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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 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
Found in:
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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 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. 12
- Children of missionaries. 11
- Conversion. 11
- Evangelistic work. 10
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Missionaries. 10
- Women -- Religious life. 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- Worship. 9
- Christian life. 8
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Women 8
- Animism. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
- Sex role. 6
- Bible colleges 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Bible -- Translating. 4
- Bible. 4
- Boarding schools -- China. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Church discipline. 4
- Church work with women. 4
- Education 4
- Evangelistic work -- China. 4
- Lay missionaries. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 4
- Belief and doubt. 3
- Children of missionaries -- China. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church growth. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 2
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 2
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children. 2
- China. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Family. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Holy Spirit. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- International relief. 2
- Lord's Supper. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Liberia. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- South Africa. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Nigeria 2
- Nigeria -- History 2
- Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 2
- Prayer. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Racism. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 8
- Moody Bible Institute. 5
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
- Assemblies of God. 2
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 2
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- Kuhn, John Becker. 2
- Prairie Bible Institute. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Allen, Roland, 1869-1947. 1
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 1
- Big November Crusade Ministries. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- 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
- Catholic Church. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- China International Famine Relief Commission. 1
- Christian Missions in Many Lands. 1
- Church of England. 1
- Clapper, Margaret L. 1
- Cole, Curtis Lee, 1960- 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 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
- 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
- Graham, Franklin, 1952- 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Gripsholm (Ocean liner) 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Hess, Lyndon. 1
- Hess, Ruth E. 1
- International Christian Academy (Ivory Coast) 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Jesus Abbey (South Korea) 1
- Kolbali, Mousa. 1
- Leedy, John W. 1
- Liddell, Eric, 1902-1945. 1
- Lutembeka, John B. 1
- Maxwell, Ernest. 1
- Maxwell, Freeda. 1
- Maxwell, L. E. 1
- Maxwell, Ruth Lillian, 1955- 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Mixter, Russell L. 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- North Arkansas Gospel Mission. 1
- North China American School (T'ung-hsien, China) 1
- Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1
- Nyerere, Julius K., 1922-1999. 1
- OMF International. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Philips, Martha H. 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Riley, W. B. (William Bell), 1861-1947. 1
- Sakeji School (Zambia) 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- St. Michael's Theological College (Korea) 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
- Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- Wheaton Academy (Ill.) 1
- Wheaton Bible Church (Ill.) 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
- Zamzam (Ship) 1
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 1 ∧ less
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