Billy Graham Center Archives Annual Report - 2000 Annual Report - Introduction

Introduction



Everything Old is New Again: Paul and Christian digitize
a ca. 1938 poster used in village evangelism so that it can
be available over the World Wide Web.

I had observed that the preservation of the community is best assured
by a process of continuous change. Count Nicholaus Von Zinzendorf

Count von Zinzendorf (1700-1760) spoke thus of the Herrenhut community in Saxony, of which he was member and leader. It became a model for renewal throughout the church and one of the main channels for the creation of modern Christian missions. The Archives has seen and experienced the joys and strains of what seems like continuous change over the last year. Staff have gone and come, the means of preserving and transmitting information has continued to take new and unexpected shapes, and the services that we offer undergo changes and revision. All of this so that evidences of the way the Gospel has been communicated in the past can be available to the people of the present and the future. So change is put in the service of preservation, as Samson once riddled about the sweetness that came out of strength. And it is our prayer that the preservation we do serves as a channel of God's grace to instruct, encourage and warn. Here is the record of our stewardship in the year of our Lord, 2000.


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