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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relating to India, addresses, lectures, sermons, class papers, catechism materials, study outlines, course materials, unpublished manuscripts, articles, book reviews, pamphlets, thesis, letters of call, notebooks, correspondence, and clippings.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 3: Lesson Material
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Lesson material for advanced catechism students --- 1993
- Folder 2: Lesson material for 5th and 6th grade catechism students --- undated
- Folder 3: Catechism material: The Heritage of Our Forefathers --- 1993
- Folder 4: Adult catechism material for Russians --- 1991-1993
- Folder 5: Children's catechism lesson material --- undated
- Folder 6: Catechism course material --- 1938
- Folder 7: Lesson series: How to Read the Bible --- undated
- Folder 8: Course material: The Christian Church in the Apostolic Age --- 1965-1966
- Folder 9: Study material re: the Canons of Dort --- undated
- Folder 10: Bible outlines for Old Testament Prophecy and Minor Prophets --- 1985-1986, 1991
- Folder 11: Study material re: the Books of Revelation and I Peter --- 1981, 1991
- Folder 12: Course material: Reading the Bible with Understanding and the Epistle to the Hebrews --- undated
- Folder 13: Course material re: church polity and government --- undated
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Study material re: the Psalms --- undated
- Folder 2: Lesson outlines re: the book of Ephesians --- undated
- Folder 3: Bible study material re: the books of Acts and I Peter --- undated
- Folder 4: Courses taught at Eastern Reformed Bible Institute --- 1940s
- Folder 5: Theological encyclopedia course material --- 1936
- Folder 6: Bible study outlines --- undated
- Folder 7: Adult Bible class material re: understanding the Old Testament --- 1979
- Folder 8: Studies re: God's Covenant and the Sabbath --- 1985
- Folder 9: Pastoral care course material for Mid-American Seminary --- 1984, undated
- Folder 10: Course material re: homiletics (Mid-America Seminary) --- 1968-1985
- Folder 11: Course material re: preaching (Mid-American Seminary) --- undated
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]
