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Collection Overview
Title: Peter Yemen De Jong Collection, 1911-2005
ID: COLL/049
Primary Creator: De Jong, Peter Yemen (1915-2005)
Extent: 13.0 Boxes. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Subjects: Christian education, Christian Reformed Church, Christian Reformed Church - Missions, De Jong, Peter Y. (Peter Ymen), 1915-2005, India, South - Religious life and customs, Missions - India, South
Abstract
Former minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes study manuals, family letters, materials relating to India, addresses, lectures, sermons, class papers, catechism materials, study outlines, course materials, unpublished manuscripts, articles, book reviews, pamphlets, thesis, letters of call, notebooks, correspondence, and clippings. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]
Biographical Note
Son of Rev. Yemen Peter De Jong, Peter Yemen De Jong was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1915. De Jong graduated from Calvin College and Seminary in 1939. Joanne H. Heyns took De Jong’s hand in marriage in 1940. Together they had six children. De Jong was ordained into the CRC ministry in 1940 and served the Preakness Christian Reformed Church. At the same time, he was attending Hartford Theological Seminary. De Jong received his Ph.D. from Hartford in 1942.
From 1942-1948, The Rev. Peter Yemen De Jong went on to serve the church communities of Alpine Avenue CRC and Oakdale Park CRC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During 1952, he took a break from sharing the gospel in United States to spreading the gospel as a missionary in India. By 1953, De Jong returned to North America, and began to serve the First CRC in Pella, Iowa. Eventually De Jong moved on to First Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
In 1963, he returned to his home town of Grand Rapids to serve Alger Park CRC. While in Grand Rapids, he became a professor at Calvin Seminary. However, by 1970, De Jong went back to Iowa to serve the communities of First, Sioux Center and First Sheldon. He retired from serving the Christian Reformed Churches in 1980 only later to become affiliated with the United Reformed Church in 1982. Rev. De Jong passed away in 2005 from heart failure.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Alternate Extent Statement:
6.45 cubic ft.
Access Restrictions:
(to be restricted until 01/01/2026 for all but his children)
Acquisition Source:
Gift of P.Y. De Jong
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Addresses, Lectures, Sermons, and Miscellaneous Material],
[
Series 2: Papers, 1936-1993],
[
Series 3: Lesson Material],
[
Series 4: Church Polity and Government Material and Unpublished Manuscripts],
[
Series 5: Foreign Missions],
[
Series 6: Personal Material],
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All]
- Series 1: Addresses, Lectures, Sermons, and Miscellaneous Material
- Box 1
- Folder 1: The Christian Reformed Church: A Study Manual --- 1947, 1967
- Folder 2: The Christian Life: A Study Manual [HERH BV4510.D4] --- 1950
- Folder 3: Letters to family from India (written by Mrs. De Jong) --- 1952-1953
- Folder 4: Account of activities in India --- August 23 - September 19, 1953
- Folder 5: Notebook, Observations on trip to South India --- 1981
- Folder 6
- Item 1: Letter --- 1989
- Item 2: Indian interlude, p. 1-114 --- 1990
- Folder 7: Indian interlude, p. 115-228 --- 1990
- Folder 8: Indian interlude, p. 229-342 --- 1990
- Folder 9: Material re: mission work in South India --- 1989-2005, undated
- Folder 10: Reports/correspondence re: South India Mission --- 1997-2001, undated
- Folder 11: The Christian Reformed Church - Who and Why are We? --- 1977
- Box 2
- Folder 1: RE: resignation from Calvin Seminary --- 1970
- Access Restriction: Restricted until 01/01/2026 for all but his children
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Addresses: Genius of Reformed Church Polity; On Sermon Making --- 1967-1974
- Folder 2: Address: Why I Left the Christian Reformed Church --- 1993?
- Folder 3: Address to the First Convocation of Mid-America Seminary --- 1982
- Folder 4: Address to the Alliance Meeting --- November 15, 1994
- Folder 5: Reformation Day addresses --- 1992,undated
- Folder 6: Address at North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council Conference --- 1979
- Folder 7: Lectures at Westminster Seminary --- 1952
- Folder 8: Lectures at Navigators Training Institute, Pensacola, Florida --- 1975
- Folder 9: Sermons preached --- August-September 1976
- Folder 10: Sermons preached --- October-December 1976
- Folder 11: Sermons preached --- January-March 1977
- Folder 12: Six sermons re: conversion --- August-October 1972
- Folder 13: Sermon: The Mystery of Christ and the Church --- August 25, 1974
- Folder 14: Sermon re: Isaiah 40:3-5 for S. Volbeda --- 1938
- Folder 15: Records of churches served and sermons preached --- 1940-2005
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Addresses, Lectures, Sermons, and Miscellaneous Material],
[
Series 2: Papers, 1936-1993],
[
Series 3: Lesson Material],
[
Series 4: Church Polity and Government Material and Unpublished Manuscripts],
[
Series 5: Foreign Missions],
[
Series 6: Personal Material],
[
All]
