This series contains studies conducted by various committees, including the Committee on Research in Foreign Missions; the Committee of Lay Training; and the Committee on Missionary Personnel of the Division of Foreign Missions. Missionary preparation and training involve readying the missionary before they leave, but also during their first post and their first furlough. Training also refers to learning the local language.
This series is unarranged.
Box 1 Folder 1
Recruitment, 1957 -- 1964
Box 1 Folder 2
Psychological Evaluation, 1960
Box 1 Folder 3
Testing and Selection, 1929 -- 1960
Box 1 Folder 4
Preparation and Training, 1956 -- 1963
Box 1 Folder 5
Lay Training, 1949 -- 1953
Box 1 Folder 6
Turnover of Foreign Missionary Personnel, 1953 -- 1957
This series contains booklets compiled for use by missionaries throughout the world. These booklets include detailed information on outfit lists which the missionary needed to bring with them. The outfit lists could include not only clothes but personal effects, clothing, and furnishings. Other information provided for the missionary was household items required, differences for singles versus married couples; food needed; recreation allowed, and other such information in order to familiarize the missionary with each custom before arriving. The manuals were used as a guide. The manuals were compiled in 1953 but have information from previous years. These booklets were compiled and bound by the Missionary Research Library. Correspondence is included to show who sent the materials.
This series is arranged alphabetically.
Box 2 Folder 1
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 1946 -- 1953
Outfit Suggestions for Assam, 1950 Equipment List for Married Couples to Bengal-Orissa, 1953 Outfit List for Burma, 1951 Outfit List for the Congo, 1952 Outfit List for India, 1949 Outfit List for Japan, 1951 Outfit List for Philippines, 1946-1953
Box 2 Folder 2
Augustana Lutheran Church, Board of World Missions, circa 1946 -- 1953
Outfit List for Tanganyika, East Africa
Box 2 Folder 3
Brethren in Christ Church, Foreign Mission Board, 1952
Outfit List for India, 1952
Box 2 Folder 4
Church of the Brethren: General Brotherhood Board, Foreign Mission Commission, 1953
India Handbook, Received 1953
Box 2 Folder 5
Congo Inland Mission (Mennonite), circa 1953
Box 2 Folder 6
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Board of Foreign Missions, circa 1953
Outfit List for Japan Outfit List for Madagascar Outfit List for The Sudan
Box 2 Folder 7
Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America, Board of Missions, circa 1947 -- 1953
Instructions for New Missionaries Instructions for Missionaries returning to the field after furlough Handbook for Covenant Missionaries to Alaska, 1947 Handbook for Missionaries to the Congo, 1949 Outfit List and Instructions for the Congo, 1953 Outfit List for Ecuador Supplementary Advice for Formosa Outfit List for Japan
Box 2 Folder 8
General Council Assemblies of God, Foreign Missions Department, circa 1945
Outfit List for Africa Outfit List for Japan Outfit List for Middle East and India
Box 2 Folder 9
Methodist Church – The Division of World Missions of the Board of Missions and Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions, Department of Work in Foreign Lands, circa 1945
Outfit List for Africa Outfit List for North Africa Outfit List for Central Congo Outfit List for Southern Congo Outfit List for Cuba Outfit List for India and Pakistan Outfit List for Korea Outfit List for Latin America Outfit List for Malaya Outfit List for the Philippines Outfit List for Southern Rhodesia Outfit list for Southeast Asia
Box 2 Folder 10
Presbyterian Church in the United States – Board of Foreign Missions, circa 1939 -- 1952
Outfit List for Mexico, 1940 Outfit List for Guatemala, 1947 Outfit List for San Jose, Costa Rica, 1950 Outfit List for Colombia, 1949 Outfit List for Venezuela, 1945 Outfit List for Brazil Outfit List for Chile, 1940 Outfit List for Syria-Lebanon, 1952 Outfit List for Iran, 1948 Outfit List for Iraq Outfit List for India and Pakistan, 1951 Outfit List for Thailand, 1940 Outfit List for the Philippines (Damagueta), 1949 Outfit List for Japan, 1951 Outfit List for Korea, 1939 Outfit List for China, 1948
Box 2 Folder 11
Presbyterian Church in the United States – Board of World Missions, circa 1949 -- 1952
Outfit List for Brazil Outfit List for the Congo Outfit List for Japan Outfit List for Korea Outfit List for Mexico
Box 2 Folder 12
United Presbyterian Church of North America and The Women's General Missionary Society (Pittsburgh), 1946 -- 1952
Outfit List for Egypt, 1952 Outfit List for Ethiopia, 1946 Outfit List for Pakistan – India, 1946 Outfit List for South Sudan, 1947 Outfit List for North Sudan, 1947
Box 2 Folder 13
United Lutheran Church in America – Board of Foreign Missions, circa 1946 -- 1952
Outfit List for Argentina Outfit List for British Guiana Outfit List for India Outfit List for Liberia Outfit List for Malaya
Box 2 Folder 14
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Foreign Department, circa 1946 -- 1952
Outfit List for Africa – Sierra Leone, West Africa