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Collection 472 Oral History Interview with Paul A. Contento
Collection
Identifier: CN 472
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul A. Contento in which he discusses his childhood, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, going to China in 1928 as a China Inland Mission worker, evangelistic work in Ningxia province (Inner Mongolia) and work among university students in southwest and northwest China, founding of the Inter-Varsity student movements in China, Singapore and Vietnam; Calvin Chao; the Sino-Japanese war; the communist takeover in China; founding of Singapore Bible...
Dates:
Created: 19992
Collection 445 Oral History Interviews with Helen E. Evans
Collection
Identifier: CN 445
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Helen Elizabeth Evans in which she decsribes her family background; spiritual development; education at Wheaton College; ministry in rural Vermont with the New England Fellowship; the influence of her aunt, Elizabeth Evans; her missionary work in Vietnam and Indonesia with the Christian and Missionary Alliance; and work among Vietnamese in Charlotte, North Carolina. Evans' work in Vietnam was particularly among the Dega and other tribal groups often classified...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Collection 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis
Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1987
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 388 Oral History Interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco
Collection
Identifier: CN 388
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco in which she discusses her life and ministry in the Philippines, including her childhood, education, and work as a Bible school teacher. Other topics covered include theological education and evangelism in the Philippines; work with "Here's Life Philippines," sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ; the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; Filipino culture; Muslim and Catholic communities in the Philippines; Ebenezer Bible College;...
Dates:
Created: 1988
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 297 Papers of Kenneth L. Shingledecker
Collection
Identifier: CN 297
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth L. Shingledecker in which he describes his work with college students in Student Training in Missions, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, planning Urbana '79 student missions convention, missionary work in Kenya for Daystar Communications, and the development of Christian leadership in the church in Kenya. The collection also includes a folder of prayer letters, ranging from 1985-1990.Topics covered in the oral history interview include...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1990
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- Bible colleges 6
- College students. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- College students in missionary work. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Christian education. 4
- College students -- Religious life. 4
- Education 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Revivals. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Refugees 3
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible colleges. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church schools 2
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- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Communism. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Vietnam. 2
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- Missions -- Vietnam. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
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- Prayer groups. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Buildings. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
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- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
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- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Armenians. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible colleges -- Indonesia. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Bible colleges -- Philippines. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Philippines. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- 1949- 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- History. 1
- Christian education -- Greece. 1
- Christian education -- Indonesia. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- Philippines. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education -- Vietnam. 1
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 7
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Mixter, Russell L. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- American Leprosy Missions. 1
- Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Armstrong, John H. (John Harper), 1949- 1
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 1
- Barrett, David B. 1
- Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
- Bright, Bill. 1
- Bright, Vonette Z. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
- Central American Mission. 1
- Chao, Calvin. 1
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
- Christian Nurses Fellowship. 1
- Church of the Resurrection of Illinois. 1
- Coleman, Robert E., 1928- 1
- Contento, Maida. 1
- Contento, Paul A. 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Cornerstone College and Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary. 1
- Daystar Communications. 1
- Dorsett, Lyle W. 1
- Dorsett, Mary. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Ebenezer Bible College (Zamboanga City, Philippines) 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Engel, Kevin W. 1
- European Christian Mission. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 1
- Evans, Helen E. 1
- Fawcett, John W. 1
- Fawcett, Nathanael T. 1
- Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. 1
- George Fox College. 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Gordon College (Wenham, Mass.) 1
- Gray, James M. 1
- Greater Europe Mission. 1
- Green, Frank O. 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Hale, Clarence B. (Clarence Benjamin), 1905-1992. 1
- Harrison, Norman B. (Norman Baldwin), 1874-1960. 1
- Hoagland, Dave. 1
- Hope College. 1
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
- Howard Payne University (Brownwood, Tex.) 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
- Judson University. 1
- Kellough, Stephen. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kline, Jean R. 1
- LeTourneau, R. G. (Robert Gilmour), 1888-1969. 1
- League of Nations. 1
- Litfin, A. Duane. 1
- Luckman, Cyril E. 1
- MAP International (Organization) 1
- Mayers, Marvin K. (Marvin Keene), 1927-2015. 1
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 1
- McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944. 1
- Mellis, Charles. 1
- Mellis, Ruth. 1
- Messiah College. 1
- Moody Bible Institute. 1
- Multnomah School of the Bible (Portland, Ore.) 1
- National Christian Churches in Kenya. 1
- Near East Relief (Organization) 1
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964. 1
- New England Fellowship. 1
- North Park University. 1
- Northwestern College (Roseville, Minn.) 1
- OMF International. 1
- Olford, Stephen F. 1
- Olivet Nazarene University. 1
- Operation Mobilisation. 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. 1
- Ortlund, Anne. 1
- Ortlund, Raymond C. 1
- PTL (Organization) 1
- Page, Isaac. 1
- Pfund, Lee. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 1
- Rankin, Dorothy. 1
- Redpath, Alan. 1
- Sawyer, Helen L. 1 ∧ less
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