COLL/084 Guide to the Henry Exoo Collection Exoo, Henry Collection

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Guide to the Henry Exoo Collection Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Henry Exoo Collection 1930-1977 COLL/084 Henry Exoo, 1911-1982 7.00 3.25 cubic ft. Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes sermons and radio messages. [See also the Campus Titles Database.] Our collection of material, a gift of his wife, Bessie M. (May 1991), includes a selection of Heidelberg Catechism sermons, sermons based on Old and New Testament texts, church calendar, and other special day sermons and radio messages. We also have twenty tapes in our tape collection. One box of sermonic material contains radio messages, which were printed for distribution. It may be of interest to those researching sermonic materials that in general Christian Reformed ministers still preached “preparatory,” “Communion,” and “post-Communion” sermons. Where Communion services have become a monthly celebration, this threefold series has been changed. Our collection, however, reveals that Rev. Henry Exoo continued the practice.
Biographical Information:

In the brief “In Memoriam” printed in the yearbook of 1983, reference was made to Henry Exoo as “a hard-working pastor.” Rev. Exoo was a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church when congregations, large or small, were served by one pastor who may have had a part-time secretary. There were no team ministries with a full-time secretary.

In addition to his regular pastoral activities in the Sheboygan Christian Reformed Church, Henry was the radio pastor of the Old Time Religion broadcasts on six Wisconsin stations which covered Sheboygan (WKTS and WHBL), Madison, Green Bay, Waukesha, and Plymouth. Moreover, he served on many special classical and synodical assignments.

Henry Exoo was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1911. He studied at Calvin College, Western Reserve University, and Calvin Theological Seminary. The Calvin College annual, the Prism of 1939, described the graduate Henry Exoo as “thoughtful of others. . . . . he reads much and observes men’s words and deeds.”

After ordination, September 24, 1942, Rev. Henry Exoo began his active ministry in Battle Creek, Michigan (1942-1948). The following six years were spent in the First Christian Reformed Church of Fremont, Michigan. The longest period of his ministry, twenty-two years (1954-1976), was in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Through the radio ministry his name became familiar throughout that Wisconsin area.

Rev. Henry Exoo passed away, in his home, after a lengthy illness, May 10, 1982. He was seventy-one years of age. He was married to Bessie M. Jellema. Together they had six children.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Radio addresses, debates, etc. Sermons
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Detailed List of Contents id25302 Heidelberg Catechism Sermons: Lord's Day 1-52 id25303 1 id25304 1 1 Lord's Day 1 id25305 1 2 Lord's Day 2-4 id25306 1 3 Lord's Day 5-7 id25307 1 4 Lord's Day 8-11 id25308 1 5 Lord's Day 12-15 id25309 1 6 Lord's Day 16-19 id25310 1 7 Lord's Day 20-22 id25311 1 8 Lord's Day 23-25 id25312 2 id25313 2 1 Lord's Day 26-28 id25314 2 2 Lord's Day 29-31 id25315 2 3 Lord's Day 32-33 id25316 2 4 Lord's Day 34-36 id25317 3 id25318 3 1 Lord's Day 37-38 id25319 3 2 Lord's Day 39-40 id25320 3 3 Lord's Day 41-42 id25321 3 4 Lord's Day 43-44 id25322 4 id25323 4 1 Lord's Day 45-46 id25324 4 2 Lord's Day 47-49 id25325 4 3 Lord's Day 50-51 id25326 4 4 Lord's Day 52 id25327 Old and New Testament Sermons and Radio Messages id25328 5 id25329 5 1-3 Old Testament Sermons id25330 5 4-6 New Testament Sermons id25331 5 7 Radio Messages: Down at the Cross 1965-1975 id25332 5 8 Radio Messages 1956-1973 id25333 5 9 Radio Messages 1966-1973 id25334 Church Calendar Sermons id25335 6 id25336 6 1 Palm Sunday id25337 6 2 Lent id25338 6 3 Good Friday id25339 6 4 Easter id25340 6 5 Ascension Day id25341 6 6 Pre-Pentecost id25342 6 7 Pentecost id25343 6 8 Christmas id25344 Sermons for Special Days id25345 7 id25346 7 1 Baptism id25347 7 2-3 Preparatory Sunday id25348 7 4 Communion Sunday id25349 7 5 Post-Communion Sunday id25350 7 6 Old Years Evening id25351 8 id25352 8 1 New Year's Day id25353 8 2 Bible Sunday id25354 8 3 Farewell Service id25355 8 4 Installation Services id25356 8 5 Last Things (subject) id25357 9 id25358 9 1 Miracles and Parables id25359 9 2 Mission Emphasis id25360 9 3 Mother and Father's Day id25361 9 4 National Holidays id25362 9 5 Panoply of God (subject) id25363 9 6 Parables (subject) id25364 9 7 Prayer Services id25365 9 8 Reformation Day id25366 9 9 Profession of Faith id25367 9 10 Profession of Faith id25368 9 11 Beginning of Society Season id25369 9 12 Addresses: "I Dare You" and "Let us not Sleep" id25370 9 13 Anniversary: 35th Radio Ministry 4-Oct-71 id25371 9 14 Prayer id25372 Radio Messages 1968-1977 id25373 10 id25374 10 Printed Messages covering the years 1968-1972 id25375 10 Printed Messages covering the years 1973-1977