This is a collection of articles, flyers, and printouts concerning the history and activities of the 24-7 Prayer Movement. The collection also includes information related to Campus America, which mobilizes students on campuses across North America to pray.
The Angwin Collection of Missions in the Pacific Northwest, 1802-1970 consists of articles, reprints and booklets concerning missions to the Pacific Northwest. Highlighted personalities are Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Sheldon Jackson, and Sue McBeth, the first unaccompanied woman missionary to...
The Papers from Apostolic Faith Mission is a small collection of manuscripts of sermons given by Florence Crawford (1872-1936) and her son Raymond R. Crawford (1891-1965). Prepared sermons were given at the Rose City and Woodstock Campground meetings, tent meetings...
The Papers of Margaret T Applegarth, 1886-1976 consist of the working files of the prolific speaker and writer, Margaret Applegarth. The collection includes clippings, booklets and notes used in Applegarth’s writing, speaking, and correspondence related to these ministries. Also included...
David W. Augsburger (August 14, 1938 - 2023) served as Dean of Fuller Seminary's Graduate School of Theology for the 2000-2001 academic year. He taught at Fuller Seminary as a professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling from 1990-2018. Augsburger's research...
The Gospel Music Collection of Kenneth S. Bates, 1953-2005 consists primarily of audio cassette tapes within the Gospel/Christian tradition, radio program recordings from 1980 to the mid 2000’s, a collection of Gospel LP recordings, and a modest number of compact...
The collection comprises microfiche copies of original material from Louis S. Bauman's personal files. Bauman (1875-1950) was born into a German Baptist home in Pennsylvania; his father became a leader in the Progressive Brethren Movement in the 1880s and Bauman...
The Berlin Fellowship Collection, 1952-2015 consists of physical and digital materials received from the Berlin Fellowship U.S.A. and Berlin Fellowship, Germany. The records document the activities of an informal group of Presbyterian laypeople and pastors who maintained an ecumenical visitation...
The collection consists of 88 boxes of material. Contents date throughout the 20th century, but mostly span the 1970s-1980s. The principal focus of the collection is the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement in the United States. The archival collection includes periodicals,...
Fred Bock (1939-1998) was a respected leader in Church music. He was a noted composer, arranger, clinician, studio musician, organist, pianist, choral director, and music publisher. This is a collection of his original manuscripts.
The Harald Bredesen Collection, 1962-2007 includes books, articles, tapes, news items, Prince of Peace Prize documents, awards, and audio and video recordings. Added materials include photos, collected publications, and correspondence.
Three generations of the Brougher family led the First Baptist Church of Glendale: James Whitcomb Brougher (b. Jan 7, 1870 – d. Nov 10, 1967), James Whitcomb Brougher Jr. (b. June 27, 1902 - d. July 2003) and Frank R....
The Papers of Colin Brown, 1953-2010 consists of materials related to the drafting and publication of Brown’s works as well as materials from Fuller Theological Seminary courses. It also includes his correspondence with Biblical scholars such as F.F. Bruce, Carl...
The Richard (Dick) E Brown II Collection, 1903-2008 consists of papers and recordings documenting the varied life of Rev Brown, a minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). These include wartime letters to family at home, a collection of...
The Cadle Tabernacle Audio Collection consists of 16-inch electrical transcriptions and compact discs (CDs) with audio transfers of "The Nation's Family Prayer Period" radio broadcasts. The original air dates range from c. 1939 - c.1941. Transfers to compact discs occured...
Arvid Fritiof Carlson (b. May 30, 1912 – d. June 22, 2006) joined Fuller Theological Seminary as Lecturer in Evangelism and Christian Life from 1950-1951. Lectures provided by Carlson and other colleagues supplemented the academic rigor at Fuller Seminary by...
The Edward John Carnell: Presidential Papers, 1954-2008 contain Seminary-related correspondence, addresses and papers of the second President (1954-1959) of Fuller Theological Seminary, Edward John Carnell.
The Charles E. Fuller Institute of Evangelism and Church Growth was a joint venture of Fuller Theological Seminary and the Fuller Evangelistic Association (FEA) from June 6, 1980 to June 13, 1992. The program sought to combine the interests and...
Children of the Day were a Christian musical band that formed during the Jesus Movement. The materials in this collection include files, music, and photographs.
The Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America (CLBA) is a denomination of Christians with theological roots in Lutheran pietism, and was originally located in the Midwestern United States. The Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America collection contains annual...
The Clemmer Collection of Emily Chubbuck Judson consists of Myrtle Clemmer’s research materials to develop a literary biography on Emily Chubbuck Judson for the series "United States Authors." The collection includes clippings, notes from books and archives, letters to archivists...
The Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO) was founded March 23, 1971. Its purpose was to bring various ministries together with a unified vision to minister to college students in cooperation with local churches. This collection documents the collaboration between the...
William B. Hogg (1880-1937) (alternative name Josiah Hopkins), while ministering with the Paul Rader organization in Los Angeles in 1933, felt called to establish a "country church" in the middle of Hollywood. He modeled it on the country church in...
Reverend Ben Thomson Cowles, PhD (1915 - ) is an ordained Presbyterian pastor and clinical psychologist. He served as missionary to China in 1946, and pastor to the St. John’s Community Presbyterian Church during the 1950s. The collection contains materials...
The Paul Dayhoff (1925- ) Collection documents Church of the Nazarene missions in southern Africa in the 20th century. Bulk dates range from 1952-2006. It contains data on 475 persons, mostly African nationals, who have been crucial to the development...
Donald W. Dayton (b. 1942 - May 2, 2020) was a professor of theology and ethics at North Park Seminary, Northern Baptist Seminary, Drew University, and Azusa Pacific University. He also served as President of the Wesleyan Theological Society and...
The James Dean collection contains papers related to the movie star, James Dean (1931-1955). Records include papers and memorabilia. There are a few items with images of Elvis Presley. Published works were separated from the archival material and catalogued as...
The collection contains some biographical details on Anthony DeGregorio but primarily consists of his extensive correspondence with Italian Pentecostal pioneers and the material he collected and used in the writing of ‘The Italian Christian Movement’. Included in his collection are...
Rev. Dr. Gary Demarest served as Director of Evangelism for the Presbyterian Church General Assembly in 1988, until his retirement in 1993. He has served in a variety of pastoral capacities, including pastor of the La Cañada Presbyterian Church (1965-1988)...
Melvin Easterday Dieter (b. 1924 – d. Oct 6, 2018) worked as the General Secretary of Educational Institutions of the Wesleyan Church and as a historian of the Wesleyan Holiness movement. Dieter assisted in the unification of the Pilgrim Holiness...
A. C. Dixon was a Baptist clergyman and writer. He served as pastor to churches in North Carolina, Maryland, New York, and Massachusetts and as minister to the Moody Church in Chicago and the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, England. The...
David du Plessis (February 7, 1905- February 2, 1987), known as “Mr. Pentecost,” was a South African Pentecostal minister and one of the primary founders of the 20th century charismatic movement. The collection include correspondence with global religious leaders and...
Francis Eisenmayer participated with Gideon’s International, serving alongside her husband Charles Eisenmayer. Charles Eisenmayer worked as an international trustee and the Gideon’s president of the Los Angeles Camp circa 1939.
The Lee Roy and Lucille Erickson Collection contains published and unpublished materials collected by Lee Roy and Lucille Erickson. Most materials relate to their involvement with: the Western District of the United Pentecostal Church; Apostolic Bible Church, St. Paul, Minnesota;...
A collection of Evangelical Christian ephemeral material used in churches and parachurch organizations to spread the Gospel message. Most of the material is from the mid-20th century. Some materials date from the late 1800s.
Rev. Gotthold H. Smukal organized St. John’s Lutheran Church in 1906 at E. 2nd and Dacotah Los Angeles, CA. Meetings of the Evangelical Lutheran School Association of Los Angeles were hosted at the church at least between 16 April 1913...
This is a small collection of newsletters Ewart received from Christian ministries as well as her personal notes, most notably the recounting of a 1975 vision and healing.
David William Faupel (1944- ) was president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies in 1992 and its Executive Secretary from 1996 to 2000. Faupel’s "The American Pentecostal Movement" (1972) was one of the first efforts to define the historiographical and...
The collection documents the history, organization, mission and principles of The Foundation for Community Encouragement. It presents the FCE through the eyes of both Sister Ellen Stephen and Dr. M. Scott Peck. The collection contains a series of publications –...
Professor Ruth Franzén is professor emeritas of Uppsala Universitet in Uppsala, Sweden. Her expertise centers in church history, with emphases on missionary Ruth Rouse (1872-1956), ecumencism, feminism, and historical missiology. The collection consists of clippings, photocopied articles and notes related...
The Papers of David Freymiller mainly consists of typed manuscripts of memoirs and notebooks. The Freymiller family participated with the Metropolitan Church Association (MCA) and its work within India during the 21st century. The collection includes the memoirs of Mabel...
The Fry Manuscript is a collection of writings from the life of Benjamin Wills Newton (12 December 1807 - 26 June 1899) with emphasis on the Plymouth Brethren in the 19th century.
Charles E. Fuller (1887-1969) was a pioneer of evangelism by radio and co-founder of Fuller Theological Seminary. The collection deals primarily with his radio ministries, the Pilgrims' Hour and the Old-Fashioned Revival Hour (OFRH), and the founding of Fuller Theological...
The Papers of Daniel Payton Fuller, 1928-2000 document the life and ministry of Daniel Payton Fuller (1928-2023), son of the founder of Fuller Theological Seminary, Charles E. Fuller. Included are Dr. Dan Fuller's course materials, sermons, correspondence, writings, Fuller Seminary...
The Henry Fuller Collection, an addition to the Charles E and Grace Payton Fuller Collection, 1885-1915 consists of personal and professional documents related to the Fuller family. Records include travel diaries, local newspaper clippings, correspondence, and weekly Sunday School lessons....
The Fuller Seminary, Early Institutional Papers, 1947-1973, contain records from Fuller’s administrative departments including the President’s Office, Registrar, Business Manager Office, Public Relations, News Bureau, and Library.
The oral history project was conducted under the leadership of Fuller Seminary Provost Sherwood Lingenfelter (2003-2011). Interviewees include faculty, staff, and Board of Trustee members who served the Fuller Seminary community from 1947-2006. The interviews are stored in digital format...
The Fuller Theological Seminary School of Theology Deans' Files, 1944- consists of the office files of Fuller Seminary Dean's Office (1947-1965) and the Dean's Office of the School of Theology (1965-Present). The "Dean Files" from 1947-1965 contains papers related to...
Paul W. Gaebelein Jr. (b. May 7, 1919 - d. 1997) served as a professor of Old Testament and Akkadian at Fuller Theological Seminary from 1987 – 1991. The Paul W. Gaebelein Jr. Collection contains correspondence, photographs, articles, newspaper clippings,...
Dr. Manuel Gaxiola (1927-2014) was an author and preliminary leader of the Iglesia Apostolica de la Fe en Cristo Jesús in Mexico. He served as president and presiding bishop of Mexico’s Iglesia Apostolica de la Fe en Cristo Jesús for...
The Richard J. Gehman Collection consists of meeting minutes of the Africa Inland Church and Theological Advisory Group as well as their topically associated publications. Topics focus on doctrinal theology within African contexts. Dates range from 1974-2008. Content is written...
Dean S. Gilliland (b. 1928 – d. 2013) taught in the Fuller Seminary School of World Mission from 1977 – 2011. His specializations included cross-cultural studies, contextualized theology, and African Studies. The Dean S. Gilliland collection includes class materials, conference...
The Glasser papers include Art Glasser's office files during his years as a Fuller faculty member, Dean of the School of World Mission, editor of Missiology and Dean Emeritus. The papers are especially rich in the areas of ministry in...
William “Billy” Graham (b. Nov. 7, 1918 – d. Feb. 21, 2018) was a prominent American evangelist and ordained Southern Baptist minister, who rose to international prominence in 1949-50. Graham served as a Fuller Seminary Board of Trustee member from...
This is a collection of the sermons of Robert E. Green who served as a pastor in the Methodist church for 34 years. Included are the Bulletins from Wall Street Methodist Church, Jeffersonville, Indiana from 1955 to 1957; First Methodist...
The collection began with a fragile scrapbook containing cutout Bible studies from The Christian Fundamentals Magazine. Many materials came from the New Testament course offered by Hadden in each issue, as well as the “Questions and Answers” section initialed H.N.B....
The Hamburger Collection of the Berlin Fellowship, 1950-2012 documents the history of a Christian work-camp program called World Deputation, which gave birth to the Berlin Fellowship. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, team reports and other documents involved in the...
Papers of U.S. Congressman Brooks Hays are held in several repositories including the JFK Library in Boston, the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives in Nashville, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., Rutgers...
The Papers of David Allan Hubbard, 1928-1996 documents David Allan Hubbard’s career as professor, author and evangelical leader, as well as the development of Fuller Theological Seminary from 1963 to 1993. The collection begins with Hubbard’s daily appointment diaries, followed...
David Allan Hubbard was President of Fuller Theological Seminary from 1963 to 1993. This collection of the President’s papers as gathered, stored and preserved by his assistants at the Seminary in Pasadena, complements Collection 18: Papers of David Allan Hubbard,...
John G. Huber (1929- ) is retired minister in the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, referring to himself as an “ecumenthusiast.” Since attending the Oberlin Faith and Order Meeting of 1957, he has been involved in a scope of local and...
The archival collection consists of one box of papers regarding the Free Methodist Church and personal papers on dairy farming. Dates range from 1930-1975.
The Papers of Evelyn Jensen consists of Dr. Evelyn Jensen’s academic course material and book manuscripts. Topics focus on doctrinal theology, gender roles, and women in missions and ministry. Records also include Jensen’s travel notes and journal. Dates range from...
The Jesus People movement was a social phenomenon in Christianity beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960's and spreading primarily through North America and Europe, before dying out by the early 1980's. The Jesus...
The Charles Edwin Jones Collection at Fuller Theological Seminary includes both printed and archival materials. The printed collection is an extensive corpus of materials documenting the Holiness, Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, as well as the contexts in which these traditions...
The Reverend Fred C. Kennedy (1931-) and his first wife Eleanor founded Woodforest Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas, in 1959. He published “The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves” from sermons prepared for the Woodforest Presbyterian Church congregation. The collection contains...
Jack and Anna Kerr have been longtime members of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood in California during the later 20th century. The collection contains materials related to the Kerrs’ family histories as well as the 20th century ministry and...
The F. Ross Kinsler Theological Education by Extension Collection, 1964-2013 consists of correspondence, educational pamphlets, seminar records, reports, memos, and ephemera related to the Theological Education by Extension movement. Records are directly related to the program and curricular development in...
Charles H. Kraft (b.1932) is an American anthropologist, linguist, and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Intercultural Communication in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. The bulk of the collection includes materials related to Charles...
Dr. George Eldon Ladd (1911 - 1982) joined the Fuller Seminary faculty in 1950 as one of its first professors of New Testament theology. Dr. Ladd's academic work emphasizing Historic Premillennialism challenged the more widely held evangelical view supporting Dispensationalism....
The Barbara Lewis collection is filled with research and letters particularly focused on people groups within Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. Specific topics include Afghanistan refugees, health care, social contexts, and women. Research materials were utilized Lewis’ private study...
The collection consists of sermons by Raymond I. Lindquist during his time at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood in Los Angeles, California from 1953 – 1971 and a couple of sermons from when he returned as guest preacher in 1972....
Sherwood Lingenfelter (b. November 18, 1941) served as Fuller Theological Seminary’s,Dean of the School of World Mission from 1999-2003 and Provost from 2003 – 2011. The Sherwood Lingenfelter collection collection includes research materials regarding the indigenous peoples of the Yap...
The Papers of Robert C. Lodwick contains one box of records related to the World Alliance of Reformed Churches 23rd General Council (Debrecen, Hungary, 1997). Reverend Robert C. Lodwick served as Coordinator. The records include correspondence, bible studies, press releases,...
Howard J. Loewen (b. 1945 – ) worked as Fuller Seminary’s Dean of the School of Theology from 2001 – 2014, and since then, has been a senior member of the Center for Advance Theological Studies (CATS) faculty as a...
An oral history project undertaken in 2000 by Pastor Rik L. Stevenson, this collection consists of three VHS recordings, and eight transcriptions of interviews with a total of nine black ministers from eight Los Angeles Churches. The interviews are on...
The Los Angeles Black Church Oral History Project collection consists of three VHS recordings, and eight transcriptions of interviews from nine black ministers from churches in Los Angeles, CA. Rick Stevenson conducted the project in 2000. Interviews address the particular...
Robert E. MacMaster was a prominent historian of Russian History and Literature. His major work, “Danilevsky: A Russian Totalitarian Philosopher,” is the only full-scale biography on the controversial, yet very significant Russian philosopher of the 19th century. The collection contains...
The Robert E MacMaster Collection, 1919-2008 contains research materials used by Dr. Robert E. MacMaster including extensive notes, research materials, personal notes and personal letters. Research areas focus on Russian history and literature with subjects including Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and...
The Papers of Henry Ashley Madge contain two box of typed and handwritten manuscripts of “The Healing of the Christian Church” and “The Ministry of Christ’s Healing” (1969). The collection also contains correspondence and handwritten notes. Dates range from 1962-1984....
Dr. H. Newton Malony Jr. (1931 - ) is a clinical psychologist who taught in the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Seminary since 1969. He has written or edited over 35 books related to the academic disciplines of theology,...
Bryan and Mercedes Marleaux serve as 20th-21st century missionary evangelists, primarily in Baja, Mexico as well as Sweden, Spain, England, Germany, Norway, France, Latvia, Japan, and Argentina. Their non-profit organization Grace World Mission incoroporates power evangelism and a focus on...
Joseph Mattsson-Bozé became a leader in the "Latter Rain," a splinter movement within Pentecostalism in the 1940s and 1950s. His papers range in date from 1933 to the early 1970s. Materials include correspondence with significant figures in classical independent Pentecostal...
MC510 was a course that took place at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA from 1982-1985 under the leadership of John Wimber and C. Peter Wagner. The course was approved in Fall 1981 and given the name “Signs, Wonders, & Church...
James William McClendon Jr. (b. Mar 6, 1924 – d. Oct 30, 2000) was a Christian systematic theologian in the Southern Baptist tradition. His pioneering "Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today's Theology" (Abingdon, 1974, Trinity Press, 1990)...
Correspondence between the Dean of the School of World Mission of Fuller Theological Seminary, Donald McGavran and the founder of Jews for Jesus, Moishe Rosen....
Donald McGavran (Dec 15, 1897 - July 10, 1990), also known as “the Father of the Church Growth Movement,” was the founding Dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary. The microfilm collection contains copies of documents...
Correspondence between the Dean of the School of World Mission of Fuller Theological Seminary, Donald McGavran and the founder of Jews for Jesus, Moishe Rosen.
The collection consists of 10 boxes of material, approximately 5 linear feet. The bulk of the collection covers the 1970s and 1980s. The principal focus of the collection is the audio recordings of Charles McPheeters. Formats in the collection are...
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944) was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist, faith healer, and founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (known as the Foursquare Church). The small collection consists of a scrapbook, full...
The Missionary Rest Colony on Mission Road, Glendale, CA (c.1920-2005) was built as a community for visiting Christian missionaries, regardless of ecclesiastical denomination or nationality. In 2005, MEK Associates, Inc owned the property and had the buildings deconstructed to support...
Robert H. Mitchell (1921- 2002) studied landscaping at the University of Redlands, but after his conversion, influenced by Henrietta Mears, gravitated toward church music, graduating with a B.A. in Music from the University of Redlands (1947). Throughout his career, including...
The Monastery of the Risen Christ was a Benedictine Monastery that started as a “mission” from Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery, Pecos, New Mexico in 1987 by Fr. Ray Roh OSB. The communities participated in the Catholic Charismatic renewal. This...
Egla Lopez Montero (b. Oct 17, 1943 – d. Jan 6, 2000) worked as a member of the Latin American Apostolic movement as a missionary to Panama for eleven years and later within her local churches in the southwest United...
The collection comprises microfiche copies of original material from Dr. John Warwick Montgomery's personal files. JOHN WARWICK MONTGOMERY is considered by many to be the foremost living apologist for biblical Christianity. He Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities, University of...
The collection comprises microfiche copies of original material from the personal manuscript collection of Edgar Young Mullins. The collection contains primarily personal and professional correspondence from Mullins' student days in the 1880s until his death in 1928 as president of...
Author of the bestselling booklet, “My Heart, Christ's Home,” (1954, 2005) with over eleven million copies in print, Robert Boyd Munger (1910-2001) served as pastor at South Hollywood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles (1936-1945), First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California...
Photocopies of the preparation documents and documents produced at the 1957 Faith & Order Meeting at Oberlin, Ohio on the theme of "The Nature of the Unity We Seek." The collection includes an invitation and promo CD for the 50...
Photocopies of the preparation documents and documents produced at the 1957 Faith & Order Meeting at Oberlin, Ohio on the theme of "The Nature of the Unity We Seek." The collection includes an invitation and promo CD for the 50th...
The Harold John Ockenga: Presidential Papers, 1929-1977 contains correspondence, addresses and papers of the founding President of Fuller Theological Seminary, Harold John Ockenga, as well as his correspondence as a Trustee of the Seminary. It also includes the record of...
The Lloyd John Ogilvie Collection, 1958-2006 documents the ministry of Lloyd John Ogilvie with a special focus on his church pastorates, the “Let God Love You” media ministry, and his service as 61st Chaplain to the United States Senate. The...
The Old Fashioned Revival Hour and Joyful Sound Audio Collection contains the broadcast recordings of Charles E Fuller (1887-1968), one of the leading Christian radio evangelists of the 20th century and co-founder of Fuller Theological Seminary. The collection contains an...
The Osborn collection consists of audio and video tapes recording the messages and lessons of T. L. and Daisy Osborn and their daughter LaDonna Osborn. Also included are Manuals for the Life Discovery Bible Institute Bible Study Course. Titles include...
The Papers of William E. Pannell, 1929-2015 contain personal records related to his time with Thomas Skinner Associates, Inc., Fuller Theological Seminary, and the Obsidian Society. His collection includes articles, sermons, and papers related to race issues and the African...
This collection consists of over 4,000 audio tapes (contact the archives for a full list) dating from 1949 to 2004 and 5 linear feet of papers related to the conferences he taped from 1972 to 1998, as well as papers...
The Papers of M. Scott Peck features copies of his books in 25 translations, published reviews of his books, several published magazine and newspaper articles as well as interviews including accounts of Scott Peck’s life and work, and many of...
Duane Pederson (1938-), a key figure in the Jesus Movement, was raised in Minnesota and moved to California to pursue a career as an entertainer. He started the Hollywood Free Paper (HPF) in 1969 as a Christian response to the...
Ephemera and other materials collected by former archivists during their time at Fuller Theological Seminary Archives and Special Collections. Materials pertain to the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Evangelical movements. Material related to the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada is also included. Bulk...
Nazarene missionary Floyd Jerry Perkins (1924 - Nov 14, 2008) was born in Bertha, Minnesota to a family of Christian and Missionary Alliance members. The Floyd Perkins Collection documents the life and ministry of Nazarene missionary Floyd Perkins and his...
The Mary Phillips Collection includes course material and audio recordings from Fuller Seminary classes and materials related to the Free Methodist Church. Specific academic courses include Paul Jewett’s “Systematic Theology” and Daniel P. Fuller’s “Unity of the Bible.” Dates range...
The Philothean Fellowship Collection, 1947-1961 consists of access and original copies of scrapbooks and notebooks kept by members of the Fuller Theological Seminary student wives’ group, the Philothean Fellowship. The scrapbooks include photographs, postcard invitations to Seminary social events and...
Patricia Pickard, a lifelong Pentecostal from Bangor, Maine, has been an avid collector of Christian materials for many years, with particular interest in the Pentecostal movement in New England and New Brunswick. She also collected a wide range of material...
Robert Willard Pierce (b. October 8, 1914 - d. September 6, 1978) founded World Vision International in 1950 and Samaritan’s Purse in 1970. “Dr. Bob” is also known for founding the globally recognized Korean Orphans Choir (later renamed “Korean Children’s...
Dr. Paul Pierson (b. February 13, 1927 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American theologian; former Dean of Fuller Seminary’s School of World Mission (1980-1992); and associate provost (1992-1993). He specialized as the Professor of History of Mission and Latin...
Dr. Frank Neil Pohorlak (1907-1988) was an ordained minister, Bible scholar, and editor of various Christian periodical publications. The Frank Neil Pohorlak Collection includes correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, and Bible teaching materials. Published works include Concordant Press publications, pamphlets, and other...
The collection comprises microfiche copies of original material from Paul Pressler's personal files. Pressler (b.1930-) is a retired justice of the Texas 14th Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston, Texas. Pressler also contributed to the conservative resurgence of the Southern...
Ramabai Dongre Medhavi, known as Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922), was an Indian evangelist, social reformer, Bible translator and theologian. She was a noted Sanskrit scholar as a child. Ramabai converted to Christianity in 1883, and became women's rights and social reform...
Ralph Rath (May 22, 1932 - August 12, 2019) was a Roman Catholic journalist. The collection includes Ralph Rath’s essays, articles and booklets. Materials also include conference programs, booklets, and magazines related to the Charismatic renewal in the Catholic Church...
John R. Rice (1895-1980) was a noted pastor, evangelist, author and publisher. He was a key leader in the second generation of Fundamentalism, a critic of the RSV, Billy Graham and the New Evangelicals of Fuller Theological Seminary. His ministry...
Cinematographer Frederick Almartin Roberts (1926-2004) produced over 100 film and video projects for various missions, churches, and commercial organizations throughout the 21st century. His most well-known film is Peace Child, produced in 1973 in collaboration with writer/director Rolf Forsberg. This...
Archibald Thomas Robertson (1863-1934), a New Testament scholar, founded the Baptist World Alliance in 1900. He published forty-five books, including “Word Pictures in the New Testament” and “A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in Light of Historical Research.” The...
The collection comprises microfiche copies of original material from John R. Sampey's personal files. John R. Sampey (1863-1946) served as the fifth president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1929-1942) and taught Old Testament at the seminary from 1885 till...
R. Daniel Shaw joined the Fuller Seminary School of World Mission faculty in 1982. Areas of expertise include social anthropology, cognitive anthropology, anthropology of mission, Bible translation, communication theory, and qualitative research methods. The R. Daniel Shaw Collection contains Daniel...
Dr. Philip Shen (b. June 17, 1931- d. August 5, 2004) was Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Dean of the University of Hong Kong (China). Dr. Shen worked as the consultant of the Chinese (HK) Origami Society since 1991....
Wilbert Shenk (1935 - ), noted missiologist and author, joined the School of Intercultural Studies faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary in 1995. As of 2019, Dr. Shenk taught as Senior Professor of Mission History and Contemporary Culture. Shenk’s areas of...
The Papers of Samuel Robert Skivington consists of lecture notes, course notes, and class readings of the Conservative Baptist Bible College, Fuller Seminary, and Asian Theological Seminary. Topics focus on missions and doctrinal theology as applied within a Filipino community...
Dr. Lewis Benedictus Smedes (August 20, 1921 - December 19, 2002) taught Christian Ethics and Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Dr. Smedes played a key role in the Seminary's integration of its psychology and theology academic disciplines. The Papers include...
Keith Eugene Smith was a pastor with the Church of the Nazarene and a historian of the movement in Maine. The collection includes his files, notes and papers as a student at Nazarene Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1952, the...
Olive Bertha Smith (1888-1988) served as a Southern Baptist foreign missionary and prayer center founder. Missionary of the Southern Baptist Convention, Miss Bertha, served as missionary to China from 1917-1948 and as the SBC's first missionary to Taiwan from 1948-1958....
This collection documents the ministries, family life and literary career of Fuller Seminary founding faculty member Wilbur Moorehead Smith. The centerpiece of the collection is his extensive correspondence with family, colleagues and publishers, dating from 1915 through 1972. Many of...
This is a collection of Biblical Posters done in an Indian style, the work of Sister Claire, SMMI. The collection contains prints marked Series 1, 1-140, printed in Bangalore: N.B.C.L.C.
The Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS) is a scholarly association devoted to the academic study of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements and related traditions. Fuller Seminary is designated as the official depository of the society. Holdings include administrative papers, financial...
The Southern California Church and Christian Non-Profit Organizations Material consists of bulletins from local churches and retreat centers, articles on religion, and religious ephemera from Southern California. Included organizations range in denomination and theological affiliation, including Lake Avenue Congregational Church,...
The Southern California Ecumenical Council is a regional body representing churches, denominations, related ministries and other ecclesiastical communities who cooperate to promote responsible and creative expressions of Christian unity and witness. These records of the Southern California Ecumenical Council from...
The Southern California Renewal Communities (SCRC) organization is an official ministry of the Los Angeles Archdiocese in California to foster and support charistmatic renewal within the Catholic community. SCRC began as a charismatic prayer group at Loyola University in 1970....
This is a collection of Biblical Posters done in an Indian style, the work of Sister Claire, SMMI, a pioneer in Indian Christian art. The collection contains prints marked Series 1, 1-140, printed in Bangalore: N.B.C.L.C. In addition to the...
Dr. Glen Harold Stassen (b. Feb 29, 1936 – d. April 25, 2019) was a Southern Baptist theologian who championed social-justice in the 1980s Evangelical community; advanced nuclear disarmament talks; and co-authored the widely used Christian ethics textbook, "Kingdom Ethics:...
The Reverend George “Wally” Stearns was an activist for peace in the Middle East. This is a collection of articles, letters and petitions related to various aspects of the conflicts in the Middle East from 1976 to 2005.
James S. Stewart (1896 – 1990) was ordained into the Church of Scotland in 1924 and served in three successive churches over a span of 23 years. Stewart then served as Chair of New Testament Language, Literature, and Theology at...
The collection comprises microfiche copies of original material from Lyman Stewart's personal papers. Lyman Stewart (1840-1923) was the founder and longtime president of Union Oil Company, Christian philanthropist, and co-founder of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University).
The Harry & Susan Strachan, R. Kenneth & Elizabeth Strachan, and W. Dayton & Grace Roberts Archival Collection consists of personal papers, notebooks, journals, files, and correspondence. Contents are in English and Spanish languages.
The collection comprises microfiche copies of original material from the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions housed at Yale University's Divinity Library. The papers document the activities of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and provide information on various...
Billy Sunday (1862-1935) was a professional baseball player before his conversion at the Pacific Garden Rescue Mission and subsequent career as an evangelist. Renowned for his theatrical antics on the platform and his organizational abilities, Sunday contributed significantly to the...
Under the leadership of James William McClendon (1924-2000) a Congress on Systematic Theology was held at Fuller Theological Seminary in 1993. The collection consists of two boxes of papers related to the Lilly grant which made this Congress possible, as...
The Temple of the People was founded in Syracuse, NY in 1898 by Francia A. La Due and William H. Dower. It is a continuation of the Theosophical teachings of Madame H.P. Blavatsky, a work carried on by William Quan...
The collection includes five bound volumes, Theogenesis, From the Mountaintop in three volumes, and Temple Messages, all published by The Temple of the People, Halcyon, California, as well as post cards, six pamphlets on spiritual themes and two brochures about...
William Hill Topping (b.1885) served as a missionary in Foochow, China from November 1911-1947 supported by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He served as a teacher, District Secretary and Associate General Secretary of the Mid-Fukien Synod of...
A resident of Pasadena, California, William L. Troyer (1863 – 1955) was an itinerant preacher for the Pilgrim Holiness Church, a Los Angeles prison chaplain, Bible class teacher, and a handyman for members of his congregation and neighbors. He kept...
The collection comprises microfiche copies of original material from George W. Truett's personal manuscript collection. Truett (1867-1944), Southern Baptist pastor and fund raiser in Texas, was ordained in 1890. He served as financial agent to Baylor University; he later enrolled...
The papers of Frances Ure (1890-1987) provide insight into the role of women in the Pentecostal movement. Ure grew up in Pittsburgh and received her theological training from Washington Female Seminary in 1910. She was converted through the ministry of...
Charles Van Engen is the Arthur F. Glasser Professor Emeritus of Biblical Theology of Mission and Senior Professor of Biblical Theology of Mission and has taught in the School of Intercultural Studies since 1988. This collection contains some of Dr....
John Monroe Vayhinger (b. January 27, 1916 – d. June 11, 2006) worked as a psychotherapist, diplomate (American Board of Assessment Psychology), evangelist, educator, and ordained pastor in the Methodist Church. The John Monroe Vayhinger Collection contains research material, notes,...
Henry Venn (February 10, 1796 - January 13, 1873) was honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841 to 1873. He expounded the basic principles of indigenous Christian missions later addressed and made widespread by the Lausanne Congress of...
Manuel J. Vizcarra (b. Dec 6, 1924 – d. April 7, 2003) served as the eighth Bishop President of the Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus from 1968-1994, and the first Bishop President of the Apostolic Assembly in...
Charles Peter Wagner (b. Aug.15, 1930 – d. Oct.21, 2016) worked as Professor of Church Growth at Fuller Seminary's School of World Mission (SWM) from 1971-2001. He authored 80 books, was the founding president of Global Harvest Ministries from 1993-2011,...
Andrew Finlay Walls (b.1928) is a British historian of missions, particularly related to the history of the African church and World Christianity. The collection contains audio recordings of lectures by Andrew F. Walls, recorded live at Overseas Ministries Study Center,...
James Washington (1948-1997) was an ordained Baptist minister, and an Associate Professor of History at Union Theological Seminary, New York. As part of James Melvin Washington’s effort to document and interpret the role of African Americans in the contexts of...
Betty Ann Wagner (died c.2012) started Wayfarer's Ministries in 1979. Wayfarer’s Ministries was created to help with small needs overlooked by larger missions organizations. This is a collection of Betty Ann Wagner’s newsletters, called “Wayfarers Ministry” newsletter, or Monthly Report...
Francis Wayland was a Baptist clergyman and the pastor of First Baptist Church, Boston from 1821-1826. In 1825 he participated in the founding of Newton Theological Institution (became Andover Newton), for the training of pastors for American Baptist Churches. The...
This collection includes 16 linear feet of correspondence, organizational documents, minutes, membership records, audio tapes, microfilm, and conference papers. Also included is a full run of "Wesleyan Theological Journal."
Cutler Whitwell (1882-1968) was an executive with the Standard Oil Company of California until he felt led to resign that post and preach the Gospel. During the late 1920s, he was dean at BIOLA. The Cutler Whitwell Diaries record the...
Ms. Helena Wiebe, Alumna Fuller Theological Seminary class of 1981, collected ephemera materials from her travels and from abroad over the span of four decades. She gave these materials with brief descriptions. The materials in this collection range from the...
Jackson Burton Wilcox (b. June 16, 1918 – d. November 14, 2013) was an American Baptist pastor, artist, writer, and editor with a ministry career spanning over six decades. He served in eleven churches, including St. Paul, MN; Aberdeen, WA;...
Jean Stone Willans (b. 1924) was a primary catalyst of the Charismatic Renewal. The Blessed Trinity Society was organized in 1960 to promote the renewal. It served as the supporting institution that brought Jean Stone to hundreds of churches, colleges,...
J. Dudley Woodberry (b. 1934 - ) is considered one of the foremost Christian scholars on Islamic culture and religion. Dr. Woodberry has served as consultant on the Mulsim world to President Carter, the U.S. State Department, USAID, and...
The World Conference on Faith and Order (founded 1910) is a conference for what became the Faith and Order Commission, an assembly within the World Council of Churches (founded 1948). The collection comprises microfilm copies of original minutes of Faith...
World Vision International is an Evangelical Christian non-governmental organization that provides humanitarian assistance and advocacy across the globe. The World Vision International Collection consists of memos, reports, and research materials related to Stephen Commins’ work as Director of Policy...
The Worldwide Church of God (WCG), with headquarters in Pasadena, California, was officially begun in Oregon in 1934 by Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986). The collection includes materials related to Denzler and other Worldwide Church of God members who questioned the...
The Basil Miller Foundation was founded in 1950 in Altadena, California. Its name changed to World-Wide Missions in 1960. Statement of purpose - “Religious, charitable, benevolent...to promote production and distribution of Christian literature, to further the training of ministers and...