The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

      Recent additions to Asbury Seminary’s Archives and Special Collections include the family papers of Free Methodist (and Pentecost Band) evangelists E. E. and Julia Shelhamer. Received from their daughter, Mrs. Esther James, the collection consists of sermon and article manuscripts, correspondence, personal journals, and tracts, as well as materials from Mrs. Shelhamer’s sisters, Jennie A. Jolley and Helen Arnold. Documents relating to the Shelhamers’ four round-the-world evangelistic tours, and Julia’s interracial evangelistic work in Washington, DC, following Mr. Shelhamer’s death in 1947, are included in the collection.The papers of former ATS faculty member (1981–84) John M. Vayhinger have also…