COLL/004 Guide to the Henry Baker Collection Baker, Henry Collection

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Guide to the Henry Baker Collection 1926/1990 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Henry Baker Collection 1926-1990 COLL/004 Baker, Henry, 1887-1985 1.00 0.25 cubic ft. Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Details the latter part of Henry Baker’s ministerial career, when his work focused on home missions. Includes biographical data, sermons, essays, meditations, and reports. Particularly rich in detailing the evangelism and home mission efforts in the Christian Reformed Church in North America during the middle decades of the twentieth century.
Biographical Information:

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Henry Baker (1887-1985) was a minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. He graduated from Calvin Seminary in 1910. He served congregations in Michigan, New Jersey, and Illinois before becoming the denomination’s first “missionary-at-large.” Instrumental in developing the denomination’s chaplaincy program during WWII, he also launched efforts to help resettle Dutch immigrants after the war. A strong advocate of missions, he helped establish radio ministry and the Back to God Hour. He retired from the active ministry in 1957, at the age of seventy-two, after a forty-seven-year career. He and Tillie Etta Westmaas (1888-1970) were married in 1910, and they had four children: Antoinette Florence (1911-1933), Marjorie Josephine (Haeck), Clazina (Klauzina), Pearl (Masselink), and Frederick Henry. In 1971, Baker married Angie VanderTill née Mersman (1899-1977).

Access Terms

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

Corporate Name: Christian Reformed Church -- Missions Christian Reformed Church -- Sermons Genre/Form of Material: Albums (Books) Topical Term: Missions Sermons, American
Arrangement of Materials:

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Detailed List of Contents id8334 Biography, Sermons, and Scrapbooks 1926-1990 id8335 1 id8336 1 1 Biography by Clazina Baker Masselink and biographical material id8337 1 2 Sermons, outlines 1926, 1927, 1936 id8338 1 3 Back to God Hour sermons 1959 id8339 1 4 Banner meditations 1950s id8340 1 5 Banner essays 1960s id8341 1 6 Scrapbook material: Press clippings and articles on mission work id8342 1 7 id8343 1 7 Christian Doctrine for Beginners 1960 and undated id8344 1 7 Home Mission Order, The Christian Reformed Church and What It Teaches undated id8345 1 8 Daily Manna meditations 1940s id8346 1 9 Radio sermons 1940s id8347 1 10 Synodical sermons 1948, 1949, 1952 id8348 1 11 id8349 1 11 Reports: On the Gereformeerde Kerken Synod 1952 id8350 1 11 A New Seminary Building ca. 1956 id8351 1 12 Christian Doctrine for Beginners 1954