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Collection 619 Oral History Interviews from Singapore Bible College
Collection
Identifier: CN 619
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Verda Poulson, E. N. Poulson, and Dr. Buela Violet James concerning their life experiences as Singapore Bible College (SBC) faculty and staff. Topics discussed include history of SBC, student life; gender division at SBC; mission education; SBC conservativism; development of degree programs; SBC leadership and lecturers; teaching styles; student fieldwork; Overseas Missionary Fellowship; evangelism efforts in Asia; church development; Singapore; cultural...
Dates:
2005
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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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- Evangelistic work. 13
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
- Missionaries. 11
- College students. 10
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Conversion. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Church and state. 7
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- Christian life. 4
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- Missions to Muslims. 4
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- Persecution. 4
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- Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 10
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 4
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 4
- Sudan Interior Mission. 3
- Torrey, Edith C. 3
- Africa Inland Mission. 2
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
- Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 2
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 2
- Graham, James R. (James Robert), 1898-1982. 2
- Latin America Mission. 2
- Mixter, Russell L. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Troutman, Charles Henry, Jr. 2
- Africa Inland Church Missionary College (Eldoret, Kenya) 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- American Society of Missiology. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Asia Missions Association (Korea) 1
- Asia Theological Association. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Association of Evangelical Professors of Missions. 1
- Association of Theological Schools in South East Asia. 1
- Baptista, Bob. 1
- Baptista, Martha. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Central American Mission. 1
- Chapman, Marian Gold. 1
- Christian Medical Society. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- College Church in Wheaton (Ill.) 1
- Collins, Barbara Lynn. 1
- Collins, Malcolm. 1
- Comite Latinoamericana al Servicio de la Evangelizacion 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Danielson, Rudolph. 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Dortzbach, Deborah. 1
- Dortzbach, Elmer. 1
- Dortzbach, Karl. 1
- Douglas, J. D. (James Dixon.) 1
- Dyrness, Enock. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Engstrom, Ted W. (Ted Wilhelm), 1916- 1
- European Christian Mission. 1
- Evangelical Church of Iran. 1
- Evangelical Committee on Latin America. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
- Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. 1
- Fenton, Horace L. 1
- Gieser, Catharine. 1
- Gieser, Paul Kenneth. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Gration, John Alexander, 1929- 1
- Greater Europe Mission. 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Han, Yap Un. 1
- Harrison, Norman B. (Norman Baldwin), 1874-1960. 1
- Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 1
- Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
- Hawkes, James Wood. 1
- Hildebrandt, Dorothy. 1
- Hildebrandt, Jonathan. 1
- Hillis, Dick. 1
- Hoagland, Dave. 1
- Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- Iltengezi, John. 1
- In-Depth Evangelism Associates. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Canada) 1
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 1
- James, G. D. (Gnanamuthu Dixon), -2003. 1
- James, Violet B. 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kresge, Sebastian Spering, 1867-1966. 1
- Kuhn, Eileen, 1925- 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Laing, Elizabeth. 1
- Lake Avenue Congregational Church. 1
- Landrey, J. Paul. 1
- Larson, Mark. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1 ∧ less
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