Christian Reformed Church -- Missions

Documents the ministerial career of Marvin C. Baarman (1919-1991), in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. The material focuses primarily on the administrative dimensions of his career in the parish ministry and later as he worked for the denomination’s Home Missions Board. Among other topics, it details the denomination’s evangelism during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the denomination’s commission on race formed in 1968.

Details the latter part of Henry Baker’s ministerial career, when his work focused on home missions. Includes biographical data, sermons, essays, meditations, and reports. Particularly rich in detailing the evangelism and home mission efforts in the Christian Reformed Church in North America during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Professor of religion and theology at Calvin College. The collection includes memoirs, class lectures on the history of missions, theory of mission, church history, Christianity and culture, history of the Christian Reformed Church, and biblical theology.

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relating to India, addresses, lectures, sermons, class papers, catechism materials, study outlines, course materials, unpublished manuscripts, articles, book reviews, pamphlets, thesis, letters of call, notebooks, correspondence, and clippings.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

Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes records of the Mission Analysis and Projection Commission (MAPper).

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.