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Collection 581 Oral History Interviews with Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer
Collection
Identifier: CN 581
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer, in which she describes her childhood in Bulgaria, the Communist culture in that country, her conversion to Christianity, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's work in the country, the beginnings of a an indigenous campus ministry in the country, her attendance at International Fellowship of Evangelical Leaders conferences in Germany, Korea and Bulgaria; impressions of evangelical leaders, such as Samuel Escobar and John Stott; and a...
Dates:
2002
Collection 713 Oral History Interview with Gillian Gathoni Mwaura
Collection
Identifier: CN 713
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Gillian Gathoni Mwaura in which she discussed her family background in Kenya, her conversion in high school, her education at the Co-Operative College of Kenya and Methodist University; work as a student and as a full-time employee with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students-affiliated ministry FOCUS (Fellowsh ip of Christian Unions) in Kenya and Uganda, cross-cultural training and mission work in Norway; helping to form Global Link Afrika, a Ugandan...
Dates:
2019
Collection 667 Oral History Interviews with Johanna Defoy
Collection
Identifier: CN 667
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Johanna Defoy (1981- ), French missionary and church planter working in France from 2009 to 2011. Topics discussed include Defoy’s early life in France, parents, spiritual interest, conversion and growing faith, evangelism experiences, church involvement, professional experience, influence of a woman missionary, Christian university group and outreach, Groupes Bibliques Universitaires or GBU Christian university group (International Fellowship of Evangelical...
Dates:
2011
Collection 445 Oral History Interviews with Helen E. Evans
Collection
Identifier: CN 445
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Helen Elizabeth Evans in which she decsribes her family background; spiritual development; education at Wheaton College; ministry in rural Vermont with the New England Fellowship; the influence of her aunt, Elizabeth Evans; her missionary work in Vietnam and Indonesia with the Christian and Missionary Alliance; and work among Vietnamese in Charlotte, North Carolina. Evans' work in Vietnam was particularly among the Dega and other tribal groups often classified...
Dates:
Created: 1991
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 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie
Collection
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 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 447 Oral History Interview with Scott J. Harbert
Collection
Identifier: CN 447
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Scott Jeffrey Harbert in which he discusses his family, growing up, meeting his father as an adult, influences on his childhood and adolescence, contacts with Shintoism in Japan, problem with marijuana, conversion to Christianity and influence of Richard Foster, college education and participation in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, work as a staff member at the IVCF headquarters, marriage to Barbara Gration, the development of Concerts of Prayer, short-term...
Dates:
Created: 1992
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 502 Oral History Interview with Geraldine J. Phillips
Collection
Identifier: CN 502
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Geraldine Julia (Hinote) Phillips (19132-2000) in which she describes her family background, conversion to Christianity after listening to Gypsy Smith on the radio; education at BIOLA and Columbia Bible College, work at the Rehoboth Mission in Kentucky from 1934-1939, joining Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), travel to Africa in 1943, and the beginning of her work among the Dinka people in southern Sudan. Other topics discussed include: Phillips work with the Rehoboth...
Dates:
Created: 1994
Collection 521 Oral History Interview with Nancy Duarte-Gomez
Collection
Identifier: CN 521
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Duarte-Gomez, a Chilean staffworker with Grupo Biblico Universitario de Chile (GBU, InterVarsity sister movement). Duarte describes her childhood and youth, education, religious background, conversion and spiritual development, the church in Chile, training with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), ministry among students, GBU and its connection to International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), the country's political climate and its impact on the church,...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 493 Oral History Interviews with Stella Kasirye
Collection
Identifier: CN 493
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stella Kasirye in which she describes her childhood in Uganda; her conversion to Christian faith while at school; her involvement in programs to reach street children; her efforts to develop programs of AIDS education and care among college students and the country at large, and observations on the church in Uganda and missionary efforts there. The time period covered by the interviews is 1965 to 1993.Stella Kasirye was interviewed by Robert Shuster...
Dates:
Created: 1993
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 474 Oral History Interview with José E. Hernandez
Collection
Identifier: CN 474
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with José E. Hernandez in which he discusses his conversion; mission work in Spain; ministry in the jails and prisons of Miami, Florida; jail conditions; the work of the South Florida Jail Ministries; the work of the Agape Women's Homes; church/state relations; emotional and organizational problems in Christian ministry. The time period covered by the interviews is 1952-1993.José Hernandez was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on January 13,1993 at the offices...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 348 Oral History Interview with Sharon R. Simon
Collection
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 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
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 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 260
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...
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 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
Collection 483 Oral History Interview with Francis Sunderaraj
Collection
Identifier: CN 483
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Francis Sunderaraj in which he describes committing his life to Christ as a teenager in India; the development of his faith; the institutions and leadership of Evangelical Protestantism in India; Methodist churches in India and Malaysia; Sunderaraj's education at the Union Biblical Seminary in Yeotmal, India, Princeton Seminary, and Wheaton College; the development of the Evangelical Fellowship of India. The time period covered by the interviews is ca....
Dates:
Created: 1993
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
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 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1997
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 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
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
Collection 217 Papers of Elisa Espineli Chinn
Collection
Identifier: CN 217
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four oral history interviews with Lisa Chinn covering her childhood and family, education, ministry with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines and InterVarsity in the United States, ministries with her husband Leiton in the US among international students (with International Students, Inc., Interaction, and their church), writing projects, and her experience as a woman leader. Also included are her graduate school creative project, "Cross Cultural...
Dates:
Created: 1972-2020
Collection 278: Elisabeth Elliot Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 278
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates:
Created: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010
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- Evangelistic work. 26
- College students. 24
- Missionaries. 23
- Women -- Religious life. 23
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 22
- Women 21
- Women missionaries. 21
- Conversion. 19
- Church and state. 16
- Missionaries -- Training of. 16
- Christianity and culture. 15
- Indigenous church administration 15
- Language in missionary work. 14
- College students in missionary work. 13
- Christian life. 12
- College students -- Religious life. 12
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 12
- Children of missionaries. 11
- College students -- United States 11
- Evangelicalism. 11
- Medical care 11
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 11
- Missions -- Educational work. 10
- Catholic Church. 8
- Christian education. 8
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 8
- Missions, Medical. 8
- Animism. 7
- Church and social problems. 7
- Church work with students. 7
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 7
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 7
- Family. 7
- Missions -- Finance. 7
- Missions. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Bible colleges 6
- Bible. 6
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 6
- Christian leadership. 6
- Missionaries' spouses. 6
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 6
- Persecution. 6
- Radio in missionary work. 6
- Religious institutions. 6
- Revivals. 6
- Theological seminaries. 6
- World War, 1939-1945. 6
- Bible -- Translating. 5
- Church development, New. 5
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- Refugees 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 5
- Worship. 5
- Boarding schools. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 4
- Church schools 4
- Church work with women. 4
- Communism. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 4
- Intercultural communication. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Interpersonal conflict. 4
- Marriage. 4
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 4
- Missions -- Kenya. 4
- Missions -- Rural work. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Prayer groups. 4
- Presbyterians. 4
- Radio in religion. 4
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Anglicans. 3
- Children of clergy. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church work with military personnel. 3
- Church work with prisoners. 3
- College students in missionary work -- United States. 3
- Ethiopia 3
- Ethiopia -- History 3
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 3
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Liberation theology. 3
- Mass media in missionary work. 3 ∧ less
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 21
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 6
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 5
- Africa Inland Mission. 4
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 4
- Sudan Interior Mission. 4
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 4
- Africa Inland Church. 3
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 3
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
- Howard, David M. 3
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 3
- Mixter, Russell L. 3
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 3
- Armerding, Hudson T. 2
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 2
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 2
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 2
- Dortzbach, Deborah. 2
- Dortzbach, Karl. 2
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 2
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 2
- Fellowship of Christian Unions (Uganda) 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- Gration, John Alexander, 1929- 2
- Jones, Clarence W. 2
- Latin America Mission. 2
- MAP International (Organization) 2
- Operation Mobilisation. 2
- Ortlund, Raymond C. 2
- Padilla, C. René. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 2
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 2
- Stott, John R. W. 2
- Torrey, Edith C. 2
- Wright, J. Elwin. 2
- Youth with a Mission, Inc. 2
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 2
- Africa Inland Church Missionary College (Eldoret, Kenya) 1
- Agape Women's Homes (Miami, Fla.) 1
- Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 1
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- American Leprosy Missions. 1
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003. 1
- Anderson, Ann Kiemel. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
- Armstrong, John H. (John Harper), 1949- 1
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Assemblée Biblique du Bassin Annécien (ABBA) 1
- Athyal, Saphir P. 1
- Baptista, Bob. 1
- Baptista, Martha. 1
- Barnett, Albert E. 1
- Barnett, Elma. 1
- Barnett, William John. 1
- Beam, Mary S. 1
- Bell, B. Clayton. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
- Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Bright, Bill. 1
- Bright, Vonette Z. 1
- Bryant, David, 1945- 1
- Bürki, Hans Ferdinand, 1925- 1
- Canadian Sunday School Mission. 1
- Carey, William, 1761-1834. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Carmichael, Amy, 1867-1951. 1
- Central American Mission. 1
- Chapman, Marian Gold. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Chinn, Leiton E. 1
- Chinn, Lisa Espineli 1
- Christian Medical Society. 1
- Christian Nurses Fellowship. 1
- Christianity Today International. 1
- Church Missionary Society. 1
- Church of the Resurrection of Illinois. 1
- Coleman, Robert E., 1928- 1
- College Church in Wheaton (Ill.) 1
- Collins, Barbara Lynn. 1
- Collins, Malcolm. 1
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 1
- Comite Latinoamericana al Servicio de la Evangelizacion 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Cornerstone College and Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary. 1
- Cridland, A. Elizabeth. 1 ∧ less
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