Holdings

The History Center houses documents significant to Swedish Baptist institutional, cultural and immigration history, the Baptist General Conference, and Bethel University. The collection includes:

• Institutional records of Bethel University
  
  
• Swedish Baptist Conference Minutes (1856-1934)
  
  
• Baptist General Conference Annual Reports
  
  
• BGC publications (e.g. The Standard and its precursors)
  
  
• BGC church and district records
  
  
• BGC home and foreign mission records
  
  
• Swedish Bible and hymnal collection
  
  
• Biographical files on over 2,300 conference pastors and laypersons
  
  
• Photographs
  
  
• In addition, the History Center contains a variety of recurring materials: minutes and reports of meetings, programs and proceedings of conferences and conventions, financial records, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, missions reports, and news clippings.