Prairie Bible Institute.
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 278: 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
Collection 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips
Collection
Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 424 Oral History Interviews with Ruth L. Maxwell
Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
Dates:
Created: 1989
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
Collection 679: Oral History Interviews with John and Virginia Casto
Collection
Identifier: CN 679
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with John and Virginia Casto. Topics discussed include their family backgrounds; their education at Prairie Bible Institute and elsewhere; marriage; work in Thailand as missionaries with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in hospital evangelism, nursing, and church planting; the Thai church; raising a family on the mission field.The Castos were interviewed by Bob Shuster on August 14 and 14, 2015 and August 19, 2016 at the Calvary Fellowship Homes in...
Dates:
2015-2016
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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- Children of missionaries. 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missionaries. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Women 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missions -- Thailand. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Worship. 2
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- Animism -- Liberia. 1
- Animism -- Mexico. 1
- Animism -- Thailand 1
- Atlantic City (N.J.) 1
- Authors and publishers. 1
- Authors and readers -- United States. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Buddhism -- Thailand. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Mexico. 1
- Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- History. 1
- Chinese language. 1
- Christian education -- Canada. 1
- Christian education -- Liberia. 1
- Christian education -- Nigeria. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Philippines. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Christian literature. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Thailand. 1
- Christmas. 1
- Church development, New -- Thailand 1
- Church growth -- Liberia. 1
- Church growth -- Nigeria. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church work with single people 1
- Church work with women -- Liberia. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- College students -- Religious life -- Illinois -- Wheaton. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Colorado Indians (Ecuador) 1
- Communism. 1
- Conversion -- Christianity. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Liberia. 1
- Evangelicalism -- 20th century. 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 1
- Evangelistic work -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Thailand. 1
- Evangelistic work. 1
- Feminist theology 1
- Fund raising. 1
- Gateway to Joy (Radio program) 1
- Hmong (Asian people) 1
- Hmong language 1
- Holiness -- Biblical teaching. 1
- Honan Province (China) 1
- Huao (Language) 1
- Huao Indians. 1
- Indians of Mexico 1
- Indians of Mexico -- Oaxaca 1
- Indians of Mexico -- Oaxaca -- Missions. 1
- Indians of Mexico -- Oaxaca -- Religion and mythology. 1
- Indigenous church administration 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Liberia. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Thailand. 1
- Jehovah's Witnesses. 1
- Korea -- Foreign Relations -- Japan -- 1910-1945. 1
- Lay missionaries. 1
- Leprosy -- Thailand. 1
- Liberia 1
- Liberia -- Religion. 1
- Linguistics 1
- Linguistics -- Mexico. 1
- Literacy programs 1 ∧ less
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