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Collection 581 Oral History Interviews with Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer
Collection
Identifier: CN 581
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer, in which she describes her childhood in Bulgaria, the Communist culture in that country, her conversion to Christianity, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's work in the country, the beginnings of a an indigenous campus ministry in the country, her attendance at International Fellowship of Evangelical Leaders conferences in Germany, Korea and Bulgaria; impressions of evangelical leaders, such as Samuel Escobar and John Stott; and a...
Dates:
2002
Collection 713 Oral History Interview with Gillian Gathoni Mwaura
Collection
Identifier: CN 713
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Gillian Gathoni Mwaura in which she discussed her family background in Kenya, her conversion in high school, her education at the Co-Operative College of Kenya and Methodist University; work as a student and as a full-time employee with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students-affiliated ministry FOCUS (Fellowsh ip of Christian Unions) in Kenya and Uganda, cross-cultural training and mission work in Norway; helping to form Global Link Afrika, a Ugandan...
Dates:
2019
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 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 647 Oral History Interview with Loren D. Cunningham
Collection
Identifier: CN 647
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Loren D. Cunningham, in which he describes his early life, family and influence of his mother and evangelist father, the Assemblies of God church and evangelistic mission, role of prayer in their family, other influences on his spiritual life, accounts of growing in his faith and learning to hear God speaking, call to worldwide mission as a young teenager, education, early mission trips, moving beyond Assemblies of God circles, meeting his wife Darlene, dream to...
Dates:
Created: 2009
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 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 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
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 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla
Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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
David H. Adeney Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description
Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates:
Created: 1911-1994
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
Collection 387 Papers of William M. Miller
Collection
Identifier: CN 387
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and transcripts with William M. Miller in which he describes his education at Princeton, Christian faith, and work as a Presbyterian missionary to Iran from 1919 to 1962. Besides descriptions of his evangelistic, pastoral, and educational work, he also describes many aspects of Iranian and Islamic society. Most of the transcripts are of interviews done for the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1988
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
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
David M. Howard, Sr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 484
Scope and Contents
Four oral history interviews, paper records, and photographs documenting David Howard's life and work with Latin American Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and World Evangelical Fellowship. Topics covered in the interviews include Howard's childhood, Christian faith, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary and administrator with Latin America Mission; missions director for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization; and...
Dates:
Created: 1968-1993
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
Latin America Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 236
Brief Description
Records of the mission, including correspondence, minutes, reports, memos, financial reports, policy statements, planning documents, promotional material, photographs, etc. Documents describe the origins of LAM (particularly the contribution of the Strachan family); evangelistic, church planting, educational, medical, and literature activities (primarily in Colombia and Costa Rica, but also many other Latin American countries and the United States); the restructuring of the mission in the...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1994
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- College students in missionary work. 23
- Evangelistic work. 20
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 18
- Missionaries. 17
- Conversion. 13
- Missionaries -- Training of. 13
- College students. 12
- Church and state. 11
- Christianity and culture. 10
- Indigenous church administration 10
- Language in missionary work. 10
- Women -- Religious life. 10
- Church work with students. 9
- Evangelicalism. 9
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 9
- Medical care 9
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 9
- Women 9
- College students -- United States 8
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Animism. 7
- Catholic Church. 7
- Christian education. 7
- Christian leadership. 7
- Christian life. 7
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 7
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 7
- Missions -- Finance. 7
- Religious institutions. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 6
- College students -- Religious life. 6
- Radio in missionary work. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Church and social problems. 5
- Church development, New. 5
- Education 5
- Missions to Muslims. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Missions. 5
- Persecution. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Bible colleges 4
- Bible. 4
- Church work with students -- United States. 4
- College students in missionary work -- United States. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Mass media in religion. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Prayer groups. 4
- Radio in religion. 4
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 4
- Revivals. 4
- Theological seminaries. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 4
- Worship. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Children. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Christian martyrs. 3
- Colombia 3
- Communism. 3
- Economic and social conditions 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Mass media in missionary work. 3
- Medical care -- China. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions -- Colombia. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Organizational change. 3
- Prayer groups -- United States. 3
- Prayer. 3
- Racism. 3
- Refugees 3
- African Americans. 2
- Anglicans. 2
- Animism -- Nigeria. 2
- Assemblies of God -- Missions. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
- Children -- Religious life. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. 2
- China -- History. 2 ∧ less
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- Chinese 1
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 15
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 9
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 9
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 7
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 6
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 6
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 5
- Howard, David M. 4
- Padilla, C. René. 4
- Stott, John R. W. 4
- Troutman, Charles Henry, Jr. 4
- Africa Inland Mission. 3
- Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 3
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 3
- Operation Mobilisation. 3
- Sudan Interior Mission. 3
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 3
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 2
- Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 2
- Armerding, Hudson T. 2
- Assemblies of God. 2
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 2
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Bryant, David, 1945- 2
- Christian Medical Society. 2
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 2
- Fenton, Horace L. 2
- Graham, James R. (James Robert), 1898-1982. 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Canada) 2
- Latin America Mission. 2
- Little, Paul E. 2
- Lum, Ada. 2
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
- Mixter, Russell L. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Nida, Eugene A. (Eugene Albert), 1914-2011. 2
- Norton, Hugo Wilbert. 2
- Nyquist, James F. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Redpath, Alan. 2
- Roberts, W. Dayton. 2
- Seminario Biblico Latinoamericano. 2
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
- Strachan, R. Kenneth (Robert Kenneth), 1910-1965. 2
- Student Foreign Missions Fellowship. 2
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 2
- Torrey, Edith C. 2
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 2
- Adeney, Ruth W. 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- American Leprosy Missions. 1
- American Society of Missiology. 1
- Anderson, Peter. 1
- Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
- Armitage, Carolyn. 1
- Armstrong, John H. (John Harper), 1949- 1
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 1
- Asia Missions Association (Korea) 1
- Asia Theological Association. 1
- Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
- Association of Evangelical Professors of Missions. 1
- Association of Theological Schools in South East Asia. 1
- Bacon, Daniel W. 1
- Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
- Barrett, David B. 1
- Bayly, Joseph. 1
- Beckwith, Paul, 1905-1975. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bentley, Ruth Lewis. 1
- Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
- Berney, James E., 1937- 1
- Billy Graham Center. 1
- Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
- Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
- Boyd, Barbara, 1924?-2018. 1
- Bragg, Ann Kay. 1
- Bragg, Wayne G., 1931- 1
- Bright, Bill. 1
- Bright, Vonette Z. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Central Bible School (Springfield, Mo.) 1
- Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
- Chandapilla, P. T. 1
- Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
- Chao, Calvin. 1 ∧ less
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