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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 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little
Collection
Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 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 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 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 257 Oral History Interview with James B. Dillon
Collection
Identifier: CN 257
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with James B. Dillon in which he discusses his conversion, marriage work in Liberia for the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), the programs of radio station Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA), the cultural diversity of Liberia, and the nature of indigenous Liberian hymns and worship.James Dillon was interviewed by Wheaton graduate student Claire Bureau for her ethnomusicology course on October 29, 1983 at the Billy Graham Center on Wheaton College campus. The...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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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- Evangelistic work. 20
- Missionaries. 20
- Sex role. 20
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 19
- Conversion. 16
- Women 16
- Women -- Religious life. 16
- Women missionaries. 16
- Missionaries -- Training of. 13
- Children of missionaries. 11
- Christian education. 11
- Christianity and culture. 11
- Tribes. 11
- Church and state. 10
- Indigenous church administration 10
- Animism. 9
- Bible. 8
- Catholic Church. 8
- Christian life. 8
- Family. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Missions. 8
- Culture shock. 7
- Education 7
- Missions, Medical. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Bible -- Translating. 6
- Marriage. 6
- Missions -- Finance. 6
- Social change. 6
- Worship. 6
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 5
- Medical care 5
- Muslims. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Bible colleges 4
- Boarding schools. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Church growth. 4
- Communism. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Interpersonal conflict. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 4
- Radio in missionary work. 4
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Children. 3
- China -- History. 3
- China -- Religion. 3
- Christian education -- China. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Church discipline. 3
- Church work with children. 3
- Church work with women. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Education, Higher 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Mass media in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Music -- Religious aspects. 3
- Nursing. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Polygamy. 3
- Racism. 3
- Radio in religion. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Translating and interpreting. 3
- Witchcraft. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Animism -- Nigeria. 2
- Baptists -- Missions. 2
- Baptists. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Buddhists -- China. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- China -- Description and travel. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2 ∧ less
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 13
- Moody Bible Institute. 5
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 4
- Sudan Interior Mission. 4
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 3
- OMF International. 3
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 3
- Africa Inland Mission. 2
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 2
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Howard, David M. 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
- Jones, Clarence W. 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 2
- Stam, Peter. 2
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Amin, Idi, 1925-2003. 1
- Anderson, Ann Kiemel. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Aylward, Gladys, 1902-1970. 1
- Barnett, Erik S. 1
- Barr, Laura Isabelle. 1
- Bell, B. Clayton. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Bell, Sarah Margaret, 1939- 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Berry, Helen E. 1
- Bobby, Albert Edward, 1925- 1
- Bobby, Mary Lee, 1928- 1
- Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 1
- Brooks, Charles C. 1
- Bürki, Hans Ferdinand, 1925- 1
- Cairns, Earle Edwin, 1910- 1
- Canadian Sunday School Mission. 1
- Carmichael, Amy, 1867-1951. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Christian Service Brigade. 1
- Christianity Today International. 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, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dayuma (Auca Indian) 1
- Dillon, James B. 1
- Dohnavur Fellowship. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Downing, Lee H. 1
- Elliot, Elisabeth. 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
- Evangeliska fosterlands-stiftelsen. 1
- Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 1
- Evans, Helen E. 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fleming, Peter, 1928-1956. 1
- Frame, Raymond. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. 1
- Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Gren, Lars. 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Hampden Dubose Academy (Fl.) 1
- Hardesty, Nancy. 1
- Howard, Philip E. (Philip Eugene), 1898- 1
- Humbard, Rex, 1919-2007. 1
- Inter-Varsity Student Missions Convention (11th : 1976 : Urbana, Ill.) 1
- Inter-Varsity Student Missions Convention (12th : 1979 : Urbana, Ill.) 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kool, Anne-Marie. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Larson, Mark. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- Leasor, Jane. 1 ∧ less
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