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Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria)

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

E.J. Cummins Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 511
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Dr. Erwin Jephthah Cummins, Jr. (1918-1997), SIM International medical missionary to Nigeria from 1952 to 1983. Topics discussed include Cummins's Christian background and education; early medical training and practice in Chicago, involvement in Christian Medical and Dental Society; transition to the mission field in Nigeria; medical work building and directing leprosaria in the Nigerian interior; indigenous church administration; Evangelical Church of West...
Dates: Created: 1995

Merle A. Steely Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates: Created: 1984

Ruth L. Maxwell Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
Dates: Created: 1989

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Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 2
Children of missionaries. 2
Christian education -- Nigeria. 2
Christian life. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
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Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- Liberia. 2
Missions -- Nigeria. 2
Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1950s 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Women missionaries. 2
Animism -- Liberia. 1
Animism -- Nigeria. 1
Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
Billy Graham South Africa Tour (1960) 1
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 1
Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
Christian education -- Liberia. 1
Christianity and culture. 1
Church and social problems -- Nigeria. 1
Church and state -- Nigeria. 1
Church development, New. 1
Church discipline. 1
Church growth -- Liberia. 1
Church growth -- Nigeria. 1
Church schools -- Nigeria. 1
Church work with military personnel. 1
Church work with women -- Liberia. 1
College students -- Religious life. 1
College students in missionary work. 1
Culture shock. 1
Decolonization -- Nigeria. 1
Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 1
Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Nigeria. 1
Education -- Liberia. 1
Education -- Nigeria. 1
Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 1
Fula (African people) 1
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Nigeria. 1
Hausa (African people) -- Nigeria. 1
Hausa language. 1
Igbo (African people) 1
Indigenous church administration -- Liberia. 1
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
Language in missionary work. 1
Lay missionaries. 1
Liberia -- Religion. 1
Medical care -- Liberia. 1
Medical care -- Nigeria. 1
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
Missionaries' spouses. 1
Missionaries, Resignation of. 1
Missions -- Finance. 1
Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 1
Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 1
Nigeria -- Description and travel. 1
Nigeria -- Economic conditions. 1
Nigeria -- Foreign relations -- 1960- 1
Nigeria -- History -- 1960- 1
Nigeria -- History -- Coup d'etat, 1966 (January 15) 1
Nigeria -- Politics and government -- 1960-1975. 1
Nigeria -- Religion. 1
Nigeria -- Social conditions -- 1960- 1
Public worship -- Christianity. 1
Religion in the public schools -- Nigeria. 1
Revivals -- Illinois -- Wheaton. 1
Revivals -- Nigeria. 1
Rural missions. 1
Sex role -- Nigeria. 1
Street preaching. 1
Superstition. 1
Syncretism (Religion). 1
Theological seminaries -- Nigeria. 1
Theological seminaries. 1
Tiv (African people) 1
Tribes -- Nigeria. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Buildings. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1
Women -- Education. 1
Women -- Religious life. 1
Worship -- Nigeria. 1
Worship. 1
Yoruba (African people) 1
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