Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 9 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
- Children of missionaries. 8
- Bible colleges 7
- Conversion. 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Education 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Boarding schools. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missions. 4
- Revivals. 4
- Worship (Christian) 4
- Worship. 4
- Bible. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christian education. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- College students. 3
- Communism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
- Lay missionaries. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Bible colleges. 2
- Boarding schools -- China. 2
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Family. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Liberia. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nigeria 2
- Nigeria -- History 2
- Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 2
- Prayer groups -- United States. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Street preaching. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Buildings. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Aboriginal Australians -- Missions. 1
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- Aboriginal Australians. -- Religion. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- Liberia. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Australia. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Bible colleges -- China. 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1 ∧ less
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