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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 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 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
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- Coptic Church. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
- European Christian Mission. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Greater Europe Mission. 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Harrison, Norman B. (Norman Baldwin), 1874-1960. 1
- Hoagland, Dave. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- League of Nations. 1
- Mellis, Charles. 1
- Mellis, Ruth. 1
- Mixter, Russell L. 1
- Near East Relief (Organization) 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. 1
- Pinebrook Bible Conference. 1
- Porter, Ruth Crawford, 1916-1986. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 1
- Saavedra, Americo. 1
- Saavedra, Kathy Pfeiffer. 1
- Shapleigh, Katherine Chase. 1
- Southeastern Bible College (Birmingham, Ala.) 1
- Spaulding, Alice K. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Straw, Perry. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Torrey, Edith C. 1
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
- WMBI (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Wheeler, Effie Jane. 1
- White, Wally. 1
- Word of Life, Inc. 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
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