Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 230 Oral History Interview with John A. Gration
Collection
Identifier: CN 230
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John Alexander Gration (1926-2012). Topics discussed include: Gration's Christian activities in high school and the U.S. Navy, education at Moody Bible Institute, Gordon College, and Wheaton College; his spiritual growth and call to become a missionary, his marriage, and his first impressions of and missionary experiences with Africa Inland mission in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Christianity and culture, animism, superstition, AIM...
Dates:
Created: 1982
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 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
Collection
Identifier: CN 283
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Wood Folkerts. Topics discussed include her childhood as a pastor's daughter; study at Wheaton College; her marriage; training in London; work as a missionary in British Cameroon (now Republic of Cameroon), especially Bible study and literacy programs for women and 3H clubs for girls; the political and social situation in Cameroon; Cameroon independence; medical problems in Cameroon; the work of her husband, Fred, at the Baptist Teacher Training College and...
Dates:
Created: 1984
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 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 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
Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries. 7
- Bible colleges 6
- Education 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Animism. 4
- Bible. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church discipline. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church work with military personnel. 3
- Church work with youth. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Animism -- Zaire. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 2
- Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
- Bible colleges. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with youth -- United States. 2
- Communism. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Education -- Zaire. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missions -- Vietnam. 2
- Missions -- Zaire. 2
- Missions. 2
- Nationalism -- Zaire. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Polygamy -- Zaire. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Superstition -- Zaire. 2
- Swahili language. 2
- Translating and interpreting. 2
- Tribes -- Vietnam. 2
- Tribes -- Zaire. 2
- Vietnam 2
- Vietnam -- History 2
- Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975. 2
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Worship (Christian) 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
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible colleges -- Indonesia. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Boarding schools -- Africa. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Cameroon. 1
- Cameroon. -- Politics and government. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Cameroon. 1
- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
- China -- Church history. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
- China. 1
- Chinese language. 1
- Chrau language. 1
- Christian education -- Cameroon. 1
- Christian education -- China. 1
- Christian education -- Indonesia. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1 ∧ less
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