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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 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 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 479 Oral History Interview with William A. Stier
Collection
Identifier: CN 479
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with William Adam Stier (1912-2004), missionary with Africa Inland Mission in Tanzania from 1938 to 1978. Topics covered in the two sessions include his youth and conversion, marriage, Bible school education, call to missions, his work with the Sakuma and Tuzu peoples, his ministry as a teacher of African pastors; the transition from mission to indigenous church control in Tanzania, the policies and personnel of AIM, Emil Sywulka, political changes in Tanzania,...
Dates:
Created: 1993
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 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 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 477 Papers of Stanley R. Kline
Collection
Identifier: CN 477
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stanley R. Kline and extensive photo albums, relating to Kline’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1940 to 1977. Topics covered in interview include: his family background in Philadelphia, conversion, Percy Crawford's influence, evangelism in Philadelphia, rescue mission work, call to missions, his wife Carmel Anthony, his evangelism and educational work in the Congo between 1940 and...
Dates:
Created: 1930-1999
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 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 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
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- Evangelistic work. 10
- Indigenous church administration 10
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Conversion. 9
- Children of missionaries. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Animism. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Missions, Medical. 7
- Boarding schools. 6
- Catholic Church. 6
- Christian education. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Education 6
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Church discipline. 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Great Britain 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Theological seminaries. 4
- Tribes -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Bible. 3
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
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- Church development, New. 3
- Church work with children. 3
- College students. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Racism. 3
- Radio in missionary work. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with children -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- Communism. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Family. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Radio in religion -- United States. 2
- Radio in religion. 2
- Religion in the public schools 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Superstition. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 9
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 5
- Africa Inland Mission. 4
- Africa Inland Church. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Rethy Academy (Zaire) 2
- Stam, Harry. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 2
- Winsor, Earl. 2
- Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 1
- Aldrich, Willard. 1
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Brooks, Charles C. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Paul, 1928-1964. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Church of the Open Door (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Coray, Edward A. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 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 Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
- Ferrin, Howard W. 1
- Guth, Charles J. 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Hall, John F., 1906-1984. 1
- Hess, Lyndon. 1
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Katungulu Bible School (Tanzania) 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kenyatta, Jomo. 1
- Kline, Carmel. 1
- Kline, Stanley R. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- Leedy, John W. 1
- MacPherson, Merrill T. 1
- Majahida Bible School (Tanzania) 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- Nida, Eugene A. (Eugene Albert), 1914-2011. 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Pike, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lee), 1912-2000. 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Price, Rebecca Russell. 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- Stauffacher, Florence. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Stier, William A. 1
- Stough, Paul. 1
- Straw, Darien A. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Sywulka, Emil. 1
- Tenney, Helen J. 1
- Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
- Union Biblical Seminary (Yeotmal, India) 1
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- Winsor, Alice. 1
- Wright, Gladys. 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
- Young People's Church of the Air. 1 ∧ less
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