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Collection 401 Oral History Interview with Karl G. Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 401
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Karl G. Dortzbach in which he describes his childhood and youth, influence of his family, education at Wheaton College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and missionary experience in Ethiopia (short term with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and in Kenya. Subjects covered include missiology, conversion, raising children on the mission field, marital relationships on the mission field, church life in a Nairobi congregation, proliferation of parachurch groups...
Dates:
Created: 1988-1989
Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 167 Oral History Interview with Naomi Walkwitz
Collection
Identifier: CN 167
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Naomi Hildebrand Waltwitz recorded while she was on furlough, describing childhood experiences, education & marriage to Roger Walkwitz, their careers as missionaries, tribal peoples of the Philippines under Far East Gospel Crusade between 1958-1980. Topics include Filipino customs, tribal practices of Christian groups, training of singing gospel teams, education in the Christian and national schools, relationship with Roman Catholics & Philippine...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 251 Oral History Interview with Herbert Downing
Collection
Identifier: CN 251
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Herbert Downing (1905-1986) in which he describes his childhood as a child of missionaries in Kenya, attending Rift Valley Academy in Kenya, a visit of Theodore Roosevelt to the Academy, his father's work as pastor and administrator, Africa Inland Mission's policy on the education of missionary children, and Downing's own work as an educator at Rift Valley Academy. The time period covered by the interview is 1905-1983Herbert Downing was intereviewed by...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 189 Papers of Mary Goforth Moynan
Collection
Identifier: CN 189
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous personal papers, an autobiography, oral history interviews and color slides relating to the ministry of Mary Goforth Moynan. Topics covered include Moynan's memories of the personalities and work of her parents, Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth; evangelistic work in China before World War II; her own career in Christian work; and her trips in 1979 to Taiwan and in 1980 to the People's Republic of China.
Dates:
Created: 1918-1994
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 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 252 Oral History Interviews with Robert and Joan Brain
Collection
Identifier: CN 252
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Robert Wesley Brain and Joan Gordon Brain, in which they discuss their life and faith, particularly their work as missionaries in Zambia with Africa Evangelical Fellowship. The Brains were interviewed separately for this collection. In the Robert Brain interview, he discusses his life on the mission field in Angola as a child and as an adult serving Africa Evangelical Fellowship at Catota Bible Institute until 1975, Manna Bible Institute in Zambia, translating...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 260
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...
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 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 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 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 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 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
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- Missionaries. 17
- Evangelistic work. 16
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 16
- Language in missionary work. 13
- Missionaries -- Training of. 13
- Women missionaries. 13
- Indigenous church administration 12
- Conversion. 11
- Women 10
- Women -- Religious life. 10
- Tribes. 9
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 9
- Christianity and culture. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Missions, Medical. 8
- Boarding schools. 7
- Christian education. 7
- Christian life. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Church development, New. 7
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 7
- Missions -- Kenya. 7
- Catholic Church. 6
- College students. 6
- Education 6
- Family. 6
- Missionaries' spouses. 6
- Missions -- Finance. 6
- Missions. 6
- Animism. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Medical care 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 5
- Bible colleges 4
- Bible. 4
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 4
- Great Britain 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Theological seminaries. 4
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- Belgium. 3
- Belgium. -- Administration. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church schools 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
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- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Missions -- Zambia. 3
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 3
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- Revivals -- Wheaton. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 3
- Zambia 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Boarding schools -- China. 2
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- China -- History. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- China. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church growth -- India. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Communism. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2 ∧ less
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 13
- Africa Inland Mission. 5
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 5
- Moody Bible Institute. 5
- Africa Inland Church. 3
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 3
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 3
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 3
- Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 2
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 2
- Barnett, Albert E. 2
- Barnett, Elma. 2
- Barnett, Erik S. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
- Coray, Edward A. 2
- Davis, Ralph T. 2
- Dortzbach, Deborah. 2
- Dortzbach, Karl. 2
- Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 2
- Downing, Lee H. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Hess, Lyndon. 2
- Kato, Byang H. 2
- Leedy, John W. 2
- MAP International (Organization) 2
- Mixter, Russell L. 2
- Stauffacher, John R. 2
- Straw, Darien A. 2
- Westervelt, Josephine B. (Hope). 2
- Wheaton Academy (Ill.) 2
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 2
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Evangelical Office (Nairobi, Kenya) 1
- Aldrich, Willard. 1
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
- Allentown Rescue Mission and Home Association. 1
- Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
- American Leprosy Missions. 1
- Anderson, Dick. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Baptista, Bob. 1
- Baptista, Martha. 1
- Barnett, Emily. 1
- Barnett, Ted W. 1
- Barnett, William John. 1
- Beam, Mary S. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Beecher, Leonard James. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Birech, Ezekiel. 1
- Blocher, Jacques A. 1
- Brain, Joan. 1
- Brain, Robert W. 1
- Brooks, Charles C. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Chow, Moses. 1
- Christian Missions in Many Lands. 1
- Christian Nurses Fellowship. 1
- Dortzbach, Elmer. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Downing, Herbert C. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Evans, Robert P., 1918-2011. 1
- Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. 1
- Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 1
- Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875. 1
- Fisher, Walter, 1865-1935. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Forsberg, Malcolm. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. 1
- Goforth, Jonathan, 1859-1936. 1
- Goforth, Rosalind, 1864-1942. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Green, Frank O. 1
- Hall, John F., 1906-1984. 1
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
- Hess, Ruth E. 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kline, Jean R. 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Lambie, Thomas A. (Thomas Alexander), 1885-1954. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- LeTourneau, R. G. (Robert Gilmour), 1888-1969. 1
- Luckman, Cyril E. 1
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 1
- Mackensie, Mignon B. 1 ∧ less
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