Collection 711 Oral History Interview with Tsegaab Tadesse Tantu
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Tsegaab Tadesse Tantu in which he discusses his family background in Ethiopia; his father’s ministry as an evangelist and church planter; his own education at Jimma and Addis Ababa University; activities as a government health worker; the scourges of trachoma, malaria and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia; his work with World Vision in children’s health; campaign against violence to children and women; his impressions of Christianity in the United States and of the Wheaton College Graduate School; and the development of his Christian faith. The time period covered by the interview is 1979-2019.
Tsegaab Tadesse Tantu was interviewed by Bob Shuster on January 9, 2019, in the offices of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives.
Dates
- 2019
Creator
- Tantu, Tsegaab Tadesse. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research, and there are no restrictions on the use of the collection.
Conditions Governing Use
The copyright to the sound recording in this collection is held by the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives.
Biographical Information
Full name: Tsegaab Tadesse Tantu
Birth: November 1979 in Wolayita Soddo, Ethiopia
Family
Parents: Father: Tadesse Tantu (evangelist); Mother: Meskel Lachore
Siblings: Three, including brother Bereket Tadesse
Marital Status: Married Melesu Sime in 2009
Children: Daughters Ruhana and Rediet
Conversion: Committed his life to Jesus Christ in 1996 at a youth service at his home church, Gulele Guenet
Education
1995-1999 - Wolayita Comprehensive School, Ethiopia
1998-2000 - Attended Jimma University in Jimma, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, and earned an Associate’s degree in Nursing
2004-2011 - Attended Addis Ababa University, graduated with a BA in Sociology and Social Anthropology
2018-2021 - Attended Wheaton College Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois, and earned an MA in Evangelism and Leadership
Career
2000-2004 - Worked for Ministry of Health at health clinics in towns of Bale and Boditi
2001-2004 - Head of Bale Health Center in Woliata Zone; focal person for malaria, immunization program in Health Center and
HID/AIDS control and prevention in the same
2005-2018 - Worked as a staff member of World Vision, became National Child Health Now campaign coordinator in Ethiopia
Other significant information
2014-2018 - Chairperson of the board of elders of Gulele Guenet Church
Involved as a volunteer in church ministries to the unreached in towns of Abote, Salale, Arsi, and Bale
Served in his home church through preaching, teaching, and leading Bible studies
Extent
1 Sound Recording
153 Minutes
Language of Materials
English
Accruals and Additions
The materials in this collection were given to the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives by Tsegaab Tantu in January 2019.
Accession: 19-01
January 26, 2022
Bob Shuster
- AIDS (Disease) -- Ethiopia.
- AIDS (disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Addis Ababa University.
- Billy Graham Center. Museum.
- Child abuse -- Ethiopia.
- Christian education -- Ethiopia.
- Church and social problems -- Ethiopia.
- Church work with the poor -- Ethiopia.
- Ethiopia
- Evangelistic work -- Ethiopia.
- Indigenous church administration -- Ethiopia.
- Jimma University.
- Malaria -- Ethiopia.
- Medical care -- Ethiopia.
- Motherhood -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Orthodox Eastern Church -- Ethiopia.
- Pentecostalism -- Ethiopia.
- Persecution -- Ethiopia.
- Prophecy (Christianity)
- Trachoma.
- Visions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Voluntarism -- Religious aspects.
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School
- World Vision International.
Creator
- Tantu, Tsegaab Tadesse. (Person)
- Title
- Collection 711 Oral History Interview with Tsegaab Tadesse Tantu
- Author
- Bob Shuster
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Roman Script
Repository Details
Part of the Evangelism & Missions Archives Repository