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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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 289 Oral History Interview with G. Paul Groen

 Collection
Identifier: CN 289
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Paul Groen in which he describes his education at Wheaton College, missionary work the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria and the Nigerian church, particularly among the Tiv people, and the country's economy, educational system and political history between 1964 and 1973. Other topics discussed include:  Tiv customs and religion, the church among the Tiv and its indigenous leadership and transition of leadership from missionaries, relations with Roman Catholics...
Dates: Created: 1984

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

Moody Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 330
Brief Description Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church.  Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents...
Dates: Created: 1864-1987

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  • Subject: Missions, Medical X
  • Subject: Missions -- Nigeria. X

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Subject
Christian education. 5
Indigenous church administration 5
Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 5
Medical care 5
Medical care -- Nigeria. 5
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Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
Missions to Muslims. 5
Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 5
Tribes -- Nigeria. 5
Tribes. 5
Church and state -- Nigeria. 4
Church and state. 4
Great Britain 4
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 4
Missions -- Educational work. 4
Muslims. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Christian education -- United States. 3
Church work with women. 3
Conversion. 3
Evangelicalism. 3
Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 3
Hausa (African people) 3
International relief. 3
Missionaries -- Training of. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 3
Nigeria 3
Nigeria -- History 3
Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 3
Nigeria -- Politics and government. 3
Women missionaries. 3
Animism -- Nigeria. 2
Animism. 2
Catholic Church. 2
Children -- United States 2
Children of missionaries. 2
Children. 2
Christian education -- Niger. 2
Christianity and culture. 2
Church and social problems. 2
Church and state -- Niger. 2
Church discipline. 2
Church growth -- Niger. 2
Church growth -- Nigeria. 2
Church growth. 2
Church work with women -- Niger. 2
Culture shock. 2
Demoniac possession 2
Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 2
Education 2
Education -- Nigeria. 2
Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
Evangelistic work -- Niger. 2
Family. 2
France 2
France -- Colonies 2
France -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Fundamentalism. 2
Hausa (African people) -- Niger. 2
Hausa language. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Niger. 2
International relief -- Niger. 2
Medical care -- Niger. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missions -- Finance. 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 -- Economic conditions. 2
Nigeria -- Foreign relations 2
Nigeria -- Religion. 2
Religion in the public schools 2
Religion in the public schools -- Nigeria. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Sex role -- Nigeria. 2
Sex role. 2
Social change. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Tiv (African people) 2
Tribes -- Niger. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Worship (Christian) 2
African Americans -- Religious life. 1
African Americans. 1
Alcoholism -- United States 1
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