Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 3 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
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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- Church and state. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
- Missionaries. 2
- Missions. 2
- Prayer groups -- United States. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Refugees 2
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
- Revivals. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Worship. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Armenians. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- Children. 1
- Christian education -- Greece. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Greece. 1
- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church growth -- India. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church renewal -- United States. 1
- Church renewal. 1
- Church work with prisoners -- Florida. 1
- Church work with prisoners. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Greece. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students in missionary work -- United States. 1
- Confession. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Depressions 1
- Depressions -- 1929 1
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
- Donahue (Television program) 1
- Drug abuse. 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
- Evangelicalism -- Greece. 1
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Greece. 1
- Evangelistic work -- India. 1
- Faith. 1
- Forgiveness. 1
- Greece 1
- Greece -- History 1
- Greece -- History -- 1917-1944. 1
- Greece -- Social life and customs. 1
- Hinduism 1
- Hinduism -- Doctrines. 1
- Hinduism -- India. 1 ∧ less
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