Records of Bill Glass Ministries
- Collection 455

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Table of Contents

Brief Description of This Collection

Title Page and Restrictions

Historical Background

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

Other Information That Might Be Helpful To Anyone Using This Collection

Addendum A - Partial Chronology of City-Wide Meetings

Addendum B - Partial Chronology of Prision Weekends

Addendum C - Partial List of Bill Glass Ministries Staff

Lists of Artifacts, Audio Tapes, Books, Films, Negatives, Photographs, and Slides in This Collection (Location Records)

Artifacts
Audio Tapes
Books
Films
Negatives
Photographs
Slides
Videotape

List of the Contents of Boxes of Paper Records in This Collection (Container List)

20 Boxes (20 DC; 10 cubic feet); Artifacts, Audio Tapes, Books, Films, Negatives, Photographs, Slides, Videotape

Restrictions

All folders are closed until fifteen years have passed from the date of the youngest document in the file. Thus, a folder containing documents from 1966 is closed until January 1, 1982.

In addition, anyone using the following folders before December 31 of the year indicated must sign an agreement that he or she will maintain the confidentiality of these folders. No material in these folders may be copied:

Bill Glass Ministries (BGM) had its origins in the Christian ministry of William Shepard Glass. He was born in Texarkana, TX on August 16, 1935 and grew up in Corpus Christi. As a boy he was heavily influenced both by the example of the Christian life set by his father William and by his older brother Vernon's football achievements in high school and college. Bill, like the other members of his family a Baptist, committed his life to Christ in December 1952 at the age of seventeen and almost immediately began witnessing to his friends and, a little later, speaking in churches and at youth meetings. He played football while he attended W. B. Ray High School and in his senior year received a full athletic scholarship to Baylor University, where he started his freshmen year in 1953.

While at Baylor his previously somewhat lackluster football play greatly improved and he was named All American in 1956. He continued to be in demand as a Christian speaker. Also in his senior year he met Mavis Knapp, a freshman. They were soon engaged and were married March 2, 1957. The Glasses had three children: William, Robert and Mavis Melinda.

After graduation from Baylor, Glass first went to play in the Canadian Football League for the Saskatchewan Rough Riders. He played for them for one year and then, in 1958, joined the Detroit Lions. In January of the same year he had enrolled in Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX. For the next six years he spent about half the year attending seminary and the other half playing professional football. He graduated from Southwestern with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1963.

After playing in a variety of positions, he became established as a defensive end. The Lions traded him to the Cleveland Browns in 1962. His career included a number of highlights, including playing on the winning side in the 1964 National Football League championship, the precursor of the Superbowl. He retired from football in 1969. By this time he had begun to hold evangelistic meetings in the off-season and was also the author of three books which combined stories about his football career with thoughts about the Christian life: Get in the Game (1965), Stand Straight and Tall (1967) and My Greatest Challenge (1968).

One reason for Glass' retirement was his desire to go into full-time Christian work. In June 1969, the same month he retired, he incorporated the Bill Glass Evangelistic Association (the name was changed in the early 1990s to Bill Glass Ministries). This formalized the evangelistic work he had been doing for several years, with the help of a varying number of crusade directors. BGM was designed to serve as the instrument for Glass's outreach, which included evangelistic meetings of about a week duration in towns and small cities, multimedia presentations, television and radio programs, and the distribution of audio tapes. It was based in Duncanville, a suburb of Dallas. His board of directors and advisory board consisted of men whom he had met through his sports career or previous speaking engagements. He soon had a busy schedule of meetings around the country. The evangelistic meetings, first called crusades and later city-wide celebrations, were typically handled by a staff crusade director, who investigated the original invitation, advised the local committee that headed up the effort, and supervised the arrangements for the meeting and the follow-up efforts. Some meetings were held in other countries, such as the 1978 visit to Australia. Almost from the beginning BGM had a newsletter which was sent to its supporters. At first it was called The Crusader and issues were printed to be distributed at particular meetings. Later the name was changed to Goalposts and a typical issue would be sent to a mailing list of more than sixty thousand.

A major new direction in BGM began in 1972 when it added prison ministry to its areas of specialization. In that year Glass held a meeting inside the Ohio State Penitentiary in Marion, OH (although some members of his board had been suggesting the idea since 1970). From that time on, "prison weekends" became more and more a part of BGM's work, until by the beginning of the 1980s it was Glass's main emphasis. Typically, the churches involved in a particular visit would supply counselors. More people would be recruited from the lists of those who had served as counselors on previous prison weekends or who had sent their names in as volunteers in response to the BGM's newsletter or a television special or some other event. At first these meetings were called prison crusades, then prison weekends then finally were known as Total person Weekends. After these people had been given an evening of orientation, the group went to the prison for two or three days. At the prison, sports celebrities (such as weight lifters or professional ball players) who were part of the group would hold sports clinics and briefly give their Christian testimony. Glass would also speak to the prisoners at the end of each day and combine comments about sports with a description of the way of salvation. Counselors would meet individually for the next couple days with prisoners to share with them about their own Christian life. At first these meetings were called prison crusades, then prison weekends, then finally as Total Person Weekend. BGM also developed the Friend of a Prisoner (FOAP) program, which found Christian pen pals for interested prisoners. A nationwide support group was developed to pray for the ministry and to give small, regular amounts to the program. There was an informal newsletter for this group which in 1982 was more formally inaugurated as Prison Gang, which was also the name of the group. In 1975 the Billy Glass Foundation was established, under the control of BGM. Eventually all aspects of the prison ministry were handled by the officers and staff of the Foundation, who were also members of BGM. In 1989, BGM and Prison Fellowship (PF) reached an agreement by which, starting in 1990, all the follow-up for the Total Person Weekends (Bible training, Christian nurture, etc.) would be handled by PF. This allowed BGM to expand its schedule from visits to about fifty prisons a year to an estimated 100 prisons by 1991.

BGM also produced book, films and multi media presentations, all of which were evangelistic in nature. The Ministries had a for-profit subsidiary in the 1970s, UP Inc., which distributed Glass's audio tapes. Glass himself wrote several more books, including Don't Blame the Game (1972), Positive Power for Successful Salesmen (1972), How to Win When the Roof Crashes In (1988) and one about the prison ministry Free At Last (1976). He was also host of a syndicated television interview program called Sportsight which first aired in 1981. On this program he would talk with athletes about how their faith interacted with their careers.

[Note: In the Scope and Content Description, the notation "folder 2-5" means "Box 2, Folder 5"]

Scope and Content

The records in this collection consist of correspondence, minutes of meetings, lists of names and addresses, testimonies, newspaper clippings, audio tapes, films, photographs, and other materials. The documents in the collection describe the origins and internal development of Bill Glass Ministries (BGM); the planning and impact of its city-wide evangelistic meetings, prison ministry, television, radio and audio tape work, and fund raising efforts. There is also some information in the collection about other evangelistic ministries in the United States, the use of sports in evangelism, and the conditions in prisons around the country. The titles of the folders in almost all cases are those which were on the original folder. The archivist arranged the paper materials into three sections: General (Boxes 1-12), City-Wide Crusades (Boxes 12-13), and Prison Ministry (Boxes 13-20).

I. General: Most the material in this section is concerned with either the administration, staff, fund raising efforts, or planning process within BGM, although naturally is also much on the city-wide meetings and the prison work. There is also a little material on the pre-1969 ministry of Bill Glass, such as his efforts to make an evangelistic film in 1964 (folder 4-8) and some of his first contacts with Evangelical publishers (folder 6-19). Folder 6-13 contains part of the 1957 press release which announced his being named All American and the press release he gave out when he retired from professional football and went into full time ministry. (Also of interest in film number F20 in collection 113, which contains a segment of Glass speaking about his faith at a 1965 Bill Graham evangelistic meeting.) Other information about Glass can be found in practically every folder of the collection. The clippings in folders 1-8, 5-12, 6-4, and 6-13 give some background on his career. Folder 7-8 through 10-1 include correspondence about the numerous Christian and motivational speaking engagements he accepted around the country. The audio tapes in the collection contain samples of the talks he gave to both religious and secular groups. Several folders (1-8, 3-9, 5-7, 7-1, 10-5, 12-5) contain reference material such as notes or anecdotes or data which he apparently used on these occasions as well as during his preaching. Samples of his sermons and speeches are in folder 5-15 and are also on the audio tapes in the collection, where he preaches evangelistic sermons and also on such topics as marriage, loving oneself, and the way to grow in the Christian life. Folder 6-22 contains a list of some of his speaking engagements. Important sources of information on the development of the ministry are the files and correspondence of the board of directors (folders 1-16 through 2-7), the advisory board (folder 1-2) and the executive committee of the board of directors (folders 2-15 through 4-4). Most of these files consist of correspondence, although there are also some minutes. The minutes usually contain short reports on current activities, future plans, and staff changes. These are an excellent, indeed essential, source for the study of the methods, goals, and growth of the organization. There are also copies of budgets and expense reports. Also of interest is a copy of the articles of incorporation for BGM in folder 1-7. (These might not be a copy of the final articles, since they list the headquarters of BGM as being in Alabama rather than Texas.)

Documents about the activities of staff members can be found in folders 1-9, 3-14, and 10-6 to 11-3. Folder 11-1 and some others contain charts and statistical summaries of the way crusade directors were spending their time and these give a good idea of the kind of activities involved in planning evangelistic meetings. Files 10-6 and 10-7, among others, contain dozens of letters from William Carlson, Clyde Dupin and other crusade directors on the work being done on specific crusades, as well as information on other projects they were working on for BGM. (Of related interested are the sampling of letters in folder 1-15 from people who wrote to Glass to tell him how much they had been helped by the work of BGM.)

In the staff files and in the executive committee and board of directors files are several references to the work of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which the directors and staff took as a model in the organization's early years. See, for example, the letter dated 7/8/71 in folder 2-2 and the BGEA newsletter used as a sample in folder 6-13. Another Christian organization on which there is information is the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (folder 4-6). Many of the athletes for whom there are press releases or other information in folders 20-5 to 20-32 were members of the Fellowship. A few files have reports and other background information on the work of other Christian groups, such as the Institute of Basic Youth Conflicts (folder 5-6), the National Association of Evangelicals (folder 5-17), National Religious Broadcasters (folder 5-18) and Navajo Missions (6-1).

In the early 70s, UP Inc. was created to distribute Glass' audio tapes and books. Folder 11-13 contains information on the work of this organization, as do folders 3-1, 3-2 and 5-10. Another form of outreach BGM was very interested in was television. At various times in its history the organization did television specials about their work and for a while Glass hosted an interview program called Sportsight, on which he talked to other Christian athletes. Besides the reports in the board of directors and executive committee files, information on this aspect of BGM's work can be found in folders 11-5 through 11-9 and 20-33. Some of the people who appeared on Sportsight have individual folders between 20-5 and 20-32. Folders 6-15 and 6-16 contain some information about BGM investigation into the possibilities of a radio ministry. The organization in 1972 considered buying a radio station in Kansas that had been offered to it and information about this is in folder 6-17, as well as the files of the executive committee and the board of directors. In the mid 70s, Glass experimented with multi-media presentations of his evangelistic message to live audiences and some of the sermons he used are in folders 5-14 and 5-15. Folders 4-7 and 4-9 contain information on BGM's film, Get in the Game. Folders 5-2 and 6-3 contain information on the development of the organization's newsletter. Some samples of the earliest BGM newsletter, The Crusader, are in folder 6-13.

Many of the files in this section deal with BGM's fund raising efforts through direct mail, personal contacts and foundation proposals. Among the files with relevant information, including letters, lists of contributors, and plans for fund raising campaigns, are 3-7, 3-8, 4-10 through 4-12, 4-17 through 5-1, 6-7, 6-14, 11-10, 11-12, 11-14, 11-15, 12-1, 15-3, and 15-4.

In the majority of the folders in this collection the researchers can find examples of the use of sports as metaphor for life and the use of the contacts Glass made because of his career in football for evangelistic purposes. A few of the folders that are particularly rich in sports evangelism material or at least sports-related materials are 1-13, 4-6, 5-15, 6-10, 7-9, 10-4, 10-5, and 20-5 through 20-33. The audio tapes in this collection of Glass's sermons and speeches are filled with sports anecdotes and examples. Of particular interest is tape T2, where he describes the Christian life in sports terms and tape T3 in which he talks to university athletes about how to psych themselves up for a game and relates this to they way they should live their lives.

II. City-wide Meetings: The materials folders in boxes 12 and 13 describe in detail how BGM's evangelistic campaigns in towns and cities throughout the United States and in a few foreign countries were planned, carried out and followed up on. As mentioned elsewhere, folders 10-6 and 10-7 contain numerous detailed reports from crusade directors on the arrangements for particular crusades and the problems and opportunities that presented themselves in each case. The basic method of organizing the churches involved in these meetings is outlined briefly in a memo in folder 12-6. There is similar information in folder 6-13. Folder 13-5 has checklists and forms with much more detailed information on the jobs that need to be done during a crusade. Tapes T11, T12, and T13 contain presentations made by staff workers, probably in 1982 or 1983, to the supporters of a crusade or awakening on the arrangements for finance, counseling and follow-up. Folders 12-7 through 13-4 contain, year by year, the statistics, correspondence, and other information related to individual meetings, though the amount of documentation varies widely from meeting to meeting and for some there are no documents. The researcher will note that folders 13-7 and 13-8 contain materials from meetings held before BGM had been formally incorporated. Lists of dates and locations for some of BGM's crusades can be found in folder 13-9. Other reports from crusade directors are in folders 11-1 and 11-2. Stories about a few crusades are in folders 6-3, 6-4 and 6-13.

III. Prison Ministry: The documents in boxes 13 through 20 present a fairly complete picture of BGM's work with prisoners. The prison work grew out of a meeting that BGM held in a Marion, OH facility in 1972. Folders 2-3, 3-15 and 11-7 contain information about this meeting. Tape T6 has Glass's brief description of how the prison ministry began and its purpose. Folders 13-15 though 14-4, 15-7 through 15-9, and 16-2 contain correspondence, minutes, reports and memos from the staff in charge of planning and following up on the various prison visits. These materials show how the staff worked with prison officials (especially chaplains), prisoners, donors, athletes, local churches, volunteers and others on the arrangements for each prison crusade and their involvement in follow-up after the weekend. Sometimes there are documents, such as the letter from the governor of New Mexico in folder 19-6, which show the interest of elected officials in the program. Often the reports from various staff members also contain information on the conditions in various state and federal prisons. The folders for John Rainwater (13-15, 14-1, 14-2) and John T. Williams (14-3 and 14-4) are particularly fat and filled with detailed information about individual meetings and their efforts to build ongoing support for the prison ministry in general. These files also include letters from supporters, prisoners and family members of prisoners on the ministry and the spiritual experience and needs of the prisoners. Many letters are from counselors describing their own experiences during prison visits. Folder 14-1 also contain correspondence about the functioning of the Bill Glass Foundation under whose aegis the prison ministry functioned. Folder 20-35 contains drafts of the manuals and guidelines used to train counselors. Also of interest in this regard are the questionnaires in folder 15-10 which were filled out by the volunteers about when and how they could serve. Folder 15-6 contains the checklist which the planners used to make sure that all the necessary preparatory steps had been taken before the visit to the prison. Other files contain information on the fund raising efforts that helped support the ministry by direct mail appeals, the creation of a support group, and banquets (folders 15-3, 16-1, 16-5,

16-7, 20-34). As mentioned above, reports on the prison ministry and details on its work are also all throughout the files of the board of director and executive committee.

The Prison Gang, the group made up of people who gave financial support to the program or participated as volunteer counselors, or both, was essential to the prison work and there are several folders with information about it besides those already mentioned. Folders 16-5 through 16-8 contain correspondence with members of the group, lists of members, their newsletter and similar documents. Once again, these files often contain letters form members in which they give their testimony or describe their experiences as prison counselors. One subgroup of the Prison Gang was made up of the people who wrote letters to prisoners who had asked for correspondence. The documents about this program, including applications from prisoners, lists of participants and copies of letters are in folders 14-5 through 15-2. Tape T4 has some comments by Glass about the program, which was called Friend of a Prisoner.

Information on visits to particular prisons are in (among others) folders 15-11, 16-3, 16-10 through 20-2. These includes list of counselors and athletes who attended, lists of prisoners who accepted Christ or rededicated their life to Him or received assurance of salvation, cards filled out by counselors, registration forms, letters from prisoners about the weekend, schedules, and similar information. For many of the professional athletes who came to weekends there are folders with press release-type information (folders 20-6 through 20-32). Other folders in this group contain information about people who appeared on Glass's television program Sportsight.

Although there are some references to Prison Fellowship and Charles Colson in a few letters and reports, and folder 16-4 contains some of PF's brochures and newsletters, there is not very much information in this collection about that organization.

One interesting file is 16-9, which contains newsletters put out by the prisoners themselves at a few institutions. Some similar material can be found in folders 17-6 and 18-4. Like the letters from prisoners which can be found in numerous folders in this section, these newsletters contain much information about the prison system in America.

Provenance

The materials for this collection were received by the Center in November 1985 from the Bill Glass Ministries. Three folders of Bill Glass's personal financial records, some duplicate phonographs, and a few miscellaneous items were returned to him.

Accession 85-161
November 16, 1992
Robert Shuster
K. Cox

The following items have been given to the CENTER MUSEUM:

Three metal medallions, 1 1/4 " in diameter, bronze in color. There is a small circle a top the top of each medallion, with a single link in it, by which the medallion could be attached to a bracelet or similar items. The Front of the medallion reads "FRIEND OF A PRISONER" in small letters around the end, "FOAP" in large letters in the center. The reverse side has the words "TOTAL PRISON MINISTRY WITH BILL GLASS AND FRIENDS" superimposed over a set of prison bars. N.d. These medallions were given to supporters of the Bill Glass prison ministry.

The following items are located in the Audio Tape file.

T1 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 55 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Talk given by Glass on salesmanship to a group of insurance executives entitled "Stay Up for the Game." Ca. 1975.

T2 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 36 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass on the Christian life entitled "Life's Winning Game Plan." Ca. 1975.

T3 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 30 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy which apparently had been copied from a phonograph record. Address given by Glass to the student athletes of the University of Arkansas on "How to Get Up for the Game." Ca. 1975.

T4 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 55 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass, probably preached during the 1975 meetings in Hawaii, entitled "What May Keep You From Winning." At the beginning of the tape, Glass speaks briefly about the Friend of a Prisoner program. Includes an extended evangelistic invitation at the end of the tape.

T5 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 55 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass entitled, "Jonadab" (II Samuel 13:1-5). This tape includes a lengthy section at the end after the sermon of the altar call and peoples' response. This sermon was apparently broadcast over the radio during Glass's 1976 or 1981 meetings in Bend, OR.

T6 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 9 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. A talk by Glass, apparently broadcast over the radio, entitled "Lessons from Prison," in which he talks about the history, purpose, and method of his prison ministry. Ca. 1979

T7 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, 32 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Special music from one of the services of the 1981 Hagertown, MD meetings, possibly involving Ron Patty.

T8 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 30 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Motivation talk by Glass on "The Ladder to Success." Also includes brief introduction by an announcer on Glass's career. Glass had versions of this talk adapted for religious and secular audiences. In the body of the talk, Glass talks about why he believes in God and comments on evolution. Ca. 1982.

T9 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 43 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass on entitled "Love Yourself" (Matthew 22:36-40). This tape includes a lengthy section at the end after the sermon of the altar call and peoples' response. Ca. 1982

T10 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 9 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Message by Glass, apparently broadcast over the radio, entitled "Knowing God's Will." Ca. 1982.

T11 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 15 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Speaker unknown. Address in 1982 to the supporters of the 1983 Corpus Christi, TX evangelistic meetings on the financial plan of the crusade.

T12 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 25 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Speaker unknown. Address, probably in 1982, to the supporters of the 1983 Corpus Christi, TX evangelistic meetings on the need for spiritual preparation and the counseling and follow-up method. Very poor quality recording.

T13 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 45 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Rally for the supporters of the July 1983 evangelistic meeting in Jackson, MI. This rally was probably held in early 1983. The tape ends abruptly before the end of the rally.

T14 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, 46 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass on "Four Soils" (Matthew 13:1-18). N.d. The last few minutes, which were on the reverse side of the cassette, may be from a different sermon.

T15 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass on "The Second Coming" (II Timothy 3:1-5). N.d.

T16 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 30 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass on "The Blessing" (Genesis 27). N.d.

T17 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 30 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass on "A Bold Faith" (Hebrews 11). N.d.

T18 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 30 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass on the topic of "Don't Worry." N.d.

T19 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 35 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass entitled "Excuses." N.d.

T20 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 28 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass entitled "The Rich Young Ruler" (Matthew 19:16-22). N.d.

T21 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 28 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass entitled "Marriage" (Genesis 2:21-24). N.d.

T22 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 30 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass entitled "Why Men Continue to Do Evil." N.d.

T23 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 35 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass entitled "Cabul" (I Kings 9:10-14). Glass discusses the philosophy of existentialism. N.d.

T24 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 30 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass entitled, "God See, Knows, Cares and Judges" N.d.

T25 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 7 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Message by Glass, apparently broadcast over the radio, entitled "Christ's Control" (Romans 12:1). N.d.

T26 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 30 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Sermon by Glass entitled "Ladder to Your Dreams." Glass had versions of this talk adapted for religious and secular audiences. There is an extended evangelistic invitation at the end of the sermon. N.d.

T27 - Reel-to-reel, 3-3/4 ips, approximately 18 minutes. One side only. Copied from a cassette copy. Two sermons by Glass, apparently broadcast over the radio on consecutive days, entitled "The Pearl of Great Price" (II Corinthians 4:7) N.d.

The following items have been given to the BGC LIBRARY:

Bill Glass Foundation. Basic Counselor Training for Total Person Weekend with Bill Glass and Friends (Cedar Hill, TX: Bill Glass Foundation; n.d.).

Glass, Bill. My Greatest Challenge (Waco, TX: Word Publishers, 1968).

[Hoekstra, Ray]. The Miracle of a Changed Life (Dallas, TX: International Prison Ministries, N.d.).

---. Floyd Hamilton Public Enemy No. 1 (Dallas, TX: International Prison Ministries, N.d.).

Packer, J. I. Introductory Essay to John Owen's The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (Dallas, TX: N.p., N.d.).

Prison Fellowship. Jubilee Papers from Prison/ Study Series 1 (N.p.: Prison Fellowship, 1980).

The following items are located in the FILM FILE:

F1 - Untitled. 16mm, b/w, 2 minutes, silent. Ca. 1958. Glass talking to and playing football with high school and college age boys; preaching at the North Fort Worth Baptist Church.

F2 - Untitled home movie. 16mm, color, 3 minutes. Ca. 1965. Glass at home, playing football with his sons, horsing around with all three of his children, standing and talking with his wife Mavis.

F3 - They Live Two Lives. color, 5 ½ minutes, sound. Ca. 1968. This film appears to be incomplete. It might be a segment from a longer program. Scenes from Glass' evangelistic meetings in Marietta, Georgia and comments by him about his conversion and his ministry, and the reason he as a Christian plays a violent sport such as football. Use V1.

F4 - They Live Two Lives. color, 4 3/4 minutes, sound. Ca. 1968. This film appears to be incomplete. The same film as number F3, except that it is missing the introduction and a few other seconds of film.

The following items are located in the NEGATIVE FILE; request by Folder Titles (in bold) at the beginning of each entry below. All the negatives are black and white, unless otherwise noted.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1981. Scenes from the 1981 city-wide evangelistic meetings in Bend, Oregon and prison weekend meetings in Kentucky. Ninety-nine 35mm b&w in 24 strips.

FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES. Scenes from a FCA meeting, probably in 1972, in which Glass participated. Three b&w 8x10.

The following items are located in the PHOTO FILE; request by folder title (in bold) at the beginning of each entry below.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1969. Pictures of the advertising, local leaders, Bill Glass and associates, and preparations for the city-wide meetings held in Greenville, Mississippi. Also one picture from the meeting in Memphis, TN. 25 b&w.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1971. Glass and others in a prayer meeting before the start of an evangelistic meeting in Findlay, OH, probably in 1971. 1 b&w.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1973. Glass, staff, and volunteer counselors lined up and waiting to enter the prison in Mansfield, OH. 1 b&w.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1974. Counselors talking with prisoners and guards during the Eddyville, Kentucky prison meetings; Glass preaching to crowd, counselors meeting with inquirers, other scenes from the Ashtabula, OH meetings. 7 b&w.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1979. Snapshots of a prison meeting, including a baseball game between the counselors and the inmates, preaching by Glass, sports performances by Mike Crain and others, individual discussions between counselors and inmates. 68 color.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1980. Group shots of male and female volunteer counselors standing in front of the prison in Ocala, FL. 2 b&w.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1981. Scenes from prison visits in Texas, Indiana, New Mexico, Florida, and Kentucky including the orientation sessions with the male and female counselors; group shots of the counselors; Glass, Bunny Martin, Mike Crain, Tanya Criever, Bob Cole, and others giving exhibitions, playing games with the prisoners and talking with inmates; prisoners in solitary confinement; scenes of prison life; and counselors and prisoners eating and talking together. Scenes of the city-wide evangelistic meetings in Bend, OR including Glass preaching, the choir, inquirers coming forward to shake Glass's hand, the crowd being led in hymns. 108 b&w.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - 1982. Scenes from prison visit in Florida, including the Glass, Tanya Criever, Bob Cole, Paul Wren, McCoy Lemore and others giving exhibitions and talking with inmates; scenes of prison life and counselors and prisoners eating and talking together. 13 b&w.

BILL GLASS MINISTRIES - N.d. Scenes from prison visits in unidentified locations including the orientation sessions with the male and female counselors; group shots of the counselors; Glass, Bunny Martin, Mike Crain, Paul Wren, Bob Birdsong, Tanya Criever, Bob Cole, Earl Campbell, Frank Kaczmark, John Westbrook and others giving exhibitions, playing games with the prisoners and talking with inmates; prisoners in solitary; scenes of prison life; and counselors and prisoners eating and talking together. Portrait photos of sports figures who participated in BGM's meetings, including McCoy Lemore, Bill Currier, Joe Greene, Blair Williams, Iris Urey, Dave Washington. Pictures of BGM Board members. A few scenes from city-wide meetings. 167 b&w, 4 color.

FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES. Glass at an FCA meeting, probably in 1972; undated portrait photos of sports figures such as Jim Ray Smith, Steadman Shealy, Oscar and Linda Roan, Andre Thorton, Norm Sonju, Don Cockroft, John Niland, Billy Johnson, Frank Kaczmark, and Charlie Waters. 20 b&w.

GLASS, WILLIAM SHEPARD. Glass preaching; meeting people at evangelistic rallies, in prisons and at dinners; playing professional football; a variety of informal poses; speaking at one of the multi-media presentations of the Gospel which he organized in the 1970s. 1967-1974; N.d. 94 b&w, 4 color.

GRIER, ROOSEVELT. Posed shots of Grier in his football uniform. N.d. 2 b&w.

HARRINGTON, BOB. Harrington with Art Linkletter of the television program Art Linkletter's House Party in 1966. Harrington posing with his Bible on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, N.d. 2 b&w.

RICHARDSON, BOBBY. Richardson in uniform at bat for the New York Yankees. N.d. 1 b&w.

TELEVISION PROGRAM: SPORTSIGHT. Glass with Paul Wren and unidentified other guest on the interview program. 6 color.

The following items are located in the SLIDE FILE. All of the slides are in color, unless otherwise noted.

SLIDE FILE BOX 10:

S1-S56 - Pictures from the prison evangelistic meetings led by Bill Glass at State Prison in Waupan, WI on September 14-16, 1973. Includes shots of the group of volunteer counselors, the prison buildings, Glass, Bill Carlson, Mike Crain, John Westbrook, McCoy Lemore, Paul Anderson giving sports exhibitions and their Christian testimony and the volunteer counselors talking to prisoners.

The following items are located in the VIDEOTAPE FILE:

V1 - 1/2" VHS Cassette. Copy of F3. They Live Two Lives. color, 5 ½ minutes, sound. Ca. 1968. This film appears to be incomplete. It might be a segment from a longer program. Scenes from Glass' evangelistic meetings in Marietta, Georgia and comments by him about his conversion and his ministry, and the reason he as a Christian plays a violent sport such as football.

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