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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 408 Oral History Interview with Tien Fock Leong
Collection
Identifier: CN 408
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Tien Fock Leong in which he describes his conversion, work with Campus Crusade for Christ in Malaysia; Malaysian culture in the Chinese community; the Malaysian church; and the relationship between church and state in Malaysia. Other topics discussed include social and economic conditions of Malaysia; the Muslim population in Malaysia; role of women in Malaysian society; American misconceptions of Malaysia; cultural diversity of Malaysia; and the Japanese...
Dates:
Created: 1989
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 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 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 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 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 440 Oral History Interviews with Inge Rydland
Collection
Identifier: CN 440
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Inge Herman Rydland in which he describes his family's Lutheran evangelistic work in Norway; his own call to become a missionary; his and his wife's departure to Ethiopia as workers of the Swedish Evangelical Mission in 1977; his work in Ethiopia as a teacher and as a community development work. Other topics discussed include: the work of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Meaken Yesus; church state relations; effect of the Ethiopian political situation on the...
Dates:
Created: 1991
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 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 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 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
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
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Helen Renich Papers.
Collection 415 Papers of Bonnie Stuckless
Collection
Identifier: CN 415
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, prayer letters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to the ministry of Bonnie G. Stuckless and her husband Donald Stuckless, missionaries in Colombia, Panama, and Spain with the Assemblies of God from 1970 to 1992.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history...
Dates:
Created: 1969-1992
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 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
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- Family. 19
- Sex role. 19
- Women -- Religious life. 19
- Women 18
- Evangelistic work. 15
- Missionaries. 15
- Conversion. 14
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 14
- Women missionaries. 14
- Children of missionaries. 11
- Christianity and culture. 10
- Church and state. 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Christian education. 8
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Medical care 8
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 8
- Catholic Church. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Christian life. 6
- Church work with women. 6
- Culture shock. 6
- Evangelicalism. 6
- Missions, Medical. 6
- Persecution. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Worship. 6
- Children. 5
- Education 5
- Missions. 5
- Muslims. 5
- Animism. 4
- Belief and doubt. 4
- Bible. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Interpersonal conflict. 4
- Marriage. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Race relations. 4
- Racism. 4
- Sex role -- United States. 4
- Social change. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 3
- African Americans. 3
- Children -- United States 3
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christian education -- United States. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Church growth. 3
- Communism. 3
- Education, Higher 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 3
- Nursing. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Preaching. 3
- Racism -- United States. 3
- Women clergy. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- African Americans -- Religious life. 2
- Baptism. 2
- Baptists. 2
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Buddhists. 2
- Cameroon. 2
- Cameroon. -- Politics and government. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Chicago (Ill.) 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- Christian drama. 2
- Church and social problems -- United States. 2
- Church and state -- Cameroon. 2
- Church and state -- Ethiopia. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Education -- Curricula. 2
- Ethiopia 2
- Ethiopia -- Politics and government. 2
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ethiopia. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Glossolalia. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 13
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 5
- Moody Bible Institute. 4
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 3
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Nottage, B. M. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Pannell, William E. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Adolph, Bonnie. 1
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Aylward, Gladys, 1902-1970. 1
- Banks, Melvin E., 1934- 1
- Bediako, Kwame. 1
- Bentley, Ruth Lewis. 1
- Berry, Helen E. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Boateng, Gifty. 1
- Boateng, Samuel. 1
- Bobby, Albert Edward, 1925- 1
- Bobby, Mary Lee, 1928- 1
- Brooks, Charles C. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Cagney, Mary. 1
- Cairns, Earle Edwin, 1910- 1
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- Chicago Baptist Institute. 1
- Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Churches of Christ in Christian Union. 1
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Cook County (Ill.). Department of Corrections. 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
- Evangeliska fosterlands-stiftelsen. 1
- Evans, Tony, 1949- 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Farrington, W. H. 1
- Flowers, Ella. 1
- Flowers, T. Martin. 1
- Flowers, T. Michael. 1
- Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Franklin, 1952- 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Howard, David M. 1
- Humbard, Rex, 1919-2007. 1
- Hursh, Douglas, 1911- 1
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
- Kingdom Come Trust (Ireland) 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- Leong, Tien Fock. 1
- Long, Merry. 1
- Long, Paul B. (Paul Brown) 1
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
- McQuilkin, J. Robertson, 1927- 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- Morrison Academy (Taiwan) 1
- National Black Evangelical Association. 1
- National Evangelical Christian Fellowship of Malaysia. 1
- Navigators (Religious organization) 1
- Nottage, William. 1
- Nurses Christian Fellowship (U.S.) 1
- Orr, J. Edwin (James Edwin), 1912- 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
- Osei-Mensah, Audrey. 1
- Osei-Mensah, Gottfried. 1
- Pastoral Care Ministries. 1
- Payne, Leanne. 1
- Perkins, John, 1930- 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Rydland, Inge Herman. 1
- SIM (Organization) 1
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
- Seymour, Deborah J. 1
- Shuster, Robert D. 1
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 1
- Southern Gospel Mission Association. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1 ∧ less
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