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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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- Anglicans. 1
- Animism -- Ghana. 1
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- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
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- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Adjabeng, Joshua. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
- Chao, Calvin. 1
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
- Christian Council of Ghana. 1
- Church of Pentecost (Ghana) 1
- Contento, Maida. 1
- Contento, Paul A. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Eastgate Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Ebenezer Bible College (Zamboanga City, Philippines) 1
- Evangelical Church of Iran. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
- Ghana Fellowship of Evangelical Students. 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Gray, James M. 1
- Guth, Charles J. 1
- Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
- Hawkes, James Wood. 1
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Larson, Mark. 1
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944. 1
- Miller, William McElwee. 1
- Mission Resource Network. 1
- Nida, Eugene A. (Eugene Albert), 1914-2011. 1
- Northside Community Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- OMF International. 1
- Operation Mobilisation. 1
- Page, Isaac. 1
- Pike, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lee), 1912-2000. 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Price, Rebecca Russell. 1
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
- RVOG (Radio station : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) 1
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 1
- Rowell, John, 1951- 1
- Scripture Union. 1
- Singapore Bible College. 1
- Speer, Robert E., 1867-1947. 1
- Stam, Harry. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Stockwell, Dave Howard. 1
- Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
- Thellman, Gregory Scott, 1970- 1
- Thellman, Lidija Sokac. 1
- Tong Doan Sinh-Vien Hoc-Sinh Tin-Lanh. 1
- Velasco, Catherine S. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 1
- Winsor, Alice. 1
- Winsor, Earl. 1
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 1
- Wright, Gladys. 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
- Young Men's Christian Associations. 1
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