Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 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 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 297 Papers of Kenneth L. Shingledecker
Collection
Identifier: CN 297
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth L. Shingledecker in which he describes his work with college students in Student Training in Missions, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, planning Urbana '79 student missions convention, missionary work in Kenya for Daystar Communications, and the development of Christian leadership in the church in Kenya. The collection also includes a folder of prayer letters, ranging from 1985-1990.Topics covered in the oral history interview include...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1990
Collection 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis
Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1987
Collection 388 Oral History Interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco
Collection
Identifier: CN 388
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco in which she discusses her life and ministry in the Philippines, including her childhood, education, and work as a Bible school teacher. Other topics covered include theological education and evangelism in the Philippines; work with "Here's Life Philippines," sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ; the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; Filipino culture; Muslim and Catholic communities in the Philippines; Ebenezer Bible College;...
Dates:
Created: 1988
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
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
Wheaton College Revivals Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 514
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, questionnaires, reports, videos, and other materials relating to spontaneous revivals on Wheaton College campus in the twentieth century. There are restrictions on some material in this collection. The collection primarily documents the March 1995 revival at the College, largely through oral history interviews conducted during or shortly after the event; also included are thirteen follow-up interviews conducted two years after the revival.
Dates:
Created: 1936-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-1995
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- Subject
- Bible colleges 7
- College students in missionary work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Christian education. 5
- College students. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Church and state. 4
- Education 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Refugees 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Missions. 3
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church schools 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Communism. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- International relief. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Prayer groups -- United States. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Buildings. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- Worship. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Armenians. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible colleges -- Indonesia. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Bible colleges -- Philippines. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Philippines. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History. 1
- China. 1
- Christian education -- Greece. 1
- Christian education -- Indonesia. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1 ∧ less
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