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Collection 583 Oral History Interviews with Gregory S. Thellman
Collection
Identifier: CN 583
Scope and Contents
Oral history with Gregory Thellman (1970- ), missionary in the Bosnian region of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997-2008) as a member of a church team. Topics covered include Thellman’s spiritual development and conversion, interest in missions, participation in his Northside Community Church’s outreach among Muslim Bosnian refugees in Atlanta, Northside’s mission teams to Mostar in Bosnia, Bosnian Christian leaders and Evangelical congregation in the city, work among children and youth, relations...
Dates:
2003
Collection 667 Oral History Interviews with Johanna Defoy
Collection
Identifier: CN 667
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Johanna Defoy (1981- ), French missionary and church planter working in France from 2009 to 2011. Topics discussed include Defoy’s early life in France, parents, spiritual interest, conversion and growing faith, evangelism experiences, church involvement, professional experience, influence of a woman missionary, Christian university group and outreach, Groupes Bibliques Universitaires or GBU Christian university group (International Fellowship of Evangelical...
Dates:
2011
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 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 448 Oral History Interviews with Seung-Hun Yang
Collection
Identifier: CN 448
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Seung-Hun Yang in which he discusses the discipline and devotion of the rural South Korean Presbyterian church he grew up in, the effects of the Korean War on the country, his father's example as a Christian and lay leader, the work of the Navigators abd Campus Crusade for Christ in Korea, Yang's education as a physicist, the introduction of creation science to Korea, his efforts to found a Christian university, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Korean...
Dates:
Created: 1991
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 346 Oral History Interview with Joshua Adjabeng
Collection
Identifier: CN 346
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Joshua Adjabeng in which he discusses his childhood in Ghana, family, conversion to Christianity, education at Wheaton College; the Church of the Pentecost, evangelistic work among university students, Christian literature in Ghana. Other topics discussed include the condition of the church in Ghana, African Pentecostalism, and a comparison of the Christian church and Ghana and the United States. The time period covered by the interview is 1950-1986....
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 096 Oral History Interview with Wayne G. Bragg
Collection
Identifier: CN 096-096
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne G. Bragg (1931-2009), in which he describes his missionary experiences in Brazil and the Caribbean working with university students, his student days at Wheaton College, and his experience at Wheaton College as a faculty member. Dr. Bragg was interviewed by Mary Ann Buffington at Wheaton College on February 15 and May 9, 1980.
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 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 508 Oral History Interviews with Barbara L. Collins
Collection
Identifier: CN 508
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Barbara Lynn (Miner) Collins in which she describes her childhood; family's religious background; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development in college and young professional life; acceptance as a missionary by Africa Inland Mission (AIM); arrival on the mission field in Kenya; work among the Rendile and Kikuyu peoples; raising children on the mission field; development of women's program at Africa Inland Church Missionary College; work among women refugees...
Dates:
Created: 1995
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 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 483 Oral History Interview with Francis Sunderaraj
Collection
Identifier: CN 483
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Francis Sunderaraj in which he describes committing his life to Christ as a teenager in India; the development of his faith; the institutions and leadership of Evangelical Protestantism in India; Methodist churches in India and Malaysia; Sunderaraj's education at the Union Biblical Seminary in Yeotmal, India, Princeton Seminary, and Wheaton College; the development of the Evangelical Fellowship of India. The time period covered by the interviews is ca....
Dates:
Created: 1993
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
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 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Collection
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
Dates:
Created: 1976-1985
Collection 207 Papers of Mark Larson
Collection
Identifier: CN 207
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview with Mark Richard Larson concerning his experiences as a missionary under Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, 1979-1981. Centers on agricultural mission work in the Kano area of northern Nigeria. Also included in the collection are prayer letters dated from October 1982 to August 1984 and an Sudan Interior Mission Prayer Guide (folder 1-2), and a scrapbook (folder 1-1). The scrapbook was used as a point of reference throughout the interview and should be used by...
Dates:
Created: 1981-1984
Collection 217 Papers of Elisa Espineli Chinn
Collection
Identifier: CN 217
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four oral history interviews with Lisa Chinn covering her childhood and family, education, ministry with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines and InterVarsity in the United States, ministries with her husband Leiton in the US among international students (with International Students, Inc., Interaction, and their church), writing projects, and her experience as a woman leader. Also included are her graduate school creative project, "Cross Cultural...
Dates:
Created: 1972-2020
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- Evangelistic work. 17
- College students. 16
- Missionaries. 15
- Conversion. 14
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 14
- Missionaries -- Training of. 11
- Christianity and culture. 10
- Women -- Religious life. 10
- Church and state. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Women 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- College students -- United States 8
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 8
- College students in missionary work. 7
- Evangelicalism. 7
- Religious institutions. 7
- Animism. 6
- Catholic Church. 6
- Christian education. 6
- College students -- Religious life. 6
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Bible. 5
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Christian leadership. 5
- Church work with students. 5
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
- Revivals. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Bible -- Translating. 4
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions -- Rural work. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Worship. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children of clergy. 3
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- Church and social problems. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 3
- Family. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Missions. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Nairobi (Kenya) 3
- Nationalism. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Short-term missions. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
- Athletes 2
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- Brazil -- Religion. 2
- Brazil. 2
- Brazil. -- Social life and customs. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Philippines. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Children. 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 2
- Christianity and other religions. 2
- Church work with foreign students. 2
- Church work with students -- United States. 2
- Church work with women -- Sudan. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Communism. 2
- Education 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) -- History 2
- Ethiopia 2
- Ethiopia -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 2
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Haiti. 2 ∧ less
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 12
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 4
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 3
- Sudan Interior Mission. 3
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 3
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 3
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
- Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 2
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Dortzbach, Deborah. 2
- Dortzbach, Karl. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Hale, Ned. 2
- Hayner, Stephen A. 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
- Lum, Ada. 2
- McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Ortlund, Raymond C. 2
- Padilla, C. René. 2
- Stewart, Douglas W., 1937- 2
- Stewart, Marilyn, 1941- 2
- Stott, John R. W. 2
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 2
- Wright, J. Elwin. 2
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
- Adjabeng, Joshua. 1
- Africa Inland Church Missionary College (Eldoret, Kenya) 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Scientific Affiliation. 1
- Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Armstrong, John H. (John Harper), 1949- 1
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 1
- Assemblée Biblique du Bassin Annécien (ABBA) 1
- Athyal, Saphir P. 1
- Baptista, Bob. 1
- Baptista, Martha. 1
- Bayly, Joseph. 1
- Beam, Mary S. 1
- Beckwith, Paul, 1905-1975. 1
- Bentley, Ruth Lewis. 1
- Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
- Berney, James E., 1937- 1
- Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 1
- Billy Graham Center. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Boyd, Barbara, 1924?-2018. 1
- Bragg, Ann Kay. 1
- Bragg, Wayne G., 1931- 1
- Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. 1
- Bright, Bill. 1
- Bright, Vonette Z. 1
- Bryant, David, 1945- 1
- Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
- Carey, William, 1761-1834. 1
- Chao, Calvin. 1
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
- Chinn, Leiton E. 1
- Chinn, Lisa Espineli 1
- Christian Council of Ghana. 1
- Christian University Fellowlaborers Association (Korea) 1
- Church Missionary Society. 1
- Church of Pentecost (Ghana) 1
- Church of the Resurrection of Illinois. 1
- Clarkson, E. Margaret (Edith Margaret), 1915-2008. 1
- Coleman, Robert E., 1928- 1
- Collins, Barbara Lynn. 1
- Collins, Malcolm. 1
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 1
- Contento, Maida. 1
- Contento, Paul A. 1
- Cornerstone College and Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary. 1
- Cridland, A. Elizabeth. 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Crossett, Vincent. 1
- Defoy, Frederic. 1
- Defoy, Johanna. 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Doll, Linda, 1935- 1
- Dorsett, Lyle W. 1
- Dorsett, Mary. 1
- Dortzbach, Elmer. 1
- Eastgate Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
- Elliott, Helen Belcher. 1
- Elliott, Raymond Leroy. 1
- Emmanuel Methodist Church (Madras, India) 1
- Engel, Kevin W. 1
- Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 1
- Evans, Helen E. 1 ∧ less
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