Torrey, Edith C.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 105 Oral History Interview with Paul D. Votaw
Collection
Identifier: CN 105
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Dean Votaw (1917-2007) in which he describes his childhood; education at Wheaton College, Dallas Seminary, and Princeton Seminary; and missionary activities in Syria and Lebanon. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1917-1954.Reverend Paul Votaw was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 4, 1980, at the Graham Center offices in Wheaton. The first ten minutes of the interview are barely decipherable due to technical difficulties. The...
Dates:
Created: 1980
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 488 Papers of John E. Phillips
Collection
Identifier: CN 488
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, letters, newspaper clipping, a booklet and other materials, relating mainly to John E. Phillips' work as a missionary with the Sudan Interior Mission among the Kambatta people of Ethiopia (1932-1937) and among the Dinka people of Sudan (1938-1949). There is also some information on his involvement in other ministries, such as Ambassadors for Christ and the Allentown Rescue Mission.
Dates:
Created: 1926-2003
Filtered By
- Subject: Persecution X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Church and state. 2
- Education 2
- English language 2
- English language -- Foreign speakers. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work. 2
- Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
- Missionaries. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Allentown (Pa.) 1
- Amhara (African people) 1
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Animism. 1
- Arab-Israeli conflict. 1
- Arabs. 1
- Armenians. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Bible. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Syria. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- Christian education -- Greece. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Greece. 1
- Church and state -- Lebanon. 1
- Church and state -- Syria. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Greece. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 1
- Depressions 1
- Depressions -- 1929 1
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
- Dinka (African people) 1
- Ecumenical movement. 1
- Education -- Ethiopia. 1
- Education -- Greece. 1
- Education -- Israel. 1
- Education -- Lebanon. 1
- Education -- Syria. 1
- Education -- United States. 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Education, Higher -- United States. 1
- Ethiopia 1
- Ethiopia -- Description and travel. 1
- Ethiopia -- History 1
- Ethiopia -- History -- 1889-1974. 1
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 1
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 1
- Evangelicalism -- Greece. 1
- Evangelicalism. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Greece. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Lebanon. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Syria. 1
- Greece 1
- Greece -- History 1
- Greece -- History -- 1917-1944. 1
- Greece -- Social life and customs. 1
- International relief -- Greece. 1
- International relief. 1
- Interpersonal conflict. 1
- Jewish-Arab relations. 1
- Kambata (African people) 1
- Keswick movement. 1
- Liberalism (Religion) 1
- Mass media in missionary work. 1
- Missions -- Congresses. 1
- Missions -- Greece. 1
- Missions -- India. 1
- Missions -- Kenya. 1
- Missions -- Lebanon. 1
- Missions -- Sudan. 1
- Missions -- Syria. 1
- Missions to Muslims. 1
- Missions. 1
- Muslims -- Lebanon. 1
- Muslims -- Syria. 1
- Muslims. 1
- Orphans 1
- Orphans -- Greece. 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
- Palestine 1
- Palestine -- History 1
- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948. 1
- Persecution -- Ethiopia. 1 ∧ less
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