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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 398 Oral History Interview with Wayne L. Gordon

 Collection
Identifier: CN 398
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Wayne LeRoy Gordon, pastor of Lawndale Community Church, a nondenominational church in Chicago's predominantly black community, Lawndale. Topics covered include Gordon's youth, the influence of his family on his spiritual growth, his call to work in the black community, his education at Wheaton College, ministry through Lawndale Community Church in Chicago (its structure, various ministries, including health care, education, and recreation), and the African...
Dates: Created: 1988

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 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 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott

 Collection
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

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

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Subject
Conversion. 6
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
Missionaries. 6
Christianity and culture. 5
Catholic Church. 4
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Children of missionaries. 4
Christian life. 4
Church and state. 4
Church development, New. 4
College students -- Religious life. 4
College students in missionary work. 4
Indigenous church administration 4
Language in missionary work. 4
Missionaries -- Training of. 4
Missions, Medical. 4
Religious institutions. 4
Women missionaries. 4
Animism. 3
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
Christian leadership. 3
Christianity and culture -- United States. 3
Church and social problems. 3
College students -- United States 3
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
Education 3
Medical care 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missions -- Educational work. 3
Race relations. 3
Theological seminaries. 3
Tribes. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
Women 3
Women -- Religious life. 3
Bible colleges 2
Bible. 2
Boarding schools. 2
Christian education. 2
Culture shock. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Family. 2
Literacy 2
Missionaries' spouses. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Missions to Muslims. 2
Racism -- United States. 2
Racism. 2
Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
Revivals. 2
Sex role. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Buildings. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 2
Worship. 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
African Americans -- Religious life. 1
African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
African Americans. 1
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
Athletes 1
Athletes -- United States 1
Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
Belgium. 1
Belgium. -- Administration. 1
Belgium. -- Colonies 1
Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
Bible colleges -- United States. 1
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
Brazil -- Religion. 1
Brazil. 1
Brazil. -- Social life and customs. 1
Caribbean -- Social life and customs. 1
Caribbean Area. 1
Caribbean. -- Economic conditions. 1
Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 1
Children -- United States 1
Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
Children of clergy. 1
Children of clergy. -- United States. 1
Children. 1
Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Christian education -- Kenya. 1
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Names
Armerding, Hudson T. 3
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
Africa Inland Mission. 1
Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
Armstrong, John H. (John Harper), 1949- 1
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Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 1
Baptista, Bob. 1
Baptista, Martha. 1
Bell, James W. 1
Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
Billy Graham Center. 1
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
Bragg, Ann Kay. 1
Bragg, Wayne G., 1931- 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Bright, Vonette Z. 1
Church of the Resurrection of Illinois. 1
Church, Donald Lee, 1934-2020. 1
Coleman, Robert E., 1928- 1
Cornerstone College and Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary. 1
Crossett, Margaret E. 1
Crossett, Vincent. 1
Dorsett, Lyle W. 1
Dorsett, Mary. 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
Engel, Kevin W. 1
Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
Fawcett, John W. 1
Fawcett, Nathanael T. 1
George Fox College. 1
Gordon College (Wenham, Mass.) 1
Gordon, Wayne. 1
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
Hale, Clarence B. (Clarence Benjamin), 1905-1992. 1
Hope College. 1
Howard Payne University (Brownwood, Tex.) 1
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
Judson University. 1
Kellough, Stephen. 1
Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
Lawndale Community Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Litfin, A. Duane. 1
Messiah College. 1
Mission for Education in Latin America. 1
Moody Bible Institute. 1
Multnomah School of the Bible (Portland, Ore.) 1
North Park University. 1
Northwestern College (Roseville, Minn.) 1
Olivet Nazarene University. 1
Operation Mobilisation. 1
Orthodox Presbyterian Church. 1
Ortlund, Anne. 1
Ortlund, Raymond C. 1
PTL (Organization) 1
Padilla, C. René. 1
Perkins, John, 1930- 1
Pfund, Lee. 1
Presbyterian Church in America. 1
Skinner, Tom, 1942- 1
Smarto, Donald. 1
Smith, J. Harold, 1910-2001. 1
Stam, Harry. 1
Steely, Merle A. 1
Steely, Vera Mae. 1
Sudan Interior Mission. 1
Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
Trinity International University. 1
Vineyard Christian Fellowship. 1
Winsor, Alice. 1
Winsor, Earl. 1
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 1
World Student Christian Federation. 1
Wright, Gladys. 1
Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
Yarrington, Matt. 1
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