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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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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- Conversion. 15
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- Church and state. 11
- Worship. 11
- Children of missionaries. 10
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- Christian education. 8
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- Christian life. 7
- Boarding schools. 6
- Catholic Church. 6
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- Missions -- Finance. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Culture shock. 5
- Marriage. 5
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
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- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
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- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church finance. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with prisoners. 2
- City missions. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Economic and social conditions 2
- Education -- United States. 2
- Ethnomusicology. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 11
- Moody Bible Institute. 4
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 2
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 2
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Barnett, Erik S. 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Berry, Helen E. 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Cagney, Mary. 1
- Cairns, Earle Edwin, 1910- 1
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- Chicago Baptist Institute. 1
- Churches of Christ in Christian Union. 1
- Clapper, Margaret L. 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Cook County (Ill.). Department of Corrections. 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dillon, James B. 1
- Door of Hope Mission. 1
- Downing, Lee H. 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 Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Evangeliska fosterlands-stiftelsen. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kingdom Come Trust (Ireland) 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Leasor, Jane. 1
- Leong, Tien Fock. 1
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Moi, Daniel Arap, 1924-2020. 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- Morrison Academy (Taiwan) 1
- National Evangelical Christian Fellowship of Malaysia. 1
- Navigators (Religious organization) 1
- OMF International. 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados. 1
- Pastoral Care Ministries. 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Payne, Leanne. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Plueddemann, Jim. 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Rethy Academy (Zaire) 1
- Rydland, Inge Herman. 1
- SIM (Organization) 1
- Seymour, Deborah J. 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- Smith, Wilbur M. (Wilbur Moorehead), 1894-1976. 1
- South China Boat Mission. 1
- Stam, Peter. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Stough, Elizabeth. 1
- Stough, Paul. 1
- Sukanzanga. 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
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- Warner, Elizabeth Howard. 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- World Gospel Mission. 1
- YaʾItyop̣yā qāla ḥeywat béta kerestiyān 1
- York, Consuella. 1
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 1 ∧ less
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