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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott

 Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include:  Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates: Created: 1980

Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth

 Collection
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,...
Dates: Created: 1976-1985

Collection 642 Oral History Interviews with Susan Nivens

 Collection
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

Collection 681 Oral History Interview with Mertis Byram Heimbach

 Collection
Identifier: CN 681
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Mertis Byram Heimbach (1921- ) missionary in China, Thailand, Singapore and U.S. with China Inland Mission (CIM) and (as it was later known) Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) from 1946 to 1999. Topics discussed include childhood in Korea; parents’ mission work; Wheaton College and Prairie Bible Institute; marriage to Ernest Heimbach; Hmong (Miao) people; tribal mission work; Communist takeover of China; Communist treatment of Christians; CIM’s exit from China;...
Dates: 2014

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Women missionaries. 3
Animism. 2
Bible. 2
Children of missionaries. 2
Christian life. 2
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Christianity and culture. 2
Church and state. 2
Conversion. 2
Evangelistic work. 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
Medical care 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
Missionaries. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Tribes. 2
Women 2
Animism -- Guatemala. 1
Animism -- Sudan. 1
Animism -- Thailand 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Boarding schools. 1
Catholic Church. 1
Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 1
Children of missionaries -- Indonesia 1
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
Chinese language. 1
Christian leadership. 1
Christian martyrs -- Sudan. 1
Christian martyrs. 1
Christianity and other religions. 1
Christmas. 1
Church and state -- Guatemala. 1
Church and state -- Indonesia. 1
Church and state -- Sudan. 1
Church work with women -- Sudan. 1
Church work with women. 1
College students -- Religious life. 1
College students in missionary work. 1
College students. 1
Communism -- China. 1
Conversion -- Christianity. 1
Conversion -- Personal narratives. 1
Courtship -- Sudan. 1
Courtship. 1
Education 1
Education -- Guatemala. 1
Education -- United States. 1
Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 1
Evangelistic work -- Sudan. 1
Family -- United States. 1
Family. 1
Fund raising. 1
Great Britain 1
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
Great Britain -- Colonies. 1
Guatemala 1
Guatemala -- Economic conditions. 1
Guatemala -- Politics and government. 1
Guatemala -- Race relations. 1
Guatemala -- Religion 1
Hmong (Asian people) 1
Hmong language 1
Indians of Central America 1
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Missions. 1
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala. 1
Indigenous church administration -- Guatemala. 1
Indigenous church administration -- Sudan. 1
Indonesia -- Maluku. 1
Indonesia -- Religion 1
Ixil Indians -- Missions. 1
Ixil Indians -- Religion. 1
Ixil Indians. 1
Jihad 1
Khartoum (Sudan) 1
Koma (Sudanese and Ethiopian people) 1
Korea -- Foreign Relations -- Japan -- 1910-1945. 1
Language in missionary work. 1
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) 1
Linguistics 1
Linguistics -- Guatemala. 1
Linguists 1
Linguists -- United States. 1
Literacy 1
Literacy -- Guatemala. 1
Literacy programs 1
Maban (African people) 1
Marriage -- Sudan. 1
Marriage. 1
Medical care -- Guatemala. 1
Medical care -- Sudan. 1
Missionaries -- Australia. 1
Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 1
Missionaries, Resignation of. 1
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