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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
Donn G. Ziebell Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN-637
Brief Description
Oral history interviews, correspondence, reports, e-mails, memos, budgets, strategic plans, audio and video recordings, and photographs relating to activities of Ziebell, a retired American businessman, as a senior executive at Slavic Gospel Association and other ministries. The material in the collection documents the work of SGA in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and other countries; the reorganization of SGA in the late 1980s and early 1990s; Christianity in Russia during the same time...
Dates:
1981-2008
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Donn G. Ziebell Papers
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates:
Created: 1981
Collection 421 Oral History Interviews with Arthur F. Glasser
Collection
Identifier: CN 421
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1998
Collection 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman
Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978.
Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL.
Dates:
Created: 1978
Collection 471 Papers of W. Arthur Saunders
Collection
Identifier: CN 471
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and a manuscript translated by W. Arthur Saunders, relating to Saunder’s missionary service in China with China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1930 to 1987. The interview describes his childhood in England, emigration to New Zealand, training at the New Zealand Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, going to China in 1930, evangelistic work in south Gansu province, the work of Chinese evangelists, worship services in Gansu churches,...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner
Collection
Identifier: CN 075
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Howard Warner (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood in the Canton Province of China as a daughter of missionaries, Canton Christian College where her father worked, studies and personalities at Wheaton College, her mission work among girls with Door of Hope Mission in Canton and Hong Kong, Chinese education, economic and social conditions, religion (particularly Buddhism), politics and government, the impact of China's war with Japan, and...
Dates:
Created: 1978
Collection 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer
Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little
Collection
Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 525 Oral History Interviews with Alfredo Enrique Gutierrez
Collection
Identifier: CN 525
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in with Alfredo Enrique Gutierrez in which he discusses memories of father’s imprisonment in Cuba; Cuban Christianity; influence of Communism on home life; immigrating to Miami, Florida; Communist propaganda; influence of Christian and Missionary Alliance pastors; church’s aid in adjusting to new life; homesickness for Cuba; learning English; church life at Los Pinos Nuevos; ministering alongside family in church; conversion experience at 14; Toccoa Falls College;...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 310 Oral History Interview with Eugene Grosman
Collection
Identifier: CN 310
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Eugene Grosman in which he discusses his early life in the Soviet Union, his conversion to Christianity, his emigration from the Soviet Union, his studies at Moody Bible Institute, and his work with Slavic Gospel Association. The time period covered by the interviews is 1945-1985.Eugene Grosman was interviewed by Robert Shuster at the Billy Graham Center Archives on September 4 and 18. The collection as recorded consisted of three audio tapes. However,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall
Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.
Dates:
Created: 1933-1980
Collection 450 Oral History Interviews with Vasile Bunta
Collection
Identifier: CN 450
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Vasile Bunta in which he decsribes his family background, the Baptist church in Romania, relations between church and state, his conversion and education, Billy Graham's visit to the country in 1985, the Christian revival of the 1970s in Romania, the effect of the 1989 revolution on the church, evangelistic work among the Romani people, and the current state of the Church. The time period covered by the interviews is 1960 to 1991.Vasile Bunta was...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Collection 462 Oral History Interview with Adrian O. Ban
Collection
Identifier: CN 462
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Adrian Ban in which he describes his family background, the revival in his Baptist church in Oradea, Romania; his own conversion; attempts by the government to intimidate Christians; influence of Christians such as Joseph Tson, Liviu Olah, and Aurel Tosa; his involvement in music ministry in Romania; the 1989 revolution in Romania; conditions for the church since the revolution; impressions of the church in the United States and Romania; the Romanian Missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Collection 440 Oral History Interviews with Inge Rydland
Collection
Identifier: CN 440
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Inge Herman Rydland in which he describes his family's Lutheran evangelistic work in Norway; his own call to become a missionary; his and his wife's departure to Ethiopia as workers of the Swedish Evangelical Mission in 1977; his work in Ethiopia as a teacher and as a community development work. Other topics discussed include: the work of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Meaken Yesus; church state relations; effect of the Ethiopian political situation on the...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Collection 321 Papers of Glicerio M. Manzano
Collection
Identifier: CN 321
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of prayer letters and oral history interviews, which document Glicerio M. Jojo Manzano's early life, education, family life, and work as a service manager with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and as an accountant for a rural hospital with International Nepal Fellowship.Series 1: Audio TapesThree oral history interviews with Glicerio Manzano. Topics discussed in the interview include Manzano's early life, education,...
Dates:
Created: 1981-1992
Collection 055 Papers of Otto F. Schoerner
Collection
Identifier: CN 055
Scope and Contents
Papers of Otto Frederick Schoerner a Wheaton College alumnus and missionary with China Inland Mission in Sinkiang, Honan, and Kangsu Provinces of China from 1931-1951. Collection includes an oral history interview, correspondence, autobiography, and photographs.
Dates:
Created: 1949-2006
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 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents
Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
Dates:
Created: 1970-1985
Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
David H. Adeney Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description
Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates:
Created: 1911-1994
Collection 409 Papers of David D. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 409
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1975
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 057 Papers of Susan Bartel
Collection
Identifier: CN 057
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, negatives, and photographs relating to Susan Bartel's service with the China Mennonite Mission Society for over 20 years in the Shantung Province of China. Topics covered by the interviews include: Bartel's youth, conversion to Christianity, education, marriage to Loyal Bartel, and mission work in China; World War II; Japanese occupation of China; arrest and imprisonment of Loyal; life under the Chinese communists after World War II, Loyal’s imprisonment and Susan’s...
Dates:
Created: 1932-1979
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
L. Nelson Bell Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description
Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates:
1923-1973
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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L. Nelson Bell Papers
Collection 218 Records of the Evangelical Missions Information Service
Collection
Identifier: CN 218
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, press releases, minutes, financial statements, reports, and photographs documenting the activities of the Evangelical Mission Information Service (EMIS), the publications arm of both the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Missions Association. Activities documented include the publication of several mission periodicals, including Evangelical Missions Quarterly and Missionary News Service; organization of missionary conferences and...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1981
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- Stott, John R. W. 3
- World Council of Churches. 3
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 3
- Biserica Ortodoxă Română. 2
- Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
- Bunta, Vasile. 2
- Christian Medical Society. 2
- Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 2
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 2
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- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
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- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 2
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- Aldrich, Willard. 1
- All-Russian Evangelical Christian Union 1
- Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987. 1
- Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
- American Colonization Society. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Anderson, Peter. 1
- Armitage, Carolyn. 1
- Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
- Bacon, Daniel W. 1
- Ban, Adrian O. 1
- Bartel, Loyal. 1
- Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
- Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
- Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
- Booth-Clibborn, Catherine, 1860-1955. 1
- Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
- Bright, Bill. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Ceausescu, Nicolae. 1
- Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
- Chandapilla, P. T. 1
- Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
- Chao, Calvin. 1
- Chao, Jonathan. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- China Graduate School of Theology. 1
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
- China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
- Chinese Church Research Center. 1
- Chinese Congress on World Evangelization (1976 : Hong Kong) 1
- Chinese World Mission Centre. 1
- Christian Communications Ltd. (Hong Kong) 1
- Christianity Today International. 1
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- Church, Donald Lee, 1934-2020. 1
- Comite Latinoamericana al Servicio de la Evangelizacion 1
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- Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 1
- Congo Protestant Council. 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Contento, Paul A. 1
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