By Emily Koelzer
Collection Overview
Title: Albert Huisjen Collection, 1920-1977
Predominant Dates:1940-1977
ID: COLL/586
Creator: Albert Huisjen (1889-1979)
Extent: 0.42 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: This collection is organized chronologically, then by format.
Date Acquired: 05/04/2019
Languages: English [eng], Yiddish [yid], Dutch;Flemish [dut]
Abstract
Albert Huisjen (1889 – 1979) was a missionary who devoted his career to the denomination’s outreach to the Jewish Community. This collection documents Huisjen’s outreach efforts through sermons written in both English and Yiddish, correspondence, reports, articles, and essays.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Albert Huisjen was a missionary who devoted his career to the denomination’s outreach to the Jewish Community. In 1923, he was appointed to the Chicago Jewish Mission of the Christian Reformed Church. The materials in this collection document his outreach efforts. These materials include sermons written in both English and Yiddish, correspondence, reports, articles, and essays.
This collection is notable in that it provides evidence of the strategies used in mission work to other religions. This collection contains studies and analyses of outreach efforts that were used to strategize field mission work. Several Messianic bible study lesson plans are also included in this collection. This collection also contains correspondence which documents the dismissal of the Jewish Evangelism Committee in 1977.
Sermons and essays concerning Jewish evangelism given both to the Jewish and Christian communities are included in this collection.
Biographical Note
Albert Huisjen was a missionary born in Holland, Michigan in 1889 to Albert and Geertje Huisjen. The focus of Huisjen’s career was the denomination’s outreach to the Jewish community. In 1923, he was appointed to the Chicago Jewish Mission of the Christian Reformed Church. He served as a general missionary, superintendent of the Chicago work, and director and field missionary in Parish Jewish Evangelism. Huisjen retired in 1956 but continued to be an active member of the Jewish Evangelism Committee of the Christian Reformed Board of Home Missions.
Administrative Information
Alternate Extent Statement:
1 Box
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open for research use within Heritage Hall.
Acquisition Source:
Henry Huisjen
Acquisition Method:
Donation
Preferred Citation:
[item], folder, box, Albert Huisjen Papers, Heritage Hall (Hekman Library), Calvin University
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Correspondence --- 1920-1949
- Folder 2: Sermon with Yiddish Translation by Huisjen --- 1925
- Folder 3: Translation of Compendium to Yiddish --- 1940s
- Folder 4: Banner Article - "Evangelizing our Jewish Neighbor" --- 1947
- Folder 5: A Postal Ministry to Jewish Residents: Manuscript and Promotional Strategy --- 1973 - 1976
- Folder 6: Messianic Prophecy Bible Study --- 1976
- Folder 7: Our Denominational Ministry to the Jew - Reports and Studies --- 1993
- Folder 8: Dismissal of Jewish Evangilism Committee --- 1977
- Folder 9: Essay - "Know Your Jewish Neighbor"
- Folder 10: Essay - "Our Voluntary Involvement with the Jew"
- Folder 11: Essays on Parish Jewish Evangilism
- Folder 12: Essay - "The the Jew First"
- Folder 13: Tracts and Book Notice