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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 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 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 125 Oral History Interview with Jane (Teresa) Leasor
Collection
Identifier: CN 125
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jane (Teresa) Leasor (1922-2009) in which she describes her post-graduate education at Biblical Seminary in New York City; teaching at a secondary school for girls and a college for women in Beirut, Lebanon; the Arabic language; Islam; the place of women in Islam society; and the relationship between various Christian churches in Lebanon.Teresa Leasor was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 24 and September 7, 1982. There was an earlier tape recorded...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook
Collection
Identifier: CN 317
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 247 Oral History Interview with Louis E. Knowlton
Collection
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
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 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 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
Collection 434 Papers of Jack Frizen
Collection
Identifier: CN 434
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, articles, brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, directories, financial records, manuals, minutes, publications, reports, and other materials documenting Jack Frizen's life and ministry. Material mainly describes Frizen’s family life, work with G.I. Gospel Hour, director of Far East Gospel Crusade (now SEND International), executive director of Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA), director of Tyndale House Foundation, trustee of the Henry...
Dates:
Created: 1929-1995
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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- Church and state. 11
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- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
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- Women missionaries. 7
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- Church development, New. 4
- Liberation theology. 4
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 6
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 3
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 3
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 2
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Coggins, Wade T. 2
- Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas. 2
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 2
- Frizen, E. L. 2
- Norton, Hugo Wilbert. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Reapsome, James W. 2
- Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 2
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 2
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
- Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 1
- Africa Evangelical Office (Nairobi, Kenya) 1
- Aldrich, Willard. 1
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- American Leprosy Missions. 1
- Armstrong, Philip E. (Philip Edward), 1919-1981. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Association of Bible Churches in the Philippines. 1
- Association of Church Missions Committees. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Bethel Bible Institute (Armenia, Colombia) 1
- Blocher, Jacques A. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. 1
- Buker, Raymond B., 1899-1992. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Coray, Edward A. 1
- Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 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
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Church of Iran. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Evangeliums-Rundfunk. 1
- FEBIAS College of Bible (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. 1
- Fenton, Horace L. 1
- Freed, Paul E. 1
- Gerber, Vergil. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Hall, John F., 1906-1984. 1
- Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
- Hawkes, James Wood. 1
- Hendrix, Olan. 1
- Henry Parsons Crowell and Susan Coleman Crowell Trust. 1
- Hess, Lyndon. 1
- Honeywell, Russell. 1
- Houghton College. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Jesus Christ. 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kato, Byang H. 1
- King, Louis L. 1
- Kisall, Walter. 1
- Knowlton, Louis E. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- Latin America Mission. 1
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
- Leasor, Jane. 1
- Leedy, John W. 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- Mackensie, Mignon B. 1
- Maillefer, Eric. 1
- Maillefer, Lydia. 1
- Marquardt, Horst. 1
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 1
- McKinney, Lois. 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Mexican Indian Mission. 1
- Miller, William McElwee. 1
- Mission Training International. 1
- Moody Bible Institute. 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- Mortenson, Vernon. 1
- Moseley, Thomas. 1
- National Association of Evangelicals. 1
- National Religious Broadcasters (U.S.) 1
- OMF International. 1
- Odunaike, Samuel O. 1
- Operation Mobilisation. 1
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. 1
- PRA7 (Radio station: Sao Paolo, Brazil) 1
- Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 1 ∧ less
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