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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 189 Papers of Mary Goforth Moynan
Collection
Identifier: CN 189
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous personal papers, an autobiography, oral history interviews and color slides relating to the ministry of Mary Goforth Moynan. Topics covered include Moynan's memories of the personalities and work of her parents, Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth; evangelistic work in China before World War II; her own career in Christian work; and her trips in 1979 to Taiwan and in 1980 to the People's Republic of China.
Dates:
Created: 1918-1994
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 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 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 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 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 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
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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- Missions to Muslims. 8
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- African Americans. 1
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- Anglicans. 1
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- Animism -- Sudan. 1
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 3
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 2
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas. 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Evangelical Church of Iran. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 1
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 1
- Evangeliums-Rundfunk. 1
- Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 1
- Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875. 1
- Freed, Paul E. 1
- Gerber, Vergil. 1
- Goforth, Jonathan, 1859-1936. 1
- Goforth, Rosalind, 1864-1942. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Guth, Charles J. 1
- Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
- Hawkes, James Wood. 1
- Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Latin America Mission. 1
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1
- Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989. 1
- Leasor, Jane. 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- Marquardt, Horst. 1
- Mather, Percy Cunningham. 1
- Mexican Indian Mission. 1
- Miller, William McElwee. 1
- Moynan, Mary Goforth. 1
- Nida, Eugene A. (Eugene Albert), 1914-2011. 1
- Operation Mobilisation. 1
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. 1
- Pike, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lee), 1912-2000. 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Price, Rebecca Russell. 1
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
- RVOG (Radio station : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) 1
- Reapsome, James W. 1
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
- Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
- Smith, Oswald J. 1
- Speer, Robert E., 1867-1947. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
- Stam, Harry. 1
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
- Trans World Radio. 1
- Travers, Alan. 1
- Winsor, Alice. 1
- Winsor, Earl. 1
- Wright, Gladys. 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
- Young Men's Christian Associations. 1
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