Barbara Schultz and Dan Philgreen had come to Illinois to go through the Archives photo collection and planned to spend March 30th videotaping hundreds of images for a program they were putting together on the history of the young people's organization Youth for Christ. Unfortunately, on that day, for the first time in the Center's history, a power failure cut all electricity to the building. The Archives' staff made a few frantic phone calls and discovered that St. John's Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod), two blocks from the Center, had electricity and was generously willing to make available the church's basement and power for the project. So, despite a tight schedule, the filming was completed on time.
"My sincere thanks to you for your excellent help as we reviewed and selected Amsterdam files. The fact that you have kept these files will greatly facilitate our work as we prepare the program for Amsterdam 2000.... Again, thank you for your assistance!" Message from Bill Conard, the program director for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Amsterdam 2000 conference for itinerant evangelists. He and three other staff came to the Archives the first week of January to do research into previous Amsterdam conferences as preparation.
Rev. Edward Danks came from Kenya to do research into Africa Inland Mission's roots in East Africa. While working in the Reading Room, he got a chance to meet and talk with fellow Kenyan Evans Ochola (right) who was doing graduate work at Wheaton and working parting time as a student assistant in the Archives.
Bob taping an interview with Alicia Corts about the Archives for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's radio program, Decision Today
Chad Gregory (left), who came to the Reading Room to do research for his dissertation on fundamentalist attitudes toward masculinity, next to the Reading Room's picture of a prominent exponent of Muscular Christianity, evangelist Billy Sunday.
Shirley Leung (right), director of libraries for Hong Kong Baptist University, stopped by the Center halfway through Irene Wong's internship. Here she is given a tour of the BGC Library by Library director Ferne Weimer
"I had such a beneficial time last week in the archives and in the library. Thank you so much for your valuable help. I have a lot of material now - now I have to put it into some sort of coherent order.... Each one has been so wonderful to take the time to help me. Thank you." Message from Ruth McIntyre, who was studying cross cultural communication in the ministry of her father, Billy Graham. Here Paul shows her some of the materials in the Archives on the topic.