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Collection 421 Oral History Interviews with Arthur F. Glasser
Collection
Identifier: CN 421
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1998
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 485 Oral History Interview with Mary M. Johnson
Collection
Identifier: CN 485
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Mary Margaret Garfield Johnson in which she discusses her family background; education at Wheaton College with emphasis on the activities of the literary societies; and her impressions of fellow classmate Billy Graham.The time period covered by the interviews is 1920 to 1943.
Mary Margaret Garfield Johnson was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 7, 1993 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Dates:
Created: 1993
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 486 Oral History Interview with Helen R. Jongewaard
Collection
Identifier: CN 486
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Ruth Supplee Jongewaard (1922-2005) in which she describes her time as a student at Wheaton College. Among the topics discussed are aquaintance with Billy Graham; the Boethallian Literary Society; memories of professors such as Carl Henry, William Nordin; Russell Mixter, Merrill Tenney, V Raymond Edman, and others; revival of 1943 on Wheaton campus; and the effect of World War II on Wheaton. The time period covered by the inteview is 1920 to 1943....
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 398 Oral History Interview with Wayne L. Gordon
Collection
Identifier: CN 398
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne LeRoy Gordon, pastor of Lawndale Community Church, a nondenominational church in Chicago's predominantly black community, Lawndale. Topics covered include Gordon's youth, the influence of his family on his spiritual growth, his call to work in the black community, his education at Wheaton College, ministry through Lawndale Community Church in Chicago (its structure, various ministries, including health care, education, and recreation), and the African...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 447 Oral History Interview with Scott J. Harbert
Collection
Identifier: CN 447
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Scott Jeffrey Harbert in which he discusses his family, growing up, meeting his father as an adult, influences on his childhood and adolescence, contacts with Shintoism in Japan, problem with marijuana, conversion to Christianity and influence of Richard Foster, college education and participation in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, work as a staff member at the IVCF headquarters, marriage to Barbara Gration, the development of Concerts of Prayer, short-term...
Dates:
Created: 1992
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 502 Oral History Interview with Geraldine J. Phillips
Collection
Identifier: CN 502
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Geraldine Julia (Hinote) Phillips (19132-2000) in which she describes her family background, conversion to Christianity after listening to Gypsy Smith on the radio; education at BIOLA and Columbia Bible College, work at the Rehoboth Mission in Kentucky from 1934-1939, joining Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), travel to Africa in 1943, and the beginning of her work among the Dinka people in southern Sudan. Other topics discussed include: Phillips work with the Rehoboth...
Dates:
Created: 1994
Collection 166 Oral History Interview with Roger Walkwitz
Collection
Identifier: CN 166
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Roger Walkwitz in which he describes his early life in Wheaton, Illinois, education at Wheaton College, and experiences of 23 years in the Philippines (1958-1980) as a missionary with Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. Other topics discussed include: the influence of Gil Dodds; the 1950 Wheaton College revival; work as a teacher-coach at Bryan College; aspects of cultural, religious and political life in the Philippines, including ranslation, church planting in the...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 348 Oral History Interview with Sharon R. Simon
Collection
Identifier: CN 348
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Sharon "Sheri" Rose Simon in which she describes her childhood, conversion to Christianity, decision to become a missionary, internship in Mexico, and medical work in Haiti.Other topics discussed include: joining the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, raising financial support, common health problems, folk remedies, the relationship between the Haitian would view and health care, voodoo, the 1985-86 revolution in Haiti, relations between Catholics and...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
Collection
Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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
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 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 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson Sr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 285
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
Dates:
Created: 1919 -2001
Collection 134 Papers of Marian Chapman
Collection
Identifier: CN 134
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photographs, and prayer letters relating to the ministry of Marian Gold Chapman, a missionary with Latin America Mission in Cartagena, Colombia (1957-1975); Bogota, New Jersey (1975-1977), and Coral Gables, Florida (1977-1979).
Dates:
Created: 1980, 1995
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 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 300
Brief Description
Administrative records of IVCF spanning the time period from its founding in 1940 until 1991; includes materials created prior to the establishment of IVCF. Includes records of the presidents (Woods, Hummel, Troutman, McLeish, Alexander, McLeish), Paul Little, Campus chapters, Regional divisions and directors, Missions department, Urbana Missions Conventions, Nurses Christian Fellowship, Development department, Jim Nyquist, Strategic Planning, Finance, and manuscript material for the 1991...
Dates:
1928-2017
Collection 567 Papers of H. Wilbert Norton
Collection
Identifier: CN 567
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photographs, correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, pamphlets, and manuscripts relating to Gustav H.W. Norton's (1915-2017) work as an administrator and professor of theology and missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Wheaton College, as well as his involvement with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Evangelical Literature Overseas, and Mid-American Keswick. The collection documents Norton’s childhood, education, and career as professor of missions...
Dates:
Created: 1950-2000
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- College students -- United States 19
- Evangelistic work. 19
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 16
- Missionaries. 16
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 12
- Women missionaries. 11
- Conversion. 10
- Missionaries -- Training of. 10
- Christianity and culture. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Christian life. 8
- College students in missionary work. 8
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 8
- Women 8
- Women -- Religious life. 8
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 7
- Christian leadership. 6
- Evangelicalism. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Religious institutions. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Communism. 5
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 5
- Missions -- Congresses. 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 5
- Revivals. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Church work with students. 4
- Intercultural communication. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Missions. 4
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- Chaplains, Military 3
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- Christianity and culture -- United States. 3
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- College students in missionary work -- United States. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Depressions 3
- Depressions -- 1929 3
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 3
- Ecumenical movement. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 3
- Family. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Mass media in religion. 3
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Kenya. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Prayer groups -- United States. 3
- Prayer groups. 3
- Racism. 3
- Radio in missionary work. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Youth 3
- Youth -- United States 3
- Youth -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- African Americans -- Religious life. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 16
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 8
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 6
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 5
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 3
- Mixter, Russell L. 3
- Moody Bible Institute. 3
- Africa Inland Church. 2
- Africa Inland Mission. 2
- Armerding, Hudson T. 2
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Bright, Bill. 2
- Bryant, David, 1945- 2
- China Inland Mission. 2
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 2
- Dortzbach, Deborah. 2
- Dortzbach, Karl. 2
- Dyrness, Enock. 2
- Engstrom, Ted W. (Ted Wilhelm), 1916- 2
- Graham, James R. (James Robert), 1898-1982. 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 2
- Howard, David M. 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Canada) 2
- Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 2
- LeTourneau, R. G. (Robert Gilmour), 1888-1969. 2
- League of Evangelical Students. 2
- MAP International (Organization) 2
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
- McQuilkin, Robert Crawford, 1886-1952. 2
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Northwestern College (Roseville, Minn.) 2
- Norton, Hugo Wilbert. 2
- Redpath, Alan. 2
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 2
- Stott, John R. W. 2
- Student Foreign Missions Fellowship. 2
- Taylor, Herbert John, 1893-1978. 2
- Torrey, Edith C. 2
- Trotman, Dawson E. 2
- Troutman, Charles Henry, Jr. 2
- United Gospel Tabernacle (Wheaton, Ill.) 2
- WMBI (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Wolgemuth, Sam. 2
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 2
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
- Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 1
- American Association for Jewish Evangelism. 1
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Indian Crusade. 1
- American Leprosy Missions. 1
- American Messianic Fellowship. 1
- American Society of Missiology. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
- Armstrong, John H. (John Harper), 1949- 1
- Arzoomanian, Rose. 1
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 1
- Asia Missions Association (Korea) 1
- Asia Theological Association. 1
- Association of Evangelical Professors of Missions. 1
- Association of Theological Schools in South East Asia. 1
- Baptista, Bob. 1
- Baptista, Martha. 1
- Barnett, Albert E. 1
- Barnett, Elma. 1
- Barnett, William John. 1
- Barrows, Cliff. 1
- Bayly, Joseph. 1
- Beam, Mary S. 1
- Beckwith, Paul, 1905-1975. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Bentley, Ruth Lewis. 1
- Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
- Berney, James E., 1937- 1
- Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 1
- Bibletown Community Church (Boca Raton, Fla.) 1
- Bihl, Carl J. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Booth-Clibborn, Catherine, 1860-1955. 1
- Boyd, Barbara, 1924?-2018. 1
- Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. 1
- Bright, Vonette Z. 1
- Bryan College. 1
- Bryant, Anita. 1
- Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
- Campbell, Ken, 1934- 1
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Cathedral of Tomorrow (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) 1
- Cedar Lake Bible Conference Grounds. 1
- Chapman, Marian Gold. 1
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 1
- Christian Medical Society. 1
- Christian Nurses Fellowship. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1 ∧ less
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