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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 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 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 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
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- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
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- Christianity and culture. 4
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 4
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- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Animism. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 3
- Family. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Bible colleges 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) -- History 2
- Ethiopia 2
- Ethiopia -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 2
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
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- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
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- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
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- Africa Inland Mission. 2
- Dortzbach, Deborah. 2
- Dortzbach, Karl. 2
- MAP International (Organization) 2
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- American Leprosy Missions. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Baptista, Bob. 1
- Baptista, Martha. 1
- Barnett, Albert E. 1
- Barnett, Elma. 1
- Barnett, William John. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Christian Nurses Fellowship. 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dortzbach, Elmer. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Green, Frank O. 1
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kline, Jean R. 1
- LeTourneau, R. G. (Robert Gilmour), 1888-1969. 1
- Luckman, Cyril E. 1
- Mayers, Marvin K. (Marvin Keene), 1927-2015. 1
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 1
- Mixter, Russell L. 1
- Moody Bible Institute. 1
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964. 1
- Olford, Stephen F. 1
- Orthodox Presbyterian Church. 1
- Presbyterian Church in America. 1
- Rankin, Dorothy. 1
- Redpath, Alan. 1
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 1
- Stam, Harry. 1
- Stauffacher, John R. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Thiessen, Arthur. 1
- Thiessen, Jeannette. 1
- Urquhart, Betty A. 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- Winsor, Alice. 1
- Winsor, Earl. 1
- Wright, Gladys. 1 ∧ less
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