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 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 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
/
Helen Renich Papers.
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- Bible colleges 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Evangelistic work -- China. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missionaries. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Communism. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions. 3
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools -- China. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- China. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Education 2
- Education -- United States. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- International relief. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Rural churches -- China. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2
- Worship (Christian) 2
- Armenians. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- China. 1
- Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Buddhism -- Christianity. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists -- Tibet (China) 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
- China -- Church history. 1
- China -- Foreign Relations -- United States. 1
- China -- Foreign relations. 1
- China -- History -- 1949- 1
- China -- Social life and customs. 1
- Chinese language. 1
- Chongqing (China) 1
- Christian education -- Greece. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education of adults. 1
- Christian giving. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Church and state -- Greece. 1
- Church and state -- Tibet. 1
- Church discipline. 1
- Church finance. 1
- Church management. 1
- Church work with refugees -- Greece. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- Church work with women -- China. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Depressions 1
- Depressions -- 1929 1
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
- Education -- Ethiopia. 1
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