The Common Ministry at Washington State University, an ecumenical Protestant ministry, was established in 1965. It followed a long history at WSU of ministry by individual denominations and other organizations, sometimes working independently, and sometimes in partnership. The Common Ministry operated the Koinonia House (K-House), later called the Interfaith House, which housed campus religious groups and unofficial student organizations.
This collection consists of two accessions of records of the Common Ministry at Washington State University and some of its predecessor groups. It includes correspondence, annual reports, financial records, design drawings, prayer songbooks, and other documents related to the Koinonia House (or "K-House"), information about programs and missions, photographs (slides and prints), VHS tapes of events including the Roger Williams Symposium, materials related to national organizations for campus ministries, grant applications, and miscellanous items.
Preliminary inventory:
Box 1. History of campus ministries; Cooperative Ministries in Higher Education (CMHE) information; United Ministries in Higher Education (UMHE) information; financial documents; Common Ministry historical information.
Box 2. Common Ministry historical information (continued); Common Ministry policies; Common Ministry Last Lecture Series; financial information; Common Ministry Council; Common Ministry programs; grant applications; brochures; photographs (prints and negatives).
Box 3. Denominations; CMHE; UMHE; community organizations; national level campus ministry organizations.
Box 4. UMHE; CHHE; partner denominations.
Box 5. Common Ministry Council minutes, 1983-2006.
Box 6. Common Ministry Council minutes, 1966-1983; local operating committee of the Koinonia House minutes; Washington State Commission on Ministries in Higher Education minutes, 1973-1974; Common Ministry annual reports.
Box 7. Common Ministry annual reports (continued); Directors' programs correspondence; K-House videos (VHS, 3 items).
Box 8. Slides (unlabeled binder with slides of programs, events, etc., circa 1970s-1990s); financial information, 1950s-1980s.
Box 9. Slides of mission trips to Latin America, 1980s (5 carousels).
Box 10. Correspondence, 1962-2002; committee information, 1970s; student program files: Plunge programs, mission trips, peer ministry.
Box 11. Student programs (continued); Building information (K-House), 1970-1975; policies, WSU information, circa 1970-1975.
Box 12. Building information and WSU information (continued); Westminister Foundation; Presbytery of Spokane; local churches.
Box 13. Local churches (continued); Common Ministry information, 1960s.
Boxes 14-15. Rolled design drawings for remodel of Koinonia House building; also landscape plans and sketches (some reproductions).
Containers 16-17 (oversize folders). Plans for K-House remodel, 1971; student design for K-house remodel, 2005; event posters and broadsides.
Box 1. Newsletters (1994-2018), Building files (1999-2014) including correspondence regarding upgrade/remodel, city codes, building users, and sale correspondence.
Box 2. K House slides, guest books, photos of installation of new director (1999), floppy discs, cassettes, CDs, flyers and components of deconstructed posters.
Box 3. Music on CDs and sheet music include Taizé songs for prayer; Bibles.
Box 4. Progressive dinners and dinner auctions (1989-2016), student programs/events, outreach grants, publicity, donations to WSU students, fundraising, council minutes (2007-2023).
Box 5. Roger Williams Symposia and other recordings on VHS and CD.
Box 6. Roger Williams Symposia and "God at 2000" VHS tapes
Box 7. Financial transactions (1967-1974), Roger Williams Symposia VHS tapes
Box 8. Roger Williams Symposium Foundation reports (1964-1970), Roger Williams Symposium history (1978-1991), Roger Williams Symposium files (1992-2020), annual reports (1972-2015; missing 1996-97 and 1992-93)
Box 9. Employee files, council activities, council member retreats, council member handbooks, strategic planning, CHME correspondence, website, correspondence, student recruitment, Schulze fund photo, 1960s memories, GALA info and farewell, program posters, historical timeline.
Box 10. Oversized posters (Location: 2-8-5-4).
This is a unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
[Item description]
Preliminary Guide to the Common Ministry at Washington State University Records, 1945-2008 (MSSM.107)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The Common Ministry at Washington State University donated this collection via Sue Durrant in 2016 (MS.2016.22) and Emi Dickens in 2024 (MS.2024.24).
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