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Collection Overview
Abstract
Missionary to Nigeria; and professor of missions at Calvin Theological Seminary. The collection includes bulletins; minutes; letters; course notes; clippings; lectures; reports; papers; reviews; a scrapbook detailing various mission fields; and several committee materials, e.g., Committee for Educational Assistance to Church Abroad (CEACA). [See also the Campus Titles Database, and J. T. Hoogstra Coll. 116]
Biographical Note
Robert Richard Recker was born in Highland, Indiana on November 28, 1923. Recker attended Calvin College, graduating in 1944 and went on to received his Th.B. from Calvin Theological Seminary in 1947. That same year Recker married Constance Hoekstra, and together had 6 children. Ordained into the ministry of the Christian Reformed Church in 1947, Robert Recker served the Momence, Illinois, congregation until 1949.
From 1949 to 1965 Recker served as a missionary in Nigeria. In 1965 he studied at the Free University of Amsterdam. The following year he was appointed to the Christian Reformed Board of Foreign Missions. Three years later he became a member of the faculty at Calvin Theological Seminary, where he served as Dean of Students. In his writing, preaching, and lecturing, Dr. R. Recker's emphasis was on missions. He retired in 1988. Dr. R. Recker passed away on December 17, 2007 due to pancreatic cancer.
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- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: The Banner, centennial issue --- July 1, 1966
- Folder 2: The Banner --- April 31, 1970
- Folder 3: Harry Boer Appeal; committee report --- 1972-1973
- Folder 4: Bulletin references to Recker
- Folder 5: The Clark Case of the Presbytery of Philadelphia --- July 7, 1944
- Folder 6-8: Committee for Educational Assistance to Churches Abroad (CEACA) --- 1959-1984
- Folder 9: International Association for Reformed Faith and Action (IARFA), letter and minutes --- 1977
- Folder 10: "Life-time Tenure of Ministers," by R. R. De Ridder
- Folder 11: "Modernism," course written by Van Schouwen for DeMotte Young People --- 1939
- Folder 13: Seminary speech --- December 7, 1962
- Folder 14: Scrapbook, Missionaries from various fields --- 1950s
- Folder 15: World Literature Committee --- 1988, 1990
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Fiftieth anniversary issue, Christian Home and School, 1920-1970 --- 1970
- Folder 2: Fiftieth anniversary book of DeMotte CRC, 1932-1982 --- 1982
- Folder 3: Fiftieth anniversary book of Momence CRC
- Recker served 1947-1949
- Folder 4: The Lawndale CRC and Timothy Christian School Issue --- 1969
- Folder 5: Reformed and Action Conference --- 1976
- Folder 6: Momence delegate to Classis Chicago South --- September 16, 1947
- Folder 7: Overture concerning mixed marriages from Cicero to Chicago, Illinois --- 1939
- Folder 8: Clippings re: mission fields --- undated
- Folder 9: Proposed Denomination-wide Congress --- 1983-1986
- Folder 10: Booklet, Sharha Kan Ru'Ya Ta Yohanna ("The Revelation to John"), Hausa language --- 1982
- Folder 11: "The Aim or Goal of Missions (Christian Mission)" --- undated
- Folder 12: Course 623, notes and digests, "The Christian Mission" --- 1972-1973
- Folder 13: The Emergent Church of Christ as Blessing
- Folder 14: Missio Dei (The Christian Mission)
- Folder 15: The Missio Dei in the Old Testament
- Folder 16: The Missio Dei is a Trinitarian Operation
- Folder 17: The Missionary Nature of the Church, A survey of the Biblical Theology of Missions, Johannes Blauw
- Folder 18: Course 623, "Periodicals which might sub serve your Mission Interests" --- undated
- Folder 19: The Relevance of Trinitarian Doctrine for Today's Mission, by Newbigin, Leslie, resume --- 1963
- Folder 20: Strategy for Mission.Analysis, forms of possible action. Desired effect: Goal
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Contemporary Missionary Problems --- 1967-1968
- Folder 2: Consultation on Reformed Evangelism Home Mission Board --- March 28-30, 1978
- Folder 3: The Missio Dei in the Old Testament. Second Quarter --- 1972-1973
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Contemporary Problems of the Christian Mission --- September-November, 1968
- Folder 2: "The Concept of Man in the Missiology of Donald McGavran
- Folder 3: Anglo Saxon Missiology in Latin America." Rooy, Dr. Sidney H --- undated
- Folder 4: Course No. 846: The History of Christian Reformed Missions --- undated
- Folder 5: El Rancho Village Residents Association --- December, 1992 - December, 1995
- Folder 6: Course No. 847, Introduction to African Traditional Religion --- September, 1980
- Folder 7: Zyarata zuwa Kasar Amerika. Ashu, Dawuda Philip --- 1961
- Folder 8: Compendio de la Religion Cristiana --- 1977
- Folder 9: Altar Familiar Meditaciones Diarias. --- undated
- Folder 10: "Iglesia Dulce" Una Historia de la Iglesia Cristiana Reformada Incorporada en la Republica Dominicana. Hegeman, Dr. Cornelio --- 1976-1986
- Folder 11: Christian Reformed Church Urban Conference --- November 1-3, 1983
- Folder 12: Acts of Synod; Addenda to Minority Report --- 1957
- Folder 13: Clippings --- 1967-1968
- Folder 14-15: Student papers, New Testament Perspectives on Missions --- 1987
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