Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 260
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 562 Papers of Roger and Mary Howes
Collection
Identifier: CN 562
Scope and Contents
Address books, articles, autograph books, birthday book, correspondence, diaries, documents, journals, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, photographs, prayer letters, scrapbooks, sermon notes, songbooks, and testimony which document the Howes' work as China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries in China from 1925 through 1945, and their work at CIM (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship) office in Chicago and Headquarters in Philadelphia before they retired in 1965. Their correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1993
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Conversion. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Communism. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Missions. 2
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
- Revivals. 2
- Rural churches -- China. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
- China -- Church history. 1
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
- China -- Social life and customs. 1
- China. 1
- Chinese language. 1
- Chongqing (China) 1
- Christian education of adults. 1
- Christian giving. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Church and social problems -- Nigeria. 1
- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 1
- Church development, New. 1
- Church finance. 1
- Church growth -- India. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church management. 1
- Church schools 1
- Church schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Church work with military personnel. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students -- United States 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Demoniac possession 1
- Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 1
- Education -- India. 1
- Education -- Nigeria. 1
- Evangelistic work -- India. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 1
- Fula (African people) 1
- Great Britain 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 1
- Hausa (African people) 1 ∧ less
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