Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 3 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 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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Worship. 2
- Animism -- Liberia. 1
- Animism. 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church--Peru. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Christian education -- Ecuador. 1
- Christian education -- Liberia. 1
- Christian education -- Nigeria. 1
- Christian education -- Peru. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church growth -- Ecuador. 1
- Church growth -- India. 1
- Church growth -- Liberia. 1
- Church growth -- Nigeria. 1
- Church work with women -- Liberia. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- Clergy 1
- Clergy -- Training of 1
- Clergy -- Training of -- Ecuador. 1
- College students -- United States 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students in missionary work. 1
- College students. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Ecuador 1
- Ecuador -- Religion. 1
- Education -- India. 1
- Education -- Liberia. 1
- Evangelicalism. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 1
- Evangelistic work -- India. 1
- Family -- Biblical teaching. 1
- Family. 1
- Hinduism 1
- Hinduism -- Doctrines. 1
- Hinduism -- India. 1
- India -- Description and travel. 1
- India -- History -- 1947- 1
- India -- History. 1
- India -- Social life and customs. 1
- Indians of South America -- Ecuador. 1
- Indians of South America. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Ecuador. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Liberia. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 1
- Intercultural communication -- India. 1
- Intercultural communication. 1
- Language in missionary work. 1
- Lay missionaries. 1
- Leprosy -- India. 1
- Leprosy. 1
- Liberia 1
- Liberia -- Religion. 1
- Marriage. 1
- Medical care 1
- Medical care -- India. 1
- Medical education 1
- Medical education -- United States. 1
- Mennonites 1
- Mennonites -- Missions. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missionaries' spouses. 1
- Missions -- Educational work. 1
- Missions -- India. 1
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 1
- Missions -- Liberia. 1
- Missions -- Nigeria. 1
- Missions -- Peru. 1
- Missions to Hindus. 1
- Missions to leprosy patients 1 ∧ less
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