Collection 523 Oral History Interviews with Jarbas Da Silva
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jarbas Da Silva in which he discusses his childhood in San Paulo, Brazil; conversion to Christianity; Baptist Bible College; Russell Shedd; joining the Africa Inland Mission as a missionary to Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Brazil; first impressions of Mozambique; the development of Sofala Bible Institute Beira City, Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Mozambique; aftermath of the civil war; his perspective on the need for humility and flexibility among missionaries. The time period covered by the interviews is 1958 to 1994.
Rev. Jarbas Da Silva was interviewed by Bob Shuster on September 14 and 22, 1995 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Dates
- Created: 1994
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
The copyright to the sound recordings in this collection is held by the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives.
Biographical Information
Full Name: Jarbas Ferreira Da Silva
Birth: February 27, 1958 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Family:
Parents: Joseph and Colbet [?]
Siblings: Three other younger siblings
Conversion: December 1976: received Jesus Christ through the witness of Joāo Batista; February 1977: baptized in a Presbyterian church in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ordination: 1984, ordained as a Baptist minister
Education:
?-1978 - San Francisco Institute of Education (high school), Sao Paulo, Brazil
1978? - 1983 Baptist Bible College, Sao Paulo, Brazil; graduated with a bachelor in theology
1986-1987 - Studied English at Queens College, New York City, United States
1995-1997 - Wheaton College Graduate School. Graduate with a Masters in Educational Ministries
Career:
1972 - 1982 Salesman in a department store, selling calculators
1978? - Began preaching in Baptist churches
1982 - 1986 Bank teller
late 1980s - Taught in the evenings at a Presbyterian and an Assemblies of God Bible schools
1986 - Join Africa Inland Mission (AIM). He had met the United States director of the mission, Peter Stam, the year before.
1987-1999? - Missionary with Africa Inland Mission, helping first to found and then teach at the Sofala Bible Institute in Beira City, Mozambique. (The first graduation was in 1993.) He was supported in part by the First Independent Presbyterian Church of Marilia, Brazil.
1991 - Taught for six months at a Bible college in Brazil
Extent
4 Audio Tapes
212 Minutes
Language of Materials
English
Accruals and Additions
The materials in this collection were given to the Billy Graham Center Archives by Rev. Da Silva in 1995.
Accession: 95-137, 95-138
July 18, 2007
Bob Shuster
- Africa Inland Mission.
- Animism -- Brazil.
- Animism -- Mozambique.
- Animism.
- Beira (Mozambique).
- Catholic Church -- Brazil.
- Catholic Church.
- Communism -- Mozambique.
- Conversion -- Christianity.
- Conversion -- Personal narratives.
- Conversion.
- Evangelicalism -- Brazil.
- Evangelicalism.
- Missionaries -- Training of.
- Missionaries -- Brazil.
- Missionaries -- Germany.
- Missionaries.
- Missions -- Mozambique.
- Mozambique
- Mozambique -- History
- Mozambique -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1994.
- Pentecostalism -- Brazil.
- Pentecostalism.
- Portuguese language.
- Sao Paulo (Brazil).
- Shedd, Russell.
- Sofala Bible Insititute (Beira, Mozambique)
- Stam, Peter.
- Theology
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia.
- da Silva, Jarbas.
- Title
- Collection 523 Oral History Interviews with Jarbas Da Silva
- 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