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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 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 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 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 083 Papers of Richard E. Scheel
Collection
Identifier: CN 083
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, slides, photographs, correspondence and a personal diary created by Dr. Richard E. Scheel, missionary to Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission (S.I.M.) from 1951-1971.
Dates:
Created: 1953-1970
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 431 Oral History Interviews with T. Michael Flowers
Collection
Identifier: CN 431
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with T. Michael Flowers (1920-2015) in which he describes growing up in the Bahamas, the influence on his life of W. H. Farrington, his conversion, his evangelistic work in the Bahamas, his education in Scotland, a brief description of Billy Graham in Scotland in 1946, and the beginning of his evangelistic work in the United States. The second interview covers Flowers' ministry in Canada, Whitfield and B. M. Nottage, the Plymouth Brethren church and its church...
Dates:
Created: 1990-1995
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
Christianity Today Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 008
Brief Description
Correspondence, memos, forms, financial reports, minutes of meetings, study papers, clippings and other records of the Evangelical Christian publishing organization. The records describe the founding of the organization to publish the magazine Christianity Today and its creation or acquisition of other publications such as Campus Life, Leadership, Leadership 100, Partnership, and Your Church. Besides material on the editing, publishing and distribution of these periodicals, the files also...
Dates:
Created: Majority of material found within 1930, 1954-2002
Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans
Collection
Identifier: CN 279
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8,...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1985
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- Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 2
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
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- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 2
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- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
- National Association of Evangelicals. 2
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- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
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- Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 2
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- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 2
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- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
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- Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
- Bolten, John, 1920- 1
- Booth, F. Carlton. 1
- Bragg, Ann Kay. 1
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- Bright, Bill. 1
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. 1
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
- Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003. 1
- Chicago Baptist Institute. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Christianity Today International. 1
- Churches of Christ in Christian Union. 1
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 1
- Cook County (Ill.). Department of Corrections. 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
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- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
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- Evangelical Teacher Training Association. 1
- Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 1
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- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
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- Flowers, Ella. 1
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- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 1
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- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. 1
- Griggins, Suzanne. 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Halverson, Richard C. 1
- Hansen, Kenneth Norman. 1
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
- Hillis, Dick. 1
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 1
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
- Jarman, W. Maxey. 1
- Kane, J. Herbert. 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kibor Zablon, Jacob. 1
- Kilby, Clyde S. 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
- Kuhn, Harold B., 1911-1994. 1
- Landreth, Gordon. 1
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968. 1
- LeTourneau, R. G. (Robert Gilmour), 1888-1969. 1
- Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. 1
- Lindsell, Harold, 1913-1998. 1
- Little, Paul E. 1
- Marty, Martin E., 1928- 1
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 1
- McQuilkin, J. Robertson, 1927- 1
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