Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 12 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 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 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 388 Oral History Interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco
Collection
Identifier: CN 388
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco in which she discusses her life and ministry in the Philippines, including her childhood, education, and work as a Bible school teacher. Other topics covered include theological education and evangelism in the Philippines; work with "Here's Life Philippines," sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ; the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; Filipino culture; Muslim and Catholic communities in the Philippines; Ebenezer Bible College;...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 415 Papers of Bonnie Stuckless
Collection
Identifier: CN 415
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, prayer letters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to the ministry of Bonnie G. Stuckless and her husband Donald Stuckless, missionaries in Colombia, Panama, and Spain with the Assemblies of God from 1970 to 1992.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history...
Dates:
Created: 1969-1992
Collection 424 Oral History Interviews with Ruth L. Maxwell
Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
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
Collection 547 Oral History Interviews with Sharelle M. Eland
Collection
Identifier: CN 547
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sharelle May Eland in which she describes her childhood growing up in Papua New Guinea where her parents were missionaries, her return to Australia and adjustment to life there, affinity for primitive culture, Christian life and spiritual development, desire to become a missionary, education to become a teacher and at Capernwray Bible Colleges in Great Britain and Germany, ministry among Australian young people and aborigines, missions to aborigines and their...
Dates:
Created: 1997
Collection 562 Papers of Roger and Mary Howes
Collection
Identifier: CN 562
Scope and Contents
Address books, articles, autograph books, birthday book, correspondence, diaries, documents, journals, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, photographs, prayer letters, scrapbooks, sermon notes, songbooks, and testimony which document the Howes' work as China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries in China from 1925 through 1945, and their work at CIM (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship) office in Chicago and Headquarters in Philadelphia before they retired in 1965. Their correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1993
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
- Evangelistic work. 10
- Women missionaries. 10
- Bible colleges 9
- Conversion. 9
- Missionaries. 9
- Christian education. 8
- Bible. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Christian life. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Education 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 4
- Bible colleges -- United States. 4
- Boarding schools. 4
- College students. 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Revivals. 4
- Sex role. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Worship. 4
- Bible colleges. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church work with women. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Communism. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Family. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Refugees 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Boarding schools -- China. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- Cities and towns. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Education -- United States. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- International relief. 2
- Liberation theology. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nursing. 2
- Prayer groups -- United States. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
- Rural churches -- China. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Social change. 2
- Translating and interpreting. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Aboriginal Australians -- Missions. 1
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- Aboriginal Australians. -- Religion. 1
- Animism -- Liberia. 1
- Armenians. 1
- Assemblies of God -- Missions. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1 ∧ less
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