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Collection 641 Oral History Interviews with David Kirwa Tarus
Collection
Identifier: CN 641
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Kirwa Tarus, a Kenyan pastor and theologian. Tarus describes the ministry of his parents; growing up in Kenya; his conversion; spiritual development; Scott Theological College; the Africa Inland Church in Kenya; Scott’s satellite campus in Eldoret; the general condition of Christianity in Kenya; his impressions of the United States and Wheaton Graduate School; the 2008 election of Barak Obama. The interview covers the time period 1979-2008.David...
Dates:
2008
Collection 219 Oral History Interview with Bertil A. Ogren
Collection
Identifier: CN 219
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Bertil A. Ogren (1914-2006) in which he describes his recruitment as a lay missionary in the Belgian Congo with the Covenant Church from 1948-56; his work there beginning and running the LECO Press, which served the needs of members of the Congo Protestant Council and relations between Africans and Western missionaries. Other topics discussed include: his family and early life, impressions of George Caprenter, independence of the Congo, Belgian influence on the...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 442 Papers of Philip R. Foxwell, Sr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 442
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one folder relating to the ministry of Philip R. Foxwell with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and later World Presbyterian Missions.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Philip R. Foxwell in which he describes his youth, conversion, magician career, education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, preparation and orientation for missionary work in Japan with the...
Dates:
Created: 1990-1991
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 282 Oral History Interview with Bonnie Jo Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 282
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bonnie Jo Adelsman Adolph in which she discussses her missionary service in Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission from 1966-1974. Topics discussed include Adolph's education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, living in Taiwan during her husband's military service, reasons for choosing Sudan Interior Mission, her husband's medical work in Ethiopia, observations about Sudanese culture, the church in Sudan, and the Adolphs short term mission service...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 447 Oral History Interview with Scott J. Harbert
Collection
Identifier: CN 447
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Scott Jeffrey Harbert in which he discusses his family, growing up, meeting his father as an adult, influences on his childhood and adolescence, contacts with Shintoism in Japan, problem with marijuana, conversion to Christianity and influence of Richard Foster, college education and participation in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, work as a staff member at the IVCF headquarters, marriage to Barbara Gration, the development of Concerts of Prayer, short-term...
Dates:
Created: 1992
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 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 400 Oral History Interview with Ingrid H. Trobisch
Collection
Identifier: CN 400
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ingrid Hult Trobisch (1926-2007) in which she describes her childhood in Tanzania as the daughter of missionaries and her own missionary service in Africa with husband Walter Trobisch. Other topics discussed include: first impressions of Africa, especially French Cameroon; observations about the role of women in Africa; African views of marriage and gender roles; medical care in Africa; the Christian church in Cameroon; the Muslim population in Cameroon;...
Dates:
Created: 1988
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 205 Oral History Interviews with Robert D. Carlson
Collection
Identifier: CN 205
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Robert Dean Carlson in which he discusses his childhood in China and Tibet, the condition of the Christian church in those countries, social and religious customs, and the Chinese language. The time period covered by the interviews is 1928 to 1982.
Robert Carlson was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 27 and April 17, 1982.
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 125 Oral History Interview with Jane (Teresa) Leasor
Collection
Identifier: CN 125
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jane (Teresa) Leasor (1922-2009) in which she describes her post-graduate education at Biblical Seminary in New York City; teaching at a secondary school for girls and a college for women in Beirut, Lebanon; the Arabic language; Islam; the place of women in Islam society; and the relationship between various Christian churches in Lebanon.Teresa Leasor was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 24 and September 7, 1982. There was an earlier tape recorded...
Dates:
Created: 1982
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 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 606 Papers of Winifred Rand
Collection
Identifier: CN 606
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview, articles, questionnaires, and biographical information related to the missionary service of Winifred Rand with China Inland Mission. Topics covered by the material include: Rand’s teaching ambitions as a young girl; reason for move to missions; Portland Bible Institute; Christian and Missionary Alliance missions policy toward single women on the mission field; China Inland Mission training; Chinese language school; doing rural work with Chinese Bible woman in Shansi,...
Dates:
Created: 1936-2004
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
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Helen Renich Papers.
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 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
Collection 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
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 278: Elisabeth Elliot Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 278
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates:
Created: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010
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- Christianity and culture. 22
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- Women 17
- Women -- Religious life. 17
- Children of missionaries. 16
- Missionaries -- Training of. 15
- Conversion. 14
- Church and state. 12
- Christian education. 11
- Family. 11
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- Language in missionary work. 11
- Catholic Church. 9
- Culture shock. 9
- Medical care 9
- Education 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Missions. 8
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 8
- Church work with women. 7
- Missions, Medical. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Animism. 6
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
- Muslims. 6
- Social change. 6
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Evangelistic work -- China. 5
- Marriage. 5
- Missionaries' spouses. 5
- Missions -- China. 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 5
- Persecution. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Belgium. 4
- Belgium. -- Administration. 4
- Bible. 4
- Boarding schools. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Communism. 4
- Education, Higher 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 4
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- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 4
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- Worship. 4
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- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
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- Church work with women -- China. 3
- College students. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Demoniac possession 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Persecution -- China. 3
- Racism. 3
- Radio in missionary work. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
- Witchcraft. 3
- Apartheid. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 15
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 5
- Moody Bible Institute. 5
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 4
- OMF International. 4
- Africa Inland Church. 3
- Africa Inland Mission. 3
- Sudan Interior Mission. 3
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 2
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
- Jones, Clarence W. 2
- Moi, Daniel Arap, 1924-2020. 2
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 2
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 2
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
- Adolph, Bonnie. 1
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Evangelical Office (Nairobi, Kenya) 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Anderson, Ann Kiemel. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
- Barnett, Erik S. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Bell, B. Clayton. 1
- Bell, Sarah Margaret, 1939- 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Berry, Helen E. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Blocher, Jacques A. 1
- Bobby, Albert Edward, 1925- 1
- Bobby, Mary Lee, 1928- 1
- Bryant, David, 1945- 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Bürki, Hans Ferdinand, 1925- 1
- Cairns, Earle Edwin, 1910- 1
- Canadian Sunday School Mission. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Carmichael, Amy, 1867-1951. 1
- Carpenter, George Wayland. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Christian Service Brigade. 1
- Christianity Today International. 1
- Churches of Christ in Christian Union. 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dayuma (Auca Indian) 1
- Dohnavur Fellowship. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Downing, Lee H. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Elliot, Elisabeth. 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Evangelical Covenant Church of America. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fleming, Peter, 1928-1956. 1
- Foster, Richard J. 1
- Foxwell, Jane Alice. 1
- Foxwell, Philip, 1914-2013. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. 1
- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. 1
- Gration, John Alexander, 1929- 1
- Gren, Lars. 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Hampden Dubose Academy (Fl.) 1
- Harbert, Barbara. 1
- Harbert, Scott J. 1
- Hardesty, Nancy. 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- Howard, Philip E. (Philip Eugene), 1898- 1
- Humbard, Rex, 1919-2007. 1
- Hursh, Douglas, 1911- 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Inter-Varsity Student Missions Convention (11th : 1976 : Urbana, Ill.) 1
- Inter-Varsity Student Missions Convention (12th : 1979 : Urbana, Ill.) 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Kato, Byang H. 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kibor Zablon, Jacob. 1 ∧ less
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