Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Mission to Indonesia

Descriptive Summary

Title

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Mission to Indonesia

Inclusive Dates

1950-1970

Call Number

RG 135

Creator(s)

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations.

Quantity

1.00 cubic foot

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. Medical, educational, and psychological records of living people are closed.

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

No strictly Presbyterian Mission was operative in Indonesia, 1950-70, though Presbyterian Missionaries worked throughout the country in the post-WW II ecumenical mission. The Rev. Winburn T. Thomas was the initial Presbyterian (PCUSA) Field Administrator in the Mission, and he represented also such offices as the Division of Church World Service (NCC), Division of Interchurch Aid and Refugee World Service (WCC), and the Foreign Missions Division/Southeast Asia Sub-Committee (NCC).

Collection Overview

Record Group 135 includes correspondence and reports from the Indonesia mission, 1950-1970. The records are arranged chronologically.

Administrative Information

Processing Information

As the work in Indonesia during this period of time was ecumenical, these records represent the National and World Councils of Churches as well as the Board of Foreign Missions and the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relation

Collection processed and finding aid prepared: March 1978
Robert A. Goldstein, Assistant Records Researcher

Notes added to finding aid: March 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Personal Name Subject

Thomas, Winburn Townshed, 1909-1981.

Corporate Subject

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Missions Indonesia.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Missions Indonesia.

Topical Subject

Missions Indonesia Interdenominational cooperation.

Missionaries Indonesia.

Genre-form

Reports. aat

Corporate Added Name

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Foreign Missions. Southeast Asia Sub-Committee.

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Church World Service.

World Council of Churches. Division of Inter-Church Aid, Refugee, and World Service.

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 135

1	2	Historical and Background Papers
	3-4	General correspondence, reports, 1950-51
	5	Personnel, 1951-52
	6	Field Administrator correspondence, reports, 1952
	7-8	General correspondence, reports, 1952
	9	Personnel, 1953-54
	10	General correspondence, reports, 1954
	11	Field Administrator correspondence, reports, 1955
	12	General correspondence, reports, 1955
	13	Rev John D Hayes, 1955-57
	14	Field Administrator correspondence; reports, 1956
	15	General correspondence, reports, 1956
	16	Field Administrator correspondence; reports, 1957
	17-19	General correspondence, reports, 1957-59
	20-22	General correspondence, reports; Personnel, 1960-61
	23	General correspondence, reports, 1962
	24	Personnel, 1963
	25-28	General correspondence, reports, 1963-65, 1967-70

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Guide to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations Secretaries' Files: Mission to Indonesia

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