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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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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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- Evangelistic work. 14
- Indigenous church administration 14
- Radio in missionary work. 14
- Church and state. 11
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 11
- Missionaries. 11
- Radio in religion. 11
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 10
- Missions -- Finance. 9
- Christianity and culture. 8
- Catholic Church. 7
- Conversion. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Intercultural communication. 6
- Mass media in missionary work. 6
- Mass media in religion. 6
- Medical care 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Christian education. 5
- Church and social problems. 5
- Church development, New. 5
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Radio audiences. 5
- Radio broadcasting. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Worship. 5
- Animism. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Christian literature. 4
- Church growth. 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- College students. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Missions. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Radio stations. 4
- Shortwave radio. 4
- Theological seminaries. 4
- Women 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Church work with military personnel. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelistic work -- South America. 3
- Indians of South America. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Liberation theology. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Tribes. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Bible colleges 2
- Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 2
- Chaplains, Military 2
- Chaplains, Military -- United States. 2
- Children. 2
- Christian education -- Colombia. 2
- Church and state -- Colombia. 2
- Church and state -- Ecuador. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with students. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- Colombia 2
- Communication. 2
- Cults. 2
- Ecuador 2
- Education 2
- Ethnomusicology. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Colombia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Korea. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Indians of South America -- Ecuador. 2
- Indians of South America -- Missions. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Ecuador. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Brazil. 2
- Missions -- Colombia. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 7
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 4
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 3
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 2
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 2
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 2
- Jones, Clarence W. 2
- Larson, Reuben. 2
- Latin America Mission. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Bible Society. 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
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Center for Church Communications (Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 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
- Deyneka, Peter, 1931-2000. 1
- Dillon, James B. 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 Church of Iran. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Committee on Latin America. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies. 1
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 1
- Evangeliums-Rundfunk. 1
- FEBIAS College of Bible (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. 1
- Fenton, Horace L. 1
- Ford, Leighton. 1
- Fowler, Ernie. 1
- Freed, Paul E. 1
- Frizen, E. L. 1
- Gerber, Vergil. 1
- HLKX (Radio station : Inchon, Korea) 1
- Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
- Hawkes, James Wood. 1
- Hendrix, Olan. 1
- Henry Parsons Crowell and Susan Coleman Crowell Trust. 1
- Honeywell, Russell. 1
- Houghton College. 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- In-Depth Evangelism Associates. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- International Christian Academy (Ivory Coast) 1
- International Christian Broadcasters. 1
- Jesuits. 1
- John XXIII, Pope, 1881-1963. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kim, Jang-hwan. 1
- Kisall, Walter. 1
- Knowlton, Louis E. 1
- Kolbali, Mousa. 1
- Landrey, J. Paul. 1
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- Marquardt, Horst. 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Mexican Indian Mission. 1
- Miller, William McElwee. 1
- Mission Training International. 1
- National Religious Broadcasters (U.S.) 1
- Norton, Hugo Wilbert. 1
- OMF International. 1
- Operation Mobilisation. 1
- PRA7 (Radio station: Sao Paolo, Brazil) 1
- Padilla, C. René. 1
- Plueddemann, Jim. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Pretiz, Paul E., 1926- 1
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
- RVOG (Radio station : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) 1
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 1
- Reapsome, James W. 1
- Roberts, Grace Strachan. 1
- Roberts, W. Dayton. 1
- SEND International. 1 ∧ less
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