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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 442 Papers of Philip R. Foxwell, Sr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 442
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one folder relating to the ministry of Philip R. Foxwell with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and later World Presbyterian Missions.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Philip R. Foxwell in which he describes his youth, conversion, magician career, education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, preparation and orientation for missionary work in Japan with the...
Dates:
Created: 1990-1991
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 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 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
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 134 Papers of Marian Chapman
Collection
Identifier: CN 134
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photographs, and prayer letters relating to the ministry of Marian Gold Chapman, a missionary with Latin America Mission in Cartagena, Colombia (1957-1975); Bogota, New Jersey (1975-1977), and Coral Gables, Florida (1977-1979).
Dates:
Created: 1980, 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
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
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 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
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
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 11
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 4
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 4
- Moody Bible Institute. 3
- Sudan Interior Mission. 3
- Davis, Ralph T. 2
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 2
- Straw, Darien A. 2
- Tenney, Helen J. 2
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 2
- Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
- Africa Evangelical Office (Nairobi, Kenya) 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- American Council of Christian Churches. 1
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
- Ayer, William Ward. 1
- Barnett, Erik S. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Blaine, Harriet Gertrude. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
- Blocher, Jacques A. 1
- Bolten, John, 1920- 1
- Booth, F. Carlton. 1
- Brooks, Charles C. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Chapman, Marian Gold. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Churches of Christ in Christian Union. 1
- Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 1
- Door of Hope Mission. 1
- Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 1
- Downing, Lee H. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Emery, Allan C. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Evangelical Teacher Training Association. 1
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 1
- Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Foxwell, Jane Alice. 1
- Foxwell, Philip, 1914-2013. 1
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Hillis, Dick. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
- Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Kato, Byang H. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Larson, Mark. 1
- Latin America Mission. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- LeTourneau, R. G. (Robert Gilmour), 1888-1969. 1
- Leasor, Jane. 1
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 1
- Mackensie, Mignon B. 1
- Maillefer, Eric. 1
- Maillefer, Lydia. 1
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
- Moi, Daniel Arap, 1924-2020. 1
- National Association of Evangelicals. 1
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
- New England Fellowship. 1
- OMF International. 1
- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 1
- Odunaike, Samuel O. 1
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. 1
- Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Park Street Church (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Pierce, Bob, 1914-1978. 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Presbyterian Church in America. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Rethy Academy (Zaire) 1
- Rice, John R., 1895-1980. 1
- Riley, W. B. (William Bell), 1861-1947. 1
- Rimmer, Harry, 1890-1952. 1 ∧ less
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