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Predicting Attrition of Baptist Foreign Missionaries Using the MMPI

Description: Relationships between MMPI subscale scores and premature resignations among Southern Baptist foreign missionaries appointed in 1964 were investigated in an effort to develop a predictive model for attrition. Unsuccessful attempts were made at cross-validating the results of a previous related study, and two separate discriminant function analyses were undertaken. The first sorted subjects into three groups, defined by subjects' length of service before resignation. The second classified them ac… more
Date: May 1985
Creator: Cobbs, David Lee
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Missionary Millennium: The American West; North and West Africa in the Christian Imagination

Description: During the 1890s in the United States, Midwestern YMCA missionaries challenged the nexus of power between Northeastern Protestant denominations, industrialists, politicians, and the Association's International Committee. Under Kansas YMCA secretary George Fisher, this movement shook the Northeastern alliance's underpinnings, eventually establishing the Gospel Missionary Union. The YMCA and the GMU mutually defined foreign and domestic missionary work discursively. Whereas Fisher's pre-millennia… more
Date: August 2009
Creator: Garrett, Bryan A.
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The Adventist Movement in Trinidad: A Case-Study in Intercultural Communication

Description: The problem with which this study is concerned is that of devising methods to assist teachers of Christianity in reaching and attracting a fast-growing and enlightened country. The Adventist church, along with other churches, is being challenged in communicating its message to a populace consisting of varied ethnic groups. This investigation has a two-fold purpose: (1) to study intercultural communications in order to locate principles which are applicable to missionary endeavors, and (2) to pl… more
Date: December 1971
Creator: Noel, Augustine B.
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Communicating Christianity to the Ashanti Tribe: A Study in Cross-Cultural Communication

Description: The problem with which this study is concerned is that of identifying the significant variables involved in cross-cultural communication and applying these concepts in communicating the Christian faith to Ashanti tribe members of central Ghana in West Africa.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Davenport, Donald Dewayne
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Primary Sunday School

Description: Book about Christian beliefs used for Sunday school programs including 52 lessons referencing Bible excerpts.
Date: 1960
Creator: Garo Hills District Sunday School Committee
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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A Historical Study of the Impact of the Christian Development on the Contributions of Frank C. Laubach in Literacy Education

Description: Frank C. Laubach made substantial contributions both to literacy education and the Christian life. There were between sixty and one hundred million people who learned to read through his literacy campaigns. He traveled to 130 countries developing literacy primers in 312 languages. At the same time, Laubach was a missionary mystic, spiritual experimenter and leader among Protestant Christians. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between two important parts of Laubach's life… more
Date: December 1989
Creator: Lawson, J. Gregory (James Gregory)
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The missionary world of Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson

Description: This study surveys the dreams and ideas of the missionary movement as shown in the life of the Worcester-Robertson family who lived among the Cherokee and Creek Indians. The sources include pertinent material in the papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia; the Indian Archives and Alice Robertson papers, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City; the Alice Robertson Collec… more
Date: August 1978
Creator: Brown, Nettie Terry
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A Study of the Functional Competencies of Southern Baptist Missionaries Who Originate Indigenous Churches in the Philippines

Description: This study was designed to identify the functional competencies necessary for a missionary to plant churches in the Philippines, to identify how those competencies can be recognized in individual missionaries, and to determine the percentage of personnel who possess specific functional competencies.
Date: December 1993
Creator: Gopffarth, William
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[News Script: Missionary]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Reverend James Dretke who is a Luther missionary to East Africa, staying in Dallas before traveling home and going back to missionary work in Africa.
Date: November 3, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Dallas missionaries]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about United States missionaries being ordered to return to the United States.
Date: March 3, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Anti-red campaign]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Father James Keller, founder of the Non-sectarian Christopher Movement, in Dallas for a lecture.
Date: January 10, 1951, 6:45 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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