By Emily Koelzer
Title: Albert Huisjen Collection, 1920-1977
Predominant Dates:1940-1977
ID: COLL/586
Primary 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
Subjects: Christianity and other Religions., Christian Reformed Church - Missions, Missions to Jews
Languages: English, Yiddish, Dutch;Flemish
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.
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.
Huisjen married his wife Aletta Catarina Huisjen (née Wolfhert) in 1911. They had six children. Albert Huisjen died in South Holland, Illinois in 1979 at the age of 90.
Repository: Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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
