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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

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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 610 Oral History Interview with Geneva Grace Haller

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Identifier: CN 610
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Geneva Grace Haller, who was a missionary to the Congo, first as an independent, then with World Wide Mission. Haller describes growing up in Africa, being home schooled, orphanage work, problems caused by the independence of Congo, persecution of Congolese, her view of various Congo political leaders, condition of the Congolese church, relationship between the Joseph Mobutu government and missionary societies, Congo education, health care, and economic problems....
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 480 Oral History Interviews with Margaret L. Clapper

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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

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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 219 Oral History Interview with Bertil A. Ogren

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Identifier: CN 219
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Bertil A. Ogren (1914-2006) in which he describes his recruitment as a lay missionary in the Belgian Congo with the Covenant Church from 1948-56; his work there beginning and running the LECO Press, which served the needs of members of the Congo Protestant Council and relations between Africans and Western missionaries. Other topics discussed include: his family and early life, impressions of George Caprenter, independence of the Congo, Belgian influence on the...
Dates: Created: 1982

Collection 607 Oral History Interviews with Herbert and Frieda Atkinson

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Identifier: CN 607
Scope and Contents Oral History Interviews with Dr. Herbert Andrew Atkinson (1931-2009) and his wife, Frieda Elizabeth (Paul) Atkinson (1930- ), missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo. Dr. Atkinson discusses his family background, conversion, Wheaton College, influence of his roommate Bill Kornfield and Dr. V. Raymond Edman, God's provision for his entering medical school, ministry in Oicha, obstacles in communication with the Congolese, lessons learned on the mission field. Frieda...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright

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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

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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 477 Papers of Stanley R. Kline

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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

Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer

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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

Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough

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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

L. Nelson Bell Papers

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Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates: 1923-1973

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Children of missionaries. 12
Missionaries. 11
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 10
Conversion. 9
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Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 9
Evangelistic work. 8
Indigenous church administration 8
Missionaries -- Training of. 8
Missions -- Educational work. 8
Missions, Medical. 7
Women missionaries. 7
Animism. 6
Church and state. 6
Missions -- Finance. 6
Belgium. 5
Catholic Church. 5
Christian life. 5
Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 5
Fund raising. 5
Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
Language in missionary work. 5
Medical care 5
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
Women 5
Women -- Religious life. 5
Belgium. -- Administration. 4
Belgium. -- Colonies 4
Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
Bible. 4
Boarding schools. 4
Christianity and culture. 4
Education 4
Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
Missions -- Kenya. 4
Missions, Medical -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
Sex role. 4
Worship. 4
Youth -- Belgium 4
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
Christian education. 3
Christian leadership. 3
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
Christian literature. 3
Church development, New. 3
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History 3
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. 3
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. 3
Evangelicalism. 3
Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
Marriage. 3
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
Missionaries -- United States. 3
Missions -- Africa. 3
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Missions -- Zaire. 3
Missions. 3
Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 3
Race relations. 3
Social change. 3
Sunday schools. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
Worship -- Congo. 3
Youth -- Belgium -- Administration. 3
Youth -- Belgium -- Colonies 3
Youth -- Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
Zande (African people) 3
Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Bible -- Translating. 2
Children of missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Children. 2
Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Church and social problems. 2
Church work with children. 2
Communism. 2
Congo 2
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
Congo, -- History, 2
Congo, -- History, -- 1908-1960. 2
Congo, -- Social life and customs. 2
Depressions 2
Depressions -- 1929 2
Ecumenical movement. 2
Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
Family. 2
Great Britain 2
Kingwana language. 2
Lay missionaries. 2
Liberalism (Religion) 2
Mass media in missionary work. 2
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Names
Africa Inland Mission. 8
Becker, Carl K., Jr. 5
Stough, Paul. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) 5
Africa Inland Church. 4
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Moody Bible Institute. 4
Paul, S. Austin. 4
Rethy Academy (Zaire) 4
Van Dusen, George C. 4
Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 3
Davis, Ralph T. 3
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
Hurlburt, Charles E. 3
Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 3
Stauffacher, Florence. 3
Barnett, Erik S. 2
Bell, James W. 2
Clapper, Margaret L. 2
Gospel Recordings, Inc. 2
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
Stam, Harry. 2
Westervelt Home& Schools, Siloam Spring, AK 2
Westervelt, Josephine B. (Hope). 2
World Council of Churches. 2
Wright, Gladys. 2
Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
Africa Evangelical Office (Nairobi, Kenya) 1
Africa Inland Mission. Media Retirement Center. 1
American Colonization Society. 1
Armerding, Hudson T. 1
Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
Atkinson, Frieda E. 1
Atkinson, Herbert Andres. 1
Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
Blocher, Jacques A. 1
Brand, Owen. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Buyse, John. 1
Buyse, Leonard. 1
Buyse, Mabel Easton, 1882-1967. 1
Buyse, Paul A. 1
Camp, Earl. 1
Camp, Ellen. 1
Camp, Evelyn M. 1
Camp, Marian. 1
Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964. 1
Carpenter, George Wayland. 1
Catholic Church. 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Church of the Open Door (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Congo Protestant Council. 1
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
Dean, Ella. 1
Dean, William. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 1
Downing, Lee H. 1
Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
Epaineto, Balos. 1
Evangelical Covenant Church of America. 1
Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
Haller, Geneva Grace. 1
Harris, Lester. 1
Harris, Mary Anne. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Howard, David M. 1
Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
International Missionary Council. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
Kasale, Zephaniah. 1
Kato, Byang H. 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
Kenyatta, Jomo. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Kivengere, Festo. 1
Kline, Carmel. 1
Kline, Stanley R. 1
MacPherson, Merrill T. 1
Mackensie, Mignon B. 1
Maillefer, Eric. 1
Maillefer, Lydia. 1
Marini, Pierre. 1
Mau Mau. 1
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
Mobutu Sese Seko, 1930-1997. 1
Moi, Daniel Arap, 1924-2020. 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 1
North Arkansas Gospel Mission. 1
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