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In the UK, a centralised service was provided from Bath to produce and distribute a regular prayer newsletter and to provide specialised support services. During WWII, Bath was bombed and the Echoes of Service records were destroyed by fire.
In 2004 no longer active Echoes of Service correspondence files relating to individual missionaries and married couples were transferred on permanent loan to the John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester. While all of these records are post-1945, many of the missionaries would have been active in 1930s. An ''Echoes of Service papers'' handlist now on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20101122055301/http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/brethren/manuscripts/catalogued/files/fileuploadmax10mb,142849,en.pdf Wayback Machine] alphabetically lists the missionaries covered in these files and their country of service. Most importantly, the John Rylands University library also holds copies of the magazine ''Echoes of service'' from 1885 onwards, and its predecessor ''The missionary echo : a record of labour for Lord in other lands'' from 1872. Some early copies have been [https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search/what/Periodicals?q=echoes+of+service&sort=reference_number%2Cimage_sequence_number digitized].
Contact: Lianne Smith, Christian Brethren Archivist, The John Rylands University Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH England Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3764 Email: lianne.smith@manchester.ac.uk or uml.special-collections@manchester.ac.uk Website: [http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/ John Rylands University Library]
In 2017 Echoes of Service amalgamated with Interlink to become Echoes International. They have two offices in the United Kingdom.
