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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 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner
Collection
Identifier: CN 075
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Howard Warner (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood in the Canton Province of China as a daughter of missionaries, Canton Christian College where her father worked, studies and personalities at Wheaton College, her mission work among girls with Door of Hope Mission in Canton and Hong Kong, Chinese education, economic and social conditions, religion (particularly Buddhism), politics and government, the impact of China's war with Japan, and...
Dates:
Created: 1978
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 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 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 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
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 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 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
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- Missionaries. 12
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- Women missionaries. 11
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- Women 10
- Women -- Religious life. 10
- Christianity and culture. 8
- Conversion. 8
- Family. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Christian education. 7
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- Education 6
- Tribes. 6
- China -- History. 5
- Communism. 5
- Evangelistic work -- China. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Muslims. 5
- Persecution. 5
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
- Church work with women. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Social change. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Worship. 4
- Animism. 3
- Bible. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
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- Church and social problems. 3
- Church and state -- Ethiopia. 3
- Church growth. 3
- Church work with children. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Ethiopia 3
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- Ethiopia -- Religion. 3
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- International relief. 3
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- Missions -- Ethiopia. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Sex role -- China. 3
- Sex role -- Ethiopia. 3
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Cameroon. 2
- Cameroon. -- Politics and government. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
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- China -- Description and travel. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- Chinese -- Missions. 2
- Chinese. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
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- Church and state -- Cameroon. 2
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- Church discipline. 2
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- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 2
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- Education -- China. 2
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- Ethiopia -- History 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 10
- Sudan Interior Mission. 4
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
- OMF International. 3
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 2
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Adolph, Bonnie. 1
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Carpenter, George Wayland. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Door of Hope Mission. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Egilse de J'esus-Christ sur la terre par le proph'ete Simon Kimbangu (Democratic Republic of Congo) 1
- Eglise du Christ au Zaire. 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. 1
- Evangelical Covenant Church of America. 1
- Evangeliska fosterlands-stiftelsen. 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Frame, Raymond. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Hursh, Douglas, 1911- 1
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Little, Marie, 1918-2009. 1
- Little, Paul E. 1
- Long, Merry. 1
- Long, Paul B. (Paul Brown) 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Navigators (Religious organization) 1
- Ogren, Bertil. 1
- Orr, J. Edwin (James Edwin), 1912- 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Rydland, Inge Herman. 1
- SIM (Organization) 1
- Scheel, Richard. 1
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
- Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- South China Boat Mission. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Straw, Darien A. 1
- Suttie, Marilyn J. 1
- Suttie, Mary Elizabeth. 1
- Suttie, Melvin. 1
- Thomas, Ruth Dunton. 1
- Tiffany, Orrin Edward. 1
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
- Trobisch, Ingrid Hult. 1
- Trobisch, Walter. 1
- Trotman, Dawson E. 1
- Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 1
- Warner, Elizabeth Howard. 1
- Wheaton Eye Clinic (Ill.) 1
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