Peter Yemen De Jong Collection, 1911-2005 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

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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relating to India, addresses, lectures, sermons, class papers, catechism materials, study outlines, course materials, unpublished manuscripts, articles, book reviews, pamphlets, thesis, letters of call, notebooks, correspondence, and clippings.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.

Subject/Index Terms

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

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],
[All]

Series 6: Personal Material

Box 9

Folder 1: Calvin College diploma [Peter J. is Peter Y.] --- 1936
Folder 2: Masters thesis: Ritschl's Conception of the Kingdom of God --- 1940
Folder 3: Letters of call --- 1942-1960
Folder 4: Material re: call to the Reformed Church in New Zealand --- 1957
Folder 5: Material re: First Christian Reformed Church Pella, Iowa, leaving the Christian Reformed Church --- 1991-1998, undated
Folder 6: Booklet by Peter Y. De Jong (in Dutch), father of Peter Y. --- 1914, 1919, and undated
Folder 7: Mid-America Seminary materials --- 1997, undated
Folder 8: Vietnamese language lesson notebooks --- 1953
Folder 9: Student catechism sermon evaluations --- 1965
Folder 10: Pamphlet in Vietnamese --- undated
Folder 11: Correspondence --- 1940-1949
Folder 12: Correspondence --- 1950-1959
Folder 13: Correspondence --- 1960-1990
Folder 14: Correspondence (includes with E. Pereszlenyl) --- 1991-2002
Folder 15: Maps [6] --- 1982,1988, and undated

Box 10

Folder 1: News clippings, Indian newspapers --- 1953
Folder 2: Scrapbook, family news clippings --- 1911-1938
Folder 3: As I Remember It, by Joanne H. [Heyns] De Jong --- 1940
Folder 4: A Few Leaves: the Peter Y. and Joanne H. Heyns De Jong Family, by Peter Y. De Jong --- 1999
Folder 5: Articles re: Dutch settlers --- 1947-1976

Box 11

Item 1: Scrapbook I: "Church at Worship" clippings --- April 5, 1946 - April 16, 1948
Item 2: Scrapbook II: "Church at Worship" clippings --- April 23, 1948 - April 17, 1950

Box 12

Item 1: Scrapbook III: "Church at Worship" clippings --- April 14, 1950 - March 28, 1952
Item 2: Scrapbook IV: Clippings re: South India missions, book reviews written by PDJ, "Church at Worship" clippings --- Nov. 7, 1952 - April 10, 1953

Box 13

Folder 1: South India Conference minutes --- 1953
Folder 2: To the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church --- 1954
Folder 3: Africa Report: CRWM --- 1980
Folder 4: Survey of the Christian Reformed Mission of South India --- 1981
Folder 5: Photographs, Christian Reformed Mission of South India --- 1989
Folder 6: Maps [6] --- 1982,1988, and undated
Folder 7: Materials re: Ceylon --- 1954-1959, and undated
Folder 8: Domestic Missions Week --- undated
Folder 9: Booklets in the Telugu language (India)
Folder 10: Learning to Know the Lord --- 1972
Folder 11: Articles from Our Mission Page by Peter De Jong --- 1948