Hess, Lyndon.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Conversion Narratives Collection
Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-228
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The contents of the Conversion Narratives Collection may be searched in the library catalog using keyword: SC/228
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Conversion Narratives Collection
Lyndon Hess Oral History Interview
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
Ruth E. Hess Oral History Interview
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
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- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Jehovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Plymouth Brethren -- Missions. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Superstition. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1953-1964. 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1964- 2
- Zambia -- History. 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government -- 1964-1991. 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government -- To 1964. 2
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
- Boarding schools -- Zambia. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Zambia. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Communism. 1
- Conversion -- Christianity. 1
- Education. 1
- Evangelistic work. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 1
- Great Britain. 1
- Indigenous church administration. 1
- Intercultural communication -- Zambia. 1
- Medical care. 1
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missionaries -- United States. 1
- Missionaries. 1
- Missions -- Africa. 1
- Missions -- South Africa. 1
- Northern Lunda (African people) 1
- Public worship -- Christianity. 1
- Racism. 1
- Rural churches. 1
- Tribes. 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- Women missionaries. 1
- Zambia -- Description and travel. 1
- Zambia -- Politics and government. 1
- Zambia -- Social life and customs. 1
- Zambia. 1 ∧ less
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