| Summary: | interviewed by L. Katherine Cook on 23 March 1999 in Waco, Texas. 1 76 pages Marshall Thompson was a Southern Baptist missionary to Bolivia and Turkey, 1955-91; upbringing and education in Waco, Texas, Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Dallas, Texas; early religious experiences; employment at Hillcrest hospital in Waco, Texas; draft and military service in the Pacific during World War II; encounters with racism and segregation in the military; medical corps work in the Philippines; education at Baylor University, Waco, Texas; various academic interests in college; conversion experience at Baylor; seminary education in Berkeley, California, Denver, Colorado, and Norman, Oklahoma; missionary work in Canada; itinerant preaching and radio preaching in Canada; courtship and marriage to Hazel Thompson; continued missions work in Canada; missionary appointment to La Paz, Bolivia; initial missions strategies in Bolivia; confronting popular syncretistic Bolivian Catholicism; encounters with Catholic clergy; institutional legacy in Bolivian Baptist missions; appointment to Turkey; analysis of Turkish society; teaching English in Turkish schools; subtle evangelization techniques; challenges of Christian apologetics in Turkey; politically-charged climate of Turkey; difficulties of retaining individual converts; competition for converts between Christian denominations; gradual acquisition of the Turkish language; state of Christianity in Turkey; classroom evangelization efforts; translation of Bible into Turkish; analysis of Israel-Palestine conflict.
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