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Leedy, John W.

 Person

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess

 Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates: Created: 1982

Collection 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess

 Collection
Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
Dates: Created: 1982

Collection 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long

 Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.

Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.

Dates: Created: 1986

Conversion Narratives Collection

 Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-228
Scope and Contents

The contents of the Conversion Narratives Collection may be searched in the library catalog using keyword: SC/228

Dates: Other: -

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Subject
Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
Catholic Church. 3
Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
Children of missionaries. 3
Christian education. 3
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Church and state. 3
Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 3
Great Britain 3
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
Indigenous church administration 3
Language in missionary work. 3
Medical care 3
Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
Missions -- Educational work. 3
Missions -- Zambia. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Tribes. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
Zambia 3
Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Christian education -- Zambia. 2
Christianity and culture. 2
Church and state -- Zambia. 2
Church development, New. 2
Communism -- Zambia. 2
Communism. 2
Education 2
Education -- Zambia. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
Laity. 2
Medical care -- Zambia. 2
Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
Missions -- Africa. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Occultism. 2
Racism -- Zambia. 2
Racism. 2
Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
Rural churches. 2
Southern Lunda (African people) 2
Superstition. 2
Tribes -- Africa. 2
Tribes -- Zambia. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
Women 2
Women -- Religious life. 2
Zambia -- History 2
Zambia -- History -- 1953-1964. 2
Zambia -- History -- 1964- 2
Zambia -- Politics and government -- 1964-1991 2
Zambia -- Politics and government -- To 1964. 2
Zambia -- Politics and government. 2
Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
Baptism. 1
Bible -- Inspiration. 1
Bible. 1
Boarding schools -- Zambia. 1
Boarding schools. 1
Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Niger. 1
Children of missionaries -- Zambia. 1
Christian education -- Niger. 1
Church and state -- Niger. 1
Church and state -- Nigeria. 1
Church growth -- Niger. 1
Church growth -- Nigeria. 1
Church growth. 1
Church work with women -- Niger. 1
Church work with women. 1
Conversion. 1
Depressions 1
Depressions -- 1929 1
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
Evangelicalism. 1
Evangelistic work -- Niger. 1
France 1
France -- Colonies 1
France -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
Fundamentalism. 1
Hausa (African people) 1
Hausa (African people) -- Niger. 1
Hausa language. 1
Indigenous church administration -- Niger. 1
Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 1
Intercultural communication -- Zambia. 1
Intercultural communication. 1
International relief -- Niger. 1
International relief. 1
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
Medical care -- Niger. 1
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