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Collection 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis

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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

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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 348 Oral History Interview with Sharon R. Simon

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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

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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 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla

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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 247 Oral History Interview with Louis E. Knowlton

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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 387 Papers of William M. Miller

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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

Latin America Mission Records

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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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Church and state. 7
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
Christianity and culture. 6
Conversion. 6
Indigenous church administration 6
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Missionaries. 6
Catholic Church. 5
Church and social problems. 5
College students in missionary work. 5
College students. 5
Medical care 5
Missions -- Educational work. 5
Missions -- Finance. 5
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
Radio in religion. 5
Theological seminaries. 5
Evangelicalism. 4
Language in missionary work. 4
Mass media in missionary work. 4
Mass media in religion. 4
Missionaries -- Training of. 4
Missions. 4
Persecution. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Women missionaries. 4
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Children of missionaries. 3
Christian education. 3
Christian literature. 3
Church development, New. 3
Church work with students. 3
College students -- United States 3
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Liberation theology. 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Animism. 2
Armenians. 2
Bible colleges 2
Boarding schools. 2
Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
Christian life. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Church and state -- Colombia. 2
Church schools 2
Church work with military personnel. 2
College students -- Religious life. 2
Colombia 2
Culture shock. 2
Ecuador 2
Education 2
Evangelistic work -- Colombia. 2
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
Evangelistic work -- South America. 2
Hispanic Americans -- Religious life. 2
Intercultural communication. 2
International relief. 2
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
Liberalism (Religion) 2
Missions -- Colombia. 2
Missions to Muslims. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Muslims. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Presbyterians. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
Revivals. 2
Superstition. 2
Tribes. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Worship. 2
Alcoholism -- United States 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
Anglicans. 1
Animism -- Haiti. 1
Animism -- Nigeria. 1
Assemblies of God -- Missions. 1
Audio-visual materials. 1
BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
Bahai Faith. 1
Baptism. 1
Baptists -- Missions -- Haiti. 1
Baptists -- Missions. 1
Baptists. 1
Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
Boarding schools -- Ecuador. 1
Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
Brazil -- Religion. 1
Brazil. 1
Brazil. -- Economic conditions. 1
Brazil. -- Social conditions. 1
Brazil. -- Social life and customs. 1
Catholic Church -- Brazil. 1
Catholic Church -- Missions -- Brazil. 1
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Names
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) 4
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
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Padilla, C. René. 2
Sudan Interior Mission. 2
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
American Bible Society. 1
Assemblies of God. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. 1
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
Central American Mission. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Comite Latinoamericana al Servicio de la Evangelizacion 1
Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 1
Coptic Church. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 1
European Christian Mission. 1
Evangelical Church of Iran. 1
Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
Evangelical Committee on Latin America. 1
Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies. 1
Evangelism-in-Depth. 1
Fenton, Horace L. 1
Fraternidad Teologica Latinoamericana. 1
Greater Europe Mission. 1
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
Harrison, Norman B. (Norman Baldwin), 1874-1960. 1
Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
Hawkes, James Wood. 1
Hoagland, Dave. 1
Houghton College. 1
Howard, David M. 1
In-Depth Evangelism Associates. 1
Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
Jones, Clarence W. 1
Jones, Howard O. 1
Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
Kisall, Walter. 1
Knowlton, Louis E. 1
Landrey, J. Paul. 1
Larson, Reuben. 1
Latin America Mission. 1
Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
League of Nations. 1
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
Mellis, Charles. 1
Mellis, Ruth. 1
Miller, William McElwee. 1
Mixter, Russell L. 1
Moody Bible Institute. 1
Near East Relief (Organization) 1
Operation Mobilisation. 1
Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. 1
PRA7 (Radio station: Sao Paolo, Brazil) 1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Pretiz, Paul E., 1926- 1
Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
RVOG (Radio station : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) 1
Roberts, Grace Strachan. 1
Roberts, W. Dayton. 1
Seminario Biblico Latinoamericano. 1
Shapleigh, Katherine Chase. 1
Simon, Sheri R. 1
Spaulding, Alice K. 1
Speer, Robert E., 1867-1947. 1
Steely, Merle A. 1
Steely, Vera Mae. 1
Strachan, Harry. 1
Strachan, R. Kenneth (Robert Kenneth), 1910-1965. 1
Strachan, Susan Beamish. 1
Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
Torrey, Edith C. 1
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
Troutman, Charles Henry, Jr. 1
WMBI (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Wheeler, Effie Jane. 1
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 1
World Evangelical Fellowship. 1
World Gospel Crusade. 1
Young Men's Christian Associations. 1
Youth with a Mission, Inc. 1
Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1
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