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Adrian O. Ban Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 462
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Adrian Ban in which he describes his family background, the revival in his Baptist church in Oradea, Romania; his own conversion; attempts by the government to intimidate Christians; influence of Christians such as Joseph Tson, Liviu Olah, and Aurel Tosa; his involvement in music ministry in Romania; the 1989 revolution in Romania; conditions for the church since the revolution; impressions of the church in the United States and Romania; the Romanian Missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Africa Inland Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 081
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, minutes of meetings, films, videos, audio recordings, and other materials documenting the work of the mission in east Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Zaire, Tanzania, Sudan, the Central African Republic) and other regions of the continent. The bulk of the collection consists of the files of the US branch of the mission, although there are also significant amounts of material from the international office and the Tanzanian field office. Topics covered include...
Dates:
Created: 1888-2009
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Aimee Semple McPherson Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 103
Scope and Contents
Sermon transcripts, sermon notes, audio tape recordings of sermons, films, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, video tape, and evangelistic campaign literature related to Aimee Semple McPherson's ministry as an evangelist, radio speaker, public figure and founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Most of the materials in this collection are available from the BGC Archives only on microfilm.
Dates:
Created: 1921-1946
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Albert and Muriel Nichols Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 185
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photos, negatives and miscellaneous documents concerning family events and career decisions relating to the Nicholas’ missionary work in Sierra Leone. The bulk of the letters were sent to family during a two year period while the Nichols were serving as missionaries to Sierra Leone, where Albert was director of Industrial Education at Albert Academy. Topics include life in and methods of education of an urban missionary school in the 1920's, teaching industrial education at...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1952
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Alfred R. Tucker Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 135
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, maps, clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and sketches relating the career and ministry of Alfred R. Tucker, Anglican Bishop of Uganda. Topics relate to missions in East Africa, social conditions and changes there, translation of the Bible, the abolition of slavery and a biography of Tucker planned by Mary Carus-Wilson.This collection is distinguished by its intimate picture of African life and the missionary church in this part of Africa at a period when technology...
Dates:
Created: 1890-1927
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Americo Saavedra Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 427
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Americo Saavedra, a Peruvian-born missionary working with HCJB in Ecuador, in which he describes his childhood, family, conversion, Catholicism in Peru and Ecuador, radio station HCJB and its ministry, Quito, Ecuador, his decision to be a missionary, employment with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. Other topics include his education at Moody Bible Institute, Christian education in Ecuador, informal education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, the state of the...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Arthur Rorheim Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 410
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Arthur Rorheim, executive director of Awana Clubs, International. Topics disussed include his childhood, his parents' Christian example, his conversion, the youth work of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Paul Rader, Lance Latham, the origins of AWANA, and principles for establishing programs for boys and girls. The time period covered by the interviews is 1918 to 1989.
Arthur Rorheim was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 31 and April 24, 1989.
Dates:
Created: 1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 548
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, promotional materials, audio and videotapes, participant lists, schedules, financial records, evaluations, clippings of media coverage, etc., documenting the 1988 event. The records document not only the planning for the Congress and actual proceedings, but also the network of Black Christian leaders working together to address the spiritual and social needs of their churches and communities, and the role of the Black church in evangelism and missions....
Dates:
Created: 1986-1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Barbara L. Collins Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 508
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Barbara Lynn (Miner) Collins in which she describes her childhood; family's religious background; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development in college and young professional life; acceptance as a missionary by Africa Inland Mission (AIM); arrival on the mission field in Kenya; work among the Rendile and Kikuyu peoples; raising children on the mission field; development of women's program at Africa Inland Church Missionary College; work among women refugees...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Bert and Colleen Elliot Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 684
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and photographs of Bert and Colleen Elliot, Plymouth Brethren missionaries to Peru from 1949 to 2012. Correspondence is by and large written by Colleen Elliot to her parents and sister. Topics covered include reflections on cultural and spiritual differences between the United States and Peru, the challenges of missionary life and language divides, interactions with missionaries from different denominations, medical work in rural areas, evangelism, and the spiritual...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1994
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Bertil A. Ogren Oral History Interview
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Bob Harrison Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 557
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bob Harrison (1928-2012) in which he describes his family, grandmother's (Cornelia Jones Robertson) involvement in original Azusa Street church in Los Angeles and association with Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, racial conditions in America and the church, influence of his mother and grandmother, his musical development and experience as a jazz vocalist, conversion, writing When God Was Black; high receptivity of Third World people to...
Dates:
Created: 1998
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Bruce F. Hunt Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 104
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Burt E. Long Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.
Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.
Dates:
Created: 1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
C. René Padilla Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Catherine E. Jeter Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 533
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Catherine Elizabeth Jeter in which she discusses her childhood; conversion to Christianity through a neighborhood Bible club; education; marriage to Joseph Jeter; the start of their ministry (Have Christ Will Travel Ministries); work with inner-city children of Philadelphia and summer camp ministry in Nova Scotia, Canada; and the 1961 Billy Graham crusade in Philadelphia. Other topics discussed include: Jeter’s education at Philadelphia College of the Bible; Short...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Catherine Saavedra Velasco Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 388
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco in which she discusses her life and ministry in the Philippines, including her childhood, education, and work as a Bible school teacher. Other topics covered include theological education and evangelism in the Philippines; work with "Here's Life Philippines," sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ; the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; Filipino culture; Muslim and Catholic communities in the Philippines; Ebenezer Bible College;...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Champions for Life Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 455
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, photos, audio tapes, reports, testimonies and other materials which relate to the work of evangelist Bill Glass and his associates in city-wide evangelistic meetings around the United States and especially in correctional ministry. The collection also contains information on other athletes involved in evangelism and many sermons. Champions for Life was previously named Bill Glass Ministries.
Dates:
Created: 1957-1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Charles H. Dawson Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 386
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Charles H. Dawson (1916-2000) in which he describes his family background; conversion; involvement in street preaching; jail ministry and other work in the Camden area; involvement in the work of the Afro-American Missionary Crusade; and philosophy of Christian work. Other topics discussed include Dawson's training at the New Jersey Bible School; street preaching; Montrose Waite; Dawson's trips to Africa from the 1960s through the 1980s; training African...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Charles P. Wagner Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 358
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, promotional materials, news releases, clippings, article and address manuscripts, photographs and negatives. The materials document Wagner's activities as a member of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and its Executive Committee; as chairperson of its Strategy Working Group; as co-editor of the annual books, UNREACHED PEOPLES '79, '80, and '81; as a missionary educator and theologian in South America; and his appointment to Fuller...
Dates:
Created: 1965-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Chicago Gospel Tabernacle Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 133
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle founded by Paul Rader in 1922. Mateterials include photographs, negatives, correspondence, financial reports, church bulletins, newspaper clippings, and form letters and span 1954-1979. Several folders contain financial records and reports of the congregation. Data may be obtained from accounting records (folders 1-1 to 1-8), bank ledgers and statements (folders 3-34 to 4-19), and receipts from mission organizations (folders...
Dates:
Created: 1952-1979
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Christians Supporting Community Organizing
Collection
Identifier: SC-200
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2015
Found in:
Special Collections
Clayton L. Berg, Jr., Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 473
Scope and Contents
Oral historyinterviews with Clayton L. Berg, known as "Mike," former missionary, educator and president of Latin America Mission. Topics discussed include Berg's youth, family, conversion, education (including Wheaton Grad School), youth pastorate at Western Springs church, marriage and family, language training at Spanish Language Institute, Hogar Biblico, teaching and administration at the Latin America Biblical Seminary iin Costa Rica, administration of LAM's Education Division, training...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Clyde W. Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 597
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, lists and other materials mainly relating to a series of Protestant Evangelical international evangelism congresses which Clyde Taylor helped plan and organize between 1966 and 1974. There is also some material about his leadership in the World Evangelical Fellowship.
Dates:
Created: 1950-1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
CoMission and CoMission II Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 660
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, transcripts, schedules, manuals, policy statements, magazine and newspaper clippings, curricula, audio recordings, videos, photographs, slides and other materials documenting the work of the Commission. This was an alliance of over eighty American Protestant ministries, churches and business (almost all Evangelical) that, in agreement with the Russia government, entered the country on a five year contract to train Russian educators to teach Christian...
Dates:
1989-1998; Majority of material found in 1992-1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Dan D. Crawford Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 604
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Dan Duvall Crawford in which he discusses his parents, Percy and Ruth (Duvall) Crawford; Percy Crawford’s evangelistic ministry at meetings, through radio and television programming; and the camps his father founded. Other topics discussed include Crawford’s experiences at Pine Brook Camp as a child; Pine Brook Praises and Young People’s Church of the Air; Percy Crawford’s relationship with Billy...
Dates:
Created: 2004
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Daniel E. Liberek Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 385
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Daniel Eric Liberek in which he describes growing up in Belgium as the son of a Protestant pastor, his conversion, methods of evangelism in that country, comparison between United States and Belgian evangelicals, his own work as a youth pastor in Belgium, Protestant-Catholic relations, church-state relations, and other faiths in the country. Other topics discussed include Liberek's experiences running a Christian youth camp; and some of the spiritual options in...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
David L. Farah Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Debbie Dortzbach Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Deborah J. Seymour Oral History Interview
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Detroit's Afro-American Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 573
Scope and Contents
Minutes, budgets, proposals, pamphlets, reports, video cassettes, and other material showing the origins of Detroit's Afro-American Mission, Inc., and its activities including Bible clubs for children and adults, special ministries to singles, vacation Bible schools and camps, and the Institute for Biblical Research.
Dates:
Created: 1964-1994
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Diane W. Hawkins Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents
Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
Dates:
Created: 1970-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Dolphus Weary Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 373
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Dolphus Douglas Weary, in which he describes his childhood, education and religious training in rural Mississippi, conversion, leadership in Voice of Calvary Ministries and Mendenhall Ministries, impressions of John Perkins, and racial conditions in Mississippi. The time period covered by the interview is 1948-1987.
Dolphus Weary was interviewed by Paul A. Ericksen on June 25, 1987 at the Mendenhall Ministries headquarters in Mendenhall, Mississippi.
Dates:
Created: 1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Donald A. Cook Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 259
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Donald Arthur Cook (1923-2014) in which he describes his service with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Japan between 1956-1972. Topics discussed include upbringing, education at Wheaton College, experiences in the United States Air Force, American response to WWII, decision to join China Inland Mission (later OMF), evangelistic methods in Japan, administrative work, language difficulties, administrative duties in OMF headquarters in Hokkaido and in Tokyo,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Donald E. McDowell Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 110
Scope and Contents
Collection of 643 slides which document Donald E. McDowell's mission work and activity in Paraguay. Scenic views, native flora, mission personnel, mission facilities, national churchmen and pastors are some of the subjects illustrated by the collection.When the collection was received by the Archives, the slides were arranged in sets and were accompanied by an attached description and date for each picture. The original order of the slides was maintained. Three unidentified...
Dates:
Created: 1951-1973
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Donn G. Ziebell Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 637
Brief Description
Oral history interviews, conducted by Robert Shuster, along with correspondence, reports, e-mails, memos, budgets, strategic plans, audio and video recordings, and photographs relating to activities of Ziebell, a retired American businessman, as a senior executive at Slavic Gospel Association and other ministries. The material in the collection documents the work of SGA in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and other countries; the reorganization of SGA in the late 1980s and early 1990s;...
Dates:
1981-2008
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Earl A. Winsor Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 093
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Earl Austin Winsor (1897-1983) in which he discusses his education at Wheaton College as a student (1919-1920) and teacher (1920-25, history, and 1939-1949, math and physics) and his missionary experiences in Africa under Africa Inland Mission, serving in what is now Zaire. Wheaton personalities, mission experiences, especially those relating to his education work, and analysis of his exposure to African government, churches, tribal customs, and health practices....
Dates:
Created: 1979-1980
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Eileen J. Kuhn Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 464
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn in which she describes her family background; her conversion to Christianity; her medical training as a nurse; life at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1940s; China Inland Mission at about the same time; her call to foreign missions; her work at the CIM retirement home in Toronto; descriptions of John and Isobel Kuhn; work among the Lisu people in Thailand and Burma; translation of the Bible into the Lisu language; contacts with a former...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1994
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Eleanor R. Elliott Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Eleazar Wheelock Papers Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: CN 126
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, diaries, journal, minute books, ledgers, sermons, biographer's manuscripts, and diplomas, documenting Eleazar Wheelock's career, and the histories of Dartmouth College, Moor's Indian Charity School, and the town of Hanover, New Hampshire.The microfilmed materials in this collection are from Dartmouth College Archives. They document the career of Eleazar Wheelock, and the histories of Dartmouth College, Moor's Indian Charity School, and the town of Hanover through the...
Dates:
Created: 1728-1779
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elias Kiptoo Ng’etich Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 690
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elias Ng’etich, in which he describes his family background, the African Inland Church (AIC) he grew up in, his spiritual development and conversion, worship and Christian life in the church in which he grew up, youth evangelism activities, his first days at Scott Theological College, pastor of the AIC church in Chebaiyowo, Kenya; Moi University; typical day as a pastor, creation of the Scott satellite campus in Eldoret and teaching there; relations between...
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elizabeth C. Stough Oral History Interviews
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elizabeth Evans Oral History Interview
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Elizabeth Warner Oral History Interviews
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Eric and Lydia Maillefer Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Erik S. Barnett Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Esdras O. Krebsky Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 668
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Esdras Krebsky in which he describes his upbringing, ministry education in Brazil and the United States, Evangelicalism in Brazil, the nature of camp ministry, his experiences as a camp director, Christian Camping International, reflections on the church in Brazil, dealing with allegations of child abuse in camp ministry.Esdras Krebsky was interviewed by Bob Shuster on January 6 and 13, 2012 in the offices of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center...
Dates:
2012
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Esther Hess Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 232
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, and articles relating to Esther Hess's missionary work as a nurse in China with China Inland Mission from 1931 to 1945. The materials not only document Hess's missionary career, but also the Sino-Japanese war and her confinement to a Japanese internment camp from 1942-1945.
Dates:
Created: 1931-1959; Majority of material found in 1931-1941
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evangelical Committee on Latin America (ECLA) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 646
Scope and Contents
Financial records, correspondence, reports, committee memos, minutes, articles and newsletters related to the work of the Evangelical Committee on Latin America especially pertaining to its visits to and consultations with Latin and South American organizations. Also contains many advisory reports given to the Board of ECLA.
Dates:
Created: 1966-1976
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 165
Brief Description
Executive Directors' (Clyde Taylor, Wade Coggins, Paul McKaughan) files of the EFMA. The association of denominational and nondenominational foreign missions boards began as a commission of the National Association of Evangelicals to serve common interests of members in government relations (domestic and foreign); use of communication channels; cooperative purchasing/travel; and relations between each other. The collection is subdivided into thirteen parts: 1. Correspondence and General...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1996
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Christian literature -- Publishing. 11
- Church and state -- United States. 11
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 11
- Evangelistic work -- Japan. 11
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 11
- Indigenous church administration. 11
- Missions -- Taiwan. 11
- Pentecostalism. 11
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 10 ∧ less
- Language
- Russian 2
- Japanese 1
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 80
- Shuster, Robert D. 55
- Ericksen, Paul. 41
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 39
- Moody Bible Institute. 23
- China Inland Mission. 22
- Africa Inland Mission. 19
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 19
- OMF International. 16
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 15
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 14
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 13
- Youth for Christ International. 12
- Perkins, John, 1930- 11
- Sudan Interior Mission. 11
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Billy Graham Scholarship Program. 11
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 10
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 10
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 10
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 10
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 10
- Howard, David M. 9
- World Council of Churches. 9
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 8
- Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (2012-) 8
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 8
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 8
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 8
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 8
- Africa Inland Church. 7
- Assemblies of God. 7
- Davis, Ralph T. 7
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 7
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 7
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 7
- Latin America Mission. 7
- National Association of Evangelicals. 7
- Padilla, C. René. 7
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 7
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 7
- Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School. 7
- Wright, J. Elwin. 7
- Armerding, Hudson T. 6
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 6
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 6
- Elliot, Elisabeth. 6
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 6
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 6
- Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 6
- Mendenhall Ministries (Mendenhall, Miss.) 6
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 6
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 6
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 6
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 6
- Weary, Dolphus., 1946- 6
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 6
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 5
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 5
- Coggins, Wade T. 5
- Far East Broadcasting Company. 5
- Frizen, E. L. 5
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 5
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 5
- Kuhn, Isobel. 5
- Mau Mau. 5
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 5
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 5
- Perkins, Vera Mae. 5
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 5
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 5
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 5
- Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August) 5
- Straw, Darien A. 5
- Taylor, Herbert John, 1893-1978. 5
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 5
- Tucker, Lem. 5
- Wheaton '83: An International Evangelical Conference on the Nature and Mission of the Church. 5
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 4
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 4
- Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas. 4
- Crossett, Margaret E. 4
- Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 4
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 4
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 4
- Evangelical Committee on Latin America. 4
- Evangelical Literature Overseas. 4
- Evangelical Missions Information Service. 4
- Ford, Leighton. 4
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 4
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 4
- Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 4
- High School Born-Againers. 4
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 4
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 4
- Latham, Lance B. 4
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 4
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 4
- Mixter, Russell L. 4
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 4 ∧ less
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