangelical Commitment to Simple Lifestyle,” Don Hoke with the financial statement for the international consultation. Also included are Stott’s response to a critique of the theological foundations and emphases of the meeting by J.A. Emerson Vermaat, drafts of the manuscript, a press release distributed during the consultation, the participant list, the handwritten text (by Stott) of the LOP manuscript’s introduction by Stott and Sider, and articles related to the meeting and the issues of possessions, justice and poverty
Subseries VI.C: Consultation on World Evangelization (Wheaton Office)
Arrangement: The records of the Wheaton office are further subdivided as follows:
1. Director (David Howard and Rosemary Struckmeyer)
2. Program Director (Saphir Athyal)
3. Newsletter Editor (Cindy Secrest) and Assistant to the Director of
Communications of the LCWE
4. Bookkeeper (Cindy Wilson)
5. Travel Coordinator (Robert Gray)
6. Printing Department
Date Range: 1971-1981
Volume: 17.3 cubic feet
Boxes: 37-57, 70-79, 82
Type of documents:
Notes: This subseries of records consists of the files from the Wheaton office of the COWE,
held in Pattaya, Thailand in 1980. These files thoroughly document the various planning phases
of the Consultation, beginning at its inception at Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization
(LCWE) Executive Committee meetings and extending to the evaluation reports written
following its conclusion.
The arrangement of the files has remained as it was when the records were received. Folder titles have also been retained. Only in the case of unfoldered material has the archivist provided folder titles. The arrangement within each folder is generally chronological although this scheme is not rigidly followed. Duplicates have been removed and returned to the donor. In the case of the Program Director's files, several boxes of material were unfiled when received. These were incorporated into the existing files when evident. The remainder were filed in folders with newly created titles. Clippings related to Billy Graham or the BGEA have been transferred to the Archives Clipping File (See Collection 360).
Subseries VI.C.1: COWE Director (Wheaton office: David Howard and executive assistant
Rosemary Struckmeyer)
Arrangement: These records are further subdivided as follows:
a. Correspondence
b. Participants
c. Working Groups
d. Consultations
e. Financial
f. Office/Staff
g. Operations
h. COWE General
i. LCWE/COWE Exec.
Correspondence
j. Regional Committee
k. Program
l. Commission on Evangelical Cooperation
m. Procedures
n. Regional Study Groups and Conf.
o. Post-COWE
p. LCWE
Date Range: 1976-1981
Boxes: 37-43, 56
Type of documents: Correspondence, reports, meeting agendas, brochures and promotional
material, handwritten notes, and other planning documents
Subseries VI.C.1.a: Correspondence (folders 37-1 through 39); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: Among these files are those labeled "General" along with a letter of the
alphabet, i.e., "General A-B", and as well as those with more specific titles, interfiled
alphabetically with the general folders. The filing in the general files tends to be by the name of
the correspondent or the organization he represents. The general A-Z files touch on a wide
variety of subjects, of which travel subsidies, participant selection, the inability of individuals to
participate in the consultation, and press coverage of COWE, are a representative few. The
researcher should be aware that correspondence from an individual may appear in several
different files, i.e. correspondence with Gerald Anderson in both folder 37-1 (General: A-B) and
folder 37-26 (OMSC: Anderson, Gerald). Among the more significant items in these folders are
the following:
Folder # |
Description |
37-1 |
Correspondence on how much representation to have at COWE from the conciliar movement; a reaction to Arthur Johnston's book, The Battle for World Evangelism; and correspondence with Eugene Bertermann. |
37-2 |
Agendas to several early planning meetings; (while brief in themselves, they include references to reports, memos and correspondence which served as the basis for discussion). |
37-3 |
Correspondence on discussion to have an exchange of delegates between COWE and a United Bible Society (UBS) General Committee meeting in Thailand later in the year as well as UBS provision of scripture samples for the COWE meeting. |
37-4 |
Letter from Gordon MacDonald calling for consideration not only of methods of evangelism but how to prepare churches to incorporate new converts, how to keep evangelism from being watered down to achieve a greater response, and the influence of the Christian portion of a population on national life. |
37-5 |
David Stowe's report on the 1980 Melbourne Conference on World Mission and Evangelism, along with Thomas Stransky's and Eugene Stockwell's response; Waldron Scott's report on the Pattaya Consultation and Charles Forman's and Charles Taber's responses to it. |
37-11 |
Preliminary planning documents for the BGEA sponsored Conference of Preaching Evangelists scheduled for 1981 which later developed into the Amsterdam '83, the International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists. |
37-13 |
Documents on the relationship between LCWE and the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) in sponsoring the Consultation. |
37-15 |
Letter to Leighton Ford from an individual discussing the absence of emphasis on the prophetic role of Israel at the 1974 ICOWE and in the LCWE Prayer Bulletins. |
37-17 |
Correspondence on the BGEA's relationship to COWE and its financial support of the Consultation; a letter from Jack Dain on the emphasis and structure of the Consultation, Billy Graham's involvement in the Consultation, and the size of the participant body; an Esquire article by Marshall Frady on Graham, participants in the Consultation and the specific participation of BGEA representatives. |
37-18 |
Correspondence regarding BGEA staff member Henry Holley and his assistance in making contacts for COWE in Asia. |
37-19 |
Additional information on Arthur Johnston's Battle For World Evangelism. |
37-23 |
Correspondence which relates to the production of the COWE Newsletter, in which Missions Advanced Research and Communications Center (MARC) was involved; information on MARC's development of a registration card for the Consultation. |
37-27 |
Documents on the planning of the meeting and the organizational structure of the Consultation based on the assistance of John Peterson & Associates, a Chicago-based consulting firm which specialized in conference and convention planning. Documents include a preliminary letter from Donald Hoke, then LCWE treasurer, on COWE organizational structure; correspondence regarding Peterson's employment on the COWE staff as Director of Operations; the financial limitations of planning COWE; administrative changes made to appoint John Howell, based in Nairobi as LCWE staff, as COWE's Director of Operations; PERT charts for the COWE Study Group & Mini-Group Consultation processes and the plenary & music processes of the Consultation, both prepared by John Peterson & Associates. |
37-32 |
Items related to a European missionary congress in Switzerland, MISSION 80, sponsored by The European Missionary Association. |
37-33 |
Correspondence to President Carter, US Senators, Representatives and two asylumed Soviet Christians, concerning the rights of the seven Pentacostal Christians who had taken refuge in the US embassy in Moscow. |
37-34 |
"Four Year Plan for World Evangelism Under the United Methodist Church" covering the years 1978 through 1981. |
37-35 |
Wide variety of documents regarding the World Council of Churches' Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, which would also be holding an international meeting in Australia in 1980. The principal correspondents include Emilio Castro and Jacques Matthey, but the file also contains preliminary Commission documents intended tostimulate discussion and preparation for the meeting, such as "Your Kingdom Come - An Invitation to Christians;" the four section reports from the meeting on the following topics: "Good News to the Poor","The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles"," The Church Witness to the Kingdom", and "Christ - Crucified and Risen - Challenges Human Power". Also included are Bruce Nicholls' "Theological Reflections on Melbourne 1980" and Arthur Glasser's "An Evangelical Appraisal of Melbourne 1980. There is also correspondence between LCWE and the WCC in their attempts to include participants from each others' bodies in their meetings. |
37-36 |
Further documentation on the discussion of the relationship between the LCWE and WEF. Correspondence deals with their relationship, mutual concerns, and the definition of evangelism; another letter from WEF General Secretary, Waldron Scott, touches on a variety of complaints from Latin American Christians about North American missionaries; documents discussing a merger of the two movements, including a WEF resolution to invite the LCWE to become the evangelization task force of WEF. Also included is a news report on divergent feelings by LCWE members about WEF. |
37-38 |
Correspondence on the financial and personnel assistance World Vision provided for the Consultation. |
37-39 |
A letter summarizing some points of concern about the North American LCWE in regard to the relationship between evangelism and social action and the institutionalization of the North American LCWE. |
Several folders are of particular interest. Correspondence in folder 38-33 deals with the discussion to ensure the participation of women in COWE. Folder 38-37 deals with various policy matters, including the size of COWE, widespread geographical coverage by the participants and the necessity of the participants subscribing to the Lausanne Covenant. Folder 38-38 documents some of the procedural decision making for nominating and selecting participants.
Also of interest are the minutes and correspondence of the Anonymous Committee which selected the participants (folders 38-1 through 38-8). These files document the creation of the Committee and its action. The subject of these meetings was focused strictly on evaluating the recommendations submitted to the Committee. A brief follow-up section (folders 38-10 through 14) consists of communication with others who although not members of the Selection Committee were consulted for their advice on participants, some in an official consultant status (folder 39-11), others on a more informal basis (folders 39-12 through 14).
Those invited to the consultation were broken down into several categories, according to the level of responsibilities and contribution they were expected to make to the meeting. Folders 39-16 through 20 outline these categories, the roles they were intended to have and anticipated problems which might arise, particularly in the case of observers attending meetings where sensitive discussions were being held.
Folder 39-15 consists primarily of the statistical reports prepared detailing the status of the selection process.
Subseries VI.C.1.c: Working Groups (folders 39-21 through 35); 1976-1980.
Exceptional items: The Working Groups section consists of both material documenting the
general work of each of the four groups as well as their coordination in preparing for the
Consultation. This section also includes information (folder 39-30) on the production of the
promotional brochure for COWE, touching on its content and focus, along with the details of
producing it. Of particular interest is folder 39-26 which includes an outline of an address by
Phill Butler, "Integration -- Radio, Other Media and the Church." Also in this file are documents
discussing what policy COWE should have on the press's access to the entire consultation.
Folder 39-35 includes John Stott's lucid correspondence with Howard on preparations for and
suggested emphasis of COWE.
Subseries VI.C.1.d: Consultations (folders 39-36 through 38); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: Folder 39-37 on the Consultation on Simple Lifestyle touches on the
relationship between the two consultations, particularly on whether or not to integrate the two.
Folder 39-38 includes a summary of participant evaluations from the North American
Consultation on Muslim Evangelism, as well as CarolAnn Webster's and Howard's impressions
of the meeting, touching particularly on the planning implications of what they saw for COWE.
Subseries VI.C.1.e: Financial (folders 39-39 through 40-4); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: Folder 39-39 contains material documenting the financial decisions and
activity of the Consultation. Of particular interest is discussion on how to deal with participants
who come to the Consultation without sufficient funds to pay the required fees. This file, as with
many others, contains Howard's handwritten notes from meetings and phone conversations.
Folder 39-40 consists of correspondence with Hoke, LCWE's Finance Committee member and
LCWE treasurer. In this capacity, Hoke served both as an advisor and accountant. The file
therefore contains Hoke's correspondence on various COWE matters, along with his financial
report at the conclusion of the Consultation. Folder 40-1 covers the fund-raising strategy
developed for COWE while also touching on scholarship aid which was coordinated through the
fund-raising effort. Folder 40-2 includes a prospectus developed to promote awareness and
support for African Enterprise, which was used as a model for the COWE brochure. The result
of this work was the prospectus referred to in folder 40-3. Along with the prospectus are some
materials on an audio-visual production to promote COWE. Folder 40-4 contains a copy of a
modified prospectus which was used.
Subseries VI.C.1.f: Office/Staff (folders 40-5 through 7, 56-1 through 12); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: Folders 56-1 through 12 and 40-7 relate to the staff for the Consultation.
Included in these files are lists of all the staff and their assignments, correspondence regarding
the hiring of staff and their salaries. Folders 56-5 through 11 relate particularly to the COWE
staff in Wheaton. Some of the folders of the specific Wheaton staff also contain job descriptions
for the positions.
Subseries VI.C.1.g: Operations (Folders 40-8 through 41-17); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: The Operations files contain a wide variety of materials documenting the
process of setting up and conducting the Consultation, including hiring stewards (intended
principally as messengers); providing hospitality "make people feel at home, keep your eyes open
for their needs and do what you can to soothe ruffled feathers when necessary"); arranging a
program for lay observers not participating in the Mini-Consultations; developing the thematic
decor such as signs, name badges, program cover and layout, and banners; coordinating music
(selection of song leaders, theme song along with a proposed hymn); and printing papers, reports
press releases, newspapers, etc. in Thailand. This section abounds in details and the researcher
will best consult the Container List to identify a specific area of interest.
A number of folders contains items of particular interest, highlighted as follows:
Folder # |
Description |
40-8 |
Miscellaneous items such as an outline of a Thai evangelistic drama, reports from Struckmeyer, lists of COWE staff and their respective assignments, and an organizational chart for the Consultation. |
40-10 |
Materials created in preparation for the Consultation, such as a document on "Why Hold a Congress"; the planning schedule for COWE; correspondence on the move to Thailand and staff arrangements; a 1979 report from John Howell on his preparations in Pattaya; the program book; and a letter outlining the duties of the Operations Director. |
40-17 |
Correspondence detailing the discussion on when to move the COWE office from Wheaton to Pattaya, outling the pro's and con's of and earlier and later move, and touching on administrative aspects of such a move as well as the issue of identifying with the Thai church by the early presence of the office in Pattaya. |
40-19 |
Initial proposal for the Consultation made to the LCWE in 1977 and an interview of Leighton Ford entitled "Update: Lausanne" in which he responds to questions about the Lausanne Congress and what grew from it. |
40-20 |
Howard's handwritten notes from meetings and phone conversations with international evangelical leaders in both the early and later planning stages for the meeting. Among those with whom Howard consulted were Billy Graham, Harold Lindsell, Leighton Ford, John Stott, Bruce Nicholls, Ralph Winter, and Jack Dain, touching on such subjects as the overall focus of the Consultation, the program, and wording to be used in promotional materials. |
40-21 |
Minutes from meetings of the Administrative Committee which was overseeing the operations for the Consultation. The committee consisted of Ford, Howard, Donald Hoke and Tom Zimmerman. The file also includes a budget for COWE and an organizational chart for the meeting. |
40-22 |
Letter from Neil Britton to Paul Little on guidelines for having addresses interpreted. |
Folders 40-25 through 40-39 relate to various communication pieces for use at the Consultation, ranging from the "Daily Communique" to the program book, but also including the sale of literature. Folder 40-27 is basically a production file on the "Daily Communique", the daily newspaper with highlights on events at the Consultation as well as announcements for upcoming sessions. The file also includes copies of the various issues of the newspaper. Folder 40-28 contains a preliminary draft of the program book which John Howell distributed for comments from various LCWE/COWE executives. Comments are written in throughout the copy. Folder 40-36 contains samples of various items printed for COWE.
Folder 40-30 deals with the freedom given to the press at COWE and contains documentation of the COWE executives' decision-making process on that issue. Of particular interest is Arthur Matthew's input based on his experience in setting up press coverage of the Lausanne Congress. Further attention to this is given in folder 40-32 and 40-34, touching as well on the accessibility of the press to the Mini-Consultations. Approaching the issue from a different angle, folder 40-33 covers COWE attempts to get sufficient media coverage.
Determining where COWE was to be held involved a variety of considerations, including accessibility to all parts of the world, availability of suitable accomodations, and freedom from a luxurious environment which might be offensive to participants from developing nations. The decision process of where to hold COWE is widely documented in folders 40-40 through 40-43, with particular questions about locations highlighted in folder 40-43.
Communications with the church in Thailand is documented in folders 41-1 and 41-2, especially in regard to two other events occuring in Thailand: the Thailand Church Growth Seminar, held simultaneously with COWE, and the Thailand Bible Convention, held following COWE and utilizing several key figures from COWE. Folder 41-6 documents the plans to have a representative of the Thai government or royal family present and give greetings at the opening session of the consultation. The file includes a copy of the letter of invitation as well as the follow-up negotiations.
The complexity and difficulty of coordinating travel arrangements for a large conference are fully documented in folders 41-7 through 41-17. These include several reports prepared by the Travel Coordinator, Robert Gray.
Subseries VI.C.1.h: COWE General (folders 41-18 & 19); 1976-1981.
Exceptional items: Folder 41-18 contains a variety of background documents on the
Consultation. These provide a general overview of the meeting from the time of its inception.
Among them are correspondence between Leighton Ford and Gottfried Osei-Mensah on
preliminary planning for the meeting; the proposal presented to the Lausanne Committee; a news
release announcing the dates of the Consultation: and minutes from subcommittee meetings.
Folder 41-19 includes a statement of the accounting procedures to be followed for the
Consultation, as well as an essay of personal reflections on the Consultation by a participant and
a copy of the Thailand Statement.
Subseries VI.C.1.i: LCWE/COWE Executives Correspondence (folders 41-20 through 41-47);
1976-1980.
Exceptional items: Leighton Ford's files consist mainly of copies of his administrative
correspondence (folder 41-22), covering such topics as press coverage of COWE, the
chairmanship of the Commission on Evangelical Cooperation, Ford's summary of his
conversation with Jack Dain and John Reid on fund raising, and LCWE representation at the
World Council of Churches' CWME in Melbourne in 1980. Also of interest are his prayer letters
(folder 41-20).
Among the John Howell materials (folder 41-25) are a sermon by Howell, "The Single Life as a Live Option" and some correspondence regarding his temporary transfer along with his secretary, Jane Rainey, to the Wheaton office.
Folder 41-26 consists of Howard's various reports on COWE. Also among these are his job description, the news release on his appointment, and a summary review prepared following COWE. Folders 41-27 through 47 contain his communications regarding his 1979 and 1980 tours of various Asian, European and South American countries. The focus of the first trip was to solicit input from Christian leaders on the issues to be dealt with at COWE as well as providing an update on COWE plans; the second trip was principally for fund-raising. The folders are arranged by country or city and detail Howard's contacts. They include notes from his meetings; reports to Leighton Ford and Gottfried Osei-Mensah, (these reports highlight his conversations with his contacts, pointing out issues requiring further discussion, points of controversy, etc.); correspondence with contacts, and lists of contacts. Among these, a few items bear particular mention:
Folder # |
Description |
41-27 |
Letter from Leighton Ford to Howard outlining BGEA staff Henry Holley's advice regarding the fund-raising program in Asia; a copy of Holley's report on his meetings with Asian Christian leaders, including his comments on various leaders in each country; a calendar with Howard's itinerary and a sketchy outline of proposed follow-up on leaders in Asia contacted. Also see 41-47 for material documenting Holley's contribution. |
41-28 |
Reports touching on issues related to the Lausanne Committee and a Japanese evangelical association. These reports are particularly insightful, dealing with the broader issue of the impact of the Lausanne Congress in the various countries at the grass roots level. |
41-32 |
Information related to consideration of Singapore as a site for COWE. |
41-33 |
Howard's enthusiastic reflections on Bangkok's suitability as the site for the Consultation; also data on the Consultation's consideration of the refugee problem which Thailand was at that time directly affected by; and then-current data on the refugee situation in Thailand and his visit to Thai refugee camps. |
41-37 |
Transcript of an interview on West Germany, discussing the status of Christianity there in terms of training institutions, freedom for witnessing, etc.; also notes on his meeting with the Reaching Marxists Study Group. |
41-39 |
Information from a meeting with the World Council of Churches on some of their arrangements for the CWME conference in Melbourne in 1980. |
41-44 |
Howard's reflections on the breakdown of unity in the Colombian church, where he had previously worked as a missionary. |
41-46 |
Various responses Howard got to questions about Pope John Paul II's visit to Mexico in 1979. |
Subseries VI.C.1.j: Regional Committees (folders 41-48 through 58); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: This section documents efforts within countries to coordinate local Lausanne
committees. Folder 41-51 on the Middle East consists largely of documents from John Howell,
such as his correspondence and a report on his tour of the Middle East in 1978 as well as one of
his articles, "The Orthodox Church and Evangelicals." Folder 41-53 highlights some
reservations by an observer at the 1978 LCWE North American Committee meeting on the
institutionalization of LCWE and a limited definition of "evangelism". Also included are
minutes from that and the 1979 meeting of the North American Committee. Minutes from a
late-1979 meeting are located in folder 41-54.
Folder 41-55 contains minutes from the follow-up meeting to the Asian Leadership Conference on Evangelism (ALCOE), sponsored by the Asia Committee for World Evangelization (ACWE) consultation in 1979. The Africa file (folder 41-56) includes another of John Howell's papers, "The Role of World Evangelization in Troubled Times: Problems, Prospects and Preparations," along with his report on the 1978 Love Africa Congress at which he presented the paper.
Subseries VI.C.1.k: Program (folders 42-1 through 11); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: Folders 42-1 through 42-11 document the work and preparation of the
Program Committee, detailing the planning of the various aspects of the Consultation such as
study groups, the plenary sessions, the Mini-Consultations, etc. These files include proposed
program schedules, notes from various committee meetings and conversations, and copies or
drafts of some of the papers and reports to be presented. Folder 42-5 deals with the development
of a Mini-Consultation on reaching refugees, a topic whose importance was heightened prior to
and during COWE by the mass exodus of refugees from Cambodia into Thailand. The file
includes drafts of papers, background information on the refugee problem in Thailand and
refugee camps in general, and the COWE statement on the problem of refugees.
Subseries VI.C.1.l: Commission on Evangelical Cooperation (folders 42-12 through 16);
1977-1980.
Exceptional items: The meetings of the Commission on Evangelical Cooperation were
principally intended to address two topics: the future of LCWE and its role in fostering
evangelical cooperation. Folder 42-12 includes drafts of the Statement on Cooperation along
with the final text as presented at COWE. Also included in this and subsequent files are the
minutes from Commission meetings. Folder 42-16 consists largely of early communications
with Jack Dain on the Consultation with a large part of that devoted to the participant selection
process.
Subseries VI.C.1.m: Procedures (folder 42-17); 1977-1978.
Exceptional items: The rather nondescript single "Procedures" file deals with an early 1978
meeting that Howard held with several Christian leaders to determine how best to prepare the
participants for COWE, benefit from their presence and maximize the impact of the
Consultation. This file contains both the planning documents for the meeting and the minutes
from it.
Subseries VI.C.1.o: Post-COWE (folders 42-19 through 30); 1978-1980.
Exceptional items: Folder 42-20 contains the reports submitted to Howard by those with various
responsibilities for the Consultation. Among these were reports on promotion and fund-raising,
the mini-consultations, interpretation, operations, decor and design, the COWE newsletter, the
production department, regional groups, the Thai church growth seminar and the participant
selection and registration processes. Together these folders offer a reflective look back from the
inside, evaluating all of the Consultation processes. Howard's report (folder 42-19) is
particularly helpful with its overview perspective, beginning with background to the meeting and
its original purposes.
Folder 42-21 contains "A Statement of Concerns on the Future of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization", the primary concern being the relationship between evangelism and social concern and the need of the LCWE to address these together. Also found in the file are minutes of the COWE Follow-on Committee and Leighton Ford's reflections on the Consultation.
At the conclusion of the Consultation, participants were asked to evaluate the meeting by filling out a questionnaire. A sample of this as well as the report based on the results are located in folder 42-22. Folder 42-25 consists of further evaluation material, including an essay, "What Did I Hear At ... 'How Shall They Hear'" which begins with the disclaimer, "Caution: If you wish a carefully balanced view of the Consultation on World Evangelism, read someone else's report". Also included is a report on the evaluation process conducted for COWE.
The material in folder 42-28 deals largely with the production of Lausanne Occasional Papers to further COWE's impact, both before and following the Consultation.
Subseries VI.C.1.p: LCWE (folders 42-31 through 43-16); 1975-1980.
Exceptional items: The LCWE files are broader in their focus those of COWE and deal with
other Lausanne related issues, although the time period covered is that of preparation for COWE
and the Consultation was the central event of that period. These files contain numerous
references to planning for the COWE, including Howard's progress reports, and in some cases
include Howard's underlining and annotations in documents.
Folder 43-1 consists of various summary documents presented to LCWE regarding plans for COWE, including target dates for accomplishing various aspects of the preparation, budget estimates and personnel recommendations. Folder 43-14 contains a report by Samuel Libert on his tour with Gottfried Osei-Mensah to survey LCWE's ministry in Latin America.
Subseries VI.C.2: COWE Program Director (Saphir Athyal)
Arrangement: The files are subdivided into a number of subsections as listed below, principally
reflecting Athyal's coordination of the Consultation study groups and main sessions.
a. LCWE Study Groups
b. Consultation Planning (non-program)
c. Program Committee
d. LCWE Working Groups
e. Pre-COWE Program Planning
f. COWE Program
g. Commission on Evangelical Cooperation
h. COWE Mini-Consultations
i. Convener Reports
j. Participant Selection
k. Other COWE Groups
l. Other Conferences
m. General COWE Office, LCWE Related, Athyal
Date Range: 1977-1980
Volume: 3.2 cubic feet
Boxes: 44-50, 57
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, reports, position papers, speech manuscripts,
meeting minutes and agendas
Correspondents: Primarily the Program Director, but including LCWE and COWE executives,
members of the Program Committee, working group and study group representatives
Notes: These files represent the work of COWE's Program Director, Saphir Athyal, and his
assistant, Carol Ann Webster Paul. Many of the folder titles are often sufficiently indicative of
the material to be found in them, and therefore not all of them are described further. However,
the following descriptions highlight items from them.
Subseries VI.C.2.a: LCWE Study Groups (folders 44-1 through 45-36); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: The study group files consist of correspondence related to the various topics
being discussed in anticipation of their consideration at the Consultation. The study group
administrative structure consisted of an international coordinator, regional conveners and local
groups meeting throughout the world. At the Consultation, the work of the study groups was
considered in the working sessions called Mini-Consultations. The correspondence in these files
ranges from the selection of international coordinators and conveners to narrowing the focus of
topics to be considered by the study groups.
The correspondence in folders 44-1 through 44-20 is predominantly with the international coordinator for the designated topic as listed below:
Reaching Buddhists: Lakshman Peiris (folder 44-1) |
Reaching Chinese: Dr. Thomas Wang (folder 44-2) |
Reaching Hindus: Sathkeerthi Rao (folder 44-3) |
Reaching Jews: Dr. George Giacumakis (folder 44-4) |
Reaching Marxists: Rev. R. Philip Le Feuvre (folder 44-5) |
Reaching Muslims: Bruce J. Nicholls (folder 44-6) |
Reaching Secularists: Dr. Ludwig Munthe (folder 44-8) |
Reaching Traditional Religionists: Dr. Ralph Covell (folder 44-9) |
Reaching Traditional Religionists - Latin America and Caribbean: Dr. Pablo E. Perez (folder 44-11) |
Reaching Trad. Rel. - Asia and Oceania: Dr. Paul G. Hiebert (folder 44-12) |
Reaching City Dwellers - Inner-City: Jim Punton folder 44-14) |
Reaching City Dwellers - Large Cities: Raymond J. Baake (folder 44-15,16) |
Reaching Nominal Christians - Orthodox: Rev. Apostolos Bliates (folder 44-17) |
Reaching Nominal Christians - Protestant: Dr. Ulrich Betz (folder 44-18) |
Reaching Nominal Christians - Roman Catholic: Rev. Royal L. Peck (folder 44-19) |
Reaching Refugees: Jack Robinson (folder 44-20) |
Folder # |
Description |
44-1 |
Lakshman Peiris's "Gospel and Buddhist Culture" and his report on his tour of Thailand and Burma. |
44-3 |
Questionnaire to be completed by Hindus on their cultural and religious background. |
44-6 |
Report from a 1979 World Council of Churches (WCC) conference in Kenya, "The Christian Presence and Witness in Relation to Muslim Neighbors" and a survey report, "A Preliminary Taxonomy of Interests of Egyptian Arab Youth" |
44-14 |
Unidentified position paper from a 1977 meeting, "God's Mission In Urban Industrial Area." |
44-15 |
Report from the WCC's Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, "The Small Church in the Big City" and a proposal for an urban evangelization conference at Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center. |
44-16 |
"A Strategy for Reaching Larger Cities" from COWE's Winona Lake (Indiana) Study Group and "Metropolitan Evangelization: Guidelines for Major City Study and Strategy Groups." |
44-19 |
"Guidelines for Study and Strategy Groups on Reaching Nominal Christians Among Roman Catholics" and John Stott's report on Evangelical Roman Catholic Dialogue on Missions (ERCDOM)." |
"Catalysts" was the term selected to describe the role for designated individuals in areas of the world who were responsible for stimulating involvement in COWE study groups. Specific information on this effort is contained in folder 44-54 and 45-1. The latter file also includes John Howell's address to Christian leaders in Malawi to encourage participation in study groups.
"Consultants" were designated to serve the Mini-Consultations as specialists. Folder 44-56 includes a list of all of the consultants invited to the Consultation and a copy of Phillip Butler's "Communication, Evangelization and the Scripture." Related to the consultants role was that of "devil's advocates". They were to serve as communication advisors at the Mini-Consultations and encourage each Mini-Consultation "to do more than simply discuss the theory of reaching the unreached..." but to..."think practically how the theories developed will be applied from the point of view of communication clarity and understanding." Folder 44-57 documents the development of this position and the selection of those who filled it. Donald Smith's paper, "Using Communications in the Kingdom of God" was used to outline to the advocates the nature of their task.
Until February 1979, the study group format for the Consultation had been considering topics for study, such as "The Christian Social Responsibility in Relation to Evangelism". This approach was changed, however, to emphasize the need to reach people groups. A number of topics which had been planned for the Consultation therefore were eliminated or merged into the new program. Folders 45-30 through 45-36 outline these topics and the reasons for their exclusion. Several papers related to the specified topics are included in the files, such as Sam Kamaleson's "The Use of Dialogue in Evangelism". These files further document plans to hold Mini-Consultations on several of the eliminated topics at later dates.
A number of other items also are worthy of mention:
Folder # |
Description |
45-1 |
Drafts of "Guidelines for Lausanne Study Groups on Reaching Peoples," which includes sections on the philosophical basis for the study groups, COWE's goals, the structure of the study group aspect of COWE and an organizational chart illustrating the place of the study groups in the overall COWE structure. |
45-7 |
Two progress reports on Edinburgh '80, the World Consultation on Frontier Missions. |
45-11 |
Handwritten document, "The Unreached Peoples of South Africa and Why They Have Not Been Reached." |
45-16 |
Manuscripts to three papers on various aspects of communicating the Gospel. See also related to communication is Sigurd Aske's "Satellite Communication - Some Theological Reflections" in folder 45-21. |
45-18 |
Manuscript of Ron Sider's "Words and Deeds," presented to the South African Christian Leadership Assembly in Pretoria in 1979. |
Subseries VI.C.2.d: LCWE Working Groups (folder 45-57 through 62); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: Athyal's files on the LCWE working groups relate to the groups' input into
the Consultation. The Communications Working Group (folder 45-57) made recommendations
on the press's access to COWE sessions. Folder 46-43 also documents the development of the
Consultation's policy toward press involvement. Folder 45-58 includes a questionnaire which
was sent to various individuals throughout the world, "'Ten Major Questions on Communications
in Evangelism' for My Part of the World." A response from Australia, although not in the same
format, accompanies the questionnaire. Folder 45-59 includes recommendations by the
Intercession Working Group, such as a worship service, a plenary message on the place of prayer
in world evangelization, an address on the place of the Holy Spirit in world evangelization and
informal opportunities for small group prayer. Materials from the Strategy Working Group
(folder 45-60, 61) include a copy of an address by George Samuel, "Practical Experience in
Using the People Group Approach", which was presented at COWE as part of the Strategy
Working Group's contribution during one of COWE plenary sessions. The work of the Theology
and Education Working Group (folder 45-62) includes their reports, a memo from John Stott on
ERDCOM (Evangelical Roman Catholic Dialogue on Mission) and a proposal for a Consultation
on Teaching Missions and Evangelism.
Subseries VI.C.2.e: Pre-COWE Planning (folders 45-63 through 46-16); 1978-1980.
Exceptional items: These files contain a variety of program related materials. The researcher
should consult the Container List of this guide for a survey of the topics covered. However,
several items not self-evident there are highlighted as follows:
Folder # |
Description |
45-63 |
Outline of Athyal's duties in correspondence from Leighton Ford. |
45-68 |
Documentation on David Liao's hiring as Program Associate and reports of his tours in Asia to stimulate involvement in study groups. |
46-1 |
Manuscript of a paper by John Howell which was suggested for use in the COWE Newsletter to prepare the attitudes of participants for the work of the Consultation. |
46-6 |
Lengthy memo from Dave Howard regarding the emphasis of the Consultation and the apparent disequalibrium between the program being planned and the broad representative spectrum being invited. |
46-11 |
Manuscript of Donald Smith's paper, "Your Hands Are Deceiving Me: A Classification of Basic Signal Systems Utilized in Inter-Personal Communications," in which he analyzes the various symbol systems people use in communication and suggests the need to understand communication dynamics for effective evangelization. |
46-12 |
Travel arrangements related memo from Ramez Attalah on difficulties participants were having in making arrangements through the designated travel agency. Attalah refers to specific problems and makes recommendations for action. |
Included among the exposition papers are:
"The Bible in World Evangelization" by John Stott |
"The God Who Speaks" by Gottfried Osei-Mensah |
"The Word God Has Spoken" by Saphir Athyal |
"The People Through Whom He Speaks" by Emilio Nunez |
"The Place of Biblical Unity in World Evangelization" by D. John Richard |
"The People to Whom He Speaks" by Tom Houston |
"The People Approach to World Evangelization" by C. Peter Wagner |
"How Shall They Hear?" by Gottfried Osei-Mensah |
"The Place of Resources in World Evangelization" by Chua Wee Hian |
"Communication and World Evangelization" by Viggo Sogaard |
"Evangelization of Refugees" by Burt N. Singleton, Jr. |
"The Place of Prayer in World Evangelization" by John R. Reid |
"God's Strategy" (closing address) by Leighton Ford |
"The Place of the Holy Spirit in World Evangelization", 3 testimonies |
"The Place of Resources in World Evangelization" by Chua Wee Hian |
A separate section is devoted to the plenary sessions, following the general format as that for the expositions. These include general suggestions and an orientation document sent to those preparing papers for these sessions (folder 46-29) and the arrangements with the individuals involved. The researcher should note the Container List for the subjects of each of these addresses. The files contain some although not exhaustive data on the interaction on the topics being proposed.
Sub-Plenary sessions were planned to provide time for people to discuss the first drafts of reports which were prepared in the Mini-Consultations on reaching the various people groups under consideration. Documentation on these is available in folder 46-36.
Folder 46-41 contains a variety of miscellaneous items. Among them are a typed draft of Billy Graham's taped comments to the assembly, the welcoming address from a representative of the Thai church, Leighton Ford's opening comments, the agendas for each day's morning sessions, correspondence on suggestions for main session topics, and a letter from Paul Little to Leighton Ford with his reflections on the program planning for the Lausanne Congress, written at the time of the ICOWE. Folder 46-45 contains an overview of the Consultation schedule, of interest due the presence of various drafts rather than only the final one.
Subseries VI.C.2.g: Commission on Evangelical Cooperation (folders 46-51 to 55); 1978-1980.
Exceptional items: The Commission was established with Jack Dain as its Coordinator to deal
with the issue of how the evangelical community could cooperate in world evangeli-zation.
Because the Commission met during the Consultation, it was given major consideration in the
program planning. Folders 46-51 through 46-55 thoroughly document the preparation for this,
including minutes from Executive Committee meetings, discussion on the composition of the
Commission, and the work of the six Sub-Commissions (Evaluation of LCWE; Relations with
Other Bodies; Church/Parachurch; Mission/Church; Resources, Personnel, Finance; and
Communications. Folder 46-55 contains a working paper for the Resources Sub-Commission.
The Commission records include the manuscripts for several papers. Worthy of note are John
Richard's "Co-operative Evangelism" (folder 46-52), Warren Webster's "Evangelicals and Unity
in Mission: The Nature of the Church and Unity In Mission" (folders 46-53), and Roderick
Billup's "Strategy For World Missions Coordination" (folder 46-54). The latter is particularly
interesting for the military scheme and terminology it proposes for carrying out world
evangelization.
Subseries VI.C.2.h: COWE Mini-Consultation (folders 46-56 through 68); 1979-1980.
Exceptional items: The Mini-Consultations were the working sessions at COWE which were to
interact with the data received from the study groups. Of these files, folders 46-64 through 46-68
contain the richest source of material, consisting of the composite position papers drafted by the
international coordinators. These papers were to be the basis for the Mini-Consultations' work.
The titles of these papers largely correspond with the titles of the study groups/ Mini-
Consultations and the researcher can find all of these represented. Unless otherwise noted, the
papers listed below are found in folder 46-64.
"Bringing It Home" on the Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union |
"Analysis of the Religious, Social and Techno-economic Situation of the Department of Ayacucho, Peru, and Strategies of Evangelism" |
"Evangelism in Haiti" |
"Attitudes Towards Reaching African Traditional Religionists" |
"The Theology of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church" |
"Holy Tradition in Relation to Scripture" |
"Reaching Traditional Religions of Asia: Understandings and Misunderstandings" (folder 46-65) |
Reaching Buddhists (folder 47-1): "A Point of Conduct (sic) Between Japan-Buddhism and Christianity"
Reaching Chinese (folder 47-2,3):
"The Gospel for China: An Evangelical and Chinese Approach to China Ministries" |
"How to Strengthen the House Churches in China" |
"Reaching China with Radio Waves" |
"China Literature Evangelism Today" |
"Reaching China Factory Workers in Hong Kong" |
"Reaching the Hakkas in Taiwan" |
"Reaching the Ethnic Chinese in Kota Jayapura, Irian Jaya, Indonesia" |
"Understanding the Thai Chinese" |
"Reaching the First Generation of Indochinese Immigrants in Winnipeg" |
"Reaching Ethnic Chinese Restaurant Workers in the United Kingdom" |
"Reaching Ethnic Chinese High-Rise Apartment Block Dwellers" (Singapore) |
"Reaching Chinese in the United States of North America" |
"Reaching Ethnic Chinese in Australia" |
"Evangelization of Taiwan-Chinese College Students" |
Reaching Hindus (folder 47-4) includes two reports from India: "Reaching Hindu Women" and "How To Reach the Bengali Hindus With the Gospel and What Are the Barriers That Stand In Their Way to Come to Christ". Folder 47-20 also contains reports from Madras, Calcutta, Madurai, and England, "A Study Paper on the Hindus in Nepal: The Hindu Newars and the Gospel", "Reaching Hindus of Karnataka", and "Cultural Barriers in Hindu Society for Openness to the Gospel".
Reaching Jews (folder 47-5):
"The Church's Approach to the Jewish People in the Light of Romans" |
"French Jewish Population" |
"Social Change Within the Jewish Community" |
"Jewish Communities In Latin America" |
"Reaching the Jewish People in South Africa" |
"The Task of the Church in Israel in the 1980's" |
"Reaching Jews in Israel" (folder 47-20) |
Reports are also included from Australia and New Zealand.
Reaching Marxists (folder 47-6):
"Christianity in a Marxists Context" |
"Towards Developing an Effective Russian Broadcasting Philosophy" |
"Some Aspects of Broadcasting to the Atheistic Russian Audience" |
"Reaching Marxists in India" |
"The Place of the Bible in Reaching Marxists" (Peru) |
"Marxism and Evangelical Student Work" |
"Christian Witness to Russian Intelligentsia in Soviet Marxist Society" |
"With Love! Reaching Marxists" (folder 47-20) |
"Reaching Marxists: A Lesson in Relevancy" (folder 47-20) |
There are also reports from Brazil, Bogata (folder 47-20), Finland, Germany (in German), North Korea, United Kingdom and Zambia.
Reaching Muslims (folder 47-7):
"The Hausa Muslim" (Nigeria) |
"A New Mission Field in Homeland: Black Muslims of North America" |
"Some Thoughts on the Use of the Quran in Christian Witness to Muslims" |
"Bible Correspondence as a Tool for Witness to Muslims" (New Zealand) |
"The Arabs of Morocco" |
"A Brief Study: Muslim International Students in Chicago Area" |
"Strategies for Muslim Evangelism in the United States: Chicago Area" |
"Muslim Students at Grand Rapids Junior College" |
"The Delineation of Basic Christian Truth in Sharing the Gospel with Muslims" |
"Religious Terminology in Islam and Christianity" |
"An Exploration of a Community Model for Muslim Missionary Outreach by Koreans" |
"Reaching Muslims for Christ in Cairo, Egypt" |
"Why Christianity Has Made as Much Progress as it Has in North Africa" |
"Honor and Shame in the Arab World" |
Reports are also included from Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Kenya, the Middle East and the Philippines.
The Reaching Traditional Religionists in Africa file (folder 47-8) contains reports from Malawi, the Republic of Central Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Reaching Traditional Religionists: Asia and Oceania (folders 47-9,10):
"Animism in the Sepik World View & the Implications to Christian Missions" |
"Reaching Non-Literates in Traditional Religionist" (India & Pakistan) |
"A Brief Introduction to the Taiwanese Pantheon" |
"Profile on Fiji Indians for the Purpose of Evangelism" |
"The Tiruray of Southwestern Mindanao" |
"The Tiboli of Southwestern Mindanao" |
"The Madaya of Eastern Mindanao" |
"Unreached Peoples of Mindanao - The Bagobo Tribe" |
"The Folk Religion of the Taiwaness (sic)" |
"The Gospel for Thai Ears" |
This file also includes a paper of more general interest, "Communication of the Gospel Amidst Cultural Diversity: An Anthropological Perspective on Christian Missions".
Reaching Traditional Religionists in Latin America and the Caribbean (folder 47-11):
"The Zoque Groups of Southeastern Mexico" |
"Chol, Tila" (Mexico city) |
"Contextualization Within the Culture" (Haiti) |
"The Power of God Versus the Power of the Devil in Haiti" |
"The Nature of Conversion in Haiti" |
Spanish texts of papers from Peru |
Reaching City Dwellers - Large City (folder 47-12) includes reports from the following cities: Asuncion, Paraguay (Spanish); Bangui, Zaire (French); Bogata, Colombia (Spanish); Cordoba, Argentina; Frankfurt, West Germany; Quito, Ecuador (Spanish); Montivideo, Argentina; Port of Spain, Trinidad; Campo Grande, Brazil; Rosario, Argentina; and Sydney, Australia.
The Reaching Nominal Christians Among Orthodox (folder 47-13) contains reports from India, Greece, and Egypt.
Reaching Nominal Christians Among Protestants (folder 47-14):
"Protestant and Anglican Nominal Defined" (Southern California) |
"Family and Neighborhood Outreach" (Southern California) |
"Church Visitation Strategy..." (Southern California) |
"A Ministerial Manifesto," (Southern California) |
"Reaching...Through New Members Classes" (Southern California) |
"Strategies in the Business Community" (Southern California) |
The file also includes a report from Malawi and another on work in a predominantly Muslim environment in Borneo.
Reaching Nominal Christians Among Roman Catholics (folders 47-15 through 19):
"How to Win a Roman Catholic to Christ" (Nigeria) |
"What Must a Nominal Roman Catholic Believe and Disbelieve" (USA) |
"A Resume of the Ecclesiastical/Religious Situation in Belgium" |
"Reaching the Basque People for Christ" (Spain) |
"Reaching...Among Italian Roman Catholic Migrants to Australia" |
"Post-Conciliar Catholicism in Latin America" |
"Some Characteristics of the Paraguayan Man" |
"Manual for the Evangelization and Discipling of Roman Catholics in Austria, Germany and Poland" |
"Reaching Prisoners in the Jails and Penitentiaries in Peru" |
"Reaching...in Peru: The Children!" |
"Thirty-Five Distinguishing Cultural Characteristics: A Statistical Analysis of the Mexican-American Population of Dallas and Fort Worth" |
The files also include reports from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Guatamala, Ireland, Italy, Paraguay, Portugal, Scotland, Sierra Leone, Spain, Venezuela and West Germany.
Folder 47-20 also includes reports from England and Australia on reaching secularists.
Subseries VI.C.2.j: Participant Selection (folders 48-1 through 18 and 57-1 & 2).
Exceptional items: Athyal's files include participant selection material as do other COWE
related series, documenting the process of nominations being offered by LCWE members,
international coordinators and study groups, and including special attention to the consultants
category. Box 57-1 and 2 contain the operations manual and data cards for all participants at the
Consultation. The cards, arranged alphabetically, are of the hand-punched variety which can be
manually sorted and tabulated. Researchers may sort them according to their interests of the
researcher but must return the cards to their original alphabetical order when finished.
Subseries VI.C.2.k: Other COWE Groups (folders 49-1 through 4); 1979-1980.
Exceptional items: Interest groups were informal gatherings planned to allow individuals
involved in common types of work (i.e. scripture translation) or facing common obstacles (i.e.
liberation theology) to confer together. Some information on these is available in folders 49-1
through 49-3. Folder 49-3, for example, includes correspondence from David Bryant of
Inter-Varsity on planning Edinburgh '80 in relation to an interest group on student ministry.
Regional groups gathered at the Consultation to interact on the specific needs and difficulties of
their geographical regions. The reports from these are included in folder 49-4, touching on a
wide variety of topics, ranging from the question of "What are the major concerns in our region
concerning cooperation in regional evangelization?" to identifying unreached people groups
within a region.
Subseries VI.C.2.l: Other Conferences (folders 49-5 through 17); 1978-1980.
Exceptional items: Among those represented, the major meeting documented was the 1978
North American Conference on Muslim Evangelization, which was jointly sponsored by the
North American Lausanne Committee and World Vision International. Folder 49-12 contains
numerous papers from the conference related to ministry among Muslims, touching on areas such
as conversion, contextualization, the development of churches in Muslim societies, radio
broadcasting to Muslims, strategies and reports on various Muslim countries. Folder 49-13
includes one page summary sheets of discussions by Muslim specialty groups, such as theology,
anthropology, and missionaries. Folder 49-15 contains responses to an evaluative questionnaire
the COWE staff distributed at the Muslim conference in order to aid them in planning the COWE
(questions sought information on positive and negative aspects of the conference and their
implications for COWE planning).
Also of interest are documents from folder 49-9 from the EFMA Executives Retreat in 1979, including consideration of the unreached peoples issue and its implications for existing mission work, particularly the redeployment of existing staff and recruitment of new staff.
Subseries VI.C.2.m: General: COWE Office, LCWE-Related, Athyal (folders 50-1 through 42)
1976-1980.
Exceptional items: This final subsection of Athyal's files is comprised of general administrative
materials. Among the folders are Athyal's resume and a COWE organizational chart (folder
50-2); handwritten minutes from the Asian Committee on World Evangelization meeting at
COWE (folder 50-3); and the script to an audio-visual production, "Doors of Opportunity: 2,000
years of Evangelization" (folder 50-7).
Folder 50-16 contains office memos which more than anything give some of the flavor of the Wheaton office environment. Folders 50-17, 26, 27, 30, 32, 35, 36 and 41 contain similar documents.
Folder 50-17 includes several documents related to plans to eliminate the phrase "World Evangelization..." from the return address on the envelope when sending mail to particular countries where the overt identification of Christian material might be a problem to the recipient.
Folder 50-41 includes John Howell's job description as Operations Director.
Subseries VI.C.3: COWE Newsletter Editor (Cindy Secrest) and Assistant to the Director of
Communications
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1977-1980
Volume: 2.0 cubic feet
Boxes: 51-55
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, drafts of production scripts, biographical
sketches, lists of COWE personnel, manuscripts of proposed articles, drafts and final copy of
COWE program book, publication production and reference files, issues of publications, press
releases
Correspondents: Stan Izon and other COWE staff, authors of articles
Notes: These files were created by Cindy Secrest, COWE's Assistant to the Director of
Communications, Stan Izon. Her duties ranged from editing various documents to working on
Information Bulletin and COWE Newsletter to coordinating other aspects of communication with
Izon. (A job description for her position details the scope of her duties and can be reviewed in
folder 56-7.) In many cases, the folder titles on the Container List are sufficiently specific and
the researcher should therefore note these. As Secrest's duties extended beyond the
Communications Department of the Consultation office, a number of the files relate to other
areas of the Consultation, while at the same time illustrating the intersection of the
Communications Department and other office functions.
Exceptional items: Material on two media projects are located in folder 51-2. "Hearing and Doing" was a LCWE project involving an order-by-mail learning packet which included a set of audio tapes from LCWE's 1978 Willowbank meeting. "How Shall They Hear?" was a multimedia presentation intended to stimulate financial and prayer support for the meeting by addressing the key issue of the Consultation: reaching the unreached peoples of the world. The file contains several drafts along with annotations of the script. Researchers should refer to the Audio Tape and Slide Separation Records of this guide to review the completed edition of this presentation.
Folder 51-4 refers specifically to a paper Dave Howard wrote which was referred to internally as the "Background Paper." Folder 51-9, "Hardship" relates to the specific financial needs of suggested participants. These were to be highlighted in pre-COWE publications. Profile sheets are also available for those individuals under consideration.
Folder 51-11 on various post-Lausanne evangelization congresses and their statements includes a comprehensive list of these meetings between 1975 and 1978. Among these is material from the 1978 Indian Congress of Evangelization in Guatemala, including a brief history of the congress whose purpose was to address the need to evangelize the Indian peoples in Guatemala.
Folder 51-15 contains several manuscripts to papers, such as "Affirm the Good News" by the Strategy Development Committee of the United Presbyterian Church, "Issues in Reaching Hindus" along with a response paper, and "Issues in Reaching Unreached Peoples."
A number of files include data on the COWE staff and those playing a visible role in the actual meetings. Folder 51-20 contains biographical sketches of the Consultation platform and program leaders and a list of all COWE staff and their respective duties. Folder 52-17 also contains complete staff lists. Folder 52-16 offers biographical data forms completed by various COWE speakers, among which are Luis Palau, Viggo Sogaard, Emilio Nunez, John Richard, Leighton Ford, Tom Houston, Gordon MacDonald, Chua Wee Hian, and Festo Kivengere. Similar forms are also available for some COWE staff, such as Gottfried Osei-Mensah, David Howard, John Howell, Saphir Athyal, Jane Rainey, Stan Izon, and David Liao. Folder 52-1 relates to the enlisting of Barry Berryman from the Australian office of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Assocation as the COWE production coordinator. Berryman was given responsibility for supervising the preparation of press materials.
Folder 52-2 contains both the graphic and textual drafts and final copy of the COWE program book.
Folders 52-5 through 52-13 consist of correspondence and articles proposed from the representative study groups for use in COWE publications.
Many of Secrest's files are either working production files or reference files. Folders 52-21 through 53-16 for example document various aspects of press involvement. Among these are the contents of the News Centre Background File (folders 52-21,22 and 23) which also include a complete series of COWE Newsletters, lists of all participants, subdivisions of participants by denominations, copies of study papers and position papers, and a complete series of Information Bulletin, which was retitled World Evangelization Information Bulletin in 1977, (and then World Evangelization in mid-1985). Also see folder 120-6,7,8 in the Treasurer’s series, which includes more recent copies of the publication.
Folders 53-17 though 54-4 relate to the production of the various issues of COWE Newsletter, as well as overall aspects of production, such as graphics and mailing.
Folders 54-5 and 6 contain articles for COWE publications by John Stott and David Liao.
Folder 54-7 serves as a background file, including English and French copies of Information Bulletin prepared prior to the Lausanne Congress.
Folders 54-8 through 54-21 document the production of the Daily Communique, the several-page newspaper which was put out daily at the Consultation. These, as the COWE Newsletter, are subdivided by each issue.
Folders 55-3 and 4 consist entirely of news releases written by LCWE's World Evangelization Information Service. These news items touch on diverse LCWE-related activities such as the 1976 Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly (PACLA), Dave Howard's appointment as Director of COWE in 1977, and the Thailand meeting.
Subseries VI.C.4: COWE Bookkeeper (Cindy Wilson)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1972-1980
Volume: 3.2 cubic feet
Boxes: 70-77
Type of documents: Correspondence, memos, ledger sheets, billing forms, etc., documenting
the financial record keeping of the COWE office.
Notes: The records in this subsection are the files of the COWE bookkeeper, Cindy Wilson.
The majority of these relate to the financial arrangements of the Consultation participants,
ranging from travel and accommodation details to subsidies. Much of the information in these
files is uniform and routine. They do, however, identify alphabetically who the participants were
and what proportion of their expenses they were able to pay, and also include correspondence
with and in some cases biographical data on participants.
Exceptional items: Among these files are a number of items worthy of note:
Folder # |
Description |
70-2 |
Compilation of items from ICOWE planning meetings related to its budget; memos regarding financial arrangements and subsidies for COWE; and the form letter to all COWE participants regarding the financial aspects of their participation in COWE. |
70-4 |
Incorporation papers and by-laws of the ICOWE and a draft constitution of the LCWE. The items in this file are related to the tax-exempt status of LCWE which the COWE office utilized. |
70-7 |
Notebook with all COWE participants, arranged by country, also identifying "conveners" and "participants". |
70-10 |
Correspondence regarding both specific instances and general policy on scholarship assistance for COWE participants. |
Subseries VI.C.5: COWE Travel Coordinator
Date Range: 1980
Volume: 2 folders
Boxes: 82
Type of documents: Ledger books
Notes: The records in this subsection consist of two ledger books maintained by Robert Gray of
Travel Designers, the travel agency which coordinated travel arrangements on behalf of the
COWE office for participants in the Thailand Consultation in 1980. The books predominantly
contain financial data for travel arrangements. However, they also list all those traveling to the
meeting, subdividing them by country. The records are arranged alphabetically within the ledger
by country name.
Subseries VI.C.6: COWE Printing Department
Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder title
Date Range: 1980
Volume: .8 cubic feet
Boxes: 78-79
Type of documents: Duplicated documents for the consultation, such as newspapers, forms,
announcements, news releases, various drafts of manuscripts, and form correspondence.
Notes: As the material was received unarranged, the archivist provided the arrangement and the
folder titles. With the exception of folder 78-12, all the printing was done in Thailand at the
Consultation, following the move of the Wheaton office to Pattaya.
Many of the documents include the cover sheet used to order the duplication of the document. The researcher will find most of the folder titles sufficiently precise to indicate their contents. Items in several of the folders nonetheless bear mentioning.
Folder |
Description |
78-2 |
Drafts of the COWE Appeal; "Position Paper on Proposed LCWE/WEF Union." |
78-9 |
Billy Graham's statement indicating his postponed participation in the Consultation. |
78-10 |
Strategy Working Group report; minutes of several LCWE Executive Committee meetings. |
78-11 |
Participant breakdowns by category and geographical region. |
78-17 |
Press release "Latin Churchmen Bridge Rift." |
78-19 |
"A Biblical Approach to the Evangelization of Indigenous Groups;" "The Gospel for Thai Ears." |
78-20 |
"Practical Experience in Using the People Group Approach" by George Samuel; "The People Approach to World Evangelization" by C. Peter Wagner; and "Reservations Regarding the People Group Approach." |
78-21 |
Bible study outlines, "The Word of God Has Spoken," by Saphir Athyal and Lien-Hwa Chow. |
Subseries VI.D: 1984 International Prayer Assembly
Date Range: 1984
Volume: 1 folder
Boxes: 132 (1 folder)
Type of documents: Program book from assembly
Notes: Program book features daily schedules and speaker profiles, with text in both English and
Korean.
Subseries VI.E: 1985 Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization
(Oslo, Norway)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1982-1985
Volume: .8 cubic feet
Boxes: 85-86
Type of documents:
Correspondents: Tormod Engelsviken (consultation coordinator), LCWE executive
administrators and members, and other consulted as advisors in the planning process; these
together also represent various regions of the world.
Notes: This small subseries consists primarily of correspondence related to planning for the
consultation in Oslo, and manuscripts of all the papers presented (folders 86-20,21), including
David Wells’ five-chapter manuscript and others on various aspects of the theme of the
consultation. While some folders are general by their heading and contain correspondence from
a variety of sources, other folders are designated to a specific person, often the same as those
appearing in the more general files. The correspondence ranges from invitations to consideration
of issues to be addressed. These appear to be the files of Engelsviken, since most
correspondence is addressed to him, and most outgoing copies are from him. Also note audio
recordings in the Location Record: Audio Tapes T184 through T199.
Exceptional items: Folder 85-15 consists of a report from the 1984 Irish Christian Leaders
Interdenominational Conference, a gathering emphasizing the renewing work of the Holy Spirit.
Subseries VI.F: Singapore '87 (International Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian
Leaders, 1987)
Arrangement: Alphabetical
Date Range: 1983-1988
Volume: .6 cubic feet
Boxes: 324-325
Geographic coverage: Singapore, worldwide
Type of documents: Memos and very small amount of correspondence, meeting agenda and
minutes, press releases, newsletters (Countdown and Singapore 87 Update), outlines of
workshop presentations, appeal for financial support, the event schedule, original version of the
conference photo directory, planning notebook, post-conference reflections on the conference,
donor lists, stewards applications, job descriptions, organizational chart, lists of participants and
others attending, forms and form letters (and other duplicated documents), and other planning
documents.
Correspondents: Stiller, other conference committee members, participants
Notes: The files in this subseries are those of the chairman of the 1987 conference, Brian Stiller.
Exceptional items: Among the documents of particular interest is Stiller’s planning notebook
(spanning 1984-1987) in folder 325-2. A very interesting document (undated) in found in folder
325-11 is a LCWE list of “guidelines for official LCWE consultations.” Folder 325-1 includes
manuscripts from Ramez Attalah, Joel Heck and Stiller. Folder 325-10 contains several of the
documents that were part of the early formulation of the conference.
Subseries VI.G. 1989 Lausanne II Congress (see series II.C.2.b.2.)
Subseries
VI.H. 2007 Bi-Annual Lausanne
International Leadership Meeting, Budapest
Date
Range: 2007
Volume:
1 folder
Boxes:
325
Type
of documents: Spiral-bound program notebook (small size)
Notes:
Program notebook includes schedule for the five-day meeting, short bios on the
presenters, and additional resource material. Also included is a letter of greeting
to all the participants from Billy Graham, and a greeting card with Leighton
Ford’s painting of a pastoral scene and prayer titled “A Prayer
for Renewal in the Spirit of Lausanne.”
Subseries
VI.I. Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism – North American Branch
Date Range: 1983-2011
Volume: 3.6 cubic feet
Boxes: 326-334
Type of documents: Conference papers, correspondence, memos,
reports, photocopies of stories in various media about Messianic Judaism, press
releases
Notes: LCJE was not one meeting, but a continuing series of them, held regionally
and internationally. This subseries consists of papers delivered at the annual
conference of the North American branch of the LCJE on the following topics:
Messianic Judaism in America and other countries and evangelistic outreach to
Jewish people; correspondence of the arrangements and registration for these
conferences, annual reports on how stories related to Messianic Judaism was
covered in various media (newspapers, magazines, television, websites, etc.),
and information on conferences of the international LCJE. Among the prominent
correspondents and authors of papers are Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Arthur Glasser,
Louis Goldberg, Kai Kjaer-Hansen, Fred Klett, Susan Perlman, Rich Robinson,
Moishe Rosen, Michael Rydelnik, and Tuvya Zartsky. Other topics for which there
is significant discussion are the Holocaust, American Judaism, the Torah and
rabbinic tradition, attitudes of various denominations such as the Lutheran
Church Missouri Synod toward Jewish evangelism, theological aspects of Jewish
evangelism, reports on the activities of organizations involved in Jewish evangelism.
After 1999, the folders contain few conference papers.
Exceptional Items
Folder 326-1 contains a title index of almost all the papers presented at the
LCJE – North America conferences from 1985-1999.
Folder 326-2 contains material on the early foundation of the LCJE North America
branch and the group’s first conference in 1984.
Folder 327-3 – Report from the director of LCJE International, C. David Harley
Folder 327-6 – Copy of the LCJE’s 1969 Willowbank Declaration on the Christian
Gospel and the Jewish People
Box 331 – Extensive born-digital files for LCJE conferences and administration
are in the Archives’ digital storage. Researchers should request the digital
copies.
Box 333 – Extensive born-digital files for Media Reports and Updates for 2010-2011
are in the Archives’ digital storage. Researchers should request the digital
copies.
Folder 334-2 – This folder contains directories of LCJE members arranged by
countries, listing Messianic Jewish organizations, congregation and individuals.
Subseries VI.J. Third Lausanne Congress on World
Evangelization (Cape Town, 2010)
Date Range: 1989, 2000, 2006-2010
Volume: 25.5 cubic feet
Boxes: 335-380
Type of documents: Documents in paper and digital formats, DVDs, conference
papers, correspondence, memos, reports, budgets, photocopies of stories in various
media, press releases, and written transcripts of Congress sessions. Some of
them are in digital format in the Archives’ digital section.
The Archives also contains, in addition to the DVDs and audio and video files lists in this guide. in accession 10-77 two hard drives (formatted for Apple products) which contain a mass of largely undifferentiated audio and video files from the Congress. Besides many unplayable files, there are also audio files that appear to be soundtracks for video that the Archives does not hold. Any researcher wishing to see these materials should have an Apple laptop or contact the Archives ahead of time to make arrangements for an Apple laptop to be available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.
Notes: This subseries contains the records for the planning of the third worldwide Congress of the Lausanne Movement, held in Cape Town, South Africa from October 17 t0 24, 2010. It consists mainly of the files of the office that was planning the Congress, headed by Congress director Blair Carlson, including the files of committees of Christian workers around the world that were handling all the direct parts of planning the program, selecting participants, etc., the minutes and other records of the various planning meetings held over two years, and the liaison with the larger Lausanne movement. Also included are audio and video of some of the actual sessions of the Congress, and a small amount of material on the follow-up and response.
The Congress Handbook, prepared for the participants with the program, biographies of speakers, list of sessions, and other elements of the Congress. This is a good introduction to a study of the Congress. Copies in a variety of languages can be found in folders 375-6 to 375-9.
Listed below are several elements of the Congress which are referred to throughout the documents.
Each day of the Congress (except Thursday, October 21 which was a day off) had a different theme or challenge, which was the subject of the plenary sessions, the smaller multiplex sessions, the table groups and the dialogue sessions. The themes were: The topics were The Gospel - Truth (Monday October 18), The Gospel - Reconciliation (Tuesday, October 19). The World – World Faiths (Wednesday, October 20), the World – Priorities (Friday, October 22), The Church – Integrity (Saturday, October 23) The Church – Partnership (Sunday, October 24)
Each day had three plenary sessions in the morning, afternoon, and evening.
Plenary 1: Bible study (Ephesians)
Plenary 2: Discussion of one of six challenges to the church through Multiplexes
and Dialogue Sessions. See also 357-14, 358-1
Plenary 3: Dedicated to a different part of the world each night, highlighting
issues faced by the church and ways God was moving (October 18 – Asia, the suffering
church and religious freedom; October 19 – The Middle East, HIV/AIDS and human
trafficking; October 20 – Latin America and Caribbean, Diaspora and megacities;
October 22 – Africa, Children and young people; October 23 – Eurasia and Western
World)
Multiplexes – Ninety-minute sessions in the afternoon at which two or three specialized presentations were made on the topic of the day. See also folders 358-12, 13.
Dialogue Sessions – Ninety-minute sessions in the afternoon at which participants discussed aspects of the issue of the day
GAFCON – (not a Lausanne III subgroup) Global Anglican Future Conference.
GlobaLink – Congress sessions made available by internet to dozens of seminaries, theological colleges, and Bible colleges around the world. See 347-14, 372-9 and 374-13.
GELF - Global Executive Leadership Forum. Program and conference held during the Congress for major donors and executives
Table Groups – Assigned groups of six participants that met at the start of the day for Bible study and later to discuss issues facing the church and methods of evangelism. See folder 377-1.
A frequently used acronym is CTICC, Cape Town International Convention Center
Organization charts for the Congress office and the various committees doing the planning can be found in folders 335-1,338-9, 339-21, 341-12, 342-7, 345-1, 346-3, 348-3, 348-13, 350-1, 350-11, 351-4, 352-1, 352-13, 355-1, 356-8, 371-13, 373-14.
The various staff and committees also prepared manuals, which were not so much guides to how to do something as to what was done. Some of these can be found in folders 342-8, 343-11, 347-18, 354-9, 356-8, 365-25 , 367-25, 370-12, 377-4
Several sets of committee files, meeting files of the people planning the Congress, organization charts and other materials are in the Archives digital files, under Documents/Collections/CN046/Central Desktop Downloads
Subseries VI.J.1. Conference Director’s Files
Boxes: 335-339
Notes: These files consist of conference director Blair Carlson’s
overall supervision and coordination of the planning and execution of the Congress.
It includes his correspondence, emails, records of phone calls with the senior
Lausanne leadership, the various Congress committees, the Congress staff, and
interested government, business and religious leaders. Also in this subseries
are his notes and reports on the various trips he took to confer with Congress
participants in different parts of the world and his attendance at other conferences,
and his interaction with South African religious leaders.
Exceptional items in this subseries
Folder 335-7: planning for Connected 2010, a parallel conference of
South African church leaders held at the same time as Lausanne III to discuss
the same themes.
Folder 335-19 Venue Considerations. Memo on mainland China as a possible site for the Congress.
Folders 335-21 to 336-3.Multiple folders on Lausanne participation in the Edinburgh 2010 conference, on the centenary of the 1910 mission conference.
Folder 336-5. Material relating to the Global Day of Prayer, an initiative that originated in South African churches. There are extensive files on the plans for the 2008 Day of Prayer in the Archives digital storage. Researcher should request the digital files. See also file 370-16
Folder 337-6. Includes list of staff members, memos on impressions of what worked and what did not work during the Congress and other feedback. See also the Feedback folder in the Programme – Plenary II Working files in the digital files for Collection 46
Folder 327-10. Biographical details on Blair Carlson.
Folder 327-16. Several checklists of different staff members give a good idea of the complexity of planning for the Congress.
Folder 338-17. Information on the Protestant church in South Africa and the Evangelical movement; see also 327-Wensa.
Folders 337-18 to 338-4. In cooperation with the Lausanne movement, the Pew
Forum on Religion in Public Life did a survey of attitudes and concerns of Evangelical
leaders worldwide on what is essential to the Christian faith and how the Gospel
should be proclaimed. Folder 338-4 has the results, and the other folders document
the development of the survey by Pew staff with input from the Congress staff.
Folder 338-5. A few comments from participants (2) on Lausanne III on their
overall impressions and evaluations.
Folder 338-6. Rick Warren’s peace plan for cooperation with African churches
Folder 338-19. Memo of understanding between the Lausanne Movement and World Evangelical Alliance. See also folders 339-16, 362-4, and 374-25.
Folder 338-22. Short biographies of some of the participants in Lausanne III who also preached in local South African churches
Subseries VI.J.2. Committees
Boxes: 339-366, 379, 380
Most of the materials in the Committee subseries are from the files of the Congress
office. There are a few committee files sent to the Congress office or to the
BGC Archives directly, such as those in boxes 379 and 80.
Subseries VI.J.2.a. Administration (director Scott
Rebney)
Boxes: 339-342, 379
Notes: Concerned with the basic organizational infrastructure
of the Congress. Particularly concerned with budget, legal personnel, and translation
matters, although not exclusively
Exceptional Items:
Folder 339-23. Timelines for projects of all the committees
Folder 341-4. Drafts of mission statements for the Congress
Folder 341-16.Timelines planning charts for the Congress
Subseries VI.J.2.b. Arrangements (chair Graham
Power)
Boxes: 342-343
Notes: Committee concerned with venue, seating, equipment,
interpretation, Congress, Africa shop, catering, power, sound, lighting, parking,
etc.
Exceptional Items:
Folder 342-8. Contains the manual for the arrangements committee. Folder
also contains a review of all the arrangements
Folder 343-1. Plans for various possible crises
Folder 343-11. Manual for the volunteer stewards.
Subseries VI.J.2.c. Arts (coordinator Tanya Jarvis)
(see also 335-5, 379-15)
Boxes: 343-344
Notes: Material about the planning for the visual and performing
arts and film festival at the Congress as well as the questions about logo and
the Congress’s appearance. See also box 357. And DVD13.
Subseries VI.J.2.d. Communications (Steve Woodworth,
Internal & Digital – Nancy Frizzell , External – Julia Cameron)
Boxes: 345-347, 379
Notes: Responsible for coordination of communication within the Congress’ working
groups and externally with all secular and religious media, especially print
There are several digital communication files contain news releases, web pages,
and planning documents in in the Archives digital files, under Documents\Collections\CN046\Communications
Committee
Exceptional Items:
Folder 345-2. Some articles about the Congress
Folder 345-4 Congress brief – a very brief summary of the Lausanne movement up to 2010, with emphasis on Congresses See also 345-3, 346-1
Folder 346-4 Memos and other material about the cooperative project with Christianity Today International for Global Conversation. See also folder 347-12 and 358-3 to 358-6.
Folder 346-5. Material about cooperation between the Congress and the conservative Evangelical Anglican group GAFCON. See also folders 336-4, 373-10
Folder 346-6. Reports from Larry Ross on communication strategy for the Congress
Folder 346-8 Briefing papers on issues effecting evangelism and Christian outreach in 2010
Folder 346-12 News releases
Folders 346-13 to 346-18. Daily newssheets about the Congress in English, German, Spanish, Chinese, German, Russian, French. See also the commemorative booklet issued after the Congress in folder 347-1 and Congress updates in 347-11
Folder 347-2. Security considerations related to Congress participants from closed countries. See also 346-11
Folders 347-1 To 347-9. Various other publications from the Congress, including preparatory materials (toolkit) brochures, certificates, press kit, etc.
Folder 347-16. Interviews and other planning that went into the documentary video
Subseries VI.J.2.e. Finance (Chief
Financial Officer Tiny Jones)
Box: 348
Notes: Committee mostly concerned with the legal entity set
up for the Congress and the Congress’ cash supply.
Exceptional Items
Folders 348-2 To 348-7 Records of the Cape Town Trust (also known as Lausanne 2010 World Evangelization Trust) set up to be the legal entity of the Congress for financial and legal purposes
Subseries VI.J.2.f. Fund-Raising
(chair Eran Wickramaratne, Ralph Veerman and Jimmy Lee for GELF)
Boxes: 348-349
Notes: Materials on the planning for fund raising efforts,
including the Global Executive Leadership Forum (GELF), which was a special
program and conference held during the Congress for major donors and executives
Exceptional Items:
Folder 348-14: Includes research on fund raising efforts for Lausanne
Congresses in 1974 and 1989
Folder 349-11 to 349-19. Martial about the formation and program of GELF. Folders 349-17 and 349-18 are particularly helpful in outlining the program.
Subseries VI.J.2.g. GlobalLink
(chair Victor Nakah)
Boxes: 350, 380
Notes: Memos and reports on the planning for a web network of seminaries, churches,
missions, theological intuitions, Bible schools, colleges and individuals who
participated through the Internet in Cape Town 2010
Exceptional Items:
Folder 350-4. Summaries of the sessions of the Congress .
Folder 350-7. Lists of the organizations that registered for GlobaLink
Folder 350-9. Text for an online course of six lessons on the Lausanne Covenant
Subseries VI.J.2.h. Government, Business, Academia
(GBA) (leader Andrea McAleean)
Boxes: 350, 379, 380
Notes: This was a think tank of various types of civic leaders to discuss emerging
trends, opportunities, barriers, partnerships. Folders 379-18 to 380-6 contain
correspondence with each of the leaders who made up the think tank and folder
380-7 contains a summary of their session and feedback from individuals.
Subseries VI.J.2.i.. Information Technology (chair
Joseph Vijayam)
Boxes: 350-351
Notes: This committee was mainly concerned with the different
ways the meetings and the results of the Congress could be supported and transmitted:
international technical support, a website, online courses, : videos, participant
selection systems, registrations systems, the GlobaLink
Subseries VI.J.2.j. Intercessory (chair Sarah Plummer)
Boxes: 351, 379
Notes: Committee concerned with arranging for global prayer
for the Congress and prayer requests in different regions and languages to be
prayed for, both during preparation of the Congress and the Congress itself,
as well as the staffing of a 24 hour prayer room during the Congress.
Exceptional Items:
Folder 351-10. Outline of a project organizing worldwide prayer for the Congress.
See also folder 351-11.
Folder 351-12. Prayer requests for Congress participants regions of world, activities, needs. See also 351-13 which has similar requests to calendar
Folder 351-16. Contains a list of who would be praying when during the Congress program
Folder 351-18. Plans for spiritual care for Congress participants, who will
be away from their families and in a foreign land
Subseries VI.J.2.k. Mission Africa (chair Michael
Cassidy)
Boxes: 352
Notes: Mission Africa was an effort allied with Lausanne III
but sperate from it to partner African and nonAfrican evangelists and evangelistic
organizations to hold evangelistic meetings in every part of sub-Saharan Africa
before the Congress. There were 890 such meetings, with an attendance of 488,394
and 58,245 inquirers. See also folders 368-8 and 374-17
Exception items:
Folder 352-7 has the final reports on the cities in different
countries in which Mission Africa meetings were held, including the Democratic
Prepubic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa,
Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Subseries VI.J.2.l. Participant Selection (chair
Hwa Yung)
Boxes: 352-355, 380
Notes: This committee was charged with overseeing the process by which thirteen
LCWE Deputy Directors, based on region, along with more than 150 country selection
committees and other representative groups put together the list of participants
to be invited.
Exceptional items
Folders 352-14 through 353-1 contain correspondence and memos about
the procedures for making selections as well as many suggestions for potential
participants
Folder 353-2 Includes charts of the Congress participants broken down by race and country. See also statistics in folder 355-14.
Folder 353-4. Although more than two hundred participants from China were invited by the Congress, they were not allowed by their government to attend. This folder contains the documents telling that story. See also folder 364-11 and 365-1.
Folder 353-8 includes a chart of the invitation process and copies of the form letter used. See also folder 353-9
Folders 354-4,5,6 and 7 Correspondence about and lists of suggested observers at the Congress from the Orthodox tradition, the World Council of Churches, and the Roman Catholic Church. See also folder 374-18.
Folder 354-9. Includes the handbook for participant selection
Folder 354-11 Correspondence and lists of senior statesmen and women of the Lausanne Movement who would be invited to the Congress
Folder 354-12 Correspondence about special guests to be invited, lists of special guest and the reasons for inviting them
Subseries VI.J.2.m. Participant Services (chair
Esme Bowers)
Boxes: 355-356
Notes: This committee was concerned with registration, accommodations,,
all materials related to foreign travelers, transportation, participant care,
mission activities on the Congress’ day off, and local tours, scholarships to
the Congress, and off-site security.
Exceptional items:
Folder 355-4. Contains descriptions of the various ministries around
Cape Town participants could volunteer at during the Congress’ day off
Folder 355-5. Includes a flowchart of hos participant questions and problems will be handled
Folder 355-12. Copies of some of the general communications sent to participants
Folder 355-14. Welcome packet given to participants
Folders 355-17 to 356-2. Memos and emails about how scholarships to some participants related to the overall registration fees for the Congress
Subseries VI.J.2.n. Programme (chair Ramez Atallah,
co-chair Mark Marlowe)
Boxes: 356-366, 380
Notes: The committee was responsible for supervising the planning
of all the sessions of the Congress – the Bible studies (plenary 1, morning),
core issues challenging the church (plenary 2, afternoon), and spotlight on
the situation of the church in different regions of the world (plenary 3, evening),
as well as the opening and closing sessions and the arts program of the Congress
– film festival, videos, visual arts, music.
Besides the files of the Congress director, boxes 364 (from folder 364-6 on)
through box 366 contain materials received from other participants in the programme
committee. Folder 364-6 contains the notebook of Lon Allison, one of those helping
to plan the Plenary II sessions. Folder 364-7 contains evaluations of the Congress
by students from Wheaton College, Illinois, USA who served as volunteer stewards.
And the rest of 364 and all of 365 and 366 consist of the files of Lon Allison,
who headed the group planning the Plenary 3 sessions.
Exceptional items:
Glen Smith was director of the multiplex sessions. His digital planning files
can be found in Archives’ digital document files for Collection 46.
Folder 357-3 Description of the approval process for all presenter materials at the Congress
Folder 358-14 through 359-5 contain correspondence and emails about the music planned for the Congress, representing different regions and traditions.
Folders 359-6 through 6-12 contain correspondence, e-mails and other documents about the planning of the opening and closing sequences
Folders 360-5, 6 contain material on the design of the Plenary 1 sessions
Folders 360-7 to 9 contain material on the planning of the plenary 2 sessions. There are several digital Plenary II files in the Archives digital files, under Documents\Collections\CN046\Programme – Plenary II Working Files.
Folder 360-10 to 360-12 contain material on the planning of plenary 3 sessions
Folder 361-3 contains correspondence and reports about Christian reconciliation ministries.
Folders 361-7 to 361-9 contain materials on the selection of speakers for the Congress.
Folder 363-1 contains brief biographies of potential program personnel, a selection
of Christian
leaders from around the world
Folder 363-8 contains drafts of the work of the subcommittee preparing the Congress’ statement
Folder 364-1 contains a notebook with the planning for the various Plenary sessions and other major components as of February 2010
Folder 364-6 contains Mark Marlowe’s notebooks on covering two years of planning the program for the Congress; folder 364-7 contains minutes, reports and other papers from his attendance at the actual Congress. His digital files are in the Collection 46 fold in the Documents sections of the Archives’ digital files.
Folder 365-19 contains a table of all the programme participants and what part they played.
Folder 365-25 contains the manual for the programme committee. See also folder 365-24.
Subseries VI.J.3. Congress Planning meetings
Boxes: 366-371
Notes: This subseries contains notes, memos, participant list,
and other documents from a number of LCWE meetings, most in whole or in part
for the purpose of planning the 2010 Congress. This includes the 2006 Younger
Leaders Conference in Malaysia (folder 366-14, see also folder 372-18), the
2007 Biennial meeting of the Lausanne Committee in Budapest (folders 366-15
to 367-15 ) the Congress 2010 Team meeting in Cape Town October 2007 (367-16
to 367-24), the Lausanne Committee annual leadership meeting in Buenos Aires
June 2008 (folders 367-25 to 368-9) the Congress Team meeting in Cape Town October
2008 (368-10 to 368-16) LCWE Biennial meeting Seoul 2009 (368-17 to 370-1) Cape
Town Congress Team meeting October 2009 (Folders 370-2 to 370-11) Cape Town
Team and LCWE meeting May 2010 (folder 370-12 to 371-2) and the 2011 Biennial
LCWE meeting in Boston (folders 371-3 to 371-6) Each meeting generated agendas,
reports, status updates. Although there are files from general Lausanne meetings,
most of the material in the files relates to the planning of the 2010 Congress.
Box 371 also has several general files on the Congress’ management team’s activities,
correspondence and plans.
Exceptional items
Folder 367-2 contains drafts and the final version of a letter from
Billy Graham to the 2007 Budapest convention, recalling the 1974 Lausanne Congress
and passing the baton to a younger generation.
Folder 367-7 contains comments and surveys from participants to the Budapest 2007 meetings giving their reactions to it. See folder 368-9 for similar comments on the 2008 Buenos Aires meeting. DVD5 contains audio files of all the main addresses at the meeting
Folder 368-7 Notes on reports by Latin America leaders talking about the state of the church each in his particular country
Folder 368-18: History of the Lausanne Movement from the perspective of the Korean branch of the movement, with an appendix on the work of the LCWE in Korea.
Folder 368-20 contains a directory of the Lausanne leadership at that time; see also 370-13
Folder 369-14 contained video of the press conference about the Congress held during the 2009 Seoul Biennial meeting. These can be found in the Collection 46 folder in the Collections section of the Moving Images part of the Archives digital files.
Folder 370-1 includes a letter about Rev. Billy Kim’s involvement with Lausanne Movement. See also 372-3
Folder 370-3 includes correspondence with African Christian leaders. See also folder 370-8 and 370-14
Folder 371-6 contains evaluations of the 2010 Congress made in 2011. See also
372-13
Folder 371-8 contains the minutes and reports of the last meeting of the Congress
management team in December, after the Congress
Subseries VI.J.4. Lausanne Committee Files
Boxes 371-373
Notes: These files document the interactions between the Congress
director and the various Congress staff and committees with the governing Lausanne
Committee authority, particularly with the executive chair Douglas Birdsall
Exceptional Items
Folder 372-8 contains memos and reports on plans for the Lausanne Movement’s
future activities
Folder 372-10 contains reports on some of the difficulties of planning the Congress under the LCWE structure
Folder 372-12 has a grant proposal to the Crowell Trust for funds for planning the Congress.
Folder 373-1 includes a description of the responsibilities of the International
Deputy Directors, who served as representatives of their particular geographic
region in the global structure of LCWE
Subseries VI.J.5. Congress Final Reports
Boxes: 373-374
Notes: These reports were prepared after the Congress by the
various planning committees and staff to describe their work, issues they struggled
with, and the results in terms of the actual activities of the Congress.
Exceptional items:
Folder 373-11 contains the final summary report, which contain summaries of
all the final reports which was submitted to the Lausanne Committee in June
2011 at the Biennial Leadership meeting in Boston.
Folder 374-5 contains one-page summaries of each of the Congress sessions
Folder 374-7 contains the final report of the Congress director
Folder 374-11 contains reports and comments from individuals about their reactions to the Congress
Subseries VI.J.6. Samples
Boxes: 374-377
Notes: This subseries consists of all the samples of all the documents,
programs, notebooks and other ephemera that were created for the Congress and
the planning meetings before the Congress. This includes some of the manuals
that were made for the various committees and for other LCWE meetings. It also
includes advance copies of the papers delivered at the conference and the papers
published in Christianity Today as part of the Global Conversation project
Exceptional Items:
Folder 375-3 includes copies of the drafts of the papers to be given in the various sessions sent in in advance. (all papers in folder 375-3 by authors: Martine Audeoud, Steve Bauman, Paul Joshua Bhakiaraj, Daniel Bourdanné, Joseph Cumming, Robert Calvert:, Lars Dahle, Paul Eshleman, Patrick Fung, Ram Gidoomal, Ken Gnanakan, Ron Green, Os Guinness, Michael Herbst, Penny Hood, Dewi Hughes, Tim Keller, Willy Kotiuga, Bryan Kliewer, Benjamin Kwashi, Grant Lovejoy, Jane Overstreet, Kent Parks, Becky Pippert, Michael Ramsden, David Ruiz, Antoine Rutayisire, Leslie & Chad Segraves, Sadiri Joy Tira, John Watters, Chris Wright, John Wyatt, Carver Yu; all in folder 375-3) It also includes copies of the articles written for the Global Conversation project with Christianity today (all papers in folder 375-11 by authors: J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyodu, Mark Chan, Joseph Cumming, Al Erisman, Samuel Escobar, Ajith Fernando, Chowkat Moucarry, Kris Rocke, Scott Sabin, Valdir Steuernagel, Joel van Dyke, Chris Wright, Hwa Yung. The folder also contains a condensed version of the report of the Theology Working Group)
Several folders contain Congress publications in some are all of the official languages of the Congress: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. These include the service for the closing communion service (folders 375-5 and 379-8) the Congress Handbook (folders 375-6 to 375-9). songbooks (376-5), a special printing of the book of Ephesians from the New Testament (376-9), from the Plenary II session of October 22 (in the digital files for 376) The Cape Town Commitment, Part 1, a restatement of the Lausanne Movement’s faith and goals (folders 376-14 and 376-15)
Folders 376-16 and 376-17 contain English versions of the complete Cape Town Commitment, including parts 1 and 2.
Folder 377-1 holds hundreds of brief forms from Table Group participants about what went right and what with wrong with their group. Folder 377-2 includes feedback from the Table Group leaders.
Subseries VI.J.7. Transcripts of Congress Sessions
Boxes: 377-379
Notes: Tis subseries includes transcripts and /or outlines
or agendas for all the sessions of the Congress: opening and closing ceremonies,
plenary, multiplexes, dialogue sessions, regional meetings. In a few cases (such
as folder 377-16) the folder contains an outline of a session, rather than a
transcript. These are the folders for the days of the Congress: October 17 (Folders
377-5 to 377-8), October 18 (folders 377-9 to 377-16), October 19 (folders 377-17
to 378-6), October 20 (folders 378-7 to 378-14), October 22(Folder 378-15 to
378-22), October 23 (folders 378-23 to 379-5) October 24 (folders 379-6 to 379-13)
Subseries
VI.I. Lausanne Lauanne Consultation
on Jewish Evangelism
Subseries VI.I. Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism – North American
Branch, 1983-2011
Date Range:
Volume: 3.6 cubic feet
Boxes: 326-334
Type of documents: Conference papers, correspondence, memos, reports, photocopies
of stories in vaious media about Messianic Judiasm, pree releases
Notes: LCJE was not one meeting, but a continuing series of them, held regionally
and internationally. This subseries consists of papers delivered at the annual
conference of the North American branch of the LCJE on the topics of Messianic
Judiasm in America and other countries and evangelisitc outreach to Jewish people;
correspdoence of the arrangments and registration for these conferences, annual
reports on how stories related to Messianic Judism was covered in various media
(newspapers, magazines, televison, websites, etc.), and information on conference
sof the intenrational LCJE. Among the promement correspdoents and authors of
papers are Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Arthur Glasser,Louis Goldberg, Kai Kjaer-Hansen,
Fred Klett, Susan Perlman, Rich Robinson, Moishe Rosen, Michael Rydelnik, and
Tuvya Zartsky. Other topics for which there is significant discussion are the
Holocaust, Ameircan Judiasm, the Torah and rabbinic tradition, attitudes of
various denomnations such as the the Luthern Churc Missouri Synod toward Jewish
evangleism, theolgoical aspects of Jewish evangelism, reports on the activites
of organizations involed in Jewish evangelism.
After 1999, the folders contain few conference papers.
Exceptopnal Items- Folder 326-1 contans a title index of almost all the papers
presensted at the LCJE – North America conferences from 1985-1999.
Folder 326-2 contans materialon the early foundation of the LCJE North America
branch and the gorup’s first conference in 1984.
Folder 327-3 – Report from the director of LCJE International, C. David Harley
Folder 327-6 – Copy of the LCJE’s 1969 Willowbank Declaration on the Chrisitan
Gospel and the Jewish People
Folder 334-2 – This folder contains directories of LCJE memebrs arrnaged by
countires, listing Messianic Jewish organizations, congregation and indivuduals.
Series VII: Miscellaneous Records
Subseries:
A. Search Committee Chairman
B. American Festival of Evangelism
C. ICOWE Planning Committee
D. Biographical Information Book of ICOWE
Date Range: 1980-1984
Volume: .3 cubic feet
Boxes: 80-81, 84
Notes: The concluding series of the collection's files consists of several small groups of material
given to the Archives by various individuals who have been involved in LCWE or its meetings.
Subseries VII.A. LCWE Search Committee Chairman (folder 80-1); 1983-1984.
Exceptional items: The documents in folder 80-1 reflect the work of LCWE Search Committee
(principally the Committee's Chairman, Thomas Zimmerman) in their attempt to fill the position
of Executive Secretary, following Gottfried Osei-Mensah's resignation in 1983. Included are
reports to the LCWE Executive Committee, a position description, and Zimmerman's
correspondence with other members of the Search Committee, members of the LCWE
administration, and potential nominees. The documents enumerate the suggested nominees and
evaluations of their suitability for the post. The arrangements of the documents is alphabetical by
correspondent.
Subseries VII.B. American Festival of Evangelism, 1981 (folder 80-2); 1980-1982.
Exceptional items: This file consists of duplicated material related to the American Festival of
Evangelism in 1981 held in Kansas City. Items prepared prior to the meeting include
promotional brochures, news releases, daily festival newspapers, newsletters, and a program
directory. Festival follow-up material was prepared to broaden the impact of the festival in local
churches. Printed materials documenting this include promotional material for ordering printed
manuscripts of all the festival addresses, audio tapes and video tapes.
Subseries VII.C. ICOWE Planning Committee (folders 81-1,2,3); 1971-1973.
Exceptional items: The materials in these folders consist of the contents of a notebook kept by
Ed Dayton, a member of ICOWE's Planning Committee and executive with the Missions
Advanced Research and Communication Center (MARC). They include correspondence,
minutes, memos, completed survey response forms, etc., related to the preparation for the 1974
Congress. The notebook has been subdivided into three folders due to its size, but the order has
been retained as it was received.
Folder 81-1 relates to the goals survey conducted for ICOWE's Planning Committee in 1972, including both the final report and the individual responses on which the report was based.
The correspondence in folders 81-2 and 3 relate to the early planning of the Congress, documenting the decision-making that was taking place on the focus of the Congress, participants, and the research being conducted to provide the Congress with current data on unevangelized peoples and the status of Christianity throughout the world. Among the correspondents represented are Jack Dain, Leighton Ford, Donald Hoke, Paul Little, Victor Nelson, and ICOWE's Research Coordinator, Edward Pentecost.
Subseries VII.D. ICOWE Biographical Information Book (folder 84-1); 1974.
Exceptional items: The book consists of biographical data on the significant Congress officials
and program participants.
Series VIII. Audio Recordings (see corresponding Location Record for Audio Tapes)
Arrangement: Chronologically
Date Range: 1979-1988
Notes: Recordings from selected LCWE-sponsored meetings, including the 1979 US
Consultation on the Simple Lifestyle, 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE),
1984 International Prayer Assembly, 1985 Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and
Evangelization, 1986 Communications Consultation, Singapore ‘87. Also among the recordings
are those of International Advisory Council meetings, Leadership ‘88 planning, LCWE general
and executive committee meetings, and from the 1988 Stuttgart European Leaders Conference on
World Evangelism (ELCOWE). For recordings of the Lausanne Congress, see BGC Archives
Collection 53.
Series IX. Moving Images (see corresponding Location Records for Films and Video tapes)
Subseries: Films, Video tapes
Date Range: 1974-1989
Notes: Recordings, primarily from selected LCWE-sponsored meetings, including Singapore
‘87, Leadership ‘88, and Lausanne II.
Series X. Still Images (see corresponding Location Records for Photo Albums, Photographs
(prints) and Slides)
Subseries: Photo Albums, Photographs, Slides
Date Range: Approximately mid-1970s-1989
Notes: Features shots of LCWE staff, speakers at sponsored events and meetings, and the slides
from the “Let the Earth Hear His Voice” slide presentation.
Exceptional items: Photo album featuring over five hundred photos of LCWE members from
throughout the world.
Provenance
The materials in this collection were received by the Center from a variety of Lausanne
Committee sources, 1978-2007.
Accessions: 78-22, 78-26, 78-27, 78-28, 80-85, 80-99, 80-128, 80-132, 80-142, 80-151,
80-160, 80-174, 81-11, 81-12, 81-18, 81-40, 81-43, 81-54, 81-58, 81-82, 81-100,
81-127, 81-141, 82-37, 83-91, 84-90, 84-97, 85-2, 91-16
Processed: September 23, 1987
Revised: October 28, 1988
Paul A. Ericksen
B. Lewis
M. Schimmels
J. Watson
K. Elwell
A. Labiano
R. Shuster
S. Geitgey
J. Nasgowitz
J. Tien
Updated: December 22, 2005
Accessions: 88-50, 89-100, 89-121, 90-21, 90-100, 91-14, 92-107, 93-77, 95-182, 96-43, 96-87
Paul A. Ericksen
M. Thompson
T. Thompson
J. Wells
Updated: February 22, 2006
Accessions: 87-28, 91-14
Paul A. Ericksen
J. Wells
Updated: December 19, 2006
Accessions: 91-14, 93-71, 96-50
Paul A. Ericksen
J. Anderson
T. Gulsvig
J. Wells
Updated: December 24, 2010
Accessions: 87-16, 91-14, 93-71, 06-33,
06-40, 07-41, 07-42, 07-64, 08-14
Paul Ericksen
H. Parish
A. Thomas
J. Wells
Updated: August 30, 2012
Accessions: 11-38
Paul Ericksen
Updated, May 21, 2021
Accessions 10-77, 10-83, 10-88, 11-34, 11-38, 11-43, 11-60, 13-35, 14-02, 14-44,
16-45
Bob Shuster
B. Hicklin-Campbell
CHRONOLOGY OF LCWE-RELATED MEETINGS DOCUMENTED IN THE COLLECTION
The following list outlines those congresses on evangelism leading up to the Lausanne Congress or those sponsored fully or in part by the Lausanne Committee and its Working Groups. Numerous other meetings are documented in the files in this collection as well; the researcher should consult the Container List and/or the Cross Reference List of this guide for these.
Event |
Location |
Date |
World Congress on Evangelism |
Berlin, Germany |
Oct. 26-Nov. 4, 1966 |
U.S. Congress on Evangelism |
Minneapolis, MN |
Sept. 8-13, 1969 |
International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE) |
Lausanne, Switzerland |
July 16-25, 1974 |
Consultation on the Homogeneous Unit Principle (HUP) |
Pasadena, CA |
May 31-June 2, 1977 |
Consultation on the Gospel & Culture |
Willowbank, Bermuda |
Jan. 6-13, 1978 |
North American Conference on Muslim Evangelism |
Colorado Springs, CO |
Oct. 15-21, 1978 |
U.S. Consultation on the Simple Lifestyle |
Ventnor, NJ |
Apr. 25-29, 1979 |
International Consultation on the Simple Lifestyle |
London, England |
Mar. 17-21, 1980 |
Consultation of World Evangelization |
Pattaya, Thailand |
June 16-27, 1980 |
American Festival of Evangelism |
Kansas City, KS |
July 27-31, 1981 |
Consultation on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility (CRESR) |
Grand Rapids, MI |
June 16-23, 1982 |
International Prayer Assembly |
Korea |
June 6-11, 1984 |
Oslo ‘85 - Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization |
Oslo, Norway |
May 28-June 1, 1985 |
Singapore '87, the International Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian Leaders |
Singapore |
June 1-10, 1987 |
Leadership '88, the U.S. Conference for Emerging/Younger Leaders |
Washington DC |
June 27-July 1, 1988 |
International Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne II) |
Manila, Philippines |
July 11-20, 1989 |
Budapest Global Summit |
Budapest, Hungary |
September 1-7, 1991 |
2004 Forum on World Evangelization |
Pattaya, Thailand |
September 29-October 5, 2004 |
The following is an abbreviated list of more commonly used terms and acronymns used in the materials in this collection.
Term |
Definition |
BGEA |
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association |
CCWE |
Commission on Cooperation in World Evanglization |
COWE |
Consultation on World Evangelization, Pattaya, Thailand, 1980 |
COWE Catalysts |
Individuals designated by geographical region to stimulate involvement in COWE study groups. |
COWE |
Specialists assigned to each advise one of the COWE Mini-Consultations. |
COWE Conveners |
Individuals who called together participants in a COWE Study Group on a local or regional level. |
COWE Interest Groups |
Informal groupings at the Thailand meeting gathered around common types of work or obstacles. |
COWE International Coordinators |
Individuals coordinating the local COWE Study Groups for a particular "Reaching..." section. Their task was to compile the work done by the local Study Groups into a single report which would serve as the initial basis for the work done by the corresponding Mini-Consultation at the Thailand meeting. |
COWE Mini- Consultations (MC) |
Working sessions at the Thailand meeting which interacted with the reports and data compiled by the International Coordinators from the various local Study Groups. The number and titles of the MC's correspond with the number and titles of the Study Groups. Each MC was expected to prepare a paper on the topic of "Reaching... (designated people group). |
COWE Regional Groups |
Groups brought together at the Thailand meeting to interact on the specific needs and difficulties of their geographical regions. |
COWE Study Groups |
Groups formed throughout the world to study and prepare reports on the history and needs of particular target groups, i.e., City Dwellers or Hindus, etc., in specific geographic areas. The product of each group's work was compiled and edited by the broader Study Group's International Coordinator. That report was then presented as the basis for the work done by the corresponding Mini-Consultation (MC) at the Thailand meeting. The number and titles of the Study Groups correspond with the number and titles of MC's. |
COWE Sub-Plenaries |
Sessions at the Thailand meeting intended consider and evaluate the preliminary papers prepared by each of the Mini-Consultations (MC), and make recommendations to the MC's for further consideration in preparing the final draft of their paper. |
CRESR |
Consultation on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility, Grand Rapids, 1982 |
ERCDOM |
Evangelical/Roman Catholic Dialogue on Missions |
HUP |
Homogeneous Unit Principle |
Lausanne Associates |
See Senior Associates |
ICOWE |
International Congress on World Evangelization, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1974 (also referred to as the Lausanne Congress) |
Lausanne II |
Second International Congress on World Evangelization, Manila, Philippines, 1989 |
Lausanne II track designers |
Persons responsible for the designing the elective track sessions for the 1989 Congress |
LCWE |
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization |
LOP |
Lausanne Occasional Paper(s) |
Observers |
Designation used both at ICOWE and COWE for an individual who was not invited as a participant but wanted to attend, bore their own expenses and attended without the voting privileges given to participants. |
Participant |
Designation used both at ICOWE and COWE for an individual who was invited to the meeting, whose expenses were partly or fully covered by the meeting, and who was given voting privileges in the meeting's deliberations. |
Search Committee |
LCWE Committee authorized to recommend candidates to the LCWE Executive Committee for the post of Executive Secretary, which was vacated upon the resignation of Gottfried Osei-Mensah. |
Senior Associates |
Individuals appointed by vote of LCWE members to serve as coordinators for a specific ministry area or reaching a specific people group as emphasized during the 1980 Consultation in Thailand. The program began in 1981 with the associates known as Lausanne Associates; the term Senior Associates appears to have begun to be used around 1984. |
LOCATION RECORD
Accession: 80-128, 81-100, 84-97, 88-50, 90-21, 06-45, 14-44
Type of Material: Audio Tapes
The following items are located in the AUDIO TAPE file.
# | reel or cassette | speed | time | sides | contents | dates |
Tapes T1 through T4 consist of recorded sessions from the 1979 U.S. Simple Lifestyle Consultation at the Overseas Ministries Study Center in Ventnor, New Jersey. |
||||||
T1 |
R |
3-¾ ips |
135 min |
2 |
(#1) Side 1. Approximately 70 minutes (1 hour, 10 minutes). Welcome P.M. comments by Ron Sider and Gerald Anderson (25 minutes); keynote address by Bill Pannell (40 minutes). Side 2. Approximately 65 minutes (1 hour, 5 minutes). Continuation of Pannell's address (20 minutes). April 26, a.m.: Devotions (30 minutes); panel discussion of models, chaired by Virgil Vogt, (15 minutes; first portion of discussion only). |
4/25-26/79 |
T2 |
R |
3-¾ ips |
220 min |
2 |
(#4) Side 1. Approximately 130 minutes (2 hours, 10 minutes). April 27, a.m.: Continuation of panel discussion on T1 and panel discussion, "Lifestyle and the Family" (50 minutes); address by George Monsma, "The Socio-Economic- Political Order and Our Lifestyles" (50 minutes); response by Mac Barnum (13 minutes); response by Jayne Wood (15 minutes). Side 2. Approximately 90 minutes ( 1 hour, 30 minutes). April 27, p.m.: Discussion between Monsma, Barnum, Wood, and audience (37 minutes). Continuation of discussion (55 minutes). |
4/26-27/79 |
T3 |
R |
3-¾ ips |
220 min |
2 |
(#5) Side 1. Approximately 110 minutes. April 27, p.m.: Dramatic presentation by Mike Ballard, "Charles Finney" (55 minutes). April 28, a.m.: Opening worship (16 minutes); personal histories on "Lifestyle - One's Profession," Lou Fischer, Howard Dahl, David Puller, and Dennis Wood (37 minutes). Side 2. Approximately 110 minutes. Group discussion by participants of panel from Side 1 (22 minutes); panel discussion on "Guidelines for Simple Lifestyle," consisting of reports from sessions: "Lifestyle and One's Profession," Mac Barnum (24 minutes); "Lifestyle & the Family," Elaine Amerson (19 minutes); "Lifestyle & the Church," with specific comments on the black church in America, Michael Haynes (37 minutes); panel discussion, chaired by Wayne Bragg (8 minutes). |
4/27-28/79 |
T4 |
R |
3-¾ ips |
165 min |
2 |
(#6) Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 i.p.s. Side 1. Approximately 95 minutes. April 29, a.m.: Findings & Committees report, including discussion from the consultation participants. Side 2. Approximately 70 minutes. Closing worship: Ken Medema (20 minutes); Ron Sider (13 minutes); and Samuel Escobar (36 minutes). |
4/29/79 |
T5 through T16 consist of recorded sessions from the 1980 Consultation of World Evangelization in Pattaya, Thailand. In addition to the main messages, the tapes include Consultation proceedings and singing. Saphir Athyal, Cliff Barrows, A.J. Dain, Leighton Ford, David Howard, and other COWE staff are frequent participants in these proceedings at the platform. Each tape, unless otherwise noted, is recorded at 7-1/2 i.p.s. on reel-to-reel tape. These tapes were recorded on quarter-track machines; any duplication of these tapes therefore requires using compatible equipment in order to enable listening to each side separately. Cassette copies of the addresses on these tapes are noted on the following pages of this separation record. |
||||||
T5 |
R |
15 ips |
95 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 40 minutes. Leighton Ford: Opening remarks (20 minutes). June 16, 1980. Researchers should use T19. Side 2: Approximately 55 minutes. Gottfried Osei-Mensah: "The God Who Speaks" (35 minutes). June 18, 1980. Researchers should use T24. |
6/16/80, 6/18/80 |
T6 |
R |
7-½ ips |
140 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 90 minutes (1 hour, 30 minutes). Gottfried Osei-Mensah: "How Shall They Hear?" (40 minutes); C. Peter Wagner and Strategy Working Group session (20 minutes); greetings to and address by the representative of Thailand's king (15 minutes). June 17, 1980. Researchers should use T20 for the Osei-Mensah portion of tape and T21 and T22 for Strategy Working Group portions. Side 2 of T21 consists of the portion with the king's representative. Side 2: Approximately 50 minutes. Replay of program with Thailand king's representative on Side 1 (15 minutes); continuation of Strategy Working Group's session (20 minutes). June 17, 1980. Researchers should use T21 and T22 for the Strategy Working Group portions of the tape. |
6/17/80 |
T7 |
R |
7-½ ips |
190 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 100 minutes (1 hour, 40 minutes). Audio-visual presentation (25 minutes); John Stott: "The Place Of the Bible in World Evangelization" (35 minutes). June 17, 1980. Researchers should use T23. Side 2: Approximately 90 minutes (1 hour, 30 minutes). Saphir P. Athyal: "The Word God Has Spoken" (50 minutes). June 19, 1980. Researchers should use T26. |
6/17/80, 6/19/80 |
T8 |
R |
7-½ ips |
115 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 70 minutes (1 hour, 10 minutes). Viggo Soggaard (50 minutes). June 18, 1980. Researchers should use T25. Side 2: Approximately 45 minutes. Communications Working Group sponsored presentation of Thai folk drama with music, coordinated by Alan Eubank (15 minutes); interview with Florence Yeboah (7 minutes). June 18, 1980. |
6/18/80 |
T9 |
R |
7-½ ips |
160 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 95 minutes (1 hour, 35 minutes). Testimonies by Matthew Ezeigbo, Mrs. Iqbal Kundan Massey and Iosif Ton: "The Place of the Holy Spirit in World Evangelization" (40 minutes). Also includes Samuel Kamaleson singing in the Tamil language. June 19, 1980. Researchers should use T27. Side 2: Approximately 65 minutes (1 hour, 5 minutes). Chow Lien Hwa: The Word He Has Spoken" (45 minutes). June 20, 1980. Researchers should use T28. |
6/19/80, 6/20/80 |
T10 |
R |
7-½ ips |
165 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 95 minutes (1 hour, 35 minutes). Gordon MacDonald: "The Place of the Local Church in World Evangelization" (60 minutes). June 20, 1980. Researchers should use T29. Side 2: Approximately 70 minutes (1 hour, 10 minutes). John Reid: "The Place of Prayer in World Evangelization" (25 minutes). Sound at end of side of low quality. June 22, 1980. Researchers should use T30. |
6/20/80, 6/22/80 |
T11 |
R |
7-½ ips |
145 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 75 minutes. Tom Houston: "The People to Whom He Speaks," part 1, (35 minutes). June 23, 1980. Researchers should use T31. Side 2: Approximately 70 minutes. Report from the Commission on Cooperation for World Evangelization, including A.J. Dain, John Stott, and Thomas Zimmerman, (60 minutes). June 23, 1980. Researchers should use T32. |
6/23/80 |
T12 |
R |
7-½ ips |
130 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 65 minutes (1 hour, 5 minutes). Reginald Reimer, Ollie Kaetzel, Dan Cobb, Don Cormack, and David Pickard: "The Challenge of Refugees" (50 minutes). June 23, 1980. Researchers should use T33. Side 2: Approximately 65 minutes (1 hour, 5 minutes) Tom Houston: "The People to Whom He Speaks", part 2, (40 minutes). June 24, 1980. Researchers should use T34. |
6/23/80, 6/24/80 |
T13 |
R |
7-½ ips |
80 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 65 minutes (1 hour, 5 minutes). Chua Wee Hian (35 minutes) and Stanley Mooneyham (15 minutes): "The Place of Resources in World Evangelization" (53 minutes). June 24, 1980. Researchers should use T35 for Chua portion of address; the Mooneyham address is on Side 2 of T30. Side 2: Approximately 15 minutes. Continuation of Mooneyham address on Side 1. Researchers should use Side 2 of T30. |
6/24/80 |
T14 |
R |
7-½ ips |
140 min. |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 45 minutes. Emilio Nunez: "The People Through Whom God Speaks", part 1, (35 minutes). June 25, 1980. Researchers should use T36. Side 2: Approximately 95 minutes (1 hour, 35 minutes). John Richard: "The Place of Biblical Unity in World Evangelization" (60 minutes). June 25, 1980. Researchers should use T37. |
6/25/80 |
T15 |
R |
7-½ ips |
170 min |
2 |
Side 1: Approximately 100 minutes (1 hour, 40 minutes). Emilio Nunez: "The People Through Whom God Speaks", part 2, (40 minutes); testimonies by Nilson Fanini and Robertson McQuilkin (20 minutes). June 26, 1980. Researchers should use T38 for the Nunez portion of the tape and T39 for the testimonies. Side 2: Approximately 75 minutes. Marietje Mapalieij-Mantik (beginning excluded) and Gerry Gallimore: continuation of testimonies on Side 1 (15 minutes); Thomas Zimmerman & Chua Wee Hian: Commission on Cooperation report (20 minutes); John Stott: COWE Statement (15 minutes). June 26, 1980. Researchers should use T39 for the testimony portion of the tape and T40 for the Commission on Cooperation portion. |
6/26/80 |
T16 |
R |
7-½ ips |
95 min |
1 |
Side 1: Approximately 95 minutes. Leighton Ford: "God's Strategy" (45 minutes); reading of COWE Statement by delegates 3 minutes); beginning of closing service including communion (15 minutes). June 26, 1980. Researchers should use T41. |
6/26/80 |
T17 |
C |
60 min |
2 |
Approximately 30 minutes on each side. Sound track to audio-visual production, "That Everyone May Hear," focusing on evangelizing unreached people groups. The tape is intended to accompany slides found on the appropriate separation record of this guide. Side 2 includes programmed tones for presentations without script. (See the companion slides S1-S140 in Slides Location Record.) |
1980 |
T18 |
C |
34 min |
2 |
Approximately 17 minutes on each side. "Que Todos Los Pueblos Escuchen La Voz De Dios: Canta Kerygma (That the World Hears the Voice of God)," a Latin American Christian musical. |
N.d. |
T19 through T41, all 30-minute cassettes unless otherwise noted, comprise a series produced from the COWE meetings, edited from the master tapes of the entire proceedings to feature the main addresses of the Consultation. The number in parentheses is the series number assigned by LCWE. |
|||||
T19 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(1-80) Leighton Ford: "The Heart Of an Evangelist" (approximately 20 minutes). Tape also includes Billy Graham's pre-recorded greetings and comments to the Consultation (10 minutes). Side 2 includes a devotional message by Ford. |
6/16/80 |
T20 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(2-80) Gottfried Osei-Mensah: "How Shall They Hear?" (approximately 40 minutes). |
6/17/80 |
T21 |
C |
60 |
2 |
( - ) Peter Wagner: "The People Approach in World Evangelization" (approximately 20 minutes). Side 2 includes the greetings to and address by the representative of Thailand's king (approximately 15 minutes). |
6/17/80 |
T22 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(4-80) George Samuel, James Wong and Tom Houston: "A Practical Approach To Reaching Peoples" (approximately 45 minutes). |
6/17/80 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(5-80) John Stott: "The Place Of the Bible in World Evangelization" (approximately 35 minutes). |
6/17/80 |
|
T24 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(6-80) Gottfried Osei-Mensah: "The God Who Speaks" (approximately 35 minutes). |
6/18/80 |
T25 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Viggo Sogaard: "Communication and World Evangelization" (approximately 50 minutes). |
6/18/80 |
T26 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(8-80) Saphir P. Athyal: "The Word God Has Spoken" (approximately 50 minutes). |
6/19/80 |
T27 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(9-80) Testimonies by Matthew Ezeigbo, Iqbal Kundan Massey, Iosif Ton and Leighton Ford: "The Place of the Holy Spirit in World Evangelization" (approximately 40 minutes). |
6/19/80 |
T28 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(10-80) Chow Lien Hwa: "The Word God Has Spoken" (approximately 45 minutes). June 20, 1980. |
6/20/80 |
T29 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(11-80) Gordon MacDonald: "The Local Church Running the Race Together" (approximately 60 minutes). |
6/20/80 |
T30 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side 1 (12-80) John Reid: "The Place of Prayer in World Evangelization" (approximately 25 minutes). June 22, 1980. Side 2 (12B-80) Stan Mooneyham: "The Place Resources in World Evangelization" (approximately 30 minutes). |
6/24/80 |
T31 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(13-80) Tom Houston: "The People to Whom He Speaks," Part 1 (approximately 35 minutes). |
6/23/80 |
T32 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(14-80) Leighton Ford, Thomas Zimmerman, A.J. Dain: report by the Commission on Cooperation (approximately 60 minutes). |
6/23/80 |
T33 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(15-80) "Challenge of Refugees" (approximately 50 minutes). |
6/23/80 |
T34 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(16-80) Tom Houston: "The People to Whom He Speaks," Part 2, (approximately 40 minutes). |
6/24/80 |
T35 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(17-80) Chua Wee Hian: "The Place of Resources in World Evangelization" (approximately 35 minutes). |
6/24/80 |
T36 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(18-80) Emilio Antonio Nunez: "The People Through Whom He Speaks" Part 1 (approximately 35 minutes). |
6/25/80 |
T37 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(19-80) John Richard: "The Place Of Biblical Unity In World Evangelization" (approximately 60 minutes). |
6/25/80 |
T38 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(20-80) Emilio Antonio Nunez: "The People Through Whom He Speaks" Part 2 (approximately 40 minutes). |
6/26/80 |
T39 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(21-80) Testimonies: Nison Fanini, Robertson McQuilkin, Marietje Mapalieij-Mantik and Gerry Gallimore (approximately 35 minutes). |
6/26/80 |
T40 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(22-80) Report from the Commission on Cooperation in World Evangelization" (approximately 35 minutes). |
6/26/80 |
T41 |
C |
60 |
2 |
(23-80) Leighton Ford: "God's Strategy" (approximately 45 minutes). |
6/26/80 |
International Prayer Assembly, 1984 |
|||||
The following recordings (T42 through T183), all cassettes, were recorded during several related conferences on prayer in Seoul, Korea, in 1984 at the time of the International Prayer Assembly. Many of the speakers were Korean and give their presentation in the Korean language. The tapes are further ordered by the specific event within the broader schedule. |
|||||
T42 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Park Cho Choon: “Revival Through Prayer” |
6/5/84 |
T43 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Steven Tong: “The Cost of Revival” |
6/6/84 |
T44 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Dick Eastman: “Willingness to Pay the Price” |
6/6/84 |
T45 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Bill Bright: “Means for Revival” |
6/7/84 |
T46 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Dick Eastman: “Revival Among Churches and Individuals” |
6/7/84 |
T47 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Jin Kyung Jeong: “The Korea Evangelical Fellowship” |
6/7/84 |
T48 |
C |
60 |
2 |
J. Edwin Orr: “Fruits of Revival” #1 |
6/8/84 |
T49 |
C |
60 |
2 |
J. Edwin Orr: “Fruits of Revival” #2 |
6/8/84 |
T50 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Thomas Wang: “Chinese Around the World” |
6/8/84 |
T51 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Peter Beyerhaus: “Continuation of Revival” |
6/9/84 |
T52 |
C |
60 |
2 |
David Bryant: “Strategy for Prayer Movement in Each Region” #1 |
6/9/84 |
T53 |
C |
60 |
2 |
David Bryant: “Strategy for Prayer Movement in Each Region” #2 |
6/9/84 |
T54 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Akira Izuda: “Vision and Prayer for World Mission” |
6/10/84 |
T55 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Regional Follow-up Strategy and Prayer |
6/11/84 |
T56 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Joon Gon Kim: “Evangelization Through Revival” #1 |
6/11/84 |
T57 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Joon Gon Kim: “Evangelization Through Revival” #2 |
6/11/84 |
International Prayer and Fasting Rally, 1984 |
|||||
T58 |
C |
90 |
2 |
side
1: Kyung Chik Han: “Prayer for the Centenary” |
6/6/84 |
T59 |
C |
90 |
2 |
side
1: Jang Hwan Kim: “Prayer Model of Jesus and Paul” |
6/6/84 |
T60 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Jack Taylor: “Laws of Prayer” |
6/6/84 |
T61 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Woon Sang Jeong: “National Salvation and Fasting Prayer” |
6/6/84 |
T62 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Jae Hyuk Chang: “Revival Through Prayer” |
6/7/84 |
T63 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Kyu Nam Jeong: “The Power and Value of Prayer Bringing about National Unity” #1 |
6/7/84 |
T64 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Kyu Nam Jeong: “The Power and Value of Prayer National Unity”
#2 |
6/7/84 |
T65 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Elder Yong Ki Kim: “Right Life and Right Prayer Life” |
6/7/84 |
T66 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Moriyama: “The Prayer and Spiritual Revival in Japanese Churches”
#2 |
6/7/84 |
T67 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Gottfried Osei Mensah: “Strategy for Prayer Movement in Each Region” #2 |
6/7/84 |
T68 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Ho Moon Lee: “National and Cultural Way of Life” |
6/7/84 |
T69 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Peter Beyerhaus: “The End of History and Second Coming” |
6/7/84 |
T70 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Young Jae Lim: “Intercessor Filled with the Holy Spirit” |
6/7/84 |
T71 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Hara Noboru: “Prayer Altars Bring Awakening in Christian Homes,
Churches and Nationwide” #2 |
6/7/84 |
T72 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Prayer
and Announcements |
6/7/84 |
T73 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Kyung Sik Park: “Prayer and God’s Will” |
6/8/84 |
T74 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Doo Sup Eum: “Monasterial Prayer Life” |
6/8/84 |
T75 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Young Gil Kim: “Creation and Evolution” |
6/8/84 |
T76 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Vonette Bright: “Intercessory Prayer” |
6/8/84 |
T77 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Eun Ah Koh: “Testimony” |
6/8/84 |
T78 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Kwan Ok Hong: “Testimony” |
6/8/84 |
T79 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Sang Hoon Lee: “Early Church and Prayer” |
6/8/84 |
T80 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Thomas
Wang: “Intercession and the Open Door for Chinese Evangelization”
#2 |
6/8/84 |
T81 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Hoon
Choi: “The Eagerness of Prayer and the Method of Keeping Prayer
Life” #2 |
6/8/84 |
T82 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Hyun
Kyun Shin: “Principles of Prayer” |
6/8/84 |
T83 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Chang In Kim: “Mission to North Korea and Prayer Movement” |
6/8/84 |
T84 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Koji Honda: “The Evaluation of the Power of Prayer and Application” |
6/8/84 |
T85 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Dae Weon Oh (David Ross): “The Holy Spirit and Intercessory Prayer” |
6/8/84 |
T86 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Kwan Suk Oh: “The Life of Purity–The Life Being Cleansed of Sin” |
6/8/84 |
T87 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Steven Tong: “Testimony” |
6/8/84 |
T88 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Chun Suk Lee: “Prayer Makes Miracles” #2 |
6/8/84 |
T89 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Joon Gon Kim: “Devotion for Mission” |
6/8/84 |
T90 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Il Lee: “Prayer of Acts and the Modern Point of Revival” |
6/9/84 |
T91 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Joon Mahn Lee: “The Word and Prayer” |
6/9/84 |
T92 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Jin Hwan Kim: “Christian Unity and Revival” |
6/9/84 |
T93 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Jong Jin Pee: “Four Powers of Prayer” |
6/9/84 |
T94 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Bok Kyu Choi: “Prayer and Person, Church, National Revival” |
6/9/84 |
T95 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Dong Jin Chiu: “The Growth of Faith and Prayer” |
6/9/84 |
T96 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Sung Chong Shin: “Fasting and Prayer in the New Testament” |
6/9/84 |
T97 |
C |
60 |
2 |
side
1: Sang Chul Shin: “Healing Service, Psychical Health and Prayer
Life” (Possible alternate title from program = “Faith, Cure,
Spiritual Health, Prayer Life”) |
6/9/84 |
T98 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Duk Yong Yu: “Testimony” #2 |
6/9/84 |
T99 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Cho Choon Park: “Matthew 28:16-20" |
6/9/84 |
International Prayer Assembly: Special and Elective Workshops, 1984 |
|||||
T100 |
C |
60 |
2 |
For International Representatives #1: John Richard |
6/6-8/84 |
T101 |
C |
60 |
2 |
For International Representatives #2: John Richard |
6/6-8/84 |
T102 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For International Representatives #3: John Richard |
6/6-8/84 |
T103 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For International Representatives #4: John Richard |
6/6-8/84 |
T104 |
C |
60 |
2 |
For Laymen #1: Mr. Bill Jones |
6/6-8/84 |
T105 |
C |
60 |
2 |
For Laymen #2: Mr. Bill Jones |
6/6-8/84 |
T106 |
C |
90 |
2 |
for Laymen #3: Mr. Bill Jones |
6/6-8/84 |
T107 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For Laymen #4: Mr. Bill Jones |
6/6-8/84 |
T108 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For Pastors #1: Chang In Kim: “Ministry and Prayer” |
6/6-8/84 |
T109 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For Pastors #2: Young Jae Lim: “My Prayer Experience” |
6/6-8/84 |
T110 |
C |
60 |
2 |
For Pastors #3: David Burnham: “The Key of the Korea Church Revival” |
6/6-8/84 |
T111 |
C |
60 |
2 |
For Pastors #4: David Burnham |
6/6-8/84 |
T112 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For the Deaf #1: Delbert Hosteller |
6/6-8/84 |
T113 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For the Deaf #2: Delbert Hosteller |
6/6-8/84 |
T114 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For the Blind #1: John McCracken |
6/6-8/84 |
T115 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For the Blind #2: John McCracken |
6/6-8/84 |
T116 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For the Blind #3: John McCracken |
6/6-8/84 |
T117 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For Seminary Professors #1: Carl Lundquist |
6/6-8/84 |
T118 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For Seminary Professors #2: Carl Lundquist |
6/6-8/84 |
T119 |
C |
90 |
2 |
For Seminary Professors #3: Carl Lundquist |
6/6-8/84 |
T120 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Yoon Sun Park: “Repentance and Revival” #1 |
6/6/84 |
T121 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Yoon Sun Park: “Repentance and Revival” #2 |
6/6/84 |
T122 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Sung Jong Shin: “Fasting and Prayer in the New Testament” |
6/6/84 |
T123 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Harold Lindsell: “Prayer and the Personal Life” |
6/6/84 |
T124 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Jack Taylor: “Laws of Prayer” |
6/6/84 |
T125 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Joy Dawson: “Judging” |
6/6/84 |
T126 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Dick Eastman: “Personal Growth – The Devotional Habit” |
6/6/84 |
T127 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Noval Hadley: “Hindrances to Prayer” |
6/6/84 |
T128 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Kundan Massey: “Prayer, the Master Key to Repentance, Unity and Evangelism” |
6/6/84 |
T129 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Evelyn Christenson: “Prayer and the Cleansed Life” #1 |
6/6/84 |
T130 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Evelyn Christenson: “Prayer and the Cleansed Life” #2 |
|
T131 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Joy Dawson: “Unity, Part 1" |
6/7-8/84 |
T132 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Joy Dawson: “Unity, Part 2" |
6/7-8/84 |
T133 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Bong Ho Son: “The Things Christians and Churches Should Confess” |
6/7/84 |
T134 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Harold Lindsell: “Prayer and the Advancement of the Gospel” |
6/7/84 |
T135 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Kundan Massey: “Opening Closed Doors” |
6/7/84 |
T136 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Jeannette Hawkinson: “Prayer for Non-Believers” |
6/7/84 |
T137 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Armin Gesswein: “Dynamics of Prayer Meeting Leadership” |
6/7/84 |
T138 |
C |
60 |
2 |
David Bryant: “Concerts of Prayer, Mobilizing a Movement of Prayer for the World” |
6/7/84 |
T139 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Iqbal Massey: “Women and Prayer Partners in Third World Evangelism” |
6/7/84 |
T140 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Jeannette Hawkinson: “Teaching People to Prayer” |
6/7/84 |
T141 |
C |
60 |
2 |
David Bryant: “Concerts of Prayer, Organizing a United Prayer Meeting for the World” |
6/8/84 |
T142 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Myung Hyuk Kim: “Prayer and Revival Movements in History” |
6/8/84 |
T143 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Dick Eastman: “Systematic Prayer for World Evangelization” #1 |
6/8/84 |
T144 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Dick Eastman: “Systematic Prayer for World Evangelization” #2 |
6/8/84 |
T145 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Harold Lindsell: “Prayer and International Representatives” |
6/8/84 |
T146 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Peter Beyerhaus: “The Spiritual Warfare in Intercession” |
6/8/84 |
T147 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Betty Barnett: “Prayer for Unreached People” (alternate title in program = “Pray & Unreached People”) |
6/8/84 |
T148 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Armin Gesswein: “The First Church” (possible alternate title from program = “The Early Church at Prayer”) |
6/8/84 |
T149 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Myung Hyuk Kim: “Prayer and Revival Movement in History” |
6/8/84 |
T150 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Kundan Massey: “Need of Prayer in Muslim Evangelism” |
6/8/84 |
T151 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Vonette Bright: “Organizing a National Prayer Movement” |
6/8/84 |
T152 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Jack Taylor: “Centrality of Praise” |
6/8/84 |
T153 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Gottfried Osei-Mensah: “Prayer and the Muslim World” |
6/8/84 |
T154 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Richard Lovelace: “Worldwide Spiritual Awakening” |
6/8/84 |
T155 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Paul Cedar: “Prayer Among Pastors” |
6/8/84 |
International Prayer Assembly: Pastor’s Special Seminar, 1984 |
|||||
T156 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Bill Bright: “Pastor’s Supernatural Living” |
6/6/84 |
T157 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Peter Beyerhaus: “The Generation of Western Theology and the Direction of Evangelical Theology” #1 |
6/7/84 |
T158 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Peter Beyerhaus: “The Generation of Western Theology and the Direction of Evangelical Theology” #2 |
6/7/84 |
T159 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Yoon Sun Park: “Pastor’s Spiritual Quality” (alternate title from program = “Pastor’s Spirituality”) |
6/7/84 |
T160 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Doo Sup Eom: “Pastor’s Prayer Life and Devotional Life” |
6/7/84 |
T161 |
C |
60 |
2 |
J. Edwin Orr: “Confession and Restitution” #1 |
6/8/84 |
T162 |
C |
60 |
2 |
J. Edwin Orr: “Confession and Restitution” #2 |
6/8/84 |
T163 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Harold Lindsell: “Eschatological Prayer Life and Evangelism” |
6/9/84 |
International Prayer Assembly: Women’s School of Prayer, 1984 |
|||||
T164 |
C |
90 |
2 |
side
1: Vonette Bright: “Women Influencing a Nation Through Prayer” |
6/6/84 |
T165 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Byung Eun Min: “Testimony” |
6/6/84 |
T166 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Miss Kee [Ki] Hyun Song: “The Problem of Unanswered Prayer” (possible additional title from program = “Developing a Clearer Focus of God”) |
6/6/84 |
T167 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Vonette Bright: “Intercessory Prayer” |
6/7/84 |
T168 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Yuon Gee [Yon Hee] Jeong: “Testimony” |
6/7/84 |
T169 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Vonette Bright: “Managing Your Time and Life” |
6/8/84 |
T170 |
C |
90 |
2 |
side
1: Bong Ho Son: “The Things Christians and Churches Should Confess” |
6/8/84 |
T171 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Soo Ji Kim: “Spiritual Nursing” |
6/8/84 |
T172 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Joy Dawson: “The Fruit of Revival” (alternate title from program = “Fruits of Revival”) |
6/8/84 |
International Prayer Assembly: Special Seminar for Japanese, 1984 |
|||||
T173 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Jeong Yon Hee: “Testimony” |
6/6/84 |
T174 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Joon Gon Kim: “My Prayer Experience” |
6/6/84 |
T175 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Nils Becker |
6/7/84 |
T176 |
C |
90 |
2 |
side
1: Jong Shik Kim: “Testimony” |
6/7/84 |
T177 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Kook Il Choi |
6/7/84 |
T178 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Il Lee |
6/8/84 |
T179 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Young Moo Lee: “Testimony” |
6/8/84 |
T180 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Doo Sub Um: “Christians Monastery Life” |
6/8/84 |
International Prayer Assembly: Special Seminar for Chinese, 1984 |
|||||
T181 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Eun Ah Koh [listed here in program as Ko Eun Ah]: “Testimony” |
6/6/84 |
T182 |
C |
90 |
2 |
Joon Gon Kim: “My Prayer Experience” |
6/7/84 |
International Prayer Assembly: Lectures unable to be located in program, 1984 |
|||||
T183 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Joon Gon Kim: “The Vision and Challenge of Korean for the World Evangelization” |
6/?/84 |
Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and Evangelization, 1985. The following recordings (T184 through T199), all cassettes, were recorded during the 1985 Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and Evangelization in Oslo, Norway. See accompanying folders 86-20,21 containing copies of the papers originally in a binder that refer to in these tapes as well as the names of those involved in the recorded discussions. NOTE: Tapes were recorded in such a way that side 2 of a given tape does not continue side 1 of that same tape. The listening order is as follows: T184 side 1, T185 side 1, T184 side 2, T185 side 2, T186 side 1, T187 side 1, T186 side 2, T187 side 2, etc. |
|||||
T184 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 1": Introduction to Bruce Nicolls’ paper. Discussion
about the preparatory work of the Spirit from Nicolls’ and J.I.
Packer’s papers as well as discussion about drafts of David Wells’
paper. |
5/28/85 |
T185 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 2": Continued discussion of David Wells’ drafts.
Splitting up into groups out from J.I. Packer’s six points. Discussion
about production of the book by David Wells. |
5/28/85 |
T186 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 5": Discussion of the six group reports on J.I. Packer’s
points continue. |
5/28/85 |
T187 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 6": Discussion of the six group reports on J.I. Packer’s
points continue. |
5/28/85 5/29/85 |
T188 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 9": Robert Godfrey’s comments on the presentation
of Calvin and the Reformed tradition. Hans-Jurgen Peters’ comments
on the forgetting of the Holy Spirit in mission. William Menzies’
comments on a Pentecostal perspective and discussion. Discussion about
whether or not the Pentecostal movement is in continuity with the Patristic
Fathers. |
5/29/85 |
T189 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 10": Continued discussion on whether or not the Pentecostal
movement is in continuity with the Patristic Fathers. |
5/29/85 5/30/85 |
T190 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 13": Gresford Chitemo presents his case-study on East African
revival and signs and wonders. John Wimber speaks on signs and wonders.
Panel discussion on signs and wonders. |
5/30/85 |
T191 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 14": Continuation of panel discussion on signs and wonders.
Open discussion on signs and wonders. |
5/30/85 |
T192 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 17": Continuation of discussion on demonic powers in the
world. Discussion on themes of John Wimber’s and Detmar Scheunemann’s
papers. |
5/30/85 |
T193 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 18": Continuation of discussion on themes of John Wimber’s
and Detmar Scheunemann’s papers. |
5/30/85 |
T194 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 21": Continuation of discussion on renewal of fellowship
and unity. Ada Lum presents her paper on evangelistic Bible studies. Johannes
Hasselhorn presents his paper on the Folk-Church of Germany. The beginning
of Leighton Ford’s presentation of his paper on evangelistic ministry. |
5/30/85 5/31/85 |
T195 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 22": Continuation of Leighton Ford’s presentation
of his paper on evangelistic ministry. Roberta Hestenes presents her paper
on personal spirituality. Peter Kuzmic’s responds to the theme of
holiness and lifestyle. |
5/31/85 |
T196 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 25": Report from the group discussing David Cook’s
paper on secularism. Report from the group discussing a special outpouring
of the Spirit in the end times. Report from the group discussing Myung
Hyuk Kim’s paper on revivals and preparation for revivals. Olof
Djurfeldt presents his paper on the use of printed media. |
5/31/85 |
T197 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 26": Continuation of Olof Djurfeldt’s presentation
of his paper on the use of printed media. Knut Jorgensen presents his
paper on the media in evangelization and discussion. |
5/31/85 6/1/85 |
T198 |
C |
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 29": Building up a new report from the consultation. |
6/1/85 |
T199 |
|
60 |
2 |
Side
1: “page 30": Building up a new report from the consultation. |
6/1/85 |
Communications Consultation, Zeist, Netherlands, 1986 |
|||||
T200 |
C |
|
|
1.
Engel Research |
[7/86] |
T201 |
C |
|
|
3.
Jim Engel - #170 - Afternoon begins - side 1 |
[7/86] |
T202 |
C |
|
|
5.
Tape #3 Side 1 - #325 - brainstorming ff |
[7/86] |
T203 |
|
|
|
7.
Tape 4- 5 Side 1 (afternoon) |
|
T204 |
C |
|
|
7.
Side 1 - Tape 5 (evening) |
7/5/86 |
T205 |
C |
|
|
Tape
1. Side 1: Briefing to Dutch Christian Leaders - Leighton Ford, John Reid,
Ajith Fernando |
7/9/86 |
T206 |
C |
|
|
Tape
2 |
N.D. |
T207 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: Thomas Wang - International Director’s report at Zeist - Executive
Committee - July ‘86 |
7/86 |
International Advisory Council meetings, Katwoude, Netherlands, 1986 |
|||||
T208 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: Bishop Hakon Anderson - first half of this side (first 10 min on other
tapes) |
7/22/86 |
T209 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: Bishop Hakon Anderson - first 5 min on 1side |
7/22/86 |
T210 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: Discussion - PM (Afternoon) |
7/22/86 |
T211 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: Discussion (Evening); also Tom Houston devotion |
7/22/86 |
T212 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: AM Discussion |
7/23/86 |
T213 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: AM Discussion |
7/23/86 |
T214 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: PM Discussion |
7/21/86 |
Leadership ‘88 Senior Advisory Committee meeting, 1986 |
|||||
T215 |
C |
60 |
|
[Tape 1] Welcome - Ted Engstrom, Leighton Ford, Glandion Carney |
12/3/86 |
T216 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 2] Time of Reflection - Roberta Hestenes; Devotions - Zimmerman |
12/3-4/ 1986 |
T217 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 3] What are the Challenges? - Charles Blair; Futures #1 - Bill Starr, James Earl Massey |
12/4/86 |
T218 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 4] Summary #1 - Carl Henry; Futures #2 - David McKenna |
12/4/86 |
T219 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 5] Futures #3 - Hudson Armerding |
12/4/86 |
T220 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 6] Futures #4 |
12/86 |
T221 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 7] Leighton Ford - Preliminary |
12/4/86 |
T222 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 8] Leighton Ford |
12/4/86 |
T223 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 9] Challenge - Leighton Ford |
12/5/86 |
T224 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 10] Input into Process |
12/5/85 |
T225 |
C |
|
|
[Tape 11] Press Conferience |
1986 |
T226 |
C |
|
|
Leadership 88 Pres Conference |
12/5/86 |
LCWE meeting, 1987 |
|||||
T227 |
R |
|
|
Billy Graham’s address to the LCWE Committee (see transcript in folder 95-5) |
1/13/87 |
T228 |
C |
|
|
Tape
1 |
1/18/87 |
T229 |
C |
|
|
Tape
2 |
1/19/87 |
T230 |
C |
|
|
Tape
3 |
1/19/87 |
T231 |
C |
|
|
Tape
4 |
1/19/87 |
T232 |
C |
|
|
Tape
5 |
1/19/87 |
T233 |
C |
|
|
Tape
6 |
1/20/87 |
T234 |
C |
|
|
Tape
7 |
1/20/87 |
T235 |
C |
|
|
Tape
8 |
1/20/87 |
T236 |
C |
|
|
Tape
9 |
1/20/87 |
T237 |
C |
|
|
Tape
10 |
1/21/87 |
T238 |
C |
|
|
Tape
12 |
1/22/87 |
T239 |
C |
|
|
Tape
13 |
1/22/87 |
T240 |
C |
|
|
Tape
14 |
1/22/87 |
T241 |
C |
|
|
Tape
15 |
1/22/87 |
T242 |
C |
|
|
Tape
16 |
1/22-23/ 1987 |
T243 |
C |
|
|
Tape
17 |
1/23/87 |
T244 |
C |
|
|
Tape
18 |
1/23/87 |
T245 |
C |
|
|
Tape
19 |
1/23/87 |
Miscellaneous |
|||||
T246 |
C |
|
2 |
Ray Bakke - 5/4/87 |
5/4/87 |
T247 |
C |
|
2 |
Prayer Rally #1 [National Day of Prayer Rally hosted by Leadership ‘88] |
1987? |
T248 |
C |
|
2 |
Prayer Rally #2 [Mentions in beginning praying for Leadership ‘87 and Leadership ‘88] |
1987? |
Singapore ‘87 |
|||||
T249 |
C |
|
|
Keynote Address - Brian Stiller |
6/1/87 |
T250 |
C |
|
|
Plenary Session |
1987 |
T251 |
C |
|
|
Reaching the Self-Sufficient - Susan Perlman & Ravi Zacharias |
1987 |
T252 |
C |
|
|
Working Together to Reach the World - Tokunboh Adeyemo |
1987 |
T253 |
C |
|
|
Concert of Prayer - David Bryan & Others |
1987 |
T254 |
C |
|
|
The Integrity of the Leader - John Ting |
6/2/87 |
T255 |
C |
|
|
Posterski & Brian Stiller |
6/2/87 |
T256 |
C |
|
|
Leadership - Brian Stiller & Kweku Hutchful |
6/3/87 |
T257 |
C |
|
|
The Leader and His Family - Colleen Townsend-Evans |
6/3/87 |
T258 |
C |
|
|
The Leader Needed for a Vision - Ramez Atallah |
6/4/87 |
T259 |
C |
|
|
Spiritual Warfare - Clive Calver |
6/4/87 |
T260 |
C |
|
|
Prayer - David Bryant |
6/5/87 |
T261 |
C |
|
|
Reaching Large Cities - Galo Vasquez |
6/9/87 |
LCWE Executive Committee meeting, 1988 |
|||||
T262 |
C |
|
|
Tues AM Tape #1 |
1/12/88 |
T263 |
C |
|
|
Tues AM Tape #2 |
1/12/88 |
T264 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: 2:30-3:15 |
1/12/88 |
T265 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: 4:05-7:25 (1) |
1/13/88 |
T266 |
C |
|
|
Side
1: Exposition 12/1 - 13/1 - 14.45 |
1988? |
T267 |
C |
9 |
2 |
Side
1: Leadership ‘88 - Message from Dr. Leighton Ford and Rev. Glandion
Carney |
1988? |
Stuttgart European Leaders Conference on World Evangelism (ELCOWE) meeting, 1988 |
|||||
T268 |
C |
|
|
Opening |
9/5/88 |
T269 |
C |
|
|
Morning |
9/6/88 |
T270 |
C |
|
|
Briekley / Theo Lehmann |
9/7/88 |
T271 |
C |
|
|
Anderson / Patrick Johnstone |
9/7/88 |
T272 |
C |
|
|
Virginia / Michael Griffiths |
9/8/88 |
T273 |
C |
|
|
Rolf Scheffbuch (conclusion) |
9/9/88 |
T274 |
C |
|
|
McTues / Rolf Scheffbuch |
9/9/88 |
Executive Committee meeting, 1988 |
|||||
T275 |
C |
|
|
Tape 1: Opening Session - Prayer, Info, International Director’s report |
12/12/88 |
T276 |
C |
|
|
Tape 2: Opening Meeting - Working Group reports |
12/88 |
T277 |
C |
|
|
Tape 3: Opening Session - Roger Parrott report / second day Ray Bakke / Ed Dayton |
12/12-13/ 88 |
T278 |
C |
|
|
Tape 4: Congress report - Ed Dayton, Brad Smith |
12/13/88 |
T279 |
C |
|
|
Tape 5: Congress Report (continued) Brad Smith / Ed Seabough / Joseph Sindorf |
12/13/88 |
T280 |
C |
|
|
Tape 6: Joseph Sindorf / Thomas Wang - China / Brad Smith - Participant Selection mix |
12/13/88 |
T281 |
C |
|
|
Tape 7: Congress Outcomes - Ed Dayton / Vonette Bright / Thomas Wang / Warwick Olsen |
12/13/88 |
T282 |
C |
|
|
Tape 8: Future |
12/14/88 |
T283 |
C |
|
|
Tape 9: Future |
12/14/88 |
T284 |
C |
|
|
Tape 10: Future |
12/14/88 |
T285 |
C |
|
|
Tape 11: Future |
12/15/88 |
T286 |
C |
|
|
Tape 12 |
12/15/88 |
T287 |
C |
|
|
Tape 13 |
12/15/88 |
T288 |
C |
|
|
Tape 14 |
12/15/88 |
T289 |
C |
|
|
Exec. Comm 12/16 |
12/16/88 |
T290 |
C |
|
|
Exec. Comm 12/16 |
12/16/88 |
T291 |
C |
12 |
2 |
Two slightly different versions of greetings from David Harley of the United Kingdon branch of the Lausanne Consultaton on Jewish Evangelism to the Unite States branch gathered for their annual meeting. Harley discusses the activites of LCJE International, LCJE Eurpe, his attndance of a LCWE bi-annual meeting, and possible projects for LCJE |
3/97 |
*****
LOCATION RECORD
Accession: 11-38
Type of Material: DVDs
The following items are located in box 7 in the DVD file.
# | Title | length | Producer | Content Description | date |
DVD1
|
Multiplying Resources for Children’s Ministry |
-- |
Global Children’s Forum | Collection of documents, videos, audio recordings and other materials intended to be used without charge as resources for children’s ministry in churches. Prepared especially for Cape Town 2010. Materials are in fourteen different languages (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Swahili, Russian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Arabic, Tamil, Telegu, Malaysian, Mandarin Chinese, and Indonesian) The number and type of resources vary from language to language, depending on what resources were available in that language. An explanatory booklet is included with disk, with a page in each language. |
9/2010 |
DVD2 |
Cape Town 2010 Videos | -- | The Lausanne Movement | Three Cape Town 2010 videos: Invitation (7 minutes), Explore our City (3 ½ minutes), Youth Music Video 3 ½ minutes). In PAL format. From folder 347-16. | 12/2008 |
DVD3 | The Lausanne Movement | -- | The Lausanne Movement | Compilation of documents, videos, photographs from the 2010 Congress, distributed to participants to use in their ministries. Materials are in seven different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Mandarin Chinese) Not all the materials are included for each language. The most complete set of materials is in the English folder. Besides material from the Congress, the disk also includes documents on the history of the Lausanne Movement. From folder 347-16. 10/2010 | 10/2020 |
DVD4 | The Global Day of Prayer, May 1-11, 2008 | -- | Global Day of Prayer | Video and documents about the plans for a 2008 Global Day of Prayer, a movement that originated in South African churches. From folder 336-5 | 2008 |
DVD5 | Lausanne Bi-Annual International Leadership Meeting - Budapes | -- | Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization | 21 audio files and 14 PowerPoint presentations from the Budapest meeting, including greetings from Billy Graham and John Stott, an introduction to Lausanne history by Douglas Birdsall, and descriptions of the plans for the 2010 Congress | 10/2007 |
DVD6 | -- | 103 | -- | Press conference held during the 2009 Biennial Lausanne Leadership Conference in Seoul, South Korea. Meeting was moderated by Dr. Kwang Soon Lee and included Jong Yun Lee, Douglas Birdsall, Hwa Yung, Daniel Kim, Lindsay Brown, Robyn Claydon, Chris Wright, and Ramez Atallah. The conference was mostly about the preparations for the Lausanne III conference. From folder 369-14 | 6/8/2009 |
DVD7 | -- | 15 | -- | Conclusion of Press conference. From folder 369-14 | 6/8/2009 |
DVD8 | Christ in the Souk | 6.5 | Produced for Cape Town 2010 by Sat7 | Video showing the growth, challenges and opportunities of the Christian church in Arab and Persian countries | 2010 |
DVD9 | Jesus | 122 | Inspirational Films | The Jesus film in 14 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, English, Farsi, Hausa, Hindi, Hindi, Indonesian, Kurdish (Sorani), Mandarin, Western Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Turkish, and Urdu. There are subtitles in English. There is also a brief introduction video. The sleeve for the DVD includes the label “the Lausanne Movement Diaspora DVD” | 2010 |
DVD10 | Magdalena: Released from Shame / The Story of Jesus for Children | 144 | Nardine Productions and Inspirational Films | Two films, the first about Mary Magdalene, the second retelling the Jesus film for children. Both films are in the eight languages of the Congress: Arabic, English, French, German, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. The films are subtitled in Chinese simplified; English; German; Korean, Russian; and Spanish: Castilian, Catalan, and Latin American. The sleeve for the DVD includes the label: “The Lausanne Movement” From folder 378-16. | 2010 |
DVD11 | Transforming Stories International Christian Film Festival South Africa | -- | Humble Pie Entertainment | Disk contains several trailers for the film festival which was held during the Congress, as well as trailers for twenty-three of the films shown during the festival and a complete documentary entitled Approaching Fire about the FireQuest Project. | 2010 |
DVD12 | Africa: Hope and Inspiration | 6 | Media Village Nigeria | Video describes the current situation of the Africa and Africa Christianity and expectations for her mission efforts in the future. The video includes many brief comments from African church leaders as well as ordinary Christians. It was shown at the Congress during the plenary 3 session on October 22nd. | 2010 |
DVD13 | World Vision Korea Children’s Choir Introduction | 5 | -- | Program describing the origins of the choir, its purpose and containing some its music. The video seems to have been made in 2000 and had a new tag added for the Congress | 2010 |
DVD14 | -- | 60 | -- | Three videos from the first day of the 2010 Congress: a film produced by Third Person Entertainment “Turning Points: Church & Mission From Pentecost to Edinburgh”, a video of participants in the Congress describing their expectations of the event, Douglas Birdsall on the history of the Lausanne Movement and the purpose and hopes of the Congress. English, French and Spanish versions on DVD. | 10/17/ 2010 |
DVD15 | Truth: Plenary I and II | 68 | -- | Videos from the 2010 Congress sessions on Truth: Bible study on expository preaching based on Ephesians 1 (Ajith Fernando), “Presenting the Truth in Europe (Herbst), “Presenting the Truth in Post-Communist China” (Yu), and “Why Truth Matters” (Os Guiness). English, French and Spanish versions on DVD. | 10/18/2010 |
DVD16 | Truth: Multiplexes A and D | 107 | -- | Video from the 2010 Congress sessions on Truth: Becky Pippert, Benjamin Kwashi, and Michael Ramsden speak on “A Fresh Approach to Witness in the 21st Century:” Mark Green, Jerry White, Mats Tunehag, and Timothy Lui speak on “People at Work: Preparing to Be the Whole Church.” English, French and Spanish versions on DVD. | 10/18/2010 |
DVD17 | Reconciliation; Plenary I and II | 102 | -- | Videos of the 2010 Congress plenary sessions on Ruth Padilla Deborst’s Bible study of Ephesians, a film entitled “Finding Hope and Peace in a Broken World “ and speakers on Reconciliation. These included Shadia Qubti and Dan Sered speaking on “Jewish-Palestinian Reconciliation,” Antoine Rutaysire on “Rediscovering the Gospel of Reconciliation,” Paranitha Timothy on “Human Trafficking,” Joseph D’souza on “Exploitation,” and Christine MacMillian on “Social Structures.” English, French and Spanish versions on DVD. | 10/19/2010 |
LOCATION RECORD
Type of material: Films
Accession: 91-14
The Archives has one copy of each film, in 16mm format, unless otherwise noted. The following items are in the FILM FILE:
# | b&w / color | length | title | description | date |
F1 |
color |
|
God’s Harambee |
Documentary film on 1976 Kenya evangelistic events. Researchers should used U-matic video copy on V34. |
n.d. |
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON WORLD EVANGELIZATION, 1974. Billy Graham
addressing Laustade evangelistic rally. 1974. 1 b&w.
*****
LOCATION RECORD
Accession: 78-28, 80-128, 91-14, 11-38
Type of material: Oversize Materials
The location of the following items is indicated in parentheses following the folder title.
PROCEDURE BOOK 2: SUNDAY RALLY; 1974, N.D. Two-color poster (purple and pink) in French, measuring 36" x 49.5", promoting the Sunday evangelistic rally in Lausanne, which was part of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization. From folder 27-18. (Previously Accession 1986.0102 in the BGC Museum collection; deaccessioned and transferred to Billy Graham Library, Charlotte, NC.)
PETERSON, JOHN, & ASSOCIATES; 1978-1980 (OS 24). COWE organizational chart, 1979. From folder 37-27.
PETERSON, JOHN & ASSOCIATES; 1978-1980 (OS 24). COWE organizational chart (preliminary), 1979.
PETERSON, JOHN & ASSOCIATES; 1978-1980 (OS 24). PERT chart, 1978, illustrating format being suggested to COWE executives for the planning process of the Consultation.
PETERSON, JOHN & ASSOCIATES; 1978-1980 (OS 24). PERT chart outlining entire COWE process, 3 parts, 1979?.
PETERSON, JOHN & ASSOCIATES; 1978-1980 (OS 24). PERT chart, outlining planning for the plenary and music processes of the COWE program. N.d.
PETERSON, JOHN & ASSOCIATES; 1978-1980 (OS 24). PERT chart, outlining planning for the COWE study group and mini-consultation processes. 1979.
(OS 24) "Penetrating the Last Frontiers" chart. 1978. Produced by Ralph Winter.
POSTERS; 1989 (OS 24) Posters from folder 235-23 promoting the Second International Congress on World Evangelization in Manila, 1989:
The Daily News: The Official Newspaper of Lausanne II in Manila. (OS 33) Eight issues of the daily Congress newspaper. 1989.
POSTERS; 2010 (OS 24). Two posters from Cape Town 2010, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.
• Full-color photo of Cape Town on white paper (with white border), urging prayer for the Cape Town 2010, also including the Congress logo and website (www.capetown2010.com), 16.5" W x 11.75" H.
• Inspirational poster with Congress theme verse (2 Corinthians 5:19): “God in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.” Printed on white paper in black type, the red Congress swoosh (symbolizing the blood of Christ shed for the world), the full-color logo, and the world map in light gray with the continents comprised of the biblical text in the eight Congress languages; surrounded by a light-gray border. 16.5" W x 11.75" H. 2 copies.
LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION - I. Loose pages of photo album consisting of photographs of LCWE members from various countries around the world. The photographs are clustered alphabetically by last name. Some photos were removed before the album was received by the Archives; dated notes were inserted to replace the removed photos. Photo album is undated but appears to have been compiled during the late 1970s or early 1980s, largely using photos taken during that period. 570 b&w, 26 color.
Isaac Abadio |
Daniel Bakhsh |
Fredrich Burklin |
Warren Cofsky |
Wesley Duwell |
Gerry Gallimore |
John Haurissa |
Goran Janzon Silawej
Kanjanamukda |
Marguerite Kraft |
Murdo MacLeod |
Arnold Mendis |
Lena Ng |
Seikku Paunonen |
Jack Rea |
James Scherer |
D.G. Stewart |
Iochim Tunga |
Nguy Wakadilo |
Frances Whitehead |
Samuel Wu |
LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION - II. Photo album in a binder with twenty photos (many glued to paper) in plastic sleeves, either large group photos or candids during deliberations. Among the meetings represented are:
• the 1976 meeting of the full LCWE committee in Atlanta
• the 1978 meeting of the full LCWE committee in Willowbank, Bermuda
• the 1976 executive committee meeting in Berlin
• the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization in Pattaya, Thailand
• the 1979 Strategy Working Group meeting in Monrovia, California
• the 1983 Communications Advisory Group meeting
• the 1982 Consultation on the Relationship Between Evangelism and Social Responsibility in
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Many individuals from these Lausanne Committee meetings are depicted (especially in the group pictures), including Fouad Accad, Harvie Conn, A. Jack Dain, Ed Dayton, Leighton Ford, Billy Graham, Tom Houston, Arthur Johnston, David Kitari, Peter Kuzmic, John Masuda, Bruce Nicholls, Gottfried Osei-Mensah, John Richard, Bong Ro, George Samuel, Ron Sider, Viggo Sogaard, John Stott, Dick Van Halsema, Peter Wagner, and James Wong. 18 b&w, 2 color. 1976-1983. (The binder of photos was donated by Gottfried Osei-Mensah.)
*****
LOCATION RECORD
Accession 78-28, 80-128, 80-174, 81-141, 89-100, 89-121, 91-14, 93-71, 95-182, 07-64
Type of material: Photographs
The following items are located in the PHOTO FILE; request by Folder Titles (in bold) at the beginning of each entry below.
ADAOVEH, DELA. 1 b&w.
ADENEY, MIRIAM. 1 b&w.
ADEYEMO, TOKUNBOH. 1 b&w portrait photo.
ALLEN, BRIAN. 1 b&w portrait photo.
ALPHONSE, MARTIN. 1 b&w portrait photo.
ANDREW, BROTHER. 1 b&w portrait photo.
ATHYAL, SAKHI. 1 b&w.
ATTALAH, RAMEZ. 1 b&w portrait photo.
BABA, PANYA. 1 b&w portrait photo.
BLUNCK, BRUNHILDE. 1 color.
BRAZILIAN CONGRESS ON EVANGELISM, 1983. 11 b&w. Various shots from the event. Included are shots of Manfred Grellert, Verjom Smith and Valdir Steuernagel.
BRIGHT, VONETTE. 2 b&w portrait photos.
BURROWS, EVA. 1 b&w portrait photo.
BUTLER, PHILL W. 1 b&w.
CASSIDY, MICHAEL. 1 b&w portrait photo.
CHAFIN, KENNETH. 1 b&w portrait photo.
CHOI, PHILEMON. 1 b&w.
CLAYDON, ROBYN. 1 b&w portrait photo.
COLSON, CHUCK. 1 b&w.
CONGRESS ON THE EVANGELIZATION OF THE CARIBBEAN, 1984. 5 b&w. Various shots from the event, with some detailed captions attached. Included are shots of Dave Ho, Claude Neol and Walford Thompson.
CONSULTATION ON JEWISH EVANGELISM, 1983. 13 b&w, 14 color. Various shots from the event, some with captions. Included are shots of Gerald Anderson, Arthur Glasser, David Harley, Ole Kvarme, Eric Lepson, Ron Lewis, Murdo MacLeod, Jhan Moskowitz, Susan Perlman, Moise Rosen, Joe Shulam, Gerald Suderson, Ilam Zamir.
CONSULTATION ON THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, 1985. 10 b&w. Various shots from the event, some with captions. Included are shots of Tokunbih Adeyemo, Tormod Engelsviken, Leighton Ford, Akira Izuta, Knut Jorgensen, Myung Hyuk Kim, Ada Lum, Bruce Nicholls, Emilio Nunez, James (J. I.) Packer, John Reid and David Wells.
COVELL, RALPH. 1 b&w of Covell speaking at a table microphone.
COWE: MINI-CONSULTATION COORDINATORS. 23 b6&w, 1 color. Photos include:
Bakke, Raymond |
Le Feuvre, R. Philip |
Punton, Jim |
COWE: SPEAKERS. 11 b&w. Speakers depicted include:
Chua, Wee Hian |
Nunez, Emilio Antonio |
Reid, John |
COWE: WHEATON OFFICE STAFF. 8 b&w. Staff featured include:
Athyal, Saphir
Howard, David
Howell, John R.
Liao, David
Rainey, Jane
Secrest, Lucinda L.
Struckmeyer, Rosemarie
COWE: PARTICIPANTS. 67 b&w, 2 color. Miscellaneous photos include:
Ariga Paul K. |
Engel, James |
Rader, Paul A. (Lt.
Col.)Rosen, Moishe |
COWE: DECLINES. 326 b&w, 8 color. Miscellaneous portrait photos of individuals invited to COWE who did not attend. Included among these are:
Accad, F.E. |
Emery, Alan C. Jr. |
Pannell, William E. |
DAWSON, JIM. 1 color.
DAYTON, ED. 1 b&w portrait photo.
DOUGLAS, ROBERT. 1 b&w.
ENGEL, JAMES F. 1 b&w.
EUBANK, ALLAN. 1 b&w.
EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON WORLD EVANGELISM (ELCOWE), 1988. 10 b&w. Various shots from the event in Stuttgart, Germany, some with captions. Included are shots of Ed Dayton, Horst Marquardt, Rolf Scheffbuch, Brad Smith, John Stott and Thomas Wang.
FERNANDO, AJITH. 3 b&w.
FORD, LEIGHTON. 4 b&w.
GRAHAM, BILLY. 1 b&w portrait photo.
GRAHAM, RUTH. 1 b&w.
GRAY, FRANK. 3 color.
GREENWAY, ROGER. 1 b&w.
GRIGG, VIV. 1 b&w.
GUINESS, OS. 1 b&w.
GUTIERREZ, EDNA LEE. 1 b&w, 1 color portrait photos.
HAMMOND, PETE. 1 b&w portrait photo.
HASSEY, JANETTE. 1b&w candid reprinted in publication.
HAYFORD, JACK. 1 b&w portrait photo. 1 color portrait photo.
HESTENES, ROBERTA. 1 b&w portrait photo.
HOKE, STEPHEN. 1 b&w.
HOPPLER, ARMIN. 1 b&w portrait photo.
HOUSTON ‘85: CONVOCATION ON EVANGELIZING ETHNIC AMERICA, 1985. 8 b&w. Various shots from the event. Included are shots of David D’Amico, Carl Johansson, Oscar Romo (convocation chairman), C. Peter Wagner, Ravi Zacharias.
HOUSTON, TOM. 1 b&w portrait photo.
IMBUYE, SARAH. 1 b&w.
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MEDIA COMMISSION (ICMC), N.D. 24 color. Various shots from the event, including of David Howard, Richard Crabb, Viggo Sogaard, and other unidentified participants.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR ITINERANT EVANGELISTS, 1983. 18 b&w. Various shots from the event, some with captions. Included are shots of street evangelism, participants, Bill Bright, Vonette Bright, Werner Burklin, Leighton Ford, Billy Graham, Billy Kim, Tom Houston, Luis Palau, Pat Robertson.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON WORLD EVANGELIZATION (ICOWE), 1974. 23 b&w, 2 color. Photos taken during the 1974 Congress in Lausanne, Switzerland. Included are shots of:
Billy Graham, Donald Hoke and Rene Padilla addressing the entire Congress, speakers' platform with A. Jack Dain, Billy Graham, Malcolm Muggeridge, Jack Dain and Billy Graham at the formal signing of the Congress covenant, small group meetings, press conference, Congress staff, Emilio Nunez, Corrie ten Boom, I. Ben Wati conferring with Byang Kato, regional group meetings of Indian and Japanese (includes Akira Hatori) participants, Laustade evangelistic rally, including Billy Graham speaking to the audience, Manuel Bonilla singing, and the audience and stadium.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON WORLD EVANGELIZATION II (LAUSANNE II). MANILA, 1989. (1 of 2) 78 b&w.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON WORLD EVANGELIZATION II (LAUSANNE II). MANILA, 1989. (2 of 2) 65 b&w.
INTERNATIONAL PRAYER ASSEMBLY (SEOUL, KOREA), 1984. 22 b&w. Various shots from the event, some with captions. Included are shots of Peter Beyerhaus, Bill Bright, Vonnette Bright, Chuck Colson, Kyung Chik Han, Joon Gon Kim, Cho Choon Park, Thomas Wang and unidentified speakers.
JENSEN, EVELYN. 1 color.
KERR, GRAHAM. 1 b&w portrait photo.
KERR, TREENA. 1 b&w portrait photo.
KIVENGERE, FESTO. 1 b&w portrait photo.
KIM, JOON GON. 1 b&w.
KLEUN, GLEN. 1 b&w.
KOH, VICTOR. 1 b&w.
KUZMIC, PETER. 2 b&w portrait photos.
LAUSANNE COMMITTEE FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION (LCWE). 2 b&w, 3 color. LCWE Meeting, Atlanta, 1976; group shot at transitional planning meeting in London, 1990. Includes candid photo of participants during a session. From folder 35-3.
LEADERSHIP ‘88, 1988. 11 color. Various shots from a planning committee meeting [?]. Included are shots of Glandion Carney, Robert Coleman, Ted Engstrom, Leighton Ford, Don Hoke, Brian Stiller, Tom Zimmerman and unidentified others.
LIM, AGNES TAT FONG. 1 color.
MADISON, FORD. 1 b&w portrait photo.
MALING, EDUARDO. 1 b&w portrait photo.
MALLISON, JOHN. 1 b&w.
MARQUARDT, HORST. 1 b&w.
MASSEY, IQBAL. 1 b&w.
MAYER, ARNOLD C., JR. 1 color.
McCLUNG, FLOYD. 1 color.
McKAUGHAN, PAUL. 1 b&w portrait photo.
MILLER, ERIC J. 1 color.
MOSVOLD, KRISTI. 1 b&w.
NEWTON, JIM. 1 b&w portrait photo.
OEHRIG, BOB. 1 b&w.
OSEI-MENSAH, GOTTFRIED. 6 b&w, posed shots.
O’BRIEN, WILLIAM. 1 b&w portrait photo.
O’HARE MEETING ON EVANGELISM, 1982. 1 b&w, 12 color. Various shots from the event, including of George Galis, J.D Golden, Paul Landry, Oscar Romo, C. Peter Wagner, Tom Zimmerman, and unidentified others.
OLFORD, STEPHEN. 1 b&w candid.
OTIS, GEORGE JR. 1 b&w portrait photo.
PACKER, J.I. 1 b&w portrait photo.
PAGE, NICK. 1 color.
PALAU, LUIS. 4 b&w. 1 candid and 2 of Palau’s 1989 evangelistic events in Guatemala City and Spokane, Washington.
PARROTT, ROGER. 1 b&w portrait photo.
PARZANY, ULRICH. 1 b&w portrait photo.
PENMAN, DAVID. 1 color portrait photo.
POLZER, WOLFGANG. 1 b&w.
SAMUEL, VINAY. 1 b&w portrait photo.
SCHEFFBUCH, ROLF. 2 b&w.
SEMINAR ON HUNGER AND POVERTY, THE CHRISTIAN'S MANDATE AND LIFESTYLE, 1979. 2 b&w. Shots of participants and speakers at conference in India, including R. G. Reuben, whose correspondence included the photographs. 2IC.
SIDER, RONALD J. 1 b&w.
SINDORF, JOSEPH. 1 b&w portrait photo.
SINGAPORE ‘87, 1987. 69 b&w, 15 color. Various shots from a planning committee meeting(s?), some with captions. Ramez Atallah, Clive Calver, Ajith Fernando, Leighton Ford, Kweku Hutchful, Susan Perlman, Brian Stiller, Galo Vasquez, Jun Vencer, and Ravi Zacharias, and unidentified others. Also a group shot of all the participants, ten proof sheets of all the participants (see folder PHOTO DIRECTORY for corresponding list of names), and forty-one proof sheets of 35mm photos of conference scenes, events, speakers, etc. (no accompanying negatives).
SIRE, JAMES W. 1 b&w photo.
SMITH, BRADFORD. 1 b&w portrait photo.
SOGAARD, VIGGO. 2 b&w portrait photos.
ST. CLAIR, BARRY. 1 b&w portrait photo.
STAUB, C. RICHARD. 1 b&w posed photo.
STILLER, BRIAN. 1 b&w portrait photo.
STOTT, JOHN. 1 b&w portrait photo.
TENG, PHILLIP. 1 b&w portrait photo.
TERRANOVA, CARMELO. 1 b&w portrait photo.
THAI FOLK DRAMA TROUPE. 1 b&w, 3 color. Publicity shots of troupe members in traditional Thai dress.
THOMPSON, VINCIE. 1 b&w.
TONG, STEPHEN. 1 b&w portrait photo.
TOURYAN, KENELL. 1 b&w.
WANG, THOMAS. 3 b&w portrait photos.
WARREN, RICK. 1 b&w.
WILSON, J. CHRISTY. 2 b&w.
WOODBERRY, J. DUDLEY. 1 b&w.
WORLD EVANGELIZATION INFORMATION SERVICE. 10 b&w. Various shots from unidentified Lausanne events or reflecting LCWE emphases, some with captions, probably for use in LCWE publications.
YAMAMORI, TETSUNAO. 1 b&w portrait photo.
ZIMMERMAN, THOMAS. 1 b&w portrait photo.
*****SLIDE FILE BOX 1:
S1 through S140. Series of 140 color slides from audio tape presentation, "That Everyone May
Hear," with emphasis on evangelizing unreached people groups (see the companion tape T17
described in the Audio Tape Location Record). Produced by Missions Advanced Research
Communications Center (MARC)
LOCATION RECORD
Type of material: Videos
Accession: 91-14, 91-16, 06-33, 06-40, 08-14, 11-38
The Archives has one copy of each video, unless otherwise noted. The following items are in the VIDEO FILE:
V1 |
VHS & U-matic |
30 |
untitled |
The video was apparently shot by the staff of the Congress for viewing on American television. Whether it was ever used is not known. The first segment on the tape consists of Ralph Bell interviewing a delegate from Ethiopia about the famine in that country and what Christians can do to help. The next segment consists of Bishop Festo Kivengere of Uganda speaking briefly about the Congress and then speaking at length about the need for Christians to witness to their faith and put it into practice. 2 copies. Probably made 7/24/1974. |
1974 |
V2 |
– |
– |
|
there is currently no V2 |
|
V3 |
U-matic |
45 |
Let the Earth Hear His Voice |
World Wide Productions (copied 1/11/89), featuring scenery and Congress shots, testimonies by participants, excerpts from plenary sessions with Billy Graham, John Stott, Donald McGavran, Francis Shaeffer, Festo Kivengere and others |
1974 |
V4 |
U-matic |
|
|
Ray Bakke speaking on urban evangelism issues at Urbana 84 |
1984 |
V5 |
VHS |
|
|
Cross Cultural Evangelism - Marney Patterson. [Taken from title screens: Diakonia 84 - Geneva Park International Conference Center - Orillia, Ontario - A Six Day Institute on Mission Evangelism for Experienced & Aspiring Missioners - Cross Cultural Evangelism - Rev. Marney Paterson - Founder and Honorary Chairman of Diakonia 84] |
1984? |
V7 |
VHS |
24 |
“To Move the World Through Prayer” |
A video report on the International Prayer Assembly for World Evangelism. LCWE in Korea. Emphasizes the role of prayer in revival and evangelism, with footage of speakers, prayer groups, Korean prayer style and prayer mountain experiences. Includes comments from Thomas Wang, Glenn Sheppard, Stephen Tong, Bill Bright, James E. Orr, Paul Cedar, Peter Beyerhaus, Evelyn Christensen, David Bryant, Richard Lovelace, Joon Gon Kim, Ben Jennings and other Korean leaders. Distributed by The Mass Media Ministry, Campus Crusade. |
6/1984 |
V8 |
VHS |
28 |
Winter is Past |
Documentary film made on location in the People’s Republic of China about Chinese Protestant Christians and churches today. Produced by Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. |
6/3/86 |
V9 |
VHS |
|
“Time” skit (& room for more skits) |
Sticky note on case: YWAM drama on sin and lostness (called “zion”) Please return to Kathy Sindorf - [2 dramas/skits on tape] |
n.d. |
V100 |
VHS |
70:00 |
|
Leighton Ford gives keynote address and then installs Wang as new LCWE international director; held at Callaway Gardens, Atlanta, Georgia, during the annual meetings of the full and executive committees of LCWE. Label reads “Ford’s keynote / Installation of Wang / Callaway.” |
1/19/87 |
V101 |
VHS |
62:10 |
|
Introduction of and address by newly inaugurated international director Thomas Wang; held at Callaway Gardens, Atlanta, Georgia, during the annual meetings of the full and executive committees of LCWE. Label reads “Thomas Wang Inaugural.” |
1/20/87 |
V102 |
VHS |
30 |
|
Final remarks by ? and worship at Callaway Gardens, message on Revelation, communion service, prayer; held at Callaway Gardens, Atlanta, Georgia, during the annual meetings of the full and executive committees of LCWE. Label reads “Final Evening Service at Callaway Gardens.” |
1/23/87 |
V10 |
U-matic |
|
|
Lausanne Committee For World Evangelism (LCWE) endorsements: Bill & Vonette Bright |
3/2/87 |
Singapore ‘87 (notes from tape labels) |
|||||
V11 |
PAL |
|
|
John Ting |
6/2/87 |
V12 |
PAL |
|
|
Colleen Townsend-Evans |
6/3/87 |
V13 |
PAL |
|
“The Leader Needed a Vision” |
Ramez Atallah |
6/4/87 |
V14 |
PAL |
|
“Reaching the Oppressed” |
Bel Magalit & Ceasar Molebatsi (Pt A) |
6/8/87 |
V15 |
PAL |
|
“Reaching the Oppressed” (Part B) / Reaching the Self-Sufficient (Part B) |
Caesar Molebatsi, Susan Perlman, and Ravi Zacharias |
6/8-9/87 |
V16 |
PAL |
|
“Reaching the Self-Sufficient” (Part A) |
Susan Perlman & Ravi Zacharias; also music |
6/9/87 |
V17 |
PAL |
|
|
Leighton Ford |
6/10/87 |
V18 |
VHS |
|
|
Brian Stiller & Kweku Hutchful |
6/3/87? |
V19 |
VHS |
|
|
David Bryant |
6/4/87? |
V20 |
VHS |
|
|
Ajith Fernando 1 |
6/3-5/87? |
V21 |
VHS |
|
|
Ajith Fernando 3 |
6/3-5/87 ? |
V22 |
VHS |
|
|
Clive Calver |
6/5/87? |
V23 |
VHS |
|
|
Peter Kuzmic 2 |