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Collection 216 Oral History Interview with Horst Marquardt
Collection
Identifier: CN 216
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Horst Marquardt, in which he discusses his childhood in Germany under the Nazi government, his work for the Communist party in east Germany, his conversion to Christianity, and his career as director of Evangeliums-Rundfunk, the German branch of Trans World Radio. Other topics discussed include: Marquardt's involvement with Hitler's "Youth Movement," conversion to Christianity, his early radio career in East Germany, listener responses and conversion experiences,...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 382 Oral History Interview with Paul E. Freed
Collection
Identifier: CN 382
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Ernest Freed (1918-1996) in which he describes the founding of Trans World Radio in 1952, the history of the development of its administrative policies and work from that time to 1981, and about the use of radio in missionary work. Other topics discussed include: Freed's childhood as the son of Christian and Missionary Alliance workers in Syria, his education in Jerusalem and at Wheaton College, the business he started to help pay his way through college...
Dates:
Created: 1981
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 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis
Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1987
Collection 558 Oral History Interviews with Curtis Cole
Collection
Identifier: CN 558
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Curitis Cole. Topics covered include: Cole’s family background, the development of his Christian faith, his experiences as a missionary kid in Ivory Coast in the 1970s, descriptions of the Christian community in Ivory Coast and the Ivory Coast Academy; Ivorian worship services; his education at Michigan State University, his business career in Denver and his ministry as a youth pastor there, his and his wife's call to missions, his work in Ecuador as an...
Dates:
Created: 1998
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 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 396 Oral History Interview with Perry C. Straw
Collection
Identifier: CN 396
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Perry Clark Straw, an executive of the Moody Radio Network. Topics covered include Straw's childhood in the northeastern United States, his parent's work in starting and administering Baptist youth camps, memories of Percy Crawford and Jack Wyrtzen, his education at Southeastern Bible College and Moody Bible Institute, his early work in radio, discussion of Christian youth camps, descriptions of Percy Crawford, Jack Wyrtzen, WMBI, and the Chicago Gospel...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 427 Oral History Interviews with Americo Saavedra
Collection
Identifier: CN 427
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Americo Saavedra, a Peruvian-born missionary working with HCJB in Ecuador, in which he describes his childhood, family, conversion, Catholicism in Peru and Ecuador, radio station HCJB and its ministry, Quito, Ecuador, his decision to be a missionary, employment with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. Other topics include his education at Moody Bible Institute, Christian education in Ecuador, informal education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, the state of the...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 467 Oral History Interview with Doris Schneider
Collection
Identifier: CN 467
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Doris Gould Schneider (1922-2009) in which she describes her family background; conversion to Christianity; preaching of John R. Rice; education at Moody Bible Institute; marriage; missionary work in Morocco; the role of women in Muslim society; raising children on the mission field; overthrow of the French protectorate; the family's move to Spain; cultural difference between Arabs and Berbers; public health in Morocco; return to the United States in 1982; views...
Dates:
Created: 1989
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 213 Oral History Interview with Sarah "Sally" Bell
Collection
Identifier: CN 213
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sally Bell, in which she describes her mission work with radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, 1965 to 1976. Other topics discussed include: her conversion during Billy Graham's Toronto crusade in 1955, preparation for and work on the mission field with radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador (in the departments of evangelism, television, and administration), language school in Costa Rica, comparisons between Western and Latin American culture, the role of women in...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 250 Oral History Interview with Robert Savage
Collection
Identifier: CN 250
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Robert Carlton Savage (1914-1987) in which he discusses his work as a missionary evangelist in Colombia (1942-1944) and his work in Ecuador for missionary radio station HCJB and Youth for Christ (1944-1969). Topics discussed include: his call to mission work and service in Colombia and Ecuador with the Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), radio station HCJB, Youth for Christ, and various other mission-related topics. The time period covered by the interview is...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 416 Oral History Interviews with Benjamin L. Armstrong
Collection
Identifier: CN 416
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Benjamin Leighton Armstrong in which he describes his family, particularly his father (Benjamin Leighton Armstrong Sr.) and grandfather (Benjamin Franklin Armstrong), his own conversion and spiritual growth, education at Nyack Bible College, New York University, Union Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, religious radio and television, Samuel Shoemaker, Paul Tillich, missions in the Christian and Missionary Alliance church, Voice of Tangiers and Trans World...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Collection 171 Papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby
Collection
Identifier: CN 171
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and personal papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby, missionaries in Lisbon and Santiago do Cacem, Portugal, under The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). Collection includes interviews, articles, correspondence, prayer letters, manuscript notes, and other material from the Bobbys about their mission work, including evangelism and radio broadcasting. The correspondence also includes information on various theological issues and American Christian leaders. The oral...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Collection 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla
Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 381 Oral History Interview with Peter Deyneka, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 381
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Peter Simon Deyneka, Jr. (1931-2000) in which he describes his father, Peter Deyneka Sr; his own education at Wheaton College; and his early Christian work in Alaska, South America and Korea. Other topics discussed include: Deyneka's childhood in Chicago as the child of Russian immigrants, spiritual life on Wheaton College campus, decision to go into full-time ministry with the Slavic Gospel Association, working among the Aleut people in Alaska, refugee camps in...
Dates:
Created: 1987
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 391 Papers of Robert C. Schneider
Collection
Identifier: CN 391
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, oversize materials, and a photograph, relating to the ministry of Robert C. Schneider, missionary in Spain and Morocco with Gospel Missionary Union.Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history interviews with Robert C. Schneider in which he describes his childhood, education, evangelistic work, the beginnings of Youth for Christ; attendance at Moody Bible Institute, marriage to Doris Gould, missionary work in Morocco and...
Dates:
Created: 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
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 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 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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- Radio in missionary work. 26
- Evangelistic work. 23
- Church and state. 19
- Radio in religion. 18
- Conversion. 17
- Missionaries. 17
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 15
- Indigenous church administration 14
- Christianity and culture. 13
- Missionaries -- Training of. 12
- Mass media in missionary work. 11
- Catholic Church. 10
- Evangelicalism. 10
- Mass media in religion. 10
- Missions -- Finance. 10
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 10
- Children of missionaries. 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Radio broadcasting. 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- Christian education. 8
- Church and social problems. 8
- Medical care 8
- Persecution. 8
- Radio audiences. 8
- Women -- Religious life. 8
- Christian literature. 7
- Intercultural communication. 7
- Missions. 7
- Radio stations. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Women 7
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 6
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 6
- Church development, New. 6
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
- Missions to Muslims. 6
- Shortwave radio. 6
- World War, 1939-1945. 6
- Children. 5
- Christian life. 5
- Church growth. 5
- College students in missionary work. 5
- College students. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Ecuador 5
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 5
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Pentecostalism. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Theological seminaries. 5
- Worship. 5
- Animism. 4
- Bible colleges 4
- Bible. 4
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 4
- Christian education of children. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Church and state -- Ecuador. 4
- Ecuador -- Religion. 4
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
- Evangelistic work -- South America. 4
- Indians of South America. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 4
- Liberation theology. 4
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Presbyterians. 4
- Television in religion. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Colombia. 3
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 3
- Christian education, Outdoor. 3
- Church and state -- Colombia. 3
- Church work with children. 3
- Church work with military personnel. 3
- Church work with students. 3
- Church work with youth. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Colombia 3
- Communication. 3
- Communism. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelistic work -- Colombia. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Hispanic Americans -- Religious life. 3
- Indians of South America -- Missions. 3
- Liberalism (Religion) 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Colombia. 3
- Missions -- Ecuador. 3
- Missions -- Morocco. 3
- Missions -- Public relations. 3
- Missions -- Spain. 3
- Racism. 3 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 11
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 9
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 8
- Moody Bible Institute. 7
- Jones, Clarence W. 5
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 4
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 4
- Larson, Reuben. 4
- Trans World Radio. 4
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 3
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
- Freed, Paul E. 3
- Latin America Mission. 3
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 3
- Sudan Interior Mission. 3
- The Evangelical Alliance Mission. 3
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
- Davis, Ila. 2
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 2
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 2
- Evangeliums-Rundfunk. 2
- Gospel Missionary Union. 2
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 2
- International Christian Broadcasters. 2
- Marquardt, Horst. 2
- National Religious Broadcasters (U.S.) 2
- Padilla, C. René. 2
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Savage, Robert Carlton, 1914-1987. 2
- Schneider, Doris Gould. 2
- Schneider, Robert, 1918- 2
- Slavic Gospel Association. 2
- Van Der Puy, Abe C. 2
- Voice of Tangiers (Radio station : Tanger, Morocco) 2
- WMBI (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) 2
- World Radio Missionary Fellowship. 2
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Afromedia Productions. 1
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Aquino, Benigno S., Jr., 1932-1983. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Armstrong, Ben (Benjamin L.), 1923-2010. 1
- Armstrong, Philip E. (Philip Edward), 1919-1981. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Association of Bible Churches in the Philippines. 1
- Awana Clubs International. 1
- Barcus, John. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Bell, Sarah Margaret, 1939- 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Bertermann, Eugene R. 1
- Bobby, Albert Edward, 1925- 1
- Bobby, Mary Lee, 1928- 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Bowman, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1915-2014. 1
- Braun, Willis H. 1
- Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. 1
- Camp-of-the-Woods. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Cary, Maude, 1878-1967. 1
- Center for Church Communications (Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Central American Mission. 1
- Christian Broadcasting Network (U.S.) 1
- Christian Service Brigade. 1
- Clark, Stuart D. 1
- Coggins, Wade T. 1
- Cole, Curtis Lee, 1960- 1
- Comite Latinoamericana al Servicio de la Evangelizacion 1
- Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas. 1
- Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Cook, Robert A., 1912- 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Deyneka, Peter, 1931-2000. 1
- Dillon, James B. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 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
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Epp, Theodore H. (Theodore Herman), 1907-1985. 1
- Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 1
- European Christian Mission. 1
- Evangelical Church of Iran. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Committee on Latin America. 1
- Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies. 1
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 1
- FEBIAS College of Bible (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Far East Broadcasting Company. 1
- Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. 1
- Fenton, Horace L. 1
- Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006. 1 ∧ less
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