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Visiting
students and teacher from Christian Life High School (Rockford, Illinois)
as they survey materials in the Reading Room during a special orientation
in May on missionary Jim Elliot. Archives staff regularly develop orientation
sessions for college, grad school and highschool classes, homeschool
groups, and others to learn more from the history of evangelism. |
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of two Samaritan's Purse staff in December as they worked in the Reading
Room on a video history project about the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association. Archives staff guided and assisted their survey of numerous
films, videos and photographs to depict the history and ministry of
Billy Graham and the BGEA. |
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Wayne's
office is overtaken in April by the processing project of surveying
and sorting the contents of the William
Deans papers. Wayne completed the arrangement and description of
the collection during 2003. Deans was involved in the publication of
Christian literature in African languages, and duplicate material from
his papers not included in the collection at the Archives was redirected
to Uganda, where, because of natural catastrophe and wartime devastation,
no copies of the publication were available among the people groups
they were originally written for. |
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John
and Alice Fitzwilliam with materials of John's mother, missionary Jennie
Fitzwilliam. The Fitzwilliams used Jennie's papers and oral history
interviews in the Reading Room in March and June to write and illustrate
Alice's biography of her mother-in-law's missionary work in China with
China Inland Mission. Part of Alice's project included transcribing
the five tapes in the oral history interviews the staff conducted with
Jennie in 1984 and 1985; the Fitzwilliams gave these
full-text transcripts to the Archives where they can now be used
by researchers through the Archives Web site. Jennie Fitzwilliam passed
away in April at the age of ninety-nine. To find out more about Mrs.
Fitzwilliam, visit
the memorial page developed as a tribute to her, or read the description
of her papers and interview. |
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Researcher
using the papers in June by and about her great grandfather, medical
missionary Elwood Davis. In addition to the many researchers that use
the Archives collection to complete class assignments, or write articles
or books or dissertations, or produce video projects, during 2003 a
fifth came to work on evangelistic projects, or search for information
for a family history, or develop projects of personal interest. |
Bob
orienting two students from a Grad School evangelism class in February
to materials they were using as part of an exercise in the Reading Room.
During 2003 the staff provided sessions for thirteen classes. |
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Students,
parents, staff and volunteer, during the April Treasure
Hunt for homeschool students. The staff provided three Treasure
Hunts during 2003. Volunteer Elizabeth Stough and Bob are in the background
during the main part of the program where students explore selected
documents for information about evangelism history and missionary life.
The student in the foreground is reading a handwritten
letter by missionary and explorer David Livingstone. |
Bob,
Christian and Paul with librarian Cindy Lu during her weeklong visit
to the Archives in March and April. Lu will become the library director
of Singapore Bible College, and came to the Archives for orientation,
training and consultation about establishing a mission archives at SBC's
library. The Archives hopes to regularly contribute to the training
of archivists and growth of emerging programs in the developing world
in order to preserve the record of evangelism and mission history in
many nations. |
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Christian,
Paul and Bob exploring ideas in November for new or more effective ways
to implement the Archives' goal to gather, preserve and make available
for use unpublished documents on the history of North American nondenominational
Protestant efforts to spread the Christian Gospel. |
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Paul
and visiting evangelist and theologian John Stott as they survey Lausanne
Committee materials (Collection 46) in the Archives storage area in
May. The visit was one step in the Archives' coordination of the microfilming
and digitizing of Stott's own papers related to the Lausanne movement. |
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Wayne
with Robert
Carlson during a Treasure Hunt for area homeschool students in November.
Carlson, shown with traditional Tibetan clothing and a prayer wheel,
spent his early life in Tibet where his missionary parents served, and
later he himself was a missionary in Hong Kong. Carlson is a valuable
resource to the Archives as a volunteer, helping the staff create concrete
links between the history of evangelism and living people. |
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Christian,
Bob and Paul during a creativity day in July dedicated to exploring
plans and dreams for the Archives' goals, projects, and future. |