Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates:
Created: 1981
Collection 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
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
Collection 347 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 347
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Margaret (Hollander) Long in which she discusses her conversion, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission tohgether with her husband Burt) in Niger and Nigeria from 1950 through 1984. Other topics discussed include raising a family on the mission field, development of an AWANA program for Hausa children, evangelistic activities, impressions of the French colonial system, the independence of Niger, Hamami Diori,...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.
Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.
Dates:
Created: 1986
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Great Britain 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 4
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions -- Nigeria. 4
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 4
- Tribes -- Nigeria. 4
- Church work with women. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Hausa (African people) 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children. 2
- Christian education -- Niger. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christianity and other religions. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Niger. 2
- Church growth -- Niger. 2
- Church growth -- Nigeria. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with women -- Niger. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Niger. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 2
- France 2
- France -- Colonies 2
- France -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Hausa (African people) -- Niger. 2
- Hausa language. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Niger. 2
- International relief -- Niger. 2
- International relief. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Medical care -- Niger. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Niger. 2
- Missions to Muslims -- Niger. 2
- Muslims -- Niger. 2
- Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Niger 2
- Niger -- Economic conditions. 2
- Niger -- Social conditions. 2
- Nigeria 2
- Nigeria -- Foreign relations 2
- Nigeria -- History 2
- Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 2
- Nigeria -- Politics and government. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Religion in the public schools 2
- Religion in the public schools -- Nigeria. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sex role -- Nigeria. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Tribes -- Niger. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Amharic language. 1
- Animism -- Ethiopia. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Baptism. 1
- Bhil (Indic people) 1 ∧ less
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