Records of Mission Aviation Fellowship, 1944-[ongoing].

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Records of Mission Aviation Fellowship, 1944-[ongoing].

Office files of MAF, a mission agency that provided transportation, radio contact and other support to missions working in remote areas, as well as some services to non-mission agencies.

204 boxes (127.9 cubic feet)

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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...

Mellis, Charles

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Mission Aviation Fellowship

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Mission Aviation Fellowship founded 1944 as Christian Airmen's Missionary Fellowship; name changed to Missionary Aviation Fellowship, 1947, and to Mission Aviation Fellowship, 1973. From the description of Records of the Mission Aviation Fellowship, 1977-1981 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152480 Nondenominational agency providing aviation services to mission agencies; incorporated May 20, 1945; initially staffed by former World War II pilots; provide...

Truxton, James.

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Bennett, Charles T.

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Meyers, Max, 1935-

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McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956

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Parrott, Grady.

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Saint, Nathanael, 1923-1956.

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Fleming, Peter, -1956

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Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956

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Missionary; born on October 8, 1927; graduated from Wheaton College with highest honors in 1949; went to Ecudor in 1952, where he first worked in Shandia; married Elisabeth Howard, also a missionary in Ecuador; they had one daughter; efforts on January 8, 1956 to make contact with the Auca Indians resulted in Elliot's death along with Peter Fleming, Ed McCully, Nate Saint and Roger Youderian. From the description of Papers of Jim Elliot, 1941-1956. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record ...