Records of Billy Graham Center, 1919-2007.

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Records of Billy Graham Center, 1919-2007.

Correspondence, proposals, reports, minutes, programs, publications brochures, budgets, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, and video tapes related to the founding of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College as a research and training center in evangelism, and its ongoing activities.

93 boxes (49.55 cubic feet)278 audio recordings94 video recording

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Graham, Billy, 1918-2018

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Evangelist, radio preacher, and author; born William Franklin Graham on November 18, 1918 in Charlotte, N.C.; graduated from Florida Bible Institute (1940 and Wheaton College (1943); ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, 1940; achieved national prominence in 1949 through his evangelistic meetings in Los Angeles; founded Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1952; had extensive evangelistic ministry throughout the world, 1949- ; authored many books and received many awards and honors; organiz...

Billy Graham Archive & Research Center

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Armerding, Hudson T.

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Weimer, Ferne

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Lorentzen, Mel

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Hoke, Donald E.

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Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

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Evangelistic organization, founded in 1950 to: operate Billy Graham's ministry in a business-like way; provide a non-profit entity to receive donations for crusades and related ministries; plan and coordinate evangelistic meetings throughout the world; and with its agents and subsidiaries produce radio and television programs, films DECISION magazine, and books and records. The BGEA was instrumental in: founding the magazine, CHRISTIANITY TODAY, and Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center; sponsor...

Billy Graham Center Institute for Chinese Studies

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Dorsett, Lyle W.

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Lyle Wesley Dorsett (1938- ) served as Professor of History at the University of Denver, Denver, Colo. from 1972-1983, specializing in urban history. He earned his Ph. D. in history from the University of Missouri in 1965. His dissertation on the political machine of Kansas City, Missouri Alderman Jim Pendergast was published in 1968 under the title, The Pendergast machine. He taught at the University of Missouri, The University of Southern California and the University of Colorado at Denver bef...

Coleman, Robert Emerson, 1928-

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Robert E. Coleman is an internationally known evangelist, author, and professor. His formal education was at Southwestern University (Georgetown, Tex.), Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, Ky.), Princeton Theological Seminary (N.J.), the University of Iowa, Biblical Seminary in New York, and Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) He served as a pastor of the Methodist Church from 1949-1955, and as a professor of evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary from 1955-1983, and since then at T...

Shoemaker, William J.

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Ford, Leighton

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Billy Graham Center Library.

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Billy Graham Center

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Center for research and training in evangelism; Billy Graham Evangelistic Association committee formed to gather historical materials related to Graham and the BGEA, 1970; concept developed into an institution consisting of 1) an archives, library, and a museum, all emphasizing the history of evangelism, particularly Graham's ministry and 2) institutes to provide leadership and training in evangelism; selected Wheaton College as the site for the center, 1974; dedicated in September 1980 when it ...

Kraakevik, James H.

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Billy Graham Center Museum.

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Elliot, Elisabeth

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Missionary, author, speaker, educator. Born December 21, 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, daughter of missionary parents; attended Wheaton College; worked with Colorado Indians in Ecuador; married Philip James "Jim" Elliot in 1953; one daughter born in 1955. After death of husband she worked with Auca and Quichua Indians. She returned to the U.S. in 1963 and wrote THROUGH GATES OF SPLENDOR and many other books and articles as well as lectured and taught, especially at Gordon-Conwell Theological Semina...

Hansen, Kenneth Norman

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Root, Jerry

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Johnston, David E.

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Billy Graham Center Institute of Strategic Evangelism

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Malik, Charles Habib, 1906-1987

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Lebanese diplomat, statesman, philosopher, and educator. From the description of Charles Habib Malik papers, 1888-1994 (bulk 1930-1982). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982032 Lebanese diplomat; president, United Nations General Assembly, 1958-1959. From the description of The United Nations as an ideological battleground : typescript, 1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122572515 Biographical Note ...

Strobel, Lee, 1952-

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Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

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Hymn writer; born in 1820; became blind shortly after birth; studied and taught at New York City Institution for the blind, where she achieved a reputation as a poet; was converted during a revival meeting, 1850; married blind musician and composer Alexander Van Alstyne, 1858; wrote first hymn, 1864; hymns were transcribed as dictated and published primarily by Bigelow and Main Company; wrote approximately 6,000 hymns; died 1915. From the description of Hymn lyric manuscripts of Fann...

Allison, Lon (Lon J.), 1952-

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Billy Graham Center Institute for Prison Ministries

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Wheaton College (Ill.)

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Nieves, Alvaro L.

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