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Collection 669 Oral History Interviews with Samuel Boateng
Collection
Identifier: CN 669
Scope and Contents
Three oral history interviews with Samuel Boateng in which he describes his family and growing up in an impoverished part of Accra, Ghana; journey to faith as a Christian; personal witness and devotional practices; starting a youth group in his Pentecostal church; education in Ghana, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States; leadership in Ghana Fellowship of Evangelical Students at the University of Cape Coast; church planting ministry, influential mentors including Gottfried and...
Dates:
2013
Collection 569 Oral History Interviews with Donna Sue Wasson
Collection
Identifier: CN 569
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Donna Sue Wasson, a missionary of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) working in Taiwan starting in 1985. Topics discussed include her childhood and early spiritual seeking, conversion while in college, membership in Moody Church in Chicago and education at Moody Bible Institute, acceptance as a missionary by Overseas Missionary Fellowship, orientation in Singapore, her evangelistic ministry in Taiwan among factory workers, including teaching English classes;...
Dates:
2000
Collection 445 Oral History Interviews with Helen E. Evans
Collection
Identifier: CN 445
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Helen Elizabeth Evans in which she decsribes her family background; spiritual development; education at Wheaton College; ministry in rural Vermont with the New England Fellowship; the influence of her aunt, Elizabeth Evans; her missionary work in Vietnam and Indonesia with the Christian and Missionary Alliance; and work among Vietnamese in Charlotte, North Carolina. Evans' work in Vietnam was particularly among the Dega and other tribal groups often classified...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Collection 481 Papers of Laura Barr
Collection
Identifier: CN 481
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, articles, clippings, oral history interviews, photograph albums, photographs, prayer letters, radio broadcasts, and slides, describing Laura Isabelle “Belle” Barr's missionary work among the Lugbara people of northeast Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and the West Nile District of Uganda with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1944-1981.
Dates:
Created: 1930-1993
Collection 480 Oral History Interviews with Margaret L. Clapper
Collection
Identifier: CN 480
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret L. Clapper (1912-2005), missionary with Africa Inland Mission in Belgian Congo/Zaire from 1939-1980. Topics covered in two sessions include her youth, conversion, Bible school education at Moody Bible Institute, missionary work in central Africa, Belgian administration of the Congo, work among pygmies, Zaire politics and government, independence of the country in 1960 and the Simba rebellion, transition from mission to national authority, singleness,...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 428 Papers of Helen E. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 428
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and prayer letters relating to the ministry of Helen Elizabeth Berry, missionary with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Taiwan from 1966-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Helen E. Berry in which she describes her youth, family, conversion, call to be a missionary, education at Wheaton College, missionary work with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Taiwan, church...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 465 Oral History Interview with Merry E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 465
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Merry Dalton Long (1925-2010) in which she describes her childhood; education at Wheaton College; marriage; missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Brazil; the 1960 Congo Rebellion; raising and educating children on the mission field. Other topics discussed include: Long’s medical training as a nurse during WWII; impressions of Africa; medical care available on the mission field; observations about Congolese animism; missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1986
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 316 Oral History Interview with Deborah J. Seymour
Collection
Identifier: CN 316
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Deborah J. Seymour in which she describes her childhood as a child of missionaries in Papua New Guinea and working as an English teacher in Honduras with World Gospel Mission and Churches of Christ in Christian Union from 1983 to 1985. Topics discussed include her parents' missionary work; her childhood as a missionary kid; New Guinea tribal culture; conversion to Christianity and spiritual life; call to the mission field; observations about Honduras,...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1986
Collection 468 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth C. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993
Collection 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook
Collection
Identifier: CN 317
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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
Collection 207 Papers of Mark Larson
Collection
Identifier: CN 207
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview with Mark Richard Larson concerning his experiences as a missionary under Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, 1979-1981. Centers on agricultural mission work in the Kano area of northern Nigeria. Also included in the collection are prayer letters dated from October 1982 to August 1984 and an Sudan Interior Mission Prayer Guide (folder 1-2), and a scrapbook (folder 1-1). The scrapbook was used as a point of reference throughout the interview and should be used by...
Dates:
Created: 1981-1984
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- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
- Sex role. 12
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- Women missionaries. 10
- Language in missionary work. 9
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- Children of missionaries. 7
- Christian education. 7
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- Tribes. 7
- Christianity and culture. 6
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- Church and state. 4
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 7
- Moody Bible Institute. 3
- Africa Inland Mission. 2
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Stam, Peter. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003. 1
- Barnett, Erik S. 1
- Barr, Laura Isabelle. 1
- Bediako, Kwame. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Berry, Helen E. 1
- Boateng, Gifty. 1
- Boateng, Samuel. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Cairns, Earle Edwin, 1910- 1
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Church of the Open Door (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Churches of Christ in Christian Union. 1
- Clapper, Margaret L. 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Downing, Lee H. 1
- Draper, Ben. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 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 Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelism Explosion, Inc. 1
- Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 1
- Evans, Helen E. 1
- Frame, Raymond. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Graham, Franklin, 1952- 1
- Hayward, Keesey. 1
- Hopkins, Dwayne. 1
- Hornig, Waltraud. 1
- Hsin-Chuang Gospel Center (Taiwan) 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Krekel, Cathy. 1
- Larson, Mark. 1
- Long, Merry. 1
- Long, Paul B. (Paul Brown) 1
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 1
- MacPherson, Merrill T. 1
- Mau Mau. 1
- McDowell, Josh. 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Moi, Daniel Arap, 1924-2020. 1
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- Morrison Academy (Taiwan) 1
- New England Fellowship. 1
- OMF International. 1
- Operation Mobilisation. 1
- Osei-Mensah, Audrey. 1
- Osei-Mensah, Gottfried. 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Rethy Academy (Zaire) 1
- Sawyer, Helen L. 1
- Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
- Seymour, Deborah J. 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- Shuster, Robert D. 1
- Smith, Gordon H. (Gordon Hedderly), 1902-1977. 1
- Smith, Wilbur M. (Wilbur Moorehead), 1894-1976. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Stough, Elizabeth. 1
- Stough, Paul. 1
- Sukanzanga. 1
- Taipei Language Institute (Taiwan) 1
- Taiwan Industrial Evangelism Fellowship 1
- Thomas, David D. 1
- Thomas, Dorothy Fowler. 1
- Tsai, Daniel 1
- Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- Wasson, Donna Sue 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- World Gospel Mission. 1
- Wright, J. Elwin. 1 ∧ less
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