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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 375 Oral History Interview with Suzanne Griggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 375
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Suzanne Elizabeth Griggins (T3-T4) in which she describes her work as a lawyer at the Mendenhall Ministries Law Office, including examples of cases. Other topics discussed include: Griggins’ conversion and spiritual growth; political, legal, educational, racial and social conditions in rural Mississippi; voter registration; pastor Artis Fletcher; the Ku Klux Klan; and the church's response to injustice. The collection also includes an orientation session (T1-T2)...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 501 Oral History Interviews with Beverly Yates
Collection
Identifier: CN 501
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Beverly (Pannell) Yates in which she discusses her childhood in Michigan, family history, her brother (evangelist William Pannell), her conversion and spiritual growth, impact of B.M. Nottage on her life, work as a nurse, her ministry among women, Ruth Bentley, Melvin Banks, the black church in Chicago, the development of the Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference, and the Westside Holistic Center. The time period covered by the interviews is 1931-1994....
Dates:
Created: 1994
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 397 Papers of Consuella York
Collection
Identifier: CN 397
Scope and Contents
Clippings, photographs, cards, sermons, handbooks, oral history interviews and other records mainly relating to Consuella York's ministry as a chaplain at the Cook County Jail, but also describing her childhood growing up on the south side of Chicago, her conversion, religious education, and work as a pastor.The materials in this collection consist of miscellaneous items from Rev. York's life, mostly relating to her prison ministry. They include newspaper and magazine clippings,...
Dates:
Created: 1953-1994
Collection 531 Oral History Interview with Mary M. Cagney
Collection
Identifier: CN 531
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mary Majella Cagney in which she describes her childhood, family, spiritual development, conversion and Christian life, Irish Catholicism, education, interaction between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, Irish Evangelicalism, charismatics, Evangelical agencies working in the country, women's role in church, Leanne Payne's Pastoral Care Ministries conferences, Wheaton College Graduate School, strengths and weaknesses of the Evangelical church in Ireland,...
Dates:
Created: 1996
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 096 Oral History Interview with Wayne G. Bragg
Collection
Identifier: CN 096-096
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne G. Bragg (1931-2009), in which he describes his missionary experiences in Brazil and the Caribbean working with university students, his student days at Wheaton College, and his experience at Wheaton College as a faculty member. Dr. Bragg was interviewed by Mary Ann Buffington at Wheaton College on February 15 and May 9, 1980.
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
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 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
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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- Language in missionary work. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Animism. 7
- Christian education. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Family. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
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- Bible. 5
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- Evangelistic work -- United States. 5
- Missions. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Bible -- Translating. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4
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- Sunday schools. 4
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- African Americans -- Social conditions. 3
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- Catholic Church. 3
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- Children. 3
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- Education -- Curricula. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
- Faith. 2
- Idols and images. 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
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- Missionaries' spouses. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 8
- Moody Bible Institute. 3
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Evangelical Office (Nairobi, Kenya) 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003. 1
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
- Banks, Melvin E., 1934- 1
- Barr, Laura Isabelle. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bentley, Ruth Lewis. 1
- Berry, Helen E. 1
- Billy Graham Center. 1
- Blocher, Jacques A. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Bragg, Ann Kay. 1
- Bragg, Wayne G., 1931- 1
- Brooks, Charles C. 1
- Cagney, Mary. 1
- Cairns, Earle Edwin, 1910- 1
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. 1
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Chicago Baptist Institute. 1
- Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference. 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 County (Ill.). Department of Corrections. 1
- Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 1
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 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
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 1
- Evans, Helen E. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fletcher, Artis. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Griggins, Suzanne. 1
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Kato, Byang H. 1
- Kingdom Come Trust (Ireland) 1
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Larson, Mark. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- MacPherson, Merrill T. 1
- Mackensie, Mignon B. 1
- Maillefer, Eric. 1
- Maillefer, Lydia. 1
- Mau Mau. 1
- Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Mission for Education in Latin America. 1
- Morrison Academy (Taiwan) 1
- National Black Evangelical Association. 1
- New England Fellowship. 1
- Nottage, B. M. 1
- Nurses Christian Fellowship (U.S.) 1
- OMF International. 1
- Odunaike, Samuel O. 1
- Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Padilla, C. René. 1
- Pannell, William E. 1
- Pastoral Care Ministries. 1
- Payne, Leanne. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Sawyer, Helen L. 1
- Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
- Seymour, Deborah J. 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- Smith, Gordon H. (Gordon Hedderly), 1902-1977. 1
- Smith, J. Harold, 1910-2001. 1
- Stam, Peter. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Tenney, Helen J. 1
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
- Thomas, David D. 1
- Thomas, Dorothy Fowler. 1
- Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
- Union Biblical Seminary (Yeotmal, India) 1
- Westlawn Gospel Chapel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Westside Holistic Family Center (Chicago, Ill.) 1 ∧ less
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