Onward Missions
Along with gospel posters used for preaching aids (see the “Global Evangelism” section of this exhibit), mission organizations also developed posters to promote their work at home and on the field. These posters highlight groups of missionaries or missionary projects across North America, Latin America, Europe, India, and Africa.
Women's National Foreign Missionary Jubilee
Copy of a handbill announcing the 50-year anniversary (jubilee) of the Woman’s Union Missionary Society (WUMS), 1910. Started in 1860 by women in Boston and New York, WUMS provided a...
Africa Inland Mission
Poster with the names and photos of the sixteen missionaries of the Africa Inland Mission who were supported by Moody Church of Chicago. Sometime between 1911 and 1925.
Women's Day Sunday
Poster prepared for Woman's Sunday, December 2, 1934, in Disciples of Christ Churches. The poster photos and drawings illustrate the medical, educational, philanthropic, and educational work of the United Christian...
Student Convention for Missionary Advance
Full-color poster promoting the first Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship student missions convention, held in Toronto in 1946. These meetings, held every three years, later became known as the Urbana conventions (from...
May HCJB be an Evangelist for you?
One of a series of posters ca. 1950s that missionary radio station HCJB distributed to churches in the United States to help raise support for their work in Ecuador.
Jeunesse pour Christ
Poster in French and Flemish for the 1950 International Congress of Youth for Christ, held in Paris, France. YFC had started in the United States in the mid-1940s to reach...
Congress Juvenil Nacional
Poster promoting a young people's congress in Santa Cruz, Bolivia as part of the Evangelism-in-Depth Campaigns developed by Latin American Mission in the 1950s and 1960s. Dimensions: 10.75" x 16.5"...
Africa Inland Church
Poster in Swahili describing the missionary work of the Africa Inland Church of Kenya, 1979. The Africa Inland Church emerged from within the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) before governance and...