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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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- Christianity and culture. 13
- Evangelistic work. 13
- Church and state. 11
- Missionaries. 11
- Conversion. 10
- Catholic Church. 9
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
- Radio in religion. 9
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Mass media in missionary work. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 6
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Evangelicalism. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Mass media in religion. 6
- Missions -- Finance. 6
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 6
- Persecution. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Church and social problems. 5
- College students in missionary work. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missions to Muslims. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Christian education. 4
- Christian life. 4
- College students. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Ecuador 4
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 4
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Theological seminaries. 4
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 3
- Children. 3
- Christian education of children. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church and state -- Ecuador. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Church growth. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Colombia 3
- Ecuador -- Religion. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Indians of South America. 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Racism. 3
- Radio audiences. 3
- Radio broadcasting. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Television in religion. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Animism. 2
- Arabs -- Africa, North. 2
- Arabs -- Morocco. 2
- Arabs -- Spain. 2
- Arabs. 2
- Berbers. 2
- Berbers. -- Morocco. 2
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Christian education of children -- Morocco. 2
- Church and state -- Colombia. 2
- Church work with military personnel. 2
- Church work with students. 2
- Correspondence schools and courses 2
- Correspondence schools and courses -- Morocco. 2
- Correspondence schools and courses -- Spain. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Evangelistic work -- Colombia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- South America. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Family. 2
- Indians of South America -- Ecuador. 2
- Indians of South America -- Missions. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Ecuador. 2
- Islam -- Doctrines. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Liberation theology. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Colombia. 2 ∧ less
- Names
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 6
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 5
- Moody Bible Institute. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 5
- Jones, Clarence W. 4
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
- Larson, Reuben. 3
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Davis, Ila. 2
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 2
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
- Freed, Paul E. 2
- Gospel Missionary Union. 2
- Schneider, Doris Gould. 2
- Schneider, Robert, 1918- 2
- Trans World Radio. 2
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Aquino, Benigno S., Jr., 1932-1983. 1
- Armstrong, Ben (Benjamin L.), 1923-2010. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Awana Clubs International. 1
- Barcus, John. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Bell, Sarah Margaret, 1939- 1
- Bertermann, Eugene R. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Bobby, Albert Edward, 1925- 1
- Bobby, Mary Lee, 1928- 1
- Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 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
- Christian Service Brigade. 1
- Cook, Robert A., 1912- 1
- Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 1
- Evangelical Church of Iran. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangeliums-Rundfunk. 1
- Fowler, Ernie. 1
- Fraternidad Teologica Latinoamericana. 1
- Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. 1
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 1
- Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 1
- Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
- Hawkes, James Wood. 1
- Houghton College. 1
- Humbard, Rex, 1919-2007. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1
- International Christian Broadcasters. 1
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
- Jesuits. 1
- John XXIII, Pope, 1881-1963. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kennedy, D. James (Dennis James), 1930-2007. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kisall, Walter. 1
- Knowlton, Louis E. 1
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- Marquardt, Horst. 1
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
- Miller, William McElwee. 1
- National Association of Evangelicals. 1
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
- National Religious Broadcasters (U.S.) 1
- Ogilvie, Lloyd John. 1
- Operation Mobilisation. 1
- PRA7 (Radio station: Sao Paolo, Brazil) 1
- Padilla, C. René. 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
- RVOG (Radio station : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) 1
- Robertson, Pat. 1
- Saavedra, Americo. 1
- Saavedra, Kathy Pfeiffer. 1
- Savage, Robert Carlton, 1914-1987. 1
- Shoemaker, Samuel M. (Samuel Moor), 1893-1963. 1
- Simon, Sheri R. 1
- Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.) 1
- Speer, Robert E., 1867-1947. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Tchividjian, Stephen. 1
- Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965. 1
- Travers, Alan. 1
- Van Der Puy, Abe C. 1
- Voice of Tangiers (Radio station : Tanger, Morocco) 1
- WMBI (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 1
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 1
- World Gospel Crusade. 1 ∧ less
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