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Collection 401 Oral History Interview with Karl G. Dortzbach

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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 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie

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Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates: Created: 1985

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 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 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott

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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 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

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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Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
Children of missionaries. 6
Christianity and culture. 6
Church and state. 6
College students. 6
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Indigenous church administration 6
Missionaries. 6
Catholic Church. 5
Church development, New. 5
Conversion. 5
Missionaries -- Training of. 5
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
Radio in missionary work. 5
Religious institutions. 5
Women missionaries. 5
Church and social problems. 4
College students -- United States 4
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 4
Evangelicalism. 4
Language in missionary work. 4
Medical care 4
Missions -- Educational work. 4
Missions -- Finance. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
Christian life. 3
Church work with students. 3
College students in missionary work. 3
Liberation theology. 3
Mass media in religion. 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Pentecostalism. 3
Persecution. 3
Radio in religion. 3
Tribes. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
Animism. 2
Boarding schools. 2
Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
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China -- History. 2
Christian education. 2
Christian literature. 2
Church and state -- Colombia. 2
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Colombia 2
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Communism. 2
Culture shock. 2
Ecuador 2
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Evangelistic work -- Colombia. 2
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
Evangelistic work -- South America. 2
Family. 2
Guatemala 2
Hispanic Americans -- Religious life. 2
Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Lay missionaries. 2
Mass media in missionary work. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- China. 2
Missions -- Colombia. 2
Missions -- Congresses. 2
Missions. 2
Persecution -- China. 2
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Revivals. 2
Rural missions. 2
Theological seminaries -- United States. 2
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Women 2
Women -- Religious life. 2
Alcoholism -- United States 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
Animism -- Guatemala. 1
Animism -- Nigeria. 1
Audio-visual materials. 1
BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges 1
Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
Bible. 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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Wheaton College (Ill.) 6
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 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
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
Baptista, Bob. 1
Baptista, Martha. 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
China Inland Mission. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Comite Latinoamericana al Servicio de la Evangelizacion 1
Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 1
Crossett, Margaret E. 1
Crossett, Vincent. 1
Dortzbach, Deborah. 1
Dortzbach, Elmer. 1
Dortzbach, Karl. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
Elliott, Helen Belcher. 1
Elliott, Raymond Leroy. 1
Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 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
Hess, Esther N. 1
Hess, Lawrence. 1
Houghton College. 1
Howard, David M. 1
In-Depth Evangelism Associates. 1
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
Jones, Clarence W. 1
Jones, Howard O. 1
Kane, J. Herbert. 1
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
Kisall, Walter. 1
Knowlton, Louis E. 1
Landrey, J. Paul. 1
Larson, Reuben. 1
Latin America Mission. 1
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
Moody Bible Institute. 1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church. 1
PRA7 (Radio station: Sao Paolo, Brazil) 1
Page, Isaac. 1
Presbyterian Church in America. 1
Pretiz, Paul E., 1926- 1
Roberts, Grace Strachan. 1
Roberts, W. Dayton. 1
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
Seminario Biblico Latinoamericano. 1
Steely, Merle A. 1
Steely, Vera Mae. 1
Strachan, Harry. 1
Strachan, R. Kenneth (Robert Kenneth), 1910-1965. 1
Strachan, Susan Beamish. 1
Straw, Darien A. 1
Sudan Interior Mission. 1
Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
Suttie, Mary Elizabeth. 1
Suttie, Melvin. 1
Troutman, Charles Henry, Jr. 1
WMBI (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 1
World Evangelical Fellowship. 1
World Gospel Crusade. 1
Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
Zhongguo guo min dang. 1
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