Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 5 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 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 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
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missionaries. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Communism. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- China -- History. 2
- China. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Family. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 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
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible colleges -- China. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Buddhism -- Christianity. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists -- Tibet (China) 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Catholic Church--Peru. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 1
- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
- China -- Church history. 1
- China -- Foreign Relations -- United States. 1
- China -- Foreign relations. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- 1949- 1
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
- Chinese language. 1
- Chrau language. 1
- Christian education -- China. 1
- Christian education -- Ecuador. 1
- Christian education -- Peru. 1
- Christian education of adults. 1
- Christian giving. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Church and social problems -- Nigeria. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 1
- Church and state -- Thailand. 1
- Church and state -- Tibet. 1
- Church and state -- Vietnam. 1
- Church development, New. 1
- Church finance. 1
- Church growth -- Ecuador. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church management. 1
- Church schools 1
- Church schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Church work with military personnel. 1
- Clergy 1
- Clergy -- Training of 1
- Clergy -- Training of -- Ecuador. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1 ∧ less
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