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Collection 626 Oral History Interview with Stephen Christopher
Collection
Identifier: CN 626
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Stephen Christopher, a Tamil mission leader. Topics covered in the interview include his childhood, education and conversion; the work of Dohnavur Fellowship; ministry of his father (P. T. Christopher) and the founding of the Tamil Gospel Village Mission, his own vision for the ministry; the Christian church in northern and southern India; and a comparison of Indian and American Christianity. The time period covered by the interview is 1980 to 2006....
Dates:
2007
Collection 641 Oral History Interviews with David Kirwa Tarus
Collection
Identifier: CN 641
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Kirwa Tarus, a Kenyan pastor and theologian. Tarus describes the ministry of his parents; growing up in Kenya; his conversion; spiritual development; Scott Theological College; the Africa Inland Church in Kenya; Scott’s satellite campus in Eldoret; the general condition of Christianity in Kenya; his impressions of the United States and Wheaton Graduate School; the 2008 election of Barak Obama. The interview covers the time period 1979-2008.David...
Dates:
2008
Collection 681 Oral History Interview with Mertis Byram Heimbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 681
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mertis Byram Heimbach (1921- ) missionary in China, Thailand, Singapore and U.S. with China Inland Mission (CIM) and (as it was later known) Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) from 1946 to 1999. Topics discussed include childhood in Korea; parents’ mission work; Wheaton College and Prairie Bible Institute; marriage to Ernest Heimbach; Hmong (Miao) people; tribal mission work; Communist takeover of China; Communist treatment of Christians; CIM’s exit from China;...
Dates:
2014
Collection 480 Oral History Interviews with Margaret L. Clapper
Collection
Identifier: CN 480
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret L. Clapper (1912-2005), missionary with Africa Inland Mission in Belgian Congo/Zaire from 1939-1980. Topics covered in two sessions include her youth, conversion, Bible school education at Moody Bible Institute, missionary work in central Africa, Belgian administration of the Congo, work among pygmies, Zaire politics and government, independence of the country in 1960 and the Simba rebellion, transition from mission to national authority, singleness,...
Dates:
Created: 1993
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 585 Oral History Interview with John B. Lutembeka
Collection
Identifier: CN 585
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John B. Lutembeka in which he discusses his family and childhood in Tanzania, education in Uganda during the Idi Amin regime, conversion to the Christian faith while attending teacher's college; the development of his personal faith, the founding and growth of Big November Crusade Ministries; the rapid numerical growth of Christianity in Tanzania; the Tanzanian church's characteristics, strengths and weaknesses; his education at the Wheaton College Graduate...
Dates:
Created: 2003
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 558 Oral History Interviews with Curtis Cole
Collection
Identifier: CN 558
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Curitis Cole. Topics covered include: Cole’s family background, the development of his Christian faith, his experiences as a missionary kid in Ivory Coast in the 1970s, descriptions of the Christian community in Ivory Coast and the Ivory Coast Academy; Ivorian worship services; his education at Michigan State University, his business career in Denver and his ministry as a youth pastor there, his and his wife's call to missions, his work in Ecuador as an...
Dates:
Created: 1998
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 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
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 104 Oral History Interview with Bruce F. Hunt
Collection
Identifier: CN 104
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Collection 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
Collection
Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook
Collection
Identifier: CN 317
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 477 Papers of Stanley R. Kline
Collection
Identifier: CN 477
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stanley R. Kline and extensive photo albums, relating to Kline’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1940 to 1977. Topics covered in interview include: his family background in Philadelphia, conversion, Percy Crawford's influence, evangelism in Philadelphia, rescue mission work, call to missions, his wife Carmel Anthony, his evangelism and educational work in the Congo between 1940 and...
Dates:
Created: 1930-1999
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
Found in:
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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
Collection 331 Papers of Reuben Archer Torrey, III
Collection
Identifier: CN 331
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Reuben Archer Torrey III and a videotape of the Otterbein United Brethren Missionary Convention in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania on April 23, 1986.Audio TapesOral history interview with Reuben Archer Torrey in which he describes his childhood in China as the son of Presbyterian missionaries; his experiences at boarding schools in China and Korea; his grandfather, Dr. R. A. Torrey, Sr.; his work as an Episcopalian...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
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- Boarding schools. 18
- Children of missionaries. 17
- Conversion. 15
- Evangelistic work. 15
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 15
- Missionaries. 15
- Indigenous church administration 12
- Women -- Religious life. 12
- Women missionaries. 12
- Language in missionary work. 10
- Women 10
- Christian life. 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Missions -- Finance. 9
- Tribes. 9
- Worship. 9
- Animism. 8
- Christian education. 8
- Culture shock. 8
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 8
- Catholic Church. 7
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Missions, Medical. 7
- Bible -- Translating. 6
- Bible. 6
- Missions -- China. 6
- Rural missions. 6
- Sex role. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Bible colleges 5
- Education 5
- Medical care 5
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 5
- Missions. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Boarding schools -- China. 4
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Church discipline. 4
- Church growth. 4
- Church work with women. 4
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Evangelistic work -- China. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Intercultural communication. 4
- Lay missionaries. 4
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- Missions to Muslims. 4
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- Muslims. 4
- Presbyterians. 4
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- Rural churches. 4
- Theological seminaries. 4
- Belief and doubt. 3
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- Children of missionaries -- China. 3
- Children. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- College students. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Holy Spirit. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- International relief. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Persecution -- China. 3
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 3
- Presbyterian Church. 3
- Racism. 3
- Radio in missionary work. 3
- Radio in religion. 3
- Street preaching. 3
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 3
- Youth -- Belgium 3
- Youth -- Belgium -- Administration. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 2
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 2
- Catholic Church. -- China. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2 ∧ less
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 13
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 6
- Moody Bible Institute. 6
- Africa Inland Mission. 4
- Africa Inland Church. 3
- Kuhn, John Becker. 3
- Prairie Bible Institute. 3
- Assemblies of God. 2
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 2
- Bell, James W. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 2
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 2
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Stam, Harry. 2
- Stauffacher, Florence. 2
- Stough, Paul. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 2
- Van Dusen, George C. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Allen, Roland, 1869-1947. 1
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
- Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 1
- Big November Crusade Ministries. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Bole, Simeon James, 1875- 1
- Buker, Raymond B., 1899-1992. 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
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- China International Famine Relief Commission. 1
- Christian Missions in Many Lands. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Christopher, P. T. 1
- Christopher, Stephen, 1980- 1
- Church of England. 1
- Church of the Open Door (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Clapper, Margaret L. 1
- Cole, Curtis Lee, 1960- 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Dohnavur Fellowship. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Egilse de J'esus-Christ sur la terre par le proph'ete Simon Kimbangu (Democratic Republic of Congo) 1
- Eglise du Christ au Zaire. 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Epaineto, Balos. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Fisher, Walter, 1865-1935. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Friends Missionary Prayer Band (Trivandum, India) 1
- Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 1
- Graham, Franklin, 1952- 1
- Gripsholm (Ocean liner) 1
- Heimbach, Ernest E. 1
- Heimbach, Mertis B. 1
- Hess, Lyndon. 1
- Hess, Ruth E. 1
- Hunt, William Brewster. 1
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
- International Christian Academy (Ivory Coast) 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Jesus Abbey (South Korea) 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kenyatta, Jomo. 1
- Kibor Zablon, Jacob. 1
- Kline, Carmel. 1
- Kline, Stanley R. 1
- Kolbali, Mousa. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- League of Evangelical Students. 1
- Leedy, John W. 1 ∧ less
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