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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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- Church and state. 19
- Evangelistic work. 19
- Radio in religion. 14
- Missionaries. 13
- Conversion. 12
- Indigenous church administration 12
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
- Mass media in missionary work. 11
- Christianity and culture. 10
- Catholic Church. 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Mass media in religion. 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Missions -- Finance. 9
- Church and social problems. 8
- Evangelicalism. 8
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 8
- Christian literature. 7
- Intercultural communication. 7
- Medical care 7
- Missions. 7
- Radio audiences. 7
- Radio broadcasting. 7
- Women 7
- Women -- Religious life. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Christian education. 6
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 6
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
- Persecution. 6
- Radio stations. 6
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Church development, New. 5
- College students in missionary work. 5
- College students. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Pentecostalism. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Theological seminaries. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Christian life. 4
- Church and state -- Ecuador. 4
- Church growth. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Ecuador 4
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 4
- Evangelistic work -- South America. 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Liberation theology. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Presbyterians. 4
- Shortwave radio. 4
- Television in religion. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Worship. 4
- Animism. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Colombia. 3
- Children. 3
- Church and state -- Colombia. 3
- Church work with students. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Colombia 3
- Communication. 3
- Ecuador -- Religion. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelistic work -- Colombia. 3
- Hispanic Americans -- Religious life. 3
- Indians of South America -- Missions. 3
- Indians of South America. 3
- Liberalism (Religion) 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Colombia. 3
- Missions -- Public relations. 3
- Racism. 3
- Religion in the public schools 3
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Sunday schools. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Armenians. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Bible. 2
- Broadcasting policy. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 2
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Christian education -- Colombia. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church and social problems -- Ecuador. 2
- Church and state -- United States. 2 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 9
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 8
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 5
- Jones, Clarence W. 5
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 4
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 4
- Larson, Reuben. 4
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 3
- Freed, Paul E. 3
- Latin America Mission. 3
- Moody Bible Institute. 3
- Sudan Interior Mission. 3
- Trans World Radio. 3
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
- International Christian Broadcasters. 2
- Padilla, C. René. 2
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 2
- Savage, Robert Carlton, 1914-1987. 2
- Slavic Gospel Association. 2
- Van Der Puy, Abe C. 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
- Assemblies of God. 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
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Central American Mission. 1
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 1
- Christian Broadcasting Network (U.S.) 1
- Christian Service Brigade. 1
- Clark, Stuart D. 1
- Comite Latinoamericana al Servicio de la Evangelizacion 1
- Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas. 1
- Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 1
- Cook, Robert A., 1912- 1
- Coptic Church. 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
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 1
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 1
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 1
- Evangeliums-Rundfunk. 1
- Far East Broadcasting Company. 1
- Fenton, Horace L. 1
- Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006. 1
- Ford, Leighton. 1
- Fowler, Ernie. 1
- Fraternidad Teologica Latinoamericana. 1
- Freed, Norah. 1
- Freed, Ralph. 1
- Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. 1
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 1
- Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 1
- Gerber, Vergil. 1
- Greater Europe Mission. 1
- Grosman, Eugene. 1
- HLKX (Radio station : Inchon, Korea) 1
- HOXO (Radio station : Panama City, Panama) 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Harrison, Norman B. (Norman Baldwin), 1874-1960. 1
- Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
- Hawkes, James Wood. 1
- Hoagland, Dave. 1
- Houghton College. 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- Humbard, Rex, 1919-2007. 1
- In-Depth Evangelism Associates. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1 ∧ less
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