Records of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

Collection 46 [September 29, 2008]
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization; 1974-
Records; 1949, 1969-1994
285 boxes (238 DC, 45 RC, 2 ODC); Audio Tapes, Film, Negatives, Oversize Material, Photo Album, Photographs, Slides, Video Tapes (151.9 cubic feet)

Brief description: Correspondence, minutes, memos, reports, manuscripts of speeches, press releases, newsletters, staff manuals, audio and video tapes of sponsored events, photographs of events and personnel, and other administrative materials. The Committee grew out of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization. Its basic doctrinal statement was the Lausanne Covenant and it had the mission “to encourage and stimulate the involvement of churches, denominations, ministries, networks and individuals in the cause of world evangelization.” It was predominantly an Evangelical Protestant movement and operated through a small staff, a variety of commissions and periodic meetings on a regional and global level. Recorded in the documents are the early planning for the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization (ICOWE), the creation of the Lausanne Continuation Committee in 1974 that established as the Lausanne Committee (LCWE) in 1976, the activities during the terms of the chief executive officers (Chairman, Executive Secretary, Executive Director, International Director, Treasurer and others) in Charlotte (1974-1992), Nairobi (1975-1980), London (1980-1984), Singapore (1987-1988), Pasadena (1987-1989), Manila (1989), especially the large and small international congresses and consultations sponsored by the Committee (such as the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization and 1989 Lausanne II Congress in Manila, Philippines), and cooperative projects around the world.

Restrictions: The following parts of this collection are restricted and cannot be used without written permission until the date noted:

Requests for permission to use the above files should be directed to (does not apply to the Billy Graham files listed below):
                        S. Douglas Birdsall, Executive Chairman of the Lausanne Committee
                        PO Box 2404
                        South Hamilton, MA 01982
Forms to be used for requesting permission should be obtained from the Reading Room staff.

The following files are closed during the lifetime of Billy Graham: Folders 37-17, 157-2

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	Leighton Ford, Chairman. 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.

1974-1984	Gottfried Osei-Mensah, Executive Secretary. Born in 1934 in Ghana; received his B.Sc. degree at Birmingham University in England; worked as a sales engineer with Mobil Oil, 1960-1965; served the Pan-African Fellowship of Evangelical Students as Traveling Secretary, 1966-1971; pastor of Nairobi Baptist Church in Kenya, 1971-1975; elected Chairman of the Executive Committee for the 1976 Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly in Nairobi, 1975. In 1975, prior to the establishment of LCWE, Osei-Mensah was elected Executive Secretary of the Lausanne Continuation Committee and continued in that post in the LCWE. Osei-Mensah presented plenary addresses at both the 1974 ICOWE and 1980 COWE. He transferred to London with the opening of the LCWE international headquarters there and continued as the Executive Secretary until his retirement in 1984.
1974-1984	A. Jack Dain, Chairman of Lausanne Continuation Committee (1974-1976), LCWE member (1976-1978), LCWE General Coordinator (1982-1984). Dain was born in England in 1912; studied at the Wolverhampton Grammar School and served as a Lieutenant Commander in the British Royal Navy; worked as a missionary in India; served in London as the Overseas Secretary for the Evangelical Alliance; between 1959 and 1965, acted as the Federal Secretary for the Church Missionary Society of Australia in Sydney; in 1965 he assumed new responsibilities as the Assistant Bishop for the Diocese of Sydney in the Church of England in Australia; was Co-Chairman of the 1968 Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism held in Singapore. In 1972 he was appointed Chairman of the ICOWE's Planning Committee and subsequently as the Executive Chairman of ICOWE. Following the Congress he was selected to be the Chairman of the Lausanne Continuation Committee, a post which he filled until the LCWE was established in 1976, although he continued as a member of the Lausanne Committee until his retirement in 1978. At that time he was voted an Honorary Life Member of the Committee. Dain was also involved in the 1980 Thailand Consultation, both as a member of the Participant Selection Committee, and as the Coordinator of the Commission on Cooperation for World Evangelization. In 1982, Dain was given a two-year assignment as LCWE's general co-ordinator, which he carried out in London until 1984, while also fulfilling duties for his church in Sydney, Australia. In 1984 he returned to Sydney to resume his duties there on a full-time basis. Dain also contributed to the BGEA’s work in Australia by being the Chairman of the BGEA of Australia, which included being involved in the BGEA's 1968 Sydney Crusade as one of two Vice-Chairman on the Executive Committee; eleven years later he served as the Chairman of the 1979 Crusade, also in Sydney. Dain also served as the International Chairman of Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship, and authored books and articles. Dain died in 2003.
1976-1989	Donald Hoke, Treasurer
2004-	Douglas Birdsall, Executive 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	1997-?
		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
		David Claydon	2002-2004
		Tetsunao “Ted” Yamamori	2004-
	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 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

Lausanne Committee members (some alternates later became regular members and their names therefore appear in both lists)
	Rev. Lucien Accad Rev. Pierre Allard Rev. Francisco Anabalon Bishop Haikon E. Anderson Mr. Pedro Arana-Quiroz Dr. Saphir Athyal Mr. Ramez Atallah Mr. Menahem Benhayim Dr. Peter Beyerhaus Rev. Henri Blocher Dr. Dirinda Marini Bodho Mr. Wim Bouw Mrs. Vonette Bright Rev. Clive Calver Rev. Brian Carrell Mr. Michael Cassidy Mr. Ruben Nestor Proietti Cavallero Dr. Paul Cedar Dr. Chun Chae Ok Dr. Kenneth Chafin Rev. David Chan Dr. Lawrence Chia	Mr. Jonathan Chiu Dr. Chongnahm Cho Dr. Philemon Choi Mr. Alain Choiquier Bishop Sundar Clarke Dr. Wade T. Coggins Dr. Robert Coleman Mr. Charles Colson Dr. R. Robert Cunville Pastor ma Djongwe Daidanso (other entry has last two names flipped) Rev. Rene Daidanso Rev. Joshua Daimoi Bishop A. Jack Dain (honorary lifetime member) Mr. Ed Dayton (ex officio) Rev. Antoine Deeb Miss Nancy Leigh DeMoss Mr. Paul Eshleman Dr. Nilson do Amaral Fanini Mr. Ajith Fernando Rev. Tulio Barros Ferreira
	Dr. Leighton Ford Rev. Bruno Frigoli Rev. Shin Funaki Rev. Andrew Furuyama Rev. Gerry Gallimore Rev. Mariano di Gangi Mrs Emmy Gichinga Mr. Juan Gili Rt. Rev. David Gitari Mr. Hartmut Richard Glaser (ex-officio) Rev. Geziel Nunes Gomes Dr. Billy Graham Rev. Dr. Michael Griffiths Rev. Dr. Akira Hatori Rev. Jack Hayford Dr. Michael Haynes Dr. Edward Hill Diakon Fritz Hoffmann Dr. C. Bill Hogue (ex officio) Dr. Donald E. Hoke Mr. Armin Hoppler Dr. Josip Horak Rev. Tom Houston Dr. George Hunter III Mr. Kweku Hutchful Dr. Chow Lien Hwa Rev. Juan M. Isais Dr. Abdul Istafanous Rev. Akira Izuta Rt. Rev. Bashir Jiwan Rev. James Katarikawe Dr. Byang Kato Dr. James Kennedy Mr. B. U. Khokhar Bishop Festo Kivengere Mr. A. T. Victor Koh Rev. Peter Kuzmic Mrs. Oknah Kim Lah Mr. Gordon T. Landreth Miss Ellie Lau Mrs. Oknah Kim Lay Dr. Jong Yun Lee Rev. Samuel O. Libert Dr. Harold Lindsell Dr. Branko Lovrec Rev. Fergus Macdonald	Mr. Costas Macris Mr. Fred Magbanua Mrs. M. Mapalieij-Mantik Dr. Chris Marantika Dr. Dirinda Marini-Bodho Mr. Horst Marquardt Mr. Albert Marulanda Dr. James Massey Rev. John J. Matulessy Mr. John McInnes Dr. Billy Melvin Dr. Jesse Miranda Mr. Jose Missena Dr. W. Stanley Mooneyham Rev. David H. Moore Miss Kirsti Mosvold Rev. Inoke Nabulivou Rev. Makram Naguib Dr. Claude Noel Mr. Agne Nordlander Dr. Emilio Antonio Nunez Rev. Petrus Octavianus Rev. Sam Odunaike Rev. Samuel Olson Mr. Warwick Olson Dr. Nathaniel Olutimayin Rev. Marcelino Ortiz The Rev. Gottfried Osei-Mensah Rev. Reiji Oyama Rev. Luis Palau Dr. Cho-Choon Park Rev. Seiku Paunonen Dr. Pablo E. Perez Miss Susan Perlman Mr. Michael P. Perrott Rev. Ted Raedeke Bishop John R. Reid Mr. D. John Richard Ing Eduardo Ruan Mr. Hans-Guenter Sachse Rev. Subhas Sangma Bishop N. D. A. Samuel Rev. Jonathan F. Santos Rev. Willi Sartorius Dekan Rolf Scheffbuch Mr. Peter Schneider
	Rev. Manuel L. Scott Rev. Antonio da Silva Mr. Gilberto da Silva Rev. Eliseu Simeao Mr. Simon H. Sircar Mr. Victor Smadja Rev. Alfredo Smith Rev. Brian Stiller Rev. John R.W. Stott Rev. Dr. Philip Teng Mrs. Juliet Thomas Mr. John Tooke Bishop Erling Utnem Dr. C. Peter Wagner	Rev. Thomas Wang Miss Esther Waruiru Dr. I. Ben Wati Dr. Warren Webster Dr. David Wells Miss Ursula Wiesemann Dr. Ralph Winter Rev. Theodore Williams Rev. Canon James Wong Miss Florence Yeboah Pastor Lee Joon Yun Dr. Thomas Zimmerman Rev. Isaac Zokoue

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 Dates: July 16-25 Attendance: 2,300 leaders from 150 countries Purpose: See narrative below Honorary Chairman: Billy Graham Director: Donald Hoke Associate Director: Paul Little Executive Chairman: A.J. Dain Chairman of Planning Committee: A.J. Dain Chairman of Program Committee: Leighton Ford 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 Dates: May 31-June 2 Attendance: 10 participants, 27 consultants Purpose: Addressed the controversial church growth philosophy’s implications on world evangelization; sponsored by the Theology and Education Working Group Moderator: John Stott
1978	Willowbank or Gospel and Culture Consultation, Bermuda Dates: January 6-13 Attendance: 33 theologians, anthropologists, linguists, missionaries and pastors Purpose: Examine the interrelation between the gospel and culture and the implications for missions and evangelism, and identify tools for more effective communication. Sponsored by the Theology and Education Working Group, co-sponsored by the Strategy Working Group Chairman: John Stott Coordinator: Peter Savage
1978	North American Conference on Muslim Evangelization, Glen Eyrie, CO Dates: October 15-21 Attendance: 150 Purpose: Focus on reaching these unreached Muslim peoples and to explore the wide range of implications of the Gospel in their Islamic cultures. Director: Don McCurry
1979	U.S. Simple Lifestyle Consultation, in Ventnor, NJ Dates: Apr. 25-29, 1979 Attendance: 100-125 Purpose: Prepare findings for the 1980 international consultation, define criteria for choosing a simple lifestyle and developing the personal Christian life and character needed to adopt the lifestyle Director: Ron Sider
1980	International Simple Lifestyle Consultation, London, 1980 Dates: March 17-21 Attendance: 85 evangelical leaders from 27 countries Purpose: “Study simple living in relation to evangelism, relief and justice, since all three are mentioned in the Lausanne Covenant's sentences on simple life-style” Coordinator: Ron Sider
1980	Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE), Pattaya, Thailand Dates: June 16-27 Attendance: 650 invited participants, 300 observers Honorary Chairman: Billy Graham Chairman: Leighton Ford Director: David Howard Program Director: Saphir Athyal Director of Communications: Stan Izon Director of Operations: John Howell 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 Dates: Simultaneous with Consultation Purpose: Consider the biblical basis for working together in world evangelization, the theological implications of cooperation, and the strategic and methodological application of this. Chairman: Billy Graham Coordinator: A.J. Dain Secretary: Chua Wee Hian
1981	American Festival of Evangelism Dates: July 27-30 Attendance: 14,500 Purpose: Reflect on and train for the evangelization of the United States Chairman: Thomas Zimmerman Executive Director: Paul Benjamin
1982	Consultation on the Relationship between Evangelism and Social Responsibility (CRESR), Grand Rapids Dates: June 19-25 Attendance: 51 ex officio individuals, participants invited on a regional basis, and consultants from various fields of expertise. Co-sponsored by the LCWE and World Evangelical Fellowship Purpose: Determine the interrelationship and appropriate balance between proclaiming the gospel and addressing social needs Co-Chairman: Gottfried Osei-Mensah Co-Chairman: Bong Rin Ro Co-Chairman: John Stott Coordinator: Dick Van Halsema
1984	International Prayer Assembly for World Evangelization, Seoul Dates: June 6-11 Attendance: 2,987 Purpose: Pray, mobilize prayer movements, build international networks, promote the role of prayer in world evangelization Chairman: Vonette Bright Chair of Finance Committee: William R. Randall International Coordinator: Jen A. Jennings Program Chair: Thomas Wang
1985	Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization, Oslo Dates: May 28-June 1 Attendance: 67 participants, observers and staff from 71 nations Purpose: Explore issues raised by biblical studies and contemporary experiences of the Holy Spirit in relation to evangelism and church renewal; co-sponsored by the LCWE Theology Working Group and Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship Chairman: John R. Reid Coordinator: Tormod Engelsviken
1986	Third Consultation on Jewish Evangelism, Easneye, England Dates: August 19-27 Attendance: approximately 160 from 17 nations Purpose: Affirm “the importance and necessity of evangelism directed at Jewish people” International Coordinator: C. David Harley
1987	Singapore '87 (International Conference for Younger/Emerging Christian Leaders) Dates: June 1-10 Attendance: Approximately 300 from 67 nations Purpose: “Bring together key younger/emerging leaders from various countries around the world” to provide networking, stimulate evangelism and raise awareness of resources and innovative ideas Chairman: Brian C. Stiller Program Coordinator: Ramez Atallah
1988	Leadership '88 (the U.S. Conference for Emerging/Younger Leaders) Dates: June 27-July 1 Attendance: 2,000 Purpose: “Encourage and equip emerging Christian leaders in the United States to take aggressive leadership to complete the Great Commission in this generation” Chairman: Glandion Carney Vice Chairman: Mike Aldrich Executive Director: Bill Ditewig
1989	International Congress on World Evangelization, Second, Manila, Philippines (also called Lausanne II) Dates: July 11-20, 1989 Attendance: 4,300 in attendance from 173 countries Purpose: "Proclaim Christ until He Comes: Calling the Whole Church to Take the Whole Gospel to the Whole World” (congress theme) Chairman: Leighton Ford Deputy Chairman: Donald Hoke Congress Coordinator: Paul McKaughan Program Advisory Committee Chairman: Ramez Atallah Program Chairman: Paul McKaughan, Saphir Athyal Program Director: Ed Dayton International Participant Selection Committee Chairman: A.J. Dain Media Director: Jim Newton Executive Vice President & Operations Director: Ricardo Jumawan Plenary session topics: Site: Initially envisioned to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, the site of the first Congress; later announced to be held in Singapore but then relocated to Manila in mid-1988 due to construction conflicts in Singapore.
1990	Moscow Congress on Evangelization Dates: October 22-26, 1990 Attendance: 850 Soviet and 150 non-Soviet participants Purpose: The inspiration for the event came from Soviet participants at Lausanne II a year earlier who were eager to utilize the opportunities in light of greater freedoms in the USSR
2004	Forum on World Evangelization, Pattaya, Thailand Dates: September 29-October 5 Attendance: Over 1,500 Christian leaders from around the world Purpose: Focus on the task of global evangelism as a working consultation with leaders exchanging information and ideas before attending the September gathering. Chairman: Roger Parrott
2006	Lausanne Young Leaders Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Dates: September 24-30 Attendance: 550 young leaders from 112 countries Theme: “Live and Lead Like Jesus” Purpose: Examine opportunities and barriers to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and challenge young leaders to make the most of God’s calling on their life

Outline of Collection Arrangement. The collection is arranged according to the following series:

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.

Consultation on World Evangelization (COWE), 1980 (folders 45-16, 46-52,53,54, audio tapes T5-T16, T19-T41

Consultation on the Work of the Holy Spirit and Evangelization, 1985 (folders 86-20,21, audio tapes T184-T199)

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, no records)
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)
Notes: There are no records currently in this subseries

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, no records)
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
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
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 2^nd Chinese Congress on World Evangelization

Subseries II.B.4: Conferences
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Range: 1979-1989
Volume: 2.4 cubic feet
Boxes: 144-150
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:

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:

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
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
Notes: There are no records currently in this subseries

Subseries II.E.: David Claydon
Notes: There are no records currently in this subseries

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: 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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.B: Simple Lifestyle Consultations
Arrangement: The records are further subdivided as follows:
1.         Combined Consultations
2.         International Consultation
3.         U.S. Consultation
Date Range: 1977-1980
Volume: 1.0 cubic feet
Boxes: 36
Type of documents: Primarily correspondence
Correspondents: Sider, Mark Cerbone, 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. 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.

Subseries V.B.1: Combined Consultations (folders 36-1 and 2); 1978-1980.
Exceptional items: The combined subseries is small, and consists of 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.

Subseries V.B.2: International Consultation (folders 36-3 through 34); 1977-1980. Exceptional items: The International Consultation 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.

Subseries V.B.3: U.S. Consultation (folders 36-35 through 50); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: 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.

Subseries V.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 V.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 V.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.

Subseries V.C.1.b: Participants (folders 37-40 through 39-20); 1977-1980.
Exceptional items: Because participants were invited based on recommendations rather than accepted by application to the Consultation, COWE utitlized a selection process to deal with all the names suggested. These files detail the process of selection of those to be invited to participate in the Consultation, ranging from correspondence from LCWE representatives making recommendations of participants to lists of those from the world's geographical regions. These files include subsections arranged by geographical regions, denominations, and special categories such as "women".

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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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:

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 V.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 V.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 41-47 on Henry Holley provides additional information related to the assistance he gave in making contacts on behalf of COWE and paving the way for Howard's visit, which grew out of Holley's recommendations from his trip. The file includes Holley's itinerary, letters to all those he contacted, and the report on his trip which he submitted to Leighton Ford.

Subseries V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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:

The files also contain items of a background or strategy nature, a few of which are highlighted below:

"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.

Subseries V.C.2.c: Program Committee (folders 45-47 through 56); 1978-1980.
Exceptional items: The Program Committee met numerous times between January 1979 and the Consultation in June 1980 to prepare for the meeting, with its focus on the study group/Mini-Consultation input and the plenary sessions. Folders 45-47 through 45-56 document these, consisting principally of agenda, minutes and pre-meeting correspondence.

Subseries V.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 V.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:

Subseries V.C.2.f: COWE Program (folders 46-17 through 46-50, and 47-22); 1978-1980.
Exceptional items: This subsection deals largely with the plans for the plenary sessions and Bible expositions of the Consultation. The contents range from preliminary discussion of the overall framework of the sessions and what topics to address (folder 46-17) to copies of some of the papers for the expositions (folders 46-18,19).

Leighton Ford's welcoming remarks to the Thai government representative is also included. The texts of additional papers, stored separately because copied on legal sized paper are located in folder 47-22; in some cases, overlap is due to variant editions of a paper. Included among these are:

Reactions to, reflections on and recommendations for various papers were received by the COWE office. These are located in folder 46-27.

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 V.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 V.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.

Subseries V.C.2.i: Convener's Reports (folders 47-1 through 21); 1980.
Exceptional items: The position papers noted in the previous section were compilations prepared by the international coordinators of reports submitted by the conveners of the study groups throughout the world. Folders 47-1 through 47-18 contain these reports for each of the various study groups. These files are particularly rich in cultural information and reflection on the obstacles to and strategy for evangelizing the various people groups under study, offering an almost dizzying array of studies on specific groups in specific countries. The following list outlines the reports available. Folder 47-20 also contains a number of reports which were intended for distribution at the Consultation.

Reaching Buddhists (folder 47-1): "A Point of Conduct (sic) Between Japan-Buddhism and Christianity"

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".

There are also reports from Brazil, Bogata (folder 47-20), Finland, Germany (in German), North Korea, United Kingdom and Zambia.

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.

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):

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.

The file also includes a report from Malawi and another on work in a predominantly Muslim environment in Borneo.

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 V.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 V.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 V.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 V.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.

Subseries V.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 V.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.

Subseries V.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 V.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.

Subseries V.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 V.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.

Series VI: 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 VI.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 VI.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 VI.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 VI.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 VII. 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 VIII. 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 IX. 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.

The materials in this collection were received by the Center from a variety of Lausanne Committee sources, 1978-1996.

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: December 19, 2006
Accessions: 91-14, 93-71, 96-50
Paul A. Ericksen
J. Anderson
T. Gulsvig
J. Wells

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 Consultants	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
Type of Material: Audio Tapes
The following items are located in the AUDIO TAPE file.

Box-Folder #	Date Restriction Removed
37-31	February 14, 2033
58-8	February 14, 2008
92-3	December 31, 2020
97-12	during the lifetime of Vic Glavach
103-9,10	December 31, 2020
106-13	December 31, 2020
168-8	December 31, 2055
169-1,2,3	December 31, 2055
all contents of boxes 170-197	December 31, 2069
198-1,2	December 31, 2069

Lausanne Committee alternates (some alternates later became regular members and their names therefore appear in both lists)
	Mr. Isaac Ababio Mr. Fouad Accad Dr. Tokunboh Adeyemo Dr. Bukovsky Akos Miss Claire-lise de Benoit Dr. Akos Bukovsky Mr. Luis Bush Mr. Robinson Cavalcanti Rev. Paul Cedar Rev. Jonathan Chao Right Rev. Luke Chhoa Mrs. Nancy Clark Rev. David Claydon Rev. David Cohen Rev. Ian Christopher Coffey Rev. Loren Cunningham Rev. Philippe Decorvet Mr. Petru Dugulescu Rev. Fawz Emish Mr. Eric Gay Mr. Juan Gili Rev. Jose Grau Dr. Robert Hamblin Dr. Stephen Hayner Dr. Michael Haynes Dr. Cyril Horak Rev. Tom Houston	Rev. Simone Ibrahim Rev. R. D. Karthak Mr. Jay Kessler Dr. F. S. Khair-Ullah Dr. MEngi K. Kilandamoko Dr. Dennis Kinlaw Dr. Erwin J Kolb Dr. Theodore Lehmann Dr. Ford Madison Dr. Isabelo F. Magalit Mr. Fred Magbanua Mr. Horst Marquardt Mrs. Igbal Kundan Massey Dr. James Massey Dr. Kuntukula Kilandamoko Mengi Mr. Caesar B. Molebatsi Rev. Mardoqueo Munoz Pastor Victor Musa Mr. Michael Nazir-Ali Mr. Emilio Antonio Nunez Rev. Sam Odunaike Dr. John Olley Mr. Samuel A. Olson Rev. Marcelino Ortiz Bishop S.K. Parmar Rev. Archie B. Parrish Mr. John Ray
	Rt. Rev. J.R. Reid Dr. Ian Rennie Dr. Bong Rin Ro Mr. Hans-Gunther Sachse Mr. George Samuel Rev. Rolf Scheffbuch Rev. Eliseu Simeao Rev. Alfred Smith Rev. Viggo Sogaard Rev. David Stewart Mr. Valdir Stuernagel	Rev. Elon Svanell Dr. Chong Kwong Tek Rev. Carmelo Terranova Rev. Tite Tienou Dr. Jan Urban Mr. Augustin B. Vencer Dr. Warren Webster Dr. Henryk Wieja Dr. Robert H. Wilson Dr. Norvald Yri Dr. Ravi Zacharias

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

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.

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.

Billy Graham Center
Archives

Records of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization - Collection 46

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

Table of Contents

Brief Description of This Collection

Title Page and Restrictions

Historical Background of the Lausanne Committee

...includes Bio Sketches of the following...
Arthur John "Jack" Dain
Leighton Ford
Gottfried Osei-Mensah

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

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.

Lausanne Committee US
	President	Thomas Zimmerman	1986-1990
	Director of US Operations	Roger Parrott	1986-1989
		Rob Martin	1989-1990
		David Hartz	1990-1991

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
	World Evangelization
	World Evangelization Information Bulletin

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.

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)."

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.

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.

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.

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.

#	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
T23	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

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