PCA Historical Center Collection: Children for Christ, Inc.

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Children for Christ, Inc.

Record Group # 63

5Picture of the "Class of 1944" standing in front of the First Bible Presbyterian Church. Rev. Schaeffer is standing at the end of the front row.

Boxes 294, 349 and 350

Content Summary: {brief}

Span Dates: 1944 - 1982

Size: 1.5 cu. ft.

Access Restrictions: None

Collection Citation: Children for Christ, Inc., Records, Box __, Folder __: item description, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, MO.

Related Collections: Francis A. Schaeffer Papers; First Bible Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, MO.

Organizational Sketch:
During the meetings of the American Council of Christian Churches in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1945, a movement for child evangelism was launched on a national basis. Children for Christ, Incorporated, was a local organization in St. Louis which had its beginnings because of the reorganization of the Child Evangelism Fellowship program in that city earlier in 1945. On October 20th, in a meeting at the First Bible Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, a national board of trustees was formed, with the Rev. Francis A. Schaeffer appointed as director. such men as the Rev. Carl McIntire, the Rev. R.T. Ketchum, and the Rev. E.G. Zorn were included as members of the national board.
With the enlargement of the work to a national scale, and aggressive program began to be put in place. Already the program was ministering to thousands of children in the St. Louis area through child evangelism classes in the neighborhoods and through released time classes in the public school system. A work in Columbus, Ohio soon reported the organization of a work along similar lines, and other similar works were quickly replicated across the country.

Finding Aid is normally located in folder number 1 of each box.

Subject	Box	File
Account Book: 1954 – 1976	350	7
Account Book: Accounts Payable, 1954 – 1969	350	4
Account Book: Book Room Receipts, 1954 – 1970	350	5
Account Book: Gifts, 1954 – 1966	350	6
Beckley, Stella, Teacher’s Manual	349	14
Bible Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, MO, Certificate	350	12
Bulletin	350	10
Bulletin Covers	350	11
Camp Program	349	7
Cash Ledger	350	2
Certificates, Stationery	350	8
Closing Financial Records, 1982	350	13
Edwards, Mary, Bible Study Course	349	6
Edwards, Mary, Heart of Salvation	349	10
Ephemera	350	3
Flannelgraph Aids	349	8
Hastings, Ruth O., Lessons from the Book of Acts	349	5
Helps for Teachers	349	2
Internal Revenue Service Papers, 1954 – 1962	350	15
Killam, Bernice, Bible Study: Philemon	349	13
Minutes, 1944 – 1946	294	5
Minutes, 1944 – 1953	350	9
Minutes, 1947 – 1950	294	4
Minutes, 1951 – 1955	294	3
Minutes, 1956 – 1967	294	2
Minutes, excerpts	350	14
Miscellaneous	350	18
National Board of Children for Christ, Inc., 1944 – 1949, Minutes	350	16
National Board of Children for Christ, Inc., 1950 – 1963, Minutes	350	17
Order Forms and Lists	350	19
Sample Programs	350	20
Schaeffer, Francis A. and Edith, God’s History of Ancient Times	349	9
Schaeffer, Francis A. and Edith, Studies in Luke	349	11
Schaeffer, Francis A., Empire Builders for Boys	349	4
Schaeffer, Mrs. Francis A. (Edith), The Door of Salvation	349	3
Tracts and Booklets	350	21
Wallis, Marie, Missionary Train	349	12