Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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 413 Oral History Interview with Matthew Parker
Collection
Identifier: CN 413
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Matthew Parker in which he describes his childhood, family, education, conversion, study at Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music and work/study at Wheaton College, ministry with Campus Crusade in its sports ministry and with Overseas Crusades sports evangelism ministry (Venture for Victory w/ Bud Schaeffer), the 1984 and 1986 National Summits on Black Church Development, the Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America, the Afro-American community, white...
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
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.
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Bible colleges 4
- Conversion. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Christian education. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Education 3
- Education -- United States. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Bible. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Family. 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- International relief. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
- Missionaries. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Racism -- United States. 2
- Racism. 2
- Refugees 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Revivals. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- African Americans -- Missions. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Race relations. 1
- Animism. 1
- Armenians. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- Religious life. 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Bible colleges -- Indonesia. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- History. 1
- Christian education -- Greece. 1
- Christian education -- Indonesia. 1
- Christian education -- Vietnam. 1
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 1
- Church and social problems -- United States. 1
- Church and state -- Greece. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church development, New. 1
- Church discipline. 1
- Church renewal -- United States. 1
- Church renewal. 1
- Church work with athletes. 1
- Church work with prisoners -- Florida. 1
- Church work with prisoners. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Greece. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- Church work with women -- China. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students -- United States 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students in missionary work -- United States. 1
- Confession. 1
- Culture shock. 1 ∧ less
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