Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Organization
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include: Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Collection
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
Dates:
Created: 1976-1985
Collection 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips
Collection
Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 325
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which Berry discusses his conversion, education at Wheaton College, and his work as a pilot and administrator for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Honduras and Southeast Asia. Other topics discussed include. Berry’s service in the Army during World War II, his views on pacifism, the origins of Mission Aviation Fellowship, challenges of MAF, and the effect of life on the mission field on Berry’s family.Donald Berry was interviewed by Robert Shuster on...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 407 Records of InterAct Ministries
Collection
Identifier: CN 407
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, brochures, handbook, video tapes, and historical sketches documenting the ministry of the mission. Topics covered include administration of the mission, the Arctic Bible Institute, infant baptism, the Moravian Church, Arctic Training Center, Victory High School, Multi Media Production, the correspondence school program, Victory Bible Camp, Slavic Gospel Association's transfer of its work in Alaska to AMI, Native Institute of Canada, Native Bible Centre...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1989
Collection 427 Oral History Interviews with Americo Saavedra
Collection
Identifier: CN 427
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Americo Saavedra, a Peruvian-born missionary working with HCJB in Ecuador, in which he describes his childhood, family, conversion, Catholicism in Peru and Ecuador, radio station HCJB and its ministry, Quito, Ecuador, his decision to be a missionary, employment with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. Other topics include his education at Moody Bible Institute, Christian education in Ecuador, informal education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, the state of the...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 471 Papers of W. Arthur Saunders
Collection
Identifier: CN 471
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and a manuscript translated by W. Arthur Saunders, relating to Saunder’s missionary service in China with China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1930 to 1987. The interview describes his childhood in England, emigration to New Zealand, training at the New Zealand Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, going to China in 1930, evangelistic work in south Gansu province, the work of Chinese evangelists, worship services in Gansu churches,...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Collection 508 Oral History Interviews with Barbara L. Collins
Collection
Identifier: CN 508
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Barbara Lynn (Miner) Collins in which she describes her childhood; family's religious background; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development in college and young professional life; acceptance as a missionary by Africa Inland Mission (AIM); arrival on the mission field in Kenya; work among the Rendile and Kikuyu peoples; raising children on the mission field; development of women's program at Africa Inland Church Missionary College; work among women refugees...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 545 Papers of Jacqueline Huggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 545
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview, one videotape, one radio interview, one photograph, and prayer letters related to the ministry of Jacqueline Huggins, missionary and Bible translator with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Kagayanen people of the Philippines.The recordings, comprising the majority of the collection, consist of an oral history with Huggins (see detailed description which follows) and of the radio program Family Portraits segment hosted...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1997
Collection 623 Oral History Interviews with Christopher B. Ladish
Collection
Identifier: CN 623
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Christopher Ladish in which he discusses his childhood, conversion to Christian faith, marriage, joining Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics, his translation and literacy work in the Koromfe language among the Koromba people of Burkina Faso, the characteristics of the Wycliffe organization and staff, and methods of Bible translation. The time period covered by the interviews is 1961 to 2006.Christopher Ladish was interviewed by...
Dates:
2006
Collection 624 Ephemera of the ZamZam Incident
Collection
Identifier: CN 624
Scope and Contents
Diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, oral history interviews, correspondence, photos, and other materials relating to the passengers, mainly American missionaries, who were aboard the ship Zamzam, sunk in the south Atlantic Ocean in 1941 by a German warship. Materials describe the sinking, the subsequent experiences of the passengers as German prisoners and the internment of some for the duration of the war, and reunions held in later years by the survivors and their families.
Dates:
Created: 1941-2012
Collection 642 Oral History Interviews with Susan Nivens
Collection
Identifier: CN 642
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Susan Nivens, in which she discusses her childhood in Michigan, development of her Christian faith, education at Bethany Bible College, joining the Summer Institute of Linguistics/Wycliffe Bible Translators, the relationship between the two; her marriage; work in Indonesia among the Tarangan people; raising a family in the field; the processes of Bible translation; Indonesian village life; Muslim/Christian relations; experiences during a jihad, helping to create...
Dates:
2009
Vernon W. Patterson Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 005
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, clippings, reports, financial records, press releases, promotional material, forms, newsletters, and oral history interviews relating to Vernon W. Patterson's (1892-1991) active participation and leadership in evangelistic activities in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The papers focus particularly on his involvement in various evangelical lay organizations and other institutions and the early career of Billy Graham. The interviews were recorded on 3/4/85 and 3/5/85 and...
Dates:
Created: 1900-1985
Filtered By
- Subject: Conversion X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Conversion. 12
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
- Evangelistic work. 11
- Missionaries. 11
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Bible -- Translating. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Bible. 6
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Christian life. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Animism. 5
- Bible colleges 5
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 5
- Women 5
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Bible colleges -- United States. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Translating and interpreting. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Worship. 3
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christmas. 2
- Church and state -- United States. 2
- Church growth. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism. 2
- Divorce. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Family -- United States. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Holy Spirit. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) 2
- Linguistics 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Organizational change. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Revivals. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- African American missionaries. 1
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Alcoholics. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Race relations. 1
- Animism -- Guatemala. 1
- Animism -- Mexico. 1
- Animism -- Philippines. 1
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Arctic voice (Periodical) 1
- Arminianism -- United States 1
- Arminianism. 1
- Baptism. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Biarritz (France) 1
- Bible -- Congresses. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1 ∧ less
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