Albert Huisjen Collection

Collection

Identifier: COLL-586

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates

created: 1920-1977
Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1977
Other: Date acquired: 05/04/2019

Creator

Albert Huisjen (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use within Heritage Hall.

Biographical or Historical Information

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.

Note written by

Full Extent

0.42 Cubic Feet

Full Extent

1 Box other_unmapped

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Albert Huisjen (1889 – 1979) was a missionary who devoted his career to the denomination’s outreach to the Jewish Community. This collection documents Huisjen’s outreach efforts through sermons written in both English and Yiddish, correspondence, reports, articles, and essays.