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Collection 635 Oral History Interviews with Theodore W. Mole
Collection
Identifier: CN 635
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Mole, a missionary and church planter with CB International and Interact Ministries in the Ukraine and Siberia. Topics covered in the interview include the development of his faith in college, involvement with InterVarsity; work as an engineer with DuPont; study at Denver Theological Seminary; churching planting among Russian immigrants in Denver; teaching missions at Donetsk Christian University in Ukraine; Svet Evanglia, a Ukrainian mission agency; working in...
Dates:
2007-2008
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 509 Oral History Interview with Evelyn M. Camp
Collection
Identifier: CN 509
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Evelyn Mildred Camp (1915-1999), missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1944 to 1961. Topics discussed include Camp's experience as a child of missionaries, her missionary work in schools for boys and girls at Oicha and Blukwa AIM stations, her family's economic hardships, furloughs, the social life of missionary children, education at Rethy Academy, call to missionary work, training at...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 513 Oral History Interview with John R. Stauffacher
Collection
Identifier: CN 513
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which John Raymond Stauffacher in which he describes his childhood in Kenya, missionary parents John and Florence Stauffacher, his brother Claudon, missions in Kenya, the Masai people, Mrs. Westervelt and the Westervelt Home, studying and teaching at Rift Valley Academy, Charles Hurlburt, the Mau Mau Rebellion, Great Britain's colonial administration of Kenya, Christian life, conversion, missionary call, language learning and missionary work with Africa Inland...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates:
Created: 1981
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 611 Oral History Interview with Mary Ann Miller
Collection
Identifier: CN 611
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Mary Ann (Shook) Miller a missionary with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) to the Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and the Central African Republic. Topics discussed include her family background; conversion to Christianity; education at Wheaton College; InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Urbana Conference; call to the mission field; history of AIM; preparation for the mission field; language training; descriptions of her first mission station; traditional...
Dates:
Created: 1988
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 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 417 Papers of Dick Springer
Collection
Identifier: CN 417
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one prayer letter relating to the ministry of Charles Oliver “Dick” Springer, missionary with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Japan from 1937-1996.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Dick Springer in which he describes his family and their missionary interest and involvement, conversion, education (at Whitman College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Moody Bible Institute), his involvement...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1989
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 438 Oral History Interview with Paul F. Hurlburt Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 438
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Frederick Hurlburt (1927-1996) in which he describes the work of his grandfather (Charles E.) and father (Paul F. E.) as missionaries and mission administrators in east central Africa; languages skills among missionaries; the development of Christianity among the nade people of Zaire, including their worship practices and music; and the influence of witchcraft in the area. The time period covered by the interview is approximately 1898 to 1990.Paul...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 465 Oral History Interview with Merry E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 465
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Merry Dalton Long (1925-2010) in which she describes her childhood; education at Wheaton College; marriage; missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Brazil; the 1960 Congo Rebellion; raising and educating children on the mission field. Other topics discussed include: Long’s medical training as a nurse during WWII; impressions of Africa; medical care available on the mission field; observations about Congolese animism; missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 512 Oral History Interview with Harry L. Cox
Collection
Identifier: CN 512
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Harry Luther Cox (1906-2004) in which he describes his youth and family, conversion and spiritual growth, call to missionary work, service with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, relations with and evangelism among Muslims, tribal characteristics, Kano, language study, establishing a leprosy station, medical missions, the Magazawa and Fulani peoples, raising a family on the mission field, furloughs, death of his sons, World War II, animists, children of...
Dates:
Created: 1995
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 316 Oral History Interview with Deborah J. Seymour
Collection
Identifier: CN 316
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Deborah J. Seymour in which she describes her childhood as a child of missionaries in Papua New Guinea and working as an English teacher in Honduras with World Gospel Mission and Churches of Christ in Christian Union from 1983 to 1985. Topics discussed include her parents' missionary work; her childhood as a missionary kid; New Guinea tribal culture; conversion to Christianity and spiritual life; call to the mission field; observations about Honduras,...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1986
Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents
Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
Dates:
Created: 1970-1985
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 468 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth C. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include: Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates:
Created: 1980
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 488 Papers of John E. Phillips
Collection
Identifier: CN 488
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, letters, newspaper clipping, a booklet and other materials, relating mainly to John E. Phillips' work as a missionary with the Sudan Interior Mission among the Kambatta people of Ethiopia (1932-1937) and among the Dinka people of Sudan (1938-1949). There is also some information on his involvement in other ministries, such as Ambassadors for Christ and the Allentown Rescue Mission.
Dates:
Created: 1926-2003
Collection 390 Papers of Janet Kuhns
Collection
Identifier: CN 390
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and manuscript, relating to the ministry of Janet Kuhns, missionary among the Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia under the auspices of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CM&A).[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "Folder 1-1" means box 1, Folder 1.]Series: Audio TapesThree oral history interviews with Janet Kuhns in which she...
Dates:
Created: 1987-1988
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1997
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
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
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- Animism. 25
- Children of missionaries. 25
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 23
- Conversion. 21
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- Evangelistic work. 18
- Language in missionary work. 17
- Missionaries -- Training of. 16
- Women -- Religious life. 16
- Women missionaries. 16
- Indigenous church administration 14
- Women 14
- Tribes. 13
- Christian education. 12
- Christianity and culture. 12
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 11
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- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 10
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- Missions, Medical. 10
- Worship. 10
- Boarding schools. 9
- Church and state. 9
- Family. 9
- Medical care 9
- Catholic Church. 8
- Children. 7
- Education 7
- Sex role. 7
- Bible -- Translating. 6
- Bible. 6
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 6
- Culture shock. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 6
- Missionaries' spouses. 6
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 6
- Missions -- Finance. 6
- Rural missions. 6
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 5
- Christian literature. 5
- Church and social problems. 5
- Communism. 5
- Fund raising. 5
- Interpersonal conflict. 5
- Missions -- China. 5
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- Worship (Christian) 5
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
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- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
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- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Church discipline. 4
- Church work with children. 4
- College students -- Religious life. 4
- College students. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Great Britain 4
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- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
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- Missions. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Youth -- Religious life. 4
- Zande (African people) 4
- Belgium. -- Administration. 3
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Church work with women. 3
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 3
- Demoniac possession 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 16
- Africa Inland Mission. 8
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 5
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 4
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 4
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 4
- Moody Bible Institute. 4
- Sudan Interior Mission. 4
- Africa Inland Church. 3
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
- China Inland Mission. 3
- Davis, Ralph T. 3
- OMF International. 3
- Prairie Bible Institute. 3
- Stough, Paul. 3
- Barnett, Erik S. 2
- Bell, James W. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Clapper, Margaret L. 2
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 2
- Crossett, Margaret E. 2
- Crossett, Vincent. 2
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 2
- Kuhn, John Becker. 2
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 2
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 2
- Paul, S. Austin. 2
- Rethy Academy (Zaire) 2
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 2
- SIM (Organization) 2
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
- Stauffacher, John R. 2
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 2
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 2
- Van Dusen, George C. 2
- Westervelt Home& Schools, Siloam Spring, AK 2
- Westervelt, Josephine B. (Hope). 2
- Wright, Gladys. 2
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 2
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. Media Retirement Center. 1
- Allentown Rescue Mission and Home Association. 1
- Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
- American Colonization Society. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Barnett, Albert E. 1
- Barnett, Elma. 1
- Barnett, William John. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Brand, Owen. 1
- Camp, Earl. 1
- Camp, Ellen. 1
- Camp, Evelyn M. 1
- Camp, Marian. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Chow, Moses. 1
- Christian Medical Society. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Churches of Christ in Christian Union. 1
- Cole, Curtis Lee, 1960- 1
- Congo Protestant Council. 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Coray, Edward A. 1
- Cox, Harry Luther. 1
- Dallas Theological Seminary. 1
- Davis, Elwood Linnell, 1879-1961. 1
- Dean, Ella. 1
- Dean, William. 1
- Denver Seminary. 1
- Donetsk Christian University (Ukraine) 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Downing, Lee H. 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
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Helen Belcher. 1
- Elliott, Raymond Leroy. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
- Evans, Robert P., 1918-2011. 1
- Forsberg, Malcolm. 1
- Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Gripsholm (Ocean liner) 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1 ∧ less
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