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Collection 569 Oral History Interviews with Donna Sue Wasson

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Identifier: CN 569
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Donna Sue Wasson, a missionary of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) working in Taiwan starting in 1985. Topics discussed include her childhood and early spiritual seeking, conversion while in college, membership in Moody Church in Chicago and education at Moody Bible Institute, acceptance as a missionary by Overseas Missionary Fellowship, orientation in Singapore, her evangelistic ministry in Taiwan among factory workers, including teaching English classes;...
Dates: 2000

Collection 480 Oral History Interviews with Margaret L. Clapper

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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 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 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely

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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 125 Oral History Interview with Jane (Teresa) Leasor

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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

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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 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon

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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

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

Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer

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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

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Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
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Women missionaries. 8
Indigenous church administration 7
Children of missionaries. 6
Christian life. 6
Church and state. 6
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Missionaries -- Training of. 6
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
Animism. 5
Christianity and culture. 5
Boarding schools. 4
Catholic Church. 4
Christian education. 4
Christian leadership. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Missions -- Educational work. 4
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
Missions, Medical. 4
Rural missions. 4
Tribes. 4
Worship. 4
Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
Church development, New. 3
Church discipline. 3
Church schools 3
Culture shock. 3
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
Family. 3
Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
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Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
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Missions. 3
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Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Animism -- Taiwan. 2
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Bible. 2
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Christian education -- United States. 2
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Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Church work with children. 2
Church work with women. 2
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
Discrimination. 2
Ecumenical movement. 2
Education, Higher 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Fund raising. 2
Idols and images -- Taiwan. 2
Idols and images. 2
Independent churches. 2
Intercultural communication. 2
Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
Medical care 2
Missionaries' spouses. 2
Missions -- Taiwan. 2
Missions to Muslims. 2
Muslims. 2
Non-formal education. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Presbyterians. 2
Race relations. 2
Racism. 2
Radio in missionary work. 2
Rural missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Sex role -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Social change. 2
Syncretism (Religion). 2
Taiwan -- Religion. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 2
Worship (Christian) 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
African Americans -- Segregation. 1
African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
African Americans. 1
Alcoholism -- United States 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
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Wheaton College (Ill.) 6
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
Moody Bible Institute. 3
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
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Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
Africa Evangelical Office (Nairobi, Kenya) 1
Alford, Zoe Anne. 1
Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
Bell, James W. 1
Berry, Helen E. 1
Blocher, Jacques A. 1
Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
Brooks, Charles C. 1
Cairns, Earle Edwin, 1910- 1
Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
Clapper, Margaret L. 1
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
Cook, Ian H. 1
Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
Coptic Church. 1
Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 1
Draper, Ben. 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
Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
Evangelical Fellowship of India. 1
Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
Evangelism Explosion, Inc. 1
Fletcher, Artis. 1
Frame, Raymond. 1
Griggins, Suzanne. 1
Hayward, Keesey. 1
Hopkins, Dwayne. 1
Hornig, Waltraud. 1
Hsin-Chuang Gospel Center (Taiwan) 1
Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
Kato, Byang H. 1
Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
Krekel, Cathy. 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
Leasor, Jane. 1
Mackensie, Mignon B. 1
Maillefer, Eric. 1
Maillefer, Lydia. 1
McDowell, Josh. 1
Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 1
Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Moravian Church. 1
Morrison Academy (Taiwan) 1
OMF International. 1
Odunaike, Samuel O. 1
Operation Mobilisation. 1
Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. 1
Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Shannon, Ralph E. 1
Steely, Merle A. 1
Steely, Vera Mae. 1
Sudan Interior Mission. 1
Taipei Language Institute (Taiwan) 1
Taiwan Industrial Evangelism Fellowship 1
Tenney, Helen J. 1
Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
Tsai, Daniel 1
Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
Union Biblical Seminary (Yeotmal, India) 1
Wasson, Donna Sue 1
West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
World Evangelical Fellowship. 1
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