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Collection 257 Oral History Interview with James B. Dillon
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Identifier: CN 257
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Oral history interview with James B. Dillon in which he discusses his conversion, marriage work in Liberia for the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), the programs of radio station Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA), the cultural diversity of Liberia, and the nature of indigenous Liberian hymns and worship.James Dillon was interviewed by Wheaton graduate student Claire Bureau for her ethnomusicology course on October 29, 1983 at the Billy Graham Center on Wheaton College campus. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 258 Oral History Interview with Bradford E. Steiner
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Identifier: CN 258
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Oral history interview with Bradford Ezra Steiner (1917-1987), in which he discusses his medical work at Landour Hospital in Landour, Mussoorie, India; diseases; folk medicine; evangelistic outreach to patients in the hospital; conflicts between Christians, Hindus, and Muslims; and carrying medical care into the surrounding villages. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1947 to 1958.Bradford Ezra Steiner was interviewed by Ted Reihmer at Steiner's home in Elmhurst, IL...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 259 Oral History Interviews with Donald A. Cook
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Identifier: CN 259
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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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
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Identifier: CN 260
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Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church, education...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 261 Records of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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Identifier: CN-261
Scope and Contents
Microfilm edition of the files of the ABCFM. The originals are at Harvard University. The units that the Archives has are: #1, letters from the offices of the Board to foreign missionaries (including letters to missionaries working with American Indians); #2, letters from missions in Africa; #3, letters from missions in Asia; #4, letters from missions in Central Asia (India, etc.); #5, letters from missions in the Near East; and #6, letters from missions on the American continents and the...
Dates:
Created: 1827-1929
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
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Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture, politics...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
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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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 264 Records of Pioneer Ministries
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Identifier: CN 264
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, photos, slides, tapes, curriculum materials, manuals, etc., relating to the work of the PM (formerly Pioneer Girls) in North American Churches. Materials document PM's early history, camping program (philosophy and history of Camp Cheriths and reference materials used to operate a camp and train camp staff), communications functions depicting the variety of tools used to communicate news and information to participants in its programs, orientation materials for field...
Dates:
Created: 1939-1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 266 Oral History Interview with Ruth Sundquist
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Identifier: CN 266
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Sundquist in which she describes her education at Moody Bible Institute, decision to become a missionary, work first in Kentucky home missions as a Christian education worker with the Evangelical Free Church and then her missionary career in China and Hong Kong between 1947 and 1982 as an administrator for a Sunday School and orphanage. Other topics discussed include: language school in China, Chinese attitudes toward the Nationalists, Communists, Americans in...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 267 Ephemera of the United Presbyterian Men
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Identifier: CN 267
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Phonograph records containing hymns, selected addresses and devotional messages from the 9th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Presbyterian Men on March 15-17, 1957 in Chicago, IL. Includes addresses by Eugene Carson Blake, Howard Pew, and others. Topics discussed include the nature of the church, unity, missions, tithing, obedience, Christian character, committment, and community.This collection consists of an album of three phonograph records which contain hymns, selected...
Dates:
Created: 1957
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 268 Oral History Interview with Helen R. Lowery
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Identifier: CN 268
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Helen R. Bott Lowery (1920-2011) which she discusses her experiences as a member and singer for Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, late 1920s-1930s and Paul Rader's leadership. Topics include: Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, 1927-1930s during Paul Rader's period as leader, music under Merrill Dunlop, Homer Rodeheaver, the food program, sermon topics, and mission rallies; also includes description of Tabernacle programs under Rader's successor, Clarence Erickson. The time period...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 269 Papers of Samuel M. Shoemaker
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Identifier: CN 269
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Appointment books, audio tapes, magazines, newspaper clippings, articles, a pamphlet, phonograph records, photographs, and programs covering the years of Samuel Moor Shoemaker's career as an Episcopalian preacher, author, radio preacher, and spiritual advisor-counselor. Includes taped sermons from radio program Faith at Work.Materials cover the years of Showmaker's career as a preacher, author, and spiritual advisor-counselor. Tapes are almost entirely recordings from Shoemaker's...
Dates:
Created: 1907-1963
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 270 Oral History Interview with Ray Schulenburg
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Identifier: CN 270
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Roy Harvey Schulenberg (1909-2003) in which he discusses his conversion and involvement in Christian work, his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, the early days of Youth for Christ, evangelistic preaching, and city missions. Other topics discussed include: Rader’s radio ministry, Moody Memorial Church, evangelical figures who worked with or were influenced by Rader (Lance Latham, Richard Oliver, Howard Ferrin, Oswald Smith, Clarence Jones,...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
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Identifier: CN
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 273 Oral History Interview with Harold Day
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Identifier: CN 273
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Harold Louis Day (1913-2006) in which he describes his experiences working at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle during the pastorate of Paul Rader and his successor, Clarence Erickson. The time period covered by the interview is 1913-1978.
Harold Day was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 31, 1984 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Harold Day was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 31, 1984 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 274 Records of Prison Fellowship Ministries
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Identifier: CN-274
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, reports, newspaper clippings and other documents describing the founding and development of Prison Fellowship.Among the subjects covered in the files are the part played in the organization by Charles Colson, the realities of prison ministry, the conditions of prisons in the United States, relations between organizations involved in prison ministries, the testimonies of inmates, and the relationship between PFM and its constituents. Persons featured included...
Dates:
Created: 1961, 1975-1989, 1990, n.d.
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 275 Papers of Charles W. Colson
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Identifier: CN-275
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Memos; correspondence; book, article and editorial manuscripts; texts of speeches; legal papers; newspaper clippings; testimony transcripts; magazine articles; audio tapes; and photographs, all documenting many of the major phases of Colson's life, including his work as a political advisor to President Richard Nixon, his involvement in the Watergate scandal, his conversion to Christian faith that caused him to plead guilty to one of the charges against him, his imprisonment, and his life after...
Dates:
Created: 1960-1990
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 276 Records of Christ's Mission
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Identifier: CN 276
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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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 277 Ephemera of Jim Elliot
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Identifier: CN 277
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, tapes of sermons and audio letters, journals, notebooks, annotated Bibles, school records, poems, clippings, drawings, and other materials describing Elliot's courtship of his wife Elisabeth, his spiritual preparation for the mission field, early days of his work in Ecuador, and events leading up to his death and those of four other missionaries at the hands of the Waorani (so-called Auca) people. Microfilm edition of materials available for researcher use.
Dates:
Created: 1941-1959; Majority of material found within 1947-1956
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 278 Papers of Elisabeth Elliot
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Identifier: CN 278
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates:
Created: 1926, 1938-2010
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans
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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, 1984...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 280 Papers of Malla Moe
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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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 281 Papers of John and Florence Stauffacher
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Identifier: CN 281
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Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes, clippings, and photographs relating to the Stauffachers' work as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission, chiefly from 1911 to the early 1940s. The materials document their careers from the earliest stages, describing their responsibilities and everyday life, primarily in Kenya and the Belgian Congo, but also in Uganda & Tanzania, their developing relationship by correspondence prior to Mrs. Stauffacher's arrival in Kenya and their subsequent...
Dates:
Created: 1902-1973
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 282 Oral History Interview with Bonnie Jo Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 282
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bonnie Jo Adelsman Adolph in which she discussses her missionary service in Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission from 1966-1974. Topics discussed include Adolph's education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, living in Taiwan during her husband's military service, reasons for choosing Sudan Interior Mission, her husband's medical work in Ethiopia, observations about Sudanese culture, the church in Sudan, and the Adolphs short term mission service in...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
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Identifier: CN 283
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Wood Folkerts. Topics discussed include her childhood as a pastor's daughter; study at Wheaton College; her marriage; training in London; work as a missionary in British Cameroon (now Republic of Cameroon), especially Bible study and literacy programs for women and 3H clubs for girls; the political and social situation in Cameroon; Cameroon independence; medical problems in Cameroon; the work of her husband, Fred, at the Baptist Teacher Training College and as...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
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Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson
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Identifier: CN 285
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
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Created: 1919 -2001
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie
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Identifier: CN 286
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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 period...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
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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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
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Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's decision...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 289 Oral History Interview with G. Paul Groen
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Identifier: CN 289
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Groen in which he describes his education at Wheaton College, missionary work the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria and the Nigerian church, particularly among the Tiv people, and the country's economy, educational system and political history between 1964 and 1973. Other topics discussed include: Tiv customs and religion, the church among the Tiv and its indigenous leadership and transition of leadership from missionaries, relations with Roman Catholics...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
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Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 291 Papers of Ralph T. Davis
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Identifier: CN 291
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, clippings, hymns, poems, photographs relating to the ministry of Ralph T. Davis, as a missionary and executive leader of African Inland Mission. The materials in this collection consist primarily of notebooks apparently used by Davis for sermon materials or in his administrative capacities for AIM. They include: notes on books of the Old and New Testaments; sermon outlines and notes; church history; notes on geographical areas, countries and peoples; hymns and poems; other missions...
Dates:
Created: 1935-1962
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 292 Papers of Silas F. Fox
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Identifier: CN 292
Scope and Contents
Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, clippings, magic lantern slides, photographs, home movies, pamphlets, financial statements relating to Fox's career in the Telugu-speaking area of India as an independent missionary. The collection also contains information on indigenous Indian evangelists.Materials, some in the Telegu language, document daily life, including descriptions of his travels. Home movies contain many scenes of travel, Indian landscape and animals, including scenes of...
Dates:
Created: 1949-1973
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie
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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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 294 Records of the Hour of Freedom Radio Program
Collection
Identifier: CN-294
Scope and Contents
Recordings of weekly radio program, each a half-hour in length, largely featuring Howard O. Jones.
Subjects covered include Christmas, church, forgiveness, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, love, resurrection, salvation, sin, social service, religion and sports, and truth.
Subjects covered include Christmas, church, forgiveness, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, love, resurrection, salvation, sin, social service, religion and sports, and truth.
Dates:
Created: 1968-1980
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 295 Records of the Charlotte Evangelistic Campaigns Research Project
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Identifier: CN 295
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Newspaper clippings, questionnaires, audio tapes, sermon transcripts, and other documents gathered by Dr. Ivan Fahs during a research project into twentieth century evangelistic meetings held in Charlotte, NC, by J. Wilbur Chapman, Billy Sunday, Mordecai Ham, Billy Graham, and Leighton Ford, spanning 1915-1983. The materials contained in this collection consist of the data Fahs gathered plus notes and aids, such as lists of events, which he and his students made up. Materials include copies of...
Dates:
Created: 1915-1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 296 Oral History Interviews with Stanley Okoro
Collection
Identifier: CN 296
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Stanley Okoro in which he discusses his childhood in Nigeria, education participation as a soldier in the 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war, conversion to Christianity, theological training, youth ministry in Nigeria and Liberia, Christian cults in Nigeria, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Nigerian churches. The time period covered by the interviews is from 1951 to 1985.Stanley Okoro was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 25, 1985 at the Billy...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 297 Papers of Kenneth L. Shingledecker
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School covers...
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Created: 1946-1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
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Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse wiht the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
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Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
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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 William...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 303 Oral History Interview with Erma Walker
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Identifier: CN 303
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Oral history interview with Erma Horton Stevens Walker in which she discusses her conversion, background in Christian Science, effects of the Great Depression, education at Wheaton College, husband Bill Walker, church planting in Texas, and acceptance to Central American Mission. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1913-1950.
Erma Horton Walker was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on May 4, 1985, at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Erma Horton Walker was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on May 4, 1985, at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 307 Ephemera of Christian Films and Videos
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Identifier: CN 307
Scope and Contents
Moving image recordings in this collection provide a representative sampling of post-war evangelical Christian film companies, and cover various topics such as dramatizations of stories from the life of Jesus and of the Apostle Paul, Christian lifestyle, church and social issues, communism, drug and alcohol abuse, evangelism, immigration, materialism, mass media in religion, meaning of life, missions, the natural world as a reflection of God, politics, refugees, relationships, rock and roll,...
Dates:
Created: 1940-1986
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 308 Papers of Harvey W. Marks
Collection
Identifier: CN 308
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Harvey W. Marks in which he describes his career as a pastor and work in Christian film distribution beginning in 1945; the development of Christian film-making and involvement with film pioneers such as C. O. Baptista and James Frederick; Walt Disney's production facilities; and film production workshops at Green Lake, Wisconsin. Includes discussion of church use of films and the effects of television on the Christian film industry.Also included is a...
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Created: 1954-1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 309 Records of National Religious Broadcasters
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Identifier: CN-309
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Correspondence, reports, clippings, recordings and programs of conventions, photographs and other materials of the NRB, which served as a professional association for persons or organizations involved in Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasting.The collection documents the NRB's efforts to provide information on training for its members on a wide range of technical and broadcasting issues and is especially strong on Federal Communication Commission policies effecting...
Dates:
Created: 1922, 1969-1989, 1991
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 310 Oral History Interview with Eugene Grosman
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Identifier: CN 310
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Oral history interview with Eugene Grosman in which he discusses his early life in the Soviet Union, his conversion to Christianity, his emigration from the Soviet Union, his studies at Moody Bible Institute, and his work with Slavic Gospel Association. The time period covered by the interviews is 1945-1985.Eugene Grosman was interviewed by Robert Shuster at the Billy Graham Center Archives on September 4 and 18. The collection as recorded consisted of three audio tapes. However,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
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Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan, linguistics...
Dates:
Created: 1976-1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
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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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 313 Papers of Robert C. Van Kampen
Collection
Identifier: CN 313
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Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, clippings, etc., related to Van Kampen's responsibilities on the Board of Directors of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association as well as various board committees, the boards of BGEA subsidiaries or affiliated institutions (Billy Graham Benevolent Fund, Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Ministry, Inc., Billy Graham Evangelistic Trust, Billy Graham Foundation, Grason Company, World Evangelism and Christian Education Fund,...
Dates:
Created: 1944-1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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- Sex role 43
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Students. 43
- Animism 42
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution 42
- Evangelistic work -- China 42
- Missions -- China. 42
- Preaching. 42
- Bible -- Translating. 41
- City missions 41
- Mass media in religion 41
- Youth 41
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 40
- Church growth 40
- Evangelistic invitations. 40
- Revivals 39
- Fundamentalism 38
- Culture shock. 37
- Evangelistic work -- China -- History 37
- Fundamentalism -- United States. 37
- Great Britain 37
- Radio in missionary work. 37
- Worship. 37
- Children. 36
- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Missions -- Finance. 36
- Church and social problems. 36
- Sayers, Dorothy L. -- Archives. 36
- China. 35
- Minutes 35
- Racism 35
- Radio in religion -- United States. 35
- Church and state -- United States. 34
- Church development, New. 34
- Evangelicalism. 34
- Missions -- Educational work. 34
- Radio in religion. 34 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 164
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018 107
- Wheaton College (Ill.). 64
- China Inland Mission. 51
- Moody Bible Institute. 51
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 48
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 43
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship. 40
- Sayers, Dorothy L. 37
- Lewis, C. S. 33
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935 33
- Africa Inland Mission. 28
- Islam 27
- Rader, Paul, 27
- Youth for Christ International. 26
- Campus Crusade for Christ International. 25
- Christian and Missionary Alliance 25
- Sayers, Dorothy L. (Sayers, Dorothy Leigh) 25
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 24
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 22
- Chung-kuo kuo min tang. 22
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 22
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 21
- Moody Bible Institute 20
- National Association of Evangelicals. 20
- Sudan Interior Mission. 20
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956 19
- Henry, Carl F. H. 19
- Jones, Clarence W. 19
- Perkins, John, 19
- Armerding, Hudson T. 18
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 18
- Latin America Mission. 18
- Rodeheaver, Homer A. 18
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 18
- Billy Graham Center. 17
- Buswell, J. Oliver. 17
- Catholic Church 17
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 17
- McIntire, Carl, 16
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 16
- Taylor, Clyde W. 16
- World Council of Churches. 16
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 15
- Ockenga, Harold John, 15
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 15
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 15
- Bright, Bill. 14
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. 14
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 14
- Stam, John Cornelius, 14
- Africa Inland Church. 13
- Blanchard, Charles A. 13
- Colson, Charles W. 13
- Crawford, Percy B. 13
- Ford, Leighton. 13
- Fuller Theological Seminary. 13
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 13
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 13
- Howard, David M. 13
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 13
- Ironside, H. A. 13
- Jesus Christ 13
- Jones, Bob, 13
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 13
- Plymouth Brethren. 13
- Smith, Oswald J. 13
- Africa Inland Mission, International. 12
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 12
- Padilla, C. Rene. 12
- Palau, Luis, 12
- Skinner, Tom, 12
- Smith, Gipsy, 12
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 12
- Assemblies of God. 11
- Barrows, Cliff. 11
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 11
- Dain, Arthur John, 11
- Dunlop, Merrill. 11
- Elliot, Elisabeth 11
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 11
- Navigators. 11
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 11
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 11
- Woods, C. Stacey, 11
- Wright, J. Elwin. 11
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 10
- Glasser, Arthur F. 10
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 10
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 10
- Nixon, Richard M. 10
- Stott, John R. W. 10
- Straw, Darien A. 10
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985 10
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 10
- Trotman, Dawson E. 10
- Williams, Charles, 10
- World Vision International. 10
- Coggins, Wade T. 9
- Columbia Bible College (S.C.) 9 ∧ less
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