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Hess, Lyndon.

 Person

Found in 3 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

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
Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Catholic Church. 2
Christian education -- Zambia. 2
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Christian education. 2
Christianity and culture. 2
Church and state -- Zambia. 2
Church and state. 2
Church development, New. 2
Communism -- Zambia. 2
Communism. 2
Education 2
Education -- Zambia. 2
Great Britain 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
Laity. 2
Medical care 2
Medical care -- Zambia. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
Missions -- Africa. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Missions, Medical. 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
Tribes. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 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
Boarding schools -- Zambia. 1
Boarding schools. 1
Children of missionaries -- Zambia. 1
Conversion. 1
Intercultural communication -- Zambia. 1
Intercultural communication. 1
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
Missionaries -- United States. 1
Missions -- South Africa. 1
Northern Lunda (African people) 1
Women 1
Women -- Religious life. 1
Women missionaries. 1
Worship. 1
Zambia -- Description and travel. 1
Zambia -- Social life and customs. 1
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