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Collection 478 Oral History Interviews with Paul A. Buyse
Collection
Identifier: CN 478
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Adrian Buyse (1926-2017), Africa Inland Mission worker in the Belgian Congo/Zaire. Topics covered include Buyse's childhood and youth as the son of AIM missionary parents in the Congo; education at Rethy Academy, Northwestern Schools, and Moody Bible Institute; work with North Arkansas Gospel Mission, spiritual hardships of being a missionary; his work in the Congo among pygmies; development of the Africa Inland Church in the Congo, transition from...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 424 Oral History Interviews with Ruth L. Maxwell
Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Collection 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips
Collection
Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 461 Oral History Interviews with John D. Ellison
Collection
Identifier: CN 461
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John David Ellison (1925-1998) in which he talks about his parents' work as missionaries for the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) in French Indochina (now Vietnam) between 1924 and 1940; his own missionary training at Nyack Institute; his and his wife's work in Thailand among Cambodians from 1950 through 1980; and his work in the United States among Cambodian refugees. Other topics discussed include internment by the Japanese in December 1941; methods of...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
Collection
Identifier: CN 283
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Wood Folkerts. Topics discussed include her childhood as a pastor's daughter; study at Wheaton College; her marriage; training in London; work as a missionary in British Cameroon (now Republic of Cameroon), especially Bible study and literacy programs for women and 3H clubs for girls; the political and social situation in Cameroon; Cameroon independence; medical problems in Cameroon; the work of her husband, Fred, at the Baptist Teacher Training College and...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
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Helen Renich Papers.
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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- Bechtel, Paul M. (1957-1998) 1
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- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Buyse, John. 1
- Buyse, Leonard. 1
- Buyse, Mabel Easton, 1882-1967. 1
- Buyse, Paul A. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
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- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Ellison, John D., 1925-1998. 1
- Epaineto, Balos. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Folkerts, Fred C. 1
- Folkerts, Nancy. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Gripsholm (Ocean liner) 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 1
- Liddell, Eric, 1902-1945. 1
- Maxwell, Ernest. 1
- Maxwell, Freeda. 1
- Maxwell, L. E. 1
- Maxwell, Ruth Lillian, 1955- 1
- North American Baptist Conference. 1
- North Arkansas Gospel Mission. 1
- Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
- Nyack Missionary Training Institute (N.Y.) 1
- OMF International. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Philips, Martha H. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Riley, W. B. (William Bell), 1861-1947. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
- Stauffacher, Florence. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Stough, Paul. 1
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
- Zamzam (Ship) 1
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 1 ∧ less
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