Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
Organization
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
acc. 2024-033: Papers of Wilfred and Gwen Tidmash, 1939-1985
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2024-033
Dates:
1939 - 1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Bert and Colleen Elliot Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 684
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and photographs of Bert and Colleen Elliot, Plymouth Brethren missionaries to Peru from 1949 to 2012. Correspondence is by and large written by Colleen Elliot to her parents and sister. Topics covered include reflections on cultural and spiritual differences between the United States and Peru, the challenges of missionary life and language divides, interactions with missionaries from different denominations, medical work in rural areas, evangelism, and the spiritual...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1994
Carl Armerding Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 180
Scope and Contents
Diaries, correspondence, scrapbook, travel documents, oral history interview, sermons and other materials documenting Carl Armerding's career and ministry, especially his work as a Bible teacher, preacher, and leader of Central American Mission.Interview topics covered include Armerding's family background, education, recollections of Billy Sunday, Gipsy Smith, Henry Ironside and Will Houghton, missions and evangelism in Honduras and the Bahamas, speaking engagements, teaching...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Carl Armerding Papers
Donald E. White Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 529
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one folder containing reports, correspondence, and newsletters. Materials describe White’s family background, conversion, education at Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College, marriage, activities as an Army chaplain's assistant in Germany, and missionary work in Austria for Greater Europe Mission.Donald E. White was interviewed by Robert Shuster on January 29, 1996, at the Archives of the Billy Graham Center. The events described in the interview...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Donald E. White Papers
Ed and Marilou McCully Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 687
Scope and Contents
Journal, correspondence, manuscript, audio tapes, photographs and other materials relating to the life and ministry of Ed and Marilou McCully, Plymouth Brethren Missionaries in Ecuador. The materials document Ed Mc Cully's education (including at Wheaton College), successes in oratorical competition, courtship of Marilou Hobolth, their work in Ecuador as Plymouth Brethren missionaries, his death at the hands of Waorani tribespeople, and Marilou McCully’s subsequent involvement in documenting...
Dates:
Created: 1944-1985
Elisabeth Elliot Papers
Collection
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: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010
Elizabeth C. Stough Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993
Jack Wyrtzen Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN-446
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, audio tapes and video tapes relating to the ministry of Jack Wyrtzen.Series: Audio TapesTape 1 to Tape 7: Oral history interviews with Jack Wyrtzen in which he describes his parents, childhood, early influences, conversion, relations with other Christian leaders, development of the Word of Life Fellowship, radio and television work and youth work. The time period covered by the...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Jack Wyrtzen Papers
Jim Elliot Collection
Collection
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 (called "Auca" by their enemies) people. Microfilm edition of materials available for researcher use.
Dates:
Created: 1941-1959; Majority of material found within 1947-1956
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Jim Elliot Collection
Kenneth Fleming Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 657
Brief Description
Collection contains letters, articles, audio recordings, photographs, and other material collected by Kenneth Fleming relating to the death of five American missionaries in Ecuador in 1956, including his brother Peter Fleming, in Ecuador with the Plymouth Brethren mission agency Christian Missions In Many Lands. In particular, the papers document the story of Peter’s involvement in the so-called “Operation Auca” and his death, along with missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Nate Saint and...
Dates:
Created: 1946-2011
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Kenneth Fleming Papers
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
Olive Fleming Liefeld Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN-701
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters, reports, transcripts, photographs, photo albums, and other materials from the papers of Olive Liefeld relating to her first husband, Peter Fleming, their work as missionaries in Ecuador among the Quichua people, his death along with four other missionaries at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in 1956, the continuing development of that story in terms of the impact of the men's deaths on American evangelicalism and the growth of a Christian community among the...
Dates:
Created: 1946-2006, undated
Papers of Kathryn Long, 1950-2022
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024-011
Dates:
1950-2022
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth E. Hess Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
Dates:
Created: 1982
T. Michael Flowers Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 431
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with T. Michael Flowers (1920-2015) in which he describes growing up in the Bahamas, the influence on his life of W. H. Farrington, his conversion, his evangelistic work in the Bahamas, his education in Scotland, a brief description of Billy Graham in Scotland in 1946, and the beginning of his evangelistic work in the United States. The second interview covers Flowers' ministry in Canada, Whitfield and B. M. Nottage, the Plymouth Brethren church and its church...
Dates:
Created: 1990-1995
W. Arthur Saunders Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 471
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and a manuscript translated by W. Arthur Saunders, relating to Saunder’s missionary service in China with China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1930 to 1987. The interview describes his childhood in England, emigration to New Zealand, training at the New Zealand Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, going to China in 1930, evangelistic work in south Gansu province, the work of Chinese evangelists, worship services in Gansu churches,...
Dates:
Created: 1992
William A. Deans Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 586
Scope and Contents
Photographs, maps, articles, clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, and tracts relating to the ministry of William Alexander Deans, missionary and translator with Christian Mission in Many Lands. Materials document his work in northeast Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), especially his publication of Christian literature into African languages.The bulk of the materials cover the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
Created: 1930-1979
William E. Pannell Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 498
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with William E. Pannell in which he describes his childhood in Michigan, his family, conversion as a teenager, his growing awareness of racism in America and especially its influence on American Christianity, education at Fort Wayne Bible College, involvement with the Brethren Assemblies, the part preaching has played in his life, the divide between urban and suburban culture and its impact on black and white churches and institutions, his work with Youth for Christ,...
Dates:
Created: 1995-2007
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 16
- Unprocessed Material 2
- Subject
- Plymouth Brethren -- Missions. 9
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Conversion -- Christianity. 7
- Huao Indians. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missions -- Ecuador. 6
- Preaching. 6
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 5
- Quechua language. 5
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 4
- Quechua Indians. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 3
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Evangelistic sermons. 3
- Lord's Supper. 3
- Sex role -- United States. 3
- Through gates of splendor. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- African Americans -- Religious life. 2
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 2
- Arajuno (Ecuador) 2
- Baptism. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- Colorado Indians (Ecuador) 2
- Cross-cultural studies. 2
- Curaray River (Ecuador and Peru) 2
- Evangelicalism -- 20th century. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- New Zealand. 2
- Evangelistic work -- South America. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Gateway to Joy (Radio program) 2
- Huao (Language) 2
- Indians of South America -- Ecuador. 2
- March of truth (Radio program) 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Peru. 2
- Missions -- South America. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Prayer. 2
- Public worship -- Christianity. 2
- Quito (Ecuador) 2
- Racism -- United States. 2
- Radio in religion -- United States. 2
- Shandia (Ecuador) 2
- Street preaching. 2
- Translating and interpreting. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1930s 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Worship -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. 1
- Adultery. 1
- Africa -- Description and travel. 1
- African American clergy. 1
- African American evangelists. 1
- African American leadership. 1
- African Americans -- Families. 1
- African Americans -- Missions. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- Animism -- Central African Republic. 1
- Animism -- Peru. 1
- Austria -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Authors and publishers -- United States. 1
- Authors and publishers. 1
- Authors and readers -- United States. 1
- Belgium -- Administration. 1
- Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible colleges -- Great Britain. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible. 1
- Black power -- United States. 1
- Boarding schools -- Zambia. 1
- Bunia (Congo) 1
- Catholic Church -- Central America. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Peru. 1 ∧ less
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