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Collection 498 Oral History Interviews with William E. Pannell

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Identifier: CN 498
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with William E. Pannell in which he describes his childhood in Michigan, his family, conversion as a teenager, his growing awareness of racism in America and especially its influence on American Christianity, education at Fort Wayne Bible College, involvement with the Brethren Assemblies, the part preaching has played in his life, the divide between urban and suburban culture and its impact on black and white churches and institutions, his work with Youth for Christ,...
Dates: Created: 1995-2007

Collection 445 Oral History Interviews with Helen E. Evans

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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

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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 375 Oral History Interview with Suzanne Griggins

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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 428 Papers of Helen E. Berry

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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 489 Oral History Interview with John A. MacDonald

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Identifier: CN 489
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with John Allan MacDonald (1921-2014) in which he discusses his education and activities at Wheaton College from his graduation in 1943; literary societies; friends and faculty; the impact of World War II on the campus; Billy Graham and his role in the United Gospel Tabernacle in Wheaton; MacDonald's evangelistic and church ministry among San Francisco hippies in the late 1960s and work with Jews for Jesus (JFJ) and its founder Moishe Rosen. The second interview...
Dates: Created: 1993-1994

Collection 447 Oral History Interview with Scott J. Harbert

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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 196 Oral History Interview with Edna Louise Asher Case

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Identifier: CN 196
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Edna Louise Asher Case (1905-1999), in which she discusses her aunt, Virginia Asher, who was a co-worker of Billy Sunday; she was also involved in many other evangelistic efforts. Other topics include: Case's student days at Wheaton College, and her involvement in city mission work; impressions of Mel Trotter, Billy Sunday, Helen Sunday. The time frame covered by the interview is 1905 to 1929.Edna Case was interviewed by  Robert Shuster  on November...
Dates: Created: 1905-1929

Collection 171 Papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby

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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

Helen Renich Papers.

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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

Christianity Today Records

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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

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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

Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford

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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

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Wheaton College (Ill.) 9
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 6
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 3
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McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 3
Moody Bible Institute. 3
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 3
Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 3
Africa Inland Mission. 2
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
Bright, Bill. 2
Campus Crusade for Christ. 2
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 2
Emery, Allan C. 2
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 2
Fuller Theological Seminary. 2
Jacoby, Walter S. 2
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 2
Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 2
Kantzer, Kenneth S. 2
McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
National Association of Evangelicals. 2
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 2
New England Fellowship. 2
Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 2
Robbins, Paul D., 1936- 2
Roberts, Oral, 1918-2009. 2
Schaeffer, Edith. 2
Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August) 2
Straw, Darien A. 2
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 2
Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 2
Tenney, Helen J. 2
Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 2
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 2
Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 2
World Evangelical Fellowship. 2
Wright, J. Elwin. 2
Africa Inland Church. 1
African Enterprise. 1
Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
American Board of Missions to the Jews. 1
American Council of Christian Churches. 1
American Scientific Affiliation. 1
Amin, Idi, 1925-2003. 1
Anderson, Ken, 1917-2006. 1
Armerding, Hudson T. 1
Asher, Virginia Healey, 1869-1937. 1
Asher, William. 1
Ayer, William Ward. 1
Babbage, Stuart Barton. 1
Barr, Laura Isabelle. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Bennett, Walter F., 1915 1980. 1
Berry, Helen E. 1
Biederwolf, William E. (William Edward), 1867-1939. 1
Blaine, Harriet Gertrude. 1
Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
Bobby, Albert Edward, 1925- 1
Bobby, Mary Lee, 1928- 1
Bolten, John, 1920- 1
Booth, F. Carlton. 1
Brooks, Charles C. 1
Bryant, David, 1945- 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
Cairns, Earle Edwin, 1910- 1
Carnell, Edward John, 1919-1967. 1
Case, Edna. 1
Cassidy, Michael, 1936- 1
Cedine Bible Mission. 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003. 1
Christian World Liberation Front. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Church of the Open Door (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Clark, Gordon H. (Gordon Haddon), 1902-1985. 1
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998. 1
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
Conwell School of Theology. 1
Daniel, Jack, ca. 1930- 1
Davis, Ralph T. 1
Dayton, Edward R. 1
Douglas, J. D. (James Dixon.) 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 1
Ellis, Carl F., 1946- 1
Engstrom, Ted W. (Ted Wilhelm), 1916- 1
Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
Evangelical Teacher Training Association. 1
Evans, Helen E. 1
Fletcher, Artis. 1
Florence, Tom. 1
Fort Wayne Bible College (Ind.) 1
Foster, Richard J. 1
Free, Joseph P. 1
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