Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall
Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.
Dates:
Created: 1933-1980
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 409 Papers of David D. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 409
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1975
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 427 Oral History Interviews with Americo Saavedra
Collection
Identifier: CN 427
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Americo Saavedra, a Peruvian-born missionary working with HCJB in Ecuador, in which he describes his childhood, family, conversion, Catholicism in Peru and Ecuador, radio station HCJB and its ministry, Quito, Ecuador, his decision to be a missionary, employment with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. Other topics include his education at Moody Bible Institute, Christian education in Ecuador, informal education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, the state of the...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 547 Oral History Interviews with Sharelle M. Eland
Collection
Identifier: CN 547
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sharelle May Eland in which she describes her childhood growing up in Papua New Guinea where her parents were missionaries, her return to Australia and adjustment to life there, affinity for primitive culture, Christian life and spiritual development, desire to become a missionary, education to become a teacher and at Capernwray Bible Colleges in Great Britain and Germany, ministry among Australian young people and aborigines, missions to aborigines and their...
Dates:
Created: 1997
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
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen Renich Papers.
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 352
Brief Description
Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions. The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Also includes series of maps of Latin American countries identifying nondenominational and denominational mission activity. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented. Persons prominently featured include Jack Frizen, Billy Graham, and...
Dates:
Created: 1934-1983, undated
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Bible colleges 9
- Evangelistic work. 9
- Missionaries. 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Conversion. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- China -- History. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Communism. 5
- Education 5
- Missionaries' spouses. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Missions. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Bible colleges -- United States. 4
- Boarding schools. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Evangelistic work -- China. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Worship (Christian) 4
- Bible. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- China. 3
- Church growth. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Family. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Worship. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges. 2
- Boarding schools -- China. 2
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Asia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
- International relief. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Liberia. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nigeria 2
- Nigeria -- History 2
- Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Refugees 2
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
- Rural churches -- China. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Street preaching. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2 ∧ less
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