Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 230 Oral History Interview with John A. Gration
Collection
Identifier: CN 230
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John Alexander Gration (1926-2012). Topics discussed include: Gration's Christian activities in high school and the U.S. Navy, education at Moody Bible Institute, Gordon College, and Wheaton College; his spiritual growth and call to become a missionary, his marriage, and his first impressions of and missionary experiences with Africa Inland mission in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Christianity and culture, animism, superstition, AIM...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
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 445 Oral History Interviews with Helen E. Evans
Collection
Identifier: CN 445
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Helen Elizabeth Evans in which she decsribes her family background; spiritual development; education at Wheaton College; ministry in rural Vermont with the New England Fellowship; the influence of her aunt, Elizabeth Evans; her missionary work in Vietnam and Indonesia with the Christian and Missionary Alliance; and work among Vietnamese in Charlotte, North Carolina. Evans' work in Vietnam was particularly among the Dega and other tribal groups often classified...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013
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- Christianity and culture. 4
- Education 4
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Church discipline. 3
- Church work with military personnel. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Animism -- Zaire. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with youth -- United States. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Education -- Zaire. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- Liberia. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- Zaire. 2
- Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nationalism -- Zaire. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Nigeria 2
- Nigeria -- History 2
- Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 2
- Polygamy -- Zaire. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Superstition -- Zaire. 2
- Swahili language. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- Zaire. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- Liberia. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Bible colleges -- Indonesia. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Bible. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Christian education -- Indonesia. 1
- Christian education -- Liberia. 1
- Christian education -- Nigeria. 1
- Christian education -- Vietnam. 1
- Church and social problems -- Nigeria. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church development, New. 1
- Church growth -- Liberia. 1
- Church growth -- Nigeria. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church schools 1
- Church schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Church work with women -- Liberia. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Demoniac possession 1
- Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 1
- Education -- Liberia. 1
- Education -- Nigeria. 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
- Evangelicalism. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Indonesia. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1 ∧ less
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