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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 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 104 Oral History Interview with Bruce F. Hunt
Collection
Identifier: CN 104
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Collection 437 Oral History Interview with Dexter B. Gordon
Collection
Identifier: CN 437
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Dexter B. Gordon in which he describes growing up in Jamaica, his family, social conditions on the island, the role of Sunday school, in his life and the community, his conversion, spiritual mentor Amy Lord, his participation in sports, his and his parents involvement in politics, love for oratory and preaching, Jamaican worship, work in Youth for Christ, evangelism among young people, his work as an air-traffic controller, the role and influence of the church and...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
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 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 473 Oral History Interview with Clayton L. Berg, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 473
Scope and Contents
Oral historyinterviews with Clayton L. Berg, known as "Mike," former missionary, educator and president of Latin America Mission. Topics discussed include Berg's youth, family, conversion, education (including Wheaton Grad School), youth pastorate at Western Springs church, marriage and family, language training at Spanish Language Institute, Hogar Biblico, teaching and administration at the Latin America Biblical Seminary iin Costa Rica, administration of LAM's Education Division, training...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 247 Oral History Interview with Louis E. Knowlton
Collection
Identifier: CN 247
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Louis E. Knowlton in which he discusses his career in evangelistic work and radio technology in Brazil for the Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. Topics discussed include Knowlton's early life, education, service as an Army chaplain's assistant, decision to go into technological ministry, work at WMBI and in Brazil, efforts as a street evangelist and beginnings of music studio, Brazilian churches, church-state relations, ethnic groups and cults, the use of...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 410 Oral History Interviews with Arthur Rorheim
Collection
Identifier: CN 410
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Arthur Rorheim, executive director of Awana Clubs, International. Topics disussed include his childhood, his parents' Christian example, his conversion, the youth work of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Paul Rader, Lance Latham, the origins of AWANA, and principles for establishing programs for boys and girls. The time period covered by the interviews is 1918 to 1989.
Arthur Rorheim was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 31 and April 24, 1989.
Dates:
Created: 1989
Wheaton College Revivals Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 514
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, questionnaires, reports, videos, and other materials relating to spontaneous revivals on Wheaton College campus in the twentieth century. There are restrictions on some material in this collection. The collection primarily documents the March 1995 revival at the College, largely through oral history interviews conducted during or shortly after the event; also included are thirteen follow-up interviews conducted two years after the revival.
Dates:
Created: 1936-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-1995
Collection 078 Papers of Corrie ten Boom
Collection
Identifier: CN 078
Scope and Contents
Papers of Dutch watchmaker, evangelist, author, and Christian aid worker Corrie ten Boom. The collection includes information on her father Casper ten Boom, her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II, her work among refugees after the war, her travels as an evangelist, the work of her two foundations, and the production of the film The Hiding Place. The collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, a film, notebooks, photos, photo albums, and video tapes.
Dates:
Created: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1983
Collection 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
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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- Evangelistic work. 14
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
- Missionaries. 12
- Children of missionaries. 10
- Christianity and culture. 10
- Indigenous church administration 10
- Christian education. 9
- Conversion. 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Christian life. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Bible. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Family. 7
- Theological seminaries. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Women 7
- Women -- Religious life. 7
- Church development, New. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Christian leadership. 5
- Christian literature. 5
- Church and social problems. 5
- College students. 5
- Communism. 5
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Youth 5
- Animism. 4
- Children. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- College students -- United States 4
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Tribes. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children -- United States 3
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 3
- Church work with children. 3
- Church work with youth. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Education 3
- Liberalism (Religion) 3
- Liberation theology. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Nationalism. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Racism. 3
- Refugees 3
- Revivals. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Theology 3
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Worship. 3
- Youth -- United States 3
- Youth -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Buddhists -- China. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian education -- Philosophy. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian education of children -- United States. 2
- Christian education of children. 2
- Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 2
- Christian education, Outdoor. 2
- Church work with students. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Church work with youth -- United States. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Cults. 2
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- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 10
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
- China Inland Mission. 3
- Crossett, Margaret E. 3
- Crossett, Vincent. 3
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
- Straw, Darien A. 3
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 2
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 2
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
- Kane, J. Herbert. 2
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 2
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- American Colonization Society. 1
- Andrew, Brother. 1
- Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Armstrong, John H. (John Harper), 1949- 1
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 1
- Awana Clubs International. 1
- Baptista, Bob. 1
- Baptista, Martha. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Berg, Jo Ann. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
- Bole, Simeon James, 1875- 1
- Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. 1
- Bright, Bill. 1
- Bright, Vonette Z. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 1
- Christ for the City. 1
- Christians, Inc. 1
- Church of the Resurrection of Illinois. 1
- Coleman, Robert E., 1928- 1
- Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 1
- Congo Protestant Council. 1
- Cornerstone College and Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary. 1
- Corrie ten Boom Stichting. 1
- Costas, Orlando E. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dorsett, Lyle W. 1
- Dorsett, Mary. 1
- Dortzbach, Deborah. 1
- Dortzbach, Elmer. 1
- Dortzbach, Karl. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Editorial Caribe. 1
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Helen Belcher. 1
- Elliott, Raymond Leroy. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Engel, Kevin W. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 1
- Fawcett, John W. 1
- Fawcett, Nathanael T. 1
- Fenton, Horace L. 1
- Fleming, Peter, 1928-1956. 1
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 1
- George Fox College. 1
- Gordon College (Wenham, Mass.) 1
- Gordon, Dexter B., 1955- 1
- Hale, Clarence B. (Clarence Benjamin), 1905-1992. 1
- Hawkins, Diane W. 1
- Hess, Esther N. 1
- Hess, Lawrence. 1
- Hope College. 1
- Houghton College. 1
- Howard Payne University (Brownwood, Tex.) 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 1
- Hunt, William Brewster. 1
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
- Hursh, Douglas, 1911- 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- International Missionary Council. 1
- Jamaica Theological Seminary. 1
- Jesson, Daniel J. 1
- Judson University. 1
- Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
- Kellough, Stephen. 1
- Kisall, Walter. 1
- Kivengere, Festo. 1
- Knowlton, Louis E. 1 ∧ less
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