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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 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 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 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
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
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. 6
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- Evangelistic work. 6
- Sex role. 6
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- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Animism. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church discipline. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Christian life. 3
- Education 3
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- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Worship. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
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- Bible -- Memorizing. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
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- Moody Bible Institute. 3
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- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- Clapper, Margaret L. 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 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
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kibor Zablon, Jacob. 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Moi, Daniel Arap, 1924-2020. 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- National Council of Churches of Kenya. 1
- OMF International. 1
- Obama, Barack. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Scott Theological College. 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Tarus, David Kirwa. 1
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
- Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 1
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 1 ∧ less
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