Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 8 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 326 Papers of James Edwin Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 326
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and personal notebook relating to the ministry of James E. Wright with Youth for Christ in India, Mexico, and the United States.Series 1: Audio TapesOral history interviews with James E. Wright in which he describes his youth, conversion and spiritual growth, education at Wheaton College and Multnomah School of the Bible, involvement with Youth For Christ in Portland, Oregon, India and Mexico, counseling and follow-up...
Dates:
Created: 1950-1986
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 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis
Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1987
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 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
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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- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Missionaries. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Christian life. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Family. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- College students. 3
- Ethiopia 3
- Ethiopia -- History 3
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 3
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions. 3
- Nairobi (Kenya) 3
- Sunday schools. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church schools 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Education 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Kenya. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) -- Religion. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Rural missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Armenians. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Brazil -- Religion. 1
- Brazil. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Catholic Church -- Africa. 1 ∧ less
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