Tape T4. S. Douglas Birdsall oral history interview {UNPROCESSED}
Content Description
March 19, 2025. Digital recording, 93 minutes, .48 GB, WAV format. Language: English. Interview conducted by Paul Ericksen at the Archives office at Wheaton College. Topics covered include: Entry into Japan for missionary career with LIFE Ministries, language learning for him and his wife, living situation in Tokyo, orientation and ongoing learning Japanese culture and language, LIFE Ministries distinctives, Ken Wendling's personality and leadership style, first assignment in student evangelism and church planting, leadership development emphasis, church planting experiment in northern Japan, outline of his roles with LIFE Ministries while in Japan, characteristics of missionary population in Japan, Wendling's founding of ELIC, involvement in local congregation, and learning from Japanese business executive Gen Takahashi.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Provenance
Donated to the Evangelism and Missions Archives by Birdsall and interviewer Ericksen.
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- 2025 March 19
Creator
- Birdsall, Doug. (Interviewee, Person)
Extent
1 Sound Recording
93 Minutes
0.48 Gigabytes (WAV file)
- Birdsall, Jeanie.
- Christian leadership -- Japan.
- Christian leadership.
- Christianity and culture -- Japan.
- Church development, New -- Japan.
- Church work with students -- Japan.
- Cross cultural communication.
- English Language Institute/China.
- Evangelistic work -- Japan.
- Indigenous church administration -- Japan.
- Japan -- Social life and customs.
- LIFE Ministries.
- Language in missionary work.
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election.
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States.
- Missions -- Japan.
- Providence and government of God.
- Takahashi, Gen.
- Wendling, Ken.
Creator
- Birdsall, Doug. (Interviewee, Person)
- Ericksen, Paul. (Interviewer, Person)