Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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 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
Filtered By
- Subject: Conversion -- Personal narratives. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work. 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Translating and interpreting. 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Animism. 1
- Biarritz (France) 1
- Bible. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Indonesia 1
- Children of missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Christmas. 1
- Church and state -- Indonesia. 1
- Church and state -- Kenya. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Kenya. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Conversion -- Christianity. 1
- Crime and criminals 1
- Crime and criminals -- United States. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Easter 1
- Education (Christian theology) 1
- Education of women. 1
- Eldoret (Kenya) 1
- Evangelicalism -- Jamaica 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
- Evangelicalism. 1
- Female circumcision 1
- Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Africa. 1
- Githumu, Kenya. 1
- Great Britain 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies ?z Kenya. 1
- Homosexuality -- Christianity. 1
- Homosexuality. 1
- Illiteracy. 1
- Independent churches -- Kenya. 1
- Independent churches. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Burkina Faso 1
- Indonesia -- Maluku. 1
- Indonesia -- Religion 1
- Influenza 1
- Influenza -- History. 1
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
- Jihad 1
- Kamba (African people) 1
- Kikuyu (African people) 1
- Kurumba language. 1
- Language in missionary work. 1
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) 1
- Literacy -- Religious aspects 1
- Literacy programs -- Burkina Faso 1
- Lord's Supper. 1
- Marriage. 1
- Masai (African people) 1
- Missionaries -- Africa. 1
- Missionaries -- Asia. 1
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missionaries' spouses. 1
- Missions -- Africa. 1
- Missions -- Burkina Faso. 1
- Missions -- Educational work. 1
- Missions -- Indonesia. 1
- Missions -- International cooperation. 1
- Missions -- Rural work -- Kenya. 1
- Missions -- Rural work. 1
- Missions. 1
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 1
- Mooré language. 1
- Mossi (African people) 1
- Muslims -- Indonesia 1
- Nairobi (Kenya) 1
- Ngong (Kenya) 1
- Occult science 1
- Organizational change. 1
- Polygamy -- Kenya. 1
- Poverty. 1
- Refugees 1 ∧ less
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