Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 4 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 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 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
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- Christian education. 3
- Church and state. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missions. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Children of missionaries. 2
- College students. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- International relief. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 2
- Animism. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Armenians. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible colleges -- Indonesia. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Bible. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History. 1
- China. 1
- Christian education -- Greece. 1
- Christian education -- Indonesia. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education -- Vietnam. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- United States. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Christian literature. 1
- Church -- Biblical teaching. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Greece. 1
- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church and state -- Turkey. 1
- Church and state -- United States. 1
- Church development, New. 1
- Church growth -- India. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Greece. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- Church. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students -- United States 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Communication in organizations. 1
- Communism. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 1
- Corporate reorganizations. 1
- Corporations, Religious -- Taxation -- United States. 1
- Corporations, Religious -- Taxation. 1
- Corporations, Religious. 1
- Counseling. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Depressions 1
- Depressions -- 1929 1
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
- Ecumenical movement. 1
- Education -- Ethiopia. 1
- Education -- Greece. 1
- Education -- India. 1
- Education -- United States. 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Education, Higher -- United States. 1
- English language 1
- English language -- Foreign speakers. 1
- Ethiopia 1
- Ethiopia -- Description and travel. 1
- Ethiopia -- History 1
- Ethiopia -- History -- 1889-1974. 1
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 1
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 1
- Evangelical missions quarterly. 1
- Evangelicalism -- Greece. 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Africa. 1 ∧ less
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