Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 196 Oral History Interview with Edna Louise Asher Case
Collection
Identifier: CN 196
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Edna Louise Asher Case (1905-1999), in which she discusses her aunt, Virginia Asher, who was a co-worker of Billy Sunday; she was also involved in many other evangelistic efforts. Other topics include: Case's student days at Wheaton College, and her involvement in city mission work; impressions of Mel Trotter, Billy Sunday, Helen Sunday. The time frame covered by the interview is 1905 to 1929.Edna Case was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November...
Dates:
Created: 1905-1929
Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson Sr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 285
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
Dates:
Created: 1919 -2001
Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
Collection 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
Collection 398 Oral History Interview with Wayne L. Gordon
Collection
Identifier: CN 398
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne LeRoy Gordon, pastor of Lawndale Community Church, a nondenominational church in Chicago's predominantly black community, Lawndale. Topics covered include Gordon's youth, the influence of his family on his spiritual growth, his call to work in the black community, his education at Wheaton College, ministry through Lawndale Community Church in Chicago (its structure, various ministries, including health care, education, and recreation), and the African...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 401 Oral History Interview with Karl G. Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 401
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Karl G. Dortzbach in which he describes his childhood and youth, influence of his family, education at Wheaton College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and missionary experience in Ethiopia (short term with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and in Kenya. Subjects covered include missiology, conversion, raising children on the mission field, marital relationships on the mission field, church life in a Nairobi congregation, proliferation of parachurch groups...
Dates:
Created: 1988-1989
Collection 465 Oral History Interview with Merry E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 465
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Merry Dalton Long (1925-2010) in which she describes her childhood; education at Wheaton College; marriage; missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Brazil; the 1960 Congo Rebellion; raising and educating children on the mission field. Other topics discussed include: Long’s medical training as a nurse during WWII; impressions of Africa; medical care available on the mission field; observations about Congolese animism; missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1986
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- Conversion. 5
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- Missionaries. 5
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Christian education. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Chicago (Ill.) 2
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- City missions -- Chicago. 2
- City missions. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Family. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions. 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Rural missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 2
- Worship. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Boca Raton (Fla.) 1
- Brazil -- Religion. 1
- Brazil. 1
- Catholic Church -- Africa. 1
- Catholic Church -- Kenya. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Chapel Hour (Radio program) 1
- Chaplains, Military 1
- Chaplains, Military -- United States. 1
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children of clergy. 1
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 1
- Children. 1
- Christian education -- Brazil. 1
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Christian literature. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 1
- Church -- Biblical teaching. 1 ∧ less
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