Wheaton Academy (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
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
Collection 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
Dates:
Created: 1995
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- Subject
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
- Boarding schools -- Zambia. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Zambia. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Conversion -- Christianity. 1
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 1
- Female circumcision 1
- Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Female circumcision -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Africa. 1
- Githumu, Kenya. 1
- Great Britain 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies ?z Kenya. 1
- Homosexuality -- Christianity. 1
- Homosexuality. 1
- Independent churches -- Kenya. 1
- Independent churches. 1
- Indigenous church administration 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 1
- Influenza 1
- Influenza -- History. 1
- Intercultural communication -- Zambia. 1
- Intercultural communication. 1
- Kamba (African people) 1
- Language in missionary work. 1
- Masai (African people) 1
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
- Missionaries -- United States. 1
- Missions -- Kenya. 1
- Missions -- South Africa. 1
- Missions -- Zambia. 1
- Missions. 1
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 1
- Northern Lunda (African people) 1
- Organizational change. 1
- Polygamy -- Kenya. 1
- Polygamy. 1
- Short-term missions. 1
- Theological seminaries -- Kenya. 1
- Theological seminaries. 1
- Tribes -- Kenya. 1
- Tribes. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- Women missionaries. 1
- Worship. 1
- Zambia 1
- Zambia -- Description and travel. 1
- Zambia -- Social life and customs. 1 ∧ less
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