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Collection 217 Papers of Elisa Espineli Chinn
Collection
Identifier: CN 217
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four oral history interviews with Lisa Chinn covering her childhood and family, education, ministry with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines and InterVarsity in the United States, ministries with her husband Leiton in the US among international students (with International Students, Inc., Interaction, and their church), writing projects, and her experience as a woman leader. Also included are her graduate school creative project, "Cross Cultural...
Dates:
Created: 1972-2020
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 276 Records of Christ's Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 276
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, personnel files, manuscripts, pamphlets, audits and other records which document the work of Christ's Mission, which provided support to priests who wished to leave the Roman Catholic Church. The mission also sponsored lectures, conferences and publications on perceived errors in Catholic theology and the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in American society.
Dates:
Created: 1894-1984
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 460 Oral History Interviews with Phyllis E. Taylor
Collection
Identifier: CN 460
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Phyllis Evelyn Taylor in which she discusses her childhood and conversion to Christianity; education at Wheaton College; her experiences as a Christian and Missionary Alliance teacher and evangelist among the Bantu people in the Belgian Congo from 1952-1966; her work in Taiwan from 1968 as an independent missionary; and teaching English as a means of evangelism. Other topics discussed include attending Nyack Missionary Training Institute; memories of the 1950...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 464 Oral History Interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn
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
Collection 476 Oral History Interview with Trent Sheppard
Collection
Identifier: CN 476
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Trent Sheppard in which he discusses the influence of his parents and the International Prayer Ministry, the development of his own Christian faith, the influence on him of Loren Cunningham, Corrie ten Boom, and J. Edwin Orr, among others; the purpose and methods of Youth with a Mission (YWAM); his activities in England with The Fellowship, a Christian community; and his hopes for a worldwide Christian renewal movement among young people. The time period covered...
Dates:
Created: 2002
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 488 Papers of John E. Phillips
Collection
Identifier: CN 488
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, letters, newspaper clipping, a booklet and other materials, relating mainly to John E. Phillips' work as a missionary with the Sudan Interior Mission among the Kambatta people of Ethiopia (1932-1937) and among the Dinka people of Sudan (1938-1949). There is also some information on his involvement in other ministries, such as Ambassadors for Christ and the Allentown Rescue Mission.
Dates:
Created: 1926-2003
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 508 Oral History Interviews with Barbara L. Collins
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
Collection 509 Oral History Interview with Evelyn M. Camp
Collection
Identifier: CN 509
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Evelyn Mildred Camp (1915-1999), missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1944 to 1961. Topics discussed include Camp's experience as a child of missionaries, her missionary work in schools for boys and girls at Oicha and Blukwa AIM stations, her family's economic hardships, furloughs, the social life of missionary children, education at Rethy Academy, call to missionary work, training at...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett
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
Collection 515 Papers of Ernest Wilson
Collection
Identifier: CN 515
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an oral history interview with Ernest "Ernie" Wilson in which he describes his parents, his childhood in Panama, the evangelistic work of his father, his conversion as a young man, the experience of preaching, and his education at the Philadelphia Bible Institute and the Reformed Episcopal Seminary. Rev. Wilson was interviewed by Bob Shuster on March 22, 1995, at Wilson’s home in Philadelphia. The events described in the interview cover the time period 1911-1995....
Dates:
Created: 1947-1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 517 Papers of Armin R. Gesswein
Collection
Identifier: CN 517
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and photographs relating to the ministry of Armin R. Gesswein in which he discusses his childhood as the son of a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor, the characteristics of that denomination, his education, his conversion, the influence of Paul Rader upon him, his work at Concordia Seminary, his work with Walter Maier, his first pastorate and first experience of revival, his involvement in revival in Norway 1937-1938, friendship with Billy Graham, Charles Fuller,...
Dates:
Created: 1995-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 521 Oral History Interview with Nancy Duarte-Gomez
Collection
Identifier: CN 521
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Duarte-Gomez, a Chilean staffworker with Grupo Biblico Universitario de Chile (GBU, InterVarsity sister movement). Duarte describes her childhood and youth, education, religious background, conversion and spiritual development, the church in Chile, training with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), ministry among students, GBU and its connection to International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), the country's political climate and its impact on the church,...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 523 Oral History Interviews with Jarbas Da Silva
Collection
Identifier: CN 523
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jarbas Da Silva in which he discusses his childhood in San Paulo, Brazil; conversion to Christianity; Baptist Bible College; Russell Shedd; joining the Africa Inland Mission as a missionary to Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Brazil; first impressions of Mozambique; the development of Sofala Bible Institute Beira City, Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Mozambique; aftermath of the civil war; his perspective on the need for...
Dates:
Created: 1994
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 524 Oral History Interviews with Leonard H. F. Sumule
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 526 Oral History Interview with José Pablo Sánchez-Nuñez
Collection
Identifier: CN 526-526
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 536 Oral History Interview with Valeria Borisovna Sorokina
Collection
Identifier: CN 536
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Valeria Borisovna Sorokina, in which she describes her childhood in Russia, her conversion to Christianity while a university student, the work of Campus Crusade for Christ and Mission Europe in Russia, the Mission Volga project, and her time as a graduate student at Wheaton College. The time period covered by the interview is 1971-1996.Valeria Sorokina was interviewed by Bob Shuster on November 18, 1996 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 549 Oral History Interview with Lawrence Temfwe
Collection
Identifier: CN 549
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lawrence Temfwe in which he discusses his childhood and early manhood in Zambia, his prison term, conversion while in prison, and first steps in his Christian life, his education at the Theological College of Central Africa, his work with Prison Fellowship, the development and programs of Prison Fellowship in Zambia, his participation in the Billy Graham Association's Mission World, impressions of John Stott and Charles Colson, work as a Christian newspaper...
Dates:
Created: 1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 550 Oral History Interviews with Dixie Chirwa
Collection
Identifier: CN 550
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews with Dixie Chirwa, in which she describes growing up in Lesotho, her conversion to Christian faith and development in Christian life, training as a Campus Crusade for Christ staff worker, work with the Hospital Christian Fellowship, attendance at 1986 International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists (Amsterdam 86), work as a CCC staff member on the campuses of universities in Lesotho, education at Theological College of Central Africa, helping to train church...
Dates:
Created: 1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 555 Oral History Interview with Willie Richardson
Collection
Identifier: CN 555
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Rev. Willie Richardson in which he describes his childhood in South Carolina and Pennsylvania, conversion and call to ministry, education at the Philadelphia School of the Bible, founding the Christian Stronghold Baptist Church in Philadelphia; the importance of developing training programs on evangelism, preaching, and family dynamics; the condition of the African American Evangelical community in the city; relations between black and white ministries and...
Dates:
Created: 1998
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 556 Oral History Interview with Lloyd C. Blue
Collection
Identifier: CN 556
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Lloyd C. Blue, in which he describes the turmoil in his early history, alcoholism, racial attitudes, military service, conversion, attending Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Los Angeles, E.V. Hill, working with Campus Crusade, impact of Bill Bright’s “Being Filled With the Holy Spirit” sermon, developing church-based program to disciple men, pastoral work, philosophy of evangelism/discipleship, discipling pastors, E.K. Bailey, Church Growth Unlimited to develop...
Dates:
Created: 1933-1998
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 559 Oral History Interviews with Garth G. Gittens
Collection
Identifier: CN 559
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Garth Gabriel Gittens, ordained pastor in the Open Bible Standard Church in Trinidad. Topics discussed include Gittens' upbringing in Trinidad; education at the Bible Institute of San Fernando; conversion to Christianity; call to ministry; strengths and weaknesses of the Evangelical church in Trinidad; experiences as an evangelist; the need for better training for Trinidadian pastors; the challenges of pastoral ministry; and charismatic renewal in Trinidad. The...
Dates:
Created: 1998
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 561 Oral History Interviews with Charles C. Kay
Collection
Identifier: CN 561
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Charles Conrad Kay in which he describes his family background, interest in music, conversion at the age of 24, first steps in the Christian faith, his early ministry in Europe on a short-term program with Greater Europe Mission, marriage, education at Moody Bible Institute, ministry at Cook County Jail, joining the Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), raising support, and the Kays’ first term as missionaries in France from 1994 to 1999. The events described in...
Dates:
Created: 1998
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 563 Papers of Robert Coleman
Collection
Identifier: CN 563
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, manuscripts, oral history interviews, class lecture notes, meeting files and other materials relating to Coleman's ministry as an evangelist, scholar and church leader. Besides Coleman's own life and ministry, the collection contains voluminous material on the theology of evangelism and Christian discipleship, American 20th century Evangelicalism; the growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly in regard to the...
Dates:
1936-2010
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 564 Papers of Felix Onwukanjo Erondu
Collection
Identifier: CN 564
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photograph, videos related to the ministry of Reverend Felix Erondu, Nigerian evangelist and founder of Traveling Light Ministries.Series: Oral History InterviewsTwo oral history interviews with Felix Erondu, in which he decribes his family background in Aba, Nigeria; upbringing in the Anglican church; education; training as a teacher; participation in the Biafran civil war; work as a teacher and principal;...
Dates:
Created: 1995, 1999
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 566 Oral History Interview with P. Paul Snezek
Collection
Identifier: CN 566
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with P. Paul Snezek, in which he describes his time as a student at the King's College in Briarcliff, New York, his memories of evangelist Percy Crawford, and his experiences singing as part of the ensemble on Crawford's television program, Youth on the March. The time period covered by the interview is 1956-1960.Paul Snezek was interviewed by Bob Shuster on January 12, 2000 in Snezek’s office in Buswell Library on the campus...
Dates:
Created: 2000
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 568 Oral History Interviews with Joan M. Wise
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Identifier: CN-568
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in which Wise talks about her Catholic childhood; the influence of the Jesus People movement; David Rose; her conversion experience; joining Youth With A Missions (YWAM); work with Vietnamese refugee youth in Hong Kong; the Revival Christian Church of Hong Kong; becoming an independent missionary; creating Sunday schools in north and south Vietnam; Church and state in Vietnam; condition of the church in Vietnam; speaking in tongues; miracles in Vietnam; ancestor...
Dates:
2000
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 573 Records of Detroit's Afro-American Mission
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
Collection 576 Oral History Interviews with Raymond Attawia
Collection
Identifier: CN 576
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Attawia. Topics discussed include his family background and childhood in Sierra Leone, his spiritual seeking as a teenager, conversion through the ministry of the Christians in Action Mission; his involvement in various positions of leadership in the Christians in Action church in the country, including National Superintendent; the civil war in Sierra Leone and its impact on the church; the Evangelical churches in the country in 2002, his attendance at...
Dates:
2001-2002
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 581 Oral History Interviews with Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer
Collection
Identifier: CN 581
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stoyka Todorova Krasteva-Meyer, in which she describes her childhood in Bulgaria, the Communist culture in that country, her conversion to Christianity, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's work in the country, the beginnings of a an indigenous campus ministry in the country, her attendance at International Fellowship of Evangelical Leaders conferences in Germany, Korea and Bulgaria; impressions of evangelical leaders, such as Samuel Escobar and John Stott; and a...
Dates:
2002
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 582 Oral History Interviews with Michael A. Cassidy
Collection
Identifier: CN 582
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Michael A. Cassidy, South African evangelist and founder of African Enterprise, in which he describes his family background and childhood in Basutoland, apartheid, his friendship with Patrick Baker Duncan, the development of his faith and prayer life, leading up to his conversion while attending Cambridge University; the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate College Union (CICCU); comparison of his education at Cambridge and Fuller Theological Seminary; the influence on his...
Dates:
Created: 2002
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 583 Oral History Interviews with Gregory S. Thellman
Collection
Identifier: CN 583
Scope and Contents
Oral history with Gregory Thellman (1970- ), missionary in the Bosnian region of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997-2008) as a member of a church team. Topics covered include Thellman’s spiritual development and conversion, interest in missions, participation in his Northside Community Church’s outreach among Muslim Bosnian refugees in Atlanta, Northside’s mission teams to Mostar in Bosnia, Bosnian Christian leaders and Evangelical congregation in the city, work among children and youth, relations...
Dates:
2003
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 585 Oral History Interview with John B. Lutembeka
Collection
Identifier: CN 585
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John B. Lutembeka in which he discusses his family and childhood in Tanzania, education in Uganda during the Idi Amin regime, conversion to the Christian faith while attending teacher's college; the development of his personal faith, the founding and growth of Big November Crusade Ministries; the rapid numerical growth of Christianity in Tanzania; the Tanzanian church's characteristics, strengths and weaknesses; his education at the Wheaton College Graduate...
Dates:
Created: 2003
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 603 Papers of Wayne W. and Ruth K. Courtney
Collection
Identifier: CN 603
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, oral history interviews, and photographs which document the Courtneys' courtship and marriage, Ruth Courtney's ministry in China as a single missionary with China Inland Mission, their brief work together in China after their marriage (1949-1951), and later work for the mission in the Philippines and in the United States.
Dates:
Created: 1940-2006
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 605 Oral History Interviews with Habil Raphael Omungu
Collection
Identifier: CN 605
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Omungu, a Kenyan of the Luo tribe. Topics covered include his family background, his parents’ faith, his own conversion at a Billy Graham meeting and the development of his spiritual life through the years, his education at Pan Africa Christian College, his experiences as an ordained Anglican priest in several churches, including All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi; Anglicanism in Kenya; the larger Christianity community in Kenya, particularly the impact of...
Dates:
2004-2005
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 617 Oral History Interview with Soong-Chan Rah
Collection
Identifier: CN 617
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview with Soong-Chan Rah in which he describes his family background, experiences as an immigrant to the United States in the early 1970s from South Korea, his spiritual development, experiences as a church-planter, and ministry with IVCF. Topics discussed include: parents’ influence; spiritual development; immigration to the United States at the age of six; conversion experience and church background; education at Columbia University; involvement in InterVarsity...
Dates:
2005
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 620 Oral History Interview with Lynn Charter
Collection
Identifier: CN 620
Scope and Contents
An oral history interview with Lynfred T. Charter (1921-2009) in which he describes his childhood, parents, conversion, baptism in the Spirit and speaking in tongues, early days in the Foursquare Church, activities of LIFE Bible College, impression of Aimee Semple McPherson and her work in Los Angeles, Angelus Temple, evangelistic tour of the Far East, changes in the Foursquare Church during his lifetime, and Rolf Mc Pherson. The time period covered by the interview is 1921 to 1987....
Dates:
Created: 2005
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 621 Oral History Interview with Sid Couchey
Collection
Identifier: CN 621
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sid Couchey in which he decsribes his conversion to Christianity; his experience as a cartoonist; his participation in the 1957 New York City Crusade, including the preparation; artwork he created for the crusade; counseling; and the aftermath. Ruth Couchey, his wife, also makes brief comments about her experiences during the crusade. The time period covered by the interviews is 1929-1957.Mr. Couchey was interviewed by Bob Shuster on October 11, 2005,...
Dates:
Created: 2005
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 623 Oral History Interviews with Christopher B. Ladish
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Identifier: CN 623
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Christopher Ladish in which he discusses his childhood, conversion to Christian faith, marriage, joining Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics, his translation and literacy work in the Koromfe language among the Koromba people of Burkina Faso, the characteristics of the Wycliffe organization and staff, and methods of Bible translation. The time period covered by the interviews is 1961 to 2006.Christopher Ladish was interviewed by...
Dates:
2006
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 624 Ephemera of the ZamZam Incident
Collection
Identifier: CN 624
Scope and Contents
Diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, oral history interviews, correspondence, photos, and other materials relating to the passengers, mainly American missionaries, who were aboard the ship Zamzam, sunk in the south Atlantic Ocean in 1941 by a German warship. Materials describe the sinking, the subsequent experiences of the passengers as German prisoners and the internment of some for the duration of the war, and reunions held in later years by the survivors and their families.
Dates:
Created: 1941-2012
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 626 Oral History Interview with Stephen Christopher
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Identifier: CN 626
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Stephen Christopher, a Tamil mission leader. Topics covered in the interview include his childhood, education and conversion; the work of Dohnavur Fellowship; ministry of his father (P. T. Christopher) and the founding of the Tamil Gospel Village Mission, his own vision for the ministry; the Christian church in northern and southern India; and a comparison of Indian and American Christianity. The time period covered by the interview is 1980 to 2006....
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 631 Oral History Interviews with Maria Katherine Waldschmidt
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Identifier: CN 631
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Maria Katherine Waldschmidt in which she discusses her family background, Roman Catholic upbringing, experiences as an exchange student in Germany, her spiritual struggle and conversion; spiritual atmosphere in Germany in the late 1980s. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1959-1988.
Maria Katherine Waldschmidt was interviewed by Bob Shuster at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives on February 9, 2007.
Dates:
2007
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 632 Papers of William H. Nowack
Collection
Identifier: CN 632
Scope and Contents
Prayer letters, publications, sermons notes of Nowack documenting William H. Nowack’s work as an independent Christian missionary in the United States (Tennessee) and China (Honan) over a period of four decades.
Dates:
Created: 1903-1980
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 635 Oral History Interviews with Theodore W. Mole
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Identifier: CN 635
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Mole, a missionary and church planter with CB International and Interact Ministries in the Ukraine and Siberia. Topics covered in the interview include the development of his faith in college, involvement with InterVarsity; work as an engineer with DuPont; study at Denver Theological Seminary; churching planting among Russian immigrants in Denver; teaching missions at Donetsk Christian University in Ukraine; Svet Evanglia, a Ukrainian mission agency; working in...
Dates:
2007-2008
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 641 Oral History Interviews with David Kirwa Tarus
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Identifier: CN 641
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Kirwa Tarus, a Kenyan pastor and theologian. Tarus describes the ministry of his parents; growing up in Kenya; his conversion; spiritual development; Scott Theological College; the Africa Inland Church in Kenya; Scott’s satellite campus in Eldoret; the general condition of Christianity in Kenya; his impressions of the United States and Wheaton Graduate School; the 2008 election of Barak Obama. The interview covers the time period 1979-2008.David...
Dates:
2008
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 642 Oral History Interviews with Susan Nivens
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Identifier: CN 642
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Susan Nivens, in which she discusses her childhood in Michigan, development of her Christian faith, education at Bethany Bible College, joining the Summer Institute of Linguistics/Wycliffe Bible Translators, the relationship between the two; her marriage; work in Indonesia among the Tarangan people; raising a family in the field; the processes of Bible translation; Indonesian village life; Muslim/Christian relations; experiences during a jihad, helping to create...
Dates:
2009
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 650 Records of Say Yes, Chicago
Collection
Identifier: CN 650
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, reports, newspaper clippings, lists, financial records, questionnaires and training videos other materials of the Say Yes Chicago committee, a group of Protestant Christian leaders that incorporated to sponsor Say Yes Chicago, a 1996 city-wide evangelistic effort led by evangelist Luis Palau. These files contain significant information about the planning and organizing of the campaign, with some material on the actual events of the campaign, the results, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1973-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 651 Oral History Interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne
Collection
Identifier: CN 651
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne in which she describes her experiences working in community development, education, evangelism, and medical missions among the Quechua people in Bolivia with SIM International for over 20 years, beginning in 1989. Topics discussed include her family background and spiritual development; education at Wheaton College; impressions of various mission agencies; including SIM, Medical Assistance Program (MAP), and the Moravians; challenges of...
Dates:
2009-2010
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 658 Papers of Samuel D. Faircloth
Collection
Identifier: CN 658
Scope and Contents
Prayer letters and an oral history interviews which document Samuel Douglas Faircloth’s childhood, conversion, education at Wheaton College and elsewhere, and his work as a United States Army chaplain in Italy immediately after World War II, as a church planter in Portugal, and a seminary professor at the Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands.
Dates:
Created: 1949-2011
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 659 Papers of Roy W. Gustafson
Collection
Identifier: CN 659
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings, and other documents relating to Gustafson’s education and life’s work as a minister, evangelist, Bible teacher, and staff member of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Particularly well documented are the tours of the Holy Land (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt) he led and lectured to for several decades, his participation in ministries in Africa and Asia, and his active involvement in the worldwide activities of Samaritan’s...
Dates:
Created: 1908-2002
Found in:
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- Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 3
- Catholic Church. -- United States. 3
- Children. 3
- Christian education, Outdoor. 3
- Christianity and culture -- Thailand. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Christmas. 3
- Church and state -- Kenya. 3
- Church camps. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Church fund raising. 3
- Church work with African Americans. 3
- Cities and towns. 3
- Clergy -- Training of 3
- College students. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Brazil. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Kenya. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Lutherans. 3
- Missionaries -- Kenya. 3
- Missionaries -- Retirement. 3 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 16
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 11
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 9
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 9
- Africa Inland Mission. 8
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 8
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 6
- Graham, Franklin, 1952- 5
- Stott, John R. W. 5
- Africa Inland Church. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. 4
- Moody Bible Institute. 4
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship. 4
- Youth with a Mission, Inc. 4
- Barrows, Cliff. 3
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 3
- Colson, Charles W. 3
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 3
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 3
- Fuller Theological Seminary. 3
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 3
- Latin America Mission. 3
- Maier, Walter A., 1893-1950. 3
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 3
- Orr, J. Edwin, 1912- 3
- Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. 3
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 2
- Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.) 2
- Assemblies of God. 2
- Bailey, E. K. 2
- Barnett, Albert E. 2
- Barnett, Elma. 2
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 2
- Bright, Bill. 2
- Campbell, Evvy Hay. 2
- Cedar, Paul A., 1938- 2
- Chinn, Lisa Espineli 2
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 2
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 2
- Dorsett, Lyle W. 2
- Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 2
- Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 2
- Frame, Raymond. 2
- Gallagher, Robert L. 2
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- Hayner, Stephen A. 2
- Hill, E. V. 2
- Houghton, Will H. 2
- International Assistance Mission. 2
- Islam 2
- Lotz, Ann Graham, 2
- Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. 2
- MAP International (Organization) 2
- MacDonald, Gordon, 1939- 2
- Maxwell, L. E. 2
- McDowell, Josh. 2
- Moi, Daniel Arap, 1924- 2
- Moreau, A. Scott, 1955- 2
- Navigators. 2
- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
- Olford, Stephen F. (1918-2004) 2
- Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian. 2
- Osei-Mensah, Gottfried. 2
- Padilla, C. Rene. 2
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 2
- Parker, Matthew, 2
- Philadelphia College of the Bible. 2
- Pike, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lee), 1912-2000. 2
- Prairie Bible Institute. 2
- Promise Keepers (Organization) 2
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 2
- SIM (Organization) 2
- Scott Theological College. 2
- Seminario Biblico Palavra de Vida. 2
- Shea, George Beverly, 1909-2013. 2
- Southern Baptist Convention. 2
- Stewart, Douglas W., 1937- 2
- Stewart, Marilyn, 1941- 2
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 1868-1957. 2
- Ten Boom, Corrie. 2
- Torrey, Edith C. 2
- Trotman, Dawson E. 2
- University of the Nations-Kona. 2
- Wagner, C. Peter. 2
- Westervelt, Josephine B. (Hope). 2
- Wilson, Ernie. 2
- Wilson, Grady, 1919-1987. 2
- Wilson, Thomas Walter. 2
- Accad, Fouad Elias. 1
- Adams, Jay E., 1929- 1
- Adonai, Raymond Osuchukwu. 1
- Adonai, Rose. 1
- Afghan Institute of Technology. 1
- Africa Inland Church Missionary College (Eldoret, Kenya) 1
- African Enterprise. 1
- Ahlman Academy (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1
- Allentown Rescue Mission and Home Association. 1 ∧ less
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