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Collection 626 Oral History Interview with Stephen Christopher
Collection
Identifier: CN 626
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Stephen Christopher, a Tamil mission leader. Topics covered in the interview include his childhood, education and conversion; the work of Dohnavur Fellowship; ministry of his father (P. T. Christopher) and the founding of the Tamil Gospel Village Mission, his own vision for the ministry; the Christian church in northern and southern India; and a comparison of Indian and American Christianity. The time period covered by the interview is 1980 to 2006....
Dates:
2007
Collection 635 Oral History Interviews with Theodore W. Mole
Collection
Identifier: CN 635
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Mole, a missionary and church planter with CB International and Interact Ministries in the Ukraine and Siberia. Topics covered in the interview include the development of his faith in college, involvement with InterVarsity; work as an engineer with DuPont; study at Denver Theological Seminary; churching planting among Russian immigrants in Denver; teaching missions at Donetsk Christian University in Ukraine; Svet Evanglia, a Ukrainian mission agency; working in...
Dates:
2007-2008
Collection 583 Oral History Interviews with Gregory S. Thellman
Collection
Identifier: CN 583
Scope and Contents
Oral history with Gregory Thellman (1970- ), missionary in the Bosnian region of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997-2008) as a member of a church team. Topics covered include Thellman’s spiritual development and conversion, interest in missions, participation in his Northside Community Church’s outreach among Muslim Bosnian refugees in Atlanta, Northside’s mission teams to Mostar in Bosnia, Bosnian Christian leaders and Evangelical congregation in the city, work among children and youth, relations...
Dates:
2003
Collection 651 Oral History Interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne
Collection
Identifier: CN 651
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne in which she describes her experiences working in community development, education, evangelism, and medical missions among the Quechua people in Bolivia with SIM International for over 20 years, beginning in 1989. Topics discussed include her family background and spiritual development; education at Wheaton College; impressions of various mission agencies; including SIM, Medical Assistance Program (MAP), and the Moravians; challenges of...
Dates:
2009-2010
Collection 206 Oral History Interview with John C. Chin
Collection
Identifier: CN 206
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John C. Chin (1911-1989) in which he discusses his childhood in China, medical training, and the Chinese Christian church; the work of China Inland Mission in Honan, Szechwan, and Yunnan provinces; the Japanese occupation of China; Nationalist and Communist parties; medical work in CIM and Presbyterian hospitals; war conditions and relocation to Taiwan; Also discussed is his founding of the Lutheran Seminary, Taiwan; the contemporary status of Chinese Christians,...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 535 Oral History Interview with Mona Joyce
Collection
Identifier: CN 535
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mona Miller Joyce (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood and youth, conversion and spiritual development, call to missionary work, family, work in China with China Inland Mission, husband Raymond Joyce, the Communist period in China and CIM's expulsion from the country, co-workers Dr. Jessie McDonald and Mabel Soltau, Pentecostalism, relations among missionaries, her role as a woman missionary, outreach to Muslims, their work in the Persian Gulf with...
Dates:
Created: 1996
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 093 Oral History Interview with Earl A. Winsor
Collection
Identifier: CN 093
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Earl Austin Winsor (1897-1983) in which he discusses his education at Wheaton College as a student (1919-1920) and teacher (1920-25, history, and 1939-1949, math and physics) and his missionary experiences in Africa under Africa Inland Mission, serving in what is now Zaire. Wheaton personalities, mission experiences, especially those relating to his education work, and analysis of his exposure to African government, churches, tribal customs, and health practices....
Dates:
Created: 1979-1980
Collection 448 Oral History Interviews with Seung-Hun Yang
Collection
Identifier: CN 448
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Seung-Hun Yang in which he discusses the discipline and devotion of the rural South Korean Presbyterian church he grew up in, the effects of the Korean War on the country, his father's example as a Christian and lay leader, the work of the Navigators abd Campus Crusade for Christ in Korea, Yang's education as a physicist, the introduction of creation science to Korea, his efforts to found a Christian university, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Korean...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Collection 190 Oral History Interview with Alan Travers
Collection
Identifier: CN 190
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews with Alan Travers in which he discuess his work with Trans World Radio from 1959 to 1981, and the use of radio in missionary work. Topics discussed include: the history of TWR; technical and administrative details and policy of the organization; it's broadcasting and programming philosophy, finances, effectiveness and TWR's founder, Paul Freed; the locations of its stations throughout the world; how the staff members function in the stations and relate to the...
Dates:
Created: 1959-1981
Collection 375 Oral History Interview with Suzanne Griggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 375
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Suzanne Elizabeth Griggins (T3-T4) in which she describes her work as a lawyer at the Mendenhall Ministries Law Office, including examples of cases. Other topics discussed include: Griggins’ conversion and spiritual growth; political, legal, educational, racial and social conditions in rural Mississippi; voter registration; pastor Artis Fletcher; the Ku Klux Klan; and the church's response to injustice. The collection also includes an orientation session (T1-T2)...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 259 Oral History Interviews with Donald A. Cook
Collection
Identifier: CN 259
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Donald Arthur Cook (1923-2014) in which he describes his service with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Japan between 1956-1972. Topics discussed include upbringing, education at Wheaton College, experiences in the United States Air Force, American response to WWII, decision to join China Inland Mission (later OMF), evangelistic methods in Japan, administrative work, language difficulties, administrative duties in OMF headquarters in Hokkaido and in Tokyo,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 337 Papers of Roger H. Malstead
Collection
Identifier: CN 337
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews and prayer letters, relating to Roger Malstead’s ministry with Operation Mobilization.Audio TapesTwo oral history interviews with Roger Malstead in which he describes his youth, education at Wheaton College, work with Operation Mobilization (OM) in the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Lebanon, the United States, at OM headquarters in England, and with the OM ship DOULOS; Other topics described are the director of OM,...
Dates:
Created: 1961-1993; Majority of material found within 1986-1993
Collection 257 Oral History Interview with James B. Dillon
Collection
Identifier: CN 257
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with James B. Dillon in which he discusses his conversion, marriage work in Liberia for the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), the programs of radio station Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA), the cultural diversity of Liberia, and the nature of indigenous Liberian hymns and worship.James Dillon was interviewed by Wheaton graduate student Claire Bureau for her ethnomusicology course on October 29, 1983 at the Billy Graham Center on Wheaton College campus. The...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 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 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 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 325
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which Berry discusses his conversion, education at Wheaton College, and his work as a pilot and administrator for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Honduras and Southeast Asia. Other topics discussed include. Berry’s service in the Army during World War II, his views on pacifism, the origins of Mission Aviation Fellowship, challenges of MAF, and the effect of life on the mission field on Berry’s family.Donald Berry was interviewed by Robert Shuster on...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 390 Papers of Janet Kuhns
Collection
Identifier: CN 390
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and manuscript, relating to the ministry of Janet Kuhns, missionary among the Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia under the auspices of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CM&A).[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "Folder 1-1" means box 1, Folder 1.]Series: Audio TapesThree oral history interviews with Janet Kuhns in which she...
Dates:
Created: 1987-1988
Collection 090 Papers of George F. Spotts
Collection
Identifier: CN 090
Scope and Contents
An oral history interview, correspondence, reports and clippings relating to George Spotts’ work as a Youth for Christ staff member in France and the United States involved in evangelistic work among teenagers.
Dates:
Created: 1960-1979
Collection 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
Collection 414 Papers of Wade T. Coggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 414
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, papers and speech manuscripts relating to the ministry of Wade T. Coggins, Christian worker with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association.
Dates:
Created: 1964-1990
Collection 349 Papers of Clarence W. Jones
Collection
Identifier: CN 349
Scope and Contents
Collection includes correspondence, reports, sermons, memos, minutes of meetings, clippings, photographs, videotapes, slides, and other materials relating to the career of mission executive Clarence W. Jones. The materials deal mainly with his work at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle and the growth and development of the organization he helped found, the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, and especially its primary broadcasting station, HCJB in Ecuador. There is also an extensive amount of...
Dates:
Created: 1915-1986
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 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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- Intercultural communication. 26
- Evangelistic work. 21
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- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 19
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- Church and state. 18
- Indigenous church administration 14
- Language in missionary work. 13
- Christianity and culture. 12
- Missionaries -- Training of. 12
- Missions. 12
- Women missionaries. 11
- Children of missionaries. 10
- Christian life. 10
- Missions -- Finance. 10
- Women 10
- Women -- Religious life. 10
- Worship. 10
- Catholic Church. 9
- Christian education. 8
- Evangelicalism. 8
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 8
- Christian leadership. 7
- Church and social problems. 7
- Church growth. 7
- Education 7
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 7
- Missions, Medical. 7
- Radio in missionary work. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- College students. 6
- Culture shock. 6
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 6
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Children. 5
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 5
- Christian literature. 5
- Communism. 5
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 5
- Missionaries' spouses. 5
- Persecution. 5
- Radio in religion. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- African Americans. 4
- Animism. 4
- Bible colleges 4
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- Boarding schools. 4
- China -- History. 4
- China. 4
- Church work with youth. 4
- College students -- United States 4
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 4
- Mass media in missionary work. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Caste. 3
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
- Christian education -- Philosophy. 3
- Church and state -- United States. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Church discipline. 3
- Church work with students. 3
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- Communication. 3
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- Ethnomusicology. 3
- Independent churches. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Mass media in religion. 3
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 3
- Missions -- Honduras. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Missions -- Philippines. 3
- Missions -- South America. 3
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 3
- Missions -- Theory. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Racism. 3
- Radio audiences. 3
- Radio broadcasting. 3
- Refugees 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Seminary extension. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Shortwave radio. 3
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- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 14
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 6
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 6
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 4
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 3
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 3
- Africa Inland Mission. 2
- American Leprosy Missions. 2
- Buker, Raymond B., 1899-1992. 2
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 2
- China Inland Mission. 2
- Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas. 2
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 2
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Philippines) 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 2
- Jones, Clarence W. 2
- Larson, Reuben. 2
- Latin America Mission. 2
- MAP International (Organization) 2
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
- Mixter, Russell L. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Reapsome, James W. 2
- Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 2
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
- Afromedia Productions. 1
- Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 1
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Scientific Affiliation. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Association of Church Missions Committees. 1
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
- Berry, Donald W. 1
- Bethel Bible Institute (Armenia, Colombia) 1
- Bible Memory Association. 1
- Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Blocher, Jacques A. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Bowman, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1915-2014. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Campbell, Evvy Hay. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Central American Mission. 1
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 1
- Chin, John C. 1
- Chinn, Leiton E. 1
- Chinn, Lisa Espineli 1
- Christian Broadcasting Network (U.S.) 1
- Christian Missions in Many Lands. 1
- Christian Nurses Fellowship. 1
- Christian University Fellowlaborers Association (Korea) 1
- Christopher, P. T. 1
- Christopher, Stephen, 1980- 1
- Church, Donald Lee, 1934-2020. 1
- Clark, Stuart D. 1
- Coggins, Wade T. 1
- Cook, Donald A. 1
- Dallas Theological Seminary. 1
- Denver Seminary. 1
- Dillon, James B. 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Dohnavur Fellowship. 1
- Donetsk Christian University (Ukraine) 1
- Doulos (Ship) 1
- Eastgate Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Egilse de J'esus-Christ sur la terre par le proph'ete Simon Kimbangu (Democratic Republic of Congo) 1
- Eglise du Christ au Zaire. 1
- Egypt General Mission. 1
- Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 1
- Epp, Theodore H. (Theodore Herman), 1907-1985. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 1
- Evangeliums-Rundfunk. 1
- Far East Broadcasting Company. 1
- Fellowship of Faith for Muslims. 1
- Fenton, Horace L. 1
- Fisher, Walter, 1865-1935. 1
- Fletcher, Artis. 1
- Freed, Paul E. 1
- Friends Missionary Prayer Band (Trivandum, India) 1
- Frizen, E. L. 1
- Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 1
- Gallagher, Robert L. 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. 1
- Gerber, Vergil. 1
- Gordon, Wayne. 1
- Green, Frank O. 1
- Griggins, Suzanne. 1
- HOXO (Radio station : Panama City, Panama) 1
- Hale, Ned. 1
- Hatcher, Elias. 1 ∧ less
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