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Jonathan Blanchard Papers

 Collection — Box: microfilm
Identifier: RG-02-001
Abstract The Jonathan Blanchard Collection is a diverse gathering of items covering the family of Wheaton College's first president. Ranging from the scribblings of grandchildren to a petition for the abolition of slavery, they illuminate Blanchard in many roles: Minister, College President, Abolitionist, Anti Secretist, Reformer, lecturer, and head of a large family. Jonathan Blanchard's life in both the public and private realm is detailed. In addition to the biographical interest of the materials,...
Dates: Created: 1808-2018; Majority of material found within 1808 - 1893

José E. Hernandez Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 474
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with José E. Hernandez in which he discusses his conversion; mission work in Spain; ministry in the jails and prisons of Miami, Florida; jail conditions; the work of the South Florida Jail Ministries; the work of the Agape Women's Homes; church/state relations; emotional and organizational problems in Christian ministry. The time period covered by the interviews is 1952-1993.José Hernandez was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on January 13,1993 at the offices...
Dates: Created: 1993

José Pablo Sánchez-Nuñez Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 526
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jose Pablo Sánchez-Nuñez, in which he describes his family, childhood in Spain, Protestant Evangelicalism in a predominantly Catholic country, his conversion and spiritual development, training for ministry, work with Decisión, theological education by extension in Spain, American missionaries and their impact in Spain, attempts to unify Spanish Protestants, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Global Mission (of which he was the director in Madrid), his...
Dates: Created: 1995

Joseph C. Jeter Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 532
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Joseph C. Jeter, who discusses his family and growing up, social and racial conditions in Philadelphia, education and employment, conversion and church involvement, first pastorate, limited missionary positions available to African Americans in White agencies, experience in Uganda and burden for missions, return to Uganda to survey mission stations staffed by African American missionaries, dire condition, and resulting burden to serve missionaries. Topics...
Dates: Created: 1983-1996

Joseph K. Wright Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 065
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a letter from Joseph Kingsburg Wight, missionary to China, to his brother, William Wight, describing his sea voyage to China, the condition of Shanghai, missionary endeavors in China and the Taiping Rebellion.

Dates: Created: 1856

Joshua Adjabeng Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 346
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Joshua Adjabeng in which he discusses his childhood in Ghana, family, conversion to Christianity, education at Wheaton College; the Church of the Pentecost, evangelistic work among university students, Christian literature in Ghana. Other topics discussed include the condition of the church in Ghana, African Pentecostalism, and a comparison of the Christian church and Ghana and the United States. The time period covered by the interview is 1950-1986....
Dates: Created: 1986

Joy and Dicran Kassouny Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 539
Scope and Contents Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other material relating to the ministry of Joy and Dicran Kassounys. Topics referenced in the materials are Joy Arousiag's escape from a massacre of Armenians as a child; her education in the United States, particularly Wheaton College; her work as a trainer of teachers in Lebanon, his work as a pastor and a leader of Christian Endeavour campaigns in Syria and Lebanon; the Kassouny's courtship and early married years; and the Armenian church in the...
Dates: Created: 1928-1979

Judson Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 173
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings relating to the ministry of Judson Smith. Letters between Smith and his family describe his trips abroad, among them to Great Britain and Paris in 1882 (which included visits to hear Charles Spurgeon), Turkey and the World Missionary Conference (1888), and Japan and China (1898); reports to ABCFM board members also describe Smith's observations of missionary work; included among Smith's descriptions of China are those of other missions including...
Dates: Created: 1878-1913

Karl G. Dortzbach Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 401
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Karl G. Dortzbach in which he describes his childhood and youth, influence of his family, education at Wheaton College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and missionary experience in Ethiopia (short term with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and in Kenya. Subjects covered include missiology, conversion, raising children on the mission field, marital relationships on the mission field, church life in a Nairobi congregation, proliferation of parachurch groups...
Dates: Created: 1988-1989

Katharine H. Schoerner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 051
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Katherine Hastings Dodd Schoerner for the Missionary Sources Collection at the BGC Archives, in which she describes her experiences as a missionary with China Inland Mission from 1931-1951. Also included the collection are five letters written during her ministry in China describing her life there.Katharine Schoerner was interviewed by Wheaton College student Gary Ziccardi on October 20, 1978 at her home in Evergreen Park. Topics covered in the...
Dates: Created: 1978

Kathryn M. Feldi Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 487
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi (1912-2015) in which she describes her parents, who were Africa Inland Mission workers in Tanzania; mother's conversion at a Billy Sunday campaign; her own attendance at Wheaton College; memories of Billy Graham as a college student; the Wheaton revival of 1943; favorite professors; and the effect of World War II on the Wheaton campus. The time period covered by the interviews is 1922 to 1993.Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi was...
Dates: Created: 1993

Kathy Bridegroom Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 127
Scope and Contents Photographs, audio tapes, and prayer letters from Kathy Joan Bridegroom's two years as a Sudan Interior Mission worker at radio station ELWA in Liberia. Letters discuss her teaching experiences, cultural impressions, and mission activities. Ephemera from Bridegroom's missionary experiences consist of audio tapes and photographs from the ELWA mission compound including a Christmas program, closing service of summer Awana girls camp, and several worship services; pamphlets containing...
Dates: Created: 1972-1974

Kenneth L. Shingledecker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 297
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Kenneth L. Shingledecker in which he describes his work with college students in Student Training in Missions, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, planning Urbana '79 student missions convention, missionary work in Kenya for Daystar Communications, and the development of Christian leadership in the church in Kenya. The collection also includes a folder of prayer letters, ranging from 1985-1990.Topics covered in the oral history interview include...
Dates: Created: 1985-1990

L. C. Robie Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 229
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with L.C. Robie in which he describes his experiences during his forty-two years as an Assemblies of God evangelist in California, New York,and Pennsylvania, beginning ca. 1920. Topics discussed include: early ministry experiences in New York state churches, successes and hostilities, importance of prayer, work in Michigan; healing from youthful illness, first conversion of factory worker and spread of faith to others, New Hope revival, visions, power of revival and...
Dates: Created: 1979

L. Nelson Bell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates: 1923-1973

Larry Goldberg Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 543
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Larry Goldberg, in which he decribes his childhood and youth in a traditional Jewish family, conversion, spiritual growth, education, evangelism among Chicago Jews, joining Operation Mobilization, evangelism in Israel and attempts to expel him from the country, evangelistic outreach in Austria, inter-personal conflict, Jewish perceptions and reactions to evangelism, evangelism methods, charismatic issues, divisive missionary couple, the church in Israel, Jews for...
Dates: Created: 1997

Latin America Mission Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 236
Brief Description Records of the mission, including correspondence, minutes, reports, memos, financial reports, policy statements, planning documents, promotional material, photographs, etc. Documents describe the origins of LAM (particularly the contribution of the Strachan family); evangelistic, church planting, educational, medical, and literature activities (primarily in Colombia and Costa Rica, but also many other Latin American countries and the United States); the restructuring of the mission in the...
Dates: Created: 1903-1994

Laura Barr Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 481
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, articles, clippings, oral history interviews, photograph albums, photographs, prayer letters, radio broadcasts, and slides, describing Laura Isabelle “Belle” Barr's missionary work among the Lugbara people of northeast Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and the West Nile District of Uganda with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1944-1981.

Dates: Created: 1930-1993

Laura Neva Collins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 422
Scope and Contents Glass negatives, negatives, and photographs relating to the ministry of Laura Neva Collins, missionary to Kenya with Africa Inland Mission from 1907-1952. Shots include missionaries, Africans, indigenous artifacts, church architecture, etc., relating to mission work in Africa.This collection originally consisted of ninety-seven black and white glass negatives of missionary activities in Africa before 1914. There are two series of glass negatives. The first series may have taken...
Dates: Created: 1899-1914

Lausanne Movement Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 046
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, memos, reports, manuscripts of speeches, press releases, newsletters, staff manuals, audio and video tapes of sponsored events, photographs of events and personnel, and other administrative materials of the Lausanne Movement, originally called the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. The Committee grew out of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization. Its basic doctrinal statement was the Lausanne Covenant and it had the mission Ato encourage...
Dates: Created: 1949, 1969-2014

Leonard H. F. Sumule Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 524
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Leonard Hendrik F. Sumule in which he describes his family, childhood in Indonesia, conversion and spiritual development, being a Christian in a predominantly Muslim nation, his experience at Wheaton College's Honey Rock Camp, comparison of Honey Rock with Christian camps in Indonesia, the 1995 revival at Wheaton College, his goals for ministry in Indonesia, involvement in youth ministry, camping and Christian education in the country, and education and church...
Dates: Created: 1996

Lilias Trotter Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-225
Scope and Contents Materials in the collection include original illustrations, copies of the Algiers Mission Band journals, facsimiles of Lilias Trotter journals and sketchbooks, and copies of Trotter correspondence with art critic John Ruskin.Monographs in the collection consist of works by Trotter, Trotter biographies, works by John Ruskin, and historical depictions of Algeria. They may be searched in the library catalog as...
Dates: Created: 1876-2017

Lillian R. Dickson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 593
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, newsletters, audio tapes, clippings, photo albums, photographs, prayer calendars, and video tapes all related to the life and ministry of Lillian Dickson, missionary to Taiwan under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of Canada along with her husband James and founder of the small independent mission Mustard Seed, Inc. The collection documents as well the mission’s founding and development over the years and in its activities in...
Dates: Created: 1926-1983

Louis E. Knowlton Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 247
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Louis E. Knowlton in which he discusses his career in evangelistic work and radio technology in Brazil for the Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. Topics discussed include Knowlton's early life, education, service as an Army chaplain's assistant, decision to go into technological ministry, work at WMBI and in Brazil, efforts as a street evangelist and beginnings of music studio, Brazilian churches, church-state relations, ethnic groups and cults, the use of...
Dates: Created: 1982

Lue Shelby Oral History Interivew.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 369
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Lue Shelby in which she describes her family background; Voice of Calvary Ministries; the health clinic started by VOC; health problems among the the low-income population in Jackson, MS; Bible study for patients and staff at the clinic; programs for educating the community in personal health care; racial conditions in Mississippi; and the VOC Fellowship Church. The time period covered by the interview is 1953-1987.Lue Shelby was interviewed by Paul...
Dates: Created: 1987 

Luther Rice Papers Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: CN 334
Scope and Contents Microfilm edition of the papers of Baptist educator, missionary, and leader Luther Rice (1783-1836), including a list of correspondents, lecture notes on theology and other topics, school records of Columbian College, diary, financial record book, and letters. Also includes a copy of the 1814 constitution (and later suggested revisions) of the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions. Originals filmed by the Historical Commission of...
Dates: Created: 1803-1825

Lyndon Hess Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates: Created: 1982

M. Douglas Hursh Papers

 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

Mabel Buyse Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 496
Scope and Contents Diaries, photographs, correspondence, and a scrapbook relating to Mabel Easton Buyse’s missionary service with Africa Inland Mission among the Dungu and Bafuka people groups in Belgian Congo (later, Zaire) before her marriage and later service in Aru and Kasengu, Belgian Congo; Goli, Uganda; and Opari, Sudan. Buyse was involved with setting up, operating, and teaching in schools in each place she worked. The scrapbook deals with the 1941 sinking of the Zamzam, in which her brother-in-law,...
Dates: Created: 1908-1967

Malcolm and Helen Sawyer Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
Dates: Created: 1985

Malla Moe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 280
Scope and Contents

Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, clippings, financial records, tracts, photographs, and certificates belonging to Malla Moe, missionary to South Africa, 1892-1953, under Scandinavian Alliance Mission (later TEAM). Correspondence documents evangelistic work among South African tribes in Swaziland and Tongoland and includes descriptions of the Boer War, life in African communities, and church growth.

Dates: Created: 1893-1955

Margaret and Kenneth P. Landon Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-038
Scope and Contents The papers of Kenneth P. and Margaret Landon present unique views into the life and culture of Southeast Asia. Margaret, best known for her work Anna and the King of Siam, and Kenneth, a Presbyterian missionary and later Southeast Asia specialist with the U.S. State Department, were both graduates of Wheaton College. Both exhibit distinct qualities that offer the researcher many opportunities.The collection is organized into 12 series (Biography/Correspondence, Siam Missionary...
Dates: Created: 1824-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1990; Other: Date acquired: 1990

Margaret Carlson Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates: Created: 1983

Margaret Crossett Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include  Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates: Created: 1984-1986

Margaret L. Clapper Oral History Interviews

 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

Marian Chapman Papers

 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

Marie H. Little Oral History Interview

 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

Marilyn J. Suttie Oral History Interview

 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

Mark Larson Papers

 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

Martha H. Philips Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates: Created: 1985

Martha Pohnert Prayer Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 080
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one prayer letter from Martha Pohnert, a missionary with China Inland Mission, decribing Pohnert's Chinese co-workers, prayer needs, famine in the area, and the state of an outlying town damaged by soldiers.

Dates: Created: 1929

Mary Goforth Moynan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 189
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous personal papers, an autobiography, oral history interviews and color slides relating to the ministry of Mary Goforth Moynan. Topics covered include Moynan's memories of the personalities and work of her parents, Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth; evangelistic work in China before World War II; her own career in Christian work; and her trips in 1979 to Taiwan and in 1980 to the People's Republic of China.

Dates: Created: 1918-1994

Mary Jane Wilson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 066
Scope and Contents

Letter from Mary Jane Wilson to her uncle, Michael Gretter, in Richmond, Virginia. The letter describes the new baby born to her and her husband; the attempt of missionaries Daniel Lindley and Henry Venable to establish a mission station in a southern Africa territory (Moseqa) under the protection of a Matabele tribal chief (Moselekatse); local marriage customs; severe drought in Grinquatown; and impressions of Robert Moffat, Robert Hamilton, and Roger Edwards.

Dates: Created: 1836

Mary M. Cagney Oral History Interviews

 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

Matthew Parker Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 413
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Matthew Parker in which he describes his childhood, family, education, conversion, study at Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music and work/study at Wheaton College, ministry with Campus Crusade in its sports ministry and with Overseas Crusades sports evangelism ministry (Venture for Victory w/ Bud Schaeffer), the 1984 and 1986 National Summits on Black Church Development, the Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America, the Afro-American community, white...
Dates: Created: 1989

Max Reich Papers

 Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-091
Scope and Contents

The collection is organized into eight series (Biographical, Correspondence, Diaries/Notes, Sermons, Poetry, Published Materials, Secondary, Photographs). The bulk of the collection is found in Reich's writings, either manuscript or published, related to Hebrew Christian matters.

Dates: Created: 1923-1952; Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1945

Melvin D. Suttie Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates: Created: 1985

Melvin E. Trotter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 047
Scope and Contents Sermons, personal memorabilia, audio tape of Trotter's preaching, negatives, photographs, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, and correspondence related to Trotter's ministry as an evangelist and in rescue mission work. Collection combines Trotter's papers and the City Rescue Mission's records, including invitations to speak, responses to invitations from Trotter to speak at the mission, an abstract of a deed, requests for funds, testimonials to the good work of the mission, reports from...
Dates: Created: 1899-1972

Melvin R. Anderson Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 370
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Melvin R. Anderson in which he discusses his work with Voice of Calvary Ministries in Jackson, MS, particularly as director of Peoples Development Incorporated and its housing ministry to rennovate and make homes available to the economically disadvantaged in Jackson. Other topics discussed include Anderson's family background, education, racial integration of the public school system; boycott of white businesses,  the influence of John and Vera Mae Perkins on...
Dates: Created: 1987

Merle A. Steely Oral History Interview

 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

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Evangelism & Missions Archives 489
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Subject
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 195
Conversion -- Christianity. 184
Women missionaries. 133
Women -- Religious life. 127
Evangelistic work -- United States. 111
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Language in missionary work. 107
Missionaries -- Training of. 106
Missions -- China. 103
Christian life. 99
Missions -- Educational work. 98
Children of missionaries. 79
Christianity and culture. 77
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 75
Evangelistic work -- China. 74
Christian leadership. 69
Missions -- Finance. 66
Evangelicalism -- United States. 65
Religious institutions. 62
World War, 1939-1945. 61
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 60
Families. 55
Communism -- China. 51
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 50
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 46
Missions -- India. 45
Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 44
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 44
Fund raising. 44
Missions -- Africa. 41
Public worship -- Christianity. 41
Bible -- Translating. 40
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 39
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 38
Missions, Medical. 37
Bible -- Study and teaching. 36
Culture shock. 36
Fundamentalism. 36
Prayer. 36
Church development, New. 35
Evangelicalism. 35
Church and social problems -- United States. 34
Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 34
Missions -- Study and teaching. 34
Church and social problems. 33
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 33
Missionaries' spouses. 33
Radio in missionary work. 33
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 32
Missions -- Congresses. 32
Rural missions. 31
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 31
College students in missionary work. 30
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 30
Evangelistic work. 29
Missionaries, Resignation of. 29
Missions -- Philippines. 28
Sermons, American. 28
African Americans -- Social conditions. 27
Evangelistic sermons. 27
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 27
Preaching. 27
African Americans -- Religious life. 26
Christian education -- United States. 26
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 26
African Americans -- Missions. 25
Christian literature -- Publishing. 25
Missionaries. 25
Missions -- Kenya. 25
Radio in religion. 25
China -- Religion. 24
Missions -- South America. 24
Missions to Muslims. 24
Persecution -- China. 24
Presbyterians. 24
Children of missionaries -- Education. 23
Missions -- Asia. 23
Missions -- Europe. 23
Missions -- Theory. 23
Social change. 23
Baptism. 22
Indigenous church administration. 22
Intercultural communication. 22
Medical care -- China. 22
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 22
Pentecostalism. 22
Church and state -- United States. 21
City missions -- United States. 21
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 21
Evangelistic work -- Africa. 21
Evangelistic work -- South America. 21
Indigenous church administration -- China. 21
Marriage. 21
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 21
Organizational change. 21
Race relations. 21
Church and state -- China. 20
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 20
Ecumenical movement. 20
Evangelistic invitations. 20
Interdenominational cooperation. 20
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Russian 3
Spanish; Castilian 3
German 2
Arabic 1
Chinese 1
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Names
Wheaton College (Ill.) 146
Shuster, Robert D. 91
Ericksen, Paul. 86
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 74
China Inland Mission. 51
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Moody Bible Institute. 50
Africa Inland Mission. 43
OMF International. 40
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 37
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 35
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 30
Zhongguo guo min dang. 28
Youth for Christ International. 25
Wycliffe Bible Translators. 24
Wheaton College (Ill.). Billy Graham Scholarship Program. 23
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 22
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 21
Sudan Interior Mission. 21
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 21
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 20
Campus Crusade for Christ. 19
World Evangelical Fellowship. 19
Africa Inland Church. 18
Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 18
Assemblies of God. 17
HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 17
Latin America Mission. 17
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 17
Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 17
Howard, David M. 16
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 16
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 16
Armerding, Hudson T. 15
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 15
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 15
National Association of Evangelicals. 15
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 15
Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 15
World Council of Churches. 15
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 14
Padilla, C. René. 14
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 14
Bright, Bill. 13
Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (2012-) 13
Perkins, John, 1930- 13
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 12
Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 12
Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 12
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 12
Jones, Clarence W. 12
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 12
Mission Aviation Fellowship. 12
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 12
Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 11
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 11
Elliot, Elisabeth. 11
Ford, Leighton. 11
Hurlburt, Charles E. 11
McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 11
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 11
Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 11
Skinner, Tom, 1942- 11
Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School. 11
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 10
Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 10
Evangelism-in-Depth. 10
McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 10
Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 10
Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 10
Palau, Luis, 1934- 10
Rodeheaver, Homer A. (Homer Alvan), 1880-1955. 10
Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905. 10
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 10
Troutman, Charles Henry, 1914- 10
Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 9
Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 9
Coggins, Wade T. 9
ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 9
Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 9
Far East Broadcasting Company. 9
Frizen, E. L. 9
Fuller Theological Seminary. 9
Graham, Ruth Bell. 9
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 9
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 9
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 9
Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 9
Smith, Oswald J. 9
Straw, Darien A. 9
Wilson, Galen. 9
World Vision International. 9
Wright, J. Elwin. 9
Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 9
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 8
Church of England. 8
Davis, Ralph T. 8
Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 8
Kuhn, John Becker. 8
Little, Paul E. 8
Navigators (Religious organization) 8
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